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Time : 75 minutes DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Each question is followed by two statements. You have to decide whether the information provided in the statements is sufficient for answering the question. Choose 1 if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered by using the other statement alone. Choose 2 if the question can be answered by using either statement alone. Choose 3 if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot be answered by using any statement alone. Choose 4 if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together. 1. Who is the heaviest among A, B and C? (Assume 1 kg = 2 pounds and 1 inch = 2.5 cm) A. As height is 12 cm more than Cs height, which is 10 cm less than Bs height, and all three of them are in the range of 150 cm to 180 cm. B. As weight in kg is numerically equal to 100 less than his height in cm, Bs weight in kg is equal to his height in inches and Cs weight in pounds is numerically equal to his height in cm. 2. If a and b belong to a set of positive real numbers, then is a > b? A. (log2a2)3 > (log2b2)3. B. (log3a3)2 > (log3b3)2. 3. Are the two triangles ABC and XYZ similar? A. The length of two sides of triangle ABC is equal to length of two sides of triangle XYZ respectively. B. Two angles of triangle ABC are equal to two angles of triangle XYZ. 4. Is (pqr + qst) (xyz + abc) even? a, b, c, p, q, r, s, t, x, y and z are positive integers. A. a is odd and pq is even. B. y is even and pr is odd. DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 9: These questions are based on the following table which provides the profile of the batch of students of 2001 at a premier management institute.
Sex Male 147 Female 33 Total 180

Age, in years (A) 19<A<24 115 24<A<26 60 A>26 5 Total 180 Qualification Arts 27 Commerce 43 Science 27 Engg. 52 Engg. 31 Total 180

Work Experience in months (W) W=0 88 W<12 23 12<W<24 21 24<W<36 33 36<W<48 13 W>48 2 Total 180

5. If all but 9 girls have no work experience, then the boys with no work experience at all form what percentage of the total students? (1) 35.5% (2) 36.6% (3)12.2% (4) 43.3% 6. If all the commerce and arts graduates in the batch take finance as their specialization, what percentage of the batch comprises finance specialists? (1) 38.88% (2) 38.5% (3)33.33% (4) Cannot be determined 7. If all the students with 3 years and more experience are engineering graduates and are at least 24 years in age and all of them except 4 are from the IITs, then what is the ratio of the engineers who are IITians to the engineers who are non-IITians among the < 3 years work experience category? (1) 11 : 4 (2) 5 : 12 (3)11 : 24 (4) indeterminate 8. If all those with a non-engg. background are less than 24 years in age, then what percentage of those less than 24 years are engineers? (1) 21.6% (2) 15.6% (3)18.4% (4) 10%

9. If the batch of 2002 has 21.2% more girls than the previous batch, and 10% of the girls are from Engg. (IIT) background and 20% of the girls are from Engg. (non IIT) background, then what is ratio of non-engg. girls to the totalstrength of the batch? (1) 15.5% (2) 13.3% (3)17.2% (4) Cannot be determined DIRECTIONS for questions 10 to 14: These questions are based on the following line graphs.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 15 to 28: Select the correct alternative from the given choices. 15. The ratio of the common difference of two series in arithmetic progression is 4 : 9. If the ratio of the sum of the first 25 terms of the series is 4 : 9, what is the ratio of the 75th terms of the series? (1) 8 : 27 (2) 9 : 25 (3) 16 : 81 (4) None of these 16. If xy = yz = zx and x, y, z > 0 then
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17. How many right-angled triangles of integer sides are possible given that one of the sides is 15 cm long? (1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 5 (4) 6 18. There are two poles separated by a distance of 41 feet with their heights as 21 feet and 20 feet respectively. There are two birds A and B on the two poles respectively. Both of them simultaneously started moving towards an almond, which is placed between the two poles. They reach the almond at the same time travelling at the same speed.What is the distance between the almond and the foot of the first pole, if both the birds take the shortest route? (1) 20 feet (2) 21 feet (3) 25 feet (4) 29 feet 19. A is