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 SECTION – I

Number of Questions = 25

DIRECTIONS for Questions 1 and 2: Each of the following questions has a set of panels, labelled
A, B, C, D which when viewed as a complete set form a meaningful paragraph. From the last panel the
sentence has been deleted. From the given options choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the
most appropriate way.

1. A. B.

C.

D.

(1) "Sigh. I wish I, rather than Richieu, had been a victim of the Holocaust and my parents had missed
me instead of him."
(2) "Sigh. If only Auschwitz, for me, had been more than a blot viewed on a page of a history book."
(3) "Sigh. I feel so inadequate trying to reconstruct a reality that was worse than my darkest dreams."
(4) "Sigh. And trying to do it through a comic strip! I guess I bit off more than I can chew."
(5) "Sigh. There's so much I'll never be able to understand or visualize. I mean reality is too complex
for comics…"

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2. A. B.

C. D.

(1) “Stories can only tell their own versions of the truth. People will therefore never take a story as a
substitute for the whole truth”. “Yes”.
(2) “My book? What book? Some part of me doesn’t want to draw or think about Auschwitz.” “Why?”
(3) “Perhaps the new Holocaust will change everything…and make stories redundant anyway.” “Maybe”
(4) “I-I think I see what you mean. It’s as if life equals winning so death equals losing.” “Yes.”
(5) “ Samuel Beckett once said: ‘Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.’”
“Yes”.

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 3 and 4: In each question there are five panels labelled A, B, C, D and E. The
panel labelled E is in its correct place. The four that precede are labelled A, B, C and D and need to be
arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the given options choose the most appropriate
option.

3. A. B.

C. D.

E.

(1) CBAD (2) BDCA (3) DBAC (4) BDAC (5) DABC

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4. A. B.

C. D.

E.

(1) DABC (2) ADCB (3) ACDB (4) CDAB (5) CADB

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 5 to 8: The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the
best answer to each question.

PASSAGE

In much of what has been written about the Holocaust in recent years, one can notice a tendency to discuss the
Holocaust and the responses to it in terms borrowed from the description of Melancholia. One of the most
obvious instances of this can be seen in Lyotard’s connection of Auschwitz and the unrepresentable in The
Differend. Here, the sublime, which since Kant has been the singular individual’s struggle of the Idea in the
face of overwhelming experiences, is utilized to characterize the sense of the Shoah: the individual is to “bear
witness” to the unpresentable and inexpressible loss, for no language, no vocabulary can even approach the
horror of Auschwitz. Auschwitz becomes a limit that defies phrasing. This is also present in the work of Cathy
Caruth, “Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History”. Trauma here is not merely seen in
the Benjaminian sense of the condition of history and historicity, but that History itself becomes viewed as
traumatic. As Dominick LaCapra has pointed out in his recent book Representing the Holocaust, this conflation
of history with trauma might itself be the uncritical result and symptom of posttraumatic, unworked through
identifications and investments. An example of what LaCapra is hinting at might also be the work of George
Steiner, in which Auschwitz signifies an irrevocable loss of language, and the German language in particular.
For LaCapra, one of the great challenges of postmodern and poststructuralist readings of the trauma inflicted
by the Shoah would be to reflect on the ways in which they themselves participate in a melancholic reaction
to the event.

The way in which a culture organizes, “disciplines,” and reads a certain event is an excellent way to find out
about that culture’s “troubled areas” or “hot spots.” The philosopher Berel Lang has argued in his book Act
and Idea of the Nazi Genocide that there are only certain appropriate and ethically responsible ways of
representing the Shoah. In this respect, many critics have said that the Holocaust requires an “elevated” genre,
that it is the stuff of “high” literature and should not be “desecrated” by allowing low genres to communicate
the destruction of the European Jews. There would at first sight seem to be an inalterable cultural hierarchy of
forms, media, genres: the novel, the tragedy, a poem, a scholarly essay or book might be considered acceptable;
on the other hand, a satire, a parody, a comedy, a farce — these would not seem to be eligible for “appropriate”
forms of literary representation. But the fact is that both within these genres and modes, as well as with regard
to the genre or mode itself, there are both “high” and “low” forms; and what is radical, chic, or revolutionary
at one historical juncture might be quite reactionary or conservative at another. My view is that Spiegelman,
precisely by utilizing the “comic-book” as the textual medium of a story of the Holocaust, succeeds in breaking
the “taboo” or “ritualized fixity” of confronting the Holocaust. It also subverts the assignment of the “comic”
to a genre of kitsch and “popular culture” in a twofold way: first, insofar as it supercedes the traditional genre
in terms of the scope of its presentation; secondly, insofar as it presents a historical catastrophe in a medium
usually reserved for hero-construction and morality play.

The reduction of the players to cats (the Nazis). mice (the Jews), pigs (the Poles) and other national stereotypes
offers a conscious, intentional miniaturization and reduction, pointing up not merely the process of compression,
simplification and devaluation of the Nazi’s practices before and during the Holocaust, but the reduction and
simplification present in many “responses” to the Holocaust as well. In this way, Spiegelman literalizes the
call for petits recits so prevalent in postmodern discourse today. On another level, there are multiple narratives
and kinds of texts in Maus: in addition to images, dialogue boxes, and commentary, we find maps of Poland
and the Camps, diagrams of hideouts, real photographs from the family archive, detailed plans of the crematoria,
an exchange table for goods in Auschwitz, and a manual for shoe-repair.

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The reader moves through several different “historical subject-positions” and narrated events; there are the
pre-holocaust, the Holocaust, and the post-holocaust, but also, within one time-frame, there can be other
times and places co-present as well. Maus thus juxtaposes and intertwines past and present, the different
subject histories of each protagonist, and the very different cultural contexts of Nazi occupied Poland and
Rego Park, New York. The very title of the books is a powerful reworking of the convention: Maus rewrites
the cultural norm and invents a new discursive space to address the questions of Jewish trauma, guilt, shame
and, perhaps most importantly, the transmission of these conflicts from one generation to the next, especially
in the case that they are not sufficiently worked-through.

5. The role performed by Spiegelman’s comic book Maus in the context of Jewish culture and the experience
of the Holocaust can be best described as:
(1) cathartic in that it helps in the release, through the comic book medium, of the feelings of trauma,
guilt and shame that Jews associate with the Holocaust.
(2) Interpretive since it rewrites the cultural norm and invents a new discursive form in order to transmit
questions and conflicts across generations.
(3) Literary, in the sense that it borrows upon the literary genres of Melancholia and petits recits prevalent
in post-modern discourse today.
(4) Subversive since it subverts the assignment of the ‘comic’ to a genre of kitsch and popular culture
(5) Kaleidoscopic since it juxtaposes and intertwines past and present, the different subject histories of
each protagonist and different cultural contexts.

