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Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Your answers to these
items should be based on the passages only.
PASSAGE -1
The Working Group of Minorities at its Geneva session highlighted that constructive resolution of tensions
involving minorities is by way of ‘integrating diversity’. This means that persons belonging to minorities,
acting alone or in community, should be given adequate opportunity to maintain and develop their
distinct identities, while at the same time participating in and making a contribution to the wider society
and respecting the territorial integrity of the State. Integrating diversity goes hand-in-hand with good
governance which is firmly grounded in international human rights law. This requires that state protect
the rights of all those residing within their jurisdiction without distinction of any kind. It is immaterial
whether these persons are recognized by the state as a national minority.
The Human Rights Committee functioning under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
1966 has expressed the view that to secure protection, members of the minority community need not be
citizens of the country nor its permanent residents. The protection extends to migrant workers who
constitute a minority. In order to accord this protection, states should take special measures to ensure
the existence of conditions for minorities to maintain and develop their own distinct cultural identities.
More specifically what is required is- sensitivity to needs, especially linguistic and education, of persons
belonging to minorities so as to enable each individual to develop his identity; allowing minorities the
opportunity to participate effectively in public life, including the political decision-making processes; and
providing minorities with access to a fair share of public goods, including economic opportunity. Such
measurers do not constitute preferential treatment. Their aim is to achieve equal and meaningful
enjoyment of above rights in order to ensure de facto equality.
Question 01. What is the meaning of the term ‘integrating diversity’, used in the passage?
Agriculture dominates change in India through its casual links with factor and product markets. It
employs sixty percent of the labour force and contributes twenty-six percent of the gross domestic
products. In the poorer states, its contribution to the domestic product is close to 40 percent. Low
productivity in agriculture has led to the concentration of the poor in this sector. Due to the sheer size of
the agricultural economy and the importance of its major products in the diets of the poor, gains in
agricultural productivity have significant potential impact on poverty. Theoretically, it is possible to
reduce poverty as well as expand the domestic market for industry by raising labour productivity in
agriculture and spreading its gains among the low income groups. Modeling of the linkages between
agricultural and industrial growth has shown that a ten percent increase in agricultural output would
increase industrial output by five percent and urban workers would benefit by both increased industrial
employment and price deflation. However, there is an asymmetry of adjustments in the demand and
supply of agricultural goods. An increase in non-agricultural production would lead to an immediate
increase in demand for intermediate and final agricultural goods, whereas supply-side adjustments
involving reallocation of resources and net additional investment for capacity expansion take a much
longer period. There is a widely held view that in a large country like India, the demand stimulus for
industrialization would come mainly from agriculture with less social and economic costs.
Interdependencies in food and labour market are important for the development process. An upward shift
in the food supply curve would simultaneously result in an upward shift in the labour demand curve. The
magnitude of the interdependence depends on the technique of production causing the shifts in the food
supply curve. Similarly, an upward shift in the labour supply curve shifts up the food demand curve. The
extent of interdependence between the forces of labour supply and food demand depends on the
employment-output elasticity and the income elasticity of demand for food. The recent estimate of the
employment output elasticity in agriculture is around 0.5, income elasticity of food is in the range of 0.55-
0.50 and that for cereals is 0.25-0.30. The other important interdependency which plays a crucial role in
inducing indirect employment is that between food and other sectors through demand linkages. Since
food accounts for a major share in the budget of the poor and any reduction in the food price would
increase the wage costs of industrial products and hence the prices of industrial products. In the absence
of adjustments through exports, it would result in demand deficiency. Clearly, the most favorable
situation in India is one in which labour demand outpaces its supply and food supply outpaces its
demand.
Read the following passages and answer the items that follow after passage. Your answers to these items
should be based on the passages only.
