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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words are given in
bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
There is absolutely no point in complaining that over the years, there has been pressure for increased
productivity and higher earnings for workers in industry. There are several ways for increasing employees earnings.
Employee earnings can be increased by raising the selling price of the firms products and services, reducing profits or
costs of raw materials, or augmenting labour productivity. However, increasing employee earnings by means other
than increased labour productivity jeopardizes the firms competitive strength in the market. Higher prices usually
mean fewer customers, reduced profit means less capital investment, and low-cost materials mean poor product
quality. But increasing labour productivity by enhancing skills and motivation creates an almost unlimited resources.
The development of economic resources, human as well as nonhuman, is the product of human effort, and the quality
of human effort in large part depends on human motivation.
Enthusing employees with workaholic spirit through traditional authority and financial incentives has become
increasingly difficult as employees become economically secure and their dependency on any one particular
organization decreases. According to expectancy theorists, the motivation to work increases when an employee feels
his performance is an instrument for obtaining desired rewards. Nevertheless, in many organizations today employees
are entitled to organizations rewards just by being regulations, and the nature of the job itself in some cases prevent
management from relating financial rewards to performance. People may be attracted to join and remain in
organizations to receive organizational rewards, but being motivated to join an organization is not the same as being
motivated to exert effort in an organization. The challenge to management is to find and administer alternative form of
incentives which will induce employees to improve work performance. Such alternative forms of reinforcement will
require increased understanding of motivational theories and programmes.
1. Which of the following statements is true in the context of the passage?
a. Development of economic resources is primarily the product of market conditions.
b. Earnings can be increased by lowering the selling price of products.
c. Employees can be best motivated by providing financial incentives. d. None of these
2. Organizations can derive maximum advantages by
a. Providing financial incentives to employees regardless of performance.
b. enhancing labour productivity by increasing skills and motivation.
c. encouraging employees to expend greater physical energy.
d. inducing employees to improve work performance and control their demands.
3. According to the passage all of the following contribute to an increase in employee earnings, except
a. increasing the selling price of the companys product b. reducing profits in favour of employees
c. providing incentives and fringe benefits to employees d. increased capital investment
4. Employees feel motivated to work when they
a. experience good working conditions in the organization
b. decide to produce goods and services as a result of team work
c. think of performance as a tool for obtaining rewards. d. Relate rewards to material prosperity.
5. Choose the word which is most similar in meaning as the word induce as used in the passage.
a. Appreciate b. stimulate
c. exhibit
d. inflate
6. Which of the following factors, according to the passage, adversely affects the organizations competitive
strength?
a. Making rewards contingent on performance.
b. anti-productivity and anti-management activities of labour unions
c. Motivating employees with traditional authority
d. Increasing employee earnings regardless of their productivity.
7. Which of the statements is/are not true in the context of the passage?
A. Human effort is the cause of the development of economic resources
B. Management is free to relate financial rewards to performance.
C. Employees can be easily motivated with traditional authority today.
a. Both A and B b. only C
c. Both A and C d. Both B and C
8. Which of the following factors determine the quality of human efforts?
a. Desire and willingness of an individual to excel in whatever he undertakes.
b. Economic resources available with the organization.
c. The individuals innovativeness
d. Authoritarian leadership and job security.
9. In the context of the passage, a companys competitive strength in the market is affected mainly because of
A. A slump in the international market B. poor inter-departmental coordination.
C. decreased labour productivity
a. only C
b. only B
c. only C
d. both B and C
10. Which of the following words is most opposite in meaning of the word jeopardizes as used in the passage?
a. safeguards b. endangers c. projects
d. devalues
One of the four words given in each of these questions may be wrongly spelt. The number of that wrongly
spelt word is the answer.
11. a. defamation b. arrogant
c. solitude
d. exhorbitant
12. a. decompose b. veteran
c. ventursome
d. definition
13. a. wastefull
b. prejudice
c. expensive
d. embarrassing
14. a. significant
b. possessive c. impatient
d. all correct
15. a. prosperous b. glumy
c. dormant
d. derogatory

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16. The Khilafat Movement was organized to protest against

a. Religious interference by the British b. Muslim Revolution
c. dismemberment of Turkey
d. Suppression of Pathans.