6. The term petits recits as mentioned in the passage would most likely conform to which of the following
literary definitions:
(1) A small localized narrative that forms part of a multiplicity of theoretical standpoints about an issue.
(2) A metanarrative that legitimizes a particular version of the truth through a grand, unified approach.
(3) A post-structuralist narrative that rejects definitions that claim to have discovered absolute ‘truths’
or facts about the world.
(4) A small piece of poetry that offers a conscious intentional miniaturization and reduction of stereotypes.
(5) A set of multiple narratives and texts that incorporates many devices such as images and dialogues.

7. Which of the following statements is the author likely to disagree with:

(1) One of the roles performed by ‘Maus’ in the context of the history it depicts is to address the
‘irrevocable loss of language’ that Auschwitz signifies.
(2) ‘Maus’ forms a part of the cultural hierarchy of forms, media and genre that are considered appropriate
and ethically responsible ways of representing the Holocaust.
(3) The transmission through literature of post-traumatic experience that involve unworked-through
identifications and investments is often possible only through a drastic rewriting of the cultural
norm.
(4) The ways in which a culture interprets and depicts certain events can often reveal broader aspects of
the culture, especially its points of preoccupation.
(5) The definition of what constitutes ‘high’ or ‘low’ forms in literary genres is at best relative.

8. The Hebrew word Shoah, as used in the passage refers to

(1) The Inexpressible
(2) Melancholia
(3) Trauma
(4) The Holocaust
(5) Auschwitz

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 9 to 11: In the questions given below, a paragraph is followed by three
statements (A, B and C). Each of these statements has to be marked as per the guidelines which follow the
directions. Then choose the correct sequence for the statements from the given options. (For e.g. I, II and IV
or II, III and I). For e.g. If Statement A is Type II, Statement B is Type III, Statement C is Type I, then the correct
option will be (II, III and I)
Guidelines:
I. If the statement is a logical conclusion of the paragraph.
II. If the statement goes against the paragraph.
III. If the statement is irrelevant to the paragraph.
IV. If the statement logically follows the same logic as given the paragraph.(Parallel logic)
9. Ansoff’s 1965 book on corporate strategy, the first to concentrate solely on the subject, was described
by Henry Mintzberg, a consistent critic of Ansoff, as “the most elaborate model of strategic planning in
the literature”. Although it started with a simple aim, “to produce a resource-allocation pattern that will
offer the best potential for meeting the firm’s objectives”, it soon got too bogged down in detail for
many readers. It contained a series of rigorous processes and checklists designed to help managers
reach strategic decisions. Ansoff himself came to recognise that too often it resulted in “paralysis by
analysis”, and in his later work he moved away from this rigid approach, seeking to find ways of
introducing flexibility into the planning process.
A. He abandoned his search for big universal management prescriptions, believing that each
organisation has to make strategic decisions on its own, dependent on its own unique environment.
B. Rigid control systems should be developed beforehand and implemented to facilitate this monitoring.
C. Companies can create a vicious cycle of turnover and fail to maximize their profits due to the
cost associated with operating without experienced people and the costs of hiring and training.
(1) I, II and III (2) III, I and II (3) IV, II and I (4) IV, I and III (5) IV, II and III

10. It was two years ago that the old Airbus finally ran out of runway. Plagued by power struggles within
the core group of EADS shareholders as well as its bizarre governance, Airbus suffered when it admitted
that deliveries of its new super jumbo, the A380, would be severely delayed. Shares in EADS tanked.
The immediate cause was problems wiring up the huge aircraft, brought on by the use of incompatible
software in the firm’s French and German factories. But the underlying reason for the mess was a
hopeless lack of integration within the company.
A. Now Airbus will have to go back to the drawing board and relook its share allocation.
B. And there have since been other setbacks. The European factory-disposal plan has been stalled by
the credit crunch, while unpleasantness of a different kind is taking its toll on morale.
C. Deliveries of the A380 were about to begin and the revised A350, increasingly seen as a more of
rival to Boeing’s 777 than the smaller 787, was gaining traction with customers.
(1) I, II and IV (2) II, II and IV (3) I, II and III (4) II, III and IV (5) III, I and III

11. Some people complain that many existing forms of renewable energy rely on subsidies or other forms
of special treatment for their viability. On the surface, that is true. Look beneath, though, and the whole
energy sector is riddled with subsidies, both explicit and hidden, and costs that are not properly accounted
for.
A. So the subsidies and mandates offered to renewable sources of power such as wind turbines often
just level the playing field.
B. Coal has been cheap. Natural gas has been cheap. The 1970s aside, oil has been cheap.
C. GM foods have been given an acceptable status though many raised objections on their being
subsidised. Subsidies, and especially food aid, have their place, but they are often captured by
vested interests, or emasculated by crazy policy decisions.
(1) II, I and IV (2) II, II and III (3) I, I and IV (4) I, I and III (5) I, II and IV

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 12 to 19: The two passages given below are followed by a set of questions.
Choose the best answer to each question.