The University Grants Commission’s directive to college and university lecturers to spend a minimum of
twenty-two hours a week in direct teaching is the product of budgetary cutbacks rather that pedagogic
wisdom. It may seem odd, at first look, that teachers should protest about teaching a mere twenty-two
hours. However, if one considers the amount of time academics require to prepare lectures of good quality
as well as the time they need to spend doing research, it is clear that most conscientious teachers work
more than forty hours a week. In university systems around the world lecturers rarely spends more than
twelve to fifteen hours in direct teaching activities a week. The average college lecturer in India does not
have any office space. If computers are available, internet connectivity is unlikely. Libraries are poorly
stocked. Now the UGC says universities must implement a complete freeze on all permanent recruitment,
abolish all posts which have been vacant for more than a year, and cut staff strength by ten percent. And
it is in order to ensure that these cutbacks do not affect the quantum of teaching that existing lecturers
are being asked to work longer. Obviously, the quality of teaching and academic work in general will
decline. While it is true that some college teachers do not take their classes regularly, the UGC and the
institutions concerned must find a proper way to hold them accountable. An absentee teacher will
continue to play truant even if the number of hours he is required to teach goes up.
All of us are well aware of the unsound state that the Indian higher education system is in today. Thanks
to years of sustained financial neglect, most Indian universities and colleges do no research worth the
name. Even as the number of students entering colleges has increased dramatically, public investments
in higher education has actually declined in relative terms. Between 1985 and 1997, when public
expenditure on higher education as percentage of outlays on India showed a decline of more than ten
percent. Throughout the world, the number of teachers in higher education per million populations grew
by more than ten percent in the same period; in India it fell by one percent. Instead of transferring the
burden of government apathy on to the backs of the teachers, the UGC should insist that the need of the
country’s university system be adequately catered to.
PASSAGE -2
Comfort is now one of the causes of its own spread. It has now become a physical habit, a fashion, an
ideal to be pursued for its own sake. The more comfort is brought into the world, the more it is likely to be
valued. To those who have known comfort, discomfort is a real torture. The fashion which now decrees
the worship of comfort is quite as imperious as any other fashion. Moreover, enormous material interests
are bound up with the supply of the means of comfort. The manufacturers of furniture, heating
apparatus, plumbing fixtures cannot afford to let the love of comfort die. In modern advertisements they
have found a means for compelling it to live and grow. A man of means today, who builds a house, is in
general concerned primarily with the comfort of his future residence. He will spend a great deal of money
Question 08. How do people manage to keep the love of comfort alive?
(a) By pumping in more comfort goods in the market
(b) By sacrificing high profits on comfort goods
(c) By targeting youths in sales campaign
(d) By appealing to the emotionality of the people
Question 10. What was the characteristic of affluent man of an earlier age?
(a) He used to put higher premium on comfort
(b) He was relying much on advertisements
(c) He was more qualitative in his emphasis rather than being quantitative
(d) His emphasis was on beauty
Question 12. Although most of the fastest growing jobs in today's economy will require a college degree,
many of the new jobs being created-from home health aide to desktop publisher-require knowledge other
than that gained from earning a degree. For workers in those jobs, good basic skills in reading,
communication, and mathematics play an important role in getting a job and developing a career. From
the information given above it can be validly concluded that, in today's economy,
(a) skills in reading, communication, and mathematics play an important role in developing a career as a
desktop publisher
(b) the majority of the new jobs being created require knowledge other than that gained from earning a
college degree
(c) a job as a home health aide will rely more on communication skills than on basic skills in reading and
mathematics
(d) if a job is one of the fastest growing jobs, it will require a college degree
Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Your answers to these
items should be based on the passages only.
