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e- Prac-CAT # 16

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INSTRUCTIONS

1. Keep only the ID Card, pencil, eraser and sharpener with you. DO NOT KEEP with you books, rulers,

slide rules, drawing instruments, calculators (including watch calculators), pagers, cellular phones, stop

watches or any other device or loose paper. These should be left at a place indicated by the invigilator.

2. This test contains three sections which examine various abilities. There are 20 questions in

Section I, 20 questions in Section II and 20 questions in Section III. You will be given 135

minutes to complete the test. In distributing the time over the three sections, please bear in mind

that you need to demonstrate your competence in all the three sections.

3. Directions for answering the questions are given before each group of questions. Read these directions

carefully and answer the questions. There is only one correct answer to each question.

4. All questions carry four marks each. Each wrong answer will attract a penalty of one mark.

5. Do your rough work only on the test booklet and NOT on the answer sheet.

6. Revising and analysing your performance after the test is over is critical to your improved performance

in the next test(s). A positive attitude to revise, analyse and learn from mistakes will be a great plus.

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Section I Directions for Questions 1 to 4: The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

In an article entitled “Actions Speak Louder than Greenwash” last December we looked at

how some unscrupulous property developers in Thailand preferred to market “greenwash”

rather than embrace the concept of sustainable building design and construction. Indeed, it

seemed as if the property developers were suddenly falling over themselves in their rush to

surf the green wave, with project billboards proclaiming to save the planet sprouting up all

over Bangkok in particular. Unfortunately for the environment however, one had only to

scratch the surface of these claims to find the green credentials of the majority of these new

development projects rarely extended beyond planting a few trees and installing more energy

efficient air conditioning units.

But even in this cynical and depressing environment, there were some positive signs that

change was in the air, leading the optimists amongst us to believe that we were witnessing a

transformation towards more sustainable building practices here in Thailand. The challenge

facing us all now is how we nurture these sensitive green shoots in the face of one of the

worst economic downturns in recent history. We must not allow the recession to distract us

from the fact that climate change and global warming represent a clear and present danger to

our very way of life, and the building sector is responsible for almost half of all greenhouse

gas (GHG) emissions annually. Recessions tend to be cyclical but experts now generally

concur that once the climate change tipping point is reached there will be no going back.

Green building does not necessarily have to come with a high price tag. Innovative, and often

simple, modifications to construction and services design can lessen their impact on our

environment through energy and resource efficiency. Relatively simple passive solutions in

tropical countries include; sun shading, building orientation/placement, solar reflective paints,

greywater treatment and reuse, green roofs, use of lower thermal mass materials, rainwater

harvesting, use of sustainably sourced and recycled materials, natural ventilation systems

(such as solar chimneys) and recycled and non toxic building and finishing materials. More

active solutions include the use of solar panels, biomass boilers, air con waste heat capture

and utilization and wind turbines.

Governments and consumers alike can play their part in ensuring that building green is

incorporated into the mainstream. A useful first step would be for the government to legislate

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that all new development above a certain threshold should be subject to a formal third party

green building rating and certification process such as the Leadership in Energy and

Environmental Design (LEED) promoted by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED

has become the international de facto green building standard and LEED certification

provides independent, third-party verification by accredited professionals that a building

project meets the highest green building and performance standards, is environmentally

responsible and will provide a healthy place to live and work.

LEED Certification is awarded on a sliding scale of Bronze through to Platinum based on the

buildings quantified commitment to sustainable building design and operation. LEED

accreditation is a complex process with significant financial and design implications, and it is

therefore critical that a LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) is consulted at the

conceptual stage of any proposed project. Encouragingly, there are now 14 LEED Accredited

Professionals in Thailand, a nearly three-fold increase in the past six months.

Thailand could also establish a Green Building Council (GBC) under the auspices of the

World Green Building Council, a union of national councils whose aim is to accelerate the

transformation of the built environment towards sustainability. WorldGBC support their

members with the development of effective rating systems; they facilitate knowledge transfer

and co-operation between councils and provide an impartial forum to share best practices

globally. To date 14 GBC’s have been established with a further 7 more granted “Emerging

Council” status, including ASEANs only representative in Vietnam.

There have been some rays of light however in these currently austere times. The Office of

Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP) has recently tightened its

Environment Impact Assessment standards and now requires larger green spaces. The

Energy Ministry has also revised its codes to require new or renovated buildings with floor

spaces greater than 2,000 sq.m to set design standards that include a 10% energy saving.

Last but not the least, one should not underestimate the role of the general public in

transforming traditional building practices in Thailand. There is a growing awareness of the

importance of protecting the natural environment amongst the younger and more progressive

elements in Thai society, and it is these green consumers of the future that will truly create

and sustain the demand for green buildings and products.