PASSAGE – I

Clinging to the outskirts of every sham is a host of half- hearted fellows, who cannot quite think their way
completely free from sham, and who are not so constituted as to be energetic adherents — but who still, as
you will observe, hover around the edges of popular fooleries, ready in any little crisis of discussion to pipe:
“There’s something in it.” What may surprise you is that they do not have a timid or blurred tone; but that an
accent of strange if not thorough conviction is evident in their utterance, growing perceptibly in ardor in
response to the hoot of the skeptic: until, having started out with a leaning, they end with a fall plump into the
arms of sham. It is human nature (though not the wisest nor the noblest human nature) to defend a position
taken, or even suggested as desirable; and the “something in it” fellow is driven, by the logic of illogical
argumentation, farther into the heart of doubtful belief than he would venture solitary.
One smiles, even so, to see “Something-In-It” visibly take on flesh, fill out the hollows of uncertainty, describe
curves of nicely fashioned credulity, reveal the color and sparkle of an intense faith — and stand out, apparently,
in the very body of a proselyte that has conned well its rigmarole: Something turns by seeming magic into
Everything; from “It May Be” we arrive at the explicit “It Is.”
Time and again, I have observed this process, and it has never ceased to amuse me. In my library not long ago
a little group was galloping in talk; and it was not until well toward the close of this talkfest that the controversial
note was struck. It was, let me say, a sudden and surprising note. We had been talking about shams and
indeed destroying them at a lively and friendly rate; and we were, one and all, agreed that Smashing Shams
was the purpose for which the human mind was evolved in all its deadly cleverness. “Perhaps” said I, in that
spirit of levity which is the distraction of the pious, “it is a game invented for the sport of God, to amuse God
and save him from boredom. God molds certain minds to put up shams in order that other minds, also molded
by him, can have the fun of knocking them down. And God is vastly entertained, so to speak, by this continual
sham battle.” And then — hold your breath! — up spake one Yorick, a grave- digger, who had a mind to
contemplate the skull of Astrology, whose carcass has long rotted in the world’s intellectual graveyard, side
by side with other storied shams, but whose ghost indeed lurked still in dark corners.
God, weary of the harmonious atmosphere of enlightenment, jerked himself into a posture of attention. Here
was a pretty show, One of the Sham Smashers immediately stood up and, said he, “There’s something in it” —
It, of course, being Astrology. This dead one — this ghost of the superstitious past — put life into a peacefully
expiring conclave.
Treason! Well, traitors must die. We leaped upon the base deserter. We reminded him that astrology was as
archaic as alchemy — that astronomy had scientifically supplanted the one as had chemistry the other. We
urged him to look carefully to the fact that no scientist of the slightest repute could be persuaded to offer a
word in behalf of this moldered corpse of Astrology — the scientific world condemned it to a man. We
pointed out derisively that the books of astrology revealed contradictions -- oh, the most absurd! — on every
page; and that the list of supposed characteristics for one lunar type could not possibly be contained in fewer
than a dozen persons. We told our erstwhile friend that a philosopher had quite simply exposed the folly of the
zodiacal theory with a single, obvious, devastating illustration: he had mentioned a certain battle in which
some thousands of poor souls, all born under numerous signs, had fallen under the arms of the enemy on a
single day. It might as well have been another battle; it might indeed have been any situation, any path, any
field of life. Whatever the sign, the men and women born under it will be found to have the most widely
varying fortunes and characteristics. The world, in short, is full of failures born under the sign of success;
slaves born under the sign of leadership; fools born under the sign of wisdom. A theory that showed itself to
be manifestly false at least as often as it appeared to be true — a theory that did not and could not work — was
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And, despite our talk, the man held to this medieval magic. Opposition stirred and spurred him. He had said,
“There’s something in it.” It was not long before we perceived that he was really a downright believer in
astrology. He had himself been marked from the glittering heavens at the hour of his birth as a leader of men
— and such indeed he had proved to be. The moon influenced the tides — and, by the same plain and
infallible token, the stars did influence the individual dispositions and destinies of men. It was hopeless. The
stars, if they could not win, could not absolutely lose.
Other shams, you will hear, are to be defended by that vague “something” which pretends to be much more
importance than inherently belongs to it — and which so often throws caution to the winds, ceases to be a
“something” and reveals its true identity of unashamed and unquestioning sham. There is “something in”
palmistry — and the pretty stenographer, in the temporary role of scientist, will tell your fortune. There is no
less — always “something” at the very least — in phrenology: and the bumps in your head will prophesy and
classify the bumps you are due to get in life. There is “something” in this superstition, about the weather or
warts; and in that popular notion, which, to be sure, is distinctly apart from the world’s recognized and
trustworthy knowledge, but which still entertains the fancy of those who are bound to believe that there is
“something” in something. And this “something,” unless it steps boldly into the pose of being a great deal
indeed, is not defined. WHAT is in this or that sham if it is worth an inch of standing room in the world of truth
and reality? Give us, we implore, a real image that will fix this Something usefully or at least understandably
in our minds. We get nothing — unless it be a retreat to the most interior defenses of sham and a struggle to
uphold sham in toto.
These men who are afraid to think straight through sham and emerge, wholly stripped of illusion and
compromise, into the fresh air of reality — these men who cry “There is something in it” help perhaps more
than they realize to make the wheels of sham go round. This Something is simply the entering wedge of sham.
It is the weak cry, and withal the insidious gesture, of the apologist of sham — who, however unsuspectingly,
plays into the hands of the charlatans and the fanatics.
Something in it — It is sham. The something that is in it is the drug of credulity that has cultivated the worst
habits known to man. “Something in it” is the slogan of the half-thinkers.
12. What does the author imply when he says that “..from ‘It may be’ we arrive at the explicit ‘It is’..”?
(1) ‘Something’ turns into ‘Everything’ by magic.
(2) It represents the conviction of faith.
(3) Logic is justified by illogical arguments.
(4) It is in human nature to defend a taken position.
(5) A taken position even if it may be a sham is defended and justified with the help of arguments.
13. What can be inferred from the author’s statement when he talks about “the dead ghost’, which had put
life into a peacefully expiring conclave”?
(1) Even God woke up and became attentive.
(2) The fact that there is something in astrology was accepted by all.
(3) The discussion became more peaceful.
(4) The viewpoint that there is something in astrology sparked a new series of arguments and
counterarguments.
(5) Astrology enlivened the mood of participants and saved the dying discussion.
14. The author would agree with the fact that
(1) ‘the something’ does mean something in the world of truth and reality.
(2) ‘the something keeps the wheel of sham going round and round and changes it into truth.
(3) ‘the something’ results into ‘half truths’ to which half thinkers cling to.
(4) ‘the something’ remains behind a veil of pretense, which cannot be removed.
(5) ‘the something’ is a reality hidden behind the perception of sham.

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15. What is the thematic highlight of the passage?
(1) Illogical argumentation drives the half hearted fellows into defending the position taken.
(2) Some people defend sham to the utmost on the pretext of knowing the hidden worth of it.
(3) The believers in sham indulge in the fooleries of entering the discussions at the drop of a hat.
(4) The defenders of sham do so with all the enthusiasm they can muster because their main concern is
to defend ‘the something’.
(5) Sham contains the elixir of naiveté which supports the bad habits known to man.

PASSAGE – II

Not too long ago Art Nouveau would have been sniffed at by anyone serious about art. Even postmodern
viewers, and postmodernist ones if you will - who would have been attracted, one expects, to the hybrid sort
of thing it is said to be - seemed not to interest themselves too much in it. And modernist beholders would
have bothered themselves with Art Nouveau, if they did so at all, only to argue that it is not really art (or is
only bad art, if it can be called art).

That is to exaggerate a good deal, of course, but putting things so should give some sense of what the art
world’s attitude to Art Nouveau would have been, until say, 10 years or so ago, (which is when what has
come to be called the postmodern era is nowadays thought to have ended.) But a reassessment seems to have
taken place recently; books have appeared, written by sympathetic historians, which seek to give the work its
due; and exhibitions have been mounted to present the case.

