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Solutions of Mock CAT – 1 2017

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Directions for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The loveliest image I know is Fra Angelico’s ‘Entry of the Blessed into Paradise’, a scene from his painting The Last Judgment of 1431. In it, the blessed, just
risen from their graves, gather together in a flowering garden to join hands with angels and dance into the light of heaven. There’s a scene in D H
Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow (1915) when Anna Brangwen sees a copy of the image, and finds it almost too beautiful to look at. ‘The floweriness, the
beams of light, the linking of hands, was almost too much for her, too innocent,’ writes Lawrence. Overwhelmed, she weeps ‘with happiness’.

I understand Anna’s feeling; I’d never been moved to tears by a painting before, but I was when I saw this one a few months ago in Florence. Yet if I step
back and take in The Last Judgment as a whole – the saved on one side, welcomed by angels; the damned on the other, herded by devils; the celestial host
above them, directing it all – it strikes me as an odd painting for a secular person to love. The Last Judgment is more than a work of art. It’s a profession of
faith – in divine justice, the communion of saints, the resurrection of the body, life everlasting. What does it mean for a person like me to love a painting
like this? What does it mean to be moved by the beauty of a vision you can’t believe to be true?

Questions such as these hum in the background of every secular experience of sacred art. But in the Museum of San Marco, where The Last Judgment
hangs, they resonate more than usual. The museum was once a convent, home to generations of friars for whom a painting such as this would have had the
status of revealed truth. The convent is most famous for a series of frescoes Angelico painted there, all on spiritual themes, for the friars’ silent, solitary
contemplation. Standing today where the friars once stood, looking at images they once looked at, I felt, more vividly than in ordinary museums, both my
distance from their world and a peculiar closeness to it.

It’s the remoteness of that world that struck me first. The friars of San Marco were Dominicans of a special sort – ‘strict observers’, committed to living in
absolute accordance with the rules Saint Dominic had laid down for the Order when he founded it in 1216. They belonged to the Dominican Observance, a
reform movement that had sprung up within the Dominican Order in the 1390s, around the time Angelico was born. They urged a return to the austere way
of life of the earliest Dominican friars, which meant, among other things, enduring long fasts, keeping silence at meals and in the dormitories, disciplining
oneself with a scourge, sleeping on a hard, narrow bed, and rising to pray at three every morning.

In the 1430s, the Observance expanded into Florence. They set their sights on San Marco, a well-placed, but dilapidated, Silvestrine monastery near the
heart of the city. They had the Pope on their side, as well as the powerful Medici family, and soon San Marco was theirs. To decorate the inside, the
Dominicans hired Angelico. He was an obvious choice, being both an observant friar and a brilliant painter. And he was well known by then: his next
commission would come from the Pope.

By 1445, Angelico and his assistants completed more than 50 paintings and frescoes for San Marco, reserving the most spectacular paintings for the public
spaces downstairs. The Crucifixion with Saints , in the chapter room, is particularly striking. It’s a brilliantly coloured, semi-circular fresco more than 30
feet wide. Christ and the two thieves hang on crosses at the centre; below them, 20 life-sized figures – a mix of historical witnesses and saints – respond to
the crucifixion, each one revealing his or her sorrow in a different way. When Henry James visited San Marco in 1873, he found himself transfixed by the
image. ‘I looked long,’ he wrote, in Italian Hours (1909), ‘one can hardly do otherwise.’

Q.1
The main purpose of this passage is to

1 attempt to resolve the question of whether secular people can appreciate sacred art.

2 go deep into sacred art to understand its secular roots.

3 attempt a vivisection of Angelico’s life to divide it into the secular and the sacred.

4 chronicle Angelico’s life to understand the motivating factors for his art.

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Correct Answer : 1
Paragraph 1 introduces The Last Judgment and its beauty. Paragraph 2 raises the main issue of the passage - can sacred art be
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truly appreciated by people who do not believe. The paragraphs further provide a context to this discussion by showcasing the
life and art of Angelico. This makes Option 1 correct. Options 2 and 3 are incorrect because the passage does not go into
secular roots of art, or divide things into secular and sacred. Option 4 is incorrect because the passage does not cover
motivating factors.
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Directions for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The loveliest image I know is Fra Angelico’s ‘Entry of the Blessed into Paradise’, a scene from his painting The Last Judgment of 1431. In it, the blessed, just
risen from their graves, gather together in a flowering garden to join hands with angels and dance into the light of heaven. There’s a scene in D H
Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow (1915) when Anna Brangwen sees a copy of the image, and finds it almost too beautiful to look at. ‘The floweriness, the
beams of light, the linking of hands, was almost too much for her, too innocent,’ writes Lawrence. Overwhelmed, she weeps ‘with happiness’.

I understand Anna’s feeling; I’d never been moved to tears by a painting before, but I was when I saw this one a few months ago in Florence. Yet if I step
back and take in The Last Judgment as a whole – the saved on one side, welcomed by angels; the damned on the other, herded by devils; the celestial host
above them, directing it all – it strikes me as an odd painting for a secular person to love. The Last Judgment is more than a work of art. It’s a profession of
faith – in divine justice, the communion of saints, the resurrection of the body, life everlasting. What does it mean for a person like me to love a painting
like this? What does it mean to be moved by the beauty of a vision you can’t believe to be true?

Questions such as these hum in the background of every secular experience of sacred art. But in the Museum of San Marco, where The Last Judgment
hangs, they resonate more than usual. The museum was once a convent, home to generations of friars for whom a painting such as this would have had the
status of revealed truth. The convent is most famous for a series of frescoes Angelico painted there, all on spiritual themes, for the friars’ silent, solitary
contemplation. Standing today where the friars once stood, looking at images they once looked at, I felt, more vividly than in ordinary museums, both my
distance from their world and a peculiar closeness to it.

It’sthe remoteness of that world that struck me first. The friars of San Marco were Dominicans of a special sort – ‘strict observers’, committed to living in
absolute accordance with the rules Saint Dominic had laid down for the Order when he founded it in 1216. They belonged to the Dominican Observance, a
reform movement that had sprung up within the Dominican Order in the 1390s, around the time Angelico was born. They urged a return to the austere way
of life of the earliest Dominican friars, which meant, among other things, enduring long fasts, keeping silence at meals and in the dormitories, disciplining
oneself with a scourge, sleeping on a hard, narrow bed, and rising to pray at three every morning.

In the 1430s, the Observance expanded into Florence. They set their sights on San Marco, a well-placed, but dilapidated, Silvestrine monastery near the
heart of the city. They had the Pope on their side, as well as the powerful Medici family, and soon San Marco was theirs. To decorate the inside, the
Dominicans hired Angelico. He was an obvious choice, being both an observant friar and a brilliant painter. And he was well known by then: his next
commission would come from the Pope.

By 1445, Angelico and his assistants completed more than 50 paintings and frescoes for San Marco, reserving the most spectacular paintings for the public
spaces downstairs. The Crucifixion with Saints , in the chapter room, is particularly striking. It’s a brilliantly coloured, semi-circular fresco more than 30
feet wide. Christ and the two thieves hang on crosses at the centre; below them, 20 life-sized figures – a mix of historical witnesses and saints – respond to
the crucifixion, each one revealing his or her sorrow in a different way. When Henry James visited San Marco in 1873, he found himself transfixed by the
image. ‘I looked long,’ he wrote, in Italian Hours (1909), ‘one can hardly do otherwise.’

Q.2
The reasons for the Dominicans to hire Angelico are that

1 he was an observant friar and a brilliant painter.

2 he was a brilliant painter and his next commission would come from the Pope.

3 his next commission would come from the Pope.

4 he was an observant friar and a brilliant painter and his next commission would come from the Pope.

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Correct Answer : 1
The second last paragraph says “He was an obvious choice, being both an observant friar and a brilliant painter.” This makes
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Option 1 correct. However, it continues “And he was well known by then: his next commission would come from the Pope.” From
this, we cannot conclude that the commission was to be given to him – we only know that he went on to get a commission from
the Pope. Hence, Options 2, 3 and 4 are incorrect.
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Directions for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The loveliest image I know is Fra Angelico’s ‘Entry of the Blessed into Paradise’, a scene from his painting The Last Judgment of 1431. In it, the blessed, just
risen from their graves, gather together in a flowering garden to join hands with angels and dance into the light of heaven. There’s a scene in D H
Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow (1915) when Anna Brangwen sees a copy of the image, and finds it almost too beautiful to look at. ‘The floweriness, the
beams of light, the linking of hands, was almost too much for her, too innocent,’ writes Lawrence. Overwhelmed, she weeps ‘with happiness’.

I understand Anna’s feeling; I’d never been moved to tears by a painting before, but I was when I saw this one a few months ago in Florence. Yet if I step
back and take in The Last Judgment as a whole – the saved on one side, welcomed by angels; the damned on the other, herded by devils; the celestial host
above them, directing it all – it strikes me as an odd painting for a secular person to love. The Last Judgment is more than a work of art. It’s a profession of
faith – in divine justice, the communion of saints, the resurrection of the body, life everlasting. What does it mean for a person like me to love a painting
like this? What does it mean to be moved by the beauty of a vision you can’t believe to be true?

Questions such as these hum in the background of every secular experience of sacred art. But in the Museum of San Marco, where The Last Judgment
hangs, they resonate more than usual. The museum was once a convent, home to generations of friars for whom a painting such as this would have had the

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status of revealed truth. The convent is most famous for a series of frescoes Angelico painted there, all on spiritual themes, for the friars’ silent, solitary
contemplation. Standing today where the friars once stood, looking at images they once looked at, I felt, more vividly than in ordinary museums, both my
distance from their world and a peculiar closeness to it.

It’sthe remoteness of that world that struck me first. The friars of San Marco were Dominicans of a special sort – ‘strict observers’, committed to living in
absolute accordance with the rules Saint Dominic had laid down for the Order when he founded it in 1216. They belonged to the Dominican Observance, a
reform movement that had sprung up within the Dominican Order in the 1390s, around the time Angelico was born. They urged a return to the austere way
of life of the earliest Dominican friars, which meant, among other things, enduring long fasts, keeping silence at meals and in the dormitories, disciplining
oneself with a scourge, sleeping on a hard, narrow bed, and rising to pray at three every morning.

In the 1430s, the Observance expanded into Florence. They set their sights on San Marco, a well-placed, but dilapidated, Silvestrine monastery near the
heart of the city. They had the Pope on their side, as well as the powerful Medici family, and soon San Marco was theirs. To decorate the inside, the
Dominicans hired Angelico. He was an obvious choice, being both an observant friar and a brilliant painter. And he was well known by then: his next
commission would come from the Pope.

By 1445, Angelico and his assistants completed more than 50 paintings and frescoes for San Marco, reserving the most spectacular paintings for the public
spaces downstairs. The Crucifixion with Saints , in the chapter room, is particularly striking. It’s a brilliantly coloured, semi-circular fresco more than 30
feet wide. Christ and the two thieves hang on crosses at the centre; below them, 20 life-sized figures – a mix of historical witnesses and saints – respond to
the crucifixion, each one revealing his or her sorrow in a different way. When Henry James visited San Marco in 1873, he found himself transfixed by the
image. ‘I looked long,’ he wrote, in Italian Hours (1909), ‘one can hardly do otherwise.’

Q.3
It is stated in the passage that

1 the Pope’s commission was the cause of Angelico getting the commission to decorate the San Marco monastery.

2 the Dominican Order was a subset of the Dominican Observance.

3 Anna Brangwen wept with happiness on seeing a copy of the The Crucifixion with Saints.

4 Anna Brangwen wept with happiness on seeing a copy of ‘Entry of the Blessed into Paradise’.

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Correct Answer : 4
Option 4 is found in the first paragraph, “Overwhelmed, she weeps ‘with happiness’.” referring to Anna Brangwen. Option 3 is
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incorrect because it refers to the The Crucifixion of Saints, which is not mentioned in connection with Anna. The second last
paragraphsays “He was an obvious choice, being both an observant friar and a brilliant painter.” This makes Option 1 incorrect.
Option 2 inverts the relationship – it is the other way around.
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Directions for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The loveliest image I know is Fra Angelico’s ‘Entry of the Blessed into Paradise’, a scene from his painting The Last Judgment of 1431. In it, the blessed, just
risen from their graves, gather together in a flowering garden to join hands with angels and dance into the light of heaven. There’s a scene in D H
Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow (1915) when Anna Brangwen sees a copy of the image, and finds it almost too beautiful to look at. ‘The floweriness, the
beams of light, the linking of hands, was almost too much for her, too innocent,’ writes Lawrence. Overwhelmed, she weeps ‘with happiness’.

I understand Anna’s feeling; I’d never been moved to tears by a painting before, but I was when I saw this one a few months ago in Florence. Yet if I step
back and take in The Last Judgment as a whole – the saved on one side, welcomed by angels; the damned on the other, herded by devils; the celestial host
above them, directing it all – it strikes me as an odd painting for a secular person to love. The Last Judgment is more than a work of art. It’s a profession of
faith – in divine justice, the communion of saints, the resurrection of the body, life everlasting. What does it mean for a person like me to love a painting
like this? What does it mean to be moved by the beauty of a vision you can’t believe to be true?

Questions such as these hum in the background of every secular experience of sacred art. But in the Museum of San Marco, where The Last Judgment
hangs, they resonate more than usual. The museum was once a convent, home to generations of friars for whom a painting such as this would have had the
status of revealed truth. The convent is most famous for a series of frescoes Angelico painted there, all on spiritual themes, for the friars’ silent, solitary
contemplation. Standing today where the friars once stood, looking at images they once looked at, I felt, more vividly than in ordinary museums, both my
distance from their world and a peculiar closeness to it.

It’sthe remoteness of that world that struck me first. The friars of San Marco were Dominicans of a special sort – ‘strict observers’, committed to living in
absolute accordance with the rules Saint Dominic had laid down for the Order when he founded it in 1216. They belonged to the Dominican Observance, a
reform movement that had sprung up within the Dominican Order in the 1390s, around the time Angelico was born. They urged a return to the austere way
of life of the earliest Dominican friars, which meant, among other things, enduring long fasts, keeping silence at meals and in the dormitories, disciplining
oneself with a scourge, sleeping on a hard, narrow bed, and rising to pray at three every morning.

In the 1430s, the Observance expanded into Florence. They set their sights on San Marco, a well-placed, but dilapidated, Silvestrine monastery near the
heart of the city. They had the Pope on their side, as well as the powerful Medici family, and soon San Marco was theirs. To decorate the inside, the
Dominicans hired Angelico. He was an obvious choice, being both an observant friar and a brilliant painter. And he was well known by then: his next
commission would come from the Pope.

By 1445, Angelico and his assistants completed more than 50 paintings and frescoes for San Marco, reserving the most spectacular paintings for the public

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spaces downstairs. The Crucifixion with Saints , in the chapter room, is particularly striking. It’s a brilliantly coloured, semi-circular fresco more than 30
feet wide. Christ and the two thieves hang on crosses at the centre; below them, 20 life-sized figures – a mix of historical witnesses and saints – respond to
the crucifixion, each one revealing his or her sorrow in a different way. When Henry James visited San Marco in 1873, he found himself transfixed by the
image. ‘I looked long,’ he wrote, in Italian Hours (1909), ‘one can hardly do otherwise.’

Q.4
The author of this passage is most likely to be

1 a Benedictine Monk who wishes to learn more about art.

2 an arts major with a specialisation in religious art.

3 an atheist who appreciates the beauty of art.

4 a philosopher wondering about the benefits of art.

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Correct Answer : 3
The author states in paragraph2 “What does it mean to be moved by the beauty of a vision you can’t believe to be true? ” In
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paragraph 3, he talks about the secular experience of sacred art. This implies that the author does not believe in the religious
concepts referred to in the passage. This makes Option 3 correct.
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Directions for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The loveliest image I know is Fra Angelico’s ‘Entry of the Blessed into Paradise’, a scene from his painting The Last Judgment of 1431. In it, the blessed, just
risen from their graves, gather together in a flowering garden to join hands with angels and dance into the light of heaven. There’s a scene in D H
Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow (1915) when Anna Brangwen sees a copy of the image, and finds it almost too beautiful to look at. ‘The floweriness, the
beams of light, the linking of hands, was almost too much for her, too innocent,’ writes Lawrence. Overwhelmed, she weeps ‘with happiness’.

I understand Anna’s feeling; I’d never been moved to tears by a painting before, but I was when I saw this one a few months ago in Florence. Yet if I step
back and take in The Last Judgment as a whole – the saved on one side, welcomed by angels; the damned on the other, herded by devils; the celestial host
above them, directing it all – it strikes me as an odd painting for a secular person to love. The Last Judgment is more than a work of art. It’s a profession of
faith – in divine justice, the communion of saints, the resurrection of the body, life everlasting. What does it mean for a person like me to love a painting
like this? What does it mean to be moved by the beauty of a vision you can’t believe to be true?

Questions such as these hum in the background of every secular experience of sacred art. But in the Museum of San Marco, where The Last Judgment
hangs, they resonate more than usual. The museum was once a convent, home to generations of friars for whom a painting such as this would have had the
status of revealed truth. The convent is most famous for a series of frescoes Angelico painted there, all on spiritual themes, for the friars’ silent, solitary
contemplation. Standing today where the friars once stood, looking at images they once looked at, I felt, more vividly than in ordinary museums, both my
distance from their world and a peculiar closeness to it.

It’sthe remoteness of that world that struck me first. The friars of San Marco were Dominicans of a special sort – ‘strict observers’, committed to living in
absolute accordance with the rules Saint Dominic had laid down for the Order when he founded it in 1216. They belonged to the Dominican Observance, a
reform movement that had sprung up within the Dominican Order in the 1390s, around the time Angelico was born. They urged a return to the austere way
of life of the earliest Dominican friars, which meant, among other things, enduring long fasts, keeping silence at meals and in the dormitories, disciplining
oneself with a scourge, sleeping on a hard, narrow bed, and rising to pray at three every morning.

