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Reasoning 9) In a murder case there are four suspects P,Q,R,S. Each of

Directions (1-4): In the following questions, the symbols @,?, them makes a statement. They are
%, ^, and $ are used with the following meanings illustrated. 'P P: "I had gone to the theatre with S at the time of the murder".
% Q' means 'P is either greater than or equal to Q'. ‘P? Q' Q: "I was playing cards with P at the time of the murder".
means 'P is neither greater that nor smaller than Q'. R: "Q didn't commit the murder".
'P $ Q' means 'P is smaller than Q'. 'P @ Q' means 'Pis either S: "R is not the murderer".
smaller than or equal to Q'. 'P ^ Q' means 'P is greater than Q'. Assuming the only one of the above statement is false and that
In each of the following questions assuming the given statements one of them is the murderer, who is the murderer?
to be true, find out which of the three conclusions I, II and III A) P B) Q C) R D) cannot be concluded E) S
given below them is/are definitely true and mark your answer
accordingly. 10) Mohan earned twice as much as Deep. Yogesh earned
rs.3/- more than half as much as deep. If the amounts earned
1. Statements: M $ T, T@ K, K ? D by Mohan,Deep,Yogesh are M, D, Y respectively, which of
Conclusions: I. D % T II. K ^ M III. D ^ M the following is the correct ordering of these amounts?
A) Only I and II are true B) Only I and III are true A) M < D < Y B) M < Y < D C) D < M < Y
C) Only II and III are true D) cannot be determined E) D < Y < M
D) All are true E) None of these
11) Statistics indicate that men drivers are involved in more
2. Statements: B^ H, H % A, A? K accidents than women drivers. Hence it may be concluded
Conclusions: I.B % K II.K@ H III.A $ B that
A) Only I and II are true B) Only I and III are true A) sufficient information is not there to conclude anything
C) only II and III are true B) Men are actually better drivers but drive more frequently
D) only II is true. E) None of these C) Women Certainly drive more cautiously than Men
D) Men chauvinists are wrong about women's abilities.
3. Statements: W % N, N ^ R, R @ F E) Statistics sometimes present a wrong picture of things
Conclusions: I.F ? N II.W ? N III.R $ W
A) None is true B) Only III is true 12)Given that A,B,C,D,E each represent one of the digits
C) Only I and II are true between 1 and 9 and that the following multiplication holds:
D) Only II and III are true E) None of these ABCDE
x 4
4. Statements: F ^ K, K ^ M, M @ V ---------------
Conclusions: I. F % V II. V @ K III. M ? K EDCBA
A) Only I is true B) Only II is true C) Only III What digit does E represent?
is true
D) All are true E) None of these A) 4 B) 6 C) 8 D) 7 E) 2
Directions: Look at the flow chart and answer the questions that
5. Statements: N @ D, D $ T, T % J follow
Conclusions: I.J $ D II. N ? J III.T^ N
A) Only III is true B) Only II is true
C) Only I and II are true
D) Only I is true E) None of these

6. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so

form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that
group?
A) Building B) Toy C) Vehicle
D) Mountain E) Machine