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1. What does the author imply by the example of property developers of Thailand? (Q. code - 102216001)

(1) There is a change towards more sustainable building practices in Thailand. (2) The developers were exaggerating their claims of ‘green’ building construction. (3) The buildings claimed to be ‘green’ in truth were not that efficient. (4) The changes expected in building construction were immense. (5) They have initiated the ‘green’ movement in terms of construction.

2. What has the author implied in context of recession and climate change?

(Q. code - 102216002) (1) Building construction is responsible for half of the greenhouse gases which

cause global warming. (2) Recession is evitable. We are responsible for climate change. (3) Recessions come and go but once climate change reaches its tipping point,

control would be lost. (4) Recession distracts us from the major problem of climate change. (5) Recession and climate change are two major problems in the world today.

3. Impassive solutions for building construction in tropical countries include: (Q. code - 102216003)

(1) Building orientation/ placements (2) Use of Lower thermal mass materials (3) Use of Sustainable sourced and recycled materials (4) Use of Natural ventilation systems (5) Use of Solar non-reflective paints and green-roofs.

4. What is the objective of WGBC? (Q. code - 102216004)

(1) To facilitate knowledge transfer and co-operation between councils (2) To accelerate transformation of the built environment towards sustainability. (3) To support their members with the development of effective rating systems. (4) To provide impartial forum to share best practices globally (5) To help sustain the environment by ‘green buildings’.

Directions for Questions 5 to 8: The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Urbanism—the city dweller's way of life—has preoccupied sociology since the turn of the

century. Max Weber pointed out the obvious fact that people in cities cannot know all their

neighbors as intimately as it was possible for them to do in small communities. George

Simmel carried this idea one step further when he declared, rather quaintly, that if the urban

individual reacted emotionally to each and every person with whom he came into contact, or

cluttered his mind with information about them, he would be "completely atomized internally

and would fall into an unthinkable mental condition."

Louis Wirth, in turn, noted the fragmented nature of urban relationships. "Characteristically,

urbanites meet one another in highly segmental roles..." he wrote. "Their dependence upon

others is confined to a highly fractionalized aspect of the other's round of activity." Rather than

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becoming deeply involved with the total personality of every individual we meet, he explained,

we necessarily maintain superficial and partial contact with some. We are interested only in

the efficiency of the shoe salesman in meeting our needs: we couldn't care less that his wife is

an alcoholic.

What this means is that we form limited involvement relationships with most of the people

around us. Consciously or not, we define our relationships with most people in functional

terms. So long as we do not become involved with the shoe salesman's problems at home, or

his more general hopes, dreams and frustrations, he is, for us, fully interchangeable with any

other salesman of equal competence. In effect, we have applied the modular principle to

human relationships. We have created the disposable person: Modular Man.

Rather than entangling ourselves with the whole man, we plug into a module of his

personality. Each personality can be imagined as a unique configuration of thousands of such

modules. Thus no whole person is interchangeable with any other. But certain modules are.

Since we are seeking only to buy a pair of shoes, and not the friendship, love or hate of the

salesman, it is not necessary for us to tap into or engage with all the other modules that form

his personality. Our relationship is safely limited. There is limited liability on both sides. The

relationship entails certain accepted forms of behavior and communication. Both sides

understand, consciously or otherwise, the limitations and laws. Difficulties arise only when

one or another party oversteps the tacitly understood limits, when he attempts to connect up

with some module not relevant to the function at hand.

Today a vast sociological and psychological literature is devoted to the alienation

presumed to flow from this fragmentation of relationships. Much of the rhetoric of

Existentialism and the student revolt decry this fragmentation. It is said that we are not

sufficiently "involved" with our fellow man. Millions of young people go about seeking "total

involvement."

Before leaping to the popular conclusion that modularization is all bad, however, it might be

well to look more closely at the matter. Theologian Harvey Cox, echoing Simmel, has pointed

out that in an urban environment the attempt to "involve" oneself fully with everyone can lead

only to self-destruction and emotional emptiness. Urban man, he writes, "must have more or

less impersonal relationships with most of the people with whom he comes in contact

precisely in order to choose certain friendships to nourish and cultivate...

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His life represents a point touched by dozens of systems and hundreds of people. His

capacity to know some of them better necessitates his minimizing the depth of his relationship

to many others. Listening to the postman gossip becomes for the urban man an act of sheer

graciousness, since he probably has no interest in the people the postman wants to talk

about."

Moreover, before lamenting modularization, it is necessary to ask ourselves whether we really

would prefer to return to the traditional condition of man in which each individual presumably

related to the whole personality of a few people rather than to the personality modules of

many. Traditional man has been so sentimentalized, so cloyingly romanticized, that we

frequently overlook the consequences of such a return. The very same writers who lament

fragmentation also demand freedom—yet overlook the unfreedom of people bound together

in totalistic relationships. For any relationship implies mutual demands and expectations. The

more intimately involved a relationship, the greater the pressure the parties exert on one

another to fulfill these expectations. The tighter and more totalistic the relationships, the more

modules, so to speak, are brought into play, and the more numerous are the demands we

make.