In the 1430s, the Observance expanded into Florence. They set their sights on San Marco, a well-placed, but dilapidated, Silvestrine monastery near the
heart of the city. They had the Pope on their side, as well as the powerful Medici family, and soon San Marco was theirs. To decorate the inside, the
Dominicans hired Angelico. He was an obvious choice, being both an observant friar and a brilliant painter. And he was well known by then: his next
commission would come from the Pope.

By 1445, Angelico and his assistants completed more than 50 paintings and frescoes for San Marco, reserving the most spectacular paintings for the public
spaces downstairs. The Crucifixion with Saints , in the chapter room, is particularly striking. It’s a brilliantly coloured, semi-circular fresco more than 30
feet wide. Christ and the two thieves hang on crosses at the centre; below them, 20 life-sized figures – a mix of historical witnesses and saints – respond to
the crucifixion, each one revealing his or her sorrow in a different way. When Henry James visited San Marco in 1873, he found himself transfixed by the
image. ‘I looked long,’ he wrote, in Italian Hours (1909), ‘one can hardly do otherwise.’

Q.5
The person in a situation most similar to the author who says “What does it mean to be moved by the beauty of a vision you can’t believe to be true?” is

1 a cancer patient who does not believe that medicine will cure him but still takes it.

2 a Caucasian moved by the beauty of a ritual that attempts to invoke rain, but who does not believe in it.

3 an Indian who participates in a ritual that attempts to invoke rain, but does not believe in it.

4 a nurse who does not think that a medicine will benefit a patient, but gives it anyway.

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Correct Answer : 2

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The author is moved by the beauty of the vision in The Last Judgment – angels and demons, the celestial host, etc – but these
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are things that, as a secular person, he does not believe in. This situation is most similar to Option 2 ¬– where the person is
moved by the beauty, but does not believe in the ritual. Options 1, 3 and 4 are incorrect since they lack the element of religious
faith which is present in both Option 2, and the main passage.
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Directions for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The loveliest image I know is Fra Angelico’s ‘Entry of the Blessed into Paradise’, a scene from his painting The Last Judgment of 1431. In it, the blessed, just
risen from their graves, gather together in a flowering garden to join hands with angels and dance into the light of heaven. There’s a scene in D H
Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow (1915) when Anna Brangwen sees a copy of the image, and finds it almost too beautiful to look at. ‘The floweriness, the
beams of light, the linking of hands, was almost too much for her, too innocent,’ writes Lawrence. Overwhelmed, she weeps ‘with happiness’.

I understand Anna’s feeling; I’d never been moved to tears by a painting before, but I was when I saw this one a few months ago in Florence. Yet if I step
back and take in The Last Judgment as a whole – the saved on one side, welcomed by angels; the damned on the other, herded by devils; the celestial host
above them, directing it all – it strikes me as an odd painting for a secular person to love. The Last Judgment is more than a work of art. It’s a profession of
faith – in divine justice, the communion of saints, the resurrection of the body, life everlasting. What does it mean for a person like me to love a painting
like this? What does it mean to be moved by the beauty of a vision you can’t believe to be true?

Questions such as these hum in the background of every secular experience of sacred art. But in the Museum of San Marco, where The Last Judgment
hangs, they resonate more than usual. The museum was once a convent, home to generations of friars for whom a painting such as this would have had the
status of revealed truth. The convent is most famous for a series of frescoes Angelico painted there, all on spiritual themes, for the friars’ silent, solitary
contemplation. Standing today where the friars once stood, looking at images they once looked at, I felt, more vividly than in ordinary museums, both my
distance from their world and a peculiar closeness to it.

It’sthe remoteness of that world that struck me first. The friars of San Marco were Dominicans of a special sort – ‘strict observers’, committed to living in
absolute accordance with the rules Saint Dominic had laid down for the Order when he founded it in 1216. They belonged to the Dominican Observance, a
reform movement that had sprung up within the Dominican Order in the 1390s, around the time Angelico was born. They urged a return to the austere way
of life of the earliest Dominican friars, which meant, among other things, enduring long fasts, keeping silence at meals and in the dormitories, disciplining
oneself with a scourge, sleeping on a hard, narrow bed, and rising to pray at three every morning.

In the 1430s, the Observance expanded into Florence. They set their sights on San Marco, a well-placed, but dilapidated, Silvestrine monastery near the
heart of the city. They had the Pope on their side, as well as the powerful Medici family, and soon San Marco was theirs. To decorate the inside, the
Dominicans hired Angelico. He was an obvious choice, being both an observant friar and a brilliant painter. And he was well known by then: his next
commission would come from the Pope.

By 1445, Angelico and his assistants completed more than 50 paintings and frescoes for San Marco, reserving the most spectacular paintings for the public
spaces downstairs. The Crucifixion with Saints , in the chapter room, is particularly striking. It’s a brilliantly coloured, semi-circular fresco more than 30
feet wide. Christ and the two thieves hang on crosses at the centre; below them, 20 life-sized figures – a mix of historical witnesses and saints – respond to
the crucifixion, each one revealing his or her sorrow in a different way. When Henry James visited San Marco in 1873, he found himself transfixed by the
image. ‘I looked long,’ he wrote, in Italian Hours (1909), ‘one can hardly do otherwise.’

Q.6
Questions mentioned in the passage resonate more than usual in the Museum of San Marco because

1 the Museum was home to friars for whom a painting such as this would have had the status of revealed truth.

2 that is where the The Last Judgment hangs and it is far more than a work of art.

3 the questions resonate with the emotions and feelings of Anna Brangwen.

4 the Museum was home to friars who strictly followed the rules of the Dominician Observance.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 1
The questions are mentioned at the end of paragraph 2. The beginning of paragraph 3 gives us the answer, “The museum was
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once a convent, home to generations of friars for whom a painting such as this would have had the status of revealed truth.”. This
focuses on the contradiction in beliefs between the author and the friars. This makes option 1 correct. Options 2 and 4 may be
correct in general, but do not address the questions asked. Option 3 is not supported by the passage.
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Directions for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Old English had the crazy genders we would expect of a good European language – but the Scandies didn’t bother with those, and so now we have none.
Chalk up one of English’s weirdnesses. What’s more, the Vikings mastered only that one shred of a once-lovely conjugation system: hence the lonely third
person singular – s , hanging on like a dead bug on a windshield.

They also followed the lead of the Celts, rendering the language in whatever way seemed most natural to them. It is amply documented that they left
English with thousands of new words, including ones that seem very intimately ‘us’. Sometimes they seemed to want to stake the language with ‘We’re here,

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too’ signs, matching our native words with the equivalent ones from Norse, leaving doublets such as dike (them) and ditch (us), scatter (them) and shatter
(us), and ship (us) vs skipper (Norse for ship was skip , and so skipper is ‘shipper’).

They also left their mark on English grammar. Blissfully, it is becoming rare to be taught that it is wrong to say Which town do you come from? , ending with
the preposition. In English, sentences with ‘dangling prepositions’ are perfectly natural and clear and harm no one. Yet there is a wet-fish issue with them,
too: normal languages don’t dangle prepositions in this way. Every now and then a language turns out to allow this: one indigenous one in Mexico, another
one in Liberia. But that’s it. Overall, it’s an oddity.

We can display all these bizarre Norse influences in a single sentence. Say That’s the man you walk in with , and it’s odd because 1) the has no specifically
masculine form to match man , 2) there’s no ending on walk , and 3) you don’t say ‘in with whom you walk’. All that strangeness is because of what
Scandinavian Vikings did to good old English back in the day.

Finally, as if all this wasn’t enough, English got hit by a firehose spray of words from yet more languages. After the Norse came the French. The Normans –
descended from the same Vikings, as it happens – conquered England, ruled for several centuries and, before long, English had picked up 10,000 new words.
Then, starting in the 16th century, educated Anglophones developed a sense of English as a vehicle of sophisticated writing, and so it became fashionable to
cherry-pick words from Latin to lend the language a more elevated tone.

It was thanks to this influx from French and Latin that English acquired the likes of fundamental , definition and conclusion . These words feel sufficiently
English to us today, but when they were new, many persons of letters in the 1500s (and beyond) considered them irritatingly pretentious and intrusive, as
indeed they would have found the phrase ‘irritatingly pretentious and intrusive’. (Think of how French pedants today turn up their noses at the flood of
English words into their language.) There were even writerly sorts who proposed native English replacements for those lofty Latinates, and it’s hard not to
yearn for some of these: in place of fundamental , definition and conclusion , how about groundwrought , saywhat , and endsay ? But language tends not to do
what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets
allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is
Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere
in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

Then there are doublets, less dramatic than triplets but fun nevertheless, such as the English/French pairs begin and commence , or want and desire .
Especially noteworthy here are the culinary transformations: we kill a cow or a pig (English) to yield beef or pork (French). Why? Well, generally in Norman
England, English-speaking labourers did the slaughtering for moneyed French speakers at table. The different ways of referring to meat depended on one’s
place in the scheme of things, and those class distinctions have carried down to us in discreet form today.

Q.7
With respect to the influx of words from Norse and the influx of words from French and Latin, the statement that is least likely to be true is

1 the former happened earlier than the latter, and the latter happened later than the former.

2 the former resulted in doublets, and the latter resulted in doublets and triplets.

3 the former resulted in a simplification of grammar, while the latter reversed that.

4 the former was an influx into Old English, while the latter was an influx into English.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 3
Your Answer : 1
" Answer key/Solution
Paragraph 1 tells us that the Scandies simplified grammar, but there is no information to suggest that the second influx
complicated it. This makes Option 3 not likely to be true - and hence, the correct option. Option 1 is true from paragraph5,
“After the Norse came the French.” and “Then, starting in the 16th century, ......cherry-pick words from Latin......” Option 2 is
true from paragraph 2 - which mentions Norse doublets, and the last two paras, which mention doublets and triplets for the second influx. Option 4 is true
because paragraph 1 mentions the first influx in connection with Old English, while paragraph 5 mentions the second influx in connection with English.
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Directions for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Old English had the crazy genders we would expect of a good European language – but the Scandies didn’t bother with those, and so now we have none.
Chalk up one of English’s weirdnesses. What’s more, the Vikings mastered only that one shred of a once-lovely conjugation system: hence the lonely third
person singular – s , hanging on like a dead bug on a windshield.

They also followed the lead of the Celts, rendering the language in whatever way seemed most natural to them. It is amply documented that they left
English with thousands of new words, including ones that seem very intimately ‘us’. Sometimes they seemed to want to stake the language with ‘We’re here,
too’ signs, matching our native words with the equivalent ones from Norse, leaving doublets such as dike (them) and ditch (us), scatter (them) and shatter
(us), and ship (us) vs skipper (Norse for ship was skip , and so skipper is ‘shipper’).

They also left their mark on English grammar. Blissfully, it is becoming rare to be taught that it is wrong to say Which town do you come from? , ending with
the preposition. In English, sentences with ‘dangling prepositions’ are perfectly natural and clear and harm no one. Yet there is a wet-fish issue with them,
too: normal languages don’t dangle prepositions in this way. Every now and then a language turns out to allow this: one indigenous one in Mexico, another
one in Liberia. But that’s it. Overall, it’s an oddity.

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We can display all these bizarre Norse influences in a single sentence. Say That’s the man you walk in with , and it’s odd because 1) the has no specifically
masculine form to match man , 2) there’s no ending on walk , and 3) you don’t say ‘in with whom you walk’. All that strangeness is because of what
Scandinavian Vikings did to good old English back in the day.

Finally, as if all this wasn’t enough, English got hit by a firehose spray of words from yet more languages. After the Norse came the French. The Normans –
descended from the same Vikings, as it happens – conquered England, ruled for several centuries and, before long, English had picked up 10,000 new words.
Then, starting in the 16th century, educated Anglophones developed a sense of English as a vehicle of sophisticated writing, and so it became fashionable to
cherry-pick words from Latin to lend the language a more elevated tone.

It was thanks to this influx from French and Latin that English acquired the likes of fundamental , definition and conclusion . These words feel sufficiently
English to us today, but when they were new, many persons of letters in the 1500s (and beyond) considered them irritatingly pretentious and intrusive, as
indeed they would have found the phrase ‘irritatingly pretentious and intrusive’. (Think of how French pedants today turn up their noses at the flood of
English words into their language.) There were even writerly sorts who proposed native English replacements for those lofty Latinates, and it’s hard not to
yearn for some of these: in place of fundamental , definition and conclusion , how about groundwrought , saywhat , and endsay ? But language tends not to do
what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets
allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is
Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere
in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

Then there are doublets, less dramatic than triplets but fun nevertheless, such as the English/French pairs begin and commence , or want and desire .
Especially noteworthy here are the culinary transformations: we kill a cow or a pig (English) to yield beef or pork (French). Why? Well, generally in Norman
England, English-speaking labourers did the slaughtering for moneyed French speakers at table. The different ways of referring to meat depended on one’s
place in the scheme of things, and those class distinctions have carried down to us in discreet form today.

Q.8
The reason for English not to have crazy genders is

1 the Scandies did not bother with genders, and their impact on the language caused that.

2 the French and the Normans added a firehose spray of words that removed the genders.

3 the Scandies followed the lead of the Celts, rendering the language in whatever way seemed most natural to them.

4 the lofty Latinates did not use crazy genders and this was the main reason.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 1
Your Answer : 1
" Answer key/Solution
This is answered in the first paragraph, “ Old English had the crazy genders we would expect of a good European language – but
the Scandies didn’t bother with those, and so now we have none.” Options 2 and 3 are found in the passage, but are not related
to the question. Option 4 does not have support in the passage.
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Directions for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Old English had the crazy genders we would expect of a good European language – but the Scandies didn’t bother with those, and so now we have none.
Chalk up one of English’s weirdnesses. What’s more, the Vikings mastered only that one shred of a once-lovely conjugation system: hence the lonely third
person singular – s , hanging on like a dead bug on a windshield.

They also followed the lead of the Celts, rendering the language in whatever way seemed most natural to them. It is amply documented that they left
English with thousands of new words, including ones that seem very intimately ‘us’. Sometimes they seemed to want to stake the language with ‘We’re here,
too’ signs, matching our native words with the equivalent ones from Norse, leaving doublets such as dike (them) and ditch (us), scatter (them) and shatter
(us), and ship (us) vs skipper (Norse for ship was skip , and so skipper is ‘shipper’).

They also left their mark on English grammar. Blissfully, it is becoming rare to be taught that it is wrong to say Which town do you come from? , ending with
the preposition. In English, sentences with ‘dangling prepositions’ are perfectly natural and clear and harm no one. Yet there is a wet-fish issue with them,
too: normal languages don’t dangle prepositions in this way. Every now and then a language turns out to allow this: one indigenous one in Mexico, another
one in Liberia. But that’s it. Overall, it’s an oddity.

We can display all these bizarre Norse influences in a single sentence. Say That’s the man you walk in with , and it’s odd because 1) the has no specifically
masculine form to match man , 2) there’s no ending on walk , and 3) you don’t say ‘in with whom you walk’. All that strangeness is because of what
Scandinavian Vikings did to good old English back in the day.

Finally, as if all this wasn’t enough, English got hit by a firehose spray of words from yet more languages. After the Norse came the French. The Normans –
descended from the same Vikings, as it happens – conquered England, ruled for several centuries and, before long, English had picked up 10,000 new words.
Then, starting in the 16th century, educated Anglophones developed a sense of English as a vehicle of sophisticated writing, and so it became fashionable to
cherry-pick words from Latin to lend the language a more elevated tone.

It was thanks to this influx from French and Latin that English acquired the likes of fundamental , definition and conclusion . These words feel sufficiently

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English to us today, but when they were new, many persons of letters in the 1500s (and beyond) considered them irritatingly pretentious and intrusive, as
indeed they would have found the phrase ‘irritatingly pretentious and intrusive’. (Think of how French pedants today turn up their noses at the flood of
English words into their language.) There were even writerly sorts who proposed native English replacements for those lofty Latinates, and it’s hard not to
yearn for some of these: in place of fundamental , definition and conclusion , how about groundwrought , saywhat , and endsay ? But language tends not to do
what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets
allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is
Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere
in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

Then there are doublets, less dramatic than triplets but fun nevertheless, such as the English/French pairs begin and commence , or want and desire .
Especially noteworthy here are the culinary transformations: we kill a cow or a pig (English) to yield beef or pork (French). Why? Well, generally in Norman
England, English-speaking labourers did the slaughtering for moneyed French speakers at table. The different ways of referring to meat depended on one’s
place in the scheme of things, and those class distinctions have carried down to us in discreet form today.

Q.9
The passage uses an example with corresponding words in multiple languages in which of the following ways?

1 An English / French / Latin triplet to show these as better languages than English.

2 An English / French / Latin triplet to show the impact of culinary transformations.

3 A Viking / Celt doublet to show the impact of conjugation.

4 An English / French doublet to show how class distinction can have an impact.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 4
Your Answer : 2
" Answer key/Solution
The last paragraph says, “ Especially noteworthy here are the culinary transformations: we kill a cow or a pig (English) to yield
beef or pork (French). ......English-speaking labourers did the slaughtering for moneyed French speakers at table......, and those
class distinctions have carried down to us in discreet form today.” This makes Option 4 correct. Options 1 and 2 are incorrect
since the passage mentions the triplets (in the penultimate paragraph) in the context of expressing varying degrees of formality. There is no Viking / Celt
doublet mentioned in the passage, making Option 3 incorrect.
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Directions for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Old English had the crazy genders we would expect of a good European language – but the Scandies didn’t bother with those, and so now we have none.
Chalk up one of English’s weirdnesses. What’s more, the Vikings mastered only that one shred of a once-lovely conjugation system: hence the lonely third
person singular – s , hanging on like a dead bug on a windshield.

They also followed the lead of the Celts, rendering the language in whatever way seemed most natural to them. It is amply documented that they left
English with thousands of new words, including ones that seem very intimately ‘us’. Sometimes they seemed to want to stake the language with ‘We’re here,
too’ signs, matching our native words with the equivalent ones from Norse, leaving doublets such as dike (them) and ditch (us), scatter (them) and shatter
(us), and ship (us) vs skipper (Norse for ship was skip , and so skipper is ‘shipper’).

