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SECTION 1 (45 marks)

Part A (10 questions)

The questions are for 0.5 marks each

1. In the figure below, all the angles are right angles. What is the perimeter of the polygon ?

1] Insufficient data 2] 14 m 3] 28 m 4] None of these

2. A man puts in a tray letters to be typed by his secretary one at a time during the day at varioustimes in the order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. The secretary takes the letters at the top for typing when he feelsfree to type it. What is the order in which the letters will definitely not get typed ?1] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 2] 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 3] 3, 2, 5, 4, 6, 1 4] 4, 5, 6, 2, 3, 1

3. A and B run in opposite directions from point P on the circumference of a circle with differentspeeds. A runs in clockwise direction and meets B for the first time after running 700 m. For thesecond time, A meets B, at a distance of 300m, from P, in the clockwise direction. The

circumference of the circle, if only one of them has crossed P once, is1] Cant say 2] 900 m 3] 1000 m 4] 1100 m

4. A cube of length 5 cm has its faces painted and is cut into cubes of length 1cm each and one cubeis picked at random. The probability of getting a cube with two faces painted is

36 27 8 541] 2] 3] 4]

125 125 125 125

5. The number of diagonals that can be drawn by joining the angular points of an Octagon is1] 28 2] 20 3] 22 4] 21

6. If 17th December 1982 was a Saturday, then what will be the day on 22nd September 1984?1] Saturday 2] Wednesday 3] Friday 4] Sunday

7. Find the number of positive integers which divide 51889 but not 518881] 1777 2] 1779 3] 1778 4] 1780

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8. A cow is placed for grazing inside an equilateral triangular field of side 10m and is tethered to oneof the vertex of the field by a rope 7m long. The area over which the cow can graze is

1] 2154

m3

2] 2539

m3

3] 277

m3

4] 77 m2

9. 3 circles of which 2 are inscribed in the bigger circle, and touching internally at a single point onthe circumference of the outermost circle whose radius is R units. The radius of the outer circles isdouble the radius of the preceding inner circles. If each circle is of different area, then find the sumof the areas of the 3 circles.

1] 3R2 sq units 2]7

4R2 sq units

3] 4R2 sq units 4]21

16 R2 sq units

10. Find the last three digits of 2563 6325

1] 625 2] 375 3] 675 4] 325

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Section I

Part B (20 Questions)

The questions are for 2 marks each

11. The figure below is a rectangular park which has a path running all around it and also joining theopposite sides (North with South and East with West) of the park as shown. The path has the samewidth across the figure. What is the area of the path (denoted by the shaded regions) in the figuregiven below?

1] 35.5 sq. units 2] 20.5 sq. units 3] 15.0625 sq. units 4] Indeterminate

12. In the figure below, radius of each smaller circle is 2 cm. Find the radius of the bigger circle.

2

2

2

1]2( 3 6)

3

+cm 2]

2(2 3 6)

3

+cm 3]

2(2 3 3)

3

+cm 4]

2(4 3 6)

3

+cm

13. Four sides of the rectangle have respectively 2, 3, 4, and 5 points on their sides. How manydifferent triangles can be made out of these points ?1] 364 2] 349 3] 386 4] None of these

14. If a1 , a2 , a3.a12 are positive real numbers such that1 2 11

1 2 3 42 3 12

a a a....... , a a a a 30

a a a= = + + + =

and a5 +a6 +a7+a8 = 480 , then a9 + a10 + a11 + a12 is

1] 19680 2] 7680 3] 96180 4] indeterminate

4.25

8.25

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29. In an exam, there are three subjects English (total marks 100), Math (total marks 100), andScience. A student scores 67% in English and 73% in Math. Had he scored 75% in English, 80%in Math, and 3.33% of the total marks in Science more in Science, then he would have scored 5%more overall. What is the total marks for Science ?1] 100 2] 200 3] 300 4] 400

30. There is a square garden 10 m in length. Across the garden there is a symmetrical path along one

diagonal, which is 2 m wide. Find the area of the path.

1] 19 m2 2] 20 m2 3] 20 2 m2 4] 36 m2

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SECTION 2 (45 marks)

Part A (10 questions)

The questions are for 0.5 marks each

DIRECTIONS for questions 31 to 34: Read the information belowXYZ & Co. is a fish wholesaler which buys fish, stores it overnight, and sells it the next day. It has todecide which cold-storage to book for the arrival of x tons of fish. Storage A has a capacity of 4 tons andcosts Rs.1000 per day. Storage B has a capacity of 2.5 tons and costs Rs.750 per day. The fish that cannotbe stored has to be sold the next day at a discount of 5% of the prevailing price Rs.10000 per ton.

The aim in the following questions is to maximize the companys profits.

31. XYZ & Co. should not use any cold-storage if the arrival lot is1] less than 3 tons 2] less than 1 ton 3] less than 2 tons 4] none of these

32. If the fist load is 5 tons, then XYZ & Co. should use1] storage A 2] storage B3] no storage 4] storage A and B

33. The maximum revenue of XYZ & Co., with a fish load of 2.5 tons, is1] Rs. 24,250 2] Rs. 24,400 3] Rs. 24,650 4] Rs. 24,130

34. If XYZ & Co. could use only storage A, then what is the maximum fish load it receives such thatit does not need to not book storage A ?1] 3 tons 2] 2 tons 3] 1.5 tons 4] 0 tons

DIRECTIONS for questions 35 to 37: Refer to the Venn diagram below.