5. What could not be the property of Modular Man as presented by the author? (Q. code - 102216005)

(1) A throwaway relationship is maintained with him. (2) Only a fraction of his persona is revealed to us. (3) It fully transforms one man to another. (4) Every person is composed of various modules. (5) The competence level of Modular Man is better than normal man.

6. What is untrue according to the passage? (Q. code - 102216006)

(1) Existentialism professes in the disintegration of relations. (2) Urban youth is not aware about its neighbourhood. (3) A Lot of relations are momentary these days. (4) Various shades of personality are present in one single personality. (5) Emotional attachment with a lot of people should be avoided.

7. According to the passage, what will ‘’Total Involvement’’ lead to?

(Q. code - 102216007) (1) It will prevent modularization of a person. (2) It will make him more polite as a human being. (3) It will educate him to give his complete efforts. (4) It will consume all the emotions of a person. (5) It will lead to mature and stable relationships.

8. What is true about the Traditional Man, as given in the passage?

(Q. code - 102216008) (1) Traditional Man was a lot more pragmatic and practical. (2) Traditional Man must have adjudged the disintegrated association.

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(3) Traditional Man was casually involved in a relationship. (4) Traditional Man would choose a relation depending on its function. (5) Traditional Man had lesser liberty.

Directions for Questions 9 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Witzel has removed the Rigvedic Aryans from all but the corner of north India according to his

philological conclusions. Though the Rigveda mentions samudra, the common Sanskrit term

for ocean over 150 times, as the goal of all rivers, as endless in extent and as containing

great waves, Witzel will not credit them with knowing the ocean because according to him

they didn't portray samudra with the correct salt content! Though the Rigveda is centred on a

great river called Sarasvati located between the Yamuna and Sutlej (Shutudri) that flows to

the sea, Witzel would turn the real Sarasvati into a small runoff stream in Afghanistan. That

the Indian Sarasvati is the site of the great majority of Harappan ruins doesn't count for him

either.

While Witzel denied that there was any monsoon mentioned in the Rigveda, when I showed

him references, he conveniently placed this Vedic monsoon in the Caspian Sea. He has also

located great Vedic sages like Vasishta and Agastya in Afghanistan and nearby Iran, though

people in these regions seem to have no record of them or their teachings.

What does Witzel think happened in ancient India instead? According to Witzel, the

Harappans were a Para-Munda people related to the current aborigines of the country. It was

they who produced the great cities and the seals of the Indus civilisation, neither Aryans nor

Dravidians who were both intruders from Central Asia.

To quote a long article of his on this subject, "The language of the pre-Rigvedic Indus

civilisation, at least in the Panjab, was of a Austro-Asiatic nature. He further claims that "This

means Haryana and Uttar Pradesh once had a Para-Munda population that was acculturated

by the Indo-Aryans". Note the former barbaric invading Aryan hordes have now been reduced

to clever perpetrators of `acculturalisation.'

How does Witzel know all this? Has he produced any decipherment of the Indus seals? No,

he hasn't dared to. Has he found any ancient Munda records of this type? There are no

ancient Munda records of any type. Are his conclusions based upon skeletal remains? No, it’s

all based on his philology.

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As aboriginal people, the Mundas have no written records or recorded history. Where they

came from and what they spoke in the Harappan era is quite speculative. Such problems

don't bother Witzel. His philology can reconstruct unrecorded languages over a period of five

thousand years and can override what geology or archaeology might otherwise indicate. With

his Munda Harappa, Witzel has the Dravidians entering into Sindh from Iran about the same

period as he has the Vedic Aryans coming into the Panjab from Afghanistan (c. 1500 BCE).

Like the Vedic Aryans he deems them to be illiterate semi-nomads. "The Dravida entered

South Asia from the Iranian highlands. Their oldest vocabulary is that of a semi-nomadic,

pastoral group, not of an agricultural community". Later he states, "Dravidians were not a

primary factor in the population of the Indus civilisation," and "the Dravidians apparently were

just as foreign to Sindh and its agriculture as the Indo-Aryans to the Panjab”. He claims the

evidence for this is all in the philology, mainly from reconstructing proposed Dravidian and

Munda loan words in Vedic texts.

Yes, in the Witzel world it was the aborigines that produced the great civilization of ancient

India and both the Aryans and Dravidians were later uncivilized immigrants from Central Asia

who conquered them, stole their culture, replaced their languages and gave them no credit!

He has the Dravidians supplanting the Harappan people in Sindh just as the Aryans

supplanted them in Panjab. From there he has the Dravidians migrate south, while the Aryans

mainly went east, both remarkably preserving their own languages and becoming the

dominant peoples of their areas, though originally just small groups of illiterate nomadic

migrants!

Not content with one Aryan invasion/migration, Witzel requires a second Dravidian

invasion/migration to go along with it! In a non-published proposal of his, he even says that

the Munda languages also came to India from S.E. Asia! It seems that anywhere in the world

but India can produce languages or peoples.