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum hosted one such exhibition recently, which was billed as a
comprehensive show; it proved rather thin in the event, and though one was exposed to the many strains there
are of Art Nouveau, the exhibition itself is not likely to have made much of an impression. One problem was
the sort of thing that was said: the objects on view often had plaques set next to them, with text that was meant
to introduce or interpret the work, and while one did not, of course, expect anything really penetrating to
appear there, what was written was almost always too loose.

So, Rene Lalique’s famous Dragonfly Woman was said to “combine a dramatic use of nature with a subversive
use of historical style and a disturbing symbolism”. This is a brooch (of sorts) which was made for the actress
Sarah Bernhardt. The reference to the anatomy of insects is more explicit, perhaps, than was usual for a piece
of jewellery even in the decadence of fin de siecle Paris, and there may have been a sort of drama in that; the
conjunction of the reptilian and the insect-like with the smooth bust of a woman is oddly unsettling, still, and
given the peculiar attitudes to the female that Art Nouveau took over from symbolist painting and poetry,
perhaps the piece did disturb; but what in the world could this bit of jewellery ever have subverted?

It may seem silly to press so hard on with regard to a blurb, meant only to snag the casual museum-goer’s
wandering attention: but the seemingly more studied writing on Art Nouveau is not much better. A recent
book, whose avowed aim is to rescue Art Nouveau from its modernist detractors, avers that Lalique’s brooch
“resembles a study in fluid dynamics through its evocation of lift and drag tension created by the oppositional
V-shaped direction of the wings and claws”. The author of this piece of technical-sounding analysis lectures
at university, on the history of art. Perhaps his colleagues and students are really able to tell when something
‘resembles’ a study in fluid dynamics, and to move off in ‘V-shaped directions’ when they feel the need to;
and perhaps they really can see, as the author puts it just after, just how “the increasing revelation of the laws
of physics, not least by Gustave Eiffel and his tower built for the 1889 Paris exhibition, was increasingly
leading artists, designers and architects” at the end of the 19th century “to simulate the abstract forces and
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Earlier in the book there had been talk of how the dissemination of biological thought, through popular books
and periodicals, allowed Art Nouveau “to incorporate laws of nature”, and - perhaps because the social
consequences of the popularization of certain biological ideas at the turn of the last century are now only
dimly remembered - it was then concluded that Art Nouveau was “a form of primal exegesis of a complicated
moment”.

The book in question is titled Art Nouveau, and it was written by Jeremy Howard who lectures at the University
of St. Andrews, Scotland. (It was on sale at the Victoria and Albert Museum while the show was on.) Writing
on the visual arts is seldom precise, and hardly ever expected to be; specialists’ writing on art is bound to be
inbred, moreover, and the reader new to it, coming upon the sort of thing quoted above, just may think that
this is how initiates communicate between themselves (enciphering so, as it were, their otherwise ineffable
thoughts on the arcane they administer). But no one who kept his wits about him would think so for very long:
and it really is surprising that the art world - or the anglophone art world, at least - should have begun to
tolerate such nonsense. Nothing in Howard’s book tells you what it might be for a work of art to ‘incorporate’
a law of nature, or to ‘simulate abstract forces and motions’ (whatever those might be) and no argument
supports the claim that Art Nouveau is any sort of exegesis - ‘primal’ or not - rather than a product, merely, of
its time. (There are reasons why even specialized writing on the visual arts can get so loose nowadays; but
setting them out would not be easy, and I have gone on at such length in order to suggest that, perhaps,
something like Art Nouveau could be taken seriously as art only when art writing itself becomes carious, so to
say: and that may be a distinctive feature of what the philosopher Arthur Danto calls the ‘posthistorical’
condition of art.)

As mentioned, the current reassessment of Art Nouveau is meant to counter the modernist deprecation of it:
as, for instance, merely decorative, or at best only a debased form of symbolist art. One obvious thing to do,
then, would be to try and bring out formal affinities between symbolist art and Art Nouveau: between, for
instance, Gaugin’s paintings and, say, Maurice Denis’ designs for tapestry; or between Jan Toorop’s paintings
on the one hand, and his commercial posters on the other. The Victoria and Albert show did not have any
Toorop on view, nor any of Denis’ or Gaugin’s painting except for the former’s Road to Calvary and the
latter’s Vision After the Sermon; but since the Gaugin was so much better than anything else to be seen the re,
the only effect of showing it may have been to confirm the modernists’ low estimate of Art Nouveau. (Denis’
picture called up from the curators the profound observation that “the sombre flat pattern forms of this painting
evoke the tragedy of the imminent crucifixion”; the Vision After the Sermon was left, mercifully, to speak for
itself.)

16. The title that best captures the essence of the passage is
(1) Art Nouveau Exhibitions – a reassessment.
(2) Looking anew at Art Nouveau
(3) Art Nouveau: A serious art
(4) Art Nouveau Exhibitions in London – some impressions
(5) Cocking a snook at post-modernists – a look at Art Nouveau

17. The chief objection of the author to Jeremy Howard’s book is that
(1) it is too impressive and bombastic
(2) the author consciously tries to popularize Art Nouveau, a highbrow art.
(3) it enciphers art by using jargon that only initiates would understand rather than deciphering the
concept of Art Nouveau.
(4) specialists writing on art is more inbred.
(5) none of the above.

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18. With which statement is the author least likely to agree?
(1) Art Nouveau is nothing more than a deprecation of modernist Art.
(2) Art Nouveau will only be recognized as a serious art form when writing on it will become more
responsible and less obscure.
(3) Art Nouveau could also be read as a product of its time rather than a prime exegesis of its time.
(4) Post modernists were not interested in Art Nouveau
(5) None of the above

19. One of the best ways to counter the criticism of Art Nouveau is to
(1) describe the art in symbolist terminology
(2) place it in the modernist tradition and critique it from that perspective rather than from a post-
modern position
(3) show the influence of Gaugin’s paintings on Art Nouveau
(4) show the influence of Maurice Denis’ paintings on Art Nouveau
(5) clearly foreground the similarities between symbolist art and Art Nouveau.

