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SYLLABUS FOR TEST - 7
TEST NO SUBJECT
SYLLABUS
 CLASSFICATION OF NUMBERS
 DIVISION & DIVISIBILITY
 HCF & LCM
 FACTORS & REMAINDERS
 SIMPLE EQUATIONS
BASIC NUMBERACY
 RATIO, PROPORTION & VARIATION
 PERCENTAGES, PROFIT & LOSS PARTNERSHIPS
 SIMPLE INTERESTS, COMPOUND INTEREST
 AVERAGE, MIXTURES & ALLIGATIONS
 TIME & WORK, TIME & DISTANCE
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LOGICAL REASONING  CRITICAL REASONING FULL
 ARRANGEMENTS - LINEAR & CIRCULAR

 COMPARISON & DISTRIBUTION
GENERAL MENTAL  BLOOD RELATIONS
ABILITY  CLOCKS & CALENDARS
 DIRECTION SENSE
 SELCTIONS ROUTES & NETWORKS
DECISION MAKING & READING COMPREHENSION
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Read the given passage carefully. for a range of 35 common livestock
Each of the questions that follows diseases from foot-and-mouth,
presents a set of 4 Statements of which causes high fever and blisters
which only one correct presents in cloven-hoofed animals, to
an idea, or ideas, that are Brucellosis, which is primarily a
provided in implied in or can be reproductive disease. "These are
inferred from, the passage. critical diseases and need to be
Identify the correct statement in detected very early. As these
each set. animals contribute to the food
It's every livestock farmer's chain, they can easily be
worst nightmare: losing animals to transmitted to humans," says
disease. But' Indian farmers can Siyavudeen.
sleep easy now: Kochi-based Ubio The market for diagnostic kits is
Biotechnology Systems has huge, but distribution is a
launched an affordable diagnostic challenge. So far, the start-up has
kit that allows them to detect fatal sold over 100,000 kits. It has also
diseases such as foot-and-mouth at tied up with Ahmedabad-based
an early stage so the animals can be animal vaccine manufacturer Hester
treated before it's too late. It sells Biosciences to boost its
these kits at one-tenth the price of manufacturing and marketing
imported kits: its products cost capability. "You cannot just walk in
Rs.45 to Rs.150 while imported kits and sell. Farmers have to be
are for around ?250 to ?500. "Use of educated about the product," says
diagnostic kits for animals is rare in Bishor. The start-up wants to focus
India because most kits are more on research and development
imported and hence too costly for with the Indian Council of
Indjan farmers to afford," says V.I; Agricultural Research and the
Bishor, Director of Ubio. Indian Veterinary Research
Bishor has not had it easy. Institute, and expand to human
The former Project Head at South diagnostics as well.
Korean company Standard Mayil Vaganan, a former
Diagnostics teamed up with Faisal scientist at Ranbaxy and a staunch
Siyavudeen, a mechanical engineer environmentalist, is on a mission to
by training, in 2008 to bring animal control the use of pesticides and
diagnostics technology to India. But insecticides by Indian farmers. He
research and development was and former colleague, Lokesh
expensive and banks refused to lend Makam, pooled in their savings to
any money. He finally managed to set up Barrix Agra Sciences in 2011
garner ?1.8 crore from some-angel to manufacture pheromone-based
investors and was mentored at the trap's as an alternative to pesticides.
Biotechnology Incubation Centre at Pheromones are natural chemicals
Kochi. He began with diagnostic kits secreted by female insects to attract
for diseases in cats and dogs such male insects, and have been used
as rabies, distemper and lyme. globally for a long time. But they
Today, the team has developed kits have never been popular with Indian
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farmers because the pheromones 2.
available at chemical shops in
villages are of poor quality and a) Faisal Siyavudeen, who was
degenerate quickly when exposed to solely responsible for bringing
sunlight. While the average life of animal diagnostic technology
pheromones is less than a week, the to India has played an
patented formulation developed by important role in developing
Barrix lasts 60 days - from fruiting indigenous diagnostic kits.
to harvest season. b) Both V.I. Bishor and Faisal
However, there are challenges Siyavudeen who were together
ahead. Distribution of pheromone- responsible for bringing
based products is the biggest one animal diagnostic technology
because of strong lobbying by to India, have played a vital
pesticide companies. "Distributors role in developing indigenous
enjoy commissions from pesticide diagnostic kits.
companies for recommending and c) Only V.I. Bishor played the
selling pesticides to farmers," says key role in both bringing
Vaganan. "Dealers are even animal diagnostic technology
threatened not to sell pheromones." to India and developing
indigenous diagnostic kits.
1. d) In the bringing of animal
diagnostic technology to India
a) Indigenously developed and in developing indigenous
diagnostic kits are being made diagnostic kits, the main role
available to farmers and this was that of V.I. Bishor and
will save all animals from not Faisal Siyavudeen.
diseases.
b) Indian farmers have lost 3.
livestock to diseases so far
mainly because the imported a) The use of pheromone based
diagnostic kits that could traps is more environment
have helped them were by friendly than the use of
default too costly for them to pesticides and insecticides.
afford. b) The pheromone-based traps
c) Indian farmers can now save developed by Barrix are more
their animals from deadly effective in controlling pests
diseases as the imported and insects than pesticides
diagnostic kits are being made and insecticides.
affordable to Indian farmers. c) The pheromone-based traps
d) The affordable indigenously are not popular with Indian
developed kits being farmers now because they are
developed by Ubio of poor quality, degenerate
Biotechnology systems will quickly and last only 60 days.
cure live stock of deadly d) The proposed pheromone-
diseases. based traps, if used by
farmers shall result in more
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profits than when pesticides 6. IF ABCD is a four digit number,
and insecticides are used. then ABCD * 4 = DCBA. What is
A+B+C+D?