9. The Author would most likely agree with (Q. code - 102216009)

(1) Witzel has ignorantly undermined technological developments of India. (2) It was the Aryans, who were the actual citizens of India. (3) The language of the pre-Rigvedic Indus Civilization, traces its roots to Iran. (4) Historians have accredited that ancient Munda records are nonexistent. (5) River Sarasvati was actually a rivulet flowing through Afghanistan.

10. When Witzel states ‘Dravidians were not a primary factor in the population of the Indus civilisation’ which of the following according to the passage, could be used to negate it? (Q. code - 102216010)

(1) They were Aryans who were new to this ancient civilization.

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(2) Great Dravidian saints have made significant contributions in the Indus civilization.

(3) Witzel’s assertion was based on his own historical linguistic records. (4) Witzel is known to have very biased view about India. (5) Dravidian teachings have been found in the Iranian literature.

11. What can be inferred from the passage? (Q. code - 102216011) (1) Para-Munda population first migrated to Panjab. (2) Aryans and Dravidians failed to cope with the existing aborigines. (3) Harappan culture includes the text of Vedic sage, Ved Vyas. (4) Dravidians migrated to the South, before Aryans migrated to the West. (5) Witzel's view of Indian civilization — it is the cultural backwater.

12. What is meant by "This means Haryana and Uttar Pradesh…. that was acculturated by the Indo-Aryans"? (Q. code - 102216012) (1) Para-Munda population displaced Indo-Aryans. (2) Indo-Aryans modified their culture with Para-Munda culture. (3) Indo-Aryans replaced their culture with Para-Munda culture. (4) Para-Munda culture was replaced by Indo-Aryan culture. (5) Para-Munda culture left their culture for incoming Indo-Aryans.

Directions for Questions 13 to 15: In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative from among the five. Check grammar, usage, semantics, mechanics, redundancy, punctuation, spelling and style elements. 13. While defending the penalty, Iker Casillas, the Real Madrid goalkeeper, feigned

confidence, but Ronaldo feinted and managed to fool Casillas into moving in wrong direction. (Q. code - 102216013) (1) While defending the penalty, Iker Casillas, the Real Madrid goalkeeper, feigned

confidence, but Ronaldo feinted and managed to fool Casillas into moving in wrong direction.

(2) While defending the penalty, Iker Casillas, the Real Madrid goalkeeper, feinted confidence, but Ronaldo feigned and managed to fool Casillas into moving in wrong direction.

(3) While defending the penalty, Iker Casillas, the Real Madrid goalkeeper, feinted confidence, but Ronaldo fained and managed to fool Casillas into moving in wrong direction.

(4) While defending the penalty, Iker Casillas, the Real Madrid goalkeeper, fained confidence, but Ronaldo feigned and managed to fool Casillas into moving in wrong direction.

(5) While defending the penalty, Iker Casillas, the Real Madrid goalkeeper, fained confidence, but Ronaldo feinted and managed to fool Casillas into moving in wrong direction.

14. Living in an urbane area had a huge impact in shaping Prakash’s personality as an

urban person. (Q. code - 102216014) (1) Living in an urbane area had a huge impact in shaping Prakash’s personality

as an urban person.

(2) Living in an urban area had a huge impact in shaping Prakash’s personality as an urban person.

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(3) Living in an urban area had a huge impact in shaping Prakash’s personality as an urbane person.

(4) Living in an urban area had a huge impact in shaping Prakash’s personality as an urbain person.

(5) Living in an urbain area had a huge impact in shaping Prakash’s personality as an urbane person.

15. Rafael Nadal preceded Roger Fedrer in tennis ranking. (Q. code - 102216015)

(1) Rafael Nadal preceded Roger Fedrer in tennis ranking. (2) Rafael Nadal superseded Roger Fedrer in tennis ranking. (3) Rafael Nadal proceeded Roger Fedrer in tennis ranking. (4) Rafael Nadal anteceded Roger Fedrer in tennis ranking. (5) None of these

