Question no.1

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

As a Korean resident of the United States, I have been both amazed and bewildered by the recent success of Korean popular culture in the country. When I first came to the US in the mid-1980s, despite South Korea’s significant economic advances of the previous decades, most Americans I met still had the impression of my homeland as an impoverished third-world country that made cheap but shabby goods, often placing it in Southeast Asia, and sometimes confusing it with Vietnam.

But now, my students at the Midwestern university where I teach listen avidly to K-pop music, while many of my American friends are enthusiastic consumers of K-dramas. In 2021, the television show Squid Game became the most-watched program on Netflix in the US and in many other countries. I myself may have benefited from this development in a modest way, as the Penguin Classics edition of my translation of the Joseon dynasty novel The Story of Hong Gildong (2016) – the narrative of an outlaw hero comparable to Robin Hood, and the subject of a number of films and K-dramas – sold surprisingly well, and became required reading in many college and high-school classes.

These works have increased interest in Korean culture in general, creating opportunities for Korean American writers to emerge as explicators of all things Korean. In their writings, the concept of han (한) has been invoked as crucial to understanding the Korean character, as well as its culture and art. A supposedly untranslatable term, it denotes a uniquely Korean sense of profound sorrow, regret, resentment, rage, and other negative emotions that are all bound up inside an individual as well as the people as a whole. It has been claimed that modern Koreans inherited it from deep tradition, as a collective emotional memory of their ancestors’ experiences of historical traumas, including many foreign invasions throughout the centuries. Han has frequently been mentioned in the US media too.

An early example is a 2003 episode of the TV show The West Wing that is titled ‘Han’, involving a visiting North Korean pianist who seeks to defect to the US. When thwarted from the course, the show explains, he’s filled with han, ‘a sadness so deep that no tears can come’.

When interpreters of Korean cultural products such as films and TV shows mention han, they are referring to the works’ intense emotionality, especially the feelings of sorrow, regret, resentment, and rage associated with the concept. Parasite, for instance, begins with a family of swindlers who target a rich family, but their plot turns deadly with the explosion of seething anger from class resentment. Squid Game features the sad desperation of people whose lives are in such shambles that they willingly risk death in a series of sadistic games for a slim chance at salvation.

Seen from the perspective of han, such emotions seem to be the common theme running throughout all the works. That notion is a questionable one, yet, because han has become the unavoidable go-to term in explicating all things Korean, it is important to explore its exact origin and meanings. And it is ultimately necessary to ask whether it is indeed a useful term in understanding Korean culture.

What is the central idea of the passage?

Explanation

Let us refer to the passage

“As a Korean resident of the United States, I have been both amazed and bewildered by the recent success of Korean popular culture in the country.
These works have increased interest in Korean culture in general, creating opportunities for Korean American writers to emerge as explicators of all things Korean
Han has frequently been mentioned in the US media too.

An early example is a 2003 episode of the TV show The West Wing that is titled ‘Han’, involving a visiting North Korean pianist who seeks to defect to the US.
Seen from the perspective of han, such emotions seem to be the common theme running throughout all the works. That notion is a questionable one, yet, because han has become the unavoidable go-to term in explicating all things Korean, it is important to explore its exact origin and meanings.”

The above-mentioned excerpt shows us the essence of the passage which is about how the how Korean culture is becoming popular in the USA and the use of the word Han, which is Korean in origin, is being popularised in the USA.
This is perfectly captured in both Option A and B, hence Option D is the correct answer.

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Question no.2

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

As a Korean resident of the United States, I have been both amazed and bewildered by the recent success of Korean popular culture in the country. When I first came to the US in the mid-1980s, despite South Korea’s significant economic advances of the previous decades, most Americans I met still had the impression of my homeland as an impoverished third-world country that made cheap but shabby goods, often placing it in Southeast Asia, and sometimes confusing it with Vietnam.

But now, my students at the Midwestern university where I teach listen avidly to K-pop music, while many of my American friends are enthusiastic consumers of K-dramas. In 2021, the television show Squid Game became the most-watched program on Netflix in the US and in many other countries. I myself may have benefited from this development in a modest way, as the Penguin Classics edition of my translation of the Joseon dynasty novel The Story of Hong Gildong (2016) – the narrative of an outlaw hero comparable to Robin Hood, and the subject of a number of films and K-dramas – sold surprisingly well, and became required reading in many college and high-school classes.

These works have increased interest in Korean culture in general, creating opportunities for Korean American writers to emerge as explicators of all things Korean. In their writings, the concept of han (한) has been invoked as crucial to understanding the Korean character, as well as its culture and art. A supposedly untranslatable term, it denotes a uniquely Korean sense of profound sorrow, regret, resentment, rage, and other negative emotions that are all bound up inside an individual as well as the people as a whole. It has been claimed that modern Koreans inherited it from deep tradition, as a collective emotional memory of their ancestors’ experiences of historical traumas, including many foreign invasions throughout the centuries. Han has frequently been mentioned in the US media too.