Now the question arises; what is the secret of the longevity and imperishability of Indian culture? Why is
it that such great empires and nations as Babylon, Assyria, Greece, Rome and Persia could not last more
than the footprints of a camel on the shifting sands of the deserts while India, which faces the same ups
and downs, the same mighty and cruel hand of time, is still alive and with the same halo of glory and
splendor? The answer is given by Prof. JB Pratt of America. According to him, Hindu religion is ‘self
perpetuating and self-renewing’. Unlike other religions,’ not death, but development’ has been the fate of
Hinduism. Not only Hindu religion but the whole culture of the Hindus has been growing, changing and
developing in accordance with the needs of the times and circumstances without losing its essentially
imperishable spirit. The culture of the Vedic Ages, of the ages of the Upanishads, the various
philosophical systems, the Mahabharata, the Smritis, the Puranas, various scholarly commentators, the
medieval saints and the age of modern reformers is the same in spirit and yet very different in form. Its
basic principles are so broad-based that they can be adapted to almost any environment of development.
Question 13. In which of the following respect is India implied to be superior to all other nations and
empires?
(a) Democratic traditions (b) Territorial expansion
(c) Cultural Development (d) Archaeological Reserves
Question 14. What changes has the spirit of Indian culture undergone during the long period of history
right from the Vedic Age down to the present time?
(a) The prevalence of moral values was eclipsed at certain periods of time
(b) The spirit of Indian culture has remained unchanged from the ancient times down to the present
(c) Materialism was the hallmark of the Indian culture during certain periods of time
(d) During certain periods authoritarian values dominated over democratic values
Question 15. Consider the following-
1. Mighty and cruel hands of time spares none
2. The cultures of the Vedic Age and the ages of the Upanishads is different in form
3. Hindu religion is growing and changing
4. Indian culture is transient and ephemeral
Which of the above group of statements are correct in context of the given passage?
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
PASSAGE -2
Monopolies are bad in national politics and worse in international politics. The uni-polar world led by the
US is an example of political monopoly. In the language of history and politics, monopolies are discussed
in terms of balance of power. What we have today is an imbalance of power. The US led war against Iraq
needs to be seen in the context of this imbalance. There has been much talk about the need for a multi-
polar world as an ideal situation to the existing anarchy in the international arena. The US and UK
combine have been considered to be the perpetrators of the war. They disregarded global public opinion
and have gone outside the mandate of the United Nations. This is an indication of US considering itself
the only superpower. This consideration may be justified because it has all the pervading might and also
the necessary will. Its might is in two domains: one, military and the other, economic. On every issue of
any importance that confronts foreign policy-making of any country, US interest become vital. This
omnipresence of the US makes it different from any other country. Some political observers argue that
Germans, Japanese, Europeans are coming; that China is not far away. In short, we occupy a period of
metamorphosis from a bipolar to a multi-polar world, a period that may constitute a unipolar moment but
that phase may be over shortly. When will this unipolar movement be over? None has the answer to this
question. Most observers view US as somewhere between primacy and dominance, depending on the
issue. The main question is how to deal with hegemony, primacy or dominance. In dealing with a big
power, a smaller power must choose either balancing or bandwagoning or hiding. In a unipolar world, the
general trend of foreign policy will be to bandwagon. Middle powers will need to bandwagon less than
small powers and on particular issues may be able to balance or hide.
(c) thinks that the United Nations should have admired the US and UK
The author of the passage, has laid reasonable emphasis on which of the above?
Read the following information provided and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items
should be based on the information given only.
Sales of Books (in thousand numbers) from Six Branches - B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6 of a publishing
Company in 2000 and 2001.
Question 19.What is the ratio of the total sales of branch B2 for both years to the total sales of branch
B4 for both years?
Question 20.Total sales of branch B6 for both the years are what percent of the total sales of branches
B3 for both the years?
Question 21.What percent of the average sales of branches B1, B2 and B3 in 2001 is the average sales of
branches B1, B3 and B6 in 2000?
Question 22.What is the average sales of all the branches (in thousand numbers) for the year 2000?
(a) 73 (b) 80
(c) 83 (d) 88
Question 23.Total sales of branches B1, B3 and B5 together for both the years (in thousand numbers) is?
Read the following information provided and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items
should be based on the information given only.