7. In a certain code language 'pik na ha' means 'who is there ', 'na
ta ka' means 'what is that' and 'ha ja pa' means 'here and there’.
Which of the following means 'here' in that code language?
A) ha B) pa C) ja
D) pa or ja E) None of these 13. What is the value of S at the end of the first iteration if p =3?
a. 12 b. 11 c. 10 d. 0
8. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so 14. What is the value of P the end of the first iteration if p=3 ?
form a group. Which of the following does not belong to that a. 4 b. 5 c. 0 d. 6
group? 15. What is the value of S at the end of the first iteration if p =2?
A) HJ B) PR C) NP D) BE E) VX a. 12 b. 11 c. 10 d. 0
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Six knights - P,Q,R,S,T and U - assemble for a long journey in 2) if q <> 0 and k = qr/2 -s, then what is r in terms of k,q,s?
two travelling parties. For security, each traveling party consists A) 2k+s q B) 2sk q C) 2(k-s) q
of at least two knights. The two parties travel by separate routes, D) 2k+sq q E) 2(k+s) /q
northern and southern. After one month, the routes of the
3. How many of the integers between 25 and 45 are even?
northern and southern groups converge for a brief time and at
that point the knights can, if they wish, rearrange their traveling A) 21 B) 20 C) 11 D) 10 E) 9
parties before continuing, again in two parties along separate 4. If taxi fares were Rs 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile and Rs 0.20
northern and southern routes. Throughout the entire trip, the for each 1/5 miles thereafter. The taxi fare for a 3-mile ride
composition of traveling parties must be in accord with the was
following conditions: A) Rs 1.56 B) Rs 2.40 C) Rs 3.00
P and R are deadly enemies and, although they may meet briefly, D) Rs 3.80 E) Rs 4.20
can never travel together. P must travel in the same party with S.
Q can't travel by the southern route. U can't change routes
16) If one of the two parties of knights consists of P and U 5. A computer routine was developed to generate two
and two other knights and travels by the southern route, the numbers x, y the first being a random number between 0
other members of this party besides P and U must be and 100 inclusive, and the second being less than or equal to
A) Q and S B) Q and T the square root of the first. Each of the following pair
C) R and S D) R and T satisfies the routine EXCEPT
E) S and T
A) (99.10) B) (85.9) C) (50.7)
17) If each of the two parties of knights consists of exactly
three members, which of the following is not a possible D) (1.1) E) (1.0)
traveling party and route?
A) P,S,U by the southern route 6. A warehouse had a square floor with area 10,000
B) P,S,T by the northern route sq.meters. A rectangular addition was built along one entire
C) P,S,T by the southern route side of the warehouse that increased the floor by one-half as
D) Q,U,R by the northern route much as the original floor. How many meters did the
E) Q,R,T by the northern route
addition extend beyond the original buildings?
18) If one of the two parties of knights consists of U and two A) 10 B) 20 C) 50 D) 200 E) 500
other knights and travels by the northern route, the other
members of this party besides U must be 7. A digital wristwatch was set accurately at 8.30 a.m and
A) P and S B) P and T then lost 2 seconds every 5 minutes. What time was indicated
C) Q and R D) Q and T E) R and T on the watch at 6.30 p.m of the same day if the watch
operated continuously till that time?
19) If each of the two parties of knights consists of exactly
A)5:56 B)5:58 C)6.00 D)6.23 E)6.26
three members of different parties and R travels by the
northern route, then T must travel by the
A) southern route with P and S 8. A 5 litre jug contains 4 litres of a salt water solution that is
B) southern route with Q and R 15 percent salt. If 1.5 litres of the solution spills out of the
C) southern route with R and U jug, and the jug is then filled to capacity with water,
D) northern route with Q and R approximately what percent of the resulting solution in the
E) northern route with R and U
jug is salt?
A)7.5% B)9.5% C) 10.5% D)12% E)15%
20) If, when the two parties of knights encounter one another
after a month, exactly one knight changes from one traveling 9. A plane travelled K miles in the first 96 minutes of flight
party to the other traveling party, that knight must be time. If it completed the remaining 300 miles of the trip in 1
A) P B) Q C) R D) S E) T minute, what was its average speed in miles per hour for the
entire trip?
A. (300)/K+96 B. (300+k)/97 * 60
Quantitative C. (300+k)/96 * 60 D. (300+k)/97

1) Worker A produces n units in 5 hours. Workers A and B 10. A sink has 12 litres of water. Some quantity of water is
can work together and produce n units in 2 hours. How long taken out. If the remaining water is 6 litres less than the
would it take B alone to produce n units? water taken out then quantity of water taken out is.
A) 1 hr 26 min B) 1 hr 53 min A. 3 B. 6 C. 9 D. 1
C) 2 hr 30 min D) 3 hr 30 min E) 3 hr 20 min
11. Which is the 4 digit number whose second digit is thrice
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the first digit and 3'rd digit is sum of 1'st and 2'nd and last 20. There are 20 poles with a constant distance between each
digit is twice the second digit. pole. A car takes 24 seconds to reach the 12th pole, how much
A.2674 B.1349. C.3343 D.3678 will it take to reach the last pole
a)41.45 sec b)45 sec
12. In a straight highway 2 cars starts from the same point in c)40 sec d)38 sec e)42.25sec
opposite directions each travels for 8 Kms and take left turn
then travel for 6 Kms what is the distance between them
now. Verbal
A.16 B.20 C.25 D.10
13. A merchant sells an item at a 20 percent discount. But Directions (Q. 1-5): In each of the following sentences there are
two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of
still makes a gross profit of 20 percent of the cost. What
words denoted by letters A), B), C), D) and E). Find out which
percent of cost would be gross profit on the item have been if pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the
it had been sold without the discount? same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.
A) 20% B) 40% C) 50% D) 60% E) 66.6%
1.) The truth is that in highly capital-intensive business _______
14. A millionaire bought a lot of hats. 1/4 of which were deep pockets, domestic civil aviation is _______
undercapitalized.
brown. The millionaire sold 2/3 of the hats including 4/5 of
A) ascertaining, highly B) requiring, woefully
the brown hats. What fraction of the unsold hats was brown? C) sustaining, alarmingly D) balancing, astonishingly
A) 1/60 B) 1/15 C) 3/20 D) 3/5 E) 3/4 E) demanding, niggardly