4. a) 18
b) Many solutions
a) Distribution of the product is c) 27
a common challenge faced by d) 22
the manufacturers of animal
diagnostic kits and 7. A snail, climbing a 20 feet
pheromone based traps. high wall, climbs up 4 feet on
b) The only challenge faced by the first day but slides down
the manufacturers of 2 feet on the second. It
pheromone based traps is the climbs 4 feet on the third day
distribution of the product. and slides down again 2 feet
c) Distribution of the product is on the fourth day. If this
a challenge faced by only the pattern continues, how many
manufacturers of pheromone days will it take the snail to
based traps. reach the top of the wall?
d) Distribution of the product is a) 12
a challenge faced by only the b) 16
manufactures of animal c) 17
diagnostic kits. d) 20
5. 8. The ratio of radius of a circle

a) Farmers prefer 'to buy to a sphere is 2:1. What is the
pesticides instead of ratio of the area of the circle
to the total surface area of
pheromone based traps by
choice. the sphere?
b) Farmers prefer to buy a) 8:1
pheromone based traps b) 2:1
instead of pesticides by c) 4:1
d) 1:1
choice.
c) Farmers are indirectly forced
to buy pesticides instead of 9. An amount of Rs. 2430 ls
divided among A, B and C
possible better alternatives
due to pesticide lobbyists. such that if their shares be
reduced by Rs. 5, Rs. 10 and
d) Farmers are basically aware
which is better, pesticides or Rs. 15 respectively, the
pheromone based traps, for remainders shall be in the
ratio 3 : 4 : 5 . The share of B
them
is :
a) Rs. 605
b) Rs. 790
c) Rs. 800
d) Rs. 810
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10. A, B and C enter into a Yet alongside this distant
partnership and their shares diaspora, a network of people and
are in the ratio 1/2 : 1/3 : places is more directly engaged with
1/4. After 2 months, A India's economy. Its most
withdraws half of his capital conspicuous element is the
and after 12 months a profit plutocrat who owns firms in India,
of Rs. 3780 is divided among but like his Russian and Chinese
them. What is B's share of peers shops -in Paris, educates his
profit? children in America and Britain and
a) Rs. 1260 sometimes has foreign citizenship:
b) Rs. 1440 Cyrus Mistry, the boss of Tata Sons,
c) Rs. 1620 India's biggest firm, has an Irish
d) Rs. 1600 passport. At the network's core,
however, is not the gilded elite but
Read the given passage carefully. offshore hubs, including Dubai and
Each of the questions that follows Singapore, often with sizeable
presents a set of 4 Statements of Indian population and with their
which only one correct presents own economic strengths.
an idea, or ideas, that are The idea that some things are
provided in implied in or can be better done abroad is hardly new.
inferred from, the passage. Hong Kong was a gateway to
Identify the correct statement in imperial and then Red China. In
each set. 1985 Yash Chopra, an Indian film-
maker, led a trend of shooting
INDIA'S diaspora of 25m Bollywood "dream sequences" - in
people is something to behold. In which the hero and heroine sing
colonial times Indian labourers and amid meadows and snowy crags - in
traders spread across the world, Switzerland. The Alps were easier,
from Fiji to the Caribbean. A second cheaper and safer than the more
wave of Indians left between the familiar location of Kashmir.
1970s and mid-1990s, when the Film buffs now view Swiss
economy was in a semi-socialist rut. dream-sequences as cheesy, but
Migrant workers rushed to the India's big offshore hubs are more in
Persian Gulf and South-East Asia, fashion than ever. They present a
then booming. Educated folk and mirror image of India's red tape,
entrepreneurs fled to the rich world. weak infrastructure and graft.
Plenty struck gold, including Dubai is a prime example. For long-
engineers in Silicon Valley and haul flights Indians prefer its airline,
Lakshmi Mittal, boss of Arcelor Emirates, to their own. More than
Mittal, a giant steel firm. They now 40% of long-haul journeys from
have little to do with India beyond India go via a non-Indian hub, often
sending cash to' relatives and in the Gulf. Indian airports no
groaning as the once-vaunted longer make grown men cry (Delhi's
economic miracle fades. is first rate), but few foreign airlines
want to make them their base.
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Indian planes are usually serviced 14.
in Dubai, Malaysia and Singapore, a) The Indians who left India
reflecting a history of penal, taxes in for the Persian Gulf and
India and high customs duties on South East Asia did so
imported spare parts.,, mainly for economic
11. The essence of the passage is reasons.
a) as growth slows and reforms b) The Indians who left India
falter, economic activity is for greener pastures did not
shifting' out of India'. benefit their motherland in
b) India's diaspora contributes any manner at all.
to the world economy c) The Indians who left India
despite difficulties'. for the Persian Gulf and
c) Red tape in India drives out South East Asia did not have
the Indian elite'. any economic concerns
d) India's losses world's gain! whatsoever.
12. The 'foreign hubs' referred to d) The Indians who left India
by the author are for greener pastures did so
a) Dubai, Singapore, Hong to benefit their motherland
Kong, Malaysia and alone and not If themselves.