Given below are the results of newspaper readership survey of 1200 citizens of a city.

80

97

5515

12

190

45

145

10317

323

215

Indian Express (IE)

The Hindu

Times of Indian (ToI)

Deccan Herald

35. The percentage of people surveyed who read at least 2 papers is1] 29.5 2] 35.3 3] 61.4 4] 24.5

36. What percent of the people surveyed do not read the Times of India ?1] 55 2] 63 3] 72 4] 68

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37. The percentage of people surveyed who read the Deccan Herald but not the Hindu is ___.1] 16.83 2] 45.33 3] 24.66 4] 15.83

DIRECTIONS for questions 38 to 40: Read the information below to answer the questions.Of the 110 students in a class 40 like music, 45 can dance, and 25 like music and dance. 10 students whocannot dance can paint and another 30 who cannot paint can dance. No student can paint, dance, and likemusic. Only 5 students who can paint also like music.

38. How many students can neither paint nor dance, and also dislike music ?1] 10 2] 35 3] 45 4] Indeterminate

39. Total number of students who can paint is1] 25 2] 30 3] 35 4] None of these

40. The single largest preference towards a skill is for

1] painting 2] music 3] dancing 4] Indeterminate

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Section 2

Part B (20 questions)

The questions are for 2 marks each

DIRECTIONS for questions 41 to 42: Two statements follow each of the questions, each giving

some information. You have to decide whether the information provided in the statement issufficient for answering the question.Mark (1) if the question can be answered by using statement I alone, but cannot be answered byusing the statement II alone.Mark (2) if the question can be answered by using statement II alone, but cannot be answered byusing the statement I alone.Mark (3) if the question can be answered by using either statement I alone or statement II alone.Mark (4) if the question can be answered only by using both statements together.

41. What is the value of x, if x is an integer ?I. |x + 3| = |2x + 5|II. The sum of x consecutive integers is 15.

42. Can you arrange Akash, Atul, Vipin, Sorabh and Vishal in increasing order of their ages ?I. When Atul was born, Vishals younger brother Sorabh was older than Atuls elder brotherVipin.II. Akash is elder to Sorabh. Akashs younger brother Vipin and Vishals younger brother Sorabhcelebrated their second and tenth birthday respectively on the same day.

DIRECTIONS for questions 43 to 46: Read the information below.Akash, Basu, and Chandra are residents of Narad Nagar. The residents have a strange habit, theylie about themselves but not about their opinion of other residents. All residents are aware of eachothers habit. Four automobile companies test their market products in Narad Nagar. Twelve carsviz. Zen, Santro, Matiz, and Indica in colours blue, red, and green each are randomly distributedamong them and they all get equal number of cars. None of them know what car does the other

two get.

43. Basu says that Chandra has no green cars. Hearing this Akash concludes that Chandra must havefour blue cars. It can be inferred thatI. Basu has all green cars.II. Akash has three blue and one red car.III. Chandra has the blue Santro.IV. Akash has four red cars.1] Only I 2] Only III 3] I, III, IV 4] Only II

44. Chandra proclaims that he has no Santros. Akash concludes that Basu has no Santros with him.Hence,

I. Chandra has a Santro.II. Akash has only one Santro.III. Akash has two Santros.1] Only I 2] Only II 3] I and III 4] None of these

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45. Basu says I have no blue cars. Akash claims to possess the green Santro. Chandra concludes thatBasu has only one blue car and that is the Santro, and that he also has the green Santro whileAkash has no Santros. Hence,I. Chandra has four blue cars.II. Chandra has the red Santro.III. Chandra has the red Indica.IV. Chandra has four green cars.1] I, II, III 2] I and III 3] I and II 4] None of these

46. Akash says that he has all the Zen cars. Basu, on hearing this, concludes that Chandra has at leastone Zen. Which of the following is true ?1] Akash has at least one Zen. 2] Basu has only one Zen.3] Basu had no Zen car. 4] Cant say.

DIRECTIONS for questions 47 to 51:Read the data below.In a competition there are 30 questions to be answered. Each correct answer carries 12 marks andeach incorrect answer takes away 7 marks. A question which is not attempted carries 0 mark. Inorder to qualify in the next level of the competition a candidate must score a minimum of 30% of

the total marks.

47. If a contestant gets a score of 209 marks, then what is the number of correct answers?1] 16 2] 17 3] 18 4] 19

48. If a contestant does not qualify for the next level by 2 marks, then what is the ratio of correct andincorrect answers ?1] 7 : 2 2] 2 : 1 3] 5 : 3 4] 5 : 1

49. Two contestants Ashish and Bhargav get the same score. If the ratio of correct answers of Ashishto Bhargav is 2 : 3 and the ratio of incorrect answers of Ashish to Bhargav is 1 : 7, then what is the

ratio of correct to incorrect answers of Ashish ?1] 1 : 7 2] 7 : 1 3] 8 : 1 4] 7 : 3

50. If a contestant gets a score of 272, then how many questions did he attempt ?1] 25 2] 30 3] 28 4] 29

51. If each unattempted questions carried minus one and a contestant scores 207, then what is themaximum number of questions he may not attempt; and correspondingly how many incorrectanswers are permissible ?1] 3, 6 2] 4, 5 3] 5, 4 4] 6, 3

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DIRECTIONS for questions 52 to 55: Refer to the pie charts below that give the ownership pattern

of ICICI.

