APTITUDE TEST QUESTION PAPER

1. Find the remainder of the division 291/7?

Ans: a) 1
b) 3
c) 2
d) 4
2. If Mario was 32 years old 8 years ago, how old was he x years ago?
Ans: a) x-40
b) x-24
c) 40-x
d) 24-x
3. A family spends Rs.30,000 a year for rent which is equal to 31.25% of its yearly
income. What is the family s yearly income?
Ans: a) Rs.96,000
b) Rs.75,000
c) Rs.80,000
d) Rs. 98,000
4. Find the largest power of 5 contained in 387!
Ans: a) 103
b) 120
c) 95
d) 82
5. Which of the following statement is true about 27n+1?
Ans: a) It is never divisible by 28
b) It is always divisible by 28
c) It is never divisible by 26
d) None of the above
6. A can do a job in15 days. B can do a job in 10 days. They work alternatively starting
with A. In how many number of days the entire work will be completed?
Ans: a) 14 days
b) 12 days
c) 10 days
d) 8 days
7. If k is an integer and 0.0010101x10k is greater than 1000. What is the least possible
value of k
Ans: a) 2
b) 4
c) 6
d) 8
8. A, B and C invest a total of Rs.7200 in a business that A invests Rs.1200 more than B
and C invests Rs.600 more than B. How will A,B and C will share a profit of Rs.1440
respectively.
Ans: a) Rs.600, Rs.360, Rs.480
b) Rs.630, Rs.340, Rs.460
c) Rs.640, RS.320, Rs.440
d) Rs.580, Rs.350, Rs.420
9. A boy goes to school at 2km/hr and returns at 3km/hr. In total he takes 5hrs. Find the
distance between his school and house.
Ans: a) 8 km
b) 6 km
c) 5 km
d) 7 km
10. The average of six consecutive integers in the increasing order of size is 19/2. What is
the average of last 3 integers.
Ans: a) 9
b) 10
c) 11
d) 12
11. The ratio of the average of two numbers to one of the number is 3:5. What is the ratio
of the smallest number to the largest number.
Ans: a) 1:5
b) 1:4
c) 1:3
d) 1:2
12. In a certain city the average income for a family of four rose from 12,200$ in 1980 to
16,000$ in 1986. What is the approximate % of increase?
Ans: a) 4%
b) 25%
c) 33 1/3%
d) 40%
13. If a cyclist travels 20 miles at a speed of 15 miles/km. If he returns along the same
path and the entire trip takes 2 hrs. At what speed did he return.
Ans: a) 15 miles/hr
b) 30 miles/hr
c) 20 miles/hr
d) 22 miles/hr
14. The rectangular floor of a warehouse is 300 feet wide and 350 feet long. If the width
remains fixed, how many additional feet would have to be added to the length to
increase the floor area by 20 percent?
Ans: a) 42
b) 50
c) 65
d) 70
 15. If B<2, 2x-3B=0. Then which of the following is true?
Ans: a) x >3
b) x<3
c) x>-3
d) x>2

Select the pair that best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the
original pair:

16. ANXIOUS: REASSURANCE

Ans: a) resentful: gratitude
b) perplexed: clarification
c) injured: imagination
d) vociferous: suppression
17. STANZA: POEM
Ans: a) rhyme: verse
b) duet: chorus
c) act: opera
d) mimicry: pantomime
18. PORTFOLIO: SECURITIES
Ans: a) assessment: taxes
b) computer: programs
c) insurance: risks
d) dossier: reports
19. CLAY: PORCELAIN
Ans: a) fire: ash
b) slag: iron
c) flax: linen
d) sand: sediment
20. MATRIX: NUMBERS
Ans: a) volume: liquid
b) crystal: atoms
c) interaction: reagents
d) gas: molecules

Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole:

21. Observable as a tendency of our culture is a ……….. of ………… psychoanalysis.

We no longer feel that it can solve our emotional problems
Ans: a) divergence, certainty about
b) withdrawal, belief in
c) confrontation, enigmas in
d) failure, rigor in
22. The natural balance between prey and predator has been increasingly ……….. , most
frequently by human intervention
Ans: a) celebrated
b) predicted
c) disturbed
d) questioned
23. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable ……….
through a complex network of producers and consumers
Ans: a) communications
b) commodities
c) artifacts
d) dividends
24. Today serious photography is considered a very …….. art, but during the nineteenth
century a photographer who worked alone was……..
Ans: a) valuable, an outcast
b) technical, an eccentric
c) functional, a novice
d) personal, a rarity
25. Few problems ……….. on the unenergetic course of life in this remote mountain
village, and even those that do are seldom viewed with anything but ……… by the
natives.
Ans: a) depend, boredom
b) intrude, detachment
c) speed, grief
d) fasten, respect