proc mock 7

Proctored Mock CAT-7 2012

Section – I

1. The price of a product was �600 in the year 2008. It was increased by equal amounts in 2009, 2010and 2011. Find the ratio of the percentage increments in the price of the product in the year 2009 tothat in the year 2011.(a) 1 : 1 (b) 2 : 1 (c) 3 : 1 (d) Cannot be determined

2. Amit and Niraj started walking simultaneously in the same direction from a point on a circular track.The time taken by them to meet for the first time was five times the time that they would have takento meet for the first time had they started walking in opposite directions. If Amit was slower thanNiraj and the speed of Amit was 12 km/hr, what was the speed of Niraj?(a) 18 m/s (b) 8 m/s (c) 5 m/s (d) None of these

3. If ( )2x – 1 16= and ( )4x y 2 81+ + = , what is the maximum value of xy?

(a) 30 (b) 20 (c) 6 (d) 12

4. Triangle ABC is inscribed in a circle with center O and radius 6 cm. From a point T, two tangents

are drawn, touching the circle at A and C respectively. If ACT 45∠ = ° , what is the area in (sq. cm)of the triangle ACT?

(a) 6 (b) 3 (c) 9 (d) None of these



Direction for questions 5 and 6: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Eleven persons – P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z – live in a residential area called Comet. Each of themworks in one of the four companies – Facelook, Goomle, Samtung and Aditas. The number of completedyears spent by each person in his/her respective company is one among 2, 5, 6, 8 and 11. None of theeleven has worked anywhere else earlier. No two persons who work in the same company have spent equalnumbers of years in the company. Bar Chart – I shows the number of persons, among the eleven, workingin each of the four companies. Bar Chart – II shows the number of persons, among the eleven, accordingto the number of years for which they have been working.

Bar Chart – I

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At least 2years

At most 5years

At least 6years

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5. How many person(s) among the eleven have worked for exactly 6 completed years?(a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 2

6. If none of the four persons who work in Samtung has a work experience of exactly 2 completedyears, what can be the minimum sum of the completed years of work experience of the elevenpersons?(a) 66 (b) 78 (c) 72 (d) 81

7. Which of the following are factors of 3259 + 2296?(i) 16(ii) 349(iii) 2443

(a) Only (iii) (b) (ii) and (iii) (c) (i) and (iii) (d) All of them

8. Ten pipes working at full efficiency can fill a tank completely in 30 hours. Five pipes start filling thetank. The pipes work for exactly 40 minutes in every odd hour i.e. 1st hour, 3rd hour etc while theywork for exactly 50 minutes in every even hour i.e. 2nd hour, 4th hour etc. If seven more pipes (workingin the same manner as the existing five) are added after 12 hours, then in which hour will the tank befull?(a) 41st (b) 40th (c) 37th (d) 33rd

9. Harry, a milkman, buys pure milk and adds some water in it before selling. He sells the mixture ata price 10% less than the price of pure milk and makes a profit of 10%. Find the quantity (in litres)of water that he adds to every two litres of pure milk.

(a) 49

(b) 23

(c) 29

(d) None of these

10. If n n n1 2 2(6) (7) (33)× = , where n1 and n2 are bases such that n1 ≤ n2, how many different values

can n1 assume?(a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 13

11. I is the incenter of a triangle PQR. If PIQ∠ = 1160, what is the measure of R∠ ?(a) 640 (b) 660 (c) 520 (d) 560

12. Find the sum of the series given below.2 + 1 + 4 + 2 + 8 + 3 + 16 + 4 + 32 + 5 + … + 20th term.(a) 2047 (b) 2092 (c) 2147 (d) 2101


Directions for questions 13 to 15: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

A multiplex has three screens – S1, S

2 and S

3. It is running the movie “Rockstar” in three shows – Afternoon,

Evening and Night – on each screen. On a particular day, a total of 810 people watched “Rockstar” in themultiplex. The number of people who watched “Rockstar” in the Evening show on S3 was half the numberof people who watched “Rockstar” in the Night show on S1. Exactly 120 people watched “Rockstar” in theAfternoon show on S1 which was 50% more than the number of people who watched “Rockstar” in the Nightshow on S3 which in turn was 33.33% more than the number of people who watched “Rockstar” in theEvening show on S2. The number of people who watched “Rockstar” in the Evening show was one-third thetotal number of people who watched “Rockstar” in the multiplex on that day. The number of people whowatched “Rockstar” in the Afternoon show on S2 was nine-tenth the number of people who watched “Rockstar”in the Afternoon show on S3. The number of people who watched “Rockstar” in the Night show on S2 was 5less than twice the number of people who watched “Rockstar” in the Afternoon show on S3. The number ofpeople who watched “Rockstar” in the Afternoon show in the multiplex on that day was 215.