17. Planning Commission was established in the year
a. 1949
b. 1951
c. 1950
d. 1952
18. Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution on
th
th
th
th
a. 15 August 1947 b. 26 November 1949 c. 26 January 1950 d. 30 January 1948
19. The rustless Iron Pillar at Mehrauli (Delhi) was erected by the
a. Mauryas
b. Kushans
c. Guptas
d. Satavahanas
20. The famous Gayatri Mantra has been taken from
a. Rigveda
b. Samaveda c. Yajurveda
d. Atharvaveda
21. The Rajput King who was defeated by Babur in the battle of Khanwa was
a. Udai Singh b. Rana Pratap Singh c. Rana Sanga d. Rudra Deva
22. Who was the founder of the Ramakrishna Mission?
a. Sri Ramakrishna b. Swami Shraddhananda c. Keshab Chandra d. Swami Vivekananda
23. Who led the mutiny at Kanpur?
a. Begum Hazrat Mahal
b. Nana Sahib c. Tantia Tope d.Rani Laxmibai
24. Which Water Body separates Andaman and Nicobar Islands?
a. Andaman Sea b. Bay of Bengal
c. Ten Degree Channel d. Eleventh Degree Channel
25. The neighbouring country of India which has the smallest area is
a. Sri Lanka
b. Bangladesh c. Bhutan
d. Nepal
26. Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary is in the State of
a. Bihar
b. Tamil Nadu c. Assam
d. Kerala
27. Resin is extracted from
a. Papaya
b. Pine
c. Rubber
d. Banyan
28. When pressure is increased, the boiling point of water
a. decreases
b. increases
c. remains the same d. depends on the volume of vapour formed
29. A cyclist in circular motion should lean
a. Forward
b. Backward
c. Sideways towards the centre d. Sideway away from the centre
30. The chemical name of oil of vitriol is
a. Phosphoric acid
b. Nitric acid
c. Sulphuric acid
d. Hydrochloric acid
31. 20 women can do a work in 16 days and 16 men can do the same work in 15 days. What is the ratio of the
capacity of a man and a woman?
a. 4:3 b. 3:4
c. 2:5 d. 1:5
32. A pipe can fill a cistern in 10 hours. Due to a leak in the bottom it is filled in 12 hours. When the cistern is full
in how much time will it be emptied by the leak?
a. 20hrs
b. 30hrs
c. 40hrs
d. 60 hrs
33. A and B can complete a piece of work in 8 and 10 days respectively. However, they work alternately, one day
each, with A beginning the work. In how much time will the work be completed?
a. 8 & 2/5 days b. 8 & 4/5 days c. 6 & 4/5 days d. 8 & 3/5 days
34. A train running at the speed of 60 kmph crosses a 200 metre long platform in 27 seconds. What is the length
of the train?
a. 250 metres b. 200 metres c. 240 metres d. 450 metres
35. 50 people can complete a piece of work in 40 days. In how many days can 100 people with twice the
efficiency complete the same piece of work?
a. 20 days
b. 10 days
c. 15 days
d. 25 days
36. A car covers a certain distance at the speed of 54 kms per hour in 8 hours. What is the distance covered by
the car?
a. 428 kms
b. 444 kms
c. 432 kms
d. 430 kms.
37. 35 men can do a piece of work in 12 days. How many men would be required to do the same work in 21
days?
a. 20 b. 30 c. 18 d. 32
38. 18 children can do a piece of work in 12 days. How many children would be required to do the same work in 8
days?
a. 12 b. 18 c. 24 d. 27
39. Two trains of lengths 120 m and 90 m are running with a speed of 80km/h and 55km/h respectively towards
each other on parallel lines. If they are 90m apart, after how many seconds they will cross each other?
a. 5.6 b. 7.2 c. 8
d. 9
40. A person goes from town A to town B with a speed of 60km/h and return to A with a speed of 40 km/h. His
average speed for the whole journey is
a. 50 km/h
b. 48 km/h
c. 45 km/h
d. 55 km/h
41. If CLOCK is coded as KCOLC, what will be the first and last letters of the word in the same code for
RAMESHA?
a. A, M b. H, E c. R, A d. A, R
42. If in a certain language, KNOWLEDGE is coded as 256535475, how is GENERAL coded in that code?
a. 7545993
b. 7969393
c. 7555913
d. 755591
43. If UNDERSTAND is coded as 1234567823, how will START be coded?
a. 56781
b. 83243
c. 73652
d. 67857

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44. Pointing to a boy, Ramesh said, His only brothers mother is my fathers wife. How is Ramesh related to that
boy?