They also left their mark on English grammar. Blissfully, it is becoming rare to be taught that it is wrong to say Which town do you come from? , ending with
the preposition. In English, sentences with ‘dangling prepositions’ are perfectly natural and clear and harm no one. Yet there is a wet-fish issue with them,
too: normal languages don’t dangle prepositions in this way. Every now and then a language turns out to allow this: one indigenous one in Mexico, another
one in Liberia. But that’s it. Overall, it’s an oddity.

We can display all these bizarre Norse influences in a single sentence. Say That’s the man you walk in with , and it’s odd because 1) the has no specifically
masculine form to match man , 2) there’s no ending on walk , and 3) you don’t say ‘in with whom you walk’. All that strangeness is because of what
Scandinavian Vikings did to good old English back in the day.

Finally, as if all this wasn’t enough, English got hit by a firehose spray of words from yet more languages. After the Norse came the French. The Normans –
descended from the same Vikings, as it happens – conquered England, ruled for several centuries and, before long, English had picked up 10,000 new words.
Then, starting in the 16th century, educated Anglophones developed a sense of English as a vehicle of sophisticated writing, and so it became fashionable to
cherry-pick words from Latin to lend the language a more elevated tone.

It was thanks to this influx from French and Latin that English acquired the likes of fundamental , definition and conclusion . These words feel sufficiently
English to us today, but when they were new, many persons of letters in the 1500s (and beyond) considered them irritatingly pretentious and intrusive, as
indeed they would have found the phrase ‘irritatingly pretentious and intrusive’. (Think of how French pedants today turn up their noses at the flood of
English words into their language.) There were even writerly sorts who proposed native English replacements for those lofty Latinates, and it’s hard not to
yearn for some of these: in place of fundamental , definition and conclusion , how about groundwrought , saywhat , and endsay ? But language tends not to do
what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets
allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is
Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere
in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

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Then there are doublets, less dramatic than triplets but fun nevertheless, such as the English/French pairs begin and commence , or want and desire .
Especially noteworthy here are the culinary transformations: we kill a cow or a pig (English) to yield beef or pork (French). Why? Well, generally in Norman
England, English-speaking labourers did the slaughtering for moneyed French speakers at table. The different ways of referring to meat depended on one’s
place in the scheme of things, and those class distinctions have carried down to us in discreet form today.

Q.10
The effect of having thousands of new words competing for native English words for the same things is that

1 it helps in simplifying grammar by allowing use of appropriate words.

2 the ideas can be expressed with varying degrees of formality.

3 they are less dramatic, but fun nevertheless.

4 they stake the language with ‘We’re here, too’ signs, matching native words with equivalent ones.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 2
Your Answer : 2
" Answer key/Solution
This is found in the penultimate paragraph, “The die was cast: English had thousands of new words.....express ideas with varying
degrees of formality.” Option 2 states the same thing - varying degrees of casualness - making it correct. Option 1 is not
mentioned in the passage.
Options 3 and 4 are mentioned in the passage in different contexts - 3 is mentioned in the context of doublets, while 4 is mentioned in the context of Norse
words.
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Directions for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Old English had the crazy genders we would expect of a good European language – but the Scandies didn’t bother with those, and so now we have none.
Chalk up one of English’s weirdnesses. What’s more, the Vikings mastered only that one shred of a once-lovely conjugation system: hence the lonely third
person singular – s , hanging on like a dead bug on a windshield.

They also followed the lead of the Celts, rendering the language in whatever way seemed most natural to them. It is amply documented that they left
English with thousands of new words, including ones that seem very intimately ‘us’. Sometimes they seemed to want to stake the language with ‘We’re here,
too’ signs, matching our native words with the equivalent ones from Norse, leaving doublets such as dike (them) and ditch (us), scatter (them) and shatter
(us), and ship (us) vs skipper (Norse for ship was skip , and so skipper is ‘shipper’).

They also left their mark on English grammar. Blissfully, it is becoming rare to be taught that it is wrong to say Which town do you come from? , ending with
the preposition. In English, sentences with ‘dangling prepositions’ are perfectly natural and clear and harm no one. Yet there is a wet-fish issue with them,
too: normal languages don’t dangle prepositions in this way. Every now and then a language turns out to allow this: one indigenous one in Mexico, another
one in Liberia. But that’s it. Overall, it’s an oddity.

We can display all these bizarre Norse influences in a single sentence. Say That’s the man you walk in with , and it’s odd because 1) the has no specifically
masculine form to match man , 2) there’s no ending on walk , and 3) you don’t say ‘in with whom you walk’. All that strangeness is because of what
Scandinavian Vikings did to good old English back in the day.

Finally, as if all this wasn’t enough, English got hit by a firehose spray of words from yet more languages. After the Norse came the French. The Normans –
descended from the same Vikings, as it happens – conquered England, ruled for several centuries and, before long, English had picked up 10,000 new words.
Then, starting in the 16th century, educated Anglophones developed a sense of English as a vehicle of sophisticated writing, and so it became fashionable to
cherry-pick words from Latin to lend the language a more elevated tone.

It was thanks to this influx from French and Latin that English acquired the likes of fundamental , definition and conclusion . These words feel sufficiently
English to us today, but when they were new, many persons of letters in the 1500s (and beyond) considered them irritatingly pretentious and intrusive, as
indeed they would have found the phrase ‘irritatingly pretentious and intrusive’. (Think of how French pedants today turn up their noses at the flood of
English words into their language.) There were even writerly sorts who proposed native English replacements for those lofty Latinates, and it’s hard not to
yearn for some of these: in place of fundamental , definition and conclusion , how about groundwrought , saywhat , and endsay ? But language tends not to do
what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets
allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is
Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere
in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

Then there are doublets, less dramatic than triplets but fun nevertheless, such as the English/French pairs begin and commence , or want and desire .
Especially noteworthy here are the culinary transformations: we kill a cow or a pig (English) to yield beef or pork (French). Why? Well, generally in Norman
England, English-speaking labourers did the slaughtering for moneyed French speakers at table. The different ways of referring to meat depended on one’s
place in the scheme of things, and those class distinctions have carried down to us in discreet form today.

Q.11
Of all the influences on the English and the Old English language, it is correct to say that

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1 the Vikings were similar in their influence to the Celts, in that they rendered the language in a way that seemed most natural to them.

2 the Norse influenced the language after the French had influenced it, but before Latin had influenced it.

3 apart from English, French and Latin triplets, we also have Norse, Celt and English triplets.

4 ending a sentence with a preposition is incorrect in today’s English due to the influence of various factors.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 1
Your Answer : 1
" Answer key/Solution
Answer option 1 is correct from paragraph 2, “They also followed the lead of the Celts, rendering the language in whatever way
seemed most natural to them.” Option 2 inverts the time relationship between the Norse and the French Option 3 has no
support in the passage for Norse, Celt and English triplets.
Option 4 states the opposite of what the passage suggests.
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Directions for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Old English had the crazy genders we would expect of a good European language – but the Scandies didn’t bother with those, and so now we have none.
Chalk up one of English’s weirdnesses. What’s more, the Vikings mastered only that one shred of a once-lovely conjugation system: hence the lonely third
person singular – s , hanging on like a dead bug on a windshield.

They also followed the lead of the Celts, rendering the language in whatever way seemed most natural to them. It is amply documented that they left
English with thousands of new words, including ones that seem very intimately ‘us’. Sometimes they seemed to want to stake the language with ‘We’re here,
too’ signs, matching our native words with the equivalent ones from Norse, leaving doublets such as dike (them) and ditch (us), scatter (them) and shatter
(us), and ship (us) vs skipper (Norse for ship was skip , and so skipper is ‘shipper’).

They also left their mark on English grammar. Blissfully, it is becoming rare to be taught that it is wrong to say Which town do you come from? , ending with
the preposition. In English, sentences with ‘dangling prepositions’ are perfectly natural and clear and harm no one. Yet there is a wet-fish issue with them,
too: normal languages don’t dangle prepositions in this way. Every now and then a language turns out to allow this: one indigenous one in Mexico, another
one in Liberia. But that’s it. Overall, it’s an oddity.

We can display all these bizarre Norse influences in a single sentence. Say That’s the man you walk in with , and it’s odd because 1) the has no specifically
masculine form to match man , 2) there’s no ending on walk , and 3) you don’t say ‘in with whom you walk’. All that strangeness is because of what
Scandinavian Vikings did to good old English back in the day.

Finally, as if all this wasn’t enough, English got hit by a firehose spray of words from yet more languages. After the Norse came the French. The Normans –
descended from the same Vikings, as it happens – conquered England, ruled for several centuries and, before long, English had picked up 10,000 new words.
Then, starting in the 16th century, educated Anglophones developed a sense of English as a vehicle of sophisticated writing, and so it became fashionable to
cherry-pick words from Latin to lend the language a more elevated tone.

It was thanks to this influx from French and Latin that English acquired the likes of fundamental , definition and conclusion . These words feel sufficiently
English to us today, but when they were new, many persons of letters in the 1500s (and beyond) considered them irritatingly pretentious and intrusive, as
indeed they would have found the phrase ‘irritatingly pretentious and intrusive’. (Think of how French pedants today turn up their noses at the flood of
English words into their language.) There were even writerly sorts who proposed native English replacements for those lofty Latinates, and it’s hard not to
yearn for some of these: in place of fundamental , definition and conclusion , how about groundwrought , saywhat , and endsay ? But language tends not to do
what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets
allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is
Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere
in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

Then there are doublets, less dramatic than triplets but fun nevertheless, such as the English/French pairs begin and commence , or want and desire .
Especially noteworthy here are the culinary transformations: we kill a cow or a pig (English) to yield beef or pork (French). Why? Well, generally in Norman
England, English-speaking labourers did the slaughtering for moneyed French speakers at table. The different ways of referring to meat depended on one’s
place in the scheme of things, and those class distinctions have carried down to us in discreet form today.

Q.12
The second sentence of the sixth paragraph uses

1 sufficiency as a standard for the English language.

2 self reference as a way to introduce levity.

3 formality as a means of driving home the point.

4 ideas in ascending order to impress the reader.

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Solution:
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Correct Answer : 2
Your Answer : 2
" Answer key/Solution
“These words feel sufficiently English to us today, but when they were new, many persons of letters in the 1500s (and beyond)
considered them irritatingly pretentious and intrusive , as indeed they would have found the phrase ‘irritatingly pretentious and
intrusive’ .” The sentence uses a reference to its own language to create humour. Hence, Option 2 is correct.
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Directions for questions 13 to 18: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

This morning a tiny fly was, true to its name and nature, flying about in the vicinity of my desk. It really was very tiny – a fruit fly, I’d guess. At one point it
landed in front of me. I brushed it aside and it resumed flitting about in its patternless path. Then it landed again, and again I aimed to brush it aside. But
this time, my aim was off. It was probably a matter of only a millimetre or so, but my finger landed, not next to the fly, but on it, and so what was meant to be
a brushing motion became something else instead.

The fly was so small that it didn’t offer the least resistance to the pressure of my finger. Compliantly, it transformed itself into a dark smudge. Not a gory or
bloody smudge; not one with the least detail or variation – not to my naked eye, anyway. Just a small, uniform, rather faint mark.

Now, I’m not a biologist, but I know that a fly is an animal, and more specifically, an insect. As such, it has (or had) wings, legs, eyes, antenna and a host of
internal organs. Those parts are in turn made of cells, each one of which is hugely complex. And in those cells, among many other things, are – or were – the
fly’s genes, which in turn embody an astonishing intricacy and an ancient, multi-million-year history, while in the fly’s gut would have been countless
bacteria with their own genes, their own goals. Worlds within worlds, now squidged together into a single dark smudge that I am already finding hard to
pinpoint among the scratches and coffee rings. A history of life spread out before me, if only I were able to read it.

At this point, I guess that readers will be dividing into two parties. One party, probably the majority, will be thinking, ‘Get over it, it’s a fly.’ This, it seems to
me, is a very reasonable position. Flies die in large numbers all the time – some, indeed, at my hand, whether I intend it or not (and I sometimes do). And in
the summer evenings, when I sit on our terrace and watch swifts in their spectacle of swooping and screeching, this beautiful display is, of course, at the
same time an orgy of insect death.

The other party of readers, probably the minority, will be horrified at my casual killing of this delicate life-form. They will be appalled at the waste and
stupidity of my carelessness. To them, I must be an oaf; at best ignorant, at worst malevolent. And this, it seems to me, is also a very reasonable position.
Even though I habitually write – sometimes about complex subjects – it is certain that with one mistimed finger-swipe I destroyed complexity and beauty
many orders of magnitude greater than any I will ever create.

Thus, it seems to me quite reasonable to think that the death of the fly is entirely insignificant and that it is at the same time a kind of catastrophe. To
entertain such contradictions is always uncomfortable, but in this case the dissonance echoes far and wide, bouncing off countless other decisions about
what to buy, what to eat – what to kill; highlighting the inconsistencies in our philosophies, our attempts to make sense of our place in the world and our
relations to our co inhabitants on Earth. The reality is that we do not know what to think about death: not that of a fly, or of a dog or a pig, or of ourselves.

Which is a problem, because nature is a non-stop party of death. For example, I regularly take my children to a large park with a series of ponds, where in
spring we look for frogspawn. Each batch contains many hundreds, even thousands of eggs. The next time we visit, the pond will be full of tadpoles. But the
time after that, there will be many fewer. Those we find are the few survivors, whose numbers will be thinned still more before any get as far as restarting
the cycle with their own spawn.

Q.13
The main reason for the author of the passage to introduce the example of the fly is to

1 talk about why even a fly is an important insect, with a multi-million year history.

2 introduce and discuss the concept of death in general, starting with that of a fly.

3 show how even the killing of a fly divides readers into two equal groups.

4 illustrate and compare the killing of flies with that of frogspawn and tadpoles.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 2
Your Answer : 3
" Answer key/Solution
This is a disguised main idea question. The example of the fly takes up a large chunk of the passage. The author talks about the
fly, its death, its importance, and then talks further about death. The entire passage is about the significance of death. This
makes option 2 correct.
Option 1 is discussed by the author, but is not the point of introducing the example.
Option 3 is incorrect, since the two groups in the passage are not equal.
Option 4 is incorrect, since the author does not undertake such a comparison in the passage.
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Directions for questions 13 to 18: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

This morning a tiny fly was, true to its name and nature, flying about in the vicinity of my desk. It really was very tiny – a fruit fly, I’d guess. At one point it
landed in front of me. I brushed it aside and it resumed flitting about in its patternless path. Then it landed again, and again I aimed to brush it aside. But
this time, my aim was off. It was probably a matter of only a millimetre or so, but my finger landed, not next to the fly, but on it, and so what was meant to be
a brushing motion became something else instead.

The fly was so small that it didn’t offer the least resistance to the pressure of my finger. Compliantly, it transformed itself into a dark smudge. Not a gory or
bloody smudge; not one with the least detail or variation – not to my naked eye, anyway. Just a small, uniform, rather faint mark.

Now, I’m not a biologist, but I know that a fly is an animal, and more specifically, an insect. As such, it has (or had) wings, legs, eyes, antenna and a host of
internal organs. Those parts are in turn made of cells, each one of which is hugely complex. And in those cells, among many other things, are – or were – the
fly’s genes, which in turn embody an astonishing intricacy and an ancient, multi-million-year history, while in the fly’s gut would have been countless
bacteria with their own genes, their own goals. Worlds within worlds, now squidged together into a single dark smudge that I am already finding hard to
pinpoint among the scratches and coffee rings. A history of life spread out before me, if only I were able to read it.

At this point, I guess that readers will be dividing into two parties. One party, probably the majority, will be thinking, ‘Get over it, it’s a fly.’ This, it seems to
me, is a very reasonable position. Flies die in large numbers all the time – some, indeed, at my hand, whether I intend it or not (and I sometimes do). And in
the summer evenings, when I sit on our terrace and watch swifts in their spectacle of swooping and screeching, this beautiful display is, of course, at the
same time an orgy of insect death.

The other party of readers, probably the minority, will be horrified at my casual killing of this delicate life-form. They will be appalled at the waste and
stupidity of my carelessness. To them, I must be an oaf; at best ignorant, at worst malevolent. And this, it seems to me, is also a very reasonable position.
Even though I habitually write – sometimes about complex subjects – it is certain that with one mistimed finger-swipe I destroyed complexity and beauty
many orders of magnitude greater than any I will ever create.

Thus, it seems to me quite reasonable to think that the death of the fly is entirely insignificant and that it is at the same time a kind of catastrophe. To
entertain such contradictions is always uncomfortable, but in this case the dissonance echoes far and wide, bouncing off countless other decisions about
what to buy, what to eat – what to kill; highlighting the inconsistencies in our philosophies, our attempts to make sense of our place in the world and our
relations to our co inhabitants on Earth. The reality is that we do not know what to think about death: not that of a fly, or of a dog or a pig, or of ourselves.

Which is a problem, because nature is a non-stop party of death. For example, I regularly take my children to a large park with a series of ponds, where in
spring we look for frogspawn. Each batch contains many hundreds, even thousands of eggs. The next time we visit, the pond will be full of tadpoles. But the
time after that, there will be many fewer. Those we find are the few survivors, whose numbers will be thinned still more before any get as far as restarting
the cycle with their own spawn.

Q.14
The complexity and beauty mentioned in the passage refers to

1 the beauty of the complex subjects that the author sometimes writes about which are mentioned in the passage.

2 the beautiful display of the swooping and screeching of swifts which is also an orgy of insect death.

3 worlds within worlds inside the fly which contain organs, cells, genes and bacteria.

4 the conversion of the fly into a dark smudge without the least resistance from the fly.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 3
Your Answer : 3
" Answer key/Solution
Complexity and beauty are mentioned as being destroyed in the passage at the end of paragraph 5. The reference is to the fly –
whose description is found in paragraph 3, and repeated in option 3, which is the correct option.
The other options are present in the passage, but not mentioned in this context, making them incorrect.
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Directions for questions 13 to 18: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

This morning a tiny fly was, true to its name and nature, flying about in the vicinity of my desk. It really was very tiny – a fruit fly, I’d guess. At one point it
landed in front of me. I brushed it aside and it resumed flitting about in its patternless path. Then it landed again, and again I aimed to brush it aside. But
this time, my aim was off. It was probably a matter of only a millimetre or so, but my finger landed, not next to the fly, but on it, and so what was meant to be
a brushing motion became something else instead.