13. How many people watched the movie “Rockstar” in the Night show on S2?(a) 85 (b) 95 (c) 105 (d) None of these

14. What was the total number of people who watched the movie “Rockstar” on S1?(a) 405 (b) 415 (c) 395 (d) 325

15. The number of people who watched the movie “Rockstar” in the Afternoon show on S2 was whatpercent of those who watched it in the Evening show on S1?

(a) 25 (b) 133

3(c) 1

372

(d) 40

16. A bag contains 35 tokens numbered 1 to 35. Five of them are picked randomly and are found to havefive consecutive numbers. If the product of the five numbers is P, how many distinct values that Pcan assume are multiples of 16?(a) 23 (b) 15 (c) 21 (d) 31

17. If a girl has coins of denominations �1, �2 and �5, in how many ways can she make a payment ofexactly �11?(a) 12 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 11

Direction for question 18: The question is followed by two statements, A and B. Mark the answer usingthe following instructions:Mark (a) if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered by

using the other statement alone.Mark (b) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot be answered

by using either statement alone.Mark (c) if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.Mark (d) if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together.

18. If 22 4 2log 7x log 4y log 84+ = , what is the value of y?

(A) x is a positive integer.(B) x > y


Directions for the questions 19 and 20: Answer the questions on the basis of the information givenbelow.

The table given below shows the data regarding the Indian cricketers who have been given a contract byBCCI. The number mentioned outside the brackets in each cell shows the number of cricketers in that agegroup and the numbers inside the brackets show the minimum, the average and the maximum number offirst-class matches played by the cricketers in that age group, respectively. All the ages are to be consideredin integers only.

Age Group (Age X in years) Male cricketers Female cricketers

X ≤ 19 11 (55, 70, 80) 9 (30, 35, 40) 20 ≤ X ≤ 22 16 ( 110, 130, 190) 8 (45, 60, 75)

23 ≤ X 13 (115, 150, 220) 12 (60, 65, 110)

19. A male cricket team is to be selected to represent India in the junior World Cup. If only thosecricketers who are aged 22 years or less and have played at least 75 but not more than 165 first-class matches can be selected, what is the maximum possible number of contracted cricketerseligible for selection?(a) 23 (b) 22 (c) 24 (d) 26

20. An Indian team of female cricketers is to be selected for the Champions trophy. If only thosecricketers who are aged above 19 years and have played at least 40 but not more than 80 first-classmatches can be selected, what is the maximum possible number of contracted cricketers eligiblefor selection?(a) 17 (b) 16 (c) 19 (d) 14

21. In a circle the distance between two parallel chords of lengths 6 cm and 8 cm is 7 cm. If the chordsare on opposite sides of the center of the circle, what is the circumference (in cm) of the circle?(a) 8 π (b) 12 π (c) 10 π (d) None of these

22. The 38th term and the 88th term of an arithmetic progression are 1

1225

and 3

3625

respectively. If the

total number of terms in the progression is 175, what is the ratio of the sum of the first 75 terms tothe sum of the last 100 terms of the progression?(a) 1 : 6 (b) 1 : 7 (c) 1 : 8 (d) None of these

23. f1(x) and f2(x) are quadratic functions such that f1(3) = f2(5) = 0. If f1(x) = 0 and f2(x) = 0 have acommon root and f

1(5) × f

2(7) = 12, what is the value of the common root?

(a) 4 (b) 8 (c) Either 4 or 8 (d) Cannot be determined

24. The length of the diagonal of a rectangle is thrice the length of one of its sides. If the area of the

rectangle is 16 2 cm2, what is the perimeter (in cm) of the rectangle?

