1. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.

Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your
answer.
1. However, you are not legally obliged to meet this commitment every month. “Although it is inadvisable to stop
SIPs .
2. However, if you don’t inform your bank and your account does not have enough balance to honour the SIP
mandate, you have to pay a penalty. 4132
3. Alternatively, you can simply cancel the instruction to your bank, so that when it receives the request for debit,
it does not allow the fund house to take the money.
4. When you start a monthly SIP with a fund house, you give your bank standing instructions to allow a fixed
amount to be debited automatically each month.

2. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your
answer.
1. The country’s richest temple body, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), says it’s facing a resource crunch
due to the restricted flow of devotees during the current Covid pandemic.
2. TTD chairman Y.V. Subba Reddy met Sitharaman and asked for Rs 50 crore in lieu of a pile of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000
old (demonetised) currency notes. 3214
3. Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has an unusual call to take.
4. The notes are said to be offerings from devotees at the shrine after the demonetisation in November 2016. A
highly unusual monetary headache for the minister.

3. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your
answer.
1. It depends on the movement and environment of these volunteers. 3421
2. Not all of the 375 people to be studied in Phase 1 and the 750 in Phase 2 are likely to contract the killer virus.
3. Pranav Sharma is one of 1,124 individuals being screened for a Covid vaccine trial.
4. “It is for the greater good of our planet,” he says.

4. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your
answer.
1. A top police officer says it is impossible to provide protection to everyone.
2. “Only those who are facing an imminent threat will be provided security.”
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3. While BJP workers may feel safe and reassured, other politicians evidently do not.
4. And there is no credible rationale proffered by the government for the manifest disparity in security covers.

5. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your
answer.
1. Azharuddin said Babar is still young and has the potential and the temperament to become one of the greatest
batsmen produced by Pakistan.
2. Babar has been likened to Kohli in the recent past due to his consistent performances across all 3 formats of the
game. 4312
3. When asked to give his opinion on the Virat Kohli-Babar Azam debate, Azharuddin said the skills and
performances of the Pakistan limited-overs captain should be praised and enjoyed rather than compared
4. Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin has said good batsmen should be enjoyed and not be judged
based on their counterparts' records, adding he doesn't believe in comparisons.
6. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your
answer.
1. Tarapada Haldar, another resident of Uttar Mohanpur, alleges that 140 TMC leaders and panchayat members
received compensation even though their houses are intact. 3241
2. “After our demonstrations, we were told to make peace with Rs 5,000—the amount fixed per family for partially
damaged houses
3. On the ground, though, there are allegations of political favoritism and embezzlement of funds by grassroots
TMC workers and functionaries in the distribution of relief.
4. Why should we accept it when our homes were completely destroyed?” asks Mahadeb.

7. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your
answer.
1. The narrative in each chapter is well stitched together and, at the conclusion, one is left with a clear geography
of the problem and the response.
2. The first chapter begins with a disturbing story of the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, home to some 20
million people, where water borrowed from a neighbour has to be returned in double the quantity within 180
minutes. 4312
3. This would seem to be quite a challenge to coherence, but I found it superbly addressed.
4. The author makes his case with an impressive combination of historical analysis, policy initiatives, cited research
and individual case studies of private responses.

8. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your
answer.
1. With luxury marques from Hermes to Tiffany’s, making a play for the indoor games market, you can idle
indulgently in all-out luxury.
2. Battling boredom? Enter board games. 3421
3. An idle mind is a gamer’s paradise.
4. Serial lockdowns, , culture have made solitaire not just a nostalgic card game, but a Covid state of mind.

9. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your
answer.
1. Welcome to 2020. 3421
2. There are lockdowns, a recession and no shortage of conspiracy theories, a vaccine seems far away.
3. A contagious virus emerges from East Asia.
4. It bounces across the globe, killing millions while a feckless US president and global disarray can do little to stop
it.
5.
10.The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your
answer
1. An antidote to corona gloom. 4132
2. These are some of the reasons that bicycle shops across India are filled with exhausted owners and little else.
3. Or perhaps just the latest fad for the well-heeled.
4. A lack of public transport.
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11) Company A, the second-largest supplier of triple blade razors, saw its sales of triple blade razors decrease from
150,000 units in 1983 to 100,000 units in 1986. From 1980 to 1986, Company A steadily decreased the percentage of
its marketing budget that it dedicated to promoting those razors from 50% to 30%. During this same six-year period,
Company B, the leading manufacturer of triple blade razors, consistently spent 60% of its marketing budget on
promoting its triple blade razor, while Company C, an up-and-coming competitor in the triple blade razor market,
increased the percentage of its marketing budget allocated to promoting its razors to 25%.
Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information above?
A. There is a direct relationship between the amount of money that a company spends on marketing its triple blade
razors and that company's sales of its razors.
B. Company B is the leading manufacturer of triple blade razors because it spends the largest amount of money on
the promotion of its razors.
C. Company C will soon surpass Company A as the second largest supplier of triple blade razors. E
D. Companies A and B supply more than 2/3 of the triple blade razors.
E. Between 1980 and 1986, Company A consistently dedicated a larger percentage of its marketing budget to the
promotion of its triple blade razors than Company C.