The fly was so small that it didn’t offer the least resistance to the pressure of my finger. Compliantly, it transformed itself into a dark smudge. Not a gory or
bloody smudge; not one with the least detail or variation – not to my naked eye, anyway. Just a small, uniform, rather faint mark.

Now, I’m not a biologist, but I know that a fly is an animal, and more specifically, an insect. As such, it has (or had) wings, legs, eyes, antenna and a host of
internal organs. Those parts are in turn made of cells, each one of which is hugely complex. And in those cells, among many other things, are – or were – the
fly’s genes, which in turn embody an astonishing intricacy and an ancient, multi-million-year history, while in the fly’s gut would have been countless

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bacteria with their own genes, their own goals. Worlds within worlds, now squidged together into a single dark smudge that I am already finding hard to
pinpoint among the scratches and coffee rings. A history of life spread out before me, if only I were able to read it.

At this point, I guess that readers will be dividing into two parties. One party, probably the majority, will be thinking, ‘Get over it, it’s a fly.’ This, it seems to
me, is a very reasonable position. Flies die in large numbers all the time – some, indeed, at my hand, whether I intend it or not (and I sometimes do). And in
the summer evenings, when I sit on our terrace and watch swifts in their spectacle of swooping and screeching, this beautiful display is, of course, at the
same time an orgy of insect death.

The other party of readers, probably the minority, will be horrified at my casual killing of this delicate life-form. They will be appalled at the waste and
stupidity of my carelessness. To them, I must be an oaf; at best ignorant, at worst malevolent. And this, it seems to me, is also a very reasonable position.
Even though I habitually write – sometimes about complex subjects – it is certain that with one mistimed finger-swipe I destroyed complexity and beauty
many orders of magnitude greater than any I will ever create.

Thus, it seems to me quite reasonable to think that the death of the fly is entirely insignificant and that it is at the same time a kind of catastrophe. To
entertain such contradictions is always uncomfortable, but in this case the dissonance echoes far and wide, bouncing off countless other decisions about
what to buy, what to eat – what to kill; highlighting the inconsistencies in our philosophies, our attempts to make sense of our place in the world and our
relations to our co inhabitants on Earth. The reality is that we do not know what to think about death: not that of a fly, or of a dog or a pig, or of ourselves.

Which is a problem, because nature is a non-stop party of death. For example, I regularly take my children to a large park with a series of ponds, where in
spring we look for frogspawn. Each batch contains many hundreds, even thousands of eggs. The next time we visit, the pond will be full of tadpoles. But the
time after that, there will be many fewer. Those we find are the few survivors, whose numbers will be thinned still more before any get as far as restarting
the cycle with their own spawn.

Q.15
According to the author of the passage, our not knowing what to think about death

1 is a good thing, because the death of a fly is entirely insignificant.

2 is a bad thing, because death is catastrophic, even that of a fly.

3 is an issue because of the non-stop occurrence of death in nature.

4 is not a bad thing because a party of death is never bad.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 3
Your Answer : 3
" Answer key/Solution
From the last two paragraphs, “The reality is that we do not know what to think about death : not that of a fly, or of a dog or a
pig, or of ourselves. Which is a problem, because nature is a non-stop party of death. ” This makes option 3 correct.
Options 1 and 2 are mentioned by the author in the context of his thought process to the importance of the death of the fly –
which is different from what is asked in the question.
Option 4 does not have support in the passage.
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Directions for questions 13 to 18: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

This morning a tiny fly was, true to its name and nature, flying about in the vicinity of my desk. It really was very tiny – a fruit fly, I’d guess. At one point it
landed in front of me. I brushed it aside and it resumed flitting about in its patternless path. Then it landed again, and again I aimed to brush it aside. But
this time, my aim was off. It was probably a matter of only a millimetre or so, but my finger landed, not next to the fly, but on it, and so what was meant to be
a brushing motion became something else instead.

The fly was so small that it didn’t offer the least resistance to the pressure of my finger. Compliantly, it transformed itself into a dark smudge. Not a gory or
bloody smudge; not one with the least detail or variation – not to my naked eye, anyway. Just a small, uniform, rather faint mark.

Now, I’m not a biologist, but I know that a fly is an animal, and more specifically, an insect. As such, it has (or had) wings, legs, eyes, antenna and a host of
internal organs. Those parts are in turn made of cells, each one of which is hugely complex. And in those cells, among many other things, are – or were – the
fly’s genes, which in turn embody an astonishing intricacy and an ancient, multi-million-year history, while in the fly’s gut would have been countless
bacteria with their own genes, their own goals. Worlds within worlds, now squidged together into a single dark smudge that I am already finding hard to
pinpoint among the scratches and coffee rings. A history of life spread out before me, if only I were able to read it.

At this point, I guess that readers will be dividing into two parties. One party, probably the majority, will be thinking, ‘Get over it, it’s a fly.’ This, it seems to
me, is a very reasonable position. Flies die in large numbers all the time – some, indeed, at my hand, whether I intend it or not (and I sometimes do). And in
the summer evenings, when I sit on our terrace and watch swifts in their spectacle of swooping and screeching, this beautiful display is, of course, at the
same time an orgy of insect death.

The other party of readers, probably the minority, will be horrified at my casual killing of this delicate life-form. They will be appalled at the waste and
stupidity of my carelessness. To them, I must be an oaf; at best ignorant, at worst malevolent. And this, it seems to me, is also a very reasonable position.
Even though I habitually write – sometimes about complex subjects – it is certain that with one mistimed finger-swipe I destroyed complexity and beauty
many orders of magnitude greater than any I will ever create.

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Thus, it seems to me quite reasonable to think that the death of the fly is entirely insignificant and that it is at the same time a kind of catastrophe. To
entertain such contradictions is always uncomfortable, but in this case the dissonance echoes far and wide, bouncing off countless other decisions about
what to buy, what to eat – what to kill; highlighting the inconsistencies in our philosophies, our attempts to make sense of our place in the world and our
relations to our co inhabitants on Earth. The reality is that we do not know what to think about death: not that of a fly, or of a dog or a pig, or of ourselves.

Which is a problem, because nature is a non-stop party of death. For example, I regularly take my children to a large park with a series of ponds, where in
spring we look for frogspawn. Each batch contains many hundreds, even thousands of eggs. The next time we visit, the pond will be full of tadpoles. But the
time after that, there will be many fewer. Those we find are the few survivors, whose numbers will be thinned still more before any get as far as restarting
the cycle with their own spawn.

Q.16
On reading the passage about the two parties of readers mentioned in the passage, it becomes clear that

1 one is quite likely to be reasonable, while the other is quite possibly not.

2 one is likely to have majority, while the other doesn’t.

3 one is quite possibly correct in its thinking and approach, while the other is not.

4 one is favoured by the author due to its thinking, while the other is not.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 2
Your Answer : 4
" Answer key/Solution
From paragraphs four and five, “One party, probably the majority , will be thinking, ‘Get over it, it’s a fly.’” and “The other party of
readers, probably the minority , will be horrified at my casual killing of this delicate life-form.” This makes option 2 correct.
The other options are incorrect, since he specifically says that he finds both the points of view to be reasonable.
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Directions for questions 13 to 18: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

This morning a tiny fly was, true to its name and nature, flying about in the vicinity of my desk. It really was very tiny – a fruit fly, I’d guess. At one point it
landed in front of me. I brushed it aside and it resumed flitting about in its patternless path. Then it landed again, and again I aimed to brush it aside. But
this time, my aim was off. It was probably a matter of only a millimetre or so, but my finger landed, not next to the fly, but on it, and so what was meant to be
a brushing motion became something else instead.

The fly was so small that it didn’t offer the least resistance to the pressure of my finger. Compliantly, it transformed itself into a dark smudge. Not a gory or
bloody smudge; not one with the least detail or variation – not to my naked eye, anyway. Just a small, uniform, rather faint mark.

Now, I’m not a biologist, but I know that a fly is an animal, and more specifically, an insect. As such, it has (or had) wings, legs, eyes, antenna and a host of
internal organs. Those parts are in turn made of cells, each one of which is hugely complex. And in those cells, among many other things, are – or were – the
fly’s genes, which in turn embody an astonishing intricacy and an ancient, multi-million-year history, while in the fly’s gut would have been countless
bacteria with their own genes, their own goals. Worlds within worlds, now squidged together into a single dark smudge that I am already finding hard to
pinpoint among the scratches and coffee rings. A history of life spread out before me, if only I were able to read it.

At this point, I guess that readers will be dividing into two parties. One party, probably the majority, will be thinking, ‘Get over it, it’s a fly.’ This, it seems to
me, is a very reasonable position. Flies die in large numbers all the time – some, indeed, at my hand, whether I intend it or not (and I sometimes do). And in
the summer evenings, when I sit on our terrace and watch swifts in their spectacle of swooping and screeching, this beautiful display is, of course, at the
same time an orgy of insect death.

The other party of readers, probably the minority, will be horrified at my casual killing of this delicate life-form. They will be appalled at the waste and
stupidity of my carelessness. To them, I must be an oaf; at best ignorant, at worst malevolent. And this, it seems to me, is also a very reasonable position.
Even though I habitually write – sometimes about complex subjects – it is certain that with one mistimed finger-swipe I destroyed complexity and beauty
many orders of magnitude greater than any I will ever create.

Thus, it seems to me quite reasonable to think that the death of the fly is entirely insignificant and that it is at the same time a kind of catastrophe. To
entertain such contradictions is always uncomfortable, but in this case the dissonance echoes far and wide, bouncing off countless other decisions about
what to buy, what to eat – what to kill; highlighting the inconsistencies in our philosophies, our attempts to make sense of our place in the world and our
relations to our co inhabitants on Earth. The reality is that we do not know what to think about death: not that of a fly, or of a dog or a pig, or of ourselves.

Which is a problem, because nature is a non-stop party of death. For example, I regularly take my children to a large park with a series of ponds, where in
spring we look for frogspawn. Each batch contains many hundreds, even thousands of eggs. The next time we visit, the pond will be full of tadpoles. But the
time after that, there will be many fewer. Those we find are the few survivors, whose numbers will be thinned still more before any get as far as restarting
the cycle with their own spawn.

Q.17
From a reading of the passage, it becomes clear that the author is not someone who

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1 is averse to dividing readers into two parties.

2 habitually writes, sometimes about complex subjects.

3 visits a large park with a series of ponds.

4 thinks in great detail about topics others might pass up.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 1
Your Answer : 1
" Answer key/Solution
The author has divided readers into two parties in paragraphs four and five. This makes option 1 correct.
Options 2 and 3 are mentioned in the fifth and the last paragraph respectively. 1 reading of the passage makes it clear that the
passage is about death, a topic that others might pass up – making option 4 incorrect.
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Directions for questions 13 to 18: The passage given below is followed by a set of six questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

This morning a tiny fly was, true to its name and nature, flying about in the vicinity of my desk. It really was very tiny – a fruit fly, I’d guess. At one point it
landed in front of me. I brushed it aside and it resumed flitting about in its patternless path. Then it landed again, and again I aimed to brush it aside. But
this time, my aim was off. It was probably a matter of only a millimetre or so, but my finger landed, not next to the fly, but on it, and so what was meant to be
a brushing motion became something else instead.

The fly was so small that it didn’t offer the least resistance to the pressure of my finger. Compliantly, it transformed itself into a dark smudge. Not a gory or
bloody smudge; not one with the least detail or variation – not to my naked eye, anyway. Just a small, uniform, rather faint mark.

Now, I’m not a biologist, but I know that a fly is an animal, and more specifically, an insect. As such, it has (or had) wings, legs, eyes, antenna and a host of
internal organs. Those parts are in turn made of cells, each one of which is hugely complex. And in those cells, among many other things, are – or were – the
fly’s genes, which in turn embody an astonishing intricacy and an ancient, multi-million-year history, while in the fly’s gut would have been countless
bacteria with their own genes, their own goals. Worlds within worlds, now squidged together into a single dark smudge that I am already finding hard to
pinpoint among the scratches and coffee rings. A history of life spread out before me, if only I were able to read it.

At this point, I guess that readers will be dividing into two parties. One party, probably the majority, will be thinking, ‘Get over it, it’s a fly.’ This, it seems to
me, is a very reasonable position. Flies die in large numbers all the time – some, indeed, at my hand, whether I intend it or not (and I sometimes do). And in
the summer evenings, when I sit on our terrace and watch swifts in their spectacle of swooping and screeching, this beautiful display is, of course, at the
same time an orgy of insect death.

The other party of readers, probably the minority, will be horrified at my casual killing of this delicate life-form. They will be appalled at the waste and
stupidity of my carelessness. To them, I must be an oaf; at best ignorant, at worst malevolent. And this, it seems to me, is also a very reasonable position.
Even though I habitually write – sometimes about complex subjects – it is certain that with one mistimed finger-swipe I destroyed complexity and beauty
many orders of magnitude greater than any I will ever create.

Thus, it seems to me quite reasonable to think that the death of the fly is entirely insignificant and that it is at the same time a kind of catastrophe. To
entertain such contradictions is always uncomfortable, but in this case the dissonance echoes far and wide, bouncing off countless other decisions about
what to buy, what to eat – what to kill; highlighting the inconsistencies in our philosophies, our attempts to make sense of our place in the world and our
relations to our co inhabitants on Earth. The reality is that we do not know what to think about death: not that of a fly, or of a dog or a pig, or of ourselves.

Which is a problem, because nature is a non-stop party of death. For example, I regularly take my children to a large park with a series of ponds, where in
spring we look for frogspawn. Each batch contains many hundreds, even thousands of eggs. The next time we visit, the pond will be full of tadpoles. But the
time after that, there will be many fewer. Those we find are the few survivors, whose numbers will be thinned still more before any get as far as restarting
the cycle with their own spawn.

Q.18
The author of the passage does not hold the opinion that the death of a fly

1 is a contradiction that is both insignificant and a catastrophe.

2 is insignificant since flies die in large numbers.

3 is a part of the nature’s non-stop party of death.

4 always leads us to think of the meaning of death.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 4
Your Answer : 4
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and that it is at the same time a kind of catastrophe.” making options 1 and 2 incorrect.
The last paragraph says “nature is a non-stop party of death.” making option 3 incorrect.
Option 4 does not have support in the passage, especially due to the use of the word “always”. This makes option 4 correct.
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Directions for questions 19 to 21: The passage given below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

He arrived at the party wearing a blazer over a black T-shirt. He sported one of those fancy, new-age haircuts and wore jeans that revealed nearly half his
legs. I instantly knew what I was looking at, a campus archetype more than an individual: The ripped-jeans revolutionary. His name was Sam, and as I soon
discovered, Sam was a Communist — a Maoist, he quickly added, presumably worried that I might mistake him for one of those sellout Trotskyists. I knew
how to proceed. Let him talk and keep a running mental tab of his most hilarious quotes. “You can’t deny the industrial achievements of the USSR,” he
remarked. Or better, name-dropping three philosophers in one sentence: “Zizek, though he understood Hegel much better than he understood Lacan, makes
a good point.” There was the curious: “Doesn’t Judaism make so much more sense without God?” And my personal favorite: “Do you really think our wage-
slavery is any better?” Ah yes, I had forgotten: Who are we to judge the Soviet gulag system?

Luke is a Clintonite, shot all the way through. But unlike the ripped-jeans revolutionary, the bloodless Clintonite’s flaws do not usually emerge unless they
are drawn out. For his Achilles’ heel is that he has no vision — unless you consider center-left, incrementalist technocracy a vision. Luke opposes the $15
minimum wage, finding Hillary’s suggestion of $12.50 to be “a more reasonable compromise.” He wants “commonsense regulation of Wall Street” but thinks
that Bernie Sanders’s antagonism is “unhelpful to the cause.” He called his congressman to register his opposition to Betsy DeVos but has no suggestions of
his own for improving education other than “we need to invest more in our children.” The campus Clintonite is hyper–politically active but has no idea what
he wants from politics. The Clintonite has no vision because he cannot escape the present. This is what Irving Kristol was getting at when he asked, “Who,
for example, reads Harold Laski today?” Because the present is always becoming more beneficent than the past, the non-revolutionary Left inevitably finds
past thinkers — even its own progressive champions such as Laski — inadequate, retrograde, or boring. It finds nothing of value when it looks back into the
past and soon stops looking at all. These two campus leftists are worth examining for the factions they represent. The edgy, ripped-jeans revolutionary
might go on to comfortably rage against the machine in the pages of Jacobin, or perhaps he’ll give in to his parents and attend law school. The intellectually
impoverished Clintonite is destined to work on Capitol Hill and continue striving. Should he gain the power he so desperately seeks, he will not have the
faintest idea what to do with it.

Q.19
It can be inferred that a cause for the author to find the quotes by the Maoist hilarious is that

1 the author most likely subscribes to a different political philosophy - possibly being a Trotskyist himself – and hence enjoys logical flaws in his
statements.

2 the author most likely subscribes to a different political philosophy and hence enjoys flaws in the Maoist’s statements.

3 the author compares the Maoist to the Bloodless Clintonite, and finds that the Clintonite is incapable of humour.

