DIRECTIONS for the question: The question has five statements A, B, C, D and E, which when arranged

logically form a coherent sequence. Write the correct sequence.

1.
A. Without the distribution and manufacturing efficiencies of the modern age, without the toll-free numbers
and express delivery and bar codes and scanners and, above all, computer, the choices would not be multiplying
like this.
B. Everywhere you turn, someone is offering advice on things like which of the thousands of mutual funds to
buy.
C. Consumer psychologists say this sea of choices is driving us bonkers.
D. Or the right MBA program from among hundreds of business schools.
E. Superior performance in this competitive world is all about mastering business basics.

_________ (TITA)

2.
A. A large majority of these school dropouts has limited access to vocational training or any form of skill
development program as there are just about 2.5 to 3 million seats for such education.
B. For instance, hardly 5% of 20-24 year olds of our workforce has received any form of vocational training
compared to 60-80% in developed countries.
C. The level of educated among the existing workforce is low and on the other hand the educated without
professional skills is high.
D. Thus, in view of the working age population which is expected to grow by more than 47 million by 2020,
equipping this evergrowing workforce with appropriate skills and knowledge and harnessing their potential as
human capital is the need of the hour.
E. Significantly, while 200 million students enrol for primary education, only 20 million are able to finish class 12

_________ (TITA)

DIRECTIONS for the question 3 & 4: In each of the following paragraph, a part of the paragraph is left
unfinished. Beneath the paragraph, four different ways of completing the paragraph are indicated. Choose
the best alternative amongst the four.
3.
A larger brain are fine endowments, but they presented a major difficulty: that of being born. A child with a
large-size brain could not possibly be born through its mother’s birth passage and pelvis. The answer, from the
point of view of evolution, was a compromise: the female pelvis broadened somewhat to accommodate the
larger head of the foetus; the infants were born with considerably less than their full brain size and
development. In chimpanzees, to give a rough comparison, babies are born with 65 percent of their adult
capacity; in the australopithecines the percentage was about 50 percent ; in modern humans the figure is about
25 percent. That is, a modern baby has a brain which is about one-quarter the size of the brain that it will
eventually develop. A related fact of significance is that in contrast to the young of other animals, a human baby
is immature, underdeveloped, and in fact, as well all know, entirely hopeless. This evolutionary development
has had two important consequences. One is the changed shape and functioning of the female – the broadened
hips and rather rolling gait that is typical of the human female are the direct results of the need to
accommodate the enlarged brain. This change brought to females a disadvantage in walking and running.

A) Thus the child’s dependency on the mother was prolonged resulting in better bonding.
B) Thus the adult human looks more like a young female chimpanzee than the adult chimpanzee.
C) The young female apes are brighter brained and larger headed than adult humans.
D) Thus when hunting swift animals the men were the ones who did the chasing while women tended to other
jobs

4.
It didn’t matter that a company was profitable; if investors could get higher profits and higher stock prices
elsewhere, the company was still under the gun. Nor did it matter that a product was relatively cheap and of fair
quality, if consumers could get better deals elsewhere. Workers who inhabited the local service economy faced
a different challenge from their counterparts in big industry. Their jobs weren’t in danger of disappearing. They
couldn’t be outsourced abroad and most wouldn’t be automated. In fact, the number of local service jobs kept
growing.
A) Significantly, most of these service jobs were not unionized
B) The real problem was that these jobs tended to pay very low wages, rarely included any benefits, and
provided little chance for advancement.
C) Their unions were interested in preserving good wages and benefits of its current members
D)The service unions saw their mission less as preserving good jobs in danger of disappearing and more as
boosting the prospects of people trapped in poor ones.