a series of n terms with x (a natural number) as the first term and every term is y (a natural number greater than 1) less than the next term. If the product of all the terms of A is always divisible by the product of the first n natural numbers then, which of the following regarding x, y and n must be true always? (1) xn = yn (2) yn = 1 (3) x is a multiple of y (4) xn and yn are not co-prime 20. Madhusudhan, a milkman has a mixture of milk and water with him. The ratio of milk to water is 4 : 5. He then boils the mixture so as to achieve a concentration of 50%. But, since he was distracted by the world cup finals being telecast line on T.V., he over boiled the milk and realised that the initial ratio of milk to water has been reversed. If by then, he has boiled the milk for exactly 126/7 minutes, find the extra time for which the milk has boiled, given that the rate of evaporation of water is 50% more than that of milk. (1) 16/7 min (2) 26/7 min (3) 36/7 min (4) 46/7 min

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21. In which of the following ranges of x is it not possible to find any value of x that will satisfy the (x2 - 2x) (x - 3) inequality > 0? x+2 (1) -3 < x < -2 (2) R (2, 3) (3) 1 < x < 1 (4) -2 < x < - 1 22. Ragha and Dhaga play a game with blue berries. The blue berries are arranged in three piles of 20, 25 and 30 berries. At each turn, a player chooses one of the piles and divides it into two smaller piles. The loser is the player who cannot do this. Assume that they play intelligently and to win. Which of the following statements is false? I. Ragha can never win if he were to start the game. II. Ragha will win everytime he starts the game. III. Ragha can win irrespective of who starts the game. IV. Dhaga can never win if he does not start a game. (1) Only I and IV (2) Only III (3)Only I (4) Only II, III and IV 23. What is the length of the side of a square inscribed in a regular hexagon of side 2? (1) 3 + 1 (2) 6 2 3 (3) 2+ 3 (4)
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24. With 15 consonants and 5 vowels, how many words of 4 letters can be formed having two different vowels in the middle and one consonant (repeated or different) at each end? (1) 4540 (2) 4550 (3) 4500 (4) 4950 25. In a class of 60 students, 28 passed in Physics and Maths, 16 passed in Maths and Chemistry, 14 passed in Physics and Chemistry and 10 passed in all three. If no student failed in all the three subjects, the number of students who passed in only one subject is (1) 20 (2) 32 (3) 28 (4) None of these 26. A hare and a tortoise decide to run around a lake and instead of running in the same direction they decide to run in opposite directions. Each of them chooses a distinct convenient starting point. The hare meets the tortoise at a certain oak tree for the first time. The second time, they meet at a neem tree and the third time at a mango tree. If the fourth time, the hare meets the tortoise exactly at the first oak tree, then which of the following statements is true? (assume that neither of them rests after the start and that they run at constant speeds) (1) One of them runs three times as fast as the other. (2) One of them is half as fast as the other. (3) One of them is six times as fast as the other. (4) The starting points and starting times are required to comment about the ratio of their speeds. 27. In the figure given, if FJ = JK = KH, AE = EF = FG = GB, DH = HI = IC and AB = 2AD = 3DH = 4FG, find the ratio of the area of the triangle JGK to that of the rectangle ABCD. (1) 3 : 16 (2) 1 : 18 (3) 3 : 32 (4) 1 : 24 28. An ambulance heading towards the hospital developed a leak in the petrol tank 40 km from the hospital. Despite the leak, the ambulance was able to travel towards the hospital at a speed of 48 km/hr. However, the ambulance could travel for 20 minutes only before it ran out of fuel. If at the moment the leak developed, a rescue ambulance started from the hospital towards the travelling ambulance, what was the minimum speed of the rescue ambulance, given that it reached the travelling ambulance before it stopped? (1) 48 kmph (2) 54 kmph (3) 64 kmph (4) 72 kmph DIRECTIONS for questions 29 and 30: Each graph below consists of three curves f(x), h(x) and g(x). Study the graphs carefully and mark the appropriate choice according to the following directions. Mark 1 if f(x) = g(x) + h(x) Mark 2 if f(x) = g(x) h(x) Mark 3 if f(x) + g(x) + h(x) = 0 Mark 4 if none of the above holds. 29.