4 the author finds the fact that the Maoist’s flaws do not need to be drawn out to emerge (in contrast to the Clintonite’s) hilarious.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 2
A thorough reading of the passage shows that the author does not agree with the political views of the two persons he meets –
" Answer key/Solution
the comments he makes regarding the Soviet gulag system, his negative views on the future of the people he has met. This
makes option 2 correct.
There is nothing the passage to suggest that the author is a Trotskyist – rather the passage suggests the opposite - that the
author has capitalist views. This makes option 1 incorrect.
Option 3 has no support in the passage.
Option 4 points out a difference between Luke and Sam, but this is not the reason for the author finding the quotes hilarious.
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Directions for questions 19 to 21: The passage given below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

He arrived at the party wearing a blazer over a black T-shirt. He sported one of those fancy, new-age haircuts and wore jeans that revealed nearly half his
legs. I instantly knew what I was looking at, a campus archetype more than an individual: The ripped-jeans revolutionary. His name was Sam, and as I soon
discovered, Sam was a Communist — a Maoist, he quickly added, presumably worried that I might mistake him for one of those sellout Trotskyists. I knew
how to proceed. Let him talk and keep a running mental tab of his most hilarious quotes. “You can’t deny the industrial achievements of the USSR,” he
remarked. Or better, name-dropping three philosophers in one sentence: “Zizek, though he understood Hegel much better than he understood Lacan, makes
a good point.” There was the curious: “Doesn’t Judaism make so much more sense without God?” And my personal favorite: “Do you really think our wage-
slavery is any better?” Ah yes, I had forgotten: Who are we to judge the Soviet gulag system?

Luke is a Clintonite, shot all the way through. But unlike the ripped-jeans revolutionary, the bloodless Clintonite’s flaws do not usually emerge unless they
are drawn out. For his Achilles’ heel is that he has no vision — unless you consider center-left, incrementalist technocracy a vision. Luke opposes the $15
minimum wage, finding Hillary’s suggestion of $12.50 to be “a more reasonable compromise.” He wants “commonsense regulation of Wall Street” but thinks
that Bernie Sanders’s antagonism is “unhelpful to the cause.” He called his congressman to register his opposition to Betsy DeVos but has no suggestions of
his own for improving education other than “we need to invest more in our children.” The campus Clintonite is hyper–politically active but has no idea what
he wants from politics. The Clintonite has no vision because he cannot escape the present. This is what Irving Kristol was getting at when he asked, “Who,
for example, reads Harold Laski today?” Because the present is always becoming more beneficent than the past, the non-revolutionary Left inevitably finds
past thinkers — even its own progressive champions such as Laski — inadequate, retrograde, or boring. It finds nothing of value when it looks back into the

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past and soon stops looking at all. These two campus leftists are worth examining for the factions they represent. The edgy, ripped-jeans revolutionary
might go on to comfortably rage against the machine in the pages of Jacobin, or perhaps he’ll give in to his parents and attend law school. The intellectually
impoverished Clintonite is destined to work on Capitol Hill and continue striving. Should he gain the power he so desperately seeks, he will not have the
faintest idea what to do with it.

Q.20
It is true that

1 the Clintonite is working on reducing his intellectual impoverishment.

2 Sam can name-drop three or more philosophers in a sentence.

3 Luke has vision because he can think beyond the present.

4 the Maoist has two futures envisaged for him by the author of the passage.

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he’ll give in to his parents and attend law school.” makes Option 4 true.
Option 1 has no support in the passage.
Option 2 has a problem because of the “more”.
Option 3 states the opposite of the passage.
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Directions for questions 19 to 21: The passage given below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

He arrived at the party wearing a blazer over a black T-shirt. He sported one of those fancy, new-age haircuts and wore jeans that revealed nearly half his
legs. I instantly knew what I was looking at, a campus archetype more than an individual: The ripped-jeans revolutionary. His name was Sam, and as I soon
discovered, Sam was a Communist — a Maoist, he quickly added, presumably worried that I might mistake him for one of those sellout Trotskyists. I knew
how to proceed. Let him talk and keep a running mental tab of his most hilarious quotes. “You can’t deny the industrial achievements of the USSR,” he
remarked. Or better, name-dropping three philosophers in one sentence: “Zizek, though he understood Hegel much better than he understood Lacan, makes
a good point.” There was the curious: “Doesn’t Judaism make so much more sense without God?” And my personal favorite: “Do you really think our wage-
slavery is any better?” Ah yes, I had forgotten: Who are we to judge the Soviet gulag system?

Luke is a Clintonite, shot all the way through. But unlike the ripped-jeans revolutionary, the bloodless Clintonite’s flaws do not usually emerge unless they
are drawn out. For his Achilles’ heel is that he has no vision — unless you consider center-left, incrementalist technocracy a vision. Luke opposes the $15
minimum wage, finding Hillary’s suggestion of $12.50 to be “a more reasonable compromise.” He wants “commonsense regulation of Wall Street” but thinks
that Bernie Sanders’s antagonism is “unhelpful to the cause.” He called his congressman to register his opposition to Betsy DeVos but has no suggestions of
his own for improving education other than “we need to invest more in our children.” The campus Clintonite is hyper–politically active but has no idea what
he wants from politics. The Clintonite has no vision because he cannot escape the present. This is what Irving Kristol was getting at when he asked, “Who,
for example, reads Harold Laski today?” Because the present is always becoming more beneficent than the past, the non-revolutionary Left inevitably finds
past thinkers — even its own progressive champions such as Laski — inadequate, retrograde, or boring. It finds nothing of value when it looks back into the
past and soon stops looking at all. These two campus leftists are worth examining for the factions they represent. The edgy, ripped-jeans revolutionary
might go on to comfortably rage against the machine in the pages of Jacobin, or perhaps he’ll give in to his parents and attend law school. The intellectually
impoverished Clintonite is destined to work on Capitol Hill and continue striving. Should he gain the power he so desperately seeks, he will not have the
faintest idea what to do with it.

Q.21
A difference between the Maoist and the bloodless Clintonite is

1 one of them is bloodless, while the other has blood on his hands.

2 one of them has left of centre views, while the other has right of centre views.

3 based on the author’s comments, the Clintonite has less clarity than the Maoist.

4 that the author knew how to proceed with one, but not with the other.

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The passage shows that Sam has views on a variety of subjects acquired through reading and voices his opinions, while Luke is
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“intellectually impoverished”. This makes option 3 true. There is nothing in the passage to suggest that Sam has blood on his
hands, making option 1 incorrect.
Option 2 is incorrect, since both Sam and Luke have views left of centre.
The author does know how to proceed with Luke, since he goes on to draw out his flaws. This makes option 4 incorrect.
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Directions for questions 22 to 24: The passage given below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

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Every time you flip a light switch, you tap into a gigantic invisible web, the electrical grid. Somewhere, at the other end of the high-voltage transmission
lines carrying power to your house, there’s a power plant (likely burning coal or, increasingly, natural gas) churning out electricity to replace the electrons
that you and everyone else are draining at that moment.

The amount of power in our grid at any one time is carefully maintained—too much or too little and things start to break. Grid operators make careful
observations and predictions to determine how much electricity power plants should produce, minute by minute, hour by hour. But sometimes they’re
wrong, and a plant has to power up in a hurry to make up the difference.

Lucky for us, it’s a big, interconnected system, so we rarely notice changes in the quality or quantity of electricity. Imagine the difference between stepping
into a bucket of water versus stepping into the ocean. In a small system, any change in the balance between supply and demand is obvious — the bucket
overflows. But because the grid is so big—ocean-like—fluctuations are usually imperceptible. Only when something goes very wrong do we notice, because
the lights go out.

Renewable energy is less obedient than a coal- or gas-fired power plant—you can’t just fire up a solar farm if demand spikes suddenly. Solar power peaks
during the day, varies as clouds move across the sun, and disappears at night, while wind power is even less predictable. Too much of that kind of
intermittency on the grid could make it more difficult to balance supply and demand, which could lead to more blackouts.

Storing energy is a safety valve. If you could dump extra energy somewhere, then draw from it when supply gets low again, you can power a whole lot more
stuff with renewable energy, even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. What’s more, the grid itself becomes more stable and efficient, as
batteries would allow communities and regions to manage their own power supply. Our aging and overtaxed power infrastructure would go a lot further.
Instead of installing new transmission lines in places where existing lines are near capacity, you could draw power during off-peak times and stash it in
batteries until you need it.

Just like that, the bucket can behave a lot more like the ocean. That would mean—at least in theory—more distributed power generation and storage, more
renewables, and less reliance on giant fossil-fueled power plants.

Q.22
It cannot be inferred from the passage that

1 non renewable energy sources are more obedient than renewable ones since they can be switched on and off at will to meet demand spikes.

2 safety valves ensure that the grid becomes more stable and efficient since power can be dumped when extra, and drawn when required.

3 a smaller grid would have more perceptible fluctuations than a larger one because in a large grid fluctuations are less perceptible.

4 The amount of power in the grid can be measured by grid operators.

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Your Answer : 4
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Option 1 can be inferred from paragraph4, “Renewable energy is less obedient than a coal- or gas-fired power plant…”
Option 3 can be inferred from paragraph3, “Imagine the difference between stepping into a bucket of water…..the bucket
overflows.”
Option 4 can be inferred from paragraph2 - the observations that grid operators make that tell them whether the grid needs more power would require
them to know the amount of power in the grid.
Option 2 cannot be inferred since the passage talks about storing energy as a type of safety valve. There can be other types of safety valves.
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Directions for questions 22 to 24: The passage given below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Every time you flip a light switch, you tap into a gigantic invisible web, the electrical grid. Somewhere, at the other end of the high-voltage transmission
lines carrying power to your house, there’s a power plant (likely burning coal or, increasingly, natural gas) churning out electricity to replace the electrons
that you and everyone else are draining at that moment.

The amount of power in our grid at any one time is carefully maintained—too much or too little and things start to break. Grid operators make careful
observations and predictions to determine how much electricity power plants should produce, minute by minute, hour by hour. But sometimes they’re
wrong, and a plant has to power up in a hurry to make up the difference.

Lucky for us, it’s a big, interconnected system, so we rarely notice changes in the quality or quantity of electricity. Imagine the difference between stepping
into a bucket of water versus stepping into the ocean. In a small system, any change in the balance between supply and demand is obvious — the bucket
overflows. But because the grid is so big—ocean-like—fluctuations are usually imperceptible. Only when something goes very wrong do we notice, because
the lights go out.

Renewable energy is less obedient than a coal- or gas-fired power plant—you can’t just fire up a solar farm if demand spikes suddenly. Solar power peaks
during the day, varies as clouds move across the sun, and disappears at night, while wind power is even less predictable. Too much of that kind of
intermittency on the grid could make it more difficult to balance supply and demand, which could lead to more blackouts.

Storing energy is a safety valve. If you could dump extra energy somewhere, then draw from it when supply gets low again, you can power a whole lot more
stuff with renewable energy, even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. What’s more, the grid itself becomes more stable and efficient, as

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batteries would allow communities and regions to manage their own power supply. Our aging and overtaxed power infrastructure would go a lot further.
Instead of installing new transmission lines in places where existing lines are near capacity, you could draw power during off-peak times and stash it in
batteries until you need it.

Just like that, the bucket can behave a lot more like the ocean. That would mean—at least in theory—more distributed power generation and storage, more
renewables, and less reliance on giant fossil-fueled power plants.

Q.23
The thematic highlight of this passage is

1 to cover the differences between renewable and non-renewable energy and highlight how one is better than the other.

2 to highlight the drawbacks of having too many renewable sources on the grid since they create perceptible fluctuations in the grid.

3 to talk about ways to improve the grid, by using methods that help balance renewable and non-renewable sources in mix.

4 to talk about the advantages of batteries as a way of bringing about better stability in the grid and making better use of the power infrastructure.

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Your Answer : 1
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The passage talks about the grid as a whole, and the penultimate paragraph focuses on the main point- use of batteries will
enable better use of it, including the power infrastructure. This makes Answer Option 4 correct. The other points are covered in
the passage, but are not the focus of the passage.
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Directions for questions 22 to 24: The passage given below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Every time you flip a light switch, you tap into a gigantic invisible web, the electrical grid. Somewhere, at the other end of the high-voltage transmission
lines carrying power to your house, there’s a power plant (likely burning coal or, increasingly, natural gas) churning out electricity to replace the electrons
that you and everyone else are draining at that moment.

The amount of power in our grid at any one time is carefully maintained—too much or too little and things start to break. Grid operators make careful
observations and predictions to determine how much electricity power plants should produce, minute by minute, hour by hour. But sometimes they’re
wrong, and a plant has to power up in a hurry to make up the difference.

Lucky for us, it’s a big, interconnected system, so we rarely notice changes in the quality or quantity of electricity. Imagine the difference between stepping
into a bucket of water versus stepping into the ocean. In a small system, any change in the balance between supply and demand is obvious — the bucket
overflows. But because the grid is so big—ocean-like—fluctuations are usually imperceptible. Only when something goes very wrong do we notice, because
the lights go out.

Renewable energy is less obedient than a coal- or gas-fired power plant—you can’t just fire up a solar farm if demand spikes suddenly. Solar power peaks
during the day, varies as clouds move across the sun, and disappears at night, while wind power is even less predictable. Too much of that kind of
intermittency on the grid could make it more difficult to balance supply and demand, which could lead to more blackouts.

Storing energy is a safety valve. If you could dump extra energy somewhere, then draw from it when supply gets low again, you can power a whole lot more
stuff with renewable energy, even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. What’s more, the grid itself becomes more stable and efficient, as
batteries would allow communities and regions to manage their own power supply. Our aging and overtaxed power infrastructure would go a lot further.
Instead of installing new transmission lines in places where existing lines are near capacity, you could draw power during off-peak times and stash it in
batteries until you need it.

Just like that, the bucket can behave a lot more like the ocean. That would mean—at least in theory—more distributed power generation and storage, more
renewables, and less reliance on giant fossil-fueled power plants.

Q.24
Based on the passage, storing energy is a safety valve because

1 extra energy can be stored somewhere, and then used as required.

2 storing energies would allow communities to manage their own power supply.

3 it removes the dependence on non-renewable energy.

4 in a big, it is an inter-connected system that improves the quality of electricity.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 1
Your Answer : 3

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The answer is found in paragraph 4, “ If you could dump extra energy somewhere, then draw from it when supply gets low
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again...”. Option 2 is stated in the passage, but does not answer the question asked. Option 3 is not the right reason. In any case,
it goes beyond the passage by using “remove”.
Option 4 mixes the concepts up, since the energy is stored in batteries, not in the system. Also, improving quality is not
connected to why storing energy is a safety valve.
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Directions for questions 25 to 27: The following question consists of a paragraph which is followed by four options. Among the given options, choose the
one which captures the essence of the paragraph accurately and clearly. Type in that option as the answer in the space provided below the question.

Q.25
Every month or so, I see a patient called Fraser in my primary care clinic, a soldier who was deployed in Afghanistan. Fifteen years after coming home, he is
still haunted by flashbacks of burning buildings and sniper fire. When Fraser began coming to see me, I was reading Redeployment (2014) by Phil Klay –
short stories about US military operations, not in Afghanistan, but in Iraq. No book can substitute for direct experience, but Klay’s stories gave me a way to
start talking about what Fraser was going through; when I finished the book, I offered it to him. He found reassurance in what I’d found illuminating; our
conversations took new directions as we discussed aspects of the book.

Which of the following best summarizes the given paragraph?

(1) Reading the book Redeployment based on the US military operations in Iraq helped the author treat Fraser, an American soldier deployed in Afghanistan
fifteen years back in a better way from the menacingly painful hounding war reminiscence.
(2) Reading the book Redeployment based on the US military operations in Iraq helped the author treat Fraser, an American soldier deployed in Afghanistan
fifteen years back in a better way from the menacingly painful hounding war wounds.
(3) Reading the book Redeployment fifteen years back based on the US military operations in Iraq helped the author treat Fraser, an American soldier
deployed in Afghanistan fifteen years back in a better way from the menacingly painful hounding war reminiscence.
(4) Reading the book Redeployment based on the US military operations in Iraq helped the author completely cure Fraser, an American soldier deployed in
Afghanistan fifteen years back in a better way from the menacingly painful hounding war reminiscence.

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Option 1 covers the essence of the passage. Option 2 is incorrect because the book was based on Iraq and war memories were
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hounding Fraser and not the war wounds. Option 3 is incorrect because the author was not reading the book fifteen years back.
Option 4 is incorrect because “to get completely cured” is a farfetched assumption.
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Directions for questions 25 to 27: The following question consists of a paragraph which is followed by four options. Among the given options, choose the
one which captures the essence of the paragraph accurately and clearly. Type in that option as the answer in the space provided below the question.

Q.26
When it comes to immigration, not all foreigners are the same. The treatment of non-citizen legal residents, for example, raises very different moral and
political questions from the larger debate about who should, and who should not, be allowed to enter. Through the state’s official procedures, it has entered
an agreement with the non-citizen, an agreement that brings obligations and limitations on the conduct of both parties. A state that, without due process,
simply ignores the rights and obligations it has extended to that legal resident makes a serious breach of its moral authority and the rule of law. This is why
the state’s treatment of its non-citizen legal residents – its visa-holders and permanent resident aliens – can say as much about its health as its treatment
of citizens.

Which of the following best summarizes the given paragraph?

(1) The authenticity of the moral authority and the rule of law of all states when legal resident rights to the non-citizens can be challenged after analyzing
the treatment the state renders in the form of rights and obligations to its non-citizens.
(2) The veracity of the moral authority and the rule of law of any state when it grants legal resident rights to the non-citizens can be ascertained after
analyzing the treatment the state renders in the form of rights and obligations to its citizens by birth.
(3) The veracity of the moral authority and the rule of law of any state when it grants legal resident privileges and honors to the non-citizens can be
ascertained after analyzing the treatment the state renders in the form of rights and obligations to its citizens by birth.
(4) The veracity of the moral authority and the rule of law of any state when it grants legal resident rights to the non-citizens can be accurately ascertained
after analyzing the treatment the state renders in the form of rights and obligations to its citizens by birth.

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Correct Answer : 2
Your Answer : 1
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Option 2 covers the essence of the passage. Option 1 is incorrect because the veracity cannot be challenged and can be either
verified or proven; also it depends on the treatment of the natives and not the non-citizens. Option 3 is incorrect because the
passage does not mention the privilege and honors a non-citizen is granted after the citizenship of a foreign state. Option 4 is
incorrect because it says the extreme expression ‘accurately ascertained.’
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Directions for questions 25 to 27: The following question consists of a paragraph which is followed by four options. Among the given options, choose the
one which captures the essence of the paragraph accurately and clearly. Type in that option as the answer in the space provided below the question.