Directions for Questions 16 to 18: In each question, there are five sentences. Each sentence has a pair of words that are italicized and highlighted. From the italicized and highlighted words, select the most appropriate words (A or B) to form correct sentences. The sentences are followed by options that indicate the words, which may be selected to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the given, choose the most appropriate one. 16. Continual (A) / Continuous (B) showers were experienced for the whole weekend. Neeta said that after their breakup, she had ambivalent (A) / indifferent (B) feelings for Suresh. It is important to get to the nub (A) / nib (B) of the problem to get a precise solution for it. The earth is surrounded by an envelop (A) / envelope (B) of air. The film contains footage of the whole gamut (A) / gambit (B) of Royal Navy ships of the time. (Q. code - 102216016) (1) BBBBA (2) BAAAA (3) AAAAA (4) AAABA (5) ABABA 17. Pakistan was involved in breach (A) / breech (B) of cease fire. He became disinterested (A) / uninterested (B) in our life, only his mattered. When he answered the question, I saw a gleam (A) / glean (B) in his eyes. Use of force exasperated (A) / exacerbated (B) the situation. FM tuner is one of the desirable (A) / desirous (B) feature of my cell phone. (Q. code - 102216017) (1) ABABA (2) AAABA (3) AABAB (4) BAAAA (5) BBBAB 18. Sanjay has planned his marriage on 1st of November with Trapti, his fiancé (A) / fiancée (B). A constant decline in the number of tigers is a portentous (A) / pretentious (B) matter. The dead body of the fowl (A) / foul (B) spread a very fowl (A) / foul (B) smell. Rajesh wore a beautifully embroidered mantle (A) / mantel (A). (Q. code - 102216018) (1) ABBAA (2) AAABA (3) BAABA (4) BAAAB (5) BBBBB

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Directions for Questions 19 and 20: In the following paragraph, there are blanks that have to be filled in by the given options. Choose the most appropriate sentence as the answer. Some years ago, being with a camping party in the mountains, I returned from a solitary ramble to find everyone engaged in a dispute. The corpus of the dispute was a squirrel. A live squirrel supposed to be clinging to one side of a tree-trunk; while over against the tree's opposite side a human being was imagined to stand. This human witness tries to get sight of the squirrel by moving rapidly round the tree, but no matter how fast he goes, the squirrel moves as fast in the opposite direction, and always keeps the tree between himself and the man, so that never a glimpse of him is caught. The resultant problem now is this: (…) In the unlimited leisure of the wilderness, discussion had been worn threadbare. Everyone had taken sides, and was obstinate; and the numbers on both sides were even. Each side, when I appeared, therefore appealed to me to make it a majority. Mindful of the scholastic adage that whenever you meet a contradiction you must make a distinction, I immediately sought and found one, as follows: "Which party is right," I said, "(…) If you mean passing from the north of him to the east, then to the south, then to the west, and then to the north of him again, obviously the man does go round him, for he occupies these successive positions. But if on the contrary you mean being first in front of him, then on the right of him, then behind him, then on his left, and finally in front again, it is quite as obvious that the man fails to go round him, for by the compensating movements the squirrel makes, he keeps his belly turned towards the man all the time, and his back turned away. Make the distinction, and there is no occasion for any further dispute. You are both right and both wrong"

19. (1) Can this man goes round the squirrel or not? (2) Can this man go around a squirrel or not? (3) Do this man go around a squirrel or not? (4) Do this man go round the squirrel or not? (5) Does this man go round the squirrel or not? (Q. code - 102216019)

20. (1) Depend on what you practically mean by the question (2) Depends on what you practically means by the question (3) Depends upon that what you practically mean by the question (4) Depends on what you practically mean by the question (5) Depends on that what you practically means by the question (Q. code - 102216020)

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Section II Directions for Questions 21 to 24:

After severe water shortage in the last 2 years IPCC conducted a survey regarding the average water table level in 2 different neighbouring states A and B. It was observed that the water table levels of both the states were very low in both the countries. To overcome this problem IPCC made WATER RECHARGING compulsory. IPCC observed the trend for 7 continuous years about the water consumption and replenishment by the rains. It was observed that the supply of water in both the states is from the same bore well. The following observation was made for each state.

YearWATER REPLINISHED BY

THE RAINS IN THE BOREWELL(METERS)

WATER LEVEL IN THE BOREWELL( METERS)

WATER CONSUMED BY STATE A

1 50 55 28

2 55 56 33

3 41 43 25

4 59 64 22

5 49 56 39

6 53 53 20

7 46 46 23

21. What would be the amount of water consumed by the state B in the fourth year? (Q. code - 102216021)

(1) 42 (2) 40 (3) 38 (4) 35 (5) Cannot be determined

22. What would be the sum of water consumed by the state B in first five years? (Q. code - 102216022)

(1) 110 (2) 112 (3) 114 (4) 120 (5) Cannot be determined

23. What would be the water consumed by the state B in the 7th year?

(Q. code - 102216023) (1) 23 (2) 19 (3) 21 (4) 16 (5) Cannot be determined

24. What is the difference between the water consumed in the state A in 2nd and 3rd year

and State B in 2nd and 3rd year? (Q. code - 102216024) (1) 15 (2) 17 (3) 14 (4) 24 (5) Cannot be determined

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Directions for Questions 25 and 26: The Marketing head of Pantaloons decided to change the price of 6 particular items to increase its sales. The price of all six items will change for the following months: December, January and February. They follow some rules to change the price of all these six items. 1. The price of an item in the month of January will decrease with respect to the

marked price of the particular item in previous month. 2. The Price of an item in the month of December will increases according to the

marked price given in the table.

The table below provides the information about the maximum and minimum possible Selling price of each of the six items during each of the mentioned 3 months.

