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Section I

1.
3 Marks Population of a village in 2012 is x × 1000. The population growth rate is y%. The ratio of population in 2013 and that in 2011 is (x/100)2.
Find y.

1) x + 10

2) x − 10

3) 10x − 100

4) x – 100

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2. Radha went to Mega Bazar to buy fruits. Only 100 units each of apples, bananas, oranges, guavas and melons were available in the fruits
3 Marks
section. The number of fruits that she bought of each type were in the ratio 6 : 7 : 8 : 9 : 10. In all she bought 56% of the total fruits
available. The number of types of fruits of which she bought more than 60% of units available is:

1) 2

2) 3

3) 4

4) 5

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3. Blocks of letters are used to form different words. How many different 3 lettered words can be formed by using the blocks of letters from the
3 Marks
word MATHEMATICS?

1) 399

2) 340

3) 357

4) 377

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4. In a day, amount of work that A, B and C can complete is in the ratio 2 : 5 : 3.

3 Marks

A particular work is to be done in the following manner.

A independently completes ‘a’ amount of work. Then B completes ‘b’ amount of work independently and then C completes ‘c’ amount of
work alone. Then, again A finishes ‘a’ amount of work and the cycle continues.

a = Work done by B and C in a day

b = Work done by A and C in a day
c = Work done by A and B in a day

If the work is completed exactly at the end of day 14, find the ratio of workdone by B to C.
(Note: If work done by someone is completed in a fraction of a day, count the complete day as one.)

1) 5:7

2) 5:3

3) 8:7

4) 1:1

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5. S = {sin A, cos A, tan A, cosec A, sec A, cot A}

3 Marks

P, Q and R take values from S such that P, Q, R, 1/P, 1/Q, 1/R are all different. For how many ordered sets of the values of P, Q and R
does f become zero?

1) 1

2) 2

3) 3

4) None of these

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6.
3 Marks If xyz is a three digit number then f(xyz)= 2x 3y 5z . If f(abc)= 360 × f(pqr) then find (abc – pqr) where abc and pqr are three digit numbers.

1) 231

2) 123

3) 321

4) 311

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7. Three insects P, Q and R want to eat three sugar crystals located at A, B and C in a room of dimension 38 ( 40 ( 42. P goes to C, Q goes
3 Marks
to A and R goes to B. Who reaches the sugar crystal first? (Assume speeds of P, Q and R to be equal and take the minimum distance
possible.)

1) P

2) Q

3) R

4) P and R

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8. A sum of money is distributed among A, B and C. The amount received by A and B is in the ratio 7 : 9 and that of B and C is in the ratio 5 :
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8. If the difference between the amount received by A and C is Rs. 1110 then what is the amount received by B?

1) Rs. 1050

2) Rs. 1350

3) Rs. 1450

4) None of these

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9. A cyclist starts from point A at 9 am and heads towards point B, which is 100 km away. A car starts from point A at 10 am and heads
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towards point B at a speed of 25 km/hr. The car overtakes the cyclist at 10:40 am. A motorist starts from point B at 11 am and crosses the
cyclist at 1 pm. At what distance from the point A does the motorist and cyclist cross each other.

1) 30 km

2) 35 km

3) 40 km

4) 45 km

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10.
3 Marks N is an even number such that N ≥ 4. Also, A = N2 + 2N. The largest natural number that always divides 2(A2 − 8A) is
1) 384

2) 768

3) 1152

4) 192

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11. What is the probability that two randomly selected factors of 720 are co-prime?
3 Marks

1)

2)

3)

4)

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12. A circle with centre O is drawn inside ∆ABC. AB = 12, BC = 5, AC = 13. The circle touches AC, BC and AB at P, Q and R respectively.
3 Marks
Find the ratio of perimeter of □PCQO to perimeter of □AROP.
1) 5 : 12

2) 10 : 13

3) 12 : 13

4) 5 : 24

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13. Mukesh, the great mathematician, asked Rita choose any four digit number and subtract the sum of its digits from it . Without seeing the
3 Marks
result that Rita gets, Mukesh asks her to strike off 1 digit and tell the other digits. With the remaining three digits, Mukesh was able to tell
the digit that was struck off by Rita. If the remaining three digits are 2, 5 and 6 (not necessarily in that order), what would have been
Mukesh’s answer?

