CAM- 13th April

A to D

A. Verbal Ability

Q1)
A language expert Daniel Harder suggests that a significant part of the global cultural heritage will
become extinct if major Indian languages like Hindi and Bangla fall prey to Indian English which, in the
process, has only got poorer. Such a disaster is possible as more upwardly mobile families stop teaching
their own language to their children.

All of the following can help redress the issue EXCEPT

(A) Parents should encourage their children to speak in their mother tongue at home.

(B) The government must provide employment to those with proficiency in their mother tongue.

(C) As English is only a language of education, it cannot kill any of the Indian languages.

(D) We should start rewarding the students who show proficiency in not only English but also their
own mother tongue right from the school level.

Q2)
Experts suggest that the recently-discovered Planet X could be responsible for mass extinctions on
Earth — including the one that wiped out most of the dinosaurs. According to them, Planet X triggers
comet showers. These showers could be powerful enough to travel towards Earth's orbit and ultimately
strike the planet and cause mass extinctions.

Which of the following, if true, weakens the argument of the experts?

(A) The planet Earth suffered from droughts lasting for several years in the era of dinosaurs.

(B) Planet X has been recently discovered by scientists.

(C) There is no evidence of any collision on Earth.

(D) Dinosaurs became extinct much earlier than the collisions of planet X.
Q3)
My professor said yesterday that linking Sanskrit with religion and a certain political ideology is "stupid"
and "detrimental to the cause" of preserving its rich heritage. It is because the original Sanskrit texts
contain some of the earliest thoughts and discoveries of human beings. Even the core thoughts of
Buddhism were in the Sanskrit language. To better understand the genesis of oriental philosophy,
history, languages, sciences and culture, it's essential to read the original Sanskrit texts.

Which of the following is an assumption of the professor's argument?

(A) If we do not read the original texts, we cannot understand the Indian philosophy, history and culture.

(B) People would not like to promote Sanskrit if it is linked to a particular ideology or religion.

(C) People would lose interest in Sanskrit.

(D) Sanskrit is a language of the religion.

Q4)
Over 20,000 pieces of precious Indian art and artefacts have been smuggled out of India in the last
three decades. The total value of such smuggled items could be in excess of 10 billion US dollars,
although many of these artefacts are priceless from a cultural perspective. What have our governments
been doing while priceless art was being smuggled out of India? Beyond isolated, small and ineffective
measures the government has largely been a spectator. A damning CAG report from 2013 states that
India had not recovered even one piece of stolen-heritage between 2001 and 2012 Frustrated with the
state of affairs, a group of volunteers organized themselves to track, lobby and bring back artworks
smuggled out of India. They call themselves the India Pride Project.

Which of the following brings out the relationship between the two highlighted sentences?

(A) While the first sentence presents a question, the second one answers the question.

(B) While the first sentence suggests the governments' inaction against the art smugglers, the
second sentence talks about the action being taken by a group of volunteers.

(C) While the first sentence blames the government, the second sentence suggests a solution to
curb the smuggling of precious Indian artefacts.

(D) While the former shows the cause for frustration, the latter talks about what the frustration is.
B. Reading Comprehension

Despite ever-intensifying criticism that the American education system has 'broken', I believe the
passion for criticism should not override reason. The system does have some obvious shortcomings
and even defenders of the system can make long lists of things to be changed. But the root of the
problem is not incompetent design, As is so frequently alleged. Nor is it status. Brother, it is the twofold
challenge of complexity and scale. The mammoth mission of priming the youth in a consistent way can
advance only slowly.

For evidence of this, one need look only to the past. If the education system had broken at some
point, a look backward would reveal an end to progress - a point at which the system stopped
working. Yet, that isn't at all the picture that emerges. Instead, one can see that across many
generations ,the schools have slowly and steadily improved.

For most of the American history, teachers received no training at all and hiring was a chaotic
process in which the only constant was patronage. There were other problems, too. As late as the
20th century, for instance, would-be educators generally had little, if any, student-teaching
experience prior to entering classrooms. Even as recently as three decades back, prospective
teachers had no background in adolescent cognition and received no training in how to work with
students from diverse backgrounds. All of that has changed. Despite that, we need to accept that
there's lots of work yet to be done.

The same is true of curriculum. We need to accept that it's somewhat arbitrary and, at least for
students, insufficiently challenging. Americans are regularly told that the modern curriculum is a relic
of the past and that it has grown increasingly out-of-date. However, prior to the 20th century, high
school focused heavily on Latin and Greek, required coursework in subjects such as zoology and
mechanical drawing, and rarely offered any math beyond algebra. But the current condition seldom
matches this. There are more differences than similarities. Again, this does not mean that present
practices are ideal, but it does mean that Americans should think twice before dissolving in panic
over what is being taught in modern classes.

Finally, consider the outcomes produced by the education system. Critics are right that achievement
scores aren't overwhelmingly impressive and that troubling gaps persist across racial, ethnic, an
income groups. Yet, scores are up over the past 40 years, and the greatest gains over that period
have been made by black and Hispanic students. They are right: The U.S. finishes well behind exam
oriented countries like Taiwan and Korea on international tests. But scores are roughly on par with
countries like Norway, which was named the best country to live in.
Q1)
Which of the following best describes the author's attitude towards critics of American education system?

