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 SECTION – I

Number of questions = 25

1. Shefali and Parul have got a certain number of red and black marbles with them. The ratio of number of
red marbles and black marbles with Shefali and Parul is 7 : 1 and 9 : 1 respectively. If in all they have
90 marbles, then how many red marbles could Parul have?
(1) 9 or 45 (2) 9 or 36
(3) 36 or 72 (4) 18 or 36 (5) 18 or 45

2. If the sum of lengths of three sides of a rectangle is 100 units, then find the maximum possible area of
the rectangle ?
(1) 1110.9 sq. units (2) 1250 sq. unit
(3) 990 sq. units (4) 1008 sq. units (5) 1225 sq. units

3. What is the remainder when 77 + 777 + 7777 + 77777 +…+ 777777777 is divided by 8?
(1) 5 (2) 1 (3) 3 (4) 7 (5) 0

4. Two cyclists are travelling at a speed of 3 km/hr and 10 km/hr around a circular track. What should be
the ratio of number of distinct points that they would meet on that track if they travel in the same
direction first and in the opposite direction next?
(1) 7 : 13 (2) 3 : 10 (3) 3 : 7 (4) 30 : 13 (5) Cannot be determined

5. For how many values of a natural number ‘n’, the LCM of 66, 88 and ‘n’ is 1212?
(1) 1 (2) 6 (3) 24 (4) 25 (5) 36

6. Let a, c ∈ {2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12} and b ∈ {22, 24, 26}, where a, b and c are distinct. Find the number of
equations of the form ax2 + bx + c = 0, that can be formed such that the equation has real roots.
(1) 15 (2) 18 (3) 45 (4) 90 (5) 36

7. Tania prepares for the CAT examination by practicing for 100 days. On any of these 100 days she does
not solve more than 20 questions. If on any day, she solves more than 12 questions, then she solves at
most 6 questions each on the next two days. What is the maximum possible number of questions that
she can solve over the period of 100 days?
(1) 1200 (2) 1208 (3) 1220 (4) 960 (5) 1240

8. In the figure given below, ABOP is a rectangle and O is the centre of the circle. It is also given that
AB = BC and the measure of the angle ∠ABC is 60°. Find the measure of the angle ∠OPN.
A P

C
60°
O
B

N
(1) 30° (2) 15° (3) 20° (4) 25° (5) 35°

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 9 and 10: Answer the questions on the basis of information given below.
A container is having 30 L of pure milk. In the first operation, 10 L of it is flushed away and replaced with
20 L of water. Again in the second operation, 10 L of resulting solution is flushed away and replaced with
20 L of water. In this process, ‘n’ such operations are carried out.

9. What is the volume of pure milk (in litres) in the container after (n – 1) such operations?

30 60 30n
(1) (2) (3) 30 (4) (5) 60
n+2 n+2 n +1 n − 3n + 2
2 n +1

10. What is the ratio of quantity of water to milk after 10 such operations?
(1) 25 : 1 (2) 20 : 1 (3) 25 : 2 (4) 15 : 2 (5) 40 : 3

11. I cut a piece of paper in four equal parts. Now, I cut exactly one out of these four parts into four equal
parts. Now, again if I keep on repeating the same process for infinite number of times, then which of the
following can be the number of parts of paper at any instant of time?
(1) 2048 (2) 2049 (3) 2050 (4) 2051 (5) 2052

12. A dice is rolled three times. Find the probability of getting a larger number than previous number each
time.
5 7 11 13 17
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
54 54 54 54 54

13 Sum of the first 30 terms of an arithmetic progression is 0. If the first term is –29, then find the sum
of the 28th, 29th and 30th terms of this arithmetic progression.
(1) 81 (2) 84 (3) –84 (4) –81 (5) None of these

14. The height of an apple tree is given by the sum of two terms. The first term is directly proportional to the
weight of the tree and the second term is directly proportional to the square of the weight of the tree.
The height of the tree was 6 m and 8 m, when its weight was 40 kg and 50 kg respectively. Find the
approximate weight of the tree when its height was 5 m.
(1) 39 kg (2) 44 kg (3) 25 kg (4) 35 kg (5) 32 kg

15. A two-digit number N is ‘q’ times the sum of its digits. A two-digit number formed by reversing the
digits of N is ‘p’ times the sum of the digits. Which of the following is equal to ‘p’?
(1) (9 – q) (2) (q + 1) (3) (11 – q) (4) (q – 1) (5) (10 – q)