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DIRECTIONS for questions 31 to 37: Select the correct alternative from the given choices. 31. Find the last digit of 734n + 1, where n is a natural number. (1) 8 (2) 4 (3) 0 (4) 2 32. A washerman can wash 48 trousers or 64 shirts in 8 hours while his wife can wash 30 trousers or 40 shirts in 10 hours. They get a work of 160 trousers and 200 shirts to wash. Now the man and his wife decide to work on alternate hours and together a total of 12 hours per day. If they worked for 5 hours only on the first day with the man starting the work at noon then, assuming that on the rest of the days the woman starts the work: (1) the man finishes the work on the seventh day. (2) the woman finishes the work on seventh day. (3) the man finishes the work on the sixth day. (4) the woman finishes the work on the sixth day. 33. Crude oils flows through an underwater pipeline. The rate of flow of oil is equal to 30P cc/ sec, where P is the pressure in the pipe in gm/cm2. If the ariation in pressure is given by the following graph, find the average rate of flow of oil through the pipe line. (1 l = 1000 cc.) (1) 180 cc/sec (2) 540 cc/sec (3) 45 cc/sec (4) 45 l/sec
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34. A cube is cut by six planes, so as to yield maximum number of smaller cubes. If 3.5 litres of paint is required to paint the original cube, find the amount of paint needed to paint all the smaller cubes. (1) 7 litres (2) 10.5 litres (3) 3.5 litres (4) 14 litres 35. Three boys Kalyan, Pavan and Chetan are planning to go to a drama. Each wants to go to a different drama, directed by a different person and in which hero is a different person. Each of the dramas is staged in a different theatre. Kalyan wants to go to the drama in which Michael is the hero. Pavan wants to go to Broadway, a theatre. Raghu Vansham, a drama, is played in New Opera, a theatre. Sri Ram is the hero in the drama played in Apollo theatre. Othello is directed by Srinivas. Chetan wants to go to the drama directed by Kamal. George is the hero in one of the dramas they are planning to go. David is the director of one of the dramas they are lanning to go. Pygmalion is one of the dramas they are planning to go. Which of the following statements is true? (1) Kalyan wants to watch Othello, directed by Srinivas, in which Michael is the hero. (2) Pavan wants to watch Pygmalion, directed by David, in Broadway. (3) Chetan wants to watch the drama directed by Kamal, in which Sri Ram is the hero, in Apollo theatre. (4) None of these 36. I have observed a surprising thing about the ages of my family members. If my nephews age is added to my mothers age, we get my fathers age. If we add my mothers age to my age, we get my uncles age. If we add my nephews age to my age, we get my brothers age. The numbers representing my fathers age, my brothers age and my uncles age are perfect squares and each of them is less than 75. If my nephews age is 5 years, what is my uncles age? (1) 36 (2) 49 (3) 64 (4) Cannot be determined 37. On one of my many frequent sojourns in the Milky Way, I met three children Tutsu, Mitsu and Bitsu belonging to the Andromeda Galaxy each of whom belongs to a different planetary system among Mitu, Bitu and Tutu. As a reply to any question Andromedans give two statements as a reply. Both the statements made by Mitus are true whereas both the statements of Bitus are false. Tutus on the other hand alternate between the truth and lies but which comes first is not known. The following is a conversation that took place among them. Tutsu = Mitsu is a Bitu. Bitsu is a Tutu. Mitsu = Tutsu is a Bitu. Bitsu is not from Andromeda. Bitsu = Mitsu is a Mitu. I am from Andromeda. Who of the following is a Tutu? (1) Mitsu (2) Bitsu (3) Tutsu (4) Cannot be determined

DIRECTIONS for questions 38 and 39: Read each of the following passages and answer the question that follows it. 38. The greatest-ever bull market in equities seems to be at an end. The Nasdaq is in free fall; the Dow, having trodden water for a couple of years, also shows signs of sinking. Stock markets in the rest of the world are following Americas lead. It is not too early to ask questions, and not just Why didnt I sell Cisco a year ago? How about, Do we really know anything about how stock markets value shares? The answer is not really, for all the efforts to argue the contrary by the unfortunately timedor titled Toward Rational Exuberance. Mark Smith, a veteran share trader with CSFB and Goldman Sachs, believes that the stock market, at least in America, has become increasingly rational over the past century, a case he makes by cleverly intertwining the unfolding academic debate about how to value equities with a colourful history of Wall Streets evolution. On which issue is the author of the above passage not in agreement with Mark Smith? (1) Whether we know anything about the methods by which the stock markets values shares of companies. (2) The fact that the stock market has become rational at least in America if not in other parts of the world. (3) The title as well as the timing of the release of the book authored by Mark Smith. (4) The manner in which the book has been authored by Mark Smith, in which he intertwines the unfolding academic debate about how to value equities with a colourful history of Wall Street. 