IAS P.T.

TEST SERIES - 2014

SET NO: 12
By S.K. Mishra, IAS (Retd.) & Manoj K. Jha

COMPLETE TEST CSAT

Time Allowed: Two Hours

Maximum Marks: 200

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Passage - I

1. It can be inferred from the passage that Korean

scholars in the field of women's studies
undertook an analysis of Freudian theory as a
response to which of the following?
(a) Attack by critics of the Ewha women's
studies program
(b) The superficiality of earlier critiques of
Freudian theory
(c) The popularity of Freud in Korean
psychiatric circles
(d) Their assessment of the relevance and
limitations of Western feminist theory with
respect to Korean culture

GS

SC

OR

In 1977 the prestigious Ewha Women's University

in Seoul, Korea, announced the opening of the first
women's studies program in Asia. Few academic
programs have ever received such public attention.
In broadcast debates, critics dismissed the program
as a betrayal of national identity, an imitation of
Western ideas, and a distraction from the real task
of national unification and economic development.
Even supporters underestimated the program ; they
thought it would be merely another of the many
Western ideas that had already proved useful in
Asian culture, akin to airlines, electricity, and the
assembly line. The founders of the program, however,
realized that neither view was correct. They had
some reservations about the applicability of Western
feminist theories to the role of women in Asia and
felt that such theories should be closely examined.
Their approach has thus far yielded important
critiques of Western theory, informed by the special
experience of Asian women. For instance, like the
Western feminist critique of the Freudian model of
the human psyche, the Korean critique finds
Freudian theory culture-bound, but in ways different
from those cited by Western theorists. The Korean
theorists claim that Freudian theory assumes the
universality of the Western nuclear, maleheaded
family and focuses on the personality formation of
the individual, independent of society. An analysis
based on such assumptions could be valid for a highly
competitive, individualistic society. In the Freudian
family drama, family members are assumed to be
engaged in a Darwinian struggle against each other,
father against son and sibling against sibling. Such
a concept projects the competitive model of Western
society onto human personalities. But in the Asian
concept of personality there is no ideal attached to
individualism or to the independent self. The Western
model of personality development does not explain
major characteristics of the Korean personality, which
is social and group-centered. The "self" is a social
being defined by and acting in a group, and the
well-being of both men and women is determined
by the equilibrium of the group, not by individual
self-assertion. The ideal is one of interdependency.
In such a context, what is recognized as
"dependency" in Western psychiatric terms is not, in

Korean terms, an admission of weakness or failure.

All this bears directly on the Asian perception of
men's and women's psychology because men are also
" dependent." In Korean culture, men cry and
otherwise easily show their emotions, something that
might be considered a betrayal of masculinity in
Western culture. In the kinship-based society of
Korea, four generations may live in the same house,
which means that people can be sons and daughters
all their lives, whereas in Western culture, the roles
of husband and son, wife and daughter, are often
incompatible.

Directions for the following three items: Read the

following passage and answer the items that follow.
Your answer to these items should be based on the
passage only.

2. It can be inferred from the passage that the

broadcast media in Korea considered the
establishment of the Ewha women's studies
program
(a) praiseworthy
(b) incomprehensible
(c) newsworthy
(d) imitative
3. Which of the following statements is most
consistent with the view of personality
development held by the Ewha women's studies
groups?
(a) Personality development occurs in
identifiable stages, beginning with
dependency in childhood and ending with
independence in adulthood.
(b) Any theory of personality development, in
order to be valid, must be universal.
(c) Personality development is influenced by
the characteristics of the society in which a
person lives.
(d) Personality development is hindered if a
person is not permitted to be independent.
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Passage - II

4. Which of the following statements about the

difference between marine and continental
sedimentation is supported by information in
the passage?

GS

SC

OR

In choosing a method for determining climatic

conditions that existed in the past, paleoclimatologists
invoke four principal criteria. First, the materialrocks, lakes, vegetation, etc.-on which the method
relies must be widespread enough to provide plenty
of information, since analysis of material that is
rarely encountered will not permit correlation with
other regions or with other periods of geological
history. Second, in the process of formation, the
material must have received an environmental signal
that reflects a change in climate and that can be
deciphered by modern physical or chemical means.
Third, at least some of the material must have
retained the signal unaffected by subsequent changes
in the environment. Fourth, it must be possible to
determine the time at which the inferred climatic
conditions held. This last criterion is more easily met
in dating marine sediments, because dating of only
a small number of layers in a marine sequence allows
the age of other layers to be estimated fairly reliably
by extrapolation and interpolation. By contrast,
because sedimentation is much less continuous in
continental regions, estimating the age of a
continental bed from the known ages of beds above
and below is more risky. One very old method used
in the investigation of past climatic conditions
involves the measurement of water levels in ancient
lakes. In temperate regions, there are enough lakes
for correlations between them to give us a reliable
picture. In arid and semiarid regions, on the other
hand, the small number of lakes and the great
distances between them reduce the possibilities for
correlation. Moreover, since lake levels are controlled
by rates of evaporation as well as by precipitation,
the interpretation of such levels is ambiguous. For
instance, the fact that lake levels in the semiarid
southwestern United States appear to have been
higher during the last ice age than they are now
was at one time attributed to increased precipitation.
On the basis of snow-line elevations, however, it has
been concluded that the climate then was not
necessarily wetter than it is now, but rather that
both summers and winters were cooler, resulting in
reduced evaporation. Another problematic method

is to reconstruct former climates on the basis of pollen

profiles. The type of vegetation in a specific region
is determined by identifying and counting the various
pollen grains found there. Although the relationship
between vegetation and climate is not as direct as
the relationship between climate and lake levels, the
method often works well in the temperate zones. In
arid and semiarid regions in which there is not much
vegetation, however, small changes in one or a few
plant types can change the picture dramatically,
making accurate correlations between neighbouring
areas difficult to obtain.