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16. A function f is defined for all natural numbers n ≥ 2 as f(n) =  1 –  f(n – 1)
 n
1 1 1 1
If f(1) = 1, then what is the value of + + + ..... + ?
f(1) f(2) f(3) f(9)
(1) 45 (2) 54 (3) 81 (4) 36 (5) None of these

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17. Four black cows and three brown cows give as much milk in five days as three black cows and five
brown cows give in four days. If a black cow gives 10 L of milk per day, then how much milk would be
given by a brown cow per day under the same conditions.
(1) 6 L (2) 8 L (3) 10 L (4) 12 L (5) 16 L

18. A quadrilateral is obtained by joining the mid-points of a rectangle. Further, a rectangle is obtained by
joining the mid points of quadrilateral obtained above. Again another quadrilateral is obtained by
joining the mid points of the second rectangle. This process is repeated for an infinite number of times.
Find the ratio of the sum of areas of all the rectangles to the sum of the areas of all the quadrilaterals.
(1) 2 : 1 (2) 3 : 1 (3) 4 : 1 (4) 2 : 3 (5) 4 : 3

19. How many six-digit numbers can be made by using the first 6 natural numbers such that the digit at the
unit’s place is greater than the digit at the hundred’s place and the number thus formed is a multiple of
4? (Repetition of digits is not allowed.)
(1) 96 (2) 108 (3) 114 (4) 78 (5) 120

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20. Six numbers a, b, c, d, e, f are such that a × b = 1, b × c = , c × d = 6, d × e = 2, e × f = . What is the
2 2
value of (a × d : b × e : c × f) ?
(1) 72 : 1 : 9 (2) 8 : 9 : 9 (3) 24 : 2 : 3 (4) 6 : 1 : 9 (5) 4 : 3 : 27

21. A combo pack having a bulb and a tubelight costs Rs. 52. If the cost of the bulb drops by 20% and the
cost of the tubelight escalates by 50%, the pack would cost Rs. 50. Find the price of a tubelight?
(1) Rs. 8 (2) Rs. 9 (3) Rs. 10 (4) Rs. 12 (5) Rs. 15

22. Find the area of the region generated by the curves |x| = 3, y = |x| and y = –|x|.
(1) 8 sq. units (2) 9 sq. units
(3) 12 sq. units (4) 15 sq. units (5) 18 sq. units

23. A square and a regular hexagon have the same area. Find the ratio of the perimeter of the square to the
perimeter of the hexagon.
(1) 3 :2 (2) 1 : 2 (3) 4
3:4 4 (4) 4
4:43 (5) None of these

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24. If an = xn + n , ‘n’ being a natural number, then which of the following is equal to an + 3 ?
x
(1) a1 . an + 2 – an + 1 (2) a1. an + 2 – an + 1 +an
(3) a1 . an + 2 – an + 1 – an (4) a1. an + 2 + an + 1 – an (5) None of these

25. How many 4-digit positive integral numbers are there in base 7, if you are counting the numbers in the
same base system?
(1) 2058 (2) 5666 (3) 6000 (4) 6666 (5) None of these

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 SECTION – II

Number of questions = 25

DIRECTIONS for Questions 26 to 28: Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last
sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most
appropriate way.

26. Nonprofit organizations depend on two resources to fulfill their missions. One, of course, is money.
The other resource – just as vital but perhaps even more scarce – is leadership. Indeed, qualified
leadership candidates may be even rarer than six-figure donors. _________________
(1) Today, many nonprofit organizations struggle to attract and retain the talented senior executives
they need to convert dollars into social impact.
(2) During the next 10 years, the nonprofit leadership deficit will become impossible to ignore.
(3) As one highly respected executive director recently observed, “If I have the choice between spending
time with a $100,000 donor or a potential candidate for a senior role, hands down it’s the candidate.”
(4) Searches for chief executive, operating, and financial officers often turn up only one to three
qualified candidates, compared with four to six for comparable private-sector positions.
(5) Many donors are least bothered where their donations are used.

27. The fundamental sea change in this decade is the opening of developed economies’ markets to the
commoditizing influence of developing economies like India and China. In response, companies jumped
to innovation. But what you really have to do to fight commoditization is create sustainable differentiation,
which means your competitors cannot or will not copy you. Innovation, which creates sustainable
differentiation, is what you want. What most companies do, and why you have the feeling that they’re
just talking about it, is they innovate but they do not achieve sustainable differentiation. __________
(1) Yes, they’re spending a lot on research and development, but at the end of the day, they are not
substantially differentiated from their competitors.
(2) The issue has to do with, are you innovating for something that’s core or context to your business
model?
(3) Instead of concentrating on a few bold ideas that could revolutionize their companies, most firms
put their resources in too many places, often creating product enhancements that don’t actually
enhance the bottom line.
(4) They don’t drive a particular dimension of their business so far down the road that their competitors
cannot or will not follow—and that is the gold standard.
(5) Enhancing the bottom line requires a market driven approach to innovation.