(A) uncritically enthusiastic

(B) conservatively dismissive

(C) vehemently refuting

(D) politically neutral

Q2)
The author uses the word 'even 'In the third paragraph (highlighted) to emphasize:

(A) the lack of structured instruction in American schools and colleges

(B) significance of adolescence in the long term overall development of human beings

(C) the undue delay in the implementation of psychology instruction as a part of teachers training

(D) the difference between the significance of adolescence and that of diversity in the process of teaching

Q3)
It can be inferred that all of the following are the shortcomings of American education system, which are at
least partially accepted by the author, EXCEPT:

(A) The achievements made by the system are not fast enough to meet the demands of fast
evolving society

(B) Consistent nepotism plagued the American education system during most of its history

(C) Certain academic disciplines were not given the importance they deserved

(D) Resource paucity has hampered the American education system

Q4)
The author uses the sentence 'there are more differences than similarities ' to refute the argument that

(A) math syllabus used in American schools is outdated

(B) Greek and Latin are not as relevant today as they were in the past

(C) present practices in American education system are not ideal

(D) the curriculum used in American education system is obsolete.

C. Quantitative Aptitude

Q1)

Two circles with radius 3 and intersect each other orthogonally. Find the area common to both the
circles?

(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these

Q2)
How many 6-digit numbers are there which are divisible by 11, with first and last digit same?

(A) 8190 (B) 7190 (C) 5190 (D) 6190

Q3)
If f(x) = (x³ + 96/x4); where x is a positive real number. Find the minimum value of f(x)

(A) 10 (B) 7 (C) 19 (D) 14

Q4)
In the given figure ABCD is a square of unit length such that OA = OB, where O is the center of quarter
circle. Find the area of quarter circle.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

Q5)
A boss can do a job in two days, if his four secretaries A, B, C, D are all present. His efficiency got
reduced to 1/ 6, 1/ 4, 1/ 3, 1/ 2, respectively according as A, B, C, D remain absent. If on any day only one
secretary remains absent and the boss finishes his work exactly in integral number of days. Which of the
following secretaries cannot be absent for an odd number of days?

(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D

Q6)
A father starts everyday from home to pick up his son Raju from school at 3 :30 p. m. One day, Raju
leaves the school at 2:30 p. m. and starts walking home at a speed of 6 km/h. He meets his father , who
starts at his normal time, on the way and they reach home 24 minutes earlier than usual. Find the father's
speed.

(A) 20 km/h (B) 22 km/h (C) 24 km/h (D)15 km/h

Q7)
A few years back Bart borrows a certain sum of money at a certain rate of simple interest. Now the same
sum becomes 200% of what he borrowed. After 2 years the amount will increase by 12.5% compared to
the present value. After how many years from now will the amount be 5 times the sum?

(A) 32 (B) 24 (C) 25 (D) 40

Q8)
Find the maximum number of definite or indefinite regions in which a plane can be divided with the help of
10 straight lines.

Q9)
In how many ways 3 girls can sit on 17 chairs in a row so that there is even number of chairs between any
two consecutive girls?

(A) 645 (B) 546 (C) 564 (D) 654

D. DILR

Directions for Q1 to Q4

A mobile app was reviewing the feedback of eight hotels- A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H- it received last year.
These hotels provide accommodations and also restaurant facilities. Each restaurant is rated in each
parameter each on a scale of 0-10. The product of both the ratings gives the overall rating. The following
table gives us the partial information of the ratings of eight hotels.

The hotel are categorised as:

(a) Janta – if the overall rating is from 0 to 20.
(b) Economy- if the overall rating is from 21 to 50.
(c) Deluxe- if the overall rating is from 51 to 75.
(d) Luxury- if the overall rating id from 76-100.

Further, the following is known that-

(I) The overall rating of any hotel is greater than 10.
(ii) Exactly two hotels got the same restaurant rating and exactly two hotels got the same accommodation
rating.
(iii) G is categorized as Janta hotel.
(iv) After categorization, it is found that there are equal number of hotels in each category.
(v) E obtained a higher restaurant rating than A and a higher overall rating than H.
(vi) The accommodation rating of B is higher than its restaurant rating.

Q1)
What is the restaurant rating obtained by A?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) Cannot be determined

Q2)
What is the overall rating obtained by D?
(A) 42 (B) 56 (C) 63 (D) Cannot be determined
Q3)
Which of the following is true?

(I) Hotel F obtained the lowest overall rating.

(II) The final rating of A is at least 30.

(A) Only (I) is true (B) Only (II) is true

(C) Both (I) and (II) are true. (D) Neither (I) nor (II) is true.

Q4)
Which of the hotels were categorized as Deluxe hotels?
(A) A and C (B) A and D (C) C and D (D) A and F

Directions for Q5 to Q8

Q5)
What is the percentage increase in the number of subscribers of company P from 2014 to 2019?
(A) 110% (B) 121% (C) 129% (D) 137%

Q6)
The ratio of number of subscribers of company R in 2016 and company T in 2018 was approximately
(A) 2 : 7 (B) 5 : 13 (C) 4 : 9 (D) 7 : 13

Q7)
Which company had the maximum numerical increase in the number of subscribers from one year to the next?
(A) P (B) R (C) S (D) T

Q8)
What was the percentage increase in the number of subscribers of all the six companies from 2013 to 2018?
(A) 225% (B) 205% (C) 180% (D) 175%