Switzerland. 15.
b) Dubai, Hong Kong, Malaysia a) The reasons for the
and Switzerland. occurrence of the 'offshore
c) Dubai, Singapore and hubs' are weaker
Malaysia. infrastructure' and 'bribery'
d) Dubai, Malaysia and alone
Switzerland. b) The reasons for the
13. occurrence of the 'offshore
a) People from India went hubs' are 'weaker
abroad to earn money even infrastructure', 'bribery' and
during pre-independent 'high taxes' among others.
days. c) The reasons for the
b) People from India are going occurrence of the 'offshore
abroad for economic reasons hubs are 'bribery', 'high
only now. taxes' and 'high interest
c) People from India went rates' alone
abroad for economic reasons d) The reasons for the
only during pre-independent occurrence of the 'offshore
days. hubs' are 'high taxes' and
d) People from India who are 'high interest rates' only.
going abroad now are doing
so for non-economic reasons
alone.
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16. My father was 28 years older b) 3500, 2600
than my brother and my c) 3400, 2700
mother was 23 years older
than my sister when I was d) 3450, 2650
born. If my brother is 10 20. If the average of a, b, and c is
years older than me and my 40. What is the average of
mother is 4 years younger (3a+10), (3b+10) and (3c+10)?
than my father, how old was a) 70
my sister when I was born? b) 130
a) 10 years c) 150
b) 11years d) Cannot be find
c) 12years
d) 13years Read the given passage carefully.
Each of the questions that follows
17. Which of the following presents a set of 4 Statements of
successive discounts is more which only one correct presents
profitable for a trader on a an idea, or ideas, that are
certain article? provided in implied in or can be
a) 10%,10% inferred from, the passage.
b) 15%,5% Identify the correct statement in
c) 18%,2% each set.
d) 16%, 4% Ritesh stands out among the
18. Ram left a job paying lakh or so students cramming for
Rs.75000 per year to accept a the Joint Entrance Exam in the
sales job paying Rs.45000 per coaching mills of Kota, Rajasthan.
year plus 15 percent Unlike most of his comrades, the
commission. If each of his 18-year-old isn't praying for a high
sales is for Rs.750, What is rank. He has been an atheist since
the least number of sales he he was 11 and struggling to cope
must make per year if he is with bullying in his school hostel.
not to lose money because of As he tells it, "I was physically
the change? weak and often got beaten up. I
a) 270 used to cry and ask God, Why does
b) 200 this happen to me? After the fiftieth
time or so, I wondered who the hell I
c) 266 was talking to. And, on that,
d) 267 wonderful night, I became an
19. Divide Rs.6100 between A atheist." Ritesh is a member of a
and B, So that A‟s share at small community: Those who shun
the end of 3 years may equal religion in an ostentatiously
B‟s share at the end of 5 religious country. Disbelief in God
years, Compound interest does not necessarily exclude
being at 20%. anybody from India's broad religious
a) 3600, 2500 spectrum. Buddhism and Jainism
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are agnostic. Hinduism had 'Nastik' Hindu, Muslim, Christian and
philosophers. Other. I ticked 'Other' and wrote
Many historical figures were 'None'. The nurses objected. I had to
also atheists Jawarharlal Nehru, select Hindu in order to avoid a
Rhagat Singh and Vinayak Damodar future legal mess."
Savarkar, for example. Dr Bhimrao Given the multitude of forms
Ramji Ambedkar became a Indians have to fill up, not being a
Buddhist, rejecting casteist recognised official category has
prejudices. The Dravida Kazhagam costs: It also takes time and trouble
movement was founded by EV in many other ways to be officially
Ramasami "Periyar", who required non-religious. A religious ceremony
his followers to renounce God. And can be performed instantly and
of course, communists are atheists, registered later. But a civil marriage
by definition. under the Special Marriage Act
Many modern atheists have requires a licence, a wait period,
arrived at unbelief simply because proof of residence, and other
religion didn't make sense to them. formalities. If one wishes to donate
Jude, a software engineer, quit on organs - or the body to science -
religion while in school, after after death, legal arrangements
running a scientific experiment: "I must be made in advance. If one
experimented with study a little and wishes to avoid one's assets being
pray a lot, then pray a little and passed on by the default provisions
study a lot. Then I tried similar of religious personal laws, it is
experiments with other kids. It was necessary to make a valid Will and
quite clear prayer never helped." register it. After death, thai Will
The Census of India doesn't must undergo probate. All this costs
have a separate category for 'No time and money.
Religion', dr 'Atheist', lumping them In addition to bureaucratic
together with Bahais, tangles, the non-religious often face
animists, etc as 'Others'. In the emotional blackmail, social pressure
2001 Census, the 'Others' added up and even legal threats. India's
to 0.6 percent (roughly 4.5 million). archaic laws, such as Section 295(A)
This is way less of the Indian Penal Code, make it a
than the global average of 13 criminal offence to question
percent. religious doctrine, let alone mock
However, 'Others' doubled in faith. These laws are often used to
2001 over 1991, and may well have harass people.in absurd ways. Sanal
doubled again in 2011. There are Edamaruku, a rationalist engineer,
also many non-believers, who find it faces criminal charges for
too much trouble to claim lack of demonstrating that a cross in a
faith. Yash, a software developer Mumbai church was dripping water
from Mumbai, says, "I haven't due to capillary action from a
performed any religious ceremonies blocked drain, rather than through
for my daughter. But the only some miracle.
options on the Birth Certificate are
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Not only can such laws be 24.
used to target the non-religious, a) Hindusim, Islam and
they have no corresponding shields Christianity are the more
against mockery or ostracism. Quite dominant religions than the
a few have suffered estrangement others.
from their families and have been b) The number of followers of a
abused by their peers. Asha, a religion is not a
Kashmiri Pandit, says her Damodar Savarkar and Dr.
reluctance to perform shraddh Bhimrao Ambedkar critical
ceremonies for her parents led to a factor in the importance of
breach with her siblings. that religion in were all
atheists India.