PASSAGE I
I do not pretend that the development of trust in leadership is a science or something that may be perfected –
far from it. And I am not suggesting that the development of genuine humility, and finally trust, in leadership is
by any means easy. It is the hardest thing the human creature called man can do. Anyone suggesting that he is,
in fact, a person or leader of humility, moves farther from it. Warren Bennis argues that leaders rarely fail
because of technical incompetence. Instead, where leaders predominantly fail is weakness on the softer issues
such as “people skills, taste, judgment, and above all, character.” The most compelling leaders lead and keep
their trust when they start with a proper view of themselves. By embracing this essential humility, leaders will
not only influence and lead, but will transform the lives of those around them, reproducing leadership in others.
This essence is what Professor Lewis would have referred to as “mereness”. Applied to leadership, this
mereness occurs, first, when leaders develop a core understanding of their humanity; second, when they
understand their depraved nature; and third, when leaders finally grasp that the purpose of leadership is not
leadership itself. When this mereness is revealed in leaders, they build trust. This, is turn, properly allows them
to serve others. Whether you hold a materialistic view of the universe (that matter and space have always
existed and nobody know why) or the theistic view (that there is something behind the universe that has a mind
and a conscious purpose) we are in fact alike. Nothing like stating the obvious, but it must be stated in
leadership. It is the foundation. Even Sigmund Freud, who rejected a theistic view of the universe in favour of a
materialistic or “scientific “ one, still seemed to acknowledge some kind of unexplainable force in the universe.
Freud experienced “strange, secret longings” that he described as sechsucht. C.S. Lewis characterized his
sechsucht as an “unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.” Whether we are
born in poverty or into wealth; whether we are born in Beverly Hills or in Calcutta; whether we are born with
disabilities or not; whether we are born white, yellow, brown, or black; we are, in terms of these longings, and
our human nature, intrinsically alike. In terms of pain – regardless of our backgrounds, lifestyles, and worldviews
– we all have, like the apostle Paul, a “thorn” somewhere in our flesh. While some acknowledge those thorns,
others bury them deep within their souls not only to conceal them from others, but also to pretend that they do
not exist. Do not deny for a minute that they are not real. We are the creatures called man. Moreover, there are
certain decent moral behaviours to which we all adhere. There are, in fact, laws of decent behaviour that
without formal moral or religious instruction ought to naturally govern our behaviour. Men have differed as
regards what people who ought to be unselfish to – whether it was your family, or your fellow countrymen, or
everyone,” wrote Lewis. “But they have always agreed that you ought not to put yourself first. Selfishness has
never been admired.” Look at the corporate life: one of the common business practices over the last decade has
been to manipulate accounting rules in order to maximize the earnings of public companies. Enron’s former
treasurer Jeffrey McMahon declared that Enron decided to obey only the accounting rules that got them the
results they wanted. Inherent in his argument is the insinuation that rules may have been broken, but until he is
caught or told otherwise, he will continue to practice. While other energy companies also practised such
accounting, it didn’t make Enron’s use of “ mark to market”, and other creative accounting gimmicks (such as
hiding debt in special-purpose entities), any more correct. Some of the blame for the corporate fraud of the 90s
must be placed at the feet of regulators who made changes in the method of accounting standards, the culture
of Wall Street that demanded aggressive earnings growth, and executives whose compensation targets were
tied to the price of their own personal options. Blame could be spread far and wide, but the fact remains that at
some point some leader (not accounting rule) had to make a conscious decision to inflate earnings. Whether
other competitors were doing it or not or whether the accounting standards were loose enough to enable them,
most leaders knew such actions were questionable, if not outright wrong.
5.The primary focus of the passage is on
A) Humility, morality and integrity
B) Leadership, humility and ratiocination
C) Humanity, materialism and rationalization
D) Humility, leadership and moral behaviour

6. By giving example of Enron’s Jeffrey McMahon, the author wants to highlight the fact that
A) In the 1990s most large corporations followed disputable accountancy practices and hence underscoring only
Enron is incorrect. B) Questionable actions by the leader cannot be justified even in adverse circumstances or
conditions C) At that time, the culture of Wall Street made it mandatory for leaders to follow aggressive tactics
D) If not caught, a company should follow improper practices for financial gains

7. According the passage we can infer all of the following, except

A) Good leaders are interested in their followers and the organisation. B) Leader’s performance depends upon
personal character C) Humility is rarely present in a person who says he possesses it. D) Mereness in a leader
signifies them being “selfless” or “servile” in their disposition.