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28. And you know what? Life will go on. More people may be drawn to State and Madison. Chicagoans
lament the loss of the historic names that defined State Street shopping for 100 years—but not enough
of them have been going there. They’ve been going to Target or Costco or Kohl’s or Wal-Mart or any
of the other specialty and big-box retailers that don’t have famous addresses and landmark status, but
have been chipping away at department store sales for years. If you’ve lived in Chicago for any period
of time, especially if you grew up here, chances are you have a favorite memory of shopping on State
Street. You’re probably thinking of windows at Christmas right now. _____________________
(1) It’s a sad day for those who love Chicago’s history, and particularly for those who will lose jobs at
Carson Pirie Scott.
(2) But times and tastes and habits change.
(3) State Street is a fun place to hang out again.
(4) Two names that embodied Chicago retailing for more than a century will disappear.
(5) The big-box retailers are quite aggressive as compared to the departmental stores.

DIRECTIONS for Questions 29 to 37: Each of the two passages given below is followed by a set of questions.
Choose the best answer to each question.

Passage – I

With the prospect of dwindling state funds, the leaders of Oxford and Cambridge face a question that many
people living beneath this city's dreaming spires may consider beneath their dignity: How do you market an
800-year-old university?

American universities have whole departments devoted to fund-raising and marketing, but these have remained
foreign to schools here. Both Oxford and Cambridge, however, have new fund-raising efforts under way.

"Fund-raising is a topic we have to approach very carefully because it is not ingrained in the culture of these
universities like it is in the United States," said Frances Cairncross, rector of Exeter College in Oxford. "There
is a shift taking place, but it will take time."

Oxford has hired a fund-raiser from a North American university who will start work in October, and later this
year the University of Cambridge will hold a public kickoff of its largest capital campaign ever, pegged to its
800th anniversary in 2009.

For all their prestige and fame, cashing in on their brand names will take more than a simple campaign,
according to John Birnsteel, a director of the London consulting firm Enterprise IG.

"While they are both among the most prestigious educational establishments in the world, their amateur
communications efforts give totally mixed messages to alumni," said Mr. Birnsteel, a graduate of Queen's
College, Cambridge. "As it stands, I can never understand who is asking for money or for what."

To eliminate confusion, both universities should establish a "master brand," Mr. Birnsteel said.

"The key brand weakness is that there is very little identifying the universities as a single entity," he said.
"Sports unite universities in the US, but the only events that unite Oxford and Cambridge as a whole are a
rugby game and a rowing race."

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The result, Mr. Birnsteel says, is that he receives requests for money from his college, the university and from
individual faculties. "There is no streamlined message or economy of scale in this setup. Strong brands stand
out from the clutter, but this does the opposite."

Officials from both universities agree that fund-raising efforts must somehow overcome the decentralized
manner in which the universities have always been run. Individual colleges - where students spend much of
their time, and to which they hold strong allegiances — seem to compete in fund-raising against the university
itself. The university raises money for services, like the faculty of English or the department of Chemistry.

"Alumni confusion about whether to give to their college or the university is something we are actively
addressing now," said Aniela Shuckburgh, fund-raising campaign manager of the University of Cambridge.
"Our message is that giving to your college or the university as a whole is great, and both count towards our
capital campaign."

"The university is working closely with the colleges to simplify our message," Ms. Shuckburgh said. "This is
unprecedented, and we hope it will bring unprecedented results."

Traditionally, colleges will raise money for buildings, scholarships and perhaps the restoration of a chapel,
and the university will raise money for such things as a new law department building, a new chair of chemistry
and scholarships.

"Now we have narrowed it all down to four objectives," Ms. Shuckburgh said. "We want money for investing
in students, investing in staff, investing in discovering creativity and investing in our great collections."

Over at Oxford, fund-raising has also become a higher priority. Formerly undertaken by the director of
development, who answered to the college registrar, fund-raising has been raised to the level of a pro vice
chancellor answering directly to the university's top executive, the vice chancellor.