Q.27
Last night, most of us went to the safety and comfort of our beds before drifting off to a night’s sleep. For some, this was the last conscious action before an
episode of sleepwalking. Recent research from Stanford University shows that up to 4 per cent of adults might have had such an experience. In fact,
sleepwalking is on the rise, in part due to increased use of pharmacologically based sleep aids – notably Ambien. Often, the episodes are harmless.
Sometimes, of course, sleepwalking is dangerous. Somnambulists are in an irrational state during which they could harm themselves or others. Patient
committed the act – if that’s the right word – despite an agreeable relationship with the victim and a lack of motive.

Which of the following best summarizes the given paragraph?

(1) Pharmacological sleeping aids are seminal in worsening the sound sleep of the sleepwalking patient and the recent research from the Stanford
University unveils the apparently dangerous effects of somnambulism where the patient may either get creative or harm himself as well as others.
(2) Pharmacological sleeping aids are seminal in worsening the aftermath of the sleepwalking patient and the recent research from the Stanford University
unveils the apparently dangerous effects of somnambulism where the patient may either get creative or harm himself as well as others fatally.
(3) Pharmacological sleeping aids are seminal in worsening the aftermath of the sleepwalking patient and the recent research from the Stanford University
unveils the apparently dangerous effects of somnambulism where the patient may either get creative or harm himself as well as others.
(4) Pharmacological sleeping aids are seminal in alleviating the aftermath of the sleepwalking patient and the recent research from the Stanford University
unveils the apparently dangerous effects of somnambulism where the patient may either get creative or harm himself as well as others fatally.

Solution:
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Option 3 covers the essence of the passage. Option 1 is incorrect because the passage does not deal with the sound sleep the
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patient gets after pharmacological aid rather disturbances one faces after using them. Option 2 is incorrect because ‘fatally’ is
an extreme expression that the passage does not mention. Option 4 is incorrect because it is exactly the opposite of what has
been stated in the passage.
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Directions for questions 28 to 31:In the questions below, rearrange the given set of statements and type in the right sequence as your answer.

Q.28
1. When one considers our distant, pre-human ancestors, answers begin to take shape.
2. We need a restful sleep – would it not be more beneficial if the brain went totally ‘comatose’ until that rest was achieved?
3. But why would our brains enter into such a mixed state, representative of neither wakefulness nor sleeping?
4. For aeons, the safety provided by the spot where our predecessors chose to lay their heads for the night was, in many ways, compromised compared with
the safety of our current bedroom spaces.

Solution:
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Statements 3 and 2 make a pair because the conversation starts with why the brain behaves in a certain way with an answer
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that wouldn’t it be better if it behaved like this. Statements 1 and 4 make a pair because ‘the answers begin to take shape’ is
linked with the reason stated in 4. 32 has to come before 14 because 321 makes a series. The answer mentioned in 2 has been
extended in Statement 1. Hence, the correct sequence is 3214.
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Directions for questions 28 to 31:In the questions below, rearrange the given set of statements and type in the right sequence as your answer.

Q.29
1. In today’s data-driven educational enterprise, faculty who do not entertain frequently do not get promoted – or even retained – because of the influence
of student evaluations.
2. The same goes for information technology workshops and conferences I attend, where questions such as ‘I found the speaker interesting’ on evaluation
forms help to determine who is invited back in subsequent years.
3. TED talks are the logical conclusion of this fashion, inspiring lectures with high production values and well-rehearsed presentations.
4. They hold one’s interest, but they convey little information.

Solution:
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Statement 1 is clearly the opening idea because it introduces us to the main idea of importance of entertaining faculty among
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students. Statement 2 elaborates that this is required even in other professions. Statements 3 and 4 make a pair because “they”
in Statement 4 refers to “TED talks” in Statement 3. Hence, the correct sequence is 1234.
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Directions for questions 28 to 31:In the questions below, rearrange the given set of statements and type in the right sequence as your answer.

Q.30

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1. New brain-machine interfaces will improve our memory and cognition, extend our senses, and confer direct control over an array of semi-intelligent
gadgets.
2. Genetic and epigenetic modification will allow us to change our physical appearance and capabilities, as well as to tweak some of the more intangible
aspects of our being such as emotion, creativity or sociability.
3. Within the lifetimes of most children today, bio-enhancement is likely to become a basic feature of human society.
4. Personalized pharmaceuticals will enable us to modify our bodies and minds in powerful and precise ways, with far fewer side-effects than today’s drugs.

Solution:
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Correct Answer : 3412
Statement 3 introduces us to an alternative medical treatment ‘bio-enhancement’. Statement 4 is an extension to the idea
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mentioned in Statement 3. Statement 1 follows the pair 34 because it talks about the new mechanism that would happen and
Statement 2 is the result how this mechanism works on thebody in various ways. Hence, the correct sequence is 3412.
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Directions for questions 28 to 31:In the questions below, rearrange the given set of statements and type in the right sequence as your answer.

Q.31
1. There is also what I call ‘the big-picture defense’, claiming that evil only appears as such from our limited perspectives.
2. Others have argued that certain kinds of moral goodness – compassion, for instance – are not possible in a world without evil, and the value of these
types of goodness outweighs the evils on which their existence depends.
3. There is the argument of free will, attributing evil not to God but to humanity’s misuse of its own freedom.
4. Many solutions to the problem of evil – called ‘theodicies’ – have been proposed.

Solution:
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Statements 321 become a series because in Statement 3 the main reason for the argument is mentioned. Statement 2 follows
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because it presents what others argue on. Statement 1 follows 32 because the word “also” proves that it is an extension of the
idea stated in Statement 2. The proposal happens in Statement 4; so it is the opening sentence. Hence, the correct sequence is
4321.
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Directions for questions 32 to 34: In each of the following questions, five sentences are given. Of these, four sentences need to be in logical order to make a
coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the one that does not fit the sequence.

Q.32
1. Well I remember a girl, but I don’t remember her specific features, and just a blurred face.
2. This was Misha speaking about his sister who was shot in front of him by the Nazis when he was just four years old.
3. After her execution, an ‘anti-Semitic priest’ ran up to the Nazi officers and told them not to shoot the remaining Jews who were awaiting a bullet.
4. Palestine’s Jews had no illusions about what to expect from German occupation.
5. ‘They used to ask me if I remembered her… I don’t.

Solution:
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Option 4 is the odd sentence. The un-jumbled part is— ‘They used to ask me if I remembered her… I don’t. Well I remember a
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girl, but I don’t remember her specific features, and just a blurred face. This was Misha speaking about his sister who was shot in
front of him by the Nazis when he was just four years old. After her execution, an ‘anti-Semitic priest’ ran up to the Nazi officers
and told them not to shoot the remaining Jews who were awaiting a bullet.
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Directions for questions 32 to 34: In each of the following questions, five sentences are given. Of these, four sentences need to be in logical order to make a
coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the one that does not fit the sequence.

Q.33
1. If they probe any further, I tell them that I work with the great apes at Leipzig zoo.
2. I get apprehensive whenever someone asks me about my job.
3. Apes are humanity’s closest living relatives.
4. I’m a philosopher who works on the question of how language evolved, I reply.
5. But some people, I’ve discovered, have big problems with zoos; and plenty of philosophers and primatologists agree with them.

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philosopher who works on the question of how language evolved, I reply. If they probe any further, I tell them that I work with
the great apes at Leipzig zoo. But some people, I’ve discovered, have big problems with zoos; and plenty of philosophers and
primatologists agree with them.
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Directions for questions 32 to 34: In each of the following questions, five sentences are given. Of these, four sentences need to be in logical order to make a
coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the one that does not fit the sequence.

Q.34
1. Not only is God the creator and ruler of the things and beings within those two realms, but He is also the creator of the realms themselves.
2. The philosopher Gottfried Leibniz’s simple solution was to argue in 1710 that this world is necessarily the best of all possible worlds.
3. Because He is a loving God, the one He chooses to create is surely the ‘best of all possible worlds’.
4. Leibniz depicts God assessing in His infinite mind all the various possible worlds that He could create.
5. His argument suggests that it is ultimately meaningless to complain about this evil or that injustice; because this is the best of all possible worlds.

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that this world is necessarily the best of all possible worlds. Leibniz depicts God assessing in His infinite mind all the various
possible worlds that He could create. Because He is a loving God, the one He chooses to create is surely the ‘best of all possible
worlds’. His argument suggests that it is ultimately meaningless to complain about this evil or that injustice; because this is the
best of all possible worlds.
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Directions for questions 35 to 38: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Five companies were vying with each other in their bid to take-over Mittal Steel, the largest steel-maker of the world. The companies initially offered a
price per share of Mittal Steel which is termed as ‘offer price’. The offer prices of the respective companies as on 1st February 2017 morning was as follows:

The bidding process continued for six days from 1 st to 6 th February. During this period, all the companies followed a simple rule for revising their offer
prices.
I. If the closing price of the share of a particular company on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on any
day was higher than the previous day’s closing price, the offer price was revised upwards the next day by Rupee 1/- per share.
II. If the closing price of the share of a particular company on BSE on any day was lower than the previous day’s closing price, the offer price was revised
downwards by Rs. 2 per share the next day.
III. Each day, the offer prices of the companies were revised starting with the first revision on 2 nd February and the final revision on 6 th February.

The Table below shows the closing share prices on BSE for the 5 companies mentioned. Data for the closing price of Tata Steel on 3 rd February and of Modi
Steel on 2 nd February are not available.

Following additional information is available:

A. For Tata Steel, the number of days on which the share price increased was one more than the number of days on which the share price decreased over the
previous day, from 1st to 5th February, 2017. Also, the share price of Tata Steel neither decreased nor increased on more than two consecutive days during
the given period.
B. The share price of Modi Steel increased on 4 days and decreased on 1 day, over the previous day, from 1st to 5th February, 2017.

Q.35
Mittal Steel was taken over by the company that offered the maximum offer price as on 6 th February. Identify the company that was successful in taking
over Mittal Steel.

1 Tata Steel

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2 Modi Steel

3 Essar Steel

4 Nippon Steel

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Five companies were vying with each other in their bid to take-over Mittal Steel, the largest steel-maker of the world. The companies initially offered a
price per share of Mittal Steel which is termed as ‘offer price’. The offer prices of the respective companies as on 1st February 2017 morning was as follows:

The bidding process continued for six days from 1 st to 6 th February. During this period, all the companies followed a simple rule for revising their offer
prices.
I. If the closing price of the share of a particular company on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on any
day was higher than the previous day’s closing price, the offer price was revised upwards the next day by Rupee 1/- per share.
II. If the closing price of the share of a particular company on BSE on any day was lower than the previous day’s closing price, the offer price was revised
downwards by Rs. 2 per share the next day.
III. Each day, the offer prices of the companies were revised starting with the first revision on 2 nd February and the final revision on 6 th February.

The Table below shows the closing share prices on BSE for the 5 companies mentioned. Data for the closing price of Tata Steel on 3 rd February and of Modi
Steel on 2 nd February are not available.

Following additional information is available:

A. For Tata Steel, the number of days on which the share price increased was one more than the number of days on which the share price decreased over the
previous day, from 1st to 5th February, 2017. Also, the share price of Tata Steel neither decreased nor increased on more than two consecutive days during
the given period.

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B. The share price of Modi Steel increased on 4 days and decreased on 1 day, over the previous day, from 1st to 5th February, 2017.

Q.36
Which group of companies had the same absolute change in the offer price on 6 th February with respect to 1 st February?

1 Tata, JK and Nippon Steel

2 Tata and JK Steel

3 JK and Nippon Steel

4 Tata and Nippon Steel

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Five companies were vying with each other in their bid to take-over Mittal Steel, the largest steel-maker of the world. The companies initially offered a
price per share of Mittal Steel which is termed as ‘offer price’. The offer prices of the respective companies as on 1st February 2017 morning was as follows:

The bidding process continued for six days from 1 st to 6 th February. During this period, all the companies followed a simple rule for revising their offer
prices.
I. If the closing price of the share of a particular company on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on any
day was higher than the previous day’s closing price, the offer price was revised upwards the next day by Rupee 1/- per share.
II. If the closing price of the share of a particular company on BSE on any day was lower than the previous day’s closing price, the offer price was revised
downwards by Rs. 2 per share the next day.
III. Each day, the offer prices of the companies were revised starting with the first revision on 2 nd February and the final revision on 6 th February.

The Table below shows the closing share prices on BSE for the 5 companies mentioned. Data for the closing price of Tata Steel on 3 rd February and of Modi
Steel on 2 nd February are not available.

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Following additional information is available:

A. For Tata Steel, the number of days on which the share price increased was one more than the number of days on which the share price decreased over the
previous day, from 1st to 5th February, 2017. Also, the share price of Tata Steel neither decreased nor increased on more than two consecutive days during
the given period.
B. The share price of Modi Steel increased on 4 days and decreased on 1 day, over the previous day, from 1st to 5th February, 2017.

Q.37
Had the bidding concluded on 5 th February, and companies with the top two offer prices not showed interest in taking over the company, which company
could have taken over Mittal Steel?

1 Modi Steel

2 JK Steel

3 There will be a tie between Tata Steel and Essar Steel

4 Tata Steel

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Five companies were vying with each other in their bid to take-over Mittal Steel, the largest steel-maker of the world. The companies initially offered a
price per share of Mittal Steel which is termed as ‘offer price’. The offer prices of the respective companies as on 1st February 2017 morning was as follows:

The bidding process continued for six days from 1 st to 6 th February. During this period, all the companies followed a simple rule for revising their offer
prices.

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I. If the closing price of the share of a particular company on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on any
day was higher than the previous day’s closing price, the offer price was revised upwards the next day by Rupee 1/- per share.
II. If the closing price of the share of a particular company on BSE on any day was lower than the previous day’s closing price, the offer price was revised
downwards by Rs. 2 per share the next day.
III. Each day, the offer prices of the companies were revised starting with the first revision on 2 nd February and the final revision on 6 th February.

The Table below shows the closing share prices on BSE for the 5 companies mentioned. Data for the closing price of Tata Steel on 3 rd February and of Modi
Steel on 2 nd February are not available.

Following additional information is available:

A. For Tata Steel, the number of days on which the share price increased was one more than the number of days on which the share price decreased over the
previous day, from 1st to 5th February, 2017. Also, the share price of Tata Steel neither decreased nor increased on more than two consecutive days during
the given period.
B. The share price of Modi Steel increased on 4 days and decreased on 1 day, over the previous day, from 1st to 5th February, 2017.

Q.38
Only those companies with an offer price of more than Rs. 595 on 4 th February were considered for further participation. How many companies were not
eligible for making bid on 6 th February?

1 3

2 4

3 1

4 2

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Directions for questions 39 to 42: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below:

The following table gives details related to the number of runs scored by four players – Kemp, Kallis, Klusener and Kevin – in four different tournaments –
Standard Bank Series, Afro-Asia Cup, Natwest Series and Benson & Hedges Series. However, the names of the players are disguised as P, Q, R, S and the
names of the tournaments are disguised as A, B, C, D, not necessarily in the same order.

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It is also known that:

• The total number of runs scored by the 4 players, put together, in Afro-Asia Cup was greater than that in the other three tournaments.
• The absolute difference between the total runs scored in Afro-Asia Cup and Benson & Hedges Series and the total runs scored in Natwest Series and
Standard Bank Series by the 4 players was 100.
• When the total runs scored by individual players in the four tournaments, put together, are arranged in descending order (from top to bottom), Kevin and
Kemp occupy the top two positions.

Q.39
What can be said regarding the following two statements?

Statement X: Kallis’s 2nd highest score was in Natwest Series.

Statement Y: The absolute difference between the highest individual scores in Afro-Asia Cup and Standard Bank Series was 100.

1 If Statement X is true, then Statement Y is necessarily true.

2 Statement X is false and Statement Y is true.

3 Statement X is false but Statement Y may be true.

4 Both Statements X and Y are necessarily false.

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The following table gives details related to the number of runs scored by four players – Kemp, Kallis, Klusener and Kevin – in four different tournaments –
Standard Bank Series, Afro-Asia Cup, Natwest Series and Benson & Hedges Series. However, the names of the players are disguised as P, Q, R, S and the
names of the tournaments are disguised as A, B, C, D, not necessarily in the same order.

It is also known that:

• The total number of runs scored by the 4 players, put together, in Afro-Asia Cup was greater than that in the other three tournaments.
• The absolute difference between the total runs scored in Afro-Asia Cup and Benson & Hedges Series and the total runs scored in Natwest Series and
Standard Bank Series by the 4 players was 100.
• When the total runs scored by individual players in the four tournaments, put together, are arranged in descending order (from top to bottom), Kevin and
Kemp occupy the top two positions.

Q.40
What can be said regarding the following two statements?

Statement X: Klusener’s highest score was in Natwest Series.

Statement Y: Kallis’s second lowest score was in Standard Bank Series.

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1 If one of the statements is false, then the other is definitely false.

2 If Statement X is true, then Statement Y is necessarily false.

3 If Statement Y is true, then Statement X is necessarily false.

4 Both Statements X and Y are true independently.

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Directions for questions 39 to 42: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below:

The following table gives details related to the number of runs scored by four players – Kemp, Kallis, Klusener and Kevin – in four different tournaments –
Standard Bank Series, Afro-Asia Cup, Natwest Series and Benson & Hedges Series. However, the names of the players are disguised as P, Q, R, S and the
names of the tournaments are disguised as A, B, C, D, not necessarily in the same order.

It is also known that:

• The total number of runs scored by the 4 players, put together, in Afro-Asia Cup was greater than that in the other three tournaments.
• The absolute difference between the total runs scored in Afro-Asia Cup and Benson & Hedges Series and the total runs scored in Natwest Series and
Standard Bank Series by the 4 players was 100.
• When the total runs scored by individual players in the four tournaments, put together, are arranged in descending order (from top to bottom), Kevin and
Kemp occupy the top two positions.

Q.41
What can be said regarding the following statements?

Statement X: Kevin’s lowest score was in Benson & Hedges series.

Statement Y: Kemp’s highest score was in Afro-Asia Cup.