SHAREHOLDING PATTERN OF ICICI

1999 Capital Base = Rs. 2165 crores

Financial

Institutions

(FI)

29.10%

Banks and

Mutual

Funds

5.90%

Foreign

Institutiona

l Investors

(FII)

35.00%

Domestic

Individuals

21.50%

Indian

Corporates

8.50%

2000 Capital Base = Rs. 3212 crores

Financial

Institutions

(FI)

Banks and

MutualFunds

3.20%

ADR

Holders

32.60%Foreign

Institutional

Investors

(FII)

15.70%

Domestic

Individuals

10.80%

Indian

Corporates

8.00%

52. ADR or American Depository Receipt is shares issued in America. If the capital base of ICICI hasincreased only because of an ADR issue, then at what price was the ADR issued ? Total ADRsissued = 5 crore.1] Rs. 210 2] Rs. 315 3] Rs. 250 4] Indeterminate

53. By what percentage has the value of domestic individuals shareholding in ICICI changed from1999 to 2000 ?1] 39% 2] 34.15% 3] 50% 4] 25.5%

54. Reliance Ltd. held shares worth Rs.50 crore in ICICI in 1999. If Reliance Ltd.is categoriesedunder the head Indian corporates, then what has been the approximate change in the percentage ofshares held by Reliance amongst Indian corporates from 1999 to 2000 ? Assume that Reliance didnot buy or sell any ICICI shares in 2000.1] 15% 2] 30% 3] 40% 4] 5%

55. Debt-equity ratio is the ratio of amount of debt of the company to its capital base. If ICICImaintains the debt equity ratio in both 1999 and 2000 at 2 : 1, then how much debt does ICICIraise in 2000 ?1] Rs.1097 cr 2] Rs.2094 cr 3] Rs.550 cr 4] Indeterminate

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DIRECTIONS for questions 56 to 57: Read the information below.

A round table with 10 chairs around it is occupied by 3 men, 2 women, and 2 girls. The 3 men and2 women can be seated together, with no two women or any two men seated next to each other.The two girls do not sit adjacent to each other.

56. Which of the following statements is true?1] There must be 2 seats between the girls.2] There must be only 1 seat between the girls.3] There must be a girl next to each of the men.4] There can be 3 empty seats between the 2 girls.

57. If no girl is to be seated next to a man, then there is/are:1] 3 empty seats between the girls.2] only 2 empty seats between the girls.3] only 1 empty seat between the girls.4] 2 empty seats between any 2 people.

DIRECTIONS for questions 58 to 60: Refer to the diagram below.The following diagram shows various routes between cities A to J, the numbers representing the

distance between them in kms.

A

J

3

3

3

3

1

2

2

3

3

5

5

5

5

4

4

6

B

C

D

F

E

G

H

I

Routes available, Proposed routes

58. Among the routes currently available, which is the shortest route from A to J ?1] ABEGJ 2] ACEHJ 3] ACFHJ 4] None of these

59. Among the routes currently available, the longest route from A to J is1] AFIHJ 2] ADFIHJ 3] ACFHGJ 4] None of these

60. If the route ACHJ should not be the shortest route from A to J, then what is the minimum distance

of CH ? (All routes can be whole numbers only)1] 5 km 2] 6 km 3] 7 km 4] 8 km

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Section 3(40 marks)

Part A (20 questions)

The questions are for 0.5 marks each

DIRECTIONS for questions 61 to 64: Arrange the sentences A, B, C, D in a logical sequence so as to

form a coherent paragraph.

61. A. The net will come to Europeans through the telephones in their pockets.B. So long as prices of computers and local phone calls remain high, Europe will lag in connectedPCs.C. Its not because Europeans will suddenly flock to the net.D. Mobile phones are becoming net appliances with screens and pen-pads.E. Sometimes, in the next 5 years, Europe will become one of the most wired regions of theplanet.1] BACDE 2] DAECB 3] ECABD 4] ECBAD

62. A. In 2000, he will give a keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and Zanderswill publish his first book.

B. Zander, an orchestra conductor at Boston, feels - a lot.C. What does business have to do with music ?D. His unorthodox ideas about leadership have coaxed stunning performances out of his orchestraand inspired lecture halls full of executives from NASA, IBM, McDonalds, and Merril Lynch.E. Zander, who wins classical music concerts by plunking headphones on their ears, believesmusic is a metaphor for leadership and that leaders should inspire without creating hierarchies.1] CBDEA 2] BEDAC 3] CBADE 4] CBAED

63. A. Nothing unusual in this, surely ?B. Clickmangos weekly sales had reached the glorious heights of $3000, a small fraction of the$35,000 it was spending every week to stay in business.C. Recent events have not been encouraging for Europes crop of once optimistic Internet start-ups.

D. This week Clickmango, an online health-care business, became the latest of a string of suchdot.com casualties.E. They include such spectacular collapses as that of boo.com, a spendthrift electronic sports-goods retailer that met impressive standards of corporate extravagance while blithely losing abundle.1] CDBAE 2] CAEDB 3] CEDBA 4] CDBEA

64. A. Manpower planning is concerned with the future effects of employment decisions made today.B. That is not to say such decisions should not be made, but at least assessments can beundertaken to determine possible future costs.C. This is partly because developing effective managers or craftsmen takes time and thereforedecisions about future needs have to be made in advance of the actual requirements.D. Ceasing apprentice recruitment or making apprentices redundant may save money in the short

term but be very costly in the future.E. However, manpower planning is also concerned with the more subtle analysis of the long termeffects of decisions.1] DBEAC 2] ACEDB 3] ACDBE 4] ABCED

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DIRECTIONS for questions 65 to 70: Replace the highlighted phrase with the one which isclosest to it in meaning.

