Graviton Employability Contest 201201 Contest Question Paper Instructions:

Attempt all questions honestly. Any attempt to cheat, copy or google will make our diagnosis incorrect. This test is like the x ray test. Your attempt at giving someone elses x ray report or tampering will only delay your chances of recovery and the doctor might prescribe you wrong medicines!! Dangerous! All the best- Enjoy!
All questions are compulsory: Section A- Life and Business Skills Question 1- Write about your two strengths and how that can help you in having a great career. Also, why do you say that these two are your strengths? Answer to be written in 200 words maximum Question 2- What do you think your mother thinks about you? Answer to be written in 100 words maximum Question 3- What do you think about your college? Answer to be written in 100 words maximum Question 4- If your dream company visits your college, why should they select you out of all the eligible students? Consider the fact that they are not interested in your percentage of marks. Answer to be written in 200 words maximum Question 5- Write about any failure of your life Answer to be written in 200 words maximum Question 6- Do you think democracy is good for India? Answer to be written in 100 words maximum Question 7- Take up business news of any company whose turnover is more than 2 billion dollars from last week and analyze it. (Reason of it happening and what do you think will happen in near future-can pick from Economic Times-please provide source of news) Answer to be written in 100 words maximum Question 8- If you could change 3 things in your college, what would it be and how will that help the college 10 years from now? Answer to be written in 200 words maximum Question 9- What is one thing which has changed in you in last 5 years? What was the reason and is this good for your career?

Answer to be written in 100 words maximum Question 10- Do you have any habit which will make your dream career path tough for you? If yes, have you tried overcoming it? Answer to be written in 100 words maximum Section B- Quantative Aptitude and Puzzle Solving: All problems are to be attempted and explanation/logic of the answer is to be given. Only writing the correct option or the value will not yield marks. Question 11-Two stations, named "Heaven" and "Hell", are connected by railroad. Trains start every hour from each station to the other, at the same time. A Train takes 5 hours to reach the other station. How many trains will a train meet during its journey (i.e. after leaving one station and before arriving at another station)? Question 12-A group of four people has to cross a bridge. It is dark, and they have to light the path with a flashlight. No more than two people can cross the bridge simultaneously, and the group has only one flashlight. It takes different time for the people in the group to cross the bridge. When two people together go through the bridge, the time taken by them to cross the bridge is the time taken by the person with highest crossing time: A crosses the bridge in 1 minute, B crosses the bridge in 2 minutes, C the bridge in 5 minutes, D crosses the bridge in 10 minutes. What is the minimum time in which they can cross the bridge? Question 13-A man drives along a main road at a constant speed, every 3 minutes he meets a bus and every 6 minutes a bus overtakes him. How often does a bus leave any of the terminals? Question 14-One marksman can fire 5 shots in 5 seconds while another can fire 10 shots in 10 seconds. Which of them can fire 12 shots in a short time? (Timing starts when the first shot is fired and ends with the last shot but the shots themselves are assumed to take no time) Question 15- A 5 digit number has 2 prime numbers (excluding 1), 2nd digit is smallest among the 5, 3 rd is largest, first is greater than sum of 4th & 5th digits, last digit is half of the 4th one. What is the first digit of the number? Question 16- 97 fighters participate in a friendly tournament. The champion is chosen for this tournament by the usual elimination scheme. That is, the 97 fighters are divided into pairs, and the two fighters of each pair play against each other. The loser of each pair is eliminated, and the remaining fighters are paired up again, etc. How many games must be played to determine a champion? Question 17- Complete the series: 5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8,? (Give at least two terms).

Question 18- A man drives with constant speed. After some time he sees a milestone with 2digits. Then he travels for an hour and sees the same 2 digits in reverse order. Then after an hour he sees that the milestone has the same 2 digits with a 0 between them. So what is the mans speed? Question 19- The King calls in three wise men and tells them to all close their eyes. While their eyes are closed, he goes around and puts a hat on each of them "I put a blue or white hat on each of you," the King says. "I won't tell you what color each hat is, but I promise you that at least one of you has a blue hat." "Now open your eyes," he continues. "You may not communicate with each other at all. Within one hour, one of you must call out the color of your own hat. If you aren't able to do this, or if anyone calls out the wrong color, I will have you all exiled from the kingdom." The wise men open their eyes and look at the other mens' hats. They stand there for almost the whole hour in silence, thinking. Just as time is about to run out, all three men figure out the color of their own hats and yell the colors out at the same time. Assume that all three men are perfect logicians that they know that the others are perfect logicians, and that they all think at the same speed. What colors are the three men's hats? Question 20- A Race track is one mile long, if a driver goes around once at 30 miles per hour, how fast must he drive in the second lap to average sixty miles per hour over both laps? Section C- Verbal Aptitude and Comprehension Reading: Question 21- Let children learn to judge their own work. A child ...(a)... to talk does not learn ...(b)... being corrected all the time ...(c)... corrected too much, he will ...(d)... talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the ...(e)... he uses and the language those around him use. a) A. endeavoring B. learning C. experimenting D. experiencing b) A. stop B. halt C. avoid D. shun c) A. in B. on C. by D. to d) A. unless B. being C. until D. if e) A. speech B. language C. talk D. skill Instructions grammatical that part is punctuation, for Q-22 & 23) Read the each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of if any).