39. Americas space agency is about to invade Mars. On April 7, NASA launched a craft called the 2001 Mars Odyssey. Once it has reached its orbit around the planet in October, it will spend one Martian year examining the surface. Its findings will help establish, among other things, whether Mars has, or ever had, any water. Which one of the following can be best inferred from the above passage? (1) The mission will shed some light on whether the planet might ever have sustained life, or could sustain human visitors in the future. (2) The first manned mission is still a long way into the future. (3) NASA is the most advanced space agency in the world and has left the Russian space agency far behind in the last few years. (4) Mars is too far distant from the Earth for a manned spacecraft to be sent and brought back to the Earth. DIRECTIONS for questions 40 and 41: Select the correct alternative from the given choices. 40. Five boys A, B, C, D and E have a certain number of marbles with them. It is known that 1. A and D together have as many marbles as B, C and E together. 2. D has as many marbles more than C as E has more than B. 3. A and B together have 6 lots of marbles. 4. D has the maximum of the 40 lots of marbles present. 5. A has 50% of the marbles that C has, who in turn has 50% of what D has. 6. The marbles are held in lots of 25 each by the five boys. How many marbles does E have with him? (1) 50 (2) 100 (3) 250 (4) Cannot be determined 41. Four missiles Sidewinder, RAM-7, Nodong I and Half-I are such that their technology was developed by one of North Korea, South Korea, South Africa and Pakistan but are manufactured by a country (of the four above) that has not developed the technology. Sidewinders technology is not from South Korea but is manufactured by North Korea. RAM-7 s technology is developed by Pakistan but it is not manufactured by South Africa. Nodong I s technology is from North Korea but it is not manufactured in South Korea. Neither is Half-I s technology from South Africa nor is it manufactured there. Each country develops and manufactures only one of the four missiles given. Which of the following is the place where Half-I is manufactured? (1) North Korea (2) South Korea (3) Pakistan (4) Data Inadequate DIRECTIONS for questions 42 and 43: These questions are based on the following data. A student is allotted 1950 points to bid for courses totalling 16 credits in IIM. For every extra credit undertaken, he gets an additional 75 points to bid. He is required to bid a minimum of 75 points per credit for all uncapped courses. However, in the case of capped courses, he can bid more than 75 points per credit. A decides to take 18 credits in which all courses, other than one course which is 3 credits, are uncapped. 42. What is the maximum number of points he can bid for the capped course? (1) 975 (2) 950 (3)1125 (4) None of the above

43. What would be the maximum number of points he could bid for the capped course if he decides to take a total of 16 credits only? (1) 925 (2) 975 (3)950 (4) 1125

DIRECTIONS for question 44 : Select the correct alternative from the given choices. 44. The Sumalians, the inhabitants of a galaxy on the outer edges of the JX II planetary system,have a language exactly similar to English but are a bit more number oriented than earthlings. TheSumalians have a management entrance exam called CAT in which they are asked to fill in the application form by truncating their names in the following manner; All alphabets at the even locations are to be struck off and the alphabets at all the odd-prime locations are to be replaced with the cube of any number lesser than 16. All the remaining alphabets retain their place. Which of the following is not a possible name of VERCINGETORIX, a Sumalian CAT applicant, as it appears on the application form? All locations referred to above are the locations of the alphabets as per the order in which they appear (from left to right) in the original name. (1) V12764T125216 (2) V864512T11728 (3) V125271T13311 (4) V18256T1000343 DIRECTIONS for questions 45 to 49: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow. By the time you finish reading this sentence, more than two hundred million energy particles would have passed through your body. That is the wonder of the Cosmos, of which we are an integral part. Though many cosmic events happen, even without our knowing or feeling many of them, their impact can lie shrouded till they