65. Set against the enormous benefits of new technology, there is also a strong possibility that jobswill be lost.1] Given 2] Notwithstanding3] As a downside to 4] As we come to terms with

66. She salted away most of the money from the business.1] secretly set aside 2] wasted away 3] invested cleverly 4] was conned of

67. He always wanted to start a magazine of his own. However it took him two years to get a foot inthe door.1] to launch the first issue 2] to get the first break in the field3] to firmly establish himself 4] to push back his competitors

68. I dropped a clanger when I mentioned her ex-husband.1] inadvertently caused embarrassment 2] let go of a clanger3] caused a lot of trouble 4] toppled a lampshade

69. We could ignore him and go directly to the chairperson but we would be skating on very thinice.1] meeting the chairperson is going to be a difficult task.2] we are afraid of the consequences of that action.3] we would be taking a huge risk.4] the chairperson does not like people to disturb him.

70. He looked for all the world like a naughty schoolboy caught stealing apples.1] shamefully 2] exactly3] all around him 4] at the whole world

Directions for questions 71 to 77: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blankindicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are four lettered words or sets of

words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence asa whole.

71. Since it is now ___________ to build the complex central processing unit of a computer on asingle silicon chip using photolithography and chemical etching, it seems plausible that otherminiature structures might be fabricated in _________ ways.1] unprecedented ... undiscovered 2] difficult ... related3] permitted ... unique 4] routine ... similar

72. Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian __________ later Greek civilization, it would beincorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation.1] disdain for 2] imitation of 3] deference to 4] influence on

73. Laws do not ensure social order since laws can always be ____________, which makes them__________ unless the authorities have the will and the power to detect and punish wrongdoing.1] contested ... provisional 2] circumvented ... antiquated3] repealed ... vulnerable 4] violated ... ineffective

74. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibilitythat his statement has been ____________ .1] irrelevant 2] facetious 3] critical 4] insincere

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75. Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater ____________ their efforts to build aprogressive party than the ____________ of the progressives already elected to the legislature.1] support for ... advocacy 2] threat to ... promise3] benefit from ... success 4] obstacle to ... resistance

76. It is strange how words shape our thoughts and trap us at the bottom of deeply __________canyons of thinking, their imprisoning sides carved out by the _______________ of past usage.1] cleaved ... eruptions 2] rooted ... flood3] incised ... river 4] ridged ... ocean

77. That his intransigence in making decisions __________ no open disagreement from any quarterwas well known; thus, clever subordinates learned the art of _____________ their opinions incasual remarks.1] elicited ... quashing 2] engendered ... recasting3] brooked ... intimating 4] embodied ... instigating

DIRECTIONS for questions 78 to 80: Arrange the sentences A, B, C, D in a logical sequence so

as to form a coherent paragraph.

78. A. But to many she was a veritable goddess, dispensing both mercy and fortune.B. She has no visible halo, but the stocky, uneducated woman is a saint to thousands.C. For 13 years Cheng Chui Ping sold clothes and cheap eats along Broadway in New York citysChinatown.D. During lunch hours she would chop vegetables, wash dishes and wait on tables at a restaurantthat served dishes from her native province.1] CBDA 2] CDBA 3] BCDA 4] BACD

79. A. With an extra-large rate hike last mouth, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan is trying to pull offsome delicate maneuvering.

B. Economists are watching to see whether the economy would follow the lead and cool to a moresustainable pace (the proverbial soft landing) or whether the economy would come to a screechinghalt (the dreaded hard landing).C. To butcher a Bob Dylan lyric, the answer, my friends, is blowing in the stock market.D. Economists poring over inflation and productivity data for clues are looking in the wrong place.1] ABDC 2] ABCD 3] ADCB 4] DCBA

80. A. In fact, trying to calculate an element of chance.B. The rather fanciful idea of Lady Luck favouring her own can be traced back to pagan timeswhen lucky gamblers were thought to be the beloved of the goddess of good fortune.C. Risks were taken in order to gain her approval, and one of these risks was trying to guess whatwould happen for example, which way a leaf would fall, which way a frog would jump.

D. She was seen as being capricious and prone, occasionally, to mockery.1] BCAD 2] BDCA 3] BADC 4] BDAC

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Section 3

Part B (20 questions)

The questions are for 1.5 mark each

DIRECTIONS for questions 61 to 64: Arrange the sentences A, B, C, D and E after the first

statement in a logical sequence so as to form a coherent paragraph.

81. A major task for the planner is to decide which resources are vital and then to discover the size ofthe available stock.A. There is still a great deal of work to be done before knowledge of the stock of resources iscomplete.B. The launching of Earth Resource Technology satellite in 1977 was a major step forward.C. Resource evaluation from satellites is particularly valuable as infra-red photography, radarscanning and other technical developments have supplied new tools to increase our knowledge ofthe earth and its potentials.D. This stocktaking has been considerably aided by the development of techniques for the remotesensing of the environment such as aerial or satellite photography.E. It was specifically designed to record and transmit resource information back to earth.1] ABECD 2] ABEDC 3] DBECA 4] DCBEA