1 Statement X may be false but Statement Y is necessarily true.

2 Statement Y may be false but Statement X is necessarily true.

3 Both Statement X and Statement Y are necessarily true.

4 Both Statements X and Y may be false together.

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Directions for questions 39 to 42: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below:

The following table gives details related to the number of runs scored by four players – Kemp, Kallis, Klusener and Kevin – in four different tournaments –
Standard Bank Series, Afro-Asia Cup, Natwest Series and Benson & Hedges Series. However, the names of the players are disguised as P, Q, R, S and the
names of the tournaments are disguised as A, B, C, D, not necessarily in the same order.

It is also known that:

• The total number of runs scored by the 4 players, put together, in Afro-Asia Cup was greater than that in the other three tournaments.
• The absolute difference between the total runs scored in Afro-Asia Cup and Benson & Hedges Series and the total runs scored in Natwest Series and
Standard Bank Series by the 4 players was 100.
• When the total runs scored by individual players in the four tournaments, put together, are arranged in descending order (from top to bottom), Kevin and
Kemp occupy the top two positions.

Q.42
What can be said regarding the following two statements?

Statement X: The total runs scored by Kevin in the four tournaments, put together, was highest.
Statement Y: The number of runs scored by Kemp in the Natwest Series was highest.

1 If statement X is true, then statement Y is necessarily true.

2 If statement Y is true, then statement X is necessarily false.

3 Statement Y is definitely false but statement X may be true.

4 If statement Y is false, then statement X is necessarily true.

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Directions for questions 43 to 46: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

In a particular batch of an Engineering college, there are 90 students each in four different departments viz. ECE, CSE, ME and EE. The IT department has
only 60 students. The following graph shows the number of students passed and failed in the English paper of the second semester examination. It also
shows the number of students who applied for re-evaluation of the same paper. Only the students who initially failed in the paper, were eligible to apply for
a re-evaluation. After re-evaluation, some students passed while the others could not pass even after the re-evaluation. All the failed students along with
the absentees have to clear the English paper next year. The number of passed and failed students, as captured in the following bar-chart, only indicate the
situation before re-evaluation. The passed and failed students taken together indicate the number of students who appeared in that paper. Difference, if
any, between the total number and the appeared number of students from any department is due to the absentees.

Q.43
What was the pass percentage of all the streams taken together before re-evaluation ?

1 66.5%

2 69.3%

3 64.7%

4 68.1%

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In a particular batch of an Engineering college, there are 90 students each in four different departments viz. ECE, CSE, ME and EE. The IT department has
only 60 students. The following graph shows the number of students passed and failed in the English paper of the second semester examination. It also
shows the number of students who applied for re-evaluation of the same paper. Only the students who initially failed in the paper, were eligible to apply for
a re-evaluation. After re-evaluation, some students passed while the others could not pass even after the re-evaluation. All the failed students along with
the absentees have to clear the English paper next year. The number of passed and failed students, as captured in the following bar-chart, only indicate the
situation before re-evaluation. The passed and failed students taken together indicate the number of students who appeared in that paper. Difference, if
any, between the total number and the appeared number of students from any department is due to the absentees.

Q.44
If less than 70% of the students who applied for re-evaluation, pass after the re-evaluation from each department, then for which department the ratio of
passed students to failed students was the maximum after the re-evaluation?

1 ECE

2 CSE

3 ME

4 Cannot be determined

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Maximum number of additional students who passed from ECE is (less than 70% of 12) = 8
Maximum number of additional students who passed from CSE is (less than 70% of 10) = 6
Maximum number of additional students who passed from IT is (less than 70% of 14) = 9
Maximum number of additional students who passed from ME is (less than 70% of 20) = 13
Maximum number of additional students who passed from EE is (less than 70% of 14) = 9

Number of students who passed in ECE = 63 + 8 = 71

Number of students who passed in CSE = 70 + 6 = 76
Number of students who passed in IT = 38 + 9 = 47
Number of students who passed in ME = 54 + 13 = 67
Number of students who passed in EE = 61 + 9 = 70

Ratio of students who passed to students who failed in ECE = 71 : 19

Ratio of students who passed to students who failed in CSE = 76 : 12
Ratio of students who passed to students who failed in IT = 47 : 12
Ratio of students who passed to students who failed in ME = 67 : 17
Ratio of students who passed to students who failed in EE = 70 : 19

Clearly ratio is the maximum for CSE in this case. But if we assume that no additional student passed from CSE, then the ratio is maximum for ME
department. So correct answer is option (4).
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Directions for questions 43 to 46: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

In a particular batch of an Engineering college, there are 90 students each in four different departments viz. ECE, CSE, ME and EE. The IT department has
only 60 students. The following graph shows the number of students passed and failed in the English paper of the second semester examination. It also
shows the number of students who applied for re-evaluation of the same paper. Only the students who initially failed in the paper, were eligible to apply for
a re-evaluation. After re-evaluation, some students passed while the others could not pass even after the re-evaluation. All the failed students along with
the absentees have to clear the English paper next year. The number of passed and failed students, as captured in the following bar-chart, only indicate the
situation before re-evaluation. The passed and failed students taken together indicate the number of students who appeared in that paper. Difference, if
any, between the total number and the appeared number of students from any department is due to the absentees.

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Q.45
From each department, exactly 50% of the students who applied for re-evaluation failed even after re-evaluation. For which department, the percentage of
failed students with respect to the total number of students is the minimum after the re-evaluation?

1 ECE

2 CSE

3 IT

4 ME

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In a particular batch of an Engineering college, there are 90 students each in four different departments viz. ECE, CSE, ME and EE. The IT department has
only 60 students. The following graph shows the number of students passed and failed in the English paper of the second semester examination. It also
shows the number of students who applied for re-evaluation of the same paper. Only the students who initially failed in the paper, were eligible to apply for
a re-evaluation. After re-evaluation, some students passed while the others could not pass even after the re-evaluation. All the failed students along with
the absentees have to clear the English paper next year. The number of passed and failed students, as captured in the following bar-chart, only indicate the
situation before re-evaluation. The passed and failed students taken together indicate the number of students who appeared in that paper. Difference, if
any, between the total number and the appeared number of students from any department is due to the absentees.

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Q.46
From each department, exactly 50% of the students who applied for re-evaluation failed even after re-evaluation. How many students from this batch will
have to clear the paper next year?

1 45

2 89

3 95

4 99

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Total students who failed even after applying for reevaluation
= 21 + 13 + 14 + 20 + 21 = 89
Total number of students who would appear next year
= failed + absentees = 89 + (2 + 1 + 6 + 1) = 99.
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A survey was conducted among 600 CAT 2012 aspirants to gauge the popularity of four different Test Series – T1, T2, T3 and T4. It was found that the
number of aspirants who had joined T1, T2, T3 and T4 was 209, 217, 288 and 284 respectively. It is also known that:
(i) The number of aspirants who had joined T1, T2 and T3 but not T4 was equal to that of those who had joined T1, T2 and T4 but not T3, which, in turn, was
2 less than that of those who had joined all the four Test Series.
(ii) The number of aspirants who had joined only T1, only T2, only T3 and only T4 was 30, 30, 80 and 60 respectively.
(iii) The number of aspirants who had joined exactly three of the four Test Series was 100.
(iv) The number of aspirants who had joined both T1 and T3 but neither T2 nor T4 was 5 less than that of those who had joined both T1 and T4 but neither
T2 nor T3.
(v) The number of aspirants who had joined both T3 and T4 but not T2 was equal to that of those who had joined both T3 and T4 but not T1.
(vi) The number of aspirants who had joined both T1 and T2 was 96 and that of those who had joined both T1 and T2 but neither T3 nor T4 was 28.
(vii) The number of aspirants who had joined both T3 and T4 but neither T1 nor T2 was 55.

Q.47
How many aspirants had joined exactly two of the four Test Series?

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A survey was conducted among 600 CAT 2012 aspirants to gauge the popularity of four different Test Series – T1, T2, T3 and T4. It was found that the
number of aspirants who had joined T1, T2, T3 and T4 was 209, 217, 288 and 284 respectively. It is also known that:
(i) The number of aspirants who had joined T1, T2 and T3 but not T4 was equal to that of those who had joined T1, T2 and T4 but not T3, which, in turn, was
2 less than that of those who had joined all the four Test Series.
(ii) The number of aspirants who had joined only T1, only T2, only T3 and only T4 was 30, 30, 80 and 60 respectively.
(iii) The number of aspirants who had joined exactly three of the four Test Series was 100.
(iv) The number of aspirants who had joined both T1 and T3 but neither T2 nor T4 was 5 less than that of those who had joined both T1 and T4 but neither
T2 nor T3.
(v) The number of aspirants who had joined both T3 and T4 but not T2 was equal to that of those who had joined both T3 and T4 but not T1.
(vi) The number of aspirants who had joined both T1 and T2 was 96 and that of those who had joined both T1 and T2 but neither T3 nor T4 was 28.
(vii) The number of aspirants who had joined both T3 and T4 but neither T1 nor T2 was 55.

Q.48
How many aspirants had joined both T3 and T4?

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A survey was conducted among 600 CAT 2012 aspirants to gauge the popularity of four different Test Series – T1, T2, T3 and T4. It was found that the
number of aspirants who had joined T1, T2, T3 and T4 was 209, 217, 288 and 284 respectively. It is also known that:
(i) The number of aspirants who had joined T1, T2 and T3 but not T4 was equal to that of those who had joined T1, T2 and T4 but not T3, which, in turn, was
2 less than that of those who had joined all the four Test Series.
(ii) The number of aspirants who had joined only T1, only T2, only T3 and only T4 was 30, 30, 80 and 60 respectively.
(iii) The number of aspirants who had joined exactly three of the four Test Series was 100.
(iv) The number of aspirants who had joined both T1 and T3 but neither T2 nor T4 was 5 less than that of those who had joined both T1 and T4 but neither
T2 nor T3.
(v) The number of aspirants who had joined both T3 and T4 but not T2 was equal to that of those who had joined both T3 and T4 but not T1.
(vi) The number of aspirants who had joined both T1 and T2 was 96 and that of those who had joined both T1 and T2 but neither T3 nor T4 was 28.
(vii) The number of aspirants who had joined both T3 and T4 but neither T1 nor T2 was 55.

Q.49
The number of aspirants who had not joined any of the four Test Series was

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Directions for questions 47 to 50: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

A survey was conducted among 600 CAT 2012 aspirants to gauge the popularity of four different Test Series – T1, T2, T3 and T4. It was found that the
number of aspirants who had joined T1, T2, T3 and T4 was 209, 217, 288 and 284 respectively. It is also known that:
(i) The number of aspirants who had joined T1, T2 and T3 but not T4 was equal to that of those who had joined T1, T2 and T4 but not T3, which, in turn, was
2 less than that of those who had joined all the four Test Series.
(ii) The number of aspirants who had joined only T1, only T2, only T3 and only T4 was 30, 30, 80 and 60 respectively.
(iii) The number of aspirants who had joined exactly three of the four Test Series was 100.
(iv) The number of aspirants who had joined both T1 and T3 but neither T2 nor T4 was 5 less than that of those who had joined both T1 and T4 but neither
T2 nor T3.
(v) The number of aspirants who had joined both T3 and T4 but not T2 was equal to that of those who had joined both T3 and T4 but not T1.
(vi) The number of aspirants who had joined both T1 and T2 was 96 and that of those who had joined both T1 and T2 but neither T3 nor T4 was 28.
(vii) The number of aspirants who had joined both T3 and T4 but neither T1 nor T2 was 55.

Q.50
If the price of T1, T2, T3 and T4 was Rs. 4000, Rs. 4500, Rs. 3800 and Rs. 6000 respectively, what was the total amount (in Rs. 00') spent by the aspirants
who joined exactly three Test Series?

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Directions for questions 51 to 54: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below:

There are ten students: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J and K. At least five of them will register for Correspondence MBA course and at least five of them will register
for Correspondence Java course. The following conditions apply:
I. At least four students register for both the courses.
II. A registers for either Correspondence Java course or Correspondence MBA course, but not both.
III. H registers for Correspondence Java course only.
IV. For at least one of the two courses, E and G both are registered.
V. K and B register for different course.
VI. D and C register for both the courses.
VII. If J registers for both the courses, then E and F will also register for both the courses.

Q.51
If G registers for one of the two courses then what is the minimum number of students who register for Correspondence Java course?

1 5

2 6

3 7

4 8

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There are ten students: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J and K. At least five of them will register for Correspondence MBA course and at least five of them will register
for Correspondence Java course. The following conditions apply:
I. At least four students register for both the courses.
II. A registers for either Correspondence Java course or Correspondence MBA course, but not both.
III. H registers for Correspondence Java course only.
IV. For at least one of the two courses, E and G both are registered.
V. K and B register for different course.
VI. D and C register for both the courses.
VII. If J registers for both the courses, then E and F will also register for both the courses.

Q.52
If A and B register for different courses then what is the maximum number of students who register for Correspondence MBA course?

1 6

2 7

3 8

4 9

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There are ten students: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J and K. At least five of them will register for Correspondence MBA course and at least five of them will register
for Correspondence Java course. The following conditions apply:
I. At least four students register for both the courses.
II. A registers for either Correspondence Java course or Correspondence MBA course, but not both.
III. H registers for Correspondence Java course only.
IV. For at least one of the two courses, E and G both are registered.
V. K and B register for different course.
VI. D and C register for both the courses.
VII. If J registers for both the courses, then E and F will also register for both the courses.

Q.53
If 6 students register for Correspondence Java course, then which of the following could be a complete list of students registered for Correspondence Java
course?

1 A, C, D, E, F and H

2 A, C, D, E, H and K

3 B, C, D, E, F and H

4 C, D, E, H, J and K

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There are ten students: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J and K. At least five of them will register for Correspondence MBA course and at least five of them will register
for Correspondence Java course. The following conditions apply:
I. At least four students register for both the courses.
II. A registers for either Correspondence Java course or Correspondence MBA course, but not both.
III. H registers for Correspondence Java course only.
IV. For at least one of the two courses, E and G both are registered.
V. K and B register for different course.
VI. D and C register for both the courses.
VII. If J registers for both the courses, then E and F will also register for both the courses.

Q.54
If 7 students register for Correspondence MBA course, than which of the following could be the list of students registered for Correspondence MBA
course?
I. A, B, C, D, E, F and G
II. B, C, D, E, F, J and G
III. C, D, E, F, G, J and K
IV. A, C, D, E, G, J and K

1 Only II and III

2 Only I, II and III

3 Only II and IV

4 All I, II, III and IV

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In a B-school named ITK, having 3 batches, a workshop was held on March 22, 2017. In the workshop, the sessions were taken by CEOs of a few top
companies. The details of the CEOs are as follows:

It is also known that:

(i) The batches are denoted as I, II and III.
(ii) Narayan Murthy & Andy Grove, Andy Grove & Kiran Deshpande, Kiran Deshpande & S. G. Pitroda, S. G. Pitroda & Kishor Bayani, Kishor Bayani &
Narayan Murthy are experts in Leading, Following and Team Dynamics (LFTD); Strategic Management (SM); Information Technology and Systems (ITS);
Services Marketing (SMkt); and International Brand Marketing (IBM) respectively.
(iii) In each batch, 5 sessions on five different subjects were held, and each session was taken by a different CEO.

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(iv) No CEO took session in two or more batches at the same time.
(v) Each CEO took sessions only on the subjects in which he was expert.

The partial session plan is given below:

Q.55
In batch I, SM and ITS are taught respectively by

1 Andy Grove and Kiran Deshpande

2 Kiran Deshpande and S.G. Pitroda

3 Andy Grove and S. G. Pitroda

4 Cannot be determined

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In a B-school named ITK, having 3 batches, a workshop was held on March 22, 2017. In the workshop, the sessions were taken by CEOs of a few top
companies. The details of the CEOs are as follows:

It is also known that:

(i) The batches are denoted as I, II and III.
(ii) Narayan Murthy & Andy Grove, Andy Grove & Kiran Deshpande, Kiran Deshpande & S. G. Pitroda, S. G. Pitroda & Kishor Bayani, Kishor Bayani &
Narayan Murthy are experts in Leading, Following and Team Dynamics (LFTD); Strategic Management (SM); Information Technology and Systems (ITS);
Services Marketing (SMkt); and International Brand Marketing (IBM) respectively.
(iii) In each batch, 5 sessions on five different subjects were held, and each session was taken by a different CEO.
(iv) No CEO took session in two or more batches at the same time.
(v) Each CEO took sessions only on the subjects in which he was expert.

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The partial session plan is given below:

Q.56
For batch III, IBM and SM are taught respectively by

1 Narayan Murthy and Andy Grove

2 Kishor Bayani and Andy Grove

3 Narayan Murthy and Kiran Deshpande

4 Kiran Deshpande and Kishor Bayani

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In a B-school named ITK, having 3 batches, a workshop was held on March 22, 2017. In the workshop, the sessions were taken by CEOs of a few top
companies. The details of the CEOs are as follows:

It is also known that:

(i) The batches are denoted as I, II and III.
(ii) Narayan Murthy & Andy Grove, Andy Grove & Kiran Deshpande, Kiran Deshpande & S. G. Pitroda, S. G. Pitroda & Kishor Bayani, Kishor Bayani &
Narayan Murthy are experts in Leading, Following and Team Dynamics (LFTD); Strategic Management (SM); Information Technology and Systems (ITS);
Services Marketing (SMkt); and International Brand Marketing (IBM) respectively.
(iii) In each batch, 5 sessions on five different subjects were held, and each session was taken by a different CEO.
(iv) No CEO took session in two or more batches at the same time.
(v) Each CEO took sessions only on the subjects in which he was expert.

The partial session plan is given below:

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Q.57
Kishor Bayani and Narayan Murthy taught which subjects to batch I?