Items Marked Price (in Rs.) December January February Minimum selling price in

any month (In Rs.)Maximum Selling Price any

month (In Rs.)

Shirt 350 20 5 23 300 430

Sherwani 475 10 10 9 415 530

Trouser 400 5 6 8 350 415

T-Shirt 500 12 10 10 425 560

Shoes 600 20 4 10 575 670

Skirt 300 15 20 15 275 335

Percentage change in Any month

25. What could be the minimum selling price of Sherwani in month of February? (Q. code - 102216025)

(1) 438 (2) 415 (3) 418 (4) 428 (5) 530

26. What could be the maximum selling price of T-Shirt in February?

(Q. code - 102216026) (1) 425 (2) 554 (3) 560 (4) 524 (5) 474

Directions for Questions 27 to 29:

Friends Sudhi r, Aashay, Tejas of nearly same calibre appeared in CAT 2008 which had 3 sections in the following order: Quantitative aptitude, LR/DI and Verbal Ability. The 3 sections, Quantitative aptitude, LR/DI and Verbal Ability had 25, 25, 40 questions respectively. 4 marks were awarded for the correct answer and 1 mark was deducted for each in-correct answer. Each one attempted a particular number of questions in Quantitative aptitude and the attempt was increased by 1 question each in

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the later 2 sections but the extra questions which they attempted in the later 2 sections were incorrect. It was also found that Sudhir attempted 1 more question than Akshay and 2 more questions than Tejas in the Verbal section. The number of correct attempts in all the sections is same by each of them. The marks scored by Akshay in LR/DI are 33. Also it was observed that Sudhir attempted 14 questions in Verbal section of which 10 were correct.

MarksNAME QUANT. LR/DI VERBALSudhir

Akshay 33

Tejas 27. What are the total marks scored by Tejas? (Q. code - 102216027)

(1) 90 (2) 88 (3) 87 (4) 86 (5) Cannot be determined

28. What is the sum of marks obtained by Sudhir and Tejas in Quantitative aptitude? (Q. code - 102216028)

(1) 65 (2) 66 (3) 67 (4) 68 (5) Cannot be determined

29. Akshay scored how many marks less than Sudhir? (Q. code - 102216029)

(1) 8 (2) 12 (3) 16 (4) 20 (5) 24

Directions For the question 30 to 34:

Sandy went to Mumbai Central for roaming. He went to 6 places: Dadar, Borivali, CST, Kandivali, Bandra and Santa Cruz all having different distance from Mumbai Central station by using local trains. All these six places are in different railway zones (two places in each zone). He eats six different snacks available at 6 different kiosks. He has to submit a report to his wife so he writes some information to make table report. TR1: He went to Dadar and did not eat Madu vada or Biryani there. Also Madu vada

is not sold at the places which are in Harbour. TR2: Central Zone does not have any station like Borivali or CST. But Mc D which

does not serve Chinese is present over there. TR3: Bandra is in Western Railway zone, 8 km from Mumbai Central but Comesum

or Wimpy is not present over there. Also Borivali and Santa Cruz are 13 km and 9 km away from Mumbai Central respectively.

TR4: Kandivali is in Western zone and 11 km away from Mumbai Central. The Kiosk at Santa Cruz serves Chinese snacks. Vada Pav or Pizza is not sold at Satkar or Sanchi.

TR5: The kiosk at the station which is 2 km away from Mumbai Central sells Biryani and the other one which is 3 km away from Mumbai Central sells Pizza.

TR6: Vada sambhar is sold at Pizza Hut which is present at the station which is neither in Harbour nor in Central Zone. Chinese or Biryani is neither sold at wimpy nor at Comesum.

TR7: Neither Satkar nor Sanchi is present at Kandivali, where Madhu vada is sold.

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30. Madu Vada is sold at (Q. code - 102216030)

(1) Wimpy (2) Comesum (3) Satkar (4) Sanchi (5) Cannot be determined

31. Biryani is sold at (Q. code - 102216031)

(1) CST (2) Borivali (3) Bandra (4) Kandivali (5) Santa Cruz

32. How many km away from Mumbai Central is the place where Biryani is sold? (Q. code - 102216032)

(1) 8 (2) 3 (3) 2 (4) 13 (5) 9

33. Which one of the following is a correct combination? (Q. code - 102216033)

(1) Borivali – Vada Pav – Wimpy (2) Borivali – Vada Pav – Comesum (3) Kandivali – Vada Pav – Wimpy (4) Dadar – Pizza – Mc D (5) Dadar – Pizza – Pizza Hut

34. What is the distance between Borivali and Bandra? (Q. code - 102216034)

(1) 5 (2) 21 (3) 6 (4) 24 (5) Cannot be determined

Directions for Questions 35 to 37:

There are four kinds of Juices or wines which are produced by wine companies by mixing 5 different ingredients. Table below shows the units of 5 different ingredients used to produced 1 unit each of the 4 different kinds of Juices or Wines.