1) 5

2) 4

3) 6
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4) None of these

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Group Question

Answer the following questions based on the information given below.

A bartender makes 5 mocktails with varying quantities of different juices in it. The quantity (in %) of these juices in each mocktail is summarized
in the table below:

The cost of 30 ml of each of Pina Colada, Fresh Fruit, Afterglow, Green Alien and Sea Breeze is Rs. 100, Rs. 110, Rs. 120, Rs. 130 and Rs. 140
respectively.

On request, the bartender also makes a mix of all or some of these mocktails in any proportion asked.

14. A customer asks the bartender to make a drink by mixing equal quantities of exactly 2 mocktails such that the drink contains at
3 Marks least 30% each of Orange and Lemon juices and not more than 25% of Apple juices. The customer also wants at least 5% of Grape
juice in his mocktail. Which of the following mixes will satisfy the customer’s demand?

1) Pina Colada and Fresh Fruit

2) Pina Colada and Sea Breeze

3) Fresh Fruit and Sea Breeze

4) Afterglow and Green Alien

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15. In how many ways can a drink composed of exactly 2 mocktails be formed such that it contains no less than 50% of Lemon juice
3 Marks and exactly 10% of Apple juice?
1) 1

2) 2

3) 3

4) More than 3

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16. 3 drinks are mixed in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 such that the quantity of Orange juice in it is greater than 50% while the cost of the drink is
3 Marks the least. Which of the following combinations mixed in that ratio in order, suffices this requirement?

1) Pina Colada, Fresh Fruit and Sea Breeze

2) Fresh Fruit, Afterglow and Sea Breeze

3) Pina Colada, Sea Breeze and Fresh Fruit

4) Afterglow, Pina Colada and Fresh Fruit

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17. There is an isosceles concyclic trapezium ABCD. AB ∥ CD and AB > CD. AB = 10 cm. The perpendicular distance from the centre of the
3 Marks
circle to AB is . What is the radius of the circle?

1) 10 cm

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2)

3)

4) Cannot be determined

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18.
3 Marks

Priya is standing at point A and her house is at B. Points A and B are connected by a road network in a grid form as above. She can travel
only in east and south direction. In how many ways can she reach her house?

1) 26

2) 30

3) 35

4) 41

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19.
3 Marks

Which of the following can be the value of f (19)?

1) 19

2) 17

3) 359

4) None of these

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20.
3 Marks an = pn– 1 and a2 – a1 = p where p is a natural number.

Then the series formed by difference of consecutive terms of ai’s is a:

1) AP

2) GP

3) HP

4) No specific series.

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21.
3 Marks What is the domain of the function f(x) = log2 log1/2(x2 + 5x + 7)?

1) x ∈ (–3, –2)

2) x ∈ (–3, 3)

3) x ∈ R – (–3, –2)

4) x ∈ R – {–3, –2}

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Group Question

Answer the following questions based on the information given below.

With the placement season arriving, a Business school released the profile of its batch of 200 students.

The break-up of the batch according to their graduation stream is as shown in the pie-chart below:

The break-up of the same batch according to their prior work experience is as shown in the pie-chart below:

22. A particular company that visits this Business school has its eligibility criteria that the candidate should have at least 2 years of work
3 Marks experience and should have done either a C.A. or B.Com. What is the maximum number of students eligible to apply to this
company?

1) 80

2) 40

3) 50

4) 60

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23. A company requires engineers with not more than 2 years of work experience. If 10 students opt out of the placement process and
3 Marks 10 students have already got an offer, then what is the minimum number of students who are eligible to apply? (Assume that the
student who got an offer are not eligible for the placement process)

1) 30

2) 40

3) 50

4) 20

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24. It is known that not more than 80% of a particular qualification has experience of a particular type and vice versa. A company comes
3 Marks to the campus asking for Arts, B.Com and Others for experience between 1 and 3 years (both inclusive). What is the maximum
number of students eligible for the same?

1) 70

2) 80

3) 90

4) 100

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25. a, b, c are positive real numbers. Which of the following is the minimum value of
3 Marks

1) 6

2) 3

3) 9

4) Cannot be determined

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26. Chirayu is getting ready for a race. He practices 3 hours for the race. He covers some distance running at the speed of 15 km/hr and then
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walks back to his original place at 5 km/hr. If this takes 3 hours altogether, what is the time for which he runs?