21. c) Athesism is a recognized
a) Ritesh, Jude and Yash are official religion in this
all examples of atheists. country.
b) Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhagath d) Athesists, because they do
Singh, Vinayak not follow any religion, are
c) Atheism is a recognized free of all troubles in India.
official religion in this 25.
d) Atheists, because they do a) Based on the passage, we
not follow any can definitely say that India
is a secular state.
22. b) According to the author,
a) The author of the passage is India is a non-secular State.
an atheist. c) Based on the information
b) Samal Edamaraku is an given-in the passage, we
atheist. cannot definitely say that
c) Asha, the Kashmiri Pandit, India is a secular state
is not an atheist. d) Based on the information
d) The author expects the given in the passage,
readers to be atheists. we can definitely say that
India is a non-secular state.
23.
a) The number of atheists must 26. P, Q and R can do a work in
have increased state, 20,30 and 60 days
from 1991 to 2001. respectively. How many days
b) The number of atheists does it need to complete the
doubled form 1991 to 2001. work if P does the work and
c) There may have been an he is assisted by Q and R on
increase in the number of every third day?
atheists from 1991 to 2001. a) 9 days
d) The number of atheists not b) 15 days
have doubled from 1991 to c) 10 days
2001. d) 14 days
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27. X can do a piece of work in Read the given passage
20 days and Y can do the carefully. Each of the questions
same work in 30 days. They that follows presents a set of 4
finished the work with the Statements of which only one
help of Z in 8 days. If they correct presents an idea, or
earned a total of Rs. 5550, ideas, that are provided in
then what is the share of Z? implied in or can be inferred
a) Rs.1850 from, the passage. Identify the
b) Rs.1800 correct statement in each set.
c) Rs.1500
d) Rs.1750 As the cliche goes, whatever
you say about India, the opposite
28. Two pipes A and B can fill a may also be true. And so it seems
tank in 36hours and 45 hours when it comes to women and their
respectively. If both the pipes rise to the top. Women's
are opened simultaneously, empowerment is an agenda that's
How much time will be taken barely begun to be addressed in this
to fill the tank? country. Thid is mainly due to the
a) 10 hours sterner sex. However, we also have
b) 15 hours the opposite phenomenon of electing
c) 20 hours strong women to positions of power
d) 25 hours - from Indira Gandhi to Sonia
Gandhi to state-level politicians
29. A Man travels at the speed of such as Mayawati, J Jayalalithaa
7 km/hr. He takes rest for 10 and Mamata Banerjee - to name just
minutes for every kilometer. a few.
How long will he takes to India Inc has less to be
reach 21 kilometers from the satisfied about. Corporate boards
starting point. have less than 7 percent women,
a) 3 hrs 30mins according to GMI Ratings' Women
b) 3hrs 20mins on Boards Survey 2013, which
c) 6hrs 20mins sampled 89 Indian companies with
d) 6hrs 30mins a market cap of over $1 billion. This
is marginally lower than the
30. Walking 6/7th of his usual percentage in other developing
speed, a man is 12 minutes countries. The survey says that less
too late. The usual time than half the boards have only one
taken by him to cover that woman director. It is worse in the
distance is : others. That's not enough diversity,
a) 1 hr 20 min though. And the gender scorecard
b) 1 hr 10 min could look worse once we get to
c) 1 hr 11 min companies lower down the list.
d) 1 hr 12 mi
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However, there is a qualitative 32.
change as we start looking at the a) More than fifty percent Indian
top - women who have made it to corporate have no woman
the Forbes list of most powerful director on the board.
women. Here we see five Indian b) In other developing countries,
women in the Top 100 - four from there is at least one woman
the corporate world and one form director on the board of any
politics. Two of them are Indians corporate.
now settled in America but remain c) There are a few corporate
comfortable in their Indian boards in India that have
identities. The stories of Indra Nooyi more than one woman.
of PepsiCo and Padmasree Warrior, d) Women's empowerment is
CT.O of Cisco Systems, not only better in smaller corporates
serve as a huge inspiration for than in bigger ones.
women around the world, but also
tell us that women do not need to 33.
sacrifice their personalities or a) There is no light at the end of
authenticity t6 play in a world the tunnel for women's
dominated by men. empowerment.
b) There is a ray of hope for
31. Indian women so far as their
a) Indian's selecting strong empowerment is concerned.
women to positions of power c) Some women making it to the
is an indication that Forbes list is just a flash in
women empowerment has the pan for Indian women.
begun in India. d) Every cloud has a silver lining
b) On the one hand Indians have but not the women's
elected strong women to empowerment in India.
positions of power, on the
other, they have begun 34.
women's empowerment in a) We cannot definitely say that
India. women are powering their way
c) While Indians have elected up in society.
women politicians to positions b) There are definite indications
of power, it is paradoxical that that women are getting
women's empowerment has empowered in India.
only just begun. c) The likelihood of women's
d) The election of such women empowerment catching up
politicians as Indira Gandhi, with Indians is very bleak.
is in great opposition to d) The unlikelihood of women
women's empowerment in getting their due in Indian
India. society is too great for anyone
to do something about it.