Margarita Jello shots Whisky Champagne

Sugar Cube (SC) 19 12 18 25

Barley Cubes (BC) 30 25 16 24

Malting Cubes (MC) 20 16 15 15

Yeasts (Y) 10 21 17 17

Maraschino Cherry (MarC) 21 26 34 19

Wine or Juices

Ingr

edie

nts

To form one unit of Abisco, 18 units of Margarita, 15 units of Jello Shots, 5 units of whisky and 1 unit of champagne are required by any one of the following five companies. Again similarly for Namisco, 15 units of Margarita, 10 units of Jello Shots, 15 units of Whisky and 2 units of Champagne are required by any of the five companies. Table 2 shows the units of Abisco or Namisco produced by five different companies.

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Abisco (A) Namisco (N)

Koyla 20 15

Loyla 25 10

Doyla 20 25

Moyla 15 20

Soyla 10 35

Com

pany

Demand

35. How many units of Sugar cube are required to fulfil the demands of Abisco by Moyla

Company? (Q. code - 102216035) (1) 8900 (2) 7890 (3) 9205 (4) 9555 (5) 11090

36. If the Price of 1 unit of Yeast is Rs. 50, then what is the total amount of money required

for making 1 unit of Whisky? (Q. code - 102216036) (1) 530 (2) 430 (3) 830 (4) 850 (5) Cannot be determined

37. What is the difference between the units of Maraschino Cherry required by Soyla to

fulfill the demand of Abisco and the units of Barley cubes required by Loyla to fulfill the demand of Namisco? (Q. code - 102216037) (1) 310 (2) 430 (3) 530 (4) 630 (5) 230

Directions for Questions 38 to 40:

There are 8 person sitting around a round table; A, B, C, D, E, F G and H having different professions. 1. A is sitting 3 place left to H and the Doctor is sitting 3 place right of F. 2. C is sitting to the immediate left of F and B is sitting 4 places right to Author. 3. E is sitting 2 place left of Teacher and 3 place right of Banker. 4. Astrologer is sitting three places left of Engineer and Painter is sitting next to B

and F. 5. G is sitting next to E and D. Also F is sitting somewhere between A and H. 6. One of them is a student.

38. The profession of D is (Q. code - 102216038)

(1) Teacher (2) Author (3) Banker (4) Astrologer (5) Cannot be determined

39. Who sits to the immediate left of the Doctor? (Q. code - 102216039)

(1) E (2) B (3) G (4) H (5) D

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40. If G is a student, then the profession of B is (Q. code - 102216040) (1) Teacher (2) Astrologer (3) Painter (4) Engineer (5) Author

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SECTION - III Directions for Questions 41 and 53: For the following questions, five options are given. Choose the correct option. 41. There are two cylindrical containers of equal capacity and equal dimensions. If the

radius of one of the container is increased by 12 ft and the height of another container is increased by 12 ft, then the capacity of both the container is equally increasd by K cubic ft. If the actual heights of each of the container be 4ft, then find the increased volume of each of the container: (Q. code - 102216041) (1) 1680 π cu ft (2) 2304 π cu ft (3) 1480 π cu ft (4) None of these (5) can't be determined

42. If P and Q are 2 prime numbers such that P<Q<50, in how many cases would (P + Q)

be also a prime number? (Q. code - 102216042) (1) 4 (2) 6 (3) 8 (4) 10 (5) None of these

43. The values of x for which the given equation satisfy log(2x + 3)(6x2 + 23x + 21)

= 4 - log(3x + 7)(4x2 + 12x + 9) are: (Q. code - 102216043)

(1) (−8, 5) (2) −14

only

(3) −4, 14

(4) − 14

, −2

(5) None of these 44. A troop of 5 metres long starts marching. A soldier at the end of the troop steps out

and starts marching forward at higher speed. On reaching the head of the troop, he immediately turns around and marches back at the same speed. As soon as he reaches the end of the troop, the troop stops marching and it is found that the troop has moved by exactly 5 meters. What distance has the soldier travelled?

(Q. code - 102216044)

(1) 5 1 2+e jm (2)

5 21 2+ m

(3) 5 1 3+e jm (4) 5m

(5) 5 2 m 45. ABC is a right angled triangle at B and ACD is right angled triangle such that B and D

are on opposite sides of AC. Given that all the sides have integral values and AB × BC = CD. The area of the region BADCB is atleast? (Q. code - 102216045) (1) 48 (2) 36 (3) 18 (4) 72 (5) 16

46. I had 10 boxes of chocolates, and these boxes had 10 different consecutive numbers

of chocolates in them. If I was to choose three boxes (a triplet), then what percent of

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the triplet would form an increasing AP, with respect to the number of chocolates contained in the three boxes? (Q. code - 102216046) (1) 30% (2) 15.8% (3) 14.7% (4) 16.67% (5) None of these