82. There are many ways in which we must be prepared to make readjustments in our lives.A. The more volatile personality will have more difficulty.B. The case of a lottery winner who wins, spends, then returns to his former state is one of adouble readjustment.C. A phlegmatic personality will be able to accept such changes and adjust his behaviouraccordingly.D. Readjustment in the sense we are looking at it here is a readjustment back to a former state.E. It will depend a great deal on the personality of the individual concerned whether he is able tomake the necessary mental change to enable him to handle such ups and downs.1] DBECA 2] EBDCA 3] EDBCA 4] DEBAC

83. Nowadays television plays a much bigger part in peoples lives than it used to.A. Of course, television is not a wholly negative creation it can be educational and informativeas well as thought-provoking and moving.B. Too much poor quality television viewing affects not only children on a motivational level.C. Children, it has been suggested, watch far too much throwaway television, resulting in a lackof motivation and, to a degree, a lack of basic literary skills.D. It is very easy for any of us to come in after a hard days work and settle down in front of thetelevision, without even thinking about it.E. It can also help to widen our horizons beyond immediate concerns and assist in changinglifestyle than as a mean to blank out reality.1] BCDAE 2] CBDAE 3] AEBCD 4] AECBD

DIRECTIONS for questions 84 to 87:Each statement/passage is followed by three assumptions.Mark the assumption that is implicit in the passage.

84. If you lost money from falling I.T. share prices, take heart; there may be time to ride the cocoabull market.I. Lost money can be recovered by investing in the cocoa bull market.II. The prices of cocoa shares have gone up.III. The chocolate industry is doing well.1] Only I is implicit. 2] Only II is implicit.3] Both I and II are implicit. 4] All are implicit.

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85. In this issue we focus on that elusive vital spark which is the key to the creative process. Out-of-the-box thinking is a fashionable buzzword, but all too often this is ritually evoked and thenconveniently ignored.I. Out-of-the-box thinking is impractical.II. Creativity is dependent on sudden sparks of inspiration.III. People often resort to conventional wisdom.1] Only II is implicit. 2] I and III are implicit.3] Only III is implicit. 4] None is implicit.

86. By far the worst affected continent is Africa. That is where HIV, the virus that causes the disease,leapt the species barrier from chimpanzees to people some 70 years ago. But infection rates arerising, in several cases rapidly, in many Asian countries and in many of the successor states to theSoviet Union.I. Asian countries will outstrip Africa in HIV affected people.II. AIDS was detected in chimpanzees.III. The infection took 70 years to leap from chimpazees to human beings.1] Both I and II are implicit. 2] II and III are implicit.3] Only II is implicit. 4] Only III is implicit.

Direction for questions 87 to 97 : Read the passages and answer the questions that follow

Passage 1

Today, a century and a half after it first began to gather momentum, the Industrial Revolutionremains the largest, most far reaching, and least appreciated influence on all our lives. The physical effects it produced, and continues to produce carry moral, social and spiritualimplications which only now are we beginning to understand, and most of which we are powerlessto alter. Essentially, what the Machine Age has meant in human terms is the by- passing of mansirrational non-logical element. This is a vast over-simplification, but it contains a basic truth.

Most of the changes that have taken place the last hundred years or so are, however improbably,

interrelated; they share a common causality. The growth of an urban industrial society, the decayof traditional religious fundamentalism, the dissemination of scientific method; moral uncertainty,technological advance, the artificial retreat to primitivism which facilitated the development of psychology and psychiatry; automation, logical positivism, thermo-nuclear deterrents. Admass,political propaganda, Billy Graham, horror comics, science fiction, rock n roll, angst, the death-wish, sexual frustration or hysteria: one pattern binds them all together.

This needs further explanation in historical terms. The more obvious by-products of the Industrialrevolution have become textbook truism; but historians are seldom interested in following up theirconclusion in terms of the individual. We know that our society has become urbanised, that labouris constantly draining from country to the town. We are by no means so certain what this means inits overall context. We are not sure how we are affected by the breakdown of rural culture; wecannot judge the long-term effects of city life. Things have moved too fast for us, Mans

metabolism changes slowly by the previous nature; and it has had to adapt itself more than in theprevious thirty thousand years.

Several factors have combined to offer us a comforting, but ultimately dangerous, protection.Foremost among these has been a notion that science could , in some mysterious way, be made asubstitute of religion. It is no coincidence that such a large proportion of scientists, are or used tobe Marxists. Man is a creature for whom patterns are essential; and when T.H. Huxley and hissuccessors destroyed the absolute sanctity of traditional Christianity, what was more natural thanthat the iconoclasts should themselves set up a new (if secular) Church? Reason was theirsovereign god; reason could solve all the problems of the universe. The soul was a fiction,

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emotions could be rationalised in terms of hormones. God (to revive the old Voltairean gibe) wasJobs Comforter created by man in his own narcissistic image.

The consequences of this strangely unilateral creed were grave in the extreme: but then, mosthuman attempts to upset the balance of nature tend to be calamitous. What happened, ininstinctive, irrational element, the back rather than the front of the mind - was treated simply as ifit did not exist. There is a popular delusion among scientists, which they share, incidentally withprimitive witch doctors, that by naming a thing they render it harmless. Logic stuck its label on theuniverse, and analogies from the natural sciences multiplied thick and fast. Natural selection wasused to justify racial persecution; the motion of evolution became transformed into Wellsian social progressivism. The smug religious superiority of the early Victorians gave place to the smugscientific superiority of the early anthropologist. The universe was as tidy comprehensible, for afew years, as the Crystal Palace.