1) 1 hour

2) 0.5 hours

3) 45 minutes

4) 35 minutes

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27. A solid cylinder is immersed in a hemispherical bowl filled with water. What is the maximum volume of the liquid (in cubic units) that can be
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displaced, if the height of the cylinder is equal to the radius of the hemispherical bowl (given by r) and the radius of the cylinder is one third
that of the bowl if cylinder is placed vertically?

1)

2)

3)

4)

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28. On a Monday morning seven people board the elevator on the ground floor of a building having 10 floors above the ground floor. There are no
3 Marks
offices on the ground floor. Each person has an equal probability of getting off at each floor independently. What is the probability that each
of them get off on a different floor if each of them gets off the elevator?

1) 1

2) 0.06048

3) 0.06389

4) None of these

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29.
3 Marks

What is the minimum possible value of

1)

2)

3)

4)

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30. If the minute and hour hands of a clock coincide every 65 minutes, what is the average gain/loss of time by the clock per day?
3 Marks

1) Loses approximately 12 minutes each day

2) Gains approximately 12 minutes each day

3) Loses approximately 9 minutes each day

4) Gains approximately 9 minutes each day

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Section II

Group Question

The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The psychologist Daniel Oppenheimer recently showed that less legible fonts increase readers’ ability to remember the text, presumably because
it slows them down. In Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, David Mikics explains how we can put on the brakes for ourselves. A decade ago, Thomas
Foster compiled interpretive advice in a book called How To Read Literature Like a Professor; Mikics’s much subtler volume could be subtitled
“How to read literature like a student”. Its best sections resemble a transcript of the iTunes U tracks that people nostalgic for long-ago university
days use to while away an hour on the treadmill. Mikics adopts the genre’s pep-talk tone along with its guiding metaphors: reading as eating and
reading as exercising. He compares Twitter to an unsustainable “diet”, explaining that “Rather than gulping down our books, we must digest them
with deliberation”. He adds that “slow reading changes your mind the way exercise changes your body”. What sets Mikics apart are not his
precepts, but his examples. Fourteen rules such as “Find the Author’s Basic Thought” and “Notice Beginnings and Endings” introduce chapters
demonstrating how to interpret short stories, novels, poems, plays and essays. If you follow the rules, Mikics gently reassures readers, “you will

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be able to make detailed, insightful remarks like the ones I’ve recorded”.

The rules themselves are sensible, and the examples grant a glimpse into the classroom of a gifted teacher. His only mistake was to shackle
them to prematurely aged platitudes about the superiority of epics to emoticons. Mikics posits that “literature, music and art express; computers,
by contrast, lead you in a step-by-step way. You’re not immersed in a reality, you’re staring at a screen”. To contrast art with computers,
however, makes no more sense than to contrast truth with toothpicks. Does an MP3 count as “music” or “computer”? If you read Homer on your
Kindle, does your “staring at a screen” mean that nothing is “expressed”? One might as well take Ikea assembly leaflets to prove that paper leads
in a step-by-step way, making print incompatible with art. Software designers anticipated Mikics’s model of the book when they made e-readers
one of the few apps lacking an onscreen clock. Amazon and Apple both assumed that books, unlike websites, would make users lose track of
time. Like Mikics, they were idealizing printed paper – for while great literature stops clocks and even hearts, the average book is no less topical
or ephemeral or hastily edited than the even larger number of websites.

31. Which of the following presents the most suitable combination of the style followed by Mikics in his text?
3 Marks
1) Dogmatic and nostalgic

2) Didactic and reflective

3) Simplistic and trite

4) Elucidatory and opinionated

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32. According to the passage, what is the author's take on Mikics's position on computers?
3 Marks
1) He/she believes that Mikics's comparison between art and computers is misinformed.

2) He/she considers Mikics's approach as being limited and shortsighted.

3) He/she reckons Mikics's position as being ignorant of the potential of powerful text.

4) He/she discredits Mikics's position by highlighting instances of banality in average books.

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33. According to Mikics, slow reading can be advantageous in all of the following except:
3 Marks
1) Keeping pace with the author's line of thought.

2) Bettering one's thinking capability.

3) Being able to understand literature.

4) Having an opinion on what one is reading.

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34. If you were to interview the author, what would be your follow-up question to this passage?
3 Marks
1) Is the expression of art free from the medium chosen to portray it?

2) In the future, will e-readers be able to discern good literature from average literature?