29. It can be inferred that the reason why many people in the city will feel the new drive towards fund-
raising as being beneath their dignity is
(1) they feel money is not important
(2) they feel that this money can be better utilized in other areas
(3) they feel that such esteemed universities do not need to seek material gains
(4) they feel that dependence on foreign aid will rob the universities of their independence
(5) they feel that these fund raising tactics are equivalent to extortion

30. It can be inferred that Birnsteel's comment about the problems plaguing the branding efforts made by
the mentioned colleges is based on
(1) his dialogues with many ex-students and the university officials
(2) his experience as an alumnus
(3) his agency's involvement in a similar fund-raising drive in the past
(4) Both (1) and (2)
(5) None of the above

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31. The reason why the confusion among alumni about whether to give to the college or the university is
considered a problem is
(1) most alumni pay for their colleges since they have strong affiliations and the universities suffer as
a result
(2) most alumni cannot decide and end up not paying for any of the two
(3) most alumni pay for the university
(4) most alumni decide this randomly
(5) None of the above

32. A suitable title for the passage is

(1) Approaching Fund-raising
(2) Marketing Oxford
(3) Marketing an 800 year old university
(4) Emulating American Universities
(5) Breaking mind sets

Passage – II

With the 2005 publication of Steven Levitt’s Freakonomics, the world has come to see that economists can be
spectacularly clever. In the search for “clean identification” — a situation in which it is easy to discern the
causal forces in play —Levitt has turned to such offbeat contexts as Japanese sumo-wrestling and the seedy
world of Chicago real estate. He has studied racial discrimination on a game show, and reflected on white-
collar bagel filching. This has inspired a flurry of imitators, including papers on point shaving in college
basketball, under-used gym memberships and the parking tickets of UN diplomats. Within the tedious body
of economics scholarship, these papers stand out as fantastically entertaining. Judging from the dizzying sales
of Freakonomics and the thousands of lecture halls across the U.S. now bursting with econ majors, they’ve
also been wildly successful at ginning up interest in the discipline.

But what if all the cleverness has crowded out some of the truly deep questions we rely on economists
to answer?

For more than a generation after the Second World War, the economists who dealt with real world data were
mostly earnest, stubborn men. They tackled the era’s thorniest questions. Zvi Griliches of Harvard devoted
decades to the problem of productivity growth, the chief determinant of rising living standards. His colleague
Simon Kuznets spent half his career devising the measure of economic growth we still use today.

In the ‘80s, however, the data-crunchers had a crisis of confidence. In one famous episode, the eminent
economist Gregg Lewis reviewed several studies on unions. Some papers reported that unions strongly increased
wages; others reported exactly the opposite. The old approach had been sweeping in its ambition. But what
good were ambitious goals if the best you could do was “on the one hand/on the other hand”-style equivocation
or plain gibberish? Many economists concluded that the path to knowledge lay in solid answers to modest
questions. Henceforth, the emphasis would be on “clean identification.” “I’ve always been someone who’s
thought it’s better to answer a small question well than to fail to answer a big question,” Levitt says. While still
a student, he wondered whether money drives election results or if the better candidate raises more money. He
ingeniously demonstrated the latter. Another early paper found that a slight increase in the chance of arrest
dramatically deterred auto theft. Levitt discerned this by studying cities that had approved the use of Lojack,
a transmitter that leads police to stolen cars. In 2001, Levitt published his most controversial finding: a paper

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highlighting the connection between the legalization of abortion in the ‘70s and the falling crime rates of the
‘90s. Levitt argued that unwanted children are most at risk of becoming criminals. Abortion, he concluded,
lowered crime rates by reducing unwanted pregnancies.

Some of these papers made important contributions. The Lojack paper helped demonstrate that theft is a
rational phenomenon and can therefore be discouraged.

A few years later, Levitt debuted a new kind of paper: an investigation into offbeat phenomena from daily life.
One pondered the strategies soccer players employ when taking penalty kicks. Another paper studied corruption
in sumo-wrestling tournaments as a window onto the power of incentives. Not long after, Levitt conducted an
exhaustive inquiry into Weakest Link, a game show in which contestants voted to remove a player after each
round of trivia questions. Tallying the voting data revealed that contestants were discriminating against Latinos
and the elderly, but not blacks and women.

But while the game show provided a pure setting for observing discrimination, there was no reason to think
we could extrapolate from Weakest Link contestants to hiring and promotion decisions, where discrimination
often intersects with economics. Most such decisions don’t take place in a Hollywood studio before a national
TV audience.

Levitt’s voice is high, except when it’s trailing off at the end of a sentence. He leans heavily on the word
“OK.” He is lanky and concave-chested and makes little eye contact. But Levitt has a droll magnetism, an
anti-charisma, which, combined with his eclectic interests, made a talk he gave at Harvard in 2002 a hit. “He
talked about his kick-ass creative papers,” recalls one attendee. “Here are the lessons you can draw to improve
your own research, how you can do clever, appealing papers yourself.” As he was wrapping up, Levitt
reflected on the choices facing grad students: If you think you can do as well in traditional topics as someone
like Marty Feldstein — a giant of the profession — you should pursue that, he said. Knowing laughter broke
out. But, he continued, if you don’t feel like you’re up to that, you might want to think about alternative
topics. The message resonated. One student watched classmates spend the next several weeks on high alert
for some curiosity of daily life around which they could build a paper.