For a few years, but no longer. Violent suppression tends to breed violent reaction; and soon theair was thick with cries of back to the Land, while urban radicals preached a new urbanegalitarianism. Neuroses grew and proliferated alarmingly. It was the functional scientific attitudeto sex no less than Puritan repression or industrial materialism which produced the mere casualconcupiscence which both D.H. Lawrence and Mr. Eliot attacked. Reason could stick new labelson the emotions; but it could neither argue nor legislate them out of existence. It would rationalise

God by discussing religion in terms of personal psychology; but God (under whatever name)remained. And of course, above all, reason could rationalise its own motives; it seldom occurs toany scientist to admit that his tenets are no less dogmatic than those of Christianity, and his logicalinferences normally rest on solid bedrock of emotional prejudice. He has a name and a label foreverything.

87. The authors primary reason in allowing parallels between scientists and witch doctors is that1] they are both unscientific in their own ways.2] both have their individual and absolute explanations for certain phenomenon.3] scientists are as rigid as witch doctors in their forecasts.4] cant be determined.

88. What, according to the author, qualifies as mans irrational non-logical element ?

1] Mans ability to find causal relationship in natural phenomenon.2] Mans ability to rationalise human emotion.3] Mans faith in a superior entity like God.4] None of the above.

89. Which of the following statements would meet the authors approval ?1] Over the ages whatever faiths or beliefs man has had have been given new packaging or labels.2] Mans ability to reason out things has greatly improved in the post-industrial era.3] Hormones and emotions have a strong correlation.4] None of the above.

90. In the passage, the main contention of the author is to prove that1] in the name of progress the society we live in has actually gone thirty thousand years

backwards.2] the post-industrial era is witnessing a regime no less repressive than any earlier regime.3] in the name of reason human emotions are being trivialised.4] all of the above.

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Passage - 2

The child, as Stephen Jay Gould himself observed in the prologue of one of his many books, isfather to the man. That child, a nerdy schoolboy growing up in New York, is reflected endlessly inthe popular essays that made him famous. There is no false modesty. No effortless superiority. It isthe prose of the school swot responding to a bullying outside world by becoming more and moreswotty.

And the outside world certainly did bully Mr Gould. His swotting eventually delivered him toHarvard, where he was appointed an assistant professor in 1967. It was an exciting time forevolutionary biology. The neo-Darwinian synthesis of 19th-century natural selection with 20th-century mathematical population genetics, orchestrated by Ernst Mayr, one of Mr. Goulds seniorcolleagues at Harvard, was coming to power. A lesser man would have accepted the prevailingideology and surfed the wave to academic preferment.

But Mr Goulds potterings among the fossils had raised doubts in his mind. They suggested to himthat neo-Darwinism was too neat, too pat, to explain the record in the rocks. Neo- Darwinism predicts smooth and gradual change. That is not what he saw. Instead, the rocks record longperiods when those fossils appear to stay the same, interspersed with eye-blink changes to newspecies.

In collaboration with Niles Eldredge, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York(the institution whose dinosaur skeletons had inspired his boyish enthusiasm for palaeontology),Mr Gould worked this observation up into a theory which the two researchers dubbed thepunctuated-equilibrium model. Instead of continual and improving refinement, as neo-Darwinismpredicts, Mr Gould and Mr Eldredge saw a world in which an optimum form is rapidly reached,and then stays put until suddenly replacedperhaps because of some arbitrary and catastrophicexternal event.

This went down badly with the neo-Darwinists, though it struck a chord with many of Mr Gouldsfellow palaeontologists. Those who worked with what is alive today saw only gradual changeand had the maths on their side. Those who worked with what was alive in an infinity ofyesterdays complained that even though they had no good explanation of why punctuated-equilibrium theory worked, you couldnt argue with the evidence in the rocks, maths or no maths.

At the same time as he published this heresy, Mr Gould was making his name as a writer ofpopular scientific essays. These appeared monthly in Natural History, and were widely syndicatedand regularly collected in book form. Perhaps the most famous of them is Bully forBrontosaurus, in which he explains how the dead-hand of taxonomic bureaucracy decreed in theface of popular opinion that this famous dinosaur was actually called Apatosaurus.

The essays, though, also served as propagandapeddling the Gould version of evolution to awider public. That trend reached its climax with a book called Wonderful Life, which analysedthe creatures in a piece of ancient rock called the Burgess shale. This formation provides a uniquewindow on the world 540m years ago, when animal life was getting going in a big way. Many ofits fossils are of soft-bodied creatures that are not preserved elsewhere. Many of them are alsoweird-lookingnot, at first glance, related to anything now alive. That led Mr Gould to muse on

the contingent nature of life. If this group rather than that had been wiped out, the future wouldhave been different, and the vertebrates, let alone humanity, might never have arisen.

Such musings led him into farther conflict with orthodox neo-Darwinians, led by an equally skilfulwriter in the shape of Richard Dawkinsan Oxford man, and an exponent of effortless superiorityif ever there was one. The rhetoric got nasty. Mr Goulds opponents referred to punctuated-equilibrium theory as evolution by jerks. He, in turn, lambasted neo- Darwinism as evolution bycreeps. Yet Mr Gould was no anti-Darwinian. He believed to the end that natural selection was themotor of evolution and stood shoulder to shoulder with the neo-Darwinists against the common

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creationist enemy that continues to stalk parts of American societymost worryingly its schoolsystem.

Today, the neo-Darwinian thesis and the Gouldian antithesis may be moving towards some sort ofsynthesis. Though punctuated-equilibrium theory as originally conceived has made few converts,the role of accidents in evolution is more widely appreciated, as asteroid collisions and nearbysupemovae are recognised as hazards that can wipe out whole groups of organisms arbitrarily.That this clears space for natural selection to do its work is now accepted wisdom.