3) Does this imply that the medium does not influence the interpretation of literature?

4) Can reading applications really facilitate the process of slow reading and losing track of time?

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35. In the Qua Qua land, all the inhabitants either always tell the truth or always lie. Those who tell the truth are knights and those who lie are
3 Marks
knaves. A and B are 2 inhabitants of that land.

A makes the following statement: At least one of us is a knave.

What are A and B respectively?

1) Knight and Knave

2) Knave and Knight

3) Knight and Knight

4) Knave and Knave

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36. In Salami land, there are 3 types of people sa(knights), la(nomads), mi(knaves). Knights always speak the truth, knaves always lie. Nomads
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sometimes lie, sometimes tell the truth. All the inhabitants of this land are ranked according to their category. The order of ranks is: sa > la
> mi, sa is 1, la is 2, mi is 3. Two people of that land AN and DH make the following statements:

AN: I am of lower rank than DH.

DH: AN’s statement is not true.

What are the ranks of AN and DH?

1) AN: 1

DH: 3

2) AN: 2

DH: 2

3) AN: 2

DH: 3

4) AN: 3

DH: 2

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37. The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that
3 Marks completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Human beings no longer thrive under the water from which their ancestors emerged, but their relationship with the sea remains close. Over
half the world’s people live within 100 kilometres of the coast; a tenth are within 10 km. On land at least, the sea delights the senses and
excites the imagination. The sight and smell of the sea inspire courage and adventure, fear and romance. Though the waves may be rippling
or mountainous, the waters angry or calm, the ocean itself is eternal. Its moods pass. Its tides keep to a rhythm. ____.

1) It is unchanging.

2) It is constantly changing.

3) Its appearances deceive.

4) The possibility of a widespread catastrophe is simply too great.

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38. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate set of words from the given options.
3 Marks
Most tourists to India from western countries find the _________ culture of India more _________ than its monuments and history.
1) diverse, commoving

2) distinct, alluring

3) prosaic, fascinating

4) friendly, exasperating

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39. The following question consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph.
3 Marks Choose the most logical order of sentences from the options.
I. As he had left Joseph ready to mount his horse, he didn’t think any misfortune might have befallen him, neither did he worry that he might
miss the road as it was too plain.
II. He therefore decided to ride slowly ahead, thinking that he would be overtaken shortly.
III. When he reached the top of the hill, Parson Adams looked back and wondered why he couldn’t see Joseph anywhere.
IV. The most probable reason that he believed was that Joseph had met with a friend or an acquaintance and their discourse might have
taken place for a longer time, causing this delay.
V. He soon arrived at a large puddle of water which had filled the entire road; there was no way to pass, unless one waded through.

1) III, I, IV, II, V

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2) III, V, II, I, IV

3) I, II, III, V, IV

4) I, II, III, IV, V

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Group Question

Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below.

Eight persons in a family – Grandfather, Grandmother, Father, Mother, Son, Daughter-in-law, Daughter and Son-in-law; are sitting in a circle, not
necessarily in the same order. The chairs are arranged in a perfect symmetry. It is also known that:

i. Father and Mother are sitting farthest apart from each other.
ii. There are exactly two persons sitting in between Grandfather and Grandmother.

40. If Grandfather, Grandmother, Mother and Son always sit together, then how many different arrangements are possible?
3 Marks
1) 16

2) 24

3) 48

4) 96

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41. If Grandmother sits beside Mother and Father sits between two females, then which of the following option gives the number of
3 Marks persons sitting between Son and Son-in-law?

1) 1 or 5

2) 3

3) 2 or 4

4) 3 or 5

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42. If there is no person sitting between Mother and Daughter, then who can’t be sitting beside Mother if exactly two couples are sitting
3 Marks diametrically opposite?

1) Daughter-in-law

2) Son

3) Grandfather

4) Son-in-law

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43. Identify the grammatically correct sentences.

3 Marks

A. Once upon a time, gazing at ruins was considered one of life’s most exquisite pleasures.
B. The parks designed by Capability Brown and William Kent for 18th-century aristocrats often featured a neo-gothic folly or crumbling
mock-classical temple specially created to set of the surrounding landscape.
C. Cultured travellers, meanwhile, went in search of real ruins in Britain and abroad, a trend that continued well into the 19th century.
D. Ruined castles were a favourite destination, as were ruined abbeys set in beautiful landscapes: to satisfy the exacting requirements
of the romantic sightseer, a ruin has to possess what John Constable called “melancholy grandeur.”