DIRECTIONS for Questions 20 and 21: Rearrange the sentences/paragraphs labeled A, B, C, D, and E
to form a coherent paragraph/ passage:

20. A. This kind of convergence is by no means an automatic feature of all conversations, and we can
discern certain social contexts in which accommodation can be predicted. For example,
accommodation tends to occur when the speakers like each other.
B. For example, the speed at which people talk, the length of both pauses and utterances, the kind of
vocabulary and syntax used, as well as intonation, voice pitch and pronunciation are all subject to
the accommodation process.
C. Interestingly, accommodation theory reinforces the view that women tend to be more co-operative
conversational partners than men, with the finding that women display much more radical speech
modifications than men, when switching from a formal interview situation to informal conversation
with friends.
D. The accommodation theory, in Linguistics starts from the premise that speech accommodation
takes place when people modify their speech so that it conforms more with the way their conversational
partner speaks. A wide range of subtle adaptations have been observed, which tend to occur more
or less unconsciously.
E. Alternatively, accommodation has been observed when the need to be deferential arises, or when
one person wants to put another person at their ease. Consequently, accommodation can be interpreted
as a polite speech strategy, designed to convey the impression that the addressee’s speech is legitimate
and worthy of imitation.
(1) DBAEC (2) DABEC (3) DBCEA (4) DEABC (5) DEBAC

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21. A. In the first part of his two-volume work, the Logical Investigations (1901), Edmund Husserl launched
an extended attack on psychologism. In the second part, he began to develop the technique of
descriptive phenomenology, with the aim of showing how objective judgments are indeed grounded
in conscious experience – not, however, in the first-person experience of particular individuals, but
in the properties essential to any experiences of the kind in question.
B. Edmund Husserl’s work was immediately influential in Germany, with the foundation of
phenomenological schools in Munich and Göttingen. Phenomenology later achieved international
fame through the work of such philosophers as Martin Heidegger (formerly Husserl’s research
assistant), Maurice Merleau Ponty and Jean Paul Sartre. Indeed, through the work of Heidegger and
Sartre, Husserl’s focus on subjective experience influenced aspects of existentialism.
C. Later, he attempted to reconcile his transcendental standpoint with an acknowledgement of the
intersubjective life world in which real individual subjects interact. Husserl published only a few
works in his lifetime, which treat phenomenology mainly in abstract methodological terms; but he
left an enormous quantity of unpublished concrete analyses.
D. Edmund Husserl also attempted to identify the essential properties of any act of meaning. He
developed the method further in Ideas (1913) as transcendental phenomenology, proposing to
ground actual experience, and thus all fields of human knowledge, in the structure of consciousness
of an ideal, or transcendental ego.
E. Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology was an ambitious attempt to lay the foundations for an account
of the structure of conscious experience in general. An important part of Husserl’s phenomenological
project was to show that all conscious acts are directed at or about objective content, a feature that
Husserl called intentionality.
(1) ECADB (2) EADCB (3) ACEDB (4) AECBD (5) EDCAB

DIRECTIONS for Questions 22 and 23: The following questions consist of two words/phrases each that
have a certain relationship with each other followed by alternatives. Select the alternative that has the same
relationship as depicted in the original pair of words/phrases.

22. Helotry : Sovereignty

(1) Banausic : Mechanical
(2) Incredulous : Susceptible
(3) Mordacious : Truculent
(4) Inexorable : Cathartic
(5) Shrew : Woman

23. Stationary : ‘the paper and envelopes used for writing correspondence’
(1) Discreet : ‘the showing of reserve and prudence in one’s behavior or speech’
(2) Complaisant : ‘being pleased with oneself; contented to a fault’
(3) Effect : ‘to bring about or create’
(4) Advise : ‘to offer advice to’
(5) None of the above

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 24 and 25: In each of the questions below a passage is given which contains
five idioms. From the given options choose the idiom that has been used incorrectly or inappropriately in the
passage.

24. Justice Robinson was faced with a Hobson’s choice when the last case came up for trial on Friday. He
thought that the way the defense had presented the case seemed to beg the question that the prosecution’s
eyewitness had been seen leaving the crowded bar a good two minutes after the shot had been heard in
the street. It was plain as pikestaff that the defense intended to contest the authenticity of the statement
by the eyewitness on this one point. However the judge was still not convinced that by pursuing this
particular tactic the defense was not coming close to getting hoist with its own petard. Since in his
heart of hearts the judge sympathized with the defendant who he felt had been sold down the river by
his scheming partners in the first place, he was not sure whether to forestall the defense from advancing
along the risky path it was following, or to let it continue as it was for the time being.
(1) Hobson’s choice
(2) Beg the Question
(3) Plain as pikestaff
(4) Hoist with its own petard
(5) Sold down the river

25. ‘In for a penny, in for a pound’, Robert muttered to himself as he put his signature to the agreement
that formalized the merger of Dover Foods, Inc. with his company. He was happy that after months of
deliberations, both he and the directors of Dover Foods, Inc. had decided to sing from the same hymn
sheet. When he had first decided to initiate talks for a friendly takeover with Dover Foods, Inc. he had
been warned by his Finance Head that ‘you can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip’. But in the end,
getting the directors of Dover Foods, Inc to agree to most of his terms had turned out to be a bit like
taking candy from a baby. The only fly in the ointment he could see was the ancient, unproductive
and overstaffed factory in Smithsville that he had to take over as part of the deal. ‘A calculated risk’, he
told himself as he beamed at the people around the room.
(1) In for a penny, in for a pound
(2) Sing from the same hymn sheet
(3) You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip
(4) Like taking candy from a baby
(5) Fly in the ointment

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Number of Questions = 25

DIRECTIONS for Questions 26 to 30: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
The owner of a Chinese restaurant Red Dragon has hired four different persons namely A, B, C and D to
deliver food at the door steps of the customers.

Additional Information Given:

1. The total distance covered by A on Monday is more than the distance covered by A on Wednesday as
well as that on Tuesday.
2. The total distance covered by A on Thursday is less than the distance covered by A on Saturday as well
as that on Sunday.
3. The aggregate distance covered by A on Thursday and Tuesday is less than the aggregate distance
covered by A on Monday and Wednesday.
4. The aggregate distance covered by A on Wednesday and Sunday is less than the aggregate distance
covered by A on Tuesday and Saturday.
5. The distance covered by A on Thursday is more than the distance covered by A on Monday.

The additional information given above holds true for each of the other mentioned persons. The following
table provides information about the distances covered(in kms) by each of the mentioned four persons on the
seven days of a particular week.