Levitt has become famous for saying that “economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but
a serious shortage of interesting questions.” What is one to make of a discipline that heaps scorn on its own
raison d’etre?

When I raise this with Levitt, he is almost apologetic: “There needs to be a core for work on the periphery to
make any sense. I don’t think we would want to have a whole profession with dilettantes like me out doing
what I do.” But he quickly adds: “The simple fact is that it’s hard to do good research. To the extent that you
can do interesting research that teaches us something about the world, and entertains along the way, that’s
not so bad.”

33. According to the passage, the 1980’s saw the data-crunchers:

(1) Facing sweeping ambition, which had been clearly identified.
(2) Combating a predicament that was leading to uncertainty.
(3) Identifying the prevalence of racial discrimination.
(4) Celebrating the success of economics as a discipline.
(5) Devising a moderate methodology to the path of knowledge.

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34. It cannot be concluded that many old day economists who dealt with real world data ended up:
(1) Tackling the era’s thorniest questions.
(2) Dealing with the problem of productivity growth.
(3) Readying measures for economic growth.
(4) Crunching data.
(5) Tackling modest questions.

35. Which one of the following is eminent on Levitt’s wish list for economists:
(1) A ponderous link always exists between any two given situations.
(2) A deep link never existed between the contestants and the Latinos.
(3) Powerful links between corruption in Sumo-wrestling tournaments and incentives were not
discernable.
(4) Valuable answers to unassuming questions score over overbearing inane responses.
(5) A fall in the crime rate slowed abortions, which was very beneficial to the community as a whole.

36. According to the author, the voting data from the show ‘Weakest Link’ proved that:
(1) data on game shows was generally extrapolated.
(2) the economies of the show were not affected.
(3) acts of discrimination were not easy to isolate.
(4) a national TV audience did not actually give live verdicts.
(5) None of the above.

37. According to the passage, Levitt can be summed up as:

(1) The typical expert who is prone to sound exceedingly sure of himself.
(2) An expert who argues the various sides of an issue convincingly.
(3) An expert whose argument reeks of restraint and doesn’t get much attention.
(4) An expert who hopes to turn his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
(5) A dilettante who teaches as well as entertains.

DIRECTIONS for Questions 38 to 41: Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements.
Each statement can be classified as one of the following:
- Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to
discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an ‘F’).
- Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option
indicates such a statement with an ‘I’).
- Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and
occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a ‘J’)

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

38. 1. 1,400 women die every day from problems related to pregnancy and childbirth.
2. Tens of thousands more may experience complications that will leave them with severe disabilities.
3. The dangers of childbearing can be greatly reduced if a woman is healthy and well nourished.
4. Governments have a particular responsibility to make prenatal and postnatal services available.
(1) IIIJ (2) IFIJ (3) JFJJ (4) FIIJ (5) FFII

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39. 1. Europe’s economies are in the doldrums, and no one seems to know how to revive them.
2. Two noisy arguments now raging clearly show that an alarming number of Europeans are in denial
about the economic facts of life.
3. A clear majority of voters and national governments are set on limiting these freedoms.
4. The freedom of movement of people is enshrined in the almost 50-year-old Treaty of Rome.
(1) IJJI (2) JIJF (3) JJIF (4) JJJF (5) IJIF

40. 1. Poachers have killed three Asiatic lions in the rare animal’s only natural habitat.
2. The bones are used for traditional Chinese medicine and the claws are worn by some men as pendants
in the hope of increasing their virility.
3. The number of lions in Gir had risen to 359 in 2005 from 327 in 2001, a government census
showed.
4. As seen from incidents over the past few years, the animals may face other dangers besides poaching.
(1) JFIJ (2) JIIJ (3) IFIJ (4) IFFJ (5) FFFI

41. 1. Starting June 1, all cigarette, bidi and gutkha packets will carry prominent pictorial health warnings.
2. The move isn’t coming a day too soon - official statistics show every second man and every seventh
woman in India is a tobacco-user.
3. In our country, 46.5 per cent men and 13.8 per cent women use tobacco.
4. Only graphic warnings will be effective, because many tobacco users are illiterate and cannot read
the health warning.
(1) FJFJ (2) IFIJ (3) JFJJ (4) JJJJ (5) JFII

DIRECTIONS for Questions 42 to 44: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences.