1) A and D

2) A and C

3) B only

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Group Question

The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

In one of his typically curt dismissals of a philosophical problem, Dr Johnson silenced Boswell, who wanted to talk about fate and free will, by
exclaiming: “Sir...we know our will is free, and there’s an end on it.” The ancient Greeks worried about Ananke, the primeval force of necessity or
compulsion, and her children, the Fates, who steered human lives. Some scientifically minded Greeks regarded the motion of atoms as
controlled by Ananke, so that “everything happens…by necessity.” Medieval theologians struggled to reconcile human freedom with God’s
presumed foreknowledge of all actions. And in the wake of the scientific revolution of the 17th century, philosophers grappled with a universe that
was subject to invariable laws of nature. This spectre of “determinism” was a reprise of the old Greek worry about necessity, only this time with
experimental and mathematical evidence to back it up.

In the 20th century, the science of psychology seemed to undermine the idea of free will: Freud’s theory of unconscious drives suggested that the
causes of some of our actions are not what we think they are. And then came neuroscience, which paints an even bleaker picture. The more we
find out about the workings of the brain, the less room there seems to be in it for any kind of autonomous, rational self. Investigations of the brain
show that conscious will is an “illusion”, according to the title of an influential book by a Harvard psychologist, Daniel Wegner in 2002. In 2011,
Sam Harris, an American writer on neuroscience and religion, wrote that free will “could not be squared with an understanding of the physical
world”, and that all our behaviour “can be traced to biological events about which we have no conscious knowledge”. There are now hopeful signs
of what might be called a backlash against the brain. Hardly anybody doubts that the grey matter in our skulls underpins our thoughts and
feelings. This is not a new, or even a modern, idea: Hippocrates proclaimed as much in the fifth century BC. But there is a growing realization
among some neuroscientists that looking at flickers of activity inside our heads can be a misleading way to see how our minds work. This is
because many of the distinctively human things that people do take place over time and outside their craniums. In part, this backlash against the
brain results from the conviction that today’s technologies for investigating it have been hyped. The existence of diagnostic hardware such as
fMRI and PET scanners, which let you peek inside brains while they are still alive and thinking, has encouraged some neuroscientists to think
they can find the locus of moral responsibility, the seat of love and all manner of things in the images produced by brain scans. As well as
casting illumination in what is sometimes the wrong place, today’s scanners are still rather dim streetlights. Since they cannot see the activity of
neurons, fMRI scanners make do with changes in blood oxygen levels, and PET scanners indirectly measure changes in blood flow, to spot
where something is (or was) going on. These techniques can detect the trails only of large bursts of neural activity, and will miss anything
involving less than many millions of brain cells.No doubt brain scanners, and our ability to interpret them, will improve in due course. But the
problem with trying to investigate some aspects of our mental life via the workings of the brain is not just a practical one. Stepping back from
investigations of the brain, and looking at our actions in the broader context of everyday life, does not in itself provide the knock-down
demonstration of free will that Dr Johnson would have liked. But it is at least a good beginning on it.

44. “A backlash against the brain” as stated in the passage most likely means which of the following?
3 Marks
1) The specter of “determinism” of the Greeks repeated by the advances in neuroscience may be under attack.

2) The notion that there is free will is under attack again, this time from neuroscience.

3) There are doubts whether a working brain is required for our mental life consisting of our thoughts and feelings.

4) The fMRI and PET scanners have now made it possible to understand our mental life through the images produced by brain
scans.

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45. According to Dr. Johnson’s “...there’s an end on it”, and according to the author “a good beginning on it____________”,
3 Marks

Which of the options below explains the above statement so as to complete it.

1) Both statements imply the same thing.

2) The author points to the possibility of human ‘free will’ while Dr. Johnson dismisses the idea.

3) Dr. Johnson dismisses Boswell’s argument by countering it, while the author dismisses Dr. Johnson’s argument.

4) Dr. Johnson reinforces the existence of ‘free will’ while the author denies the existence of human ‘free will’.

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46. The author is likely to DISAGREE with which of the following?

3 Marks
1) In order to disprove the existence of human free will, it may be necessary to look outside the working of the brain and to
consider voluntary actions like our interactions with others.