15. An investor purchased shares of stock at a certain price. 2.) Time has now come for all agencies working in the
If the stock increased in price Rs 0.25 per share and the total development sector to launch a multi-pronged __________ to
increase for the x shares was Rs 12.50, how many shares of _________ malnutrition.
A) system, abjure B) weapon, annihilate
stock had been purchased?
C) policy, deviate D) strategy, eradicate
A) 25 B) 50 C) 75 D) 100 E) 125 E) fact, demolish

16. At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price 3.) A well- _________, physically and mentally active ________
of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at the sale, the amount alone can contribute to the speedier economic progress of a
saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 nation.
tickets? A) educated, subjects B) organized, systems
C) advanced, brethren D) formulated, citizens
A) 20% B) 33.3% C) 40% D) 60% E) 66.6%
E) nourished, populace

17. How many integers n greater than 10 and less than 100 4.) We must develop _____ systems from the village upwards
are there such that, if the digits of n are reversed, the and up to the national level to constantly _______ the nutritional
resulting integer is n+9? status of the people.
A)5 B)6 C)7 D)8 E)9 A) monitoring, review B) machinery, tackle
C) efficient, emancipate D) sound, harbor
E) inherent, inundate
18. Working independently, Tina can do a certain job in 12
hours. Working independently, Anna can do the same job in 5.) Democracy has taken a ______ in a system which promotes
9 hours. If Tina works independently at the job for 8 hours sycophancy and _____.
and then Anna works independently, how many hours will it A) dive, bureaucracy B) delve, dictatorship
take Anna to complete the remainder of the job? C) beating, mediocrity D) ride, heredity
A)2/3 B)3/4 C)1 D)2 E)3 E) privilege, intolerance

Directions for Questions 6-10: Read the passage and answer

19. A man sold two cows for Rs. 210 at a total profit of 5 %. the questions that follow on the basis of the information
He sold one cow at a loss of 10% and another at a profit of provided in the passage
10%. What is the price of each cow? The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful
(a) Rs. 150 and Rs. 50 (b) Rs 160 and Rs 40 epochs of human history during which the world is getting
(c)Rs 100 and Rs 100 (d)Rs 120 and Rs 80 worse, and past victories which had seemed to be definitive
(e)Rs 110 and Rs 90 have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young,
Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought
that freedom and prosperity would speed gradually
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throughout the world by an orderly process, and it was (a)A (b)B (c)C (d)D
hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually Directions 17-20: In each question, a part of sentence is
diminish. Hardly anyone was haunted by the fear of great printed in italics. Below each sentence, some phrases are
wars. Hardly anyone thought of the nineteenth century as a given which can substitute the italicized part of the sentence.
brief interlude between past and future barbarism. If the sentence is correct as it is, the answer is 'No correction
6. The author feels this way about the latter part of his life required'
because 17. No sooner I saw the tiger, I ran away
A) The world had not become prosperous A. No sooner I had seen B. No sooner did I see
B) He was nostalgic about his childhood. C. As soon as I saw D. No Correction required
C) The world was painfully disturbed during that period of 18. Let he andI work together
time. A. him and I B. him and me
D) The author had not won any further victories. C. he and me D. No Correction required
7. The victories of the past 19. The child is the father ofthe man
A) Filled men with a sense of pessimism A. A child, man B. Child, a man
B) Proved to be temporary events C. Child, Man D. No Correction required
C) ended, cruelty, tyranny, and injustice 20. I am used to hard work
D) Brought permanent peace and security A. hard working B. work hard
8. The world 'definitive' as used in the passage means C. work hardly D. No Correction required
A) Incomplete B) defined C) temporary D) final
9. During the Victorian age people believed that
A) There would be unlimited freedom
B) Strife would increase
C) Peace would prevail and happiness would engulf the whole
world.
D) Wars would be fought on a bigger scale
10. A brief interlude between past and future barbarism can
be interpreted as
A) A dramatic performance during wars
B) An interval between cruel wars
C) A short space of time between two great events
D) A short period of time between past and future acts of
savagery.
Direction 11-16: In each of the following questions, find out
which part of the sentence has an error. If there is no
mistake the answer is 'no error'
11. Our is the only(A) / country in the world(B) / than can
boast of(C) / unity in diversity(D) / no error(E)
(a)A (b)B (c)C (d)D (e)E
12. May I know(A)/who you want(B) / to see please(C) / No
error(D)
(a)A (b)B (c)C (d)D
13. Due to my being a newcomer(A) / I was unable to get a
house(B) / suitable for my wife and me (C)/ No error (D)
(a)A (b)B (c)C (d)D
14. This is the boy(A) / whom I think had won (B) / the gold
medal in the dance competition (C)/ No error(D)
(a)A (b)B (c)C (d)D
15. The number of vehicles(A) /plying on this road(B) /is
more than on the main road (C)/ No error(D)
(a)A (b)B (c)C (d)D
16. There has not been any rainfall (A) / in this part of the
country (B) / since the last two years (C) / No error(E)