PASSAGE II
The drive to “advance” – I think you have to ask exactly what that means. If you mean a drive to produce more,
well, who wants it? Is that necessarily the right thing to do? It’s obvious. In fact, in many areas it’s probably the
wrong thing to do – maybe it’s a good thing that there wouldn’t be the same drive to produce. People have to
be driven to have certain wants in our system – why? Why not leave them alone so they can just be happy, do
their things? Whatever “drive” there is ought to be internal. So take a look at kids: they’re creative, they
explore, they want to try new things. You take a one-year old kid, he’s crawling fine, he can get anywhere across
the room he likes really fast, so fast his parents have to run to keep him from knocking everything down – all of
a sudden he gets up and starts walking. He’s terrible at walking: he walks one step and he falls on his face, and if
he wants to really get somewhere he’s going to crawl. So why do kids start walking? Well, they just want to do a
new thing, that’s the way people are built. We’re built to want to do new things, even if they’re not efficient,
even if they’re harmful, even if you get hurt – and I don’t think that ever stops. People want to explore, we want
to press our capacities to their limits, we want to appreciate what we can. But the joy of creation is something
very few people get the opportunity to have in our society: artists get to have it, craftspeople have it, scientists.
And if you’ve been lucky enough to have had that opportunity, you know it’s quite an experience – and it
doesn’t have to be discovering Einstein’s theory of relativity: anybody can have the pleasure, even by seeing
what other people have done. For instance, if you read even a simple mathematical proof like the Pythagorean
Theorem, what you study in tenth grade, and finally figure out what it’s all about, that’s exciting – “My God, I
never understood that before.” Okay, that’s creativity, even though somebody else proved it thousand years
ago. You just keep being struck by the marvels of what you’re discovering, and you’re “discovering” it, even
though somebody else did it already. Then if you can ever add a little bit to what’s already known – alright,
that’s very exciting. And I think the same thing is true of a person who builds a boat: I don’t see why it’s
fundamentally any different – I mean, I wish I could do that; I can’t, I can’t imagine doing it. Well, I think the
people should be able to live in a society where they can exercise these kinds of internal drives and develop
their capacities freely – instead of being forced into the narrow range of options that are available to most
people in the world now. And by that, I mean not only options that are objectively available, but also options
that are subjectively available – like, how are people allowed to think, how are they able to think? Remember,
there are all kinds of ways of thinking that are cut off from us in our society – not because we’re incapable of
them, but because various blockages have been developed and imposed to prevent people from thinking in
those ways. So, I think what has to happen is, other options have to be opened up to people – both subjectively,
and in fact concretely: meaning you can do something about them without great suffering. And that’s one of the
main purposes of socialism, I think: to reach a point where people have the opportunity to decide freely for
themselves what their needs are, and not just have the choices forced on them by some arbitrary system of
power
8. Through the example of a kid starting to walk, the author wants to point out that
A) External forces play a major role in determining what a person should or would do
B) Activities need not always be done with the objective of learning something
C) Each of us has an inherent urge to explore and use our capacities to the fullest
D) Unless you fail in your initial endeavours you cannot progress

9. According to the passage all of the following are untrue, EXCEPT

A) The author states that freedom to choose things hampers progress
B) Indoctrination is like being shackled, which prevents people from thinking on their own.
C) People experience joy only when they are able to discover or invent something new.
D) In order to think subjectively, options need to be opened up to people

10. The tone of the passage is

A) Sarcastic and derogatory
B) Disapproving yet insightful
C) Pedantic yet approving
D) Authoritative and placating