2) Although our mental lives depend on the brain, it doesn’t necessarily follow that our behavior is best understood by looking
inside it, simply because that’s what we can observe.

3) It would be incorrect to think that conscious deliberation is not involved in performing actions like catching a bus, finding
the right room, and keeping an appointment.

4) None of the above.

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Group Question

Answer the following questions based on the information given below.

Following is the list of books prescribed for first year students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The Standard Book of Spells
Magical Theory
A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration
Magical Drafts and Potions
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection

These books were published for the first time in the years 1929, 1855, 1922, 1772 and 1830, in some order.

The authors in some order were: Phyllida Spore, Quentin Trimble, Adalbert Waffling, Emeric Switch and Bathilda Bagshot.

The following is also known:

1. “A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration” was written more than 100 years after Waffling wrote his book.
2. Trimble wrote his book 25 years after Magical Theory was written.
3. Bagshot released her book, “The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Preservation”, on the 150th anniversary of the publication of “The Standard Book
of Spells”.

47. Who wrote “Magical Drafts and Potions”?

3 Marks
1) Phyllida Spore

2) Quentin Trimble

3) Adalbert Waffling

4) Emeric Switch

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48. How many years after the publication of “Magical Theory” was “A Beginner’s guide to Transfiguration” published?
3 Marks
1) 157

2) 99

3) 92

4) Cannot be determined

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49. If Switch’s book was published before Spore’s, who wrote the book “A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration”?
3 Marks
1) Emeric Switch

2) Phyllida Spore

3) Quentin Trimble

4) Cannot be determined

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50. Three of the sentences numbered I, II, III and IV form a logical paragraph. One sentence is out of context. Choose the ODD sentence for your
3 Marks answer.

I. For disinvestment to happen, it remains necessary to work on structural changes in how public sector companies are managed.
II. India needs to prepare its markets and prepare the companies for disinvestment.
III. Public sector companies must be freed of the all-encompassing control of their nodal ministries.
IV. Disinvestment remains entirely a political decision and not a decision taken by a disinvestment commission.

1) I

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2) IV

3) II

4) III

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Group Question

The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Social aesthetics starts with a consideration of the extent to which one’s membership in community - one’s social identity- shapes one’s
approach to art-making and art appreciation. This approach is exemplified by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s critical rebuttal of Kantian
aesthetics on the grounds that “taste” is not a universal trait which identifies a single standard of artistic merit but is instead indexed to one’s
class position. Bourdieu offers a detailed, fine-grained argument for this hypothesis where he discusses the results of surveys of respondents
from a cross-section of social classes in France of the 1970s. Contrasting working class, bourgeois, and elite preferences in entertaining,
decorating, leisure activities, music, and film, Bourdieu argues that what we find beautiful is indeed demonstrably shaped by our class positions
and trajectories. The net effect of Bourdieu’s intervention is repudiation of a universalist aesthetic hierarchy in which the cultural preferences of the
elite class are judged as better than those of the working class, in favor of a relativist indexing of artistic productions to class positions.

While much of the research into musical tastes that explicitly engages the notion of class is being done in the European context, it is not hard to
see how this discourse asserts itself in American accounts of taste. The concepts of “highbrow” music, Western art music, or “classical” and
“lowbrow” music - popular, mass-marketed productions, from jazz in the 1930s to rock in the 1950s through 1980s and, most recently, hip-hop—
link tastes to education and income levels, which appear in the American lexicon as stand-ins for the concept of class. Understanding this
linguistic translation makes it possible for us to employ a social aesthetics reading of some of the claims in the history of American musical
production that otherwise seem unmotivated. In particular, John Coltrane’s rejection of the label “jazz” for his music, and his preference for
labeling jazz “America’s classical music” can, through this lens, be interpreted as a contestation of the class position to which jazz musicians
and their art-making had been relegated. This contestation does not achieve the relativism of Bourdieu’s inventory, but it does underscore the
connection between social identity, or community membership, and aesthetic taste.

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

3 Marks
1) Musicians cater to specific strata of society with their music.

2) Bourdieu asserts that cultural preferences of the elite class are by far the most superior.

3) Jazz was popular among the working class in the 1930s.

4) None of the above.

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52. What is the central idea of the passage?

3 Marks
1) European and American social identity patterns stem from similar social structures.

2) Distinction of classes is based on dissimilar cultural preferences.