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35. 39. While driving through the
a) Women in India are not able country side Mr sharma seen
to empower themselves due to a farmer with pigs and ducks
male domination. He asked the farmer how
b) Men in India deliberately many do you have? Farmer
disallow women from being answered I have altogether 60
empowered. eyes and 86 feet between
c) Men in India have given full- them' Can you tell how many
fledged support to the ducks more than pigs he
women's empowerment in have?
India. a) 3
d) Male in India has never b) 4
deterred the women away c) 5
from empowerment. d) 6
36. A, B and C invest their 40. 126 pens are to be given to

capitals in a business. If the „N‟ number of students, such
ratio of their periods of that 1≤N≤126. Each student
investments are 2 : 3 : 6 and should get equal number of
their profits are in the ratio pens. How many values can N
of 4 : 5 : 6. Find the ratio in take?
which the investments are a) 12
made by A, B and C. b) 3
a) 9 : 10 : 12 c) 4
b) 4 : 5 : 6 d) 6
c) 8 : 5 : 12
d) 6 : 5 : 3 Read the given passage carefully
and answer the follows.
37. If X is 20% less than Y, then
find X / (Y – X) I am not sure that I can draw
a) 6 an exact line between wit and
b) 5 humor. Perhaps the distinction is so
c) 4 subtle that those persons with long
d) 3 white beards can decide. But even
an ignorant man, so long as he is
38. In how many ways 5 clear of bedlam, may have an
professors and 5 engineers opinion.
can be seated in a round table I am quite positive that of the
so that they are positioned two, humor is the more comfortable
alternately? and more livable quality. Humorous
a) 2880 persons, if their gift is genuine and
b) 2088 not a mere shine upon the surface,
c) 8082 are always agreeable companions
d) 8820 and they sit through the evening
best. They have pleasant mouths
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turned up at the corners. To these 42. When may a man without
corners the great Master of education or knowledge be
marionettes has fixed the strings able to opine about the
and he holds them in his nimblest demarcation between wit and
fingers to twitch them at the humor?
slightest jest. But the mouth of a a) Only when he is away from a
merely witty man is hard and sour mad house.
until the moment of its discharge. b) So long as he is not
Nor is the flash from a witty man confused.
always comforting, whereas a c) As long as he is clear about
humorous man radiates a general what bedlam is.
pleasure and is like another candle d) When he is ignorant.
in the room. I admire wit, but I have
ho real liking for it. It has been too 43. Based on the information
often employed against me, whereas given in the passage, consider
humor is always an ally. lt never the following statements.
points an impertinent finger into my 1. The author considers humor
defects. Humorous persons do not to be his friend.
sit like explosives on a fuse. They 2. The author has himself not
are safe and easy comrades. But a used wit but it was used
wit's tongue is as sharp as a donkey against him.
driver's stick. I may gallop the faster 3. Humor is better than wit.
for its prodding, yet the touch Select the correct answer
behind is too persuasive for any using the code given below
comfort. a) 1 and 2 only
Wit is a lean creature with b) 1, 2 and 3 only
sharp inquiring nose, whereas c) 1 and 3 only
humor has a kindly eye and d) 2 only
comfortable girth. Wit, if it be 44. Based on the information
necessary, uses malice to score a given in the passage, consider
point - like a cat it is quick to jump - the following statements.
but humor keeps the peace in an 1. Humor is a divine gift to the
easy chair. Wit has a better voice in humorous.
a solo, but humor comes into the 2. The author approves of wit
chorus best. but is not fond of it.
3. A man who indulges in wit,
41. The distinction between wit and not humor, never
and humor can be correctly smiles.
done by Which of the above
a) only wise people. statements CANNOT be
b) people with experience and inferred?
knowledge. a) 1 and 2 only
c) any ignorant man as well. b) 2 and 3 only
d) any ignorant man who may c) 1 only
not necessarily be sane. d) 3 only
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45. Which of the following best emissions from fossil fuel
describes the tone of the combustion, with the growing
passage? Importance of the service sector and
a) Positive consumer demand worldwide, the
b) Negative services, household and
c) Neutral transportation sectors are projected
d) Both positive and negative to account for more than half of all
global emissions in 2050. Therefore,
The Copenhagen Accord, by global climate policy must focus on
shifting focus on 'what' has to be modifying longer-term trends In
done, from 'how' it should be done, consumption patterns in the
has the potential to move out of the household and transportation
binary division of the world into two sectors in all countries. It will be
halves and shape the difficult for developing countries to
transformation of the world seek sacrifices from their citizens as
economy and human activity. long as developed countries
Developing countries have to maintain their wasteful lifestyle.
be proactive in evolving the
approach for a shared vision to deal 46. The focus, in this passage, is
with the challenge since future on
growth in emissions of carbon a) What should be done to
dioxide Is going to. come from them. tackle climate change.