Question 24. How many cubes having red, green and black colours on at least one side of the cube will
be formed ?
(a) 16 (b) 12
(a) 6 (b) 12
(c) 16 (d) 24
Question 26. How many cubes will have 4 coloured sides and two non-coloured sides ?
(a) 8 (b) 4
(c) 16 (d) 10
Question 27. How many cubes will have green colour on two sides and rest of the four sides having no
colour?
(a) 12 (b) 10
(c) 8 (d) 4
Question 28. How many cubes will remain if the cubes having black and green coloured are removed?
(a) 4 (b) 8
(c) 12 (d) 16
Which of the following conclusion can be drawn from the above table?
(b) The relative share of the UK and USA went down considerably to the total export
(c) Japan became the major importing country from India in 1980
Question 30. A team of four from A, B, C, D, E, F and G is to be selected according to the following
conditions:
Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Your answers to these
items should be based on the passages only.
PASSAGE -1
Mr. Harding was not a happy man as he walked down the palace pathway, and stepped out into the close.
His position and pleasant house were a second time gone from him; but that he could endure. He had
been schooled and insulted by a man young enough to be his son; but that he could put up with. He
could even draw from the very injuries which had been inflicted on him some of that consolation which,
we may believe, martyrs always receive from the injustice of their own sufferings. He had admitted to his
daughter that he wanted the comfort of his old home, and yet he could have returned to his lodgings in
the High Street, if not with exultation, at least with satisfaction, had that been all. But the venom of the
chaplain's harangue had worked into his blood, and sapped the life of his sweet contentment.
'New men are carrying out new measures, and are carting away the useless rubbish of past centuries!'
What cruel words these had been- and how often are they now used with all the heartless cruelty of a
Slope! A man is sufficiently condemned if it can only be shown that either in politics or religion he does
not belong to some new school established within the last score of years. He may then regard himself as
rubbish and expect to be carted away. A man is nothing now unless he has within him a full appreciation
of the new era; an era in which it would seem that neither honesty nor truth is very desirable, but in
which success is the only touchstone of merit. We must laugh at everything that is established. Let the
joke be ever so bad, ever so untrue to the real principles of joking; nevertheless, we must laugh - or else
beware the cart. We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit of the times, or else we are naught. New
men and new measures, long credit and few scruples, great success or wonderful ruin, such are now the
tastes of Englishmen who know how to live! Alas, alas! Under such circumstances Mr. Harding could not
but feel that he was an Englishman who did not know how to live. This new doctrine of Mr. Slope and the
rubbish cart sadly disturbed his equanimity. 'The same thing is going on throughout the whole country!'
'Work is now required from every man who receives wages!' And had he been living all his life receiving
wages, and doing no work? Had he in truth so lived as to be now in his old age justly reckoned as rubbish
fit only to be hidden away in some huge dust-hole? The school of men to whom he professes to belong,
the Grantlys, the Gwynnes, are afflicted with no such self-accusations as these which troubled Mr.
Harding. They, as a rule, are as satisfied with the wisdom and propriety of their own conduct as can be
any Mr. Slope, or any Bishop with his own. But, unfortunately for himself, Mr. Harding had little of this
self-reliance. When he heard himself designated as rubbish by the Slopes of the world, he had no other
resource than to make inquiry within his own bosom as to the truth of the designation. Alas, alas! the
evidence seemed generally to go against him.