Directions for the following three items: Read the

following passage and answer the items that follow.
Your answer to these items should be based on the
passage only.

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(a) Data provided by dating marine

sedimentation is more consistent with
researchers findings in other disciplines
than is data provided by dating continental
sedimentation.
(b) Marine sedimentation is much more
continuous
than
is
continental
sedimentation.
(c) Marine sedimentation is much less
widespread
than
continental
sedimentation.

(d) Researchers are more often forced to rely

on extrapolation when dating a layer of
marine sedimentation than when dating a
layer of continental sedimentation.
5. It can be inferred from the passage that
paleoclimatologists have concluded which of the
following on the basis of their study of snowline elevations in the southwestern United
States?
(a) There is usually more precipitation during
an ice age because of increased amounts of
evaporation.
(b) There was less precipitation during the last
ice age than there is today.
(c) The high lake levels during the last ice age
may have been a result of less evaporation
rather than more precipitation.
(d) During the last ice age, cooler weather led
to lower lake levels than paleoclimatologists
had previously assumed.

1. Paleoclimatologists need to make

comparisons between periods of geological
history.
2. Paleoclimatologists need to compare
materials that have supported a wide
variety of vegetation.
3. Paleoclimatologists need to make
comparisons with data collected in other
regions.

OR

Select the correct code:

(a) Only 1
(b) Only 2
(c) Only 1 & 2
(d) Only 1 & 3

SC

Directions for the following three items: Read the

following passage and answer the items that follow.
Your answer to these items should be based on the
passage only.
Passage - III

GS

Until recently most astronomers believed that the

space between the galaxies in our universe was a
near perfect vacuum. This orthodox view of the
universe is now being challenged by astronomers
who believe that a heavy "rain" of gas is falling into
many galaxies from the supposedly empty space
around them. The gas apparently condenses into a
collection of small stars, each a little larger than the
planet Jupiter. These stars vastly outnumber the other
stars in a given galaxy. The amount of "intergalactic
rainfall" into some of these galaxies has been enough
to double their mass in the time since they formed.
Scientists have begun to suspect that this
intergalactic gas is probably a mixture of gases left
over from the "big bang" when the galaxies were
formed and gas was forced out of galaxies by
supernova explosions. It is well known that when
gas is cooled at a constant pressure its volume
decreases. Thus, the physicist Fabian reasoned that
as intergalactic gas cools, the cooler gasshrinks
inward toward the center of the galaxy. Meanwhile
its place is taken by hotter intergalactic gas from
farther out on the edge of the galaxy, which cools as
it is compressed and flows into the galaxy. The net
result is a continuous flow of gas, starting as hot
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gases in inter galactic space and ending as a drizzle

of cool gas called a "cooling flow," falling into the
central galaxy. A fairly heretical idea in the 1970's,
the cooling-flow theory gained support when Fabian
observed a cluster of galaxies in the constellation
Perseus and found thecentral galaxy, NGC 1275, to
be a strange-looking object with irregular, thin
strands of gas radiating from it. According to
previous speculation, these strands were gases that
had been blown out by an explosion in the galaxy.
Fabian, however, disagreed, because the strands of
gas radiating from NGC 1275 are visible in optical
photographs. Fabian suggested that such strands
consisted not of gas blown out of the galaxy but of
cooling flows of gas streaming in ward. He noted
that the wavelengths of the radiation emitted by a
gas would change as the gas cooled, so that as the
gas flowed into the galaxy and became cooler, it
would emit not x-rays, but visible light, like that
which was captured in the photographs. Fabian's
hypothesis was supported by Canizares'
determination in 1982 that most of the gas in the
Perseus cluster was at a temperature of 80 million
degrees Kelvin, whereas the gas immediately
surrounding NGC 1275 (the subject of the
photographs) was at one-tenth this temperature.

6. According to the passage, the material used to

determine past climatic conditions must be
widespread for which of the following reasons?

7. It can be inferred from the passage that, if

Fabian is correct, gas in the peripheral regions
of a galaxy cluster
(a) streams outward into intergalactic space
(b) is hotter than gas in the central regions of
the galaxy
(c) is composed primarily of gas left over from
the big bang
(d) results in the creation of unusually large
stars
8. According to the passage, Fabian believes that
gas flowing into a central galaxy has which of
the following characteristics?
(a) It is one-tenth hotter than it was in the
outer regions of the galaxy cluster.
(b) It emits radiation with wavelengths that
change as the gas moves towards the center
of the galaxy.
(c) The total amount of radiation emitted
diminishes as the gas cools.
(d) It loses 90 percent of its energy as it moves
to the center of the galaxy.
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OR

10. A number when divided by a divisor leaves a

remainder of 24. When twice the original
number is divided by the same divisor, the
remainder is 11. What is the value of the
divisor?
(a) 13
(b) 59
(c) 35
(d) 37

15. Ravi travelled from city A to city B covering as

much distance in the second part as he did in
the first part of this journey. His speed during
the second part was twice as that of the speed
during the first part of the journey. What is his
average speed of journey during the entire
travel?
(1) His average speed is the harmonic mean of
the individual speeds for the two parts.
(2) His average speed is the arithmetic mean
of the individual speeds for the two parts.
(3) His average speed is the geometric mean of
the individual speeds for the two parts.
(4) Cannot be determined.