a. Uncle
b. Father
c. Nephew
d. Brother
45. If Bs mother was As mothers daughter. How was A related to B?
a. Father
b. Sister
c. Brother
d. Maternal Uncle
46. A and B are brothers. C and D are sisters. As son is Ds brother. How is B related to C?
a. Father
b. Brother
c. Uncle
d. Grandfather
47. If BUS is coded as 6-25-23, what should be the code for the word TRAM?
a. 24-22-5-17
b. 23-21-4-16 c. 20-18-1-13
d. 7-9-26-14
48. If the word LITTLE is coded as 639962, and BARK is coded as 8754, what should be the code for the
word TABLE?
a. 98762
b. 89762
c. 78962
d. 97862
49. If DELHI is coded as CFKIH, what should be the word for the code JBMQTS?
a. BOMBAY
b. BHOPAL
c. NAGPUR
d. KANPUR
50. In a certain code MAKE is written as 120, what should be the code for the word DRAMA?
a. 148 b. 185
c. 37
d. 158
51. Principle: Every crime must have some guilty intent accompanying it, though the mental elements of each
may differ widely. At one extreme is the case where a person deliberately intends to commit an act with its full
knowledge, whereas at the other extreme, a person causes injury to another on account of his undue
indifference and carelessness with respect to his conduct and its consequences.
Facts: Mr. Joginder Singh was going to Lodi Estate from Jorbaug in his Maruti 1000 at about 10 pm. While
entering Lodi Road, from Jorbaug market road, he knocked down a pedestrian, one Mr. Batra, who received
severe head injuries and later died on the way to hospital. Mr. Singh was prosecuted for causing the death of
Mr. Batra. Mr. Singh pleads that he did not know Mr. Batra, he did not have any enmity with Mr. Batra and that
he did not intend to kill Mr. Batra. Therefore, he must not be punished. Which of the following is the right
answer.
a. Mr. Joginder Singh has committed culpable homicide
b. Mr. Joginder Singh has committed murder
c. Mr. Joginder Singh is guilty of committing rash and negligent accident
d. Mr. Joginder Singh is not guilty of any offence
52. Principle: The Constitution of India guarantees freedom of speech and expression to all the citizens subject
to the right of the State to make a law and impose restrictions on this freedom in the interest of sovereignty
and integrity of India, the security of State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or
morality, or in relation to contempt of court, defamation, incitement of an offence.
Facts: Twinkle TV, a Hong Kong based Satellite TV Company introduces a new channel called as Channel
XXX which can be viewed in India. It is meant for adults since it telecasts only adult films. The Government of
India passes a law and bans viewing of this channel and other similar channels in India. It also makes
reception and circulation of such programmes by cable TV operators a punishable offence. This is likely to
result into considerable financial loss for cable TV operators throughout India because they were expecting
massive viewership for Channel XXX. The cable TV Operators Federation in New Delhi files a writ petition in
the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the new law as contradictory to freedom of speech and
expression.
a. Cable TV operators would succeed as fundamental right to freedom of speech must be upheld.
b. Cable TV operators would succeed as fundamental right to do any business, trade or occupation must be
upheld.
c. . Cable TV operators would succeed as it is for the viewers to decide what they would like to watch
d. Government has the right to restrict broadcasting of programmes which in their opinion violates decency
and public morality.
53. Principle: A master shall be responsible for the wrongful acts of his servants in the course of his employment.
Friends Taxi Company was a well-known taxi company whose taxi is always bore a special emblem easily
recognized by the people. The company had a firm policy prohibiting its employees from plying their taxis
outside their working schedule. Suresh was a driver with this company; and one day when he was getting
back to the garage after completing his days duty, Ramesh stopped him and requested for taxi service. Since
Rameshs place happened to be on the way to garage, Suresh obliged him. But on the way, due to Sureshs
negligence, the taxi collided against a wall and Ramesh was badly injured. He filed a suit against Friends Taxi
Company.
a. The company would not be liable for the act of Suresh, done in clear violation of its Regulations.
b. The company would be liable since Suresh was its employee
c. The company would be liable, since Ramesh believed that he had hired a taxi belonging to Friends Taxi
Company.
d. Company would be liable as Suresh was at fault.