A level playing field required that b) The role of developed
the multilateral process determine countries in preventing
criteria for burden-sharing to greenhouse gas emissions.
provide the benchmark against c) Advising the developing
which national, as well as aggregate, countries on what they can
actions will be assessed so that do to reduce climate change.
patterns of resource use are d) Comparing the role played
common for all countries. by developed and developing
Unfortunately, there are few countries to achieve the
studies considering policy guidance target.
on international cooperation for Mention corporate social
managing transformative change. responsibility, and there's a strong
Current research too only considers, chance of eyes glazing and yawns
adjustments In developing becoming harder to stifle. Yet, in the
countries, Ignoring the required last two years of slowdown (in India
changes needed in the industrialized and developing countries) and
countries, economy and society. recession (in the US and Europe),
Although emissions from the phrase CSR, it hasn't just been
energy-intensive industries and the buzzing about more, It has also
power sector together account for developed a new long form - the
almost half of current world human face of capitalism. While
economists and academics debate
ARAM IAS ACADEMY
whether capitalism has a human The suggestion from Planning
face, or If socialism does either, for Commission members that farmers
business schools and in-the-making be freed from having to sell their
corporate executives, this new idea produce to a handful of wholesalers
is filled with significance. is welcome. At the crux of the
matter is the Agricultural Produce
"Capitalism has so far been Marketing Committee (APMC) Act. It
concerned with the growth of the must be abolished because though
organization and share holders. But supposed to contain price volatility
now, all corporate are answerable to in farm-produce, it has led to the
society as well," says B .S . Sahay, development of cartel system. The
director, Management Development APMC decree insists that farmers
Institute, Gurgaon. Developing sell all agricultural produce to a few
cases that can be used In the licensed wholesalers at mandis at
lecture room to sensitise students prices that are dictated by the latter,
about "human capital" are gaining typically abysmally low in relation to
currency in B-schools as a result of what consumers pay. The price
some of the ongoing conflicts differential occurs because mandis
between business and industry, he sell to a plethora of small traders,
says. and with the luxury of a captive
With the human face of capitalism, market comes the temptation to
the pressure is on business to do increase prices dramatically.
more than CSR - a few local Jobs or Traders pass on mandi price hikes,
free medicines won't do. "I would along with their cut, to the public.
say, the human face of capitalism In short, the system operates
would show up through steps such around a choke point, mandis, open
as developing the wider region that to exploitation by middlemen at the
companies or factories are located expense of producers and
in," says economist Jayatl Gosh. consumers.
Laws restricting agricultural
sales encourage unfairness and
47. The central idea of the
need to be overhauled. Shortages in
passage Is that
many sectors of the economy were
a) The concern of capitalism
overcome by overhauling the
should go beyond profits for
licence-permit-quota regime and
itself and Its share holders.
encouraging private investment. It
b) CSR should include the
cant be a coincidence that the two
human face of capitalism.
over-regulated sectors where a
c) Students should be
licence raj mentality still prevails -
sensitized to philanthropy
agriculture and education - are also
d) The concept of human
the ones facing the most acute
capital should be
crises. While agricultural
emphasized in B-schools.
productivity stagnates leading to
supply-side crisis, the education
system contributes to a national
ARAM IAS ACADEMY
skills shortage. Both are areas sought to be acquired is given 30
crying out for reform. days to file an objection and be
heard.
48. The passage focuses on However, the term 'urgency' is
a) The need for streamlining not defined and can be grossly
the movement and misutilised. Parikh says the clause
distribution of agricultural can be used "as a device" to acquire
products. land for nearly every Infrastructure
b) Changing unfair laws in the project, bypassing all other
agricultural and the procedural mechanisms. Social
educational sectors. activist Vimal Bhai, also says this
c) the unholy nexus between clause can be used to dodge the
farmers and wholesalers In social or economic impact
fixing the price of assessment for almost all these
agricultural commodities. "infrastructure projects".
d) the ineffective
implementation of laws This is not to say that the
regulating agricultural 'urgency* provision needs to be done
supplies. away with. "It should be used very
sparingly", says Prashanth
Sometimes discretion is not a Bhushan, leading SC advocate. The
good thing. That too, when it is urgency clause is needed for
about the State taking away your exceptional scenarios such as, say,
land without giving you an for building a bridge. But the
opportunity to raise objections. The continuous ham-handed
Supreme Court (SC) recently flayed Implementation of the law only
the UP government for acquiring shows that It is better to enumerate
land from farmers Invoking the most provisions and leave little to
"urgency" provision In the Land discretion.
Acquisition Act, 1894. The farmers 49. The central idea of the
were challenging the Allahabad High passage is that
Court order upholding the land a) The term 'urgency' should be
notification. Terming it akin to left to the discretion of the
"state-sponsored terrorism" the apex state.
court observed that the due b) Laws left to the discretion of
procedure of law be followed. the state can lead to
"It's a regressive provision," tyrannical oppression.
says SC advocate Sanjay Parikh. c) The state can acquire
Under Section 17(1) of the 1894 law, anyone's land for
land can be. acquired by the developmental projects to be
government in case of "urgency" initiated.
within 15 days of publication of d) Farmers should cede land to
notice. This also invalidates Section the state even if
5A, where the person whose land is compensation is minimal.
