Seven containers namely C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 and C7 are filled with one out of the 7 liquids namely
A, B, C, D, E, F and G not necessarily in this particular order. C2, C4 and C6 are filled with A, E and C
respectively. C1 is filled with neither D nor G. C7 is filled with neither B nor D. If C1 is filled with F,
which liquid is filled in C7?
Harish, Manish, Kavish, Ravish and Ashish are students. Each of them studies at least one of the following
three subjects: History, Psychology and Sociology. Following additional information is available regarding
their subject combinations.
I. Manish studies Psychology and History only.
II. Kavish studies each of these three subjects.
III. Ashish studies only Sociology.
There are exactly three students who study only two of these subjects. If these 3 students study different
pairs of subjects from each other then which of the following statements is correct?
Harish, Manish, Kavish, Ravish and Ashish are students. Each of them studies at least one of the following
three subjects: History, Psychology and Sociology. Following additional information is available regarding
their subject combinations.
I. Manish studies Psychology and History only.
II. Kavish studies each of these three subjects.
III. Ashish studies only Sociology.
If each of the three subjects is studied by exactly three of the five students, then how many student(s) is/
are studying exactly one subject?
Harish, Manish, Kavish, Ravish and Ashish are students. Each of them studies at least one of the following
three subjects: History, Psychology and Sociology. Following additional information is available regarding
their subject combinations.
I. Manish studies Psychology and History only.
II. Kavish studies each of these three subjects.
III. Ashish studies only Sociology.
If each of the three subjects is studied by exactly three of the five students, then in how many ways can
Ravish choose his subject combinations?
Harish, Manish, Kavish, Ravish and Ashish are students. Each of them studies at least one of the following
three subjects: History, Psychology and Sociology. Following additional information is available regarding
their subject combinations.
I. Manish studies Psychology and History only.
II. Kavish studies each of these three subjects.
III. Ashish studies only Sociology.
If there is only one student who studies all the three subjects and exactly two students who study
Sociology then find the number of students who study exactly one subject. It is also known that there
are only two students who study Psychology and History both.
Mr. Chaalu while buying clothes uses a faulty meter tape which actually measures 110 cm for a meter
and while selling them he uses another faulty meter tape which actually measures 90 cm for a meter. If
he buys the cloth at a discount of 5% on the marked price and sells it at a discount of 10% on the same
marked price, then what is his percentage gain or loss?
Sanjay bought a basket of oranges, a basket of apples, a basket of mangoes and a basket of peaches. He
paid a total of Rs.790 for the baskets of fruits bought by him. While driving back to home, he realized
that if he decreased the price of the basket of mangoes by Rs.4, increased the price of basket of peaches
by Rs.7, multiplied the price of the basket of oranges by 3 and divided the price of the basket of apples
by 2, then all the baskets would have the same price. Find the price of the basket of peaches.
If 5x + 2y + z = 81, where x, y and z are distinct positive integers, then find the difference between the
maximum and the minimum possible value of x + y + z.
A boat while going downstream, crosses a floating wooden piece. After 1 hr, the boat reaches the port,
and starts travelling in the opposite direction immediately. Now, after moving from the port for 1 hr, the
boat crosses that wooden piece again at a point which is 8 kms ahead of the place where it was
encountered earlier. Find the speed of the stream.(Assume that the speeds of the boat and the stream
remain constant).
The numbers of students in Batch A and Batch B were in the ratio 2 : 3 in January and 5 : 8 in February.
The numbers of students in Batch A and Batch B increased from February to March at rates that were
twice and thrice respectively, of rates at which they increased from January to February. If the ratio of
the total number of students in these two batches in February and January was 26 : 5, then find the ratio
of number of students in Batch A and Batch B in March?
Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences 1 and 6.
1. Earth’s lunar satellite, the moon, is an alien and remote though still compelling landscape known to
us all.
A. The beauty of such a moment is hard to explain; it’s as if beauty were not actually in the thing itself
but lay instead with the viewer’s capacity to appreciate that object.
B. But unearthly beautiful all the same.
C. On a clear night, with a pair of ten-power binoculars, the craters and highlands, the depressions and
seas, appear so vividly etched, the pattern of their shadow and light so captivating, that the geography
can induce a sensation of joy.
D. We imagine it from our front lawns and our apartment windows as a place of absence. No wind, nor
any blade of grass for a breeze to stir, no people, no cascading brook or animal track.
6. When a portion of the moon resolves itself sharply through the binoculars’ prisms, when it comes
alive to a viewer’s eyes, he or she can experience a kind of euphoria, which the moon alone cannot
explain.