(a) 4(4 2)+ (b) 4(2 2)+ (c) 8(4 2)+ (d) 4(8 2)+


Directions for questions 25 to 27: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

The Bar Chart and Line Graph given below show the Gross Sales (in �crores) and Profit after Taxes (in�crores) respectively of ZEST Pvt. Ltd. during the period 2007 to 2011. The Stack Bar shows the taxes paidby the company as a percentage of Gross Sales in each year. The Fixed Assets of the company wereworth �1080 crores in the year 2008.

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Net Sales = Gross Sales – TaxesProfitability = Profit after Taxes / Net SalesTurnover Ratio = Net Sales / Fixed Assets


25. If the company’s Fixed Assets grew by 12.5% every year over the previous year during the period2007 to 2011, then in which year was its Turnover Ratio the highest?(a) 2008 (b) 2011 (c) 2009 (d) 2010

26. What was the Profitability of the company in the year 2010?(a) 0.42 (b) 0.40 (c) 0.45 (d) 0.48

27. The company’s Fixed Assets grew by 12.5% every year over the previous year during the period2007 to 2011 and are expected to grow by 10% in 2012. If the Gross Sales is expected to grow by25% in 2012, then what would be the difference between the Turnover Ratio and the Profitability ofthe company in 2012?(a) 0.63 (b) 0.81 (c) 0.99 (d) Cannot be determined

28. There are fourteen points in a plane out of which six are collinear. Also, no other three points amongthe fourteen are collinear. If three points are picked randomly from the fourteen, what is the probabilitythat they can become the three vertices of a triangle?

(a) 8691

(b) 1491

(c) 8591

(d) 743

29. If Bf represents the number of bijective functions from S1 = {a, b, c, d, e} to S2 = {p, g, r, s, t} such thatf(c) ≠ t and f(e) ≠ p, what is the value of Bf?(a) 120 (b) 84 (c) 114 (d) 78

30. The radii, as well as the volumes, of a right circular cone and a cylinder are equal. If the radius of thecone is three-fifth its slant height, what is the ratio of the radius to the height of the cylinder?(a) 4 : 9 (b) 9 : 4 (c) 4 : 27 (d) 27 : 4


Section – II

Direction for questions 31 to 33: The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose themost appropriate answer to each question.

What inclines the Indian protestor to the hunger strike? Shiv Visvanathan, a senior fellow at Delhi’s Centrefor the Study of Developing Societies, compares fasting, a religious practice common to many communities,to the hunger strike. “The culture of fasting is to bring the body in harmony with the cosmos,” he says.“Even when Gandhi fasted, it was to politically bring the society as well as his own body back to itssenses. When we go on a hunger fast, it is an ethical claim to return to harmony.”

Gandhi elevated the protest fast to another level by turning it into a Satyagraha, translatable as ‘insistenceon truth’. “Here there is an element of sacrifice,” Visvanathan says. “Because we see the body as a site formoral experiments, it becomes an appeal.” Hazare’s protest is often described as Satyagraha even thoughhis claim to Gandhian values has been criticised by those who believe that his strike is a dangeroussubversion of democracy. Psychologist and cultural theorist Ashis Nandy says that forms of the hungerstrike have been around in India for hundreds of years. “Fasting as pressure tactic is known in India,” hesays. “‘ I won’t eat, I’m angry with you. ‘“ Gandhi, Nandy says, mixed the ideas of fasting as a pressuretactic and a method of self-purification.

Krishnaraj Rao, RTI activist and publisher of journals, attributes this inclination to undertake protest faststo the culture of keeping vows and a “culture of self-denial as a way of blackmail”. Indian myths, Rao says,are full of “sages meditating on one leg and praying to Shiva daring him to grant a boon ‘or I won’t let go’.”

Rao went on his first hunger strike in the mid-1980s at Azad Maidan. He gave his mother, a social worker,company as she protested the demolition of a slum. “I want to remove this aura around the hunger strike,”he says. “It’s surprisingly easy once you get going. It’s a bit like having a cold water bath. The first mug isthe worst. So the first meal that you miss - that is really bad. Once you get past the first day, the hungerpangs subside. Then you only feel a general feeling of languidness. “

For Rao, the hunger strike is necessarily a spiritual exercise. “I have gone on hunger strikes against myselfto purge anger,” he says. Rao’s most recent hunger strike was widely reported. He travelled to RaleganSiddhi, Hazare’s village, to demand that the selection of Maharashtra’s Chief Information Commissioner bedone in a transparent manner. The idea was to get Hazare to write to the state government. But after thethird day of protest, Rao says the police asked him to leave because he didn’t have the permission to stagethe hunger strike. Rao says he learnt that the villagers didn’t want anyone but Hazare striking in RaleganSiddhi.