42. A. It is difficult to deny that the world of music has changed greatly since the past thirty years.
B. The style, sound, technology, and lyrics of music has been altered greatly.
C. In the last three decades, several new categories of music have come along.
D. One reason why music has changed so greatly is that artists use music as a tool to publicize certain
social messages.
(1) A and D (2) B and C (3) C and D (4) A and B (5) C only

43. A. One important development was the invention of communication satellites which allow images and
messages to be sent digitally around the world.
B. One advantage is that current events are to be sent world wide in seconds.
C. News used to travel by ship and take weeks or months to get overseas.
D. When a disaster struck the World Trade Center, the world saw it immediately and condemned the
terrorists’ actions.
(1) A and B (2) A and C (3) B and D (4) C and D (5) D only

44. A On the playgrounds of Brooklyn, basketball is more religious rite than a sport.
B. Its devotees are on the court ten hours a day, six days a week.
C. Seventeen and eighteen-year olds have rheumatoid knees from the constant pounding of their feet
on the asphalt.
D. They play through the afternoon heat with little more to feed them than a can of soda, and they play
at night in the dim illumination of streetlights.
(1) A and D (2) B and D (3) C and D (4) B and C (5) D only

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 45 and 46: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced,
form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

45. A. There’s much to be done.

B. Outside in the sunrise garden roses are already awake, clematis climb like a growing child and all
the border marigolds are on fire.
C. Climbing painfully from a sore mattress, standing in striped pyjamas by the window, Jim stares
gardenwards.
D. These days it’s all weed killing, backache and wishes.
(1) ABCD (2) DCBA (3) CADB (4) BCDA (5) ACBD

46. A. I spent months in that hospital bed.

B. Sadly, the plane crash had claimed many lives including those of Jack and Ross, my business
partners – a loss that devastated me.
C. The three of us had experienced so much together over the previous few years, and I had no interest
in running the company without them.
D. They were not simply the co-founders of Bravelife.com; Jack and Ross had become my best friends.
(1) DCBA (2) ABCD (3) DCAB (4) CBDA (5) ADCB

DIRECTIONS for Questions 47 to 50: Fill up the blanks, numbered [47], [48] .. up to [50], in the passage
below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each blank.

Companies require capital. Start-up companies, especially [47] -based companies that present high risk and
reward, frequently need [48] more capital than the founder’s wallet holds. This means that entrepreneurs have
to seek other investors – and the success of the business will be heavily [49] by the extent to which they take
account of the needs of these investors when [50] up a business plan.

47. (1) innovation (2) network (3) tradition (4) gizmo (5) gimmick

48. (1) imperceptibly (2) considerably (3) daily (4) barely (5) substantial

49. (1) sought (2) felt (3) enticed (4) burdened (5) influenced

50. (1) drawing (2) giving (3) sorting (4) ambling (5) sketching

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 SECTION – III

Number of questions = 25

DIRECTIONS for Questions 51 to 53: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
The given chart provides information about five PC manufacturers namely Compaq-HP, HCL, Acer, Zenith
and Sony. It shows the selling price per PC and the cost price per PC for each of these mentioned manufacturers.
Price (in Rs.)

100000
60000

50000

40000

Selling Price
30000
20000 Cost Price
20000

25000
30000

40000

Compaq-HP HCL Acer Zenith Sony

Manufacturer

The following chart provides information about the annual sales for each PC manufacturer for a given year. It
also provides information about the sales tax rate as a percentage of the selling price for each manufacturer.
Sales tax as % of Selling price

250000 30

200000 25
20
Units sold

150000
15
100000
10
50000 5
0 0
Compaq- HCL Acer Zenith Sony
HP

Units sold Sales tax as % of Selling Price

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Additional information given:
Profit = Selling Price – Cost Price – Sales Tax
Revenue = (Selling Price per PC) × (Number of PC’s sold)

51. For which of the following pairs of manufacturers, the profit per PC sold by them is the same?
(1) Sony and Compaq-HP
(2) Acer and Zenith
(3) HCL and Acer
(4) Compaq-HP and Acer
(5) Sony and Zenith

52. Which of the following manufacturer(s) has/have the highest revenue from PC sales, amongst the given
five manufacturers?
(1) Compaq-HP and Zenith
(2) Sony
(3) Zenith
(4) Compaq-HP
(5) HCL and Sony

53. Which of the following manufacturer(s) contribute the maximum sales tax?
(1) Sony and Compaq-HP
(2) Compaq-HP, HCL and Zenith
(3) HCL and Acer
(4) Compaq-HP and Acer
(5) Compaq-HP and Zenith

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 54 to 57: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Six females namely Aishwarya, Bipasha, Champi, Dola, Geeta and Farah are sitting around a rectangular
table as shown below. There are six chairs numbered 1 to 6.