Distances Covered
A 33 38 43 18 21 27 25
B 5 9 7 10 18 17 24
C 14 13 19 21 17 23 28
D 31 25 36 22 26 32 30

26. If the distance covered by A on Friday is 33 kms, then what is the difference between the distance
covered by A on Saturday and Monday?
(1) 14 kms (2) 17 kms (3) 22 kms (4) 18 kms (5) Cannot be determined

27. For how many of the mentioned persons, the distance covered by them on Tuesday is definitely the
least among the seven days?
(1) Four (2) Three (3) Two (4) One (5) Zero

28. What is the distance covered by D on Friday?

(1) 30 kms (2) 25 kms (3) 26 kms (4) 31 kms (5) Cannot be determined

29. On how many days in the week, the distance traveled by B is definitely less than the distance traveled
by him/her on Friday?
(1) Four (2) Two (3) Three (4) One (5) None of these

30. The difference between the distance covered by C on Monday and Friday is
(1) 6 kms (2) 5 kms (3) 2 kms
(4) Either (2) or (3) (5) Either (1) or (2)

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 31 to 35: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Each of the five persons namely Rohan, Deepak, Tripti, Sonal and Tarun completed 200, 180, 140, 150 and
240 units of work. The number of days taken by Rohan, Deepak, Tripti, Sonal and Tarun to complete the
mentioned units of work is 12, 10, 8, 10 and 12 days respectively. The following table provides information
about the units of work completed by each of these mentioned persons after every day.

Number of Units
After Rohan Deepak Tripti Sonal Tarun
1 day 10 12 5 20 18
2 days 22 32 15 25 20
3 days 24 50 25 40 44
4 days 40 52 50 50 48
5 days 60 84 80 65 50
6 days 68 120 96 80 95
7 days 140 140 108 100 100
8 days 148 156 140 125 112
9 days 176 172 140 140 115
10 days 180 180 140 150 120
11 days 184 180 140 150 160
12 days 200 180 140 150 240

31. Out of the mentioned days, what is the maximum possible units of work completed by all the five
persons on any single day?
(1) 123 (2) 124 (3) 129 (4) 131 (5) 130

32. On which of the following days the total units of work completed by all the mentioned persons is less
than the average units of work completed per day by all the mentioned persons?
(1) Day 3 (2) Day 8 (3) Day 5 (4) Day 12 (5) None of these

Additional Information for questions 33 and 34:

A person is said to be more efficient than the other person only if he/she has done more number of units of
work than him/her on at least seven out of the mentioned days.

33. Tarun is more efficient than which of the following persons?

(1) Deepak (2) Sonal (3) Rohan
(4) Both (1) and (2) (5) Both (1) and (3)

34. Out of the mentioned five persons, how many persons are more efficient than exactly two persons?
(1) 4 (2) 2 (3) 1 (4) 0 (5) 3

35. On how many days the number of units of work completed by Sonal is more than at least one and at
most two out of the mentioned persons?
(1) 5 (2) 8 (3) 6 (4) 7 (5) 9

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 36 to 40: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Larry has a huge collection of shirts. The shirts with him are of one or the other of the four brands namely
Caterpillar, Diesel, Lacoste and Dockers. The color of the shirts with him is either black or white. Out of the
shirts with him, Larry has bought only few of them whereas the rest are gifted to him by one or the other of his
six friends namely Anjana, Ravneet, Urvashi, Heena, Simar and Sarah. Larry does not know the exact number
of shirts gifted to him but he knows that the number of white shirts of each brand gifted to him by each of his
mentioned friends is at least 3 and at most 18. Further, the number of black shirts of each brand gifted to him
by each of his mentioned friends is at least 7 and at most 25.

Larry asked his mother to help him determine the number of shirts gifted to him by each of his mentioned
friends. In turn Larry’s mother provided him with the information listed in the table given below.

Number of Shirts
Caterpillar Diesel Lacoste Dockers
Black White Black White Black White Black White
Anjana >9 <4 > 17 >8 < 11 <7 < 23 > 10
Ravneet > 18 <6 < 24 <9 > 10 > 12 > 14 < 10
Urvashi < 21 > 10 > 14 <7 < 19 >9 > 10 < 12
Heena > 15 <9 > 19 <6 < 21 < 13 < 18 <5
Simar >9 <4 < 19 > 14 <8 <5 > 12 > 12
Sarah < 15 <9 > 20 <7 <8 > 14 > 23 <5

36. Let the number of shirts of brand Caterpillar gifted to Larry by Sarah be ‘C’ and the number of shirts of
brand Lacoste gifted to Larry by Urvashi be ‘L’. If L > 3 × C, then which of the following can be a value
of ‘C’?
(1) 10 (2) 11 (3) 12
(4) Both (1) and (2) (5) (1), (2) and (3)

37. If out of the black shirts gifted to Larry by Anjana, Urvashi and Simar the number of shirts of brand
Lacoste is 4 more than the number of shirts of brand Dockers, then what is the number of black shirts of
brand Dockers gifted to Larry by Simar?
(1) 17 (2) 13 (3) 19 (4) 25 (5) Cannot be determined

38. Out of the white shirts gifted to Larry by Ravneet, Heena and Sarah the number of white shirts of brand
Caterpillar is definitely less than the number of white shirts of brand(s)
(1) Diesel (2) Dockers (3) Lacoste
(4) Both (2) and (3) (5) None of these

39. If the total number of shirts with Larry is 750 and if the total number of shirts bought by Larry is same
as the total number of shirts gifted to him by Anjana, then the total number of shirts with Larry that are
neither bought by him nor gifted to him by Anjana is at least
(1) 501 (2) 499 (3) 495 (4) 500 (5) 496

40. If the total number of shirts of each of the mentioned brands gifted to Larry by Urvashi and Simar is the
same, then which of the following can be the total number of shirts gifted to Larry by Urvashi and
Simar?
(1) 184 (2) 148 (3) 192 (4) 196 (5) 158

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 41 to 45: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Karim, Joseph, Harvinder, Sukhdev, Tony and Carlos are six bookies. In the recently concluded cricket series
between India and Pakistan, the given six bookies placed bets on the players who will score a century in each
of the six matches played in the series. Each of the given bookies placed a bet on exactly two players in each
of the six matches. The players on which these bookies placed their bet are one or the other of the six players
A, B, C, D, E and F. In each of the given six matches there are three players who scored a century and the
number of centuries scored by each of the six mentioned players in the cricket series is the same. For every
player who scored a century in a given match, there is at least one bookie who had placed a bet on him in that
particular match.

The details about the players on which the bookies placed their bet are provided in the table given below.

Match 1 Match 2 Match 3 Match 4 Match 5 Match 6

Karim A B D A E B C A A E B E
Joseph C D B C B F F A B F E B
Harvinder B F C D D A F E E C A B
Sukhdev C A D C B D C F C D B A
Tony E F D F A F C E D B B F
Carlos C A E A B D F A F A B C

Out of the given bookies, there is only one bookie such that the players on whom he placed his bet in every
match always scored a century in that particular match.