47. If y is a number such that y = xy , how many integral values are possible for x such that

y is also an integer. (Q. code - 102216047) (1) 0 (2) 1 (3) 2 (4) 3 (5) None of these

48. In a question paper that had 100 questions. A student attempts at least two questions,

and then what is the total ways in which he can attempt the question paper? (Q. code - 102216048)

(1) 2100 (2) 2100 - 101 (3) 299 (4) 299 - 1 (5) 2101 - 100

49. A circle is circumscribed by the rhombus which in turn is made up by joining the mid-points of a rectangle whose sides, 12 cm and 16 cm respectively. What is the area of the circle? (Q. code - 102216049)

(1) 62526

π (2) 67625

π

(3) 57625

π (4) 63026

π

(5) None of these 50. In the given ∆ABC of area 81 cm2 it is known that BC: DE = 2:1, DE: FG = 3:2, FG: HI

= 1:2. What is the area of the shaded region DEIH? (Q. code - 102216050) A

B C

DI

F G

HE

(1) 75 (2) 25 (3) 56 (4) 30 (5) None of these

51. My friend threw his birthday party at Taj Connemara. He however decided to give his

entire guest a tag with a number written on it. He wrote the numbers in such a way that it formed an AP, with the first number being 1 and the common difference being 3 and the last number on the tag being 97. Now if he picked up 19 guests from the people invited, what is the maximum number of “pairs” in that 19 guests who can have the sum of their tickets as 104? (Q. code - 102216051) (1) 6 (2) 7 (3) 8 (4) 9 (5) More than 9

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52. In how many ways two identical red balls and two identical white balls may be distributed between two boys, so that none of the boys get two balls of same colour?

(Q. code - 102216052) (1) 3! (2) 2! (3) 4P2 (4) 4C2 (5) 1

53. In the adjoining figure, AB and CD are two chords which

intersects at M at right angle. The lengths of line segments MB=18 cm. DM=9 cm. and MC=16 cm MBC is the shaded portion of the circle. Find the percentage shaded portion of the circle (Q. code - 102216053)

(1) 30 (2) 14.4 (3) 25.2 (4) 80.6 (5) 22.2

Directions for Questions 54 and 55: Each question is followed by two statements, 1 and 2. Answer each question using the following instructions: Mark (1) if the question can be answered by using the statement 1 alone but not by using the statement 2 alone. Mark (2) if the question can be answered by using the statement 2 alone but not by using the statement 1 alone. Mark (3) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together but not by either of the statements alone. Mark (4) if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone. Mark (5) if the question cannot be answered on the basis of the two statements. 54. ABC is triangle. Is this triangle is an obtuse angle triangle? (Q. code - 102216054)

(1) ½ ≤ Sin A ≤ √3/2, Cos B = √3/2 (2) Cos A = 1/√2

55. What is the geometric mean of four consecutive odd numbers? (Q. code - 102216055)

(1) Arithmetic mean of the number is 10 (2) One of the numbers is 7

56. f(x) and g(x) are two functions such that f(x)= ( ) ( )( ) ( )

+ +− −

4x 28 x 23x 8 4x 17

and g(x) = +−

3x 52x 7

. How

many integer satisfy f(x) < 0 and g(x) > 2? (Q. code - 102216056) (1) 0 (2) 1

(3) 2 (4) 3 (5) Infinite number of values Directions for Questions 57 and 58: Read the given information to answer the questions that follow. A militant organization need 'Fissile Graded Radioactive Material', to build nuclear weapons. Yuri Orlov (Once the world’s most dangerous Arms Dealer, now in prison) decides to sell the Fission material to this militant organization promising them that the per unit price will be

A B

D

C

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'Rs.X'. But what he did was that he packed the cylinders with 20% less fission material, as marked on its label by weight. Also just to be in the good books of the organization, he pretended to sell them the cylinders at a 10% less cost as he demanded earlier. 57. How much more percentage by weight from the present supply, Yuri must give the

Fission material to the militant organisation so that he will not be cheating them? (Q. code - 102216057)

(1) 25 (2) 20 (3) 16.66 (4) 12.5 (5) 10

58. How much more percentage discount Yuri should give on the discounted price, so that

he will not be cheating the militant organisation? (Q. code - 102216058) (1) 7.5 (2) 9.09 (3) 10 (4) 11.11 (5) 12.5

Directions for Questions 59 and 60: For the following questions, five options are given. Choose the correct option. 59. A and B start running simultaneously in opposite direction from point on a circular track

of length 28 km with speed 8 km/hr and 6 km/hr respectively. A reverse the direction in which he is a running, immediately after every time he meets B. What is the difference in the distance (in km) travelled by A and B till they meet for the third time?

(Q. code - 102216059) (1) 40 (2) 36 (3) 48 (4) 35 (5) 24

60. Which of the following can be the sum of the squares of 6 consecutive odd numbers? (Q. code - 102216060)

(1) 934 (2) 1606 (3) 1836 (4) 2014 (5) 2470