12) A new electronic security system will only allow a single person at a time to pass through a secure door. A computer
decides whether or not to unlock a secure door on the basis of visual clues, which it uses to identify people with
proper clearance. The shape of the head, the shape and color of the eyes, the shape and color of the lips, and other
characteristics of a person’s head and face are analyzed to determine his or her identity. Only if the person trying to
open a secure door has the required clearance will the door unlock. Because this new system never fails, an
unauthorized person can never enter a secure door equipped with the system.
If the statements above are true, which of the following conclusions can be most properly drawn? B
A. The new system is sure to be enormously successful and revolutionize the entire security industry.
B. The new system can differentiate between people who are seeking to open a secure door and people passing by a
secure door.
C. No two people have any facial features that are identical, for example, identical lips.
D. High costs will not make the new security system economically unviable.
E. The new computer system is able to identify some slight facial differences between people who look very similar,
such as identical twins.

13) Public Health Official: After several years of vaccinating all of the citizens of this state for Tacitus’ Disease, a highly
infectious virus, state hospitals have cut costs by no longer administering this vaccine, starting at the beginning of this
year. A state senator defended the position, arguing that after several years with zero incidence of the disease in the
state, its citizens were no longer at risk. This is a flawed argument. Our state imports meats and produce from
countries with high incidences of diseases for which our country has vaccines. Three years ago, when we reduced the
use of the Salicetiococcus vaccines, a small outbreak of Salicetiococcus among young children, fortunately without
fatalities, encouraged us to resume use at the previous vaccines.
The public health official’s statements, if true, best support which of the following as a conclusion? D
A. Young children of the state will be at risk for Tacitus’ Disease.
B. Some of the meats imported to this state do not have adequate refrigeration during the shipping process.
C. Tacitus’ Disease is a much deadlier disease than Salicetiococcus and has a correspondingly higher fatality rate.
D. No food products produced within the state bear any contaminants that could lead to either Tacitus’ Disease or
Salicetiococcus.
E. The cost of providing all citizens of the state with the Tacitus’ Disease vaccine places an undue burden on the
budget of state health agencies.
14) With advances in battery technology, electric cars allow automakers to tout that these vehicles produce none of the
harmful emissions that contribute to air pollution. While this is true in a narrow context—the vehicles themselves do
not release the emissions—the energy that fuels the batteries comes largely from the burning of fossil fuels, and that
energy creation causes the release of the same types of emissions that non-electric cars produce. Still, advances
continue to be made to allow electric-car batteries to recharge using the vehicle’s own friction and other sources of
energy that do not require the burning of fossil fuels.
Which of the following is a conclusion logically supported by the argument above? E
A. Automakers are being untruthful when they advertise zero-emissions electric cars.
B. Because electric-car batteries need to derive their energy largely from fossil fuels, electric cars do not provide an
emissions advantage over traditional cars.
C. With the exception of their capacity for recharging, electric car batteries do not create an emissions advantage
over traditional automobiles.
D. Electric car batteries still require the use of at least some fossil fuels to power the vehicles.
E. Electric cars are not yet viable sources of zero emissions but someday will be.