9. According to the passage, Fabian's theory

makes use of which of the following principles?
(a) Gas emanating from an explosion will be
hotter the more distant it is from the origin.
(b) The volume of a gas will increase as the
pressure increases.
(c) If pressure remains constant, the volume
of a gas will decrease as it is cooled.
(d) The wavelength of radiation emitted by a
gas as it cools remains constant.

SC

11. How many keystrokes are needed to type

numbers from 1 to 1000?
(a) 3001
(b) 2893
(c) 2704
(d) 2890

GS

12. When processing flower-nectar into honeybees'

extract, a considerable amount of water gets
reduced. How much flower-nectar must be
processed to yield 1kg of honey, if nectar
contains 50% water, and the honey obtained
from this nectar contains 15% water?
(a) 1.5 kgs
(b) 1.7 kgs
(c) 3.33 kgs
(d) None of these
13. 30% of the men are more than 25 years old
and 80% of the men are less than or equal to
50 years old. 20% of all men play football. If
20% of the men above the age of 50 play
football, what percentage of the football players
are less than or equal to 50 years?
(a) 15%
(b) 20%
(c) 80%
(d) 70%

14. If a sum of money grows to 144/121 times

when invested for two years in a scheme where
interest is compounded annually, how long will
the same sum of money take to treble if invested
at the same rate of interest in a scheme where
interest is computed using simple interest
method?
(a) 9 years
(b) 22 years
(c) 18 years
(d) 33 years
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16. A tank is fitted with 8 pipes, some of them that

fill the tank and others that are waste pipe
meant to empty the tank. Each of the pipes
that fill the tank can fill it in 8 hours, while
each of those that empty the tank can empty it
in 6 hours. If all the pipes are kept open when
the tank is full, it will take exactly 6 hours for
the tank to empty. How many of these are fill
pipes?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 5

Direction for questions 17-18: Answer the questions

on the basis of the information given below.
The following table shows that sales of a company
in different continents, as a percentage of the total
annual sales of the company in all the continents
put together, for each of the years 2001 to 2005.
The total annual sales of the company in 2001 were
less than that in 2003, while the sales in 2002 were
more than that in 2004.
Continent Year

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

North America

55

56

52

53

49

South America

10

15

Africa

Asia

12

15

10

11

Australia

10

12

14

20

12

16

Europe

17. The sales of the company in Asia in the years

2002 were
(a) less than that in 2001
(b) more than that in 2003
(c) more than that in 2004
(d) more than that in 2005
18. The number of continents in which the sales
increased from 2001 to 2003 is at least
(a) 1

23. A, P, R, X, S and Z are sitting in a row. S and Z

are in the centre, A and P are at the ends. R is
sitting to the left of A. Who is to the right of P?
(a) P
(b) A
(c) X
(d) S

(b) 2

22. S was heard telling someone to go further down

the corridor to the last office on the right. To
whose room was he trying to direct that
person?
(a) P
(b) Q
(c) R
(d) U

(c) 3

24. Introducing a boy, a girl said, "He is the son of

the daughter of the father of my uncle." How
is the boy related to the girl?
(a) Brother or Cousin (b) Nephew
(c) Uncle
(d) son in law

OR

(d) 4
Direction for 19-22

SC

Directions for the following three items: Read the

following passage and answer the items that follow.
Your answer to these items should be based on the
passage only.

GS

The plan above shows an office block for six officers

- P, Q, R, S,T and U. Both Q and R occupy offices
to the right of the corridor (as one enters the office
block) and P occupies an office to the left of the
corridor. T and U occupy offices on opposite sides
of the corridor but their offices do not face each
other. The offices of R and S face each other. T does
not have a corner office. U's office is further down
the corridor than P's, but on the same side.
19. If T sits in his office and faces the corridor,
whose office is to his left?
(a) P
(c) R

(b) Q

(d) S

20. Whose office faces P's office?

(a) Q

(b) R

(c) S

(d) T

21. Who is/are U's neighbour(s)?

(a) P only
(b) P and S
(c) R only
(d) Q and R
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Passage - IV

It was once assumed that all living things could be

divided into two fundamental and exhaustive
categories. Multicellular plants and animals, as well
as many unicellular organisms, are eukaryotic-their
large, complex cell shave a well-formed nucleus and
many organelles. On the other hand, the true bacteria
are prokaryotic cell, whichare simple and lack a
nucleus. The distinction between eukaryotes and
bacteria, initially defined in terms of subcellular
structures visible with a microscope, was ultimately
carried to the molecular level. Here prokaryotic and
eukaryotic cells have many features in common.
Forinstance, they translate genetic information into
proteins according to the same type of genetic coding.
But even where the molecular processes are the same,
the details in the two forms are different and
characteristic of the respective forms. For example,
the amino acid sequences of various enzymes tend
to be typically prokaryotic or eukaryotic. The
differences between the groups and the similarities
within each group made it seem certain to most
biologists that the tree of life had only two stems.
Moreover, arguments pointing out the extent of both
structural and functional differences between
eukaryotes and true bacteria convinced many
biologists that the precursors of the eukaryotes must
have diverged from the common ancestor before the
bacteria arose. Although much of this picture has
been sustained by more recent research, it seems
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Directions for the following three items: Read the

following passage and answer the items that follow.
Your answer to these items should be based on the
passage only.
Passage - V