1 SMkt and LFTD

2 IBM and LFTD

3 SMkt and IBM

4 Cannot be determined

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Directions for questions 55 to 58: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below:

In a B-school named ITK, having 3 batches, a workshop was held on March 22, 2017. In the workshop, the sessions were taken by CEOs of a few top
companies. The details of the CEOs are as follows:

It is also known that:

(i) The batches are denoted as I, II and III.
(ii) Narayan Murthy & Andy Grove, Andy Grove & Kiran Deshpande, Kiran Deshpande & S. G. Pitroda, S. G. Pitroda & Kishor Bayani, Kishor Bayani &
Narayan Murthy are experts in Leading, Following and Team Dynamics (LFTD); Strategic Management (SM); Information Technology and Systems (ITS);
Services Marketing (SMkt); and International Brand Marketing (IBM) respectively.
(iii) In each batch, 5 sessions on five different subjects were held, and each session was taken by a different CEO.
(iv) No CEO took session in two or more batches at the same time.
(v) Each CEO took sessions only on the subjects in which he was expert.

The partial session plan is given below:

Q.58
Who among the following takes the last two lectures of batch II?

1 Narayan Murthy and Kishor Bayani

2 Kishor Bayani and S. G. Pitroda

3 Kiran Deshpande and Kishor Bayani

4 Cannot be determined

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Directions for questions 59 to 62: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Sixteen teams – named A to P in the English alphabet – participated in a football tournament named Diamond Cup. In the first round of the tournament, the
teams were divided into two groups – X and Y – with eight teams in each group. In this round, a total of eight matches were played and all the teams played
a match each; each team of Group X played against one of the teams of Group Y. Further information about the matches played in the first round is given
below:

(i) The matches were numbered 1 to 8 according to the order in which they were played.
(ii) A, H and L were in the same group. The same was true for M, J and E.
(iii) H was in Group X.
(iv) P was in Group Y and played against F.
(v) The 6 th match was played between M and C; the 8 th match was played between H and J.
(vi) D was not in the group which had C, K and O. G was not in the group which had B, N and I.
(vii) B played its match just before P’s match and immediately after I’s match.
(viii) G and K played the 1st match and 2nd match respectively.
(ix) L did not play the 1 st , 3 rd , 5 th or 7 th match.

Q.59
If D and F played the 1 st match and the 5 th match respectively, then B played against

1 A

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2 L

3 O

4 Either (1), (2) or (3)

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Sixteen teams – named A to P in the English alphabet – participated in a football tournament named Diamond Cup. In the first round of the tournament, the
teams were divided into two groups – X and Y – with eight teams in each group. In this round, a total of eight matches were played and all the teams played
a match each; each team of Group X played against one of the teams of Group Y. Further information about the matches played in the first round is given
below:

(i) The matches were numbered 1 to 8 according to the order in which they were played.
(ii) A, H and L were in the same group. The same was true for M, J and E.
(iii) H was in Group X.
(iv) P was in Group Y and played against F.
(v) The 6 th match was played between M and C; the 8 th match was played between H and J.
(vi) D was not in the group which had C, K and O. G was not in the group which had B, N and I.
(vii) B played its match just before P’s match and immediately after I’s match.
(viii) G and K played the 1st match and 2nd match respectively.
(ix) L did not play the 1 st , 3 rd , 5 th or 7 th match.

Q.60
If A played against I, then O could have played its match against how many teams?

1 2

2 3

3 4

4 5

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Directions for questions 59 to 62: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Sixteen teams – named A to P in the English alphabet – participated in a football tournament named Diamond Cup. In the first round of the tournament, the
teams were divided into two groups – X and Y – with eight teams in each group. In this round, a total of eight matches were played and all the teams played
a match each; each team of Group X played against one of the teams of Group Y. Further information about the matches played in the first round is given
below:

(i) The matches were numbered 1 to 8 according to the order in which they were played.
(ii) A, H and L were in the same group. The same was true for M, J and E.
(iii) H was in Group X.
(iv) P was in Group Y and played against F.
(v) The 6 th match was played between M and C; the 8 th match was played between H and J.
(vi) D was not in the group which had C, K and O. G was not in the group which had B, N and I.
(vii) B played its match just before P’s match and immediately after I’s match.
(viii) G and K played the 1st match and 2nd match respectively.
(ix) L did not play the 1 st , 3 rd , 5 th or 7 th match.

Q.61
If A played against I, then which of the following statements was definitely true?

1 B played against L

2 M played its match before P’s match

3 Neither (1) nor (2)

4 Both (1) and (2)

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Directions for questions 59 to 62: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Sixteen teams – named A to P in the English alphabet – participated in a football tournament named Diamond Cup. In the first round of the tournament, the
teams were divided into two groups – X and Y – with eight teams in each group. In this round, a total of eight matches were played and all the teams played
a match each; each team of Group X played against one of the teams of Group Y. Further information about the matches played in the first round is given
below:

(i) The matches were numbered 1 to 8 according to the order in which they were played.
(ii) A, H and L were in the same group. The same was true for M, J and E.
(iii) H was in Group X.
(iv) P was in Group Y and played against F.
(v) The 6 th match was played between M and C; the 8 th match was played between H and J.
(vi) D was not in the group which had C, K and O. G was not in the group which had B, N and I.
(vii) B played its match just before P’s match and immediately after I’s match.
(viii) G and K played the 1st match and 2nd match respectively.
(ix) L did not play the 1 st , 3 rd , 5 th or 7 th match.

Q.62
In which of the following match did F participate?

1 3 rd

2 5 th

3 7 th

4 Either (1) or (2)

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KAT examination was conducted in the Indus World School yesterday. The number of students who have appeared in the exam in each classroom is
observed to be always a multiple of ten. Question papers are distributed from the Head-Office to all the classrooms. Number of students taking the exam in
some classrooms is known. The following figure provides information about the route through which the question papers are distributed to each classroom.

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Additional Information given:

(i) Question papers from one classroom to another classroom can be passed only when question paper is distributed to every student in the previous
classroom.
(ii) There are 450 question papers in the Head-Office and 150 question papers are sent through each route originating from the Head-Office.
(iii) Each and every students gets exactly one question paper.
(iv) In the end all the question papers were distributed.

Q.63
If the number of students in classroom XI C is not less than 50 then what could be the maximum number of question papers that can come to classroom V C?

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KAT examination was conducted in the Indus World School yesterday. The number of students who have appeared in the exam in each classroom is
observed to be always a multiple of ten. Question papers are distributed from the Head-Office to all the classrooms. Number of students taking the exam in
some classrooms is known. The following figure provides information about the route through which the question papers are distributed to each classroom.

Additional Information given:

(i) Question papers from one classroom to another classroom can be passed only when question paper is distributed to every student in the previous
classroom.
(ii) There are 450 question papers in the Head-Office and 150 question papers are sent through each route originating from the Head-Office.
(iii) Each and every students gets exactly one question paper.
(iv) In the end all the question papers were distributed.

Q.64
If the number of students in classroom IX D is least possible, then a minimum of how many students are there in classroom IV A such that number of
students in classrooms XI C and V C are equal and number of students in classroom VII A is 40?

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Directions for questions 63 to 66 : Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

KAT examination was conducted in the Indus World School yesterday. The number of students who have appeared in the exam in each classroom is
observed to be always a multiple of ten. Question papers are distributed from the Head-Office to all the classrooms. Number of students taking the exam in
some classrooms is known. The following figure provides information about the route through which the question papers are distributed to each classroom.

Additional Information given:

(i) Question papers from one classroom to another classroom can be passed only when question paper is distributed to every student in the previous
classroom.
(ii) There are 450 question papers in the Head-Office and 150 question papers are sent through each route originating from the Head-Office.
(iii) Each and every students gets exactly one question paper.
(iv) In the end all the question papers were distributed.

Q.65
If time taken (in seconds) to distribute the question papers in a classroom is equal to the number of students in the classroom, then find the maximum time
(in seconds) in which the question papers will be distributed in V C? (Assume that the time taken to travel from one classroom to other or Head-office to a
classroom is negligible)

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KAT examination was conducted in the Indus World School yesterday. The number of students who have appeared in the exam in each classroom is
observed to be always a multiple of ten. Question papers are distributed from the Head-Office to all the classrooms. Number of students taking the exam in
some classrooms is known. The following figure provides information about the route through which the question papers are distributed to each classroom.

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Additional Information given:

(i) Question papers from one classroom to another classroom can be passed only when question paper is distributed to every student in the previous
classroom.
(ii) There are 450 question papers in the Head-Office and 150 question papers are sent through each route originating from the Head-Office.
(iii) Each and every students gets exactly one question paper.
(iv) In the end all the question papers were distributed.

Q.66
If number of students taking the exam in classroom VII A is 50 then find the maximum possible number of students in classroom IV A?

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Q.67
Veer adds ‘x’ litres water to pure milk to make a 104-litre milk-water solution. He sells this solution at a price that is 10% more than the cost price of pure
milk and makes a profit of 43% on this transaction. If he adds ‘x’ litres water to 120 litres pure milk and sells the resulting solution at the cost price of pure
milk, then what is his profit percentage in this transaction? (Assume that water comes free of cost)

1 25%

2 32%

3 30%

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4 20%

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Q.68
Each of Aman, Bhuvesh and Chandan has a certain number of coins with him. The ratio of the number of coins with Aman to that with Chandan is 2 : 3 and
the ratio of the number of coins with Chandan to that with Bhuvesh is 5 : 9. If the number of coins with Bhuvesh is 35 more than 2 times the number of
coins with Aman, then find the total number of coins with Aman, Bhuvesh and Chandan put together.

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100 litres of a cocktail of vodka and ‘lime cordial’ contains 64 litres of vodka. Initially, 20 litres of the cocktail is taken out and is replaced with water, and
then, 40 litres of resulting cocktail is taken out and is replaced with lime cordial. The percentage of vodka in the final cocktail is

1 25.62%

2 22.56%

3 34.64%

4 30.72%

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Q.70
A survey was conducted among 1200 people to gauge the popularity of three teams – Mumbai Indian, Chennai Superking and Delhi Daredevils. After the
survey, the following observations were made about the number of supporters:
Mumbai Indian: 300; Both Mumbai Indian and Chennai Superking: 10; Both Chennai Superking and Delhi Daredevils: 206; Only Chennai Superking: 160.
The ratio of the number of supporters of Mumbai Indian to the number of supporters of Delhi Daredevils was 1 : 2. It is also known that the number of
people who supported all the three teams was 6. The number of people who did not support any of the three teams is 194.
How many people supported Mumbai Indian and Delhi Daredevils but not Chennai Superking?

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If the sum of three of the sides of a rectangle is 200 units, what is the maximum possible area of the rectangle?

1 4444.44 sq. units

2 5000 sq. unit

3 3960 sq. units

4 4048 sq. units

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A triangular field has to be fenced with iron wire. The cost of fencing is Rs.12 per meter. If the sum of lengths of two of the three sides of the triangular field
is 30 meters, then which of the following cannot be the cost of fencing the field?

1 Rs.724

2 Rs.708

3 Rs.560

4 Rs.362

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There are three natural numbers a, b and c, such that the LCM of (a, 120) is 1320, the LCM of (b, 120) is 1680 and the LCM of (c, 120) is 1800. Which of the
following statements is definitely true?

1 Only a and c can be perfect squares.

2 Only b can be a perfect square as well as a perfect cube.

3 c is definitely a perfect square.

4 c can be a perfect square.

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Let p, q, r and s be distinct real numbers. Max(a,b) = larger number between a and b, and Min(a,b) = smaller number between a and b. If N = Max[Min(p,q),
Min(r,s)] and S = Min[Max(p,r), Max(q,s)], which of the following is definitely true?

1 N ≤ S, for all values of p, q, r and s

2 N ≥ S, for all values of p, q, r and s

3 N ≠ S, for all values of p, q, r and s

4 No specific relation exists between N and S

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In the figure given below, triangle ABC is a right angled triangle, in which ∠ B = 90°, AB = 4 cm, BC = 3 cm and DE = EF. If BE is extended to meet AC at G, find
the length of AG.

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Q.76
Find the remainder when 7777 .... (upto 37 digits) is divided by 19.

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It is given that P (a, 7) = 4; P(a, 11) = 6 and P(a, 13) = 3. If ‘a’ is a positive integer between 2000 and 3000, find the value of P(a, 17).

1 6

2 8

3 11

4 12

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Shalini and Swati start running from S towards a platform PQ, as shown below. Shalini, who is slower between the two, is given an advantage of running
along line SA which is perpendicular to PQ, while Swati runs along line SB. The speed (in km/hr) of each of the two is a two-digit natural number. The speed
of Swati is obtained by reversing the digits of the speed of Shalini. Each of them takes 1 hr to reach the platform. If the distance between them along the
platform, when they are reached to it, is also a two digit integer, find that distance between A and B.

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1 33 kms

2 44 kms

3 56 kms

4 65 kms

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There are four positive integers a, b, c and d such that a + b + c + d + abcd = m and (abc + bcd + acd + abd) + (ab + bc + bd + ac + ad + cd) = (1154 – m). Find
the value of m.

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In the figure given below, ABCD is a concave quadrilateral, and ∠ BAD = 90°, BA = AD = 6 cm and BC = CD = 5 cm. What is the length (in cm) of the line
segment AC?

1 3 √2

2 3 √2 – √5

3 3 √2 – √7

4 2 √2 − 3

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If a = 2 x × 3 y and b = 2 l × 3 m , where x, y, l and m are distinct positive integers lying between 1 and 5, both inclusive, what is the probability that a/b is an
integer?

1 1/2

2 1/6

3 1/4

4 3/4

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1 a>b

2 b>c

3 c>a

4 None of these

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For which of the following values of m, does the inequality 8y 3 + x 3 y 3 ≥ my 2 x – 1, where x and y are real numbers greater than zero, definitely hold true?

1 4.8

2 6

3 5

4 5.9

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On the bank of a river, there are two temples A and B. The river has some magical powers by which it triples the quantity of flowers put into it. Pankaj takes
some flowers and puts them into the river. Then he divides them into n equal groups and offers one of the groups at temple A. He puts the remaining flowers
into the river again. Then, again, forms n equal groups and offers one of these groups at temple B. The ratio of the number of flowers offered at temple A
and the number of flowers remaining after being offered at temple B is 1 : 12.5. Find the value of n.

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In the figure, O is the centre of the circle. A and B are the midpoints of OY and OX respectively. AB is extended to meet the circle at C. A line is drawn
perpendicular to AC meeting the circle at D. D' and C' are the foots of the perpendiculars from D and C on the diameter respectively. Find the sum of the
areas of Δ ACC' and Δ ADD', given that the radius of the circle is 2R cm.

1 5 √ 2 R 2 cm 2

2 √ 8 (R 2 ) cm 2

3 4R 2 cm 2

4 2R 2 cm 2

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Q.86
Find the coefficient of x 51 in the expansion of the following expression:
(x – 2) ⋅ [x(x + 4) (x + 8) (x + 12) … (x + 200)]

1 5098

2 5100

3 5102

4 5000

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On 21 June 2006, the product of Anuj’s age (in months) as on his last birthday and his present age (in months) was 2640. Find Anuj’s date of birth.

1 21 November 2001

2 21 January 2001

3 21 November 2002

4 21 January 2002

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If x, y and z are positive integers, such that x + y + z = 60 and x 2 + y 2 = z 2 , then how many such triplets (x, y, z) exist?

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Q.89
Find the rightmost non-zero digit in 11!.

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1 25

2 50

4 40

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The sum of the roots of the quadratic equation ax 2 + bx + c = 0 is equal to the sum of the squares of their reciprocals. If a, b and c are real numbers, and a ≠
0, then bc 2 , ca 2 and ab 2 are in

1 G.P.

2 A.P.

3 H.P.

4 None of these

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Manjul bought 5 diamond rings – R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 – to gift to five of his female friends on their weddings. He also bought five boxes – B1, B2, B3, B4
and B5 – to keep the rings, where B1 was for R1; B2 was for R2; and so on. Then he asked her wife Nalini to pack the rings in the boxes accordingly. Nalini,
miffed at his husband’s decision to gift diamond rings to his female friends, decided not to follow the instructions. If she chose to put just two of the five
rings into the correct boxes, then in how many ways could she have packed the rings?

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The water level in a rectangular pond (with uniform depth) of dimensions 110 m × 100 m was ‘h’ m. An inlet pipe, in which the water flows at the rate of 30
km/h, was opened into the pond for 30 minutes. After the pipe was removed, a group of 220 people took a dip into the pond simultaneously, making the
water level in the pond rise to ‘H’ m. If the average displacement of water by each person was 0.05 m 3 and the diameter of the inlet pipe was 14 cm, then
what was the absolute difference (in cm) between ‘H’ and ‘h’?

1 1.8

2 2

3 1.1

4 2.2

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If a, b and c are distinct positive integers such that numbers in any pair formed out of a, b, c are coprime to each other, then what is the sum of a, b and c?

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In the figure given above, Δ ABC is an equilateral triangle with side equal to 1 unit and AD is one of its medians. A circle, having diameter equal to AD, is
drawn such that it touches BC at point D. Find the area (in square units) of the part of the triangle that lies outside the circle.

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If the sum of the digits of a three-digit number is subtracted from that number, the result obtained is a two-digit number. This process of subtracting the
sum of digits of number from that number is continued till we get a factor of the original three-digit number. Which of the following is a factor of the
original three-digit number?

1 5

2 6

3 7

4 11

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In a colony, there are 350 residents. At least 40% of them smoke cigar, at least 30% of them smoke hookah and at least 22% of them smoke cigarette. If p is
the number of residents smoking all of the cigar, hookah and cigarette, which of the following is true?

1 28 ≤ p ≤ 77

2 0 ≤ p ≤ 100

3 0≤p≤7

4 0 ≤ p ≤ 350

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Ramcharan drove to Phoenix Mall from his villa at a speed of 10 m/s. While returning to his villa, he drove at a speed of 18 km/hr. The total travel time was
3 hours. Find the distance between his villa and Phoenix Mall.

1 72 km

2 18 km

3 36 km

4 135/7 Km

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Q.100
A regular octagon is inscribed in a square in such a way that alternate sides of the octagon lie on the sides of the square. If the ratio of the side of the
octagon to that of the square is 1 : P, then what is the value of P?

1 √ 2 +1

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