Question 22A. We discussed about the problem so thoroughly C. that I found it very easy to work it out. Question 23A. An Indian ship C. got drowned in the Pacific Ocean.

B. on the eve of the examination D. No error.

B. laden with merchandise D. No error.

(Instructions for Q-24 & 25) Read the given Idiom (inn bold letters) and tick the correct answer out of given choices: Question 24- clean as a whistle The school thought their new teachers record was as clean as a whistle because he hadnt told them about a. his arrest for drunk driving b. his dirty bathroom c. his cheating at cards Question 25- add insult to injury After saying Beverly made too many mistakes, Bob added insult to injury by saying a. they were small mistakes b. she worked very slowly c. her work was excellent (Instructions for Q 26 - 28) Read the comprehension below to answer the Q 26, 27, & 28: It is not luck but labor that makes man. Luck, says an American Writer, is ever waiting for something to turn up; labor with keen eyes and strong will always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of legacy; labor turns out at six and with busy pen ringing hammer lays the foundation of competence. Luck whines, labor watches. Luck slips downwards to self-indulgence; labor strides upwards and aspires to independence. The conviction therefore, is extending that diligence is the mother of good luck. In other words that a man's success in life will be proportionate to his efforts, to his industry, to his attention to small things. Question 26- Which one of the following statements sumps up the meaning of the passage? a) Luck waits without exertion, but labor exerts without waiting. b) Luck is self-indulgent but labor is selfless. c) Luck waits and complains without working while labor achieves although it complains d) Luck often ends in defeat, but labor produces luck. Question 27- Which one of the following words in the passage indicates that the writer does not ultimately reject the element of luck? a) ' Luck ......is ever waiting'. b) ' Luck whines' c) Diligence is the mother of good luck d) Luck ... wishes the postman would bring him news. Question 28- Which one of the following statements is true about the following passage? a) Luck is necessary for success. b) Success depends only on hard luck. c) Expectation of good luck always meets with disappointment. d) Success is exactly proportionate to hard work. Question 29- It is not unusual to see the ball fall into a black slot on a roulette wheel four times in a row. But for it to fall five or six times in a row into the same color is very unusual. Therefore you can win money by waiting for a run of five of the same color and then betting against that color. If the roulette wheel in question is a fair wheel, which of the following observations or facts, if it were true, would best reveal a fallacy in the logic?

A. If there were a reliable way to win at roulette it would be well-known by now. B. It is hard for a player to keep track of what went before for the time required. C. The probability of getting a particular color decreases with the number of times the color has appeared. D. The probability of getting a particular color is always the same no matter what has gone before. E. A person who makes money this way once or twice, will carry on to lose that money after a few more times. Question 30- On the basis of the Big Bang theory scientists predicted levels of Helium-3 in the universe that are ten times greater than the levels actually observed. According to the original model, Helium-3 is produced when low-mass stars burn up hydrogen and become red giants, as well as being produced in the Big Bang itself. Researchers have now produced a new model in which the Helium-3 produced by a red giant is pushed to the stars interior and burnt up. Hence the Big Bang theory is no longer undermined by Helium-3 data. The two portions in bold-face are related to each other in which of the following ways? A. The first highlights an observation that tends to undermine a particular theory. The second is that theory. B. The first is a fact that undermines a theory. The second is context for accepting that theory. C. The first points to an inconsistency in a particular model; the second is the authors main conclusion. D. The first is a challenge to a classic theory; the second resolves that challenge. E. The first is a position that the author does not accept; the second is the authors position. (Instructions for Q. 31 & 32) Find the odd man out: Question 31- A. Abominable Question 32- A. Accrue B. Tempestuous B. Exuberate C. Abhorrent C. Numerous D. Detestable D. Pullulate

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