The number of women directors appointed to corporate

boards in the United States has increased dramatically,
but the ratio of female to male directors remain slow.
Although pressure to recruit women directors, unlike
that to employ women in the general work force, does
not derive from legislation, it is nevertheless real.
Although small companies were the first to have women
directors, large corporations currently have a higher
percentage of women on their boards. When the chairs
of these large corporations began recruiting women to
serve on boards, they initially sought women who were
chief executive officers (CEO's) of large corporations.
However, such women CEO's are still rare. In addition,
the ideal of six CEO's (female or male) serving on the
board of each of the largest corporations is realizable
only if every CEO serves on six boards. This raises the
specter of director's overc ommitment and the resultant
dilution of contribution. Consequently, the chairs next
sought women in business had the equivalent of CEO
experience. However, since it is only recently that large
numbers of women have begun to rise in management,
the chairs began to recruit women of high achievement
outside the business world. Many such women are well
known for their contributions in government, education,
and the nonprofit sector. The fact that the women from
these sectors who were appointed were often
acquaintances of the boards' chairs seems quite
reasonable: chairs have always considered it important
for directors to interact comfortably in the boardroom.
Although many successful women from outside the
business world are unknown to corporate leaders, these
women are particularly qualified to serve on boards
because of the changing nature of corporations. Today
a company's ability to be responsive to the concerns of
the community and the environment can influence that
company's growth and survival. Women are uniquely
positioned to be responsive to some of these concerns.
Although conditions have changed, it should be
remembered that most directors of both sexes are over
fifty years old. Women of that generation were often
encourged to direct their attention towards efforts to
improve the community. This fact is reflected in the
career development of most of the outstandingly

OR

fundamentally wrong in one respect. Among the

bacteria, there are organisms that are significantly
different both from the cells of eukaryotes and from
the true bacteria, and it now appears that there are
three stems in the tree of life. New techniques for
determining the molecular sequence of the RNA of
organism shave produced evolutionary information
about the degree to which organisms are related, the
time since they diverged from a common ancestor,
and the reconstruction of ancestral versions of genes.
These techniques have strongly suggested that although
the true bacteria indeed form a large coherent group,
certain other bacteria, the archaebacteria, which are
also prokaryotes and which resemble true bacteria,
represent a distinct evolutionary branch that far
antedates the common ancestor of all true bacteria.

SC

25. According to the passage, investigations of

eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells at the
molecular level supported the conclusion that
(a) most eukaryotic organisms are unicellular
(b) prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells have
similar enzymes
(c) There are strong possiblities of a new class
of living organisms beside the major classes
of prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
(d) subcellular structures are visible with a
microscope

GS

26. It can be inferred from the passage that which

of the following have recently been compared
in order to clarify the fundamental
classifications of living things?
(a) The genetic coding in true bacteria and that
in other prokaryotes
(b) The organelle structures of archaebacteria,
true bacteria, and eukaryotes
(c) The cellular structures of multicellular
organisms and unicellular organisms
(d) The molecular sequences in eukaryotic
RNA, true
bacterial RNA, and
archaebacterial RNA
27. All of the following statements are supported
by the passage EXCEPT:
(a) True bacteria form a distinct evolutionary
group.
(b) Archaebacteria are prokaryotes that
resemble true bacteria.
(c) True bacteria and eukaryotes employ similar
types of genetic coding.
(d) True bacteria and eukaryotes are
distinguishable at the subcellular level.
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(c) The ability of a corporation to keep up with

changing markets was not a crucial factor
in its success.
(d) A corporation's effectiveness in coping with
community needs was less likely to affect
its growth and prosperity.
31. X alone can do a piece of work in 15 days and
Y alone can do it in 10 days. X and Y undertook
to do it for Rs. 720. With the help of Z they
finished it in 5 days. How much is paid to Z?
(a) Rs. 360
(b) Rs. 120
(c) Rs. 240
(d) Rs. 300

OR

28. According to the passage, the pressure to

appoint women to corporate boards differs from
the pressure to employ women in the work force
in which of the following ways?

(b) Corporations were less responsive to the

financial needs of their employees.

successful women of the generation now in their fifties,

who currently serve on corporate boards: 25 percent
are in education and 22 percent are in government,
law, and the nonprofit sector. One organization of
women directors helping business become more
responsive to the changing needs of society by raising
the level of corporate awareness about social issues, such
as problems with the economy, government regulation,
the aging population, and the environment. This
organization also serves as a resource center of
information on accomplished women who are potential
candidates for corporate boards.

(a) Corporate boards are under less pressure

because they have such a small number of
openings.

SC

(b) Corporate boards have received less

pressure from stockholders, consumers, and
workers within companies to include
women on their boards.

32. Ravish was counting down from 32. Sumit was

counting upwards the numbers starting from 1
and he was calling out only the odd numbers.
What common number will they call out at the
same time if they were calling at the same
speed?
(a) 19
(b) 21
(c) 22
(d) They will not call out the same number

(c) Corporate boards have received less

pressure from the media and the public to
include women on their boards.