Question 33. Mr. Harding differs from others of his ‘school’ because they-
PASSAGE -2
To understand the impact of sexual harassment on women one must listen to the account of its victims
as no one conveys the meaning and truth of sexual harassment better than the women who have endured
it. In response to the question during the survey conducted in and around Delhi University, "What kind of
emotional response does eve teasing /sexual harassment evoke in you", not a single woman ticked the
category of "indifferent". The survey of the Gender Study Group shows that most women felt disgusted,
insulted and scared by any sort of harassment. Women often internalize male perceptions of sexual
harassment and blame themselves for having brought on the harassment. They not only doubt the
validity of their own experiences but begin to believe that they themselves must be 'abnormal', ‘cheap’,
'indecent' or deserving the violence that comes their way. Most respondents, men and women, described
'verbal harassment' as eve teasing and contrasted this with 'physical harassment' which has been seen as
sexual harassment. They described eve teasing as relatively harmless behaviour committed usually by
strangers, while sexual harassment would be grievous committed by acquaintances or men in positions of
institutional power. In addition, most men and women described eve teasing as isolated incidents while
sexual harassment would typically be repetitive and sustained over a long period of time. Many
respondents said that they felt extreme anger, frustration and helplessness at not being able to do
anything about the harassment. Many women having faced this behaviour also said that they find it
difficult to trust or have friendships with men. In response to the question "Has sexual harassment /eve
teasing affected your academic/personal development in any way?' 45% of women stated that sexual
harassment on Delhi campus roads has affected their personal or academic development in one way or
another. Many women have found a way of handling these situations by changing their personalities but
at one level these changes are also forced by the circumstances over which they have no control, and has
left some of them bitter.
2. Authority Structures Despite gross instances of sexual harassment in the past the Delhi University
administration has not treated sexual harassment as a serious problem which has traumatic
consequences for the women.
Which of the above strategies women could use in case of Street Harassment?
(a) Nearly half of the women’s life are affected by sexual harassment on Delhi campus. roads
(c) Eve teasing is relatively harmless behaviour while sexual harassment would be grievous crime.
The following eight items (Questions 70 to 75) are based on two passages in English to test the
comprehension of English language. Read each passage and answer the item that follow.
PASSAGE -1
Child psychology is certainly not a strong point with most Indian schools. Why else should it inflict a
double trauma on a student faring badly in the pre-boards by banning her from taking the exams? Often
with fatal results as evidenced by reports of students suicides in the run-up to the board. Now the Central
Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has stepped in and put the brakes on. This is good news for
parents and students, many of whom have led to live with the threat of the performance-linked
department. While the schools logic is that in order to attract talented students, they need to maintain
their performance records at the high levels, the assumption that a student faring poorly the pre-boards
will replicate this at the boards is faulty. Chances are that the student will be spurred to work doubly
hard. On the other hand, the threat of the department will almost certainly impact her performance
adversely. Of course, linking pre-boards to the boards is only one of the problems with our school system.
Question 37. According to the passage, which of the following is the good news for the parents?
(a) Schools will take the responsibility of preparing students for the board
(d) No student can be barred from the boards without prior clearance from the CBSE.
Question 38. What is the faulty assumption of schools, according to the passage?
(a) Students who do not do well at pre-boards will be motivated to work hard
(b) Pre-boards are generally easy and therefore students take them lightly
(c) Students who fare poorly at the pre-board will fail at the boards
Question 39. According to the passage, parents had to live with the threat of-
(c) schools not treating their wards with the attitude of counselor
PASSAGE -2
The martyrs who laid down their lives for the freedom of the country, had a lofty vision of the future. They
wanted the nation ` to be free from all the slavery and bondage. They wanted an India in which all the
communities would live in perfect harmony and in which there would be no high class and no low class of
people, the curse of untouchability having been wiped out completely. Women would enjoy equal rights
with men and contribute their fullest to the making of a great nation. Such a vision was in keeping with
the ancient glory of the country renowned for its splendid achievements in literature, art and culture. We
must now revitalise this ancient culture of ours with tolerance as its masthead. lf we forget or cease to
take pride in our noble heritage. we shall have to face severe indictment in the court of history which is a
ruthless judge and seldom spares the erring people.
Question 40.The martyrs who died for the freedom of India wanted-
(a) there should be reservation in the jobs for the backward sections of the society
(b) there should be perfect communal love and peace in the country
Read the following passage and answer the items that follow after passage. Your answers to these items
should be based on the passage only.