41. Who is the bookie such that the players on whom he placed his bet in every match always scored a
century?
(1) Karim (2) Tony (3) Sukhdev (4) Harvinder (5) Cannot be determined

42. Which of the following cannot be the match in which all the three players B, F and A scored a century?
(1) Match 1 (2) Match 3 (3) Match 6
(4) Both Match 1 and Match 6 (5) Both Match 6 and Match 3

43. If A did not score a century in Match 4 and E did not score a century in Match 6, then which of the
following is a possible list of all the players who scored a century in Match 3?
(1) E, B, A (2) B, E, D (3) A, D, F (4) E, D, F (5) A, D, B

Additional Information for questions 44 and 45:

Out of the given six matches, there are “X” matches such that in each of these “X” matches, the players on
whom Carlos placed his bet always scored a century.

44. What is the maximum possible value of “X”?

(1) One (2) Two (3) Three (4) Four (5) Five

45. If the value of “X” = 1 and B scored a century in Match 3, then which of the following players did not
score a century in Match 4?
(1) A (2) F (3) E (4) C (5) Cannot be determined.

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 46 to 50: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Mr. Gold Smith designed two kinds of wedding rings, pearl and diamond. Some of these rings, pearl as well
as diamond, were exclusively designed for ladies and the rest were exclusively designed for gentlemen. All
the pearl rings designed for ladies were identical to each other. Similarly, all the pearl rings for gentlemen, all
the diamond rings for ladies and all the diamond rings for gentlemen were identical to each other. He decided
to sell the rings in packs of two and accordingly, packed one ladies’ ring with one gentlemen’s ring, in each
such pack. The packs which had two diamond rings in them and the packs which had two pearl rings in them
were labelled as “Diamond Pack” and “Pearl Pack” respectively. All other packs were labelled as “Mixed
Pack”. The price tags on each “Diamond Pack” and on each “Pearl Pack” were Rs 80,000 and Rs 50,000
respectively. After having made 25 such packs, Mr. Smith counted all the rings, once again, and observed
that,

Additional Information given:

I. A total of 25 rings remained single, of which exactly 5 were diamond rings for gentlemen.
II. Using all the diamond rings, exactly 15 packs could have been labeled as “Diamond Pack”.
III. The price tags on all the packs labeled as “Diamond Pack”, summed to Rs.640000.
IV. The price tags on of all the packs labeled as “Pearl Pack”, summed to Rs.450000.

46. By that time, how many ladies’ diamond rings remained single?
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 1 (4) 5 (5) None

47. Of the 25 packs that Mr. Smith had made by that time, how many were labelled as “Mixed Pack”?
(1) 8 (2) 10 (3) 11 (4) 12 (5) 13

48. How many gentlemen’s pearl rings were packed with ladies’ diamond rings, in the 25 packs that
Mr. Gold Smith had made by that time?
(1) 5 (2) 7 (3) 8 (4) 9 (5) 6

49. Which of the following could have been the maximum possible number of gentlemen’s pearl rings?
(1) 32 (2) 34 (3) 25 (4) 19 (5) 35

50. Of the total number of rings that Mr. Gold Smith designed, what percentage were diamond rings?
(1) 25% (2) 15% (3) 30% (4) 40% (5) Cannot be determined

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 SECTION – III

Number of Questions = 25

51. In the figure given below, AB = BC = CD = 6 units, MQ = 5 units and BP = PC. Two circular arcs
AQ and QD having equal radii are drawn such that both the arcs subtend an angle of 90° at the center
of their respective circles. If the radii of the circular arcs is 5 units, then what is the area(in square units)
of the figure ABCDQ?

B P C

M
A D

Q
(1) 32 2 + 50 − 12.5π (2) 12 2 + 25 − 2 π (3) 8 2 + 5 − 2 π
(4) 16 2 + 25 − 5π (5) 32 2 + 20 − 12.5π

52. If T1, T2 and T3 are the sum of the roots of the equation x3 – ax2 + bx – c = 22 taken one at a time, two
at a time and three at a time respectively, then how many such equations are possible such that
T1 + T2 + T3 = 25? (Here, a, b and c are whole numbers)
(1) 8 (2) 16 (3) 12 (4) 10 (5) 18

53. In the figure given below ABDE is a quadrilateral. The line segments ED and AB are extended to
intersect at a point C. Given that the length of the line segment EC, DC and AE is equal to
16, 12 and 8 units respectively. If DB = BC, then what is the perimeter of quadrilateral ABDE?
C

12
B

E A
8
( )
(1) 3 3 2 + 2 units (
(2) 4 2 2 + 1 units ) ( )
(3) 3 6 2 + 2 units
(4) 2 (3 3 + 4 ) units (5) 4 ( 2 3 + 3 ) units

54. Sanjay adds ‘x’ litres of water to pure milk to make 26 litres of milk-water solution. He sells this
solution at a price that is 10% higher than the original cost price(in Rs./litre) of milk and makes a profit
of 43% on this transaction. If he adds ‘x’ litres of water to 30 litres of pure milk and sells the resulting
solution at the original cost price(in Rs./litre) of milk, then what is his profit percentage in this transaction?
(Assume that water comes free of cost)
(1) 25% (2) 35% (3) 15% (4) 30% (5) 20%

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55. The number of factors common to 3011 and 2013 is
(1) 144 (2) 169 (3) 156 (4) 168 (5) None of these

DIRECTIONS for Questions 56 to 60: Each question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer each
question using the following instructions:
Mark (1) if the question can be answered by using the statement A alone but not by using the statement B
alone.
Mark (2) if the question can be answered by using the statement B alone but not by using the statement A
alone.
Mark (3) if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone.
Mark (4) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together but not by either of the
statements alone.
Mark (5) if the question cannot be answered on the basis of the two statements.

56. Is the unit’s digit of ‘x’ less than 6? (‘x’ and ‘y’ are integers)
A: The unit’s digit of the product of ‘x’ and ‘y’ is 4.
B: The remainder when the unit’s digit of ‘x’ is divided by the unit’s digit of ‘y’ is 2.

57. Let ‘A’ be the area of the largest square that can be inscribed in a triangle PQR. If ‘N’ is the total number
of such squares, then what is the value of N2 + 2A ?
A: Two sides of the triangle PQR have length 10 m each.
B: Area and height of the triangle PQR are 25 3 m2 and 5 3 m respectively.