31. Which of the following would be a suitable title for the passage?(a) Fast: A pressure tactic or a spiritual exercise(b) Hunger strike as a political tool(c) Hunger strike – A pressure tactic(d) Fasting for Purification


32. Which of the following is not in line with Krishnaraj Rao’s views on protest fasts?(a) It is something that is not difficult for most people to undertake.(b) It is a way of bringing the body in harmony with the cosmos.(c) It is a spiritual exercise.(d) It can be a form of self-denial as a way of blackmail.

33. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?(a) Hazare is a strong leader and did not want Rao to be one up on him.(b) There is political play in deciding who fasts.(c) The villagers care more about who is fasting than they care about the issue.(d) Rao failed in getting Hazare to write to the government.

Directions for questions 34 and 35: Answer the questions on the basis of the given information.

Six berries – Blackberry, Gooseberry, Cloudberry, Raspberry, Chokeberry and Strawberry – are kept in sixboxes – B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6 – such that each box contains only one kind of berry, not necessarily inthe given order. It is also known that:(i) Chokeberry is kept in neither B3 nor B6.(ii) Gooseberry and Raspberry are kept in B1 and B5, in no particular order.(iii) The product of the subscripts of the box titles for Chokeberry and Blackberry is 12.(iv) Cloudberry is not kept in B6.

34. If Chokeberry is kept in B2, in which box is Strawberry kept?(a) B3 (b) B4 (c) B6 (d) Either (a) or (b)

35. If Strawberry is kept in B6, in which box is Cloudberry kept?(a) B4 (b) B5 (c) B1 (d) B2

Direction for questions 36 to 39: The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose themost appropriate answer to each question.

There is a hideous absurdity in reporting a society where children will not eat in almost the same breath asdescribing a country where children cannot. Fat is supposed to be a feminist issue but when five-year-oldsapparently have such distorted views of their own bodies that they starve themselves to ill-health, and thenumbers of young men hung up on the thickness of their thighs becomes large enough to be quantifiable,then it begins to look as if something else is going on. In the past three years more than 2,000 childrenhave needed hospital treatment for anorexia. According to the Institute for Child Health, three in every100,000 children under 13 now suffer from an eating disorder.

The headline figures are startling. But it is not clear whether more children have eating disorders now than10 years ago. The last authoritative count of all patients was in 2004, when 1.6 million were identified;according to the charity B-eat, only anecdotal evidence exists to show the number is rising. Yet yesterday’sreports will cue storms of protest about the continuing damage caused by skeletal models and airbrushedphotographs. It is true that such images matter, but they matter more because they legitimize a self-starving child’s behavior than because they trigger it. It is a convenient assumption that everyone wants tolook like Cheryl Cole so badly that they will make themselves ill to achieve it. One researcher called it “thesocially sanctioned coloring of distress”. But there is evidence that this is about something much less


straightforward than the desire to be thinner, fostered by Kate Moss’s aphorism that nothing tastes asgood as thin feels.

The basis for this claim is that eating disorders are not restricted to the self-absorbed, consumerist west,and global researchers find some evidence of a common underlying cause. Of course it is a complexcondition with multiple causes including some research that claims that the west has simply exported itsunderstanding of eating disorders . Others suggest that the more publicity anorexia gets, the more casesappear. But there is a much more challenging common thread: self-starvation often appears to be a waythat the powerless can exercise some power. In an unyielding world, it offers a form of resistance. In someplaces, changing that looks like an impossible political hurdle. Nearer to home there might be easieranswers to do with less pressure and more autonomy. Mental illness among children in the west has beenrising for decades. Eating disorders are one more sign that we are not getting childhood right in thiscountry, and the elevation of individual perfection, personal, academic or physical, must bear part of theblame.