PASSAGE -1
Visual recognition involves storing and retrieving memories. Neural activity, triggered by the eye, forms an
image in the brains memory system that constitutes an internal representation of the viewed object. When
an object is encountered again, it is matched with its internal representation and thereby recognized.
Controversy surrounds the question of whether recognition is a parallel, one-step process or a serial,
step-by-step one. Psychologists of the Gestalt school maintain that object are recognized as wholes in a
parallel procedure: the internal representation is matched with the retinal image in a single operation.
Other psychologists have proposed that internal representation features are matched serially with an
object's features. Although some experiments show that, as an object become familiar, its internal
representation becomes more familiar, its internal representation becomes more holistic and the
recognition process correspondingly more parallel, the weight of evidence seems to support the serial
hypothesis, at least for objects that are not notably simple and familiar.
Question 43. It can be inferred from the passage that the matching process in visual recognition is-
(b) Not possible when an object is viewed for the very first time.
(d) Only possible when a retinal image is received in the brain as a unitary whole.
(d) Discussing visual recognition and some hypotheses proposed to explain it.
Question 45. Study the table and determine the state which has recorded maximum improvement in
output from 1961 to 1991?
Question 46. How many small cubes will have only two faces coloured?
(a) 12 (b) 24
(c) 16 (d) 12
Question 47. How many small cubes have three faces coloured?
(a) 24 (b) 20
(c) 16 (d) 8
Question 48. How many small cubes will have no face coloured?
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 4 (d) 8
Question 49. Branches of five private banks, A, B, C, D, and E in the state of Madhya Pradesh are as
follows:
Which of the following bank has branches in all cities except Raisen?
(a) A (b) B
(c) C (d) E
Question 50. Various studies have shown that our forested and hilly regions and, in general, areas where
biodiversity-as reflected in the variety of flora-is high, are the places where poverty, appears to be high.
And these same areas are also the ones where educational performance seems to be poor. Therefore, it
may be surmised that, even disregarding poverty status, richness in biodiversity goes hand in hand with
educational backwardness. Which one of the following statements, if true, can be said to best provide
supporting evidence for the surmise mentioned in the passage?
(a) In regions where there is little variety in flora, educational performance is seen to be as good as in
regions with high variety in flora, when poverty levels are high.
(b) Regions which show high biodiversity also exhibit poor educational performance, at low levels of
poverty.
(c) Regions which show high biodiversity reveal high levels of poverty and poor educational performance.
(d) In regions where there is low biodiversity, at all levels of poverty, educational performance is seen to be
good.
Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Your answers to these
items should be based on the passages only.
PASSAGE -1
A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in Petrograd to the great
confusion of the traffic and with no small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was
the place for pedestrians, but she replied: 'I'm going to walk where I like. We've got liberty now.' It did not
occur to the dear old lady that if liberty entitled the pedestrian to walk down the middle of the road, then
the end of such liberty would be universal chaos. Everybody would be getting in everybody else's way and
nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy. There is a danger of
the world getting liberty-drunk in these days like the old lady with the basket, and it is just as well to
remind ourselves of what the rule of the road means. It means that in order that the liberties of all may be
preserved, the liberties of everybody must be curtailed. When the policeman, say, at Piccadilly Circus
steps into the middle of the road and puts out his hand, he is the symbol not of tyranny, but of liberty.