15) School Administrator: The number of fourteen-year old in Britain who are considered “gifted”—that is who score
higher than 90% of their peers on the mandatory secondary school entrance exam (MSEEE)—has increased steadily over
the past decade.
If the school administrator’s findings are correct, which of the following can be concluded based on those findings?
A. There has been at least some improvement in British education over the past decade.
B. The number of British fourteen-year old who are not considered gifted has decreased over the past decade.
C. The number of British fourteen-year old taking the MSEEE has increased over the past decade.
D. Preparation for the MSEEE has improved in British schools over the past decade. C
E. The percentage of British fourteen-year old who are considered gifted has increased as a percentage of the total
population

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16) A rare disease, malicitis, is being diagnosed with increasing frequency. The number of cases reported this year is
more than double the number reported four years ago. The government should now allocate more funds for
treatment and prevention of malicitis.
All of the following, if true, would weaken the conclusion EXCEPT: D
A. funds already available for research in malicitis are currently under-utilized
B. a new test employed for the first time this year detects malicitis at a considerably earlier stage in the
development of the disease
C. the number of cases reported this year represents the same fraction of the population as reported in all of the
last five years
D. a committee of experts reviewed the funding four years ago
E. a private foundation has committed sufficient funds to cover treatment and prevention needs as well as
research for the next five years

17) A scientific theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements - it must accurately describe a large class of
observations in terms of a model that is simple enough to contain only a few elements, and it must make definite
predictions about the results of future observations. For example, Aristotle’s cosmological theory, which claimed that
everything was made out of four elements - earth, air, fire, and water–satisfied the first requirement but it did not
make any definite prediction. Thus, Aristotle’s cosmological theory was not a good theory.
If all the statements in the passage are true, each of the following must also be true EXCEPT:
A. Prediction about the results of future observations must be made by any good scientific theory. D
B. Observation of physical phenomena was not a major concern in Aristotle’s cosmological Theory
C. Four elements can be the basis of a scientific model that is simple enough to meet the Simplicity criterion of a
good theory.
 D. A scientific model that contains many elements is not a good theory
E. Aristotle’s cosmological theory described a large class of observations in terms of only four elements.

18) Sixty adults were asked to keep a diary of their meals, including what they consumed, when, and in the company of
how many people. It was found that at meals with which they drank alcoholic beverages, they consumed about 175
calories more from non-alcoholic source than they did at mealswith which they did not drink alcoholic beverages.
Each of the following, if true, contributes to an explanation of the difference in caloric intake EXCEPT:
A. Diners spent a much longer time at meals served with alcohol than they did at those serve without alcohol.
B. The meals eaten later in the day tended to be larger than those eaten earlier in the day, and later meals were
more likely to include alcohol.
E
C. People eat more when there are more people present at the meal, and more people tended to be present at
meal served with alcohol than at meals served without alcohol.
D. The meals that were most carefully prepared and most attractively served tended to be those at which
alcoholic beverages were consumed
E. At meals that included alcohol, relatively more of the total calories consumed came from carbohydrates and
relatively fewer of them came from fats and proteins.

19) High-technology medicine is driving up the nation's health care costs. Recent advances in cataract surgery illustrate
why this is occurring. Cataracts are a major cause of blindness, especially in elderly people. Ten years ago, cataract
surgery was painful and not always effective. Thanks to the new technology used in cataract surgery, the operation
now restores vision dramatically and is less expensive. These two factors have caused the number of cataract
operations performed to increase greatly, which has, in turn, driven up the total amount spent on cataract surgery.
Each of the following, if true, would support a challenge to the author's explanation of the increase in the number of
cataract operations EXCEPT:
A. The overall population of the nation has increased from what it was ten years ago
B. Any one individual's chance of developing cataracts is greater than it was ten years ago.
C. The number of older people has increased during the last ten years. E
D. Today, health insurance covers cataract surgery for more people than it did ten years ago.
E. People who have had unsuccessful cataract surgery are left with more seriously impaired vision than they had
before the surgery.

20)By dating fossils of pollen and beetles, which returned after an Ice Age glacier left an area, it is possible to establish
an approximate date when a warmer climate developed. In one glacial area, it appears from the insect record that a
warm climate developed immediately after the melting of the glacier. From the pollen record, however, it appears
that the warm climate did not develop until long after the glacier disappeared.
Each one of the following, if true, helps to explain the apparent discrepancy EXCEPT:
A. Cold-weather beetle fossils can be mistaken for those of beetles that live in warm climates.
B. Warm-weather plants cannot establish themselves as quickly as can beetles in a new environment.
C. Beetles can survive in a relatively barren postglacial area by scavenging. E
D. Since planes spread unevenly in a new climate, researchers can mistake gaps in the pollen record as evidence of
no new overall growth.
E. Beetles are among the oldest insect species and are much older than many warm-weather plants.