An early example is a 2003 episode of the TV show The West Wing that is titled ‘Han’, involving a visiting North Korean pianist who seeks to defect to the US. When thwarted from the course, the show explains, he’s filled with han, ‘a sadness so deep that no tears can come’.

When interpreters of Korean cultural products such as films and TV shows mention han, they are referring to the works’ intense emotionality, especially the feelings of sorrow, regret, resentment, and rage associated with the concept. Parasite, for instance, begins with a family of swindlers who target a rich family, but their plot turns deadly with the explosion of seething anger from class resentment. Squid Game features the sad desperation of people whose lives are in such shambles that they willingly risk death in a series of sadistic games for a slim chance at salvation.

Seen from the perspective of han, such emotions seem to be the common theme running throughout all the works. That notion is a questionable one, yet, because han has become the unavoidable go-to term in explicating all things Korean, it is important to explore its exact origin and meanings. And it is ultimately necessary to ask whether it is indeed a useful term in understanding Korean culture.

Which of the following can be understood from “And it is ultimately necessary to ask whether it is indeed a useful term in understanding Korean culture.”

Explanation

Let us refer to the passage

“Seen from the perspective of han, such emotions seem to be the common theme running throughout all the works. That notion is a questionable one, yet, because han has become the unavoidable go-to term in explicating all things Korean, it is important to explore its exact origin and meanings. And it is ultimately necessary to ask whether it is indeed a useful term in understanding Korean culture.”
Han is a popular word in the USA which defines everything Korean to them, but the author comments that they must not use the term to only explicate all things Korean but also delve deep into its origins, meanings and how does it help someone understand the Korean culture.

This is perfectly captured in both Option B, hence it is the correct answer.

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Question no.3

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

As a Korean resident of the United States, I have been both amazed and bewildered by the recent success of Korean popular culture in the country. When I first came to the US in the mid-1980s, despite South Korea’s significant economic advances of the previous decades, most Americans I met still had the impression of my homeland as an impoverished third-world country that made cheap but shabby goods, often placing it in Southeast Asia, and sometimes confusing it with Vietnam.

But now, my students at the Midwestern university where I teach listen avidly to K-pop music, while many of my American friends are enthusiastic consumers of K-dramas. In 2021, the television show Squid Game became the most-watched program on Netflix in the US and in many other countries. I myself may have benefited from this development in a modest way, as the Penguin Classics edition of my translation of the Joseon dynasty novel The Story of Hong Gildong (2016) – the narrative of an outlaw hero comparable to Robin Hood, and the subject of a number of films and K-dramas – sold surprisingly well, and became required reading in many college and high-school classes.

These works have increased interest in Korean culture in general, creating opportunities for Korean American writers to emerge as explicators of all things Korean. In their writings, the concept of han (한) has been invoked as crucial to understanding the Korean character, as well as its culture and art. A supposedly untranslatable term, it denotes a uniquely Korean sense of profound sorrow, regret, resentment, rage, and other negative emotions that are all bound up inside an individual as well as the people as a whole. It has been claimed that modern Koreans inherited it from deep tradition, as a collective emotional memory of their ancestors’ experiences of historical traumas, including many foreign invasions throughout the centuries. Han has frequently been mentioned in the US media too.

An early example is a 2003 episode of the TV show The West Wing that is titled ‘Han’, involving a visiting North Korean pianist who seeks to defect to the US. When thwarted from the course, the show explains, he’s filled with han, ‘a sadness so deep that no tears can come’.

When interpreters of Korean cultural products such as films and TV shows mention han, they are referring to the works’ intense emotionality, especially the feelings of sorrow, regret, resentment, and rage associated with the concept. Parasite, for instance, begins with a family of swindlers who target a rich family, but their plot turns deadly with the explosion of seething anger from class resentment. Squid Game features the sad desperation of people whose lives are in such shambles that they willingly risk death in a series of sadistic games for a slim chance at salvation.

Seen from the perspective of han, such emotions seem to be the common theme running throughout all the works. That notion is a questionable one, yet, because han has become the unavoidable go-to term in explicating all things Korean, it is important to explore its exact origin and meanings. And it is ultimately necessary to ask whether it is indeed a useful term in understanding Korean culture.

Which of the following can be definitely inferred from the passage?

Explanation

Let us refer to the passage

“When interpreters of Korean cultural products such as films and TV shows mention han, they are referring to the works’ intense emotionality, especially the feelings of sorrow, regret, resentment, and rage associated with the concept. Parasite, for instance, begins with a family of swindlers who target a rich family, but their plot turns deadly with the explosion of seething anger from class resentment. Squid Game features the sad desperation of people whose lives are in such shambles that they willingly risk death in a series of sadistic games for a slim chance at salvation.

Seen from the perspective of han, such emotions seem to be the common theme running throughout all the works. That notion is a questionable one, yet, because han has become the unavoidable go-to term in explicating all things Korean, it is important to explore its exact origin and meanings. And it is ultimately necessary to ask whether it is indeed a useful term in understanding Korean culture.”