GS

(d) Corporations are not subject to statutory

penalty for failing to include women on
their boards.
29. It can be inferred from the passage that, when
seeking to appoint new members to a
corporation's board, the chair traditionally
looked for candidates who
(a) had legal and governmental experience
(b) had experience dealing with community
affairs
(c) could work easily with other members of
the board
(d) were already involved in establishing policy
for that corporation
30. The passage suggests that corporations of the
past differ from modern corporations in which
of the following ways?
(a) Corporations had greater input on
government policies affecting the business
community.
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33. In a certain office, 1/3 of the workers are

women, of the women are married and 1/
3 of the married women have children. If 3/4
th of the men are married and 2/3 rd of the
married men have children, what part of
workers are without children?
(a) 5/18
(b) 4/9
(c) 11/18
(d) 17/18
34. How many 6-digit numbers exist which have
exactly 2 zeros and at least 2 ones?
(a) 4070
(b) 4170
(c) 3200
(d) 3690
35. A man has nine friends, four boys and five
girls. In how many ways can he invite them, if
there has to be exactly three girls in the invitees?
(a) 320
(b) 160
(c) 80
(d) 200
36. The probability of Suresh solving a problem is
Ramesh solving it is

2
,
5

1
and Aakash solving it is
3
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(a)

31
35

(b)

29
35

(c)

8
105

(d) 1

(a)

121
576

(b)

119
576

(c)

11
12

(d)

121
144

Select the correct code:

(a) Only I
(b) Only I or II
(c) Only II
(d) Only I and II together or I and III together

OR

37. What is the probability of getting a total of 10

exactly once in 3 throws of a pair of dice?

39. Four Subjects --- Physics, Chemistry,

Mathematics and Biology were taught in four
consecutive periods of one hour each starting
from 8.00 a.m. At what time was the Chemistry
period scheduled?
I. Mathematics period ended at 10.00 am
which was preceded by Biology.
II. Physics was scheduled in the last period.
III. Mathematics period was immediately
followed by Chemistry.

4
. If all three try to solve the problem, calculate
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the probability of problem being solved.

SC

Direction for 38-39: In the following problems, there

is one question and three statements I, II and III
below the question. You have to decide whether the
data given in the statements is sufficient to answer
the question. Read all the statements carefully and
find out the probable pair which can be sufficient to
answer the question.
38. Five persons --- A, B, C, D and E are sitting in
a row. Who is sitting in the middle?
I. B is in between E and C.
II. B is to the right of E.
III. D is in between A and E.

40. Any Day and date in September has the same

day and date in
(a) October
(b) November
(c) December
(d) August
41. Pointing to a photograph, A says to B" his
maternal uncle calls my maternal uncle as
maternal uncle". How is the person in the
photograph related to A?
(a) Son of A
(b) Husband of A
(c) Father of A
(d) None of these

GS

42. If South-East becomes North, North-East

becomes West and so on. What will West
become?
(a) North-East
(b) North-West
(c) South-East
(d) South - West

Select the correct code:

(a) Only I and II together
(b) Only II and III together
(c) Only I and III together

(d) All I, II and III together

Direction for 43-45 Given below is the data of the sale of refrigerators of a company in four cities during
a particular year. The record is based on quarterly sale.
Time of the Year
Cities

Jan to Mar
(Winter

April to June

July to September

concession)

Oct to Dec
(millennium
concession)

Calcutta

522

736

419

468

Chennai

419

606

403

452

Delhi

715

804

721

735

Mumbai

822

793

701

814

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43. What approximately is Mumbai's contribution

in the annual sale?

Conclusions:
I. Some woods are waters.

(a) 27.8%

(b) 33.3%

II. Some buckets are woods.

(c) 30.9%

(d) 31.5%

III. Some papers are buckets.

IV. Some woods are buckets.

44. The number of refrigerators sold during the

quarterly period of winter concession were how
many more or less than those of millennium
concession period?

(a) None follows.

(b) Only I & II follows.

(b) 3 more

(c) Only III follows.

(c) 9 more

(d) Only IV follows.

(a) 12 less

45. What is the percentage of the refrigerators sold

during July to Sept quarterly? (approx)
(a) 19.9%

(b) 23.9%

(c) 20.3%

(d) 22.1%

SC

Direction for 46-47: In each of the questions below

are given three statements followed by four
conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to
take the given statements to be true even if they
seem to be at variance from commonly known facts.
Read all the conclusions and then decide which of
the given conclusions logically follows from the given
statements disregarding commonly known facts.
46. Statements:

48. In a row of 40 girls, when Kamal was shifted

to her left by 4 places, her number from the left
end of the row became 10. What was the
number of Sujata from the right end of the row
if Sujata was three places to the right of Kamal's
original position?

OR

(d) 21 less

(a) 22

(b) 26

(c) 25

(d) None of these

49. Among P, Q, R, S, T and U, P is taller than R

and S, but not shorter than T and U; and Q is
taller than R, S, T and U but not as tall as P.
Who amongst them is the tallest?
(a) Data inadequate
(b) T
(c) U

2. Some spectators are theatres.

(d) P

GS

1. All players are spectators.

3. Some theatres are dramas.
Conclusions:

I. Some dramas are spectators.

II. Some players are dramas.

III. Some theatres are players.

IV. All spectators are players.
Select the correct code:
(a) Only II follows.
(b) None follows.
(c) Only II and IV follow.
(d) Only I and III follow.
47. Statements:
1. Some buckets are waters.
2. All waters are papers.
3. Some papers are woods.
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Select the correct code:

50. Six years hence, father's age will be six years

more than twice the son's age. Eighteen years
hence, the father's age will be six years less
than twice the son's age. After how many years
would the age of the father be twice the son's
age?
(a) 18 years
(b) 15 years
(c) 12 years
(d) Cannot be determined
Direction for questions 51-55: Each question is
followed by two statements, I and II. Answer the
questions using the following instructions.
Mark(a) if the question can be answered by one of
the statements alone, but cannot be
answered by using the other statement
alone.
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51. Is x greater than y?