In 1982, Mr Gould was diagnosed with mesothelioma, the cancer that eventually killed him.Everything biological was grist to his mill, and he wrote about that in his essays, tooeven usingit, in a piece entitled The median isnt the message to illuminate the different meanings of theword average. When his disease was discovered, he read that the median time from diagnosis todeath was eight months. He survived for 20 years.

91. The tone adopted by the author in the first para is that of a/an1] condescension. 2] approbation. 3] amazement. 4] consternation.

92. Mr. Goulds theory was different from Neo-Darwinian in that he believed that1] rocks are not a suitable scale for measuring the age of fossils.

2] evolutionary changes are not always smooth and gradual.3] fossils age gradually and the same is reflected in rocks.4] for long periods fossils remain unchanged.

93. Which of the following statements, if true, would agree most with Mr. Goulds theory ofevolutionary changes ?1] With industrialisation around the 1840s light coloured moths of Manchester evolved into darkcoloured moths in a span of only 50 years and has continued to be so ever since.2] Because of the harmful effect of pollution polar bears which are unisexual are graduallybecoming bisexual.3] The dodo became extinct because of its inability to adapt itself to the changed environment.4] None of the above.

Passage - 3The films of Max Ophuls (1902-57) are renowned for their formal brilliance, especially thefluidity of their camerawork. James Mason, the British actor who worked with Ophuls inHollywood, penned a little rhyme about him:

A shot that does not call for tracksIs agony for poor old Max,

Who, separated from his dolly,

Is wrapped in deepest melancholy.

Once, when they took away his crane,I thought hed never smile again.

Smile, in fact, Ophuls always did, even in the most adverse circumstances, and he was famous forhis infectious laughter.

He was exemplary in many ways, and not just for his craftsmanship, in which he was comparableonly to Hitchcock. He stands out for what his career has to tell us about the interaction of art andpolitics in the 20th century. In 1933 he had to flee from Germany. In 1940 he had to flee again,this time from France to America. There followed poverty and unemployment in the exilecommunity in California until he finally got a chance in Hollywood. He returned to Europe in1950, first to France and then tentatively to his homeland, Germany, which, in spite of everything,he still loved.

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Born in Saarbriicken into a well-off Jewish family, the young Max Oppenheimer took the nameMax Ophuls when he left home at the age of 18 to join the theatre. (Later, when he became aFrench citizen, he dropped the warlant, becoming Ophuls; in Hollywood he was called Opuls.) Atalented apprentice director, in 1925 he was asked to work at the prestigious Burgtheater inVienna. He was hired under his stage name and it was only when he used his real name to sign thecontract that the theatre realised he was a Jew. He lasted six miserable months in Vienna beforehis contract was terminated and he returned to Germany. It was his first experience of anti-Semitism. In 1930, after working his way up the theatre hierarchy to fully-fledged director, hesuddenly changed course and took a job in the UFA studio in Berlin as dialogue coach, assisting aKiev-born film director, Anatole Litvak, in the theatrical skills demanded by the recentlyintroduced talking picture. Soon he became a film director, and by 1932, with Liebelei, adaptedfrom a play by Arthur Schnitzier, a worldwide success.

Throughout his enforced migrations Ophuls had to come to terms with different languages anddifferent cultures, and to explore the boundaries of what was commercially and artisticallypossible in different production systemsprecarious and freewheeling in France, regimented inAmerica. Constantly on the move, at the mercy of opportunist producers, he made an imaginaryhome for himself in the world of the ancient regime. Over half of his films are set in the 19th andearly 20th centuries, four of them in Habsburg Vienna.

His choice of odiously anti-Semitic Vienna is no accident. Vienna, about 1900, as the openingtitle of his most famous Hollywood film Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) declares itself,is the Vienna of the Sezession, Schnitzier and, above all, Freud. Ophulss imaginary Vienna is aworld about to be destroyed and one in which the glossy surface is fissured by cracks whichexpose its cruelty and hypocrisy. His gliding camera explores the surface, exulting in the beauty ofwhat it sees but ever attentive to the potential for calamity that lies beneath. A master of humanpsychology, he devotes particular attention to women. His heroines, often of a lower class, pushtheir way into a world in which aristocrats, officers and bankers hold sway. The heroines charmcaptivates for a while, but one false step and she will be cruelly cast aside. Her lover will perishwith her, most likely in a duel.

This darker side is ever there beside the laughter and generosity. In Lola Montes (1955), theonce proud Lola, mistress of Franz Liszt and of the King of Bavaria, is a caged beast, enacting the

story of her rise and fall in an American circus under the control of a sadistic ringmaster (PeterUstinov). Ophulss clear love is for Lola, played by Martine Carole. But he is also the ringmaster,and therefore we, the audience, are like those who crowd into the circus to watch herhumiliation.Ophulss readiness to confront the darker side of desire makes him more than a craftsman, morethan a classy entertainer touting mid-European culturedness; it makes him, in fact, one of cinemasgreatest artists.

94. What does the passage tell us about the time Max Ophuls started his career ?1] It was a period when Germany was under Hitlers rule.2] There was widespread anti-Jew feeling across Europe.3] America was not the melting pot as it is today.4] None of the above.

