Comprehension:The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose thebest answer for each question.Steven Pinker’s new book, “Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters,”offers a pragmatic dose of measured optimism, presenting rationality as a fragile butachievable ideal in personal and civic life. . . . Pinker’s ambition … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.Umberto Eco, an Italian writer, was right when he said the language of Europe is translation. Netflix and other deep-pocketed global firms speak it well. Just as the EU employs a smallarmy of translators and interpreters … Read more
Q1. There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: Dualism was long held as the defining feature of developing countries in contrast to developed countries, where frontier technologies and high productivity were … Read more
Q1. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. Q2. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, … Read more
Q1. The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. People spontaneously create counterfactual alternatives to reality when they think “if only” or “what if” and imagine how the past could have been different. The mind computes counterfactuals for many reasons. Counterfactuals explain … Read more
1-5. Odsville has five firms – Alfloo, Bzygoo, Czechy, Drjbna and Elavalaki. Each of these firms was founded in some year and also closed down a few years later. Each firm raised Rs. 1 crore in its first and last year of existence. The amount each firm raised every year increased until it reached a … Read more
Q1-5. Three participants – Akhil, Bimal and Chatur participate in a random draw competition for five days. Every day, each participant randomly picks up a ball numbered between 1 and 9. The number on the ball determines his score on that day. The total score of a participant is the sum of his scores attained … Read more
Q1-5. There are nine boxes arranged in a 3×3 array as shown in Tables 1 and 2. Each box contains three sacks. Each sack has a certain number of coins, between 1 and 9, both inclusive.The average number of coins per sack in the boxes are all distinct integers. The total number of coins in … Read more
Q1-5. Anjali, Bipasha, and Chitra visited an entertainment park that has four rides. Each ride lasts one hour and can accommodate one visitor at one point. All rides begin at 9 am and must becompleted by 5 pm except for Ride-3, for which the last ride has to be completed by 1 pm. Ride gates … Read more
Q. For any natural numbers m, n, and k, such that k divides both m + 2n and 3m + 4n, k must be a common divisor of
Q. Ravi is driving at a speed of 40 km/h on a road. Vijay is 54 meters behind Ravi and driving in the same direction as Ravi. Ashok is driving along the same road from the opposite direction at a speed of 50 km/h and is 225 meters away from Ravi. The speed, in km/h, … Read more
Q. Anil borrows Rs 2 lakhs at an interest rate of 8% per annum, compounded half-yearly. He repays Rs 10320 at the end of the first year and closes the loan by paying the outstanding amount at the end of the third year. Then, the total interest, in rupees, paid over the three years is … Read more
Q. Pipes A and C are fill pipes while Pipe B is a drain pipe of a tank. Pipe B empties the full tank in one hour less than the time taken by Pipe A to fill the empty tank. When pipes A, Band C are turned on together, the empty tank is filled in … Read more
Q. In a company, 20% of the employees work in the manufacturing department. If the total salary obtained by all the manufacturing employees is one-sixth of the total salary obtained by all the employees in the company, then the ratio of the average salary obtained by the manufacturing employees to the average salary obtained by … Read more
Q. A container has 40 liters of milk. Then, 4 liters are removed from the container and replaced with 4 liters of water. This process of replacing 4 liters of the liquid in the container with an equal volume of water is continued repeatedly. The smallest number of times of doing this process, after which … Read more
Q. Minu purchases a pair of sunglasses at Rs.1000 and sells to Kanu at 20% profit. Then, Kanu sells it back to Minu at 20% loss. Finally, Minu sells the same pair of sunglasses to Tanu. If the total profit made by Minu from all her transactions is Rs.500, then the percentage of profit made … Read more
Q1. In a rectangle ABCD, AB = 9 cm and BC = 6 cm. P and Q are two points on BC such that the areas of the figures ABP, APQ, and AQCD are in geometric progression. If the area of the figure AQCD is four times the area of triangle ABP, then BP : … Read more