I. x + y = 16
II. x + 2P = 5, y + P = 20

53. What is the value of x y z?

I. x, y, z are either 1 or 0
II. x2 + y2 + z2 = 1

OR

52. What is the distance of the point (x, y) from

the origin?
I. x2 + y2 = 16
II. x = 4, y = 0

SC

54. What is the number k?

I. One-fourth of the number exceeds 1/5 of
its succeeding number by 3.
II. k is a positive integer.

GS

55. What is length of the side of an equilateral

triangle formed by a wire?
I. The total length of the wire is divisible by
3.
II. The area of the rectangle formed by the
same wire is twice the area of the square
formed by the wire.
Directions for the following five items: Read the
following passage and answer the items that follow.
Your answer to these items should be based on the
passage only.
Passage - VI

Although genetic mutations in bacteria and viruses

can lead to epidemics, some epidemics are caused
by bacteria and viruses that have undergone no
significant genetic change. In analyzing the latter,
scientists have discovered the importance of social
and ecological factors to epidemics. Poliomyelitis, for
example, emerged as an epidemic in the United States
in the twentieth century; by then, modern sanitation
was able to delay exposure to polio until adolescence
or adulthood, at which time polio infection produced
paralysis. Previously, infection had occurred during
infancy, when it typically provided lifelong immunity
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without paralysis. Thus, the hygiene that helped

prevent typhoid epidemics indirectly fostered a
paralytic polio epidemic. Another example is Lyme
disease, which is caused by bacteria that are
transmitted by deer ticks. It occurred only
sporadically during the late nineteenth century but
has recently become prevalent in parts of the United
States,largely due to an increase in the deer
population that occurred simultaneously with the
growth of the suburbs and increased outdoor
recreational activities in the deer's habitat. Similarly,
an outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever became
an epidemic in Asia in the 1950's because of
ecological changes that caused Aedesaegypti, the
mosquito that transmits the dengue virus, to
proliferate The stage is now set in the United States
for a dengue epidemic because of the inadvertent
introduction and wide dissemination of another
mosquito, Aedesalbopictus.

(b) if the question can be answered by using

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

56. It can be inferred from the passage that Lyme

disease has become prevalent in parts of the
United States because of which of the following?
(a) The inadvertent introduction of Lyme
disease bacteria to the United States
(b) The inability of modern sanitation methods
to eradicate Lyme disease bacteria
(c) A genetic mutation in Lyme disease bacteria
that makes them more virulent
(d) An increase in the number of humans who
encounter deer ticks
57. Which of the following can most reasonably be
concluded about the mosquito Aedesalbopictus
on the basis of information given in the
passage?
(a) It is native to the United States.
(b) It can proliferate only in Asia.
(c) It transmits the dengue virus.
(d) It caused an epidemic of dengue
hemorrhagic fever in the 1950's.
58. Which of the following best describes the
organization of the passage?
(a) A paradox is stated, discussed and left
unresolved.
(b) Two opposing explanations are presented,
argued, and reconciled.
(c) A theory is proposed and is then followed
by descriptions of three experiments that
support the theory.
(d) A generalization is stated and is then
followed by three instances that support
the generalization.

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(a) An outbreak of Lyme disease

(b) An outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever
(c) An epidemic of typhoid
(d) An epidemic of paralytic polio among
infants
60. According to the passage, the outbreak of
dengue hemorrhagic fever in the 1950's
occurred for which of the following reasons?

OR

(a) The mosquito Aedesaegypti was newly

introduced into Asia.

was comparable to that of United States firms.

Furthermore, by the late seventies, the amount of
fixed assets required to produce one vehicle was
roughly equivalent in Japan and in the United States.
Since capital investment was not higher in Japan, it
had to be other factors that led to higher productivity.
A more fruitful explanation may lie with Japanese
production techniques. Japanese automobile
producers did not simply implement conventional
processes more effectively: they made critical changes
in United States procedures. For instance, the massproduction philosophy of United States automakers
encouraged the production of huge lots of cars in
order to utilize fully expensive, component-specific
equipment and to occupy fully workers who have
been trained to execute one operation efficiently.
Japanese automakers chose to make small-lot
production feasible by introducing several departures
from United States practices, including the use of
flexible equipment that could be altered easily to do
several different production tasks and the training
of workers in multiple jobs. Automakers could
schedule the production of different components or
models on single machines, thereby eliminating the
need to store the buffer stocks of extra components
that result when specialized equipment and workers
are kept constantly active.

59. The passage suggests that a lack of modern

sanitation would make which of the following
most likely to occur?

(b) The mosquito Aedesaegypti became more

numerous.
(c) The mosquito Aedesalbopictus became
infected with the dengue virus.