You may not think so. You may, being in a hurry, and seeing your car pulled up by this insolence of
office, feel that your liberty has been outraged. How dare this fellow interfere with your free use of the
public highway? Then, if you are a reasonable person, you will reflect that if he did not interfere with you,
he would interfere with no one, and the result would be that Piccadilly Circus would be a maelstrom that
you would never cross at all. You have submitted to a curtailment of private liberty in order that you may
enjoy a social order which makes your liberty a reality. Liberty is not a personal affair only, but a social
contract. It is an accommodation of interests. In matters which do not touch anybody else's liberty, of
course, I may be as free as I like. If I choose to go down the road in a dressing-gown who shall say me
In all these and a thousand other details you and I please ourselves and ask no one's leave. We have a
whole kingdom in which we rule alone, can do what we choose, be wise or ridiculous, harsh or easy,
conventional or odd. But directly we step out of that kingdom, our personal liberty of action becomes
qualified by other people's liberty. I might like to practice on the trombone from midnight till three in the
morning. If I went on to the top of Everest to do it, I could please myself, but if I do it in my bedroom my
family will object, and if I do it out in the streets the neighbors will remind me that my liberty to blow the
trombone must not interfere with their liberty to sleep in quiet. There are a lot of people in the world, and
I have to accommodate my liberty to their liberties. We are all liable to forget this, and unfortunately we
are much more conscious of the imperfections of others in this respect than of our own. A reasonable
consideration for the rights or feelings of others is the foundation of social conduct. It is in the small
matters of conduct, in the observance of the rule of the road, that we pass judgment upon ourselves, and
declare that we are civilized or uncivilized. The great moments of heroism and sacrifice are rare. It is the
little habits of commonplace intercourse that make up the great sum of life and sweeten or make bitter
the journey.
Question 51. The author might have stated his ‘rule of the road’ as-
Question 53. A situation analogous to the ‘insolence of office’ described would be-
PASSAGE -2
Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped not only human morphology but
also human behavior. The role those anthropologists ascribe to evolution is not of dictating the details of
human behavior but one of imposing constraints - ways of feeling, thinking, and acting that ''come
naturally'' in archetypal situations in any culture. Our ''frailties'' - emotions and motives such as rage,
fear, greed, gluttony, joy, lust, love-may be a very mixed assortment quality: we are, as we say, ''in the
grip'' of them. And thus they give us our sense of constraints. Unhappily, some of those frailties our need
Question 54. The author implies that control to any extent over the ''frailties'' that constrain our behavior
is thought to presuppose
(a) That those frailties and adaptive are recognized as currently beneficial and adaptive
(b) That there is little or no overlay of cultural detail that masks their true nature.
(c) That there are cultures in which those frailties do not ''come naturally'' and from which such control
can be learned
(d) A full understanding of why those frailties evolved and of how they function now
Question 55. It can be inferred that in his discussion of maladaptive frailties the author assumes that-
(a) Evolution does not favor the emergence of adaptive characteristics over the emergence of maladaptive
ones
(b) Any structure or behavior not positively adaptive is regarded as transitory in evolutionary theory
(c) Maladaptive characteristics, once fixed, make the emergence of other maladaptive characteristics more
likely
(d) Changes in the total human environment can outpace evolutionary change.
(a) A position on the foundations of human behavior and on what those foundations imply
(b) A theory outlining the parallel development of human morphology and of human behavior
(c) A diagnostic test for separating biologically determined behavior patterns from culture - specific detail
(d) An overview of those human emotions and motive's that impose constraints on human behaviour
Examine the information given in the following table and answer the items that follow.
Percentage of marks obtained by 7 students in 6 subjects (maximum marks for each subject is
shown in bracket)
Student History (75) Geography Maths (80) Science (50) English (40) Hindi (40)
(60)
P 86 82 95 78 66 84
Q 92 78 85 89 72 76
R 76 94 89 75 62 69
T 67 74 74 84 85 82
L 88 89 76 88 70 64
N 90 96 86 92 65 66
Question 57. Approximately what is the overall percentage of marks obtained by the ‘T’ in all the
subjects?
(a) 72 (b) 82
(c) 79 (d) 76
Question 58. What is the overall percentage of marks obtained by ‘M’ in all the subjects (rounded off to
two digits after decimal)?
Question 59. What is the approximate average marks obtained by all the students in Geography?