become translucent, to make us wonder how, why and what for such things happen. Perhaps one such event is the appearance of spots on the Sun, known these days at least to the scientific community but never understood by the masses. The earth on which we live is a planet that revolves round the Sun along with other planets constituting our solar system. Our solar system is only a tiny speck in the stellar group of the Milky Way. Correspondingly, the Milky Way is one of the innumerable galaxies in the Universe. Our Sun is a star, in fact our nearest, 270000 times closer than a-Centauri, the next closest to us. Our solar system is patchily posited at 25000 light years away from the centre of our galaxy, on the inner edge of one of its spiral arms. The environment essential for the development and sustenance of life on the earth is maintained from the earths heat, for which the Sun is the main source. This heat supply from the Sun is not constant and varies according to the solar luminosity. It is proved that the atmospheric circulation, the cause of weather, is driven by the Suns energy which plays a major role in climatic changes of the earth. Our ancients who were aware of the astrophysical properties of the Sun called him Thrayreetanu, the source of creation, sustenance and destruction. He is also called Saktyantarasooryaha, a repository of all forces needed for maintaining the Universe. Varahamihira calls the Sun as kalatma or soul of time. Astrology, which interprets the influence of the planets, the Sun and the Moon over the destinies of humans, nations, climate and other terrestrial occurrences, gives the Sun a pre-eminent status. The Sun is reckoned as the chief of the planetary kingdom. There are various astrological rules interpreting the association and aspect of the Sun, in relation to the other planets and various houses in a horoscope. He is powerful except when eclipsed, particularly by Rahu or afflicted by close conjunction or aspect of the Saturn who, though his son, is also his bitterest enemy. This may be perhaps because the Sun represents kingship, royal grandeur, authority and aristocracy while Saturn represents the lower classes, meaner masses and baser instincts. Though astrological texts hold that the proximity of planets to the Sun makes them powerless in combination, almost all of them agree that the Sun-Mercury combination is auspicious. However, even those who do not approve the astrological influences of the Sun, cannot deny the fact that the Sun has a vital role in deciding various events on the earth and consequently on living organisms on it. Scientific evidence is available for the influence of the Sun over the earth, its inhabitants, vegetation, climate, winds, rainfall, radio communication, geophysical and magnetic fields and scores of other things. Of the many interesting features of solar activity, the phenomenon of the occurrence of sunspots is the one subjected to serious study. Sunspots are gigantic eruptions of hot luminous gases on the solar surface. In some cases, the flares reach tremendous heights varying from twenty thousand to a million kilometres. Remember, our Mount Everest is only roughly 12 kilometres in heights. These spots appear dark because when these flares surge upward and outward, their temperatures drop a lot, to make them luminous at the affected parts. Sunspots gradually change their places of formation and dissolution and their maximum and minimum number follow a cycle of about eleven years. A few spots appearing in the north and south move and multiply towards the solar equator, reaching a maximum in about six to eleven years. The origin of the sunspot cycle is not known. Perhaps it was Williams Hershel, the famous English astronomer of the 18th century, the first to put forward a theory that the price of wheat in the market had some link to the number of sunspots. Scientific studies have confirmed the existence of some links between solar activity and the incidence of heart ailments. Our ancients have attributed heart ailment to the Sun Hridrogam mamasuryaah. Observations have revealed that the maxima periods on the solar surface bring some distinctive phenomena on earth like wars, revolutions, earthquakes, outbreak of epidemics, fluctuations in the share market and floods. The migration schedules of swallows are reported to get affected when increased sunspot activity is recorded. The production of food grains are said to be similarly affected. More than everything, the study points that social and human relations also get affected in such periodic cycles of maximum sunspot activity. Extensive studies on the rainfall patterns over varied regions on the earth compared to the occurrence of sunspots have revealed that formation of large and small sunspots do cause drought conditions on the earth. In 1979, when the maximum number of sunspots was spotted, India experienced her worst drought.