36. The tone of the passage is___________.(a) pessimistic (b) caviling (c) skeptical (d) concerned

37. The passage has been most likely taken from(a) a news report (b) a chrestomathy(c) an editorial (d) an article in a medical journal

38. The primary purpose of the second paragraph is to(a) establish that it is unclear whether more children have eating disorders now than 10 years ago.(b) establish that celebrity images legitimizes eating disorders rather than trigger them.(c) establish a link between eating disorders and thin celebrities.(d) establish that the rise in eating disorders can only be established through anecdotal evidence.

39. According to the passage, eating disorders imply(a) that children are not being given the right treatment.(b) that mental illness has been rising among youngsters.(c) that there are pressures that leave children feeling powerless.(d) that the media has glorified the “thin is in” trend.

Direction for questions 40 and 41: The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose themost appropriate answer to each question.

Landrigan was working on his own large-scale study when the 2009 Medicare study came out. His teamread the hospital charts for thousands of patients from 2002 to 2007. The results, published last year, wereequally sobering and showed that roughly a fifth of all hospitalized patients suffered harm from medicalerrors; cutting trainee work hours had no impact.

The question, then, is why? There are several possible explanations for the failure of the nationwide 80-hourrule to reduce medical harms. In 2008, the journal Pediatrics reported that two-thirds of residents regularlybroke the rule, suggesting that poor enforcement, perhaps related to ingrained norms, had undercut thereform. Landrigan, one of the authors of that study, also thinks that the accreditation council did not go farenough; it had not, after all, banned being on call overnight and still allowed shifts up to 30 hours. Now thatthe council has abolished extended shifts, at least for first-year residents, Landrigan expects fewer errors.


And yet there are reasons to believe otherwise. About 98,000 people die every year from medical errors.Some of those mistakes are made by doctors whose judgment has been scrambled by lack of sleep. Butfixating on work hours has meant overlooking other issues, like lack of supervision or the failure to usemore reliable computerized records. Worse still, the reforms may have created new, unexpected sourcesof mistakes. Shorter shifts mean doctors have less continuity with their patients. If one doctor leaves,another must take over. Work-hour reductions lead to more handoffs of patients, and the number of thesehandoffs is one of the strongest risk factors for error. As a result, many hospitalized patients are at themercy of a real-life game of telephone, where a message is passed from doctor to doctor — and frequentlygarbled in the process.

40. What is the style of the passage?(a) Factual (b) Didactic (c) Analytical (d) Argumentative

41. According to the author, which of these is not a plausible reason for the failure of the 80-hour rule?(a) Increased handoffs of patients. (b) Weak enforcement(c) Lack of a ban on extended work hours (d) Breaking of the rule by the residents themselves

42. A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

Childhood is a stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the Life Stuff by which thehuman race is perpetuated. The Life Force either will not or cannot achieve immortality except invery low organisms: indeed it is by no means ascertained that even the amoeba is immortal. Humanbeings visibly wear out, though they last longer than their friends the dogs. Turtles, parrots, andelephants are believed to be capable of outliving the memory of the oldest human inhabitant. But thefact that new ones are born conclusively proves that they are not immortal.

(a) And as long as they’re subject to birth and death, they’ll never attain enlightenment.(b) Do away with death and you do away with the need for birth.(c) Birth is a fresh attempt to produce the just man made perfect.(d) Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral?

Direction for questions 43 to 45: Answer the questions on the basis of the given information.

Three pairs of twins, each consisting of a girl and a boy, joined a gym. Their names were A, B, C, D, E andF, in no particular order. Mr. Swasth, a trainer at the gym, observed that the six persons had distinctheights and distinct weights. He decided to rank them on the two parameters in two different lists. Theheaviest of the six was ranked 1, the second heaviest ranked 2 and so on. Similarly, the tallest of the sixwas ranked 1, the second tallest ranked 2 and so on. It is also known that:(i) In exactly one of the three pairs was the girl heavier than her brother.(ii) Exactly two of the rest five persons were taller than C.(iii) The shortest person among the six was also the heaviest.(iv) The only person shorter than E was her brother.(v) Only one person got the same rank in the two lists.(vi) The ranks of A and his sister F got interchanged in the two lists.(vii) D was heavier than at least two persons. She was not B’s sister.