SC

(d) Individuals who would normally acquire

immunity to the dengue virus as infants
were not infected until later in life.
Directions for the following five items: Read the
following passage and answer the items that follow.
Your answer to these items should be based on the
passage only.
Passage - VII

GS

Japanese firms have achieved the highest levels of

manufacturing efficiency in the world automobile
industry. Some observers of Japan have assumed that
Japanese firms use the same manufacturing
equipment and techniques as United States firms
but have benefited from the unique characteristics
of Japanese employees and the Japanese culture.
However, if this were true, then one would expect
Japanese auto plants in the United States to perform
no better than factories run by United States
companies. This is not the case, Japanese-run
automobile plants located in the United States and
staffed by local workers have demonstrated higher
levels of productivity when compared with factories
owned by United States companies. Other observers
link high Japanese productivity to higher levels of
capital investment per worker. But a historical
perspective leads to a different conclusion. When
the two top Japanese automobile makers matched
and then doubled United States productivity levels
in the mid-sixties, capital investment per employee
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61. The primary purpose of the passage is to

(a) present the major steps of a process
(b) chronicle a dispute
(c) correct misconceptions
(d) defend an accepted approach
62. Which of the following statements concerning
the productivity levels of automakers can be
inferred from the passage?
(a) Prior to the 1960's, the productivity levels
of the top Japanese automakers were
exceeded by those of United States
automakers.
(b) The culture of a country has a large effect
on the productivity levels of its automakers.
(c) During the late 1970's and early 1980's,
productivity levels were comparable in
Japan and the United States.
(d) The greater the number of cars that are
produced in a single lot, the higher a plant's
productivity level.
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(a) A thesis is presented and supporting

examples are provided.
(b) Opposing views are presented, classified,
and then reconciled.
(c) A fact is stated, and an explanation is
advanced and then refuted.
(d) A theory is proposed, considered, and then
amended.

OR

64. The author suggests that if the observers of

Japan mentioned in line 3 were correct, which
of the following would be the case?

governments or international institutions, but by the

interaction between governments and global
corporations, especially in the United States, Europe,
and Japan. A significant factor in this shifting world
economy is the trend toward regional trading blocs
of nations, which has a potentially large effect on
the evolution of the world trading system. Two
examples of this trend are the United States-Canada
Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Europe 1992, the
move by the European Community (EC) to dismantle
impediments to the free flow of goods, services,
capital, and labour among member states by the
end of 1992. However, although numerous political
and economic factors were operative in launching
the move to integrate the EC's markets, concern about
protectionism within the EC does not appear to have
been a major consideration. This is in sharp contrast
to the FTA, the overwhelming reason for that
bilateral initiative was fear of increasing United
States protectionism. Nonetheless, although markedly
different in origin and nature, both regional
developments are highly significant in that they will
foster integration in the two largest and richest
markets of the world, as well as provoke
questionsabout the future direction of the world
trading system.

63. Which of the following best describes the

organization of the first paragraph?

(a) The equipment used in Japanese automobile

plants would be different from the
equipment used in United States plants.

(b) Japanese workers would be trained to do

several different production jobs.

SC

(c) Culture would not have an influence on

the productivity levels of workers.

(d) The production levels of Japanese-run

plants located in the United States would
be equal to those of plants run by United
States companies.
65. It can be inferred from the passage that one
problem associated with the production of huge
lots of cars is which of the following?

GS

(a) The need to manufacture flexible machinery

and equipment
(b) The need to store extra components not
required for immediate use
(c) The need for expensive training programs
for workers, which emphasize the
development of
facility in several
production jobs.
(d) The need to alter conventional massproduction processes
Directions for the following five items: Read the
following passage and answer the items that follow.
Your answer to these items should be based on the
passage only.
Passage - VIII
As the economic role of multinational, global
corporations expands, the international economic
environment will be shaped increasingly not by
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66. The primary purpose of the passage as a whole

is to
(a) describe an initiative and propose its
continuance
(b) chronicle a development and illustrate its
inconsistencies
(c) identify a trend and suggest its importance
(d) summarize a process and question its
significance
67. Which of the following can be inferred from
the passage about the European Community
prior to the adoption of the Europe 1992
program?
(a) There were restrictions on commerce
between the member nations.
(b) The economic policies of the member
nations focused on global trading issues.
(c) There were few impediments to trade
between the member nations and the
United States.
(d) The flow of goods between the member
nations and Canada was insignificant.

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68. The author discusses the FTA and Europe 1992

most likely in order to

deductions, exemptions, credits, and

loopholes benefits primarily the high-income
taxpayer, who is consequently able to
reduce his or her effective tax rate, often to
a level below that paid by the lower-income
taxpayer. Therefore, ______

(a) point out the similarities between two

seemingly disparate trading alliances
(b) illustrate how different economic
motivations produce different types of
trading blocs

(a) higher-income taxpayers are likely to lend

their support to the flat-tax proposal now
being considered by Congress

(c) provide contrasting examples of a trend that

is influencing the world economy
(d) identify the most important characteristics
of successful economic integration

(b) a flat-tax system that allowed no

deductions or exemptions would
substantially increase actual government
revenues

69. According to the passage, one similarity

between the FTA and Europe 1992 is that they
both

OR

(c) the lower-income taxpayer might well be

penalized by the institution of a flat-tax
system in this country

(a) overcame concerns about the role of politics

in the shifting world economy

(b) originated out of concern over unfair trade

practices by other nations

(d) the progressive nature of our present tax

system is more illusory than real.

(c) exemplify a trend toward regionalization

of commercial markets.

72. Kapoor is on firm ground when he asserts that

the early editors of Amrita's poetry often
distorted her intentions. Yet Kapoor's own, more
faithful, text is still guilty of its own forms of
distortion. To standardize Amrita's often
indecipherable handwritten punctuation by the
use of the dash is to render permanent a casual
mode of poetic phrasing that Amrita surely
never expected to see in print. It implies that
Amrita chose the dash as her typical mark of
punctuation when, in fact, she apparently never
made any definitive choice at all.

SC

(d) place the economic needs of the trading

bloc ahead of those of the member nations
70. The passage suggests which of the following
about global corporations?