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With airports and airlines 50. The author In this passage
across the world dealing with a) Makes a suggestion for
recalcitrant weather phenomenons turning an adverse
from snow to fog and thousands of circumstance into a win-win
truculent stranded passengers we situation.
should consider a new ancillary line b) Proposes a scheme for
of business: D and D (diversions utilizing the passenger's
and delays) hospitality. Chances are time at airports.
that everyone thwarted in their c) Makes a business proposal
holiday plans of sun'n sand or retail for making money out of
therapy in balmy tourist havens vexed passengers.
would gladly opt for something other d) Hints at ways of Improving
than snoozing on piles of luggage In airport efficiency in
stuffy airport concourses. After all, unexpected situations.
no one wants leisure plans to be
totally nixed by closed runways and 51. In the square below 12w = 3x
cancelled flights. A survey could be = 4y. What fractional part of
conducted to determine Indian the square is shaded?
traveller's holiday ideas and
destinations. Then hospitality
groups can be co-opted to recreate
the needful within easy reach of our
airports.
Building a mini Singapore,
Hongkong or Thailand complete
with amusement parks and malls,
Swiss chalets and s1 slopes, Big Ben a) 2/3
and Madame Tussaud's, not to b) 14/25
mention the Sydney opera House, c) 5/9
the Pyramids and the Sphinx, d) 11/25
shoufe not be beyond the abilities of
our real estate honchos. The 52. A number is selected at
potential of such tourism zones random from first 30 natural
could be enormous: they would be numbers. What is the
'green' destinations as no airline fuel probability that the number
would be burnt getting there, and is a multiple of either 3 or
they would save the Indian traveller 13?
from jet lag, luggage limitations and a) 17/30
foreign exchange hassles. Who b) 2/5
knows, they could even earn dollars c) 7/15
from foreign tourists diverted from d) 4/15
their original destinations by the
weather.
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53. How many squares are 55. Among Q, R, S, T and V who
therein the images? is third from the top when
they are arranged in
ascending order of their
heights?
I. T is taller than Q and V
but shorter than R.
II. R and S are taller than T
and Q is shorter than T but
taller than V.
56. How much water (in grams)

a) 36 should be added to the 35%-
b) 38 solution of acid to obtain the
c) 39 10%-solution?
d) 40 I. There are 50 grams of the
35%-solution
The questions below are followed II. In the 35%-solution the
by two statements. ratio of acid to water is
Choose (A) If only one of the two 7:13
statements is sufficient to answer
the question asked but the other STUDY THE GIVEN CHART AND
statement is not sufficient. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
Choose (B) If either statement alone
is sufficient to answer the question
asked.
Choose (C) If both the statements
are required to answer the question
asked but neither statement by itself
is sufficient.
Choose (D) If both the statements
even when taken together are not
sufficient to answer.
54. In a row of five buildings A, B, 57. What is the ratio between the
C, D and E, which building is number of appeared
in the middle? candidates from states C and
I. Buildings D and B are at E together and the appeared
the two extreme ends of candidates from states A and
the row. F together?
II. Building E is to the right of a) 17 : 33
building C. b) 11 : 13
c) 13 : 27
d) 17 : 27
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58. What is the difference 61. How is A related to E ?
between the number of a) Brother
qualified candidates of states b) Uncle
D and G c) Grandfather
a) 690 d) father
b) 670
c) 780 62. How many male members are
d) 720 there in the family?
a) One
59. What is the ratio between b) Three
number of candidates c) Four
qualified from states B and D d) Can't be determined
together and the number of
candidates appeared from 63. If in a certain language,
state C respectively? MACHINE is coded as
a) 8 : 37 ACEHIMN, What is the code
b) 11 : 12 for the word "TRIANGLE" in
c) 37 : 40 that language?
d) 7 : 37 a) RIEANGTL
b) AEGILNRT
Read the following information c) AEGLINTR
carefully and answer the d) RTAIGNEL
questions given below it:
(a) There is a group of six persons A, 64. If knr lin hcn stands for
B, C,D, E and F in a family, They everything is fine ;
are Psychologist, Manager, Lawyer, nso ons lin stands for there is
Jeweller, Doctor and Engineer. something ;
(b) The doctor is the grandfather of F ksa nso wno stands for ask
who is a psychologist something now ;
c) The manager D is married to A. What would “there” stand for ?
d) C, the Jeweller is married to the a) lin
lawyer. b) nso
e) B is the mother of F and E. c) ons
f) There are two married couples in d) kse
the family. Directions: In each question below
60. What is the profession of E ? is given a statement followed by two
a) Doctor conclusions numbered I and II. You
b) Jeweller have to assume everything in the
c) Manager statement to be true, then consider
d) None of these. the two conclusions together and
decide which of them logically
follows beyond a reasonable doubt
ARAM IAS ACADEMY
from the information given in the
statement. Give answer
A) if one follows and another one not
follows
B) if either I or II follows
C) if neither I nor II follows, and
D) If both I and II follow
65. Statement :
Company ―Y‖ will improve the
manufacturing facilities for
the production of shaving kits a) clockwise
as a result of which capacity b) cannot move
would increase and cost
would be reduced. — A c) anti-clockwise
spokesperson of the Company d) either way
―Y‖
Conclusions: Seven villages A,B,C,D,E,F,G are
I. The products of Company situated as follows :
―Y‖ will compete the market E is 2km to the west of B
norms in the quality and
cost factor. F is 2km to the north of A
II. There will be demand of C is 1km to the west of A

shaving kits of Company D is 2km to the south of G
―Y‖. G is 2km to the east of C
66. Statement: D is exactly in the middle of B and E
Mr. X is one of the probable
candidates short listed for the
post of Director of KLM 68. Which two villages are the
Institute. farther from one another?
a) F and E
67. A band passes around all the b) G and E
wheels so that they can all be c) D and C
turned by the driving wheel. d) F and B
When the driving wheel turns
clockwise, which way does
wheel W turns?