3) Aesthetic preferences are socially conditioned.

4) Social identity is based on education and income levels.

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53. The style of writing adopted by the author can be best described as
3 Marks
1) Argumentative

2) Scholarly

3) Reflective

4) Explanatory

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54. The five sentences of a paragraph have to be sequenced so as to make a coherent paragraph. Choose the option which is the most
3 Marks appropriate sequence.

I. The buzzword of preschool and primary school education in many countries over the past 20 years has been accountability.
II. To do otherwise is to squander the trust and resources of children, families, taxpayers, and educators.
III. On the contrary, many educators advocate breaks between periods of intense work to allow children to relax and interact with peers,

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but there can be common ground between these two positions, particularly with respect to primary schools.
IV. While accepting the need for accountability, our best theory and empirical evidence must be used to guide practice.
V. Politicians and school superintendents view it as a way to prove that they are “tough on education” and are striving to improve
academic performance by eliminating long recesses.

1) I, IV, V, III, II

2) I, V, III, IV, II

3) IV, II, V, III, I

4) I, II, III, IV, V

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55. The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that
3 Marks completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
That the risk-taking end of the financial industry is dominated by men is unarguable. But does it discriminate against women merely
because they are women? Well, it might. But a piece of research just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
suggests an alternative—that it is not a person’s sex, per se, that is the basis for discrimination, but the level of his or her testosterone.
____.

1) Besides being a sex hormone, testosterone also governs appetite for risk.

2) Men are, hence, more likely than women to choose a risky job in finance.

3) Women and men with the same levels of testosterone generally demonstrate dissimilar risk preferences.

4) The developmental effects of testosterone on the brain determine the appetite for risk.

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56. A base word has been used in the options given below. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
3 Marks
Dash

1) She dashed the vase to the floor in frustration.

2) Only then did he make a dash into the door as the basilica came crashing down around him.

3) I prefer to have my tequila with a dash of soda.

4) The sudden deluge dashed our plans to camp out in the garden last night.

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57. Four of the sentences numbered I, II, III, IV and V form a logical paragraph. One sentence is out of context. Choose the ODD sentence for
3 Marks your answer.

I. Modern authoritarianism differs from that of ancient times—when rulers were openly inimical to their people—in that it claims to exist
as a direct expression of the will of its people.
II. In this way, the majority is not only insensitive to the illegality of the suppression—on the contrary, it supports it, even participates in
it.
III. As the people inflict illegal punishment on others, they strip themselves, tragically, of the protection of the law.
IV. The suppression of speech always starts with that which is sincerely believed to be counter-revolutionary by a majority at the time.
V. Once the people have taken part in this illegal deprivation, however, a mortal blow has been struck, and from then on suppression
worsens by the day.

1) II

2) IV

3) III

4) I

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58. The following question consists of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in
3 Marks terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

A. Start-ups flounder for countless reasons.

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B. Perhaps, the market opportunity is not as big as they were imagined,
C. or perhaps there is a mismatch between technology and market.
D. May be the world had changed in some significant way
E. invalidating the key assumptions which the start-up was based on.

1) A only

2) B and C

3) A, D and E

4) E only

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59. From the options, choose the one which can continue the paragraph most logically and consistently.
3 Marks
There is big attention to corruption these days. People are exhorted to stop supporting corruption, to blow the whistle when they witness
corruption, etc. At the same time, after much noise, few are actually doing it. After much thinking, I concluded that it was because
corruption provides some advantages. It makes things easier by bypassing lengthier processes and bribes allow an unfavourable authority to
become more pleasing. Most people dislike being in the wrong, and fighting corruption is inconvenient at best and can be downright
dangerous. _____ .

1) Thus, the number of people supporting anti-corruption policies will always remain low.

2) Thus, there are too many deterrents and very little motivation.

3) Thus, many are reluctant to be the bad guy by challenging wrong doing.

4) Thus, there is little motivation for one to get into actual trouble by fighting corruption.

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60. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate pair of words from the given options.
3 Marks
Basbanes points out that during the Second World War, the same long paper-making _______ that allowed Japan to devise bomb-bearing
paper balloons rendered its cities uniquely vulnerable to _______ bombs: more civilians died in the blazes spread by paper windows and
screens than from either of the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

1) cult, explosive

2) practice, nauseous

3) tradition, incendiary

4) skill, copious

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