(a) Their continued growth depends on the

existence of a fully integrated international
market.

GS

(b) Their potential effect on the world market

is a matter of ongoing concern to
international institutions.
(c) They will have to assume quasigovernmental functions if current economic
trends continue.
(d) They have provided a model of economic
success for regional trading blocs.
71. Which of the following best completes the
passage below?
One tax-reform proposal that has gained
increasing support in recent years is the
flat tax, which would impose a uniform
tax rate on incomes at every level.
Opponents of the flat tax say that a
progressive tax system, which levies a
higher rate of taxes on higher-income
taxpayers, is fairer, placing the greater
burden on those better able to bear it.
However, the present crazy quilt of tax
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Which of the following best summarizes the

author's main point?
(a) Although Kapoor is right in criticizing
Amrita's early editors for their distortion of
her work, his own text is guilty of equally
serious distortions.
(b) Kapoor's use of the dash in his text of
Amrita's poetry misleads readers about the
poet's intentions.
(c) Because Amrita never expected her poetry
to be published, virtually any attempt at
editing it must run counter to her
intentions.
(d) Although Kapoor's attempt to produce a
more faithful text of Amrita's poetry is wellmeaning, his study of the material lacks
sufficient thoroughness.
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Tam: But Shetty sponsored the latest anticrime

law passed by the Parliament
Priya: If Shetty sponsored it, it can't be a very
strong anticrime law.
Which of the following identifies the most
serious logical flaw in Priya's reasoning?
(a) The facts she presents do not support her
conclusion that Shetty is soft on crime.

(c) She argues in a circle, using an unsupported

assertion to dismiss conflicting evidence.

If B, then C.
If C, then D.

SC

(d) She attacks Shetty on personal grounds

rather than on he merit as a political leader.
74. If A, then B.

If all of the statements above are true, which of

the following must also be true?
(a) If D, then A.
(b) If not B, then not C.

GS

(c) If not D, then not A.

(d) None of the above.

75. Are you still reading the other newspaper in

town? Did you know that the Daily Mail is
owned by an out-of-town business syndicate
that couldn't care less about the people of
Timbuktoo City? Read the Daily News, the only
real voice of the people of Timbuktoo City!
Which of the following most directly refutes
the argument raised in the advertisement
above?
(a) Over half of the advertising revenues of
the Daily News come from firms whose
headquarters are located outside of
Timbuktoo City.
(b) The Daily News usually devotes more of
its pages to out-of-town news than does
the Daily Mail.
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76. In a particular village, 10 villagers have become

landless because their land has been acquired
for a public purpose. All the ten families are
very poor and were sortly dependents on the
land which they have lost. They approach to a
senior revenue officer of the distt. for help. The
officer will..
(a) Allot some govt land which is available in
nearby village and at present being used as
the grazing ground of the cattles.
(b) Advice the affected people to look for other
options and will direct concerned officials
and banks to do all possible assistance.
(c) Ask the village Panchayat, if the 10 families
could be provided with any assistance.
(d) Request some NGO if they could help the
10 families for any alternative job.

OR

(b) She assumes without proof that crime is

the most important issue in the upcoming
election.

(c) Nearly 40 percent of the readers of the

Daily News reside outside the limits of
Timbuktoo City.
(d) The editor-in-chief and all the other
members of the editorial staff of the Daily
Mail have lived and worked in Timbuktoo
City for ten years or more.

73. Priya: I don't intend to vote for Shetty in the

next election. She is not a strong supporter of
the war against crime.

77. Street dogs have become a great problem in a

particular town. The town administration, as a
long term policy decision will
(a) Ask some NGO to take care of street dogs
and request them to take some steps which
could reduce the problem.
(b) Catch hold of majority of street dogs and
release them in some distant villages.
(c) Streilise the male dogs in order to prevent
the reproduction.
(d) Appeal the people living in town not to
feed the street dogs so that they could die
on the account of hunger
78. There is a large scale encroachment on a
municipal land mostly by small shopkeepers.
The encroachment is in practice for the last 10
yrs and the municipal authorities have decided
upon to remove them with the assistance of
civil and police administration. They will
(a) Ask the affected shopkeepers to voluntarily
vacate the land family otherwise they will
be forcefully removed
(b) Contracture some shops and will give
preference to those in allotment who will
voluntarily vacate the municipal land

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80. For containing corruption it is very important

to provide security to whistle blowers. In an
incident, a person was beaten mercilessly when
he exposed various irregularities in
implementation of development scheme in
particular Distt.

79. A senior education dept official wants to develop

and maintain public libraries in rural areas. He
will
(a) Ask field level education deptt official
prepare a plan estimate for development
and maintainance of public libraries.
(b) Advice field level official to involve
educational institutions for development of
libraries.
(c) Expect educators in rural areas to come for
ward and help in developing and
maintaining libraries.
(d) Request the PRI to prepare plan for
development and maintainance of libraries

The distt. police chief should

(a) Personally investigate the matter and
identify the culprits and ensure that they
are brought to justice.
(b) Get the investigation done by a
professionally competent police officer and
take initiative for speedy trial.
(c) Start a massive manhunt for the accessed
and approached than and ensure that
guilty get an exemplary punishment.
(d) Ensure the protection of other whistle
blowers and take up the present case as a
test case so as to care people confidence.

SC

OR

(c) Forcefully get the municipal land vacated

and ask the encroachers to bear the cost of
removal.
(d) Enter into dialogue with encroachers and
try to reach into a settlement

GS

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