58. The average age of 5 persons namely A, B, C, D and E is 19 years.

 Age of A   Age of C 
If  ×  × ( Age of E ) = 83, then what is the age of C? (The age of each of the
 Age of B   Age of D 
mentioned 5 persons is an integral number in years)
A: Age of E > Age of C.
B: Out of the 5 persons, the age of exactly 4 persons is the same.

59. What is the number of factors of a six-digit natural number aaabbb?

A: a00b is a four-digit prime number.
B: Both ‘a’ and ‘b’ are prime numbers.

60. Sanjay is standing at a point ‘X’ such that the point ‘X’ is 2 steps to the left of a red light and 3 steps to
the right of a blue light. He tosses an unbiased coin. If the coin shows a head, then he moves one step
to his right; otherwise he moves one step to his left. He keeps on doing this until he reaches one of the
two given lights. Once he reaches a light, he stops. At which light does he stop?
A: He stops after he has tossed the coin 21 times.
B: The number of times the coin shows a tail is 3 more than the number of times the coin shows a head.

61. ABCD is a parallelogram with all its sides equal to each other and intersecting at angles other than
90°. The diagonals of the parallelogram ABCD intersect at a point O. If AO + BO = 20 units, then what
is the maximum possible area (in square units) of the parallelogram ABCD?
(1) 300 (2) 100 (3) 200 (4) 400 (5) 250

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62. There are 3 unit circles whose centers are at (0, 0); (6, 0) and (0, 8). What is the radius (in units) of the
circle that touches all these circles?
(1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 4 (4) 10 (5) Cannot be determined

63. There are certain number of identical tiles such that each tile is made of 4 unit squares. One such tile is
shown in the figure given below.

If the tiles can be placed in any orientation as long as no two tiles overlap each other, then what is the
minimum possible number of such tiles required to obtain a rectangular figure?
(1) 6 (2) 4 (3) 3 (4) 5 (5) 2

64. Two regular hexagons AFEDCB and CDGHIJ are shown in the figure given below. P and Q are the mid
points of the sides DE and DG respectively. If the length of side CD = 2 cm, then what is the length of
the line segment PQ?
E G

F P Q H
D

A I
C
B J
2
(1) 2 3 cm (2) 3 3 cm (3) 3 cm (4) cm (5) None of these
3

65. There is a railway line that passes through a tunnel of length 200 metres. A road runs parallel with the
tunnel. One day when the driver of a 150 metre long train is exactly at the middle of the tunnel, a man
Schumi, who is on the road parallel to the tunnel starts from one of the ends of the tunnel towards the
other end. If Schumi and the train cross the tunnel simultaneously, then what is the ratio of the time
taken by them to cross each other when they move in the same direction to the time taken by them to
cross each other when they move in the opposite direction?
(1) 9:1 (2) 3:1 (3) 5:4 (4) 11:3 (5) None of these

66. A 100 litre vessel contains 100 litre of a milk-water solution having milk and water in the ratio 1:4.
Ten litres of the solution is drawn out and is replaced with milk. Now, 30 litres of the resulting solution
is drawn out and is replaced with milk. Finally, 50 litres of the solution is drawn out and is replaced
with milk. If this process of replacement continues, then what is the minimum possible number of times
1
this operation needs to be done such that the ratio of water to milk in the vessel is less than   ?
3
(1) One (2) Two (3) Three (4) Four (5) Cannot be determined

67. If p1 = −5 and p n +1 + p n = 2n − 5 for n ≥ 1, then find the value of p2005.

(1) 2005 (2) 2004 (3) 1998 (4) 2000 (5) 1999

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68. On any given day, the bank balance of a person A is the sum of his bank balance on the previous day
and his bank balance on the next day. If the bank balance of A on 18 th November 2007 and
19 th November 2007 is Rs.4000 and Rs.2000 respectively, then what will be his bank balance on
16th November 2008? (Assume that the bank balance of A can be negative.)
(1) Rs.0 (2) Rs.2000 (3) Rs.4000 (4) – Rs.4000 (5) – Rs.2000
DIRECTIONS for Questions 69 and 70: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
The perimeter of a rectangular sheet of paper is 504 cm. The area of the sheet of paper is divided equally
among 252 persons such that the area with each of the 252 persons is an integer. Also, the length of the sides
of the rectangular sheet of paper is an integer.

69. What is the minimum possible area that any of the 252 persons get?
(1) 56 cm2 (2) 35 cm2 (3) 21 cm2 (4) 63 cm2 (5) 84 cm2

70. How many different dimensions can this rectangular sheet of paper have?
(1) 0 (2) 1 (3) 2 (4) 3 (5) 4

71. Seven engineering graduates are working on a certain number of projects such that exactly three
engineering graduates work on each project. If any pair of projects has exactly one engineering graduate
working on both the projects, then what is the maximum possible number of projects that these seven
engineering graduates can work on?
(1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 7 (4) 8 (5) 4

72. Let f(x) be a polynomial of degree 51 such that when f(x) is divided by (x – 1), (x – 2), (x – 3),...and
(x – 51), it leaves 1, 2, 3,... and 51 respectively, as the remainders. Evaluate f(52) + f(0).
(1) 52 (2) 53 (3) 100 (4) 0 (5) 101

73. In order to make a total of Rs.68, one-fourth of the money available with Vikram falls short of
one-seventh of the money available with Ravinder. In order to make a total of Rs.75, one-fourth of the
money available with Ravinder falls short of one-seventh of the money available with Vikram. If both
of them have integral number of rupees, then how many distinct values of the amount available with
Vikram are possible?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4 (5) 0

74. Both X and Y have three hats which are red or blue or green in colour. Of the three hats X and Y are
wearing red and green hats respectively. Whenever they meet, both of them replace the hats that they
are wearing with one of the other two hats that they are carrying. The probabilities that X will replace
his hat with the hat of green and blue colour are 0.4 and 0.6 respectively. The probabilities that Y will
replace his hat with the hat of red and blue colour are 0.75 and 0.25 respectively. Find the probability
that X and Y are wearing hats of two different colours, after they have met exactly once.
5 7 3 1 2
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
7 10 7 10 7
75. A certain amount ‘P’ is borrowed at a simple interest of rate X% per annum. The borrowed money has
to be paid back in four annual installments. Each of the installments constitutes of a part of the principle
and the interest. The principle is paid in four equal installments along with the interest earned till the
date of a particular installment. If the total amount paid is Rs.300, then the principle and the rate of
interest per annum could be (The interest is always calculated only on the remaining principle.)
(1) P = Rs.250, X = 10% (2) P = Rs.200, X = 20% (3) P = Rs.225, X = 25%
(4) P = Rs.100, X = 40% (5) None of these

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