43. Who got the same rank in the two lists?(a) B (b) C (c) E (d) Cannot be determined


44. Who was the lightest among the six persons?(a) C (b) A (c) E (d) Cannot be determined

45. What was the weight-wise rank of A?(a) 5 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4


If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blowin cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. If you beat children for pleasure, avow your objectfrankly, and play the game according to the rules, as a foxhunter does; and you will do comparativelylittle harm. No foxhunter is such a cad as to pretend that he hunts the fox to teach it not to stealchickens, or that he suffers more acutely than the fox at the death.

(a) You cannot treat your child as your property and do what you like with it as far as it will let you.(b) Now, there is a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children which has come up with a set of

rules for child punishment.(c) Don’t abuse your child and expect him to consider it criticism.(d) Remember that even in child-beating there is the sportsman’s way and the cad’s way.


So an atheist is someone who denies the existence of a god with the characteristics as mentioned.In other words: he denies the existence of ‘God’. We find this approach not only with Nagel, but alsowith Robin Le Poidevin, Daniel Harbour and Paul Edwards. Atheism as a-theism has clear advantages.We know what we’re talking about, and an impressive tradition in the history of Western thought canbe interpreted as a discussion of the existence of a God with clearly-definable characteristics.

(a) Discussions about the existence of God are discussions about the compatibility of thecharacteristics ascribed to the divine in the theistic tradition.

(b) Great philosophers and theologians from Plato to Augustina have all participated in this discussion.(c) This is not a conversation about the different attitudes people have with regard to the ‘ultimate

ideals of life’ but about the characteristics of the theistic God.(d) Thinkers from all three faiths grappled with the general philosophical problems that needed

solving.


48. Given below are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s)or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose themost appropriate option.A. Before each schedule the jury, consisting of Siddhartha along with senior executives from Star

and Synergy meet in a Bombay hotel.B. We examine over 180 application forms and watch the same number of auditions.C. We choose the contestants for two schedules that sees close to 400 auditions from all over the

country.D. It has given me an insight into the hopes and aspirations of people from all over the country, from

virtually every level of the TV-viewing middle classes.E. We’ve seen bankers, Infosys programmers and airline pilots.

(a) A and C (b) B and C (c) C, D and E (d) A, B and E

49. Given below are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s)or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose themost appropriate option.A. This has not been done by the Pakistani authorities who have been dragging their feet and

avoiding a trial.B. There have been source reports that arrested cadres of the LET have been active in guiding the

activities of LET in Jammu & Kashmir from their jail.C. The Pakistani authorities have not given a satisfactory explanation as to how Abu Jundal managed

to go to Saudi Arabia with Pakistani passport.D. On the basis of the additional evidence obtained from Abu Jundal, Government of India has

renewed pressure on Pakistan to expedite the trial of the LET cadres.E. They have been showing no seriousness in matter and continue to drag their feet.

(a) A only (b) B, C and D (c) C and E (d) B, C, D and E

50. The strength of a class was a prime number between 70 and 75. On a day when everybody waspresent all the students entered the class in a queue. Akanksha entered the class before Tawleenand Purva entered the class before Sanjay. The number of students who entered the class betweenTawleen and Sanjay was twice the number of students who entered the class between Sanjay andPurva. The number of students who entered the class before Sanjay was 44 and the number ofstudents who entered the class after Akanksha was 17. If the number of students who entered theclass between Akanksha and Purva was not more than 14, how many students entered the classafter Tawleen?(a) 14 (b) 15 (c) 16 (d) Cannot be determined


51. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logicalorder to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriateone.A. After the vote, Papademos will meet with Charles Dallara of the International Institute of Finance,

a global bank lobbying group.B. Greece was negotiating with international bankers Wednesday over the details of a euro100

billion ($135 billion) write-down of its debt, as the country’s new prime minister geared up to wina confidence vote on his coalition government.

C. Dallara will also hold talks with Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, and Greek officials willnegotiate over the phone with bankers in Paris and Frankfurt on the debt relief deal struck lastmonth in Brussel.

D. His government is backed by Greece’s two main parties — the majority Socialists and theconservatives — and a small right-wing party, and is tasked with keeping the nation out ofbankruptcy.

E. Interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, a former central banker appointed after laboriouspower-sharing negotiations last week, is expected to easily win the vote in parliament.