Discovery of the basic 11-year sunspot cycle was announced by the German amateur astronomer Samuel Heinrich Schwabe in 1843, though its cause is still uncertain. Since that time, attempts have been made to connect the solar cycle to a variety of other phenomena, including possible slight variations in the diameter of the Sun, sequences of annual growth rings in trees and even the rise and fall of the stock market. Records of sunspots are almost non-existent in Europe prior to the seventeenth century. It is stated that sunspots were known to the Chinese at the time of the Han Dynasty. However, no one cares to read Brihat Samhita, the magnum opus of Varahamihira, where he, referring to the sunspots as tamasakeelakas, describes their varied shapes and how their occurrence creates wars, pestilence and miseries on earth. 45. As per the passage, astrology, (A) expounds the cosmic influence over fortunes of man and his life on Earth. (B) considers the influence of the Sun in relation to the other planets and various houses in a horoscope. (C) takes into account the influence of sunspots on an individuals horoscope. (D) believes that in most cases, the power exerted by a planet is inversely proportional to its distance from the Sun. (1) A and B (2) B, C and D (3) A, B and D (4) A, B, C and D 46. The author considers Saturn to be the bitterest enemy of the Sun probably because (1) the qualities they represent are mutually contradictory. (2) of its proximity to the Sun. (3) it eclipses the Sun and makes him powerless. (4) all the above. 47. As per the passage, sunspots (A) are huge emissions of hot luminous gases on the solar surface. (B) do not appear constantly at the same place on the surface of the sun. (C) are triggered by some cosmic influence. (D) do not dissolve. (1) A, B and C (2) A, C and D (3) B, C and D

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48. Empirical studies reveal that maxima periods of sunspots tend to affect (1) the share market. (2) interpersonal relationships. (3) the migration schedule of swallows. (4) all the above. 49. Pick the statements which are not true as per the passage: (A) Schwabe was the first person to discover the sunspot cycle. (B) Varahamihira refers to the sunspot cycle as Kalatma. (C) Drought conditions seem to be a type of tangible manifestation of the relationship between the rainfall pattern and the occurrence of sunspots. (D) a-Centauri is the nearest star to the Earth. (1) A and B (2) B and C (3) B and D (4) A and C DIRECTIONS for questions 50 to 54: Select the correct words from the choices that complete the given sentence as your answer. Please note that more than one choice may fit in to make a syntactically correct sentence, but select the choice that is logical in the context of the sentence. 50. As a window to the _____ of cultures and a _____ between civilizations, books are a source of dialogue, a means of exchange and a source of development. (1) perversity . . . link (2) diversity . . . bridge (3) ethnicity . . . rift (4) similitude . . . barrier 51. The customs and traditions of various tribal cultures are quite _____ and bear no _____ to those in various other communities. (1) similar . . . comparison (2) same . . . likeness (3) common . . . relationship (4) unique . . . resemblance 52. _____ is a combination of performance and _____ under pressure. (1) Success . . . determination (2) Erudition . . . resoluteness (3) Knowledge . . . steadfastness (4) Wisdom . . . humility 53. Just as the success of a new publication depends on its _____, the success of a politician depends on his _____ success. (1) reporters . . . professional (2) readers . . . financial (3) circulation . . . electoral (4) reporting . . . economic

54. Most teenagers today, prefer to be _____ and are choosing to work while studying, as it givesthem _____ freedom. (1) idealistic . . . emotional (2) independent . . . economic (3) dynamic . . . unrestrained (4) liberated . . . spiritual DIRECTIONS for questions 55 to 59: In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four. 55. The State Bank of India is the largest bank in India but its performances in the stock market had often been overshadowed by its more nimble private sector counterparts. (1) performance in the stock market has often been overshadowed by (2) performances of the stock market have been overshadowed by (3) performances on the stock market had been often overshadowing (4) performance on the stock market has often been overshadowed by 56. The trend of Indian infotech companies looking forward for acquisitions of or merging into IT companies of the West, particularly in the US, continues unabated. (1) companies looking out for acquisition of or mergers with IT companies in the West (2) company looking out for acquisition of or merging into IT companies of the West (3) companies looking forward for acquisitions of or merging with IT companies of the West (4) company looking forward for acquisition of or merger with IT companies in the West 57. Armed by new tools for manipulation of genes and proteins, scientists are now concocting vaccines to fight everything from food poisoning to cervical cancer. (1) Arming with new tools to manipulate genes and proteins, (2) Armed by new tools for manipulating of genes and proteins, (3) Armed with new tools of manipulation of genes and proteins, (4) Armed with new tools for manipulating genes and proteins, 58. A new development in the global arena is the resistance of the US IT industry to the outsourcing of its firms to offshore locations like India. (1) by its firms onto offshore locations like that of India. (2) of their firms on offshore locations like India. (3) by their firms to offshore locations like India. (4) by its firms to offshore locations like India. 