1 2 3

4 5 6

The females are sitting in such a way that three females are sitting on each side of the table and the females
sitting on chair numbered 1, 2 and 3 are directly opposite to the females sitting on chair numbers 4, 5 and 6
respectively. Each female is reading exactly one book that is written by one out of the six females. No female
is reading a book written by herself.
I. Aishwarya is reading a book on mathematics. She is sitting on a chair that is at one of the corners of the
table and she does not have interest in psychology.
II. Bipasha is reading a book written by the female sitting directly opposite to her.
III. Champi is sitting between the mathematician and the chemist and is reading a book on biology.
IV. Dola is sitting opposite to the female who is a biologist. Dola is reading a book on geology.
V. The female who is a mathematician is sitting directly opposite to the female who is a psychologist.
VI. Geeta is sitting next to the female who is a geologist and is reading a book on chemistry.
VII. Farah is sitting on a chair at one of the corners and is sitting next to the female who is an astronomer.

54. Farah is reading a book on

(1) Psychology (2) Chemistry (3) Astronomy (4) Biology (5) Geology

55. Aishwarya is
(1) an astronomer
(2) a geologist
(3) a biologist
(4) a psychologist
(5) a mathematician

56. Which of the following pair of females are not sitting directly opposite to each other?
(1) Aishwarya – Dola
(2) Bipasha – Champi
(3) Geeta – Farah
(4) Bipasha - Dola
(5) None of these

57. Which of the following females is reading the book, written by the person sitting directly opposite to
her?
(1) Aishwarya (2) Dola (3) Bipasha (4) Champi (5) Geeta

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 58 and 59: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
The figure shows the data of a mutual fund company. The allocation of funds in each sector is shown below.

Percentage of funds invested in each sector

5%
15%
10%

25% 25%

20%

Auto Chemical Pharmaceutical IT Bank Others

The price at which the shares of respective sectors were purchased and their current market price is shown in
the graph:

800 450

Current market value as a percentage of

700 400

350
600
300
Purchase Price

Purchase Price
500
250
400
200
300
150
200 100
100 50
0 0
Auto Chemical Pharmaceutical IT Bank Others

Purchase Price Current market value as a percentage of Purchase Price

Note: Funds with Mutual Fund Company are worth Rs. 100 crore.
Market Capitalization = Number of Shares × Current Market Price.
Market Appreciation = Number of Shares × (Current Market Price – Purchase Price)

58. For which sector Market Capitalisation is the maximum?

(1) Chemical (2) Pharmaceutical (3) IT (4) Bank (5) Auto

59. For which sector Market Appreciation is the minimum?

(1) Chemical (2) Pharmaceutical (3) Auto (4) Bank (5) Others

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 60 to 64: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below:

In KAT exam there were three sections namely QA, VA and DI with 50, 40 and 30 questions respectively.
Each correctly answered question fetches 1 mark. There is progressive negative marking in each section for
1
incorrectly attempted questions with first 6 wrong answers carrying negative marks each, next 6 incorrectly
4
1 1
attempted questions carrying negative marks each and beyond that every wrong answer carries negative
3 2
marks. Following bar graph shows the sectional cut-offs and the overall cut-off marks required to get oneself
qualified for the next round of evaluation. Any student whose marks are equal to the given cut-offs is said to
have ‘just managed’ to clear the cut-offs.

40 35
35
30
25
20
15 11 12
9
10
5
0
QA VA DI Overall

60. What can be the minimum number of unattempted questions in the exam such that a student just
manages to clear the sectional cut-offs?
(1) 3 (2) 5 (3) 4 (4) 1 (5) 2

61. If a student attempts 87 questions and just manages to clear the sectional cut-offs, then what can be the
minimum possible number of incorrectly attempted questions by the student?
(1) 35 (2) 38 (3) 42 (4) 40 (5) 55

62. What is the minimum number of questions left unattempted such that student just manages to clear the
overall cut-off?
(1) 0 (2) 1 (3) 2 (4) 3 (5) 4

63. If a student attempts at least 1 question incorrectly in each section then what can be the minimum
number of questions attempted by the student such that he just clears all the cut-offs including the
overall cut-off?
(1) 47 (2) 55 (3) 44 (4) 50 (5) 52

64. Which of the following cannot be the total number of incorrectly attempted questions by a student who
just manages to clear all the sectional cut-offs?
(1) 4 (2) 13 (3) 17 (4) 32 (5) 22

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 65 to 67: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
The following table provides information about the marks alloted to various topics in a particular examination
called KAT in the last six years from 1998 to 2003. In each of these years, the questions were asked from the
given topics only. The KAT examination is conducted only once every year.