ARAM IAS ACADEMY
69. How far is E and F (in km) as
the crow flies?
a) 5
b) 26
c) 4
a) 31
d) 20
b) 30
c) 10
70. A is the middle of d) 8
a) E and G 73. Out of nine cells of a square
b) E and C one cell is left blank, and in
c) G and C the rest of the cells numbers
d) F and G are written which follow some
rule. Get the rule and find out
71. If In the below addition, A
the proper option for the
triple digit number has been
blank cell (?)
added four times. Here each
letter represents a single
digit natural number. Then
what is N+O+T+E?
a) 6
b) 10
c) 20
d) 12
74. A paper is folded and cut as

a) 16
below. Which of the following
b) 17
will be the design of the paper
c) 18
which is cut into?
d) 19
72. Out of nine cells of a square

one cell is left blank, and in
the rest of the cells numbers
are written which follow some
rule. Get the rule and find out
the proper option for the
blank cell (?)
ARAM IAS ACADEMY
75. What should be in the fourth travel available to them‖ from their
box, such that which satisfy home States) to arrive at what it
the relation showed in first calls a ―robust estimate‖ of their
two boxes? numbers.
The study report tabled in the

Assembly recently by Labour
Minister Shibu Baby John states
that there are over 25 lakh domestic
migrant labourers in Kerala today –
nearly 7 to 8 per cent of the State’s
Direction for the following 5 population. In addition, around
(FIVE) items 2,35,000 new migrants arrive in the
Read the following two passages State every year. Over 75 per cent of
and answer the items that follow them come from five States – West
each passage. Your answers to Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Uttar
these items should be based on Pradesh and Odisha.
the passage only
By its nature, the movement A vast majority of them are
of domestic migrant labour within men in the age group of 18 to 30
India has been difficult for years. On an average, each of them
governments to keep track of even sends home at least Rs.70,000
though such relocation of people annually, ―almost entirely through
seeking a better life often leads to banking channels‖. Together, they
significant economic and social have sent at least over Rs.17,500
changes, especially in the crore every year to their home
destination states. Though there States, reports the study conducted
were enough indications of a for the State Labour and
substantial increase in the numbers Rehabilitation Department by the
of migrant labourers in many parts Gulati Institute of Finance and
of Kerala earlier, efforts to make taxation (GIFT), an autonomous
sense of their presence had until body under the government.
recently yielded only partial results,
On the whole, the study has
with unofficial estimates of their
found that domestic migrant
numbers ranging from 10 lakh to 30
labourers have begun entering all
lakh.
skills and sectors in Kerala. They
A new study on ―Domestic have come to fill almost all
Migrant Labour (DML) in Kerala‖, occupations and sectors of the
commissioned by the State economy, importantly the
government, has used a unique construction sector, manufacturing,
methodology of conducting surveys hotels and restaurants, trade and,
of migrant labourers travelling in 63 lately, agriculture. Kerala’s
long – distance trains moving in or agriculture has become dependent
out of Kerala (―the only mode of
ARAM IAS ACADEMY
on migrant labour, the report living which may lead to
claims. economic prosperity
The most significant finding of 77.

the study, however, is that in a
State with a rapidly ageing a) The nature of migration was
population, the ratio of domestic such that it was
migrant labour to the local male unmanageable
population in the working age group b) The nature of migration was
could now be as high as 1:2.5 lt, such that it was unmonitored
therefore, warns of ―a very explosive and unestimated
demographic situation‖ developing c) The nature of migration was
in Kerala ―where a big majority of such that its scale is
the host population will belong to stupendous
the older age groups while the d) The nature of migration was
migrant population will dominate such that it remained difficult
the other segment of the population to keep track of their
that is young and working‖. movement due to the lack of
any proper methodology for
Each of the questions that follows surveying them
presents a set of four statements
of which only one correctly
presents an idea or ideas that are 78.
provided in or implied in or can
be inferred from the passage. a) In a decade or so from now
Identify the correct statements in the migrant population is
each set. likely to outnumber the host
population
76. b) The stark contrast that is
emerging in the demographic
a) Domestic labour migration profile of the host and migrant
poses an imminent risk of population in the state is a
drain of wealth for the matter of concern
destination States. c) The ratio of the male
b) Domestic labour migration population in the working
can lead to structural class migrant labourers is
changesin the society very high
c) Though sociological and d) Kerala has become the
economical changes are migrant labourers destination
inevitable, domestic labour owing to its sustained
migration doesn’t affect the economic development
demographic situation of a
region
d) Relocating people would
ensure better standard of
ARAM IAS ACADEMY
79.
a) the migrants labourers travel

to Kerala, only by train
b) The study was conducted by
the state Labour and
rehabilitation Department
c) The ageing population of
Kerala warns of an explosive
demographic situation in the
state
d) Domestic labour migration
has left the host states
demographic dividend
unemployed
80.
a) The passage states that

migration of labourers is a
burning problem
b) In the coming years, the
migrant population will
dominate the population in
Kerala
c) The demographic profile of the
host and migrant population
in the state balances each
other
d) Many of the sectors that drive
Kerala’s economy are labour
intensive

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