(a) EDCBA (b) BEDAC (c) BDEAC (d) BEDCA

52. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logicalorder to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriateone.A. "Excessive homogeneity within a financial system-all the banks doing the same thing-can

minimize risk for each individual bank, but maximize the probability of the entire systemcollapsing," Bank of England's Andrew Haldane and Oxford University's Zoology Department'sRobert May wrote in their new paper.

B. Not everyone is convinced the paper will have any relevance to policy-making decisions.C. Bananas, cacao and bee-pollinated crops are all threatened with collapse in part because of

their monoculture management.D. When a biological or social system is full of uniform individuals- be they bean plants or banks-

one shared weakness can spell disaster for the whole lot.E. Even when a new beneficial trait or tool enters the picture, if all organisms adopt it, as many

financial institutions did with credit default swaps and other risky trades that led to the financialmeltdown of 2007-08, a tenuous balance can be quickly upset, argued an economist and anecologist in a new essay.

(a) DACEB (b) CDEAB (c) CDBAE (d) CDABE

53. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logicalorder to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriateone.A. This book seeks to fill this gap in the literature, and tries to get to the heart of the WTO as an

international organization and the politics that underlie its origins, functioning, and evolution.B. There is no dearth of books and research papers that offer detailed economic and legal

explanations and interpretations of the agreements of the WTO.C. But analyses that focus on the politics of the WTO are rare to find.D. There are also many papers written by civil society activists – some less judiciously researched

than others – for the purposes of policy advocacy.


E. Two features of this book are worth highlighting.

(a) ABCDE (b) BAEDC (c) BDCAE (d) AEBC

Directions for questions 54 to 56: Answer the questions on the basis of the given information.

There are six shrines – S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6 – in a holy city. The only pairs of shrines that areinterconnected are S1-S4, S1-S5, S6-S4, S6-S5, S6-S2, S3-S2 and S3-S5. The devotees can move in eitherdirection in each pair of interconnected shrines by shared cabs. All the cabs originating from S1 and goingto any destination connected directly to S1 charge each passenger �F1, all the cabs originating from S2 andgoing to any destination connected directly to S2 charge each passenger �F2 and so on. The values of F1,F2, F3, F4, F5 and F6 are consecutive positive integers, not necessarily in the same order.

54. What is the minimum amount (in �) that a devotee has to pay if she wants to go to S6 from S3?(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 5

55. How many different routes can a devotee take if she wants to go to S3 from S4 without visiting anyshrine twice?(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) More than 3

56. Exactly one among F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 and F6 is a prime number and all of them are less than 30. Whatis the minimum amount (in �) that a devotee has to pay if she wants to visit all six shrines startingfrom S5?(a) 100 (b) 110 (c) 135 (d) Cannot be determined

57. There are two gaps in the sentence/paragraph given below. From the pairs of words given, choosethe one that fills the gaps most appropriately.

She sat in a /an __________ and a pure potency that was like _________, mindless and immobile.

(a) absoluteness, compassion (b) incompleteness, indifference(c) fullness, apathy (d) wholeness, responsiveness


But as the fight went on, and all that he had been and was continued to be destroyed, so that lifewas a hollow shell all round him, ____________ and clattering like the sound of the sea, a noise inwhich he participated externally and inside this hollow shell was all the darkness and___________space of death, he knew he would have to find reinforcements, otherwise he wouldcollapse inwards upon the great dark void which circled at the center of his soul.

(a) booming, audacious (b) roaring, fearful(c) deafening, venturous (d) gentle, frightful



He would stand about the room, aimlessly picking up the implements, the lumps of clay, the littlefigures she had cast-they were _________and____________-looking at them without perceivingthem.

(a) whimsical, grotesque (b) capricious, artistic(c) eccentric, aesthetic (d) practical, garish

60. Four sentences are given below, labeled a, b, c and d. Of these, three statements need to bearranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choosethe option that does not fit the sequence.(a) Madame Bovary’s actions appear motivated by a mere infatuation with morality.(b) Flaubert’s Madame Bovary negotiates between the world as it is and the world as Emma would

wish it to be.(c) Perhaps her actions are ‘indulgent’ in that, even though she desires to be moral, and performs

her good works because they are moral, she has an ulterior motive of sorts.(d) Like the romantic who is in love not with her lover but with love, Madame Bovary seems to be in

love not so much with morality as with the romance of morality.

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