S. No. Topic 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

1 Algebra 11 12 8 7 9 13
2 Analogies 5 5 10 5 8 5
3 Analytical Reasoning 20 30 15 24 15 10
4 Arithmetic 5 11 9 8 5 12
5 Comprehension 30 25 20 15 15 25
6 Data Interpretation 30 20 15 15 35 25
7 Data Sufficiency 10 4 13 3 15 2
8 Fill in the blanks 10 8 7 10 10 5
9 Geometry 9 11 5 15 6 9
10 Mathematical Reasoning 25 15 30 16 10 10
11 Modern Maths 6 5 11 4 0 2
12 Number System 8 7 7 11 9 6
13 Parajumbles 8 7 0 10 5 20
14 Sentence Correction 8 5 15 7 8 6

65. In how many of these years, the number of marks alloted to Geometry is less than the number of marks
alloted to Analogies as well as Arithmetic?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4 (5) 5

66. Which topic has been alloted the second lowest aggregate number of marks over the given period?
(1) Arithmetic
(2) Parajumbles
(3) Analogies
(4) Modern Maths
(5) Number system

67. In how many of these years, the aggregate number of marks alloted to all the topics is less than the
aggregate number of marks alloted to all the topics in the year 1999 but more than aggregate number of
marks alloted to all the topics in the year 2001?
(1) 0 (2) 1 (3) 2 (4) 3 (5) 4

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 68 to 71: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
On the surface of the Earth, the time zones are defined as the regions where the time of the day remains
constant. The time zones change on the basis of each degree change in the longitude. Longitudes are imaginary
lines which run on the surface of earth from the north pole to the south pole. It is considered that 0° longitude
(the reference point) is in Greenwich (Britain), which is considered to give us the Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT). GMT is the reference for calculating time in different time zones around the world. Time of the day
increases on moving towards East from Greenwich (indicated by degrees E) & decreases on moving towards
West from Greenwich (indicated by degrees W). The relation between longitude and time is given by the
following
1° change in longitude = 4 minutes change in time.
The longitude for some countries are given in the table below. In this table all the longitudes that are mentioned
are with reference to the country C, whose longitude is 20° W with respect to the original reference, i.e.
Greenwich.
Name of Country Longitude
A 50°E
B 75°E
C 0°
D 27°E
E 75°W
F 50°E
68. If the time in Greenwich is 9:00 PM on Monday, then what will be the corresponding time in the
country F.
(1) 12:00 midnight
(2) 1:20 AM on Tuesday
(3) 11:00 PM on Monday
(4) 10:30 PM on Monday
(5) 11:30 AM on Tuesday

69. If there is a country G which is 2 hours ahead of C, then what will be its longitude with reference to the
Greenwich?
(1) 30° E (2) 30° W (3) 10° E (4) 10° W (5) 20° E

70. A person catches a flight from country A at 11:00 AM on Sunday and the flight takes exactly 2 hours to
reach F. At what time will the person reach country F?
(1) 11:00 AM on Sunday
(2) 1:00 AM on Sunday
(3) 1:00 PM on Sunday
(4) 12:00 Noon on Sunday
(5) 2:00 PM on Sunday

71. A person takes a flight from country B to country D. How much time will it take for an aeroplane to
complete the journey?
(1) 192 min (2) 150 min (3) 60 min (4) 130 min (5) Cannot be determined

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 72 to 75: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
BCCI has to select a committee of five persons to serve as their representative on the board of ICC. The
committee must have two coaches and three players, Their are three coaches namely A, B and C that are
available for selection and there are five players namely, D, E, F, G and H that are available for selection.
Additional information given:
• B and H cannot be selected simultaneously.
• F and G cannot be selected simultaneously.
• E and H cannot be selected simultaneously.

72. For every possible acceptable selection of the committee representing BCCI on the board of ICC, which
of the following replacement will always result in another acceptable selection of the committee
representing BCCI on the board of ICC?
(1) B for C (2) F for E (3) F for G (4) B for A (5) E for G

Additional information for Questions 73 and 74:

A is always selected in the committee.

73. Who will be definitely selected in the committee?

(1) C (2) B (3) E (4) D (5) None of these

74. In how many ways a committee can be selected?

(1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 7 (4) 5 (5) 6

75. If E and F always are selected together, then in how many ways a committee can be selected?
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5 (5) 6

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