Question 60. What is the total marks obtained by “L” in History, Geography and Mathematics?
Question 61. What is the approximate average percentage of marks obtained by all the students in
Maths?
Directions for the following 5 (Five) items: Consider the following graph and give answers to the
questions which follows-
The following line graph gives the ratio of the amounts of imports by a company to the amount of exports
from that company over the period from 1995 to 2001.
Question 63. The imports were minimum proportionate to the exports of the company in the year?
Question 64. What was the percentage increase in imports from 1997 to 1998?
(a) 72 (b) 56
Question 65. If the imports of the company in 1996 was Rs. 272 crores, the exports from the company in
1996 was?
Question 66. In how many of the given years were the exports more than the imports?
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4
Read the following information and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be
based on the information given only.
The bar graph given below shows the foreign exchange reserves of a country (in million US $) from 1991 -
1992 to 1998 - 1999.
Question 67. The ratio of the number of years, in which the foreign exchange reserves are above the
average reserves, to those in which the reserves are below the average reserves is?
Question 68. The foreign exchange reserves in 1997-98 was how many times that in 1994-95?
Question 69. For which year, the percent increase of foreign exchange reserves over the previous year, is
the highest?
Question 70. The foreign exchange reserves in 1996-97 were approximately what percent of the average
foreign exchange reserves over the period under review?
Question 72. Study the following table and answer the question following it:
Institution Faculty
The total number of students studying Arts in institutes A, B and C together is approximately what
percent of the total number of students studying Engineering? (rounded to the nearest integer)
(a) 50 (b) 45
(c) 42 (d) 55
The effects of World War-II upon education are noticeable in the form of strong tendency to which of the
above?
The following eight items (Questions 70 to 75) are based on two passages in English to test the
comprehension of English language. Read each passage and answer the item that follow.
PASSAGE -1
Question 74. The main point from the author's view is that-
(c) Man's safety is assured by the delicate balance of power in terms of nuclear weapons.
(d) Human society will survive despite the serious threat of total annihilation.
Question 75. The phrase 'Go to the brink' in the passage means-
(a) Huge stockpiles of destructive weapons have so far saved mankind from a catastrophe.
(b) Superpowers have at last realized the need for abandoning the production of lethal weapons.
(d) Nations in possession of huge stockpiles of lethal weapons are trying hard to avoid actual conflict.
PASSAGE -2
Cotton acreage in India during the current financial year has fallen by 10% as cotton growers have moved
on cultivation of other cash crops. This is the result of the cotton glut in world markets post-September
11 and the consequent slowdown in the world economy. But this scenario brought with it benefits to one
segment of the industry-yarn manufacturers- as they get higher prices for their produce. Some yarn
manufacturers had stocked up low-priced cotton last year. The combined effect of all this is evident in the
rise in net profits and net margins of yarn manufacturers.
Question 77. World economy witnessed an upward trend during pre-September 11 period?
(a) the inference is 'definitely true', i.e., it properly follows from the statements of facts given.
(b) the inference is 'probably true' though not 'definitely true' in the light of the facts given
(c) the data is inadequate i.e. from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true
or false
(d) the inference is 'probably false' in the light of the facts given
(a) the inference is 'definitely true', i.e., it properly follows from the statements of facts given.
(b) the inference is 'probably true' though not 'definitely true' in the light of the facts given
(c) the data is inadequate i.e. from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true
or false
(d) the inference is 'probably false' in the light of the facts given
Question 79. Land used for growing cotton in India is conducive to grow other cash crops.
(a) the inference is 'definitely true', i.e., it properly follows from the statements of facts given.
(b) the inference is 'probably true' though not 'definitely true' in the light of the facts given
(c) the data is inadequate i.e. from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true
or false
(d) the inference is 'probably false' in the light of the facts given
Question 80. According to the survey of Area A and B the following records were collected. Study the
records and determine the conclusion which is not correct?