1. The earliest schools of Sanskritists in Europe entered into the study of Sanskrit with more imagination
than critical ability.
A. Then, in those days even, such vagaries as the estimation of Shakuntala as forming the high watermark
of Indian philosophy were not altogether unknown!
B. They knew a little, expected much from that little, and often tried to make too much of what little
they knew.
C. While criticizing the unsound imaginativeness of the early school to whom everything in Indian
literature was rose and musk, these, in their turn, went into speculations, which were equally highly
unsound and indeed very venturesome.
D. These were naturally followed by a reactionary band of superficial critics who knew little or nothing
of Sanskrit, expected nothing from Sanskrit studies, and ridiculed everything from the East.
6. And their boldness was very naturally helped by the fact that these over-hasty and unsympathetic
scholars and critics were addressing an audience whose entire qualification for pronouncing any
judgment in the matter was their absolute ignorance of Sanskrit.
1. FitzGerald was a rich dilettante, whose Anglo-Irish mother’s fortune from Irish rents was so large
that her husband had changed his name to hers.
A. Though FitzGerald did not join in the imperial venture – and indeed hardly left England – his
translations from Persian and other languages depended on the web of contacts the empire established,
and thrived on the knowledge gained from its commercial and political ambitions.
B. As Edward Said pointed out, such interests directed scholarship, however detached the scholars
themselves from the profits of imperialism.
C. Archaeologists, linguists, scientists and geographers moved along with the armies of soldiers and
civil servants as the British and the French entrenched their rule in the Middle East.
D. FitzGerald, who temperamentally shrank from power and the powerful, played no direct part in this,
and often expressed his unease at British ambitions abroad.
6. But when, in 1856, he was first shown Omar Khayyám’s poetry and began working on his Persian
in order to translate it, he responded so intensely to its themes because they invoked a dream worlda
place very far from England.
In each question, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that
forms a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar
and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.
A. A Farewell to Arms is a very dramatic book.
B. Many scholars, such as Ray B. West, Jr., have compared its five-book structure to the traditional
English five-act play.
C. There are similarities to be drawn between the structure of the novel and tragic drama.
D. The first book, like the first act in a play, introduces the characters and the situation of the story, and
in the second book the romantic plot is developed.
E. Book III provides the climactic turning point: Frederic’s desertion of his post in the army and his
decision to return to Catherine.
A. Development is a process whereby insignificant and imperceptible
B. quantitative changes lead to fundamental, qualitative changes.
C. The latter occur not gradually, but rapidly and abruptly, in the form of a leap from one state to
another.
D. A simple example from the physical world might be the heating of water: a one-degree increase in
temperature is a quantitative change,
E. but on 100 degrees there is a qualitative change-water to steam.
A. The next step towards globalisation comes from an unexpected quarter–global farmlands.
B. Stung by growing food shortages, the Chinese government is encouraging
C. its agricultural firms to buy or lease farmlands in Africa
D. and South America to bolster food security back home. The new government policy comes in the
wake of higher income levels that encourage
E. spending away from staple rice diets and towards increasing consumption of meat.
After reading the passage answer all questions pertaining to it on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
For each question, select the best answer of the choices given.
A recent study has provided clues to predator-prey dynamics in the late Pleistocene era. Researchers compared the number of tooth fractures in present-day carnivores with tooth fractures in carnivores that lived 36,000 to 10,000
years ago and that were preserved in the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles. The breakage frequencies in the extinct species were strikingly higher than those in the present-day species. In considering possible explanations for this finding, the researchers dismissed demographic bias because older individuals were not overrepresented
in the fossil samples. They rejected preservational bias because a total absence of breakage in two extinct species demonstrated that the fractures were not the result of abrasion within the pits. They ruled out local bias because breakage data obtained from other Pleistocene sites were similar to the La Brea data. The explanation they consider
most plausible is behavioral differences between extinct and present-day carnivores—in particular, more contact between the teeth of predators and the bones of prey due to more thorough consumption of carcasses by the extinct species. Such thorough carcass consumption implies to the researchers either that prey availability was
low, at least seasonally, or that there was intense competition over kills and a high rate of carcass
theft due to relatively high predator densities.
The primary purpose of the passage is to
According to the passage, compared with Pleistocene carnivores in other areas, Pleistocene carnivores in the La Brea area
According to the passage, the researchers believe that the high frequency of tooth breakage in carnivores found at La Brea was caused primarily by
According to the passage, if the researchers had NOT found that two extinct carnivore species were free of tooth breakage, the researchers would have concluded that