59. Scientists around the world express their beliefs that pollution and global warming result in leading to serious problems for our environment in the next few decades. (1) their beliefs so that pollution and global warming are likely to leading (2) their belief that pollution and the resultant global warming are likely to lead to (3) their belief that resultant pollution and global warming are likely to lead to (4) their beliefs that likely pollution and resultant global warming lead to DIRECTIONS for questions 60 to 64: A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four choices given to construct a coherent paragraph. 60. A. They have only a limited charge, focus on only one target at a time and can be easily fooled by using simple counter measures. B. As for airborne lasers, although they take only a fraction of a second to reach their targets and are thus less affected by a Missiles avoidance manoeuvres, they suffer from other problems. C. The missile defence agency (MDA) has so far only responded by saying that it is confident, it is heading in the right direction and the technology has great potential. D. As the airborne laser would have to be flown quite close to its missile targets, it would be vulnerable to attack by surface to air missiles. (1) BDAC (2) BADC (3) CBAD (4) CABD 61. A. If one were to look at the extent of social and charitable work being done all over the country by individuals and institutions in the areas of social upliftment, education and sustaining cultural values, one may find many a commitment for such worthy causes from small groups, for the benefit and prosperity of the underprivileged. B. Political news and happenings with myriad dimensions, provide for any newspaper, its main contents. C. Handling these with skill in terms of presentation and expression providing either favourable or adverse comments should have constancy of purpose even if on occasion it increases the journals vulnerability. D. Such work should be commended consistently by newspapers and propagated to the public for their understanding and support. E. The area is definitely the one where every faith, religion and community is involved. (1) BCAED (2) ABCED (3) AEBCD (4) BACED

62. A. Time has become to the 21st century what fossil fuels and precious metals were to previous epochs. B. The new millennium - and the decades leading up to it - have given his words their real meaning. C. More than 200 years ago Benjamin Franklin coined the now famous dictum that equated passing minutes and hours with shillings and pounds. D. Constantly measured and priced, this vital raw material continues to spur the growth of economics built on a foundation of terabytes and gigabytes per second. (1) ADCB (2) CBAD (3) ACBD (4) ABCD 63. A. The photographs in question came from a spacecraft called The Solar and Heliosphere Observatory, or SOHO, which studies the Sun. B. Ever since its launch in 1995 by Europes and Americas space agencies, SOHOs pictures have generated ferment among UFOlogists, who say it has taken hundreds of shots of flying saucers. C. It sounds like a scene from The X-files. D. Government scientists, after years of covering up and refusing to comment, have now officially denied taking pictures of the UFOs. (1) CDAB (2) BADC (3) CBDA (4) ABCD 64. A. It is indeed difficult to say how much of the present world outlook of the Indian Hindu is derived from the Vedas and the Upanishads and how much from the teachings of Islam. B. The worlds of philosophy and economics are at first sight almost totally unrelated. C. In exactly a similar manner, in belief and in behaviour, in habits and in social institution, the Indian Muslims show unmistakable traces of the influence of Hindu culture and outlook. D. Yet, in both these spheres, we find unmistakable traces of co-operation between the Muslim and the Hindu. (1) ACBD (2) BDAC (3)BACD (4) ABCD DIRECTIONS for questions 65 to 68: In each question, a word is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE. 65. Engage 1 Whatever the method you teach by, it must engage the students interest. 2 Please engage a special room for our guests. 3 You can send a few more soldiers to engage the enemy snipers. 4 One should engage the subject methodically for best results. 66. Eye 1 Should this painting get first prize or second? It is up to your eye. 2 Who does not wish to have the eye of a kite? 3 Students need not see eye to eye with their teacher on political matters. 4 Do not underrate todays customers. They are shoppers with an eye for a bargain. 67. Figures 1 He is really good at figures is every teachers remark. 2 The way a computer figures values is not comparable to the way humans do. 3 I cannot understand what this figures about. 4 These figures are found in our mythology and in numerous sacred texts. 68. Land 1 You will land in trouble in the exam if your preparation is cursory. 2 It is not a safe place to land our aircraft. 3 This land is so fertile that you can start cultivating it without hesitation. 4 To be an effective speaker, one should land on sometimes rather than speak continuously.