95. Which of the following can be said to be the effect of Max Ophuls life on his films?1] Ophuls films are set in the 19th and early 20th Vienna.2] He delineates a world that was apparently beautiful but in reality frought with cruelty andhypocrisy.3] Most of his films were heroine-oriented.4] Both [1] and [2].

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96. All of the following are true about Max Ophuls life and times, except that1] although Ophuls went through a lot of misery in Vienna, Vienna was his favourite subject inmovies.2] Ophuls was a bit of a globetrotter from Germany he travelled to France and then to America.3] Ophuls taking up a job in the UFA Studio in Berlin paved the path for him to become a fullfledged film director.4] His most famous Hollywood film was Letters from an Unknown Woman.

97. Assuming that the passage is a recently published article, which of the following artistic genreswould the article conform to ?1] An obituary 2] Film history 3] Film criticism 4] Indeterminate

DIRECTIONS for questions 98 to 100: Each of the paragraph presents an argument followed bya question. From the alternatives given choose the one which best answers the question.

98. It is apparent to most of us that some people are morally degraded. It is ordinarily assumed,however, that other people are morally upright and that these persons alone possess dignity. Fromthis point of view all is simple and logical. The human race is divided roughly between goodpeople, who possess the infinite worth we attribute to individuals, and bad people, who do not.

The basic problem of life is for the good people to gain supremacy over, and perhaps eradicate, the bad people. This common model of lifes meaning is drastically irreligious, because it placesreliance on . . .

Which of the following best completes the last sentence of the passage ?1] God and not good human beings.2] good human beings and not God.3] bad human beings and not God.4] good and the bad human beings.

99. Azhar: Sachin is always in a great mood after he plays a good game. He was in a great mood at thebar tonight, so he must have played well in the game today.Azhars inference cannot be valid because of which of the following ?

1] If Azhars statements are truthful and Sachin is always in a great mood after he plays a goodgame, it follows that Sachin is always in a bad mood after he plays a bad game.2] Azhar does not take into consideration the fact that playing a good game may not be the samething as playing well.3] Azhar discounted the fact that both Sachin and he had played well today4] Azhars statements negate the possibility that Sachin could not be in a great mood after he playsa good game; they do not negate the possibility that he could be in a great mood without havingplayed a good game.

100. Everyone that currently lives in the boarding house goes to the Experimental High School. So ifyou want to go to the Experimental High School, you should get a room in the boarding house.In which of the following is there a logical flaw similar to the logical flaw in the passage above?1] I live in the boarding house with my sister who goes to the Experimental High School.

2] All of Jayalalithas woodwork has the letter J carved somewhere on the backside. This cuttingboard has the letter J carved on the backside. So it must be Jayalalithas work.3] Its a rule that no cats can live in the boarding house, therefore since you have a cat you cannotmove into the boarding house.4] I treat myself with an ice cream cone every Saturday after my six mile run. I ran only five milesthis Saturday, but Im still going to treat myself to an ice cream cone.

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Section 4 (20 marks)

Each question is for 2 marks

DIRECTIONS for questions 101 to 105: Read the instructions below carefully before answeringthe questions.

A normal calculator has the following form.

C1 C2 C3 C4

R1 7 8 9

R2 4 5 6

R3 1 2 3

R4 0 00 % +

R1, R2 and C1, C2 represent the row and column numbers respectively. There are 11numeric keys and 5 operation keys.

Jack dropped his calculator and 10 of the keys were broken. The mechanic fixed the calculator butmade some errors in placing of keys. The following information is known about Jacks new-lookcalculator.

1 row and 1 column do not have any operation keys or zeros and their sums are 19 and 16 respectively. 1 and 9 are 50% of the numeric keys that were not broken. 3 is in a column which consists of 2 operation keys and 1 numeric key which is a multiple of 3. One of the two operation keys that has not moved is %, the other is not + or . When all numerical keys are added row-wise and column-wise, the least sums are 2 and 4 respectively. Operation key + occupies the previous position of 8 and key occupies the slot of 3. 0 and and 00 are not in the same row or column, only one of them has moved to be replaced by 2. The sum of the numeric digits in the first row is odd.

101. The operation keys that have not broken are _____ .1] % and 2] % and 3] [1] and [2] 4] [1] or [2]

102. Besides 1 and 9, the numeric keys that have not broken are _____ .1] 00 and 5 2] 0 and 6 3] 00 and 6 4] 0 and 5

103. The operation keys that have adjacent to them no other operation key/s is/are _____ .1] + 2] 3] % 4] [1] and [2]

104. What are the total number of rows and columns, that when summed up are even ?1] 3 2] 4 3] 5 4] None

105. Which are the rows and columns that when added up, yield the same result ?1] C2, R1 2] R1, C1 3] C3, C2 4] None

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DIRECTIONS for questions 106 to 110: Refer to the data below.Crypt-arithmetic is an ancient game where alphabets replace numbers in a calculation, such thateach number is represented by a unique alphabet. In a crypt-arithmetic puzzle where the numbers0-9 are replaced by the alphabets A-J, a multiplication is represented as follows. Note that eachnumber is represented by a unique alphabet.

A B C

D EG F E E

G I G H +E J E E E

106. What is the value of A ?1] 2 2] 7 3] 5 4] Indeterminate

107. What is the value of B ?1] 4 2] 3 3] 8 4] 5

108. What is the value of C ?1] 2 2] 4 3] 6 4] 8

109. What is the value of D ?1] 1 2] 3 3] 5 4] 9

110. What is the value of I ?1] 0 2] 9 3] 1 4] 5

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