54. Principle: A master shall be responsible for the wrongful acts of his servants in the course of his employment.
The Syndicate Bank was running a small savings scheme under which its authorized agents would go round
and collect small savings from several people on daily basis. These agents would get commission, on the
deposits so collected. Ananth was one such agent, collecting deposits from factory workers engaged on daily
wages. Though he regularly carried on his business for some time, slowly he started appropriating deposits
for his personal use and one day he just disappeared. One Fatima, who had been handing over her savings to
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Bank, when approached, took the stand that Ananth was not its regular and paid employee, and therefore, it
was not responsible for his misconduct. She files a suit against the Bank.
a. The Bank is not liable, since Ananth was not its salaried employee.
b. The Bank is liable, since Ananth was projected as its employee
c. The Bank is not liable, since it did not know about misappropriation by Ananth
Principle: A right of action cannot arise out of an illegal activity.
A and B were thieves engaged in stealing cars and other vehicles. Once they stole a car; and while driving off,
they had to cross a city. They engaged a driver to drive them through the city, since they did not know the
route inside. The indicator lamp of the car was not working and the thieves had not realized this, and
therefore, had not told about it to the driver. While driving, through the city, the car was hit by another vehicle
because of the faulty indicator. In the accident, the driver was injured and he filed a suit against A and B.
a. The driver would lose, because he was driving a stolen car.
b. The driver would win, because he was not a party to the stealing
c. The driver would win, because he did not know anything about the stealing
d. The driver would lose, because he should have noticed the faulty indicator
Principle: Nothing is offence by reason that it causes, or that it is intended to cause, or that it is known to be
likely to cause, any harm, if that harm is so slight that no person of ordinary sense and temper would complain
of such harm.
Facts: X takes a plain sheet of paper from Ys drawer without Ys consent to write a letter to his friend.
a. X has committed an offence in the above context
b. X has committed no offence in the above context
c. Y can sue X for an offence in the above context
d. None of the above is correct in the above context
Principle:A second suit will not be heard on the same facts between same parties.
A files a suit against B for getting possession of house X on the ground that this house was given to him by
the deceased C by a will. A fails to prove the Will. Hence his suit is dismissed. A then files another suit against
B to get house X on the ground that he is entitled to get the house as he is the nearest heir of C. Decide
a. A will not succeed as he could have pleaded the ground of being the nearest heir in the first suit.
b. A will succeed as the facts of the two suits are not the same
c. A will succeed as the second ground was not taken in the first suit by the mistake of his advocate.
d. Both b & c
Principle:A person can be arrested without warrant for committing a cognizable offence.
A requisition is received by the sub-inspector of a police station from another police station to arrest Suman in
connection with the commission of a non-cognizable offence. Suman has accordingly been arrested in
compliance with the requisition. Advise him
a. The arrest invalid as the requisition was treated as a warrant
b. The arrest is not valid as it was done without a warrant
c. The arrest is valid as Suman did not object to it
d.The arrest is invalid, as the police has no authority to arrest Suman
Principle: The owner of a property, who allows its use by another person, becomes liable for the damage
caused by its use, by the latter.
Facts: Tataiah takes his car to the garage for servicing. Since his office is a couple of kilometers away from
the garage, he requests the owner of the garage to get him dropped to his office in his car by one of the
latters assistants. The owner of the garage asks Jaggesh, an employee, to do the needful. On the way while
dropping Tataiah, the car collides with a motor cycle owing to negligent driving by Jaggesh and injures its
rider. The motor cyclist brings a legal action against Tataiah seeking monetary relief.
a. Motor cyclist will fail in this action, as he should have brought an action against the garage owner, in whose
employment was Jaggesh.
b. Motor cyclist will not succeed as Jaggesh, who is not the agent of Tataiah, is driving the vehicle.
c. Motor cyclist will succeed as the car was driven by Jaggesh with the consent of Tataiah.
d. Motor cyclist will succeed as Jaggesh was at fault
Principle: In a contract of agency, no liability exists upon the agent towards his Principal (Master), if he acts
with reasonable diligence in the matter of agency.
Facts: Ganesh, the owner of an estate, instructed Dinesh, an estate agent to find a buyer for his estate.
Dinesh, got an offer from Krishna Bhat to buy the estate for Rs.9,50,000/- and the same was promptly
communicated to Ganesh. Before the contract of sale was concluded, the agent got an offer of Rs.
10,25,000/- from Dayanand. Dinesh did not communicate this information to Ganesh. The latter brings an
action over the former for not having performed his function as an agent.
a. Dinesh is not liable to Ganesh as his job was only to find a buyer and no more.
b. Dinesh is not liable to Ganesh as he got good price for the estate which, under the prevailing market
conditions, was a bonanza.
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