The above-mentioned excerpt shows us how the Korean culture and specifically the use of the word Han related to the culture is being used in a stereotypical way in the USA.
This is perfectly captured in both Option C, hence it is the correct answer.

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Question no.4

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

As a Korean resident of the United States, I have been both amazed and bewildered by the recent success of Korean popular culture in the country. When I first came to the US in the mid-1980s, despite South Korea’s significant economic advances of the previous decades, most Americans I met still had the impression of my homeland as an impoverished third-world country that made cheap but shabby goods, often placing it in Southeast Asia, and sometimes confusing it with Vietnam.

But now, my students at the Midwestern university where I teach listen avidly to K-pop music, while many of my American friends are enthusiastic consumers of K-dramas. In 2021, the television show Squid Game became the most-watched program on Netflix in the US and in many other countries. I myself may have benefited from this development in a modest way, as the Penguin Classics edition of my translation of the Joseon dynasty novel The Story of Hong Gildong (2016) – the narrative of an outlaw hero comparable to Robin Hood, and the subject of a number of films and K-dramas – sold surprisingly well, and became required reading in many college and high-school classes.

These works have increased interest in Korean culture in general, creating opportunities for Korean American writers to emerge as explicators of all things Korean. In their writings, the concept of han (한) has been invoked as crucial to understanding the Korean character, as well as its culture and art. A supposedly untranslatable term, it denotes a uniquely Korean sense of profound sorrow, regret, resentment, rage, and other negative emotions that are all bound up inside an individual as well as the people as a whole. It has been claimed that modern Koreans inherited it from deep tradition, as a collective emotional memory of their ancestors’ experiences of historical traumas, including many foreign invasions throughout the centuries. Han has frequently been mentioned in the US media too.

An early example is a 2003 episode of the TV show The West Wing that is titled ‘Han’, involving a visiting North Korean pianist who seeks to defect to the US. When thwarted from the course, the show explains, he’s filled with han, ‘a sadness so deep that no tears can come’.

When interpreters of Korean cultural products such as films and TV shows mention han, they are referring to the works’ intense emotionality, especially the feelings of sorrow, regret, resentment, and rage associated with the concept. Parasite, for instance, begins with a family of swindlers who target a rich family, but their plot turns deadly with the explosion of seething anger from class resentment. Squid Game features the sad desperation of people whose lives are in such shambles that they willingly risk death in a series of sadistic games for a slim chance at salvation.

Seen from the perspective of han, such emotions seem to be the common theme running throughout all the works. That notion is a questionable one, yet, because han has become the unavoidable go-to term in explicating all things Korean, it is important to explore its exact origin and meanings. And it is ultimately necessary to ask whether it is indeed a useful term in understanding Korean culture.

Which of the following is NOT TRUE regarding “Han”?

A. It is a term that cannot be definitely translated.

B. It describes emotions like anger and rage.

C. It is the most prevalent term in Korea.

Explanation

Statement A – “In their writings, the concept of han (한) has been invoked as crucial to understanding the Korean character, as well as its culture and art. A supposedly untranslatable term”
Based on the above-mentioned excerpt we can infer this statement is true.

Statement B – “it denotes a uniquely Korean sense of profound sorrow, regret, resentment, rage and other negative emotions that are all bound up inside an individual as well as the people as a whole.”
Based on the above-mentioned excerpt we can infer this statement is true.

Statement C – The option is not mentioned in the passage at all.

Hence, Option C is the correct answer.

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Question no.9

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University, remembers asking an undergraduate seminar recently, “How many of you are waiting to find your passion?” “Almost all of them raised their hand and got dreamy looks in their eyes,” she told me. They talked about it “like a tidal wave would sweep over them.” Sploosh. Huzzah! It’s accounting!

Would they have unlimited motivation for their passion? They nodded solemnly.“I hate to burst your balloon,” she said, “but it doesn’t usually happen that way.” What Dweck asked her students is a common refrain in American society. The term “Follow your passion” has increased ninefold in English books since 1990. “Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life” is another college-counseling standby of unknown provenance.

But according to Dweck and others, that advice is steering people wrong. “What are the consequences of that?” asked Paul O’Keefe, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale—NUS College. “That means that if you do something that feels like work, it means you don’t love it.” He gave me the example of a student who jumps from lab to lab, trying to find one whose research topic feels like her passion. “It’s this idea that if I’m not completely overwhelmed by emotion when I walk into a lab, then it won’t be my passion or my interest.”

That’s why he and two co-authors—Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford—recently performed a study that suggests it might be time to change the way we think about our interests. Passions aren’t “found,” they argue. They’re developed.

In a paper that is forthcoming in Psychological Science, the authors delineate the difference between the two mindsets. One is a “fixed theory of interests”—the idea that core interests are there from birth, just waiting to be discovered—and the other is a “growth theory,” the idea that interests are something anyone can cultivate over time.

To examine how these different mindsets affect our pursuit of different topics, the authors performed a series of studies on college students—a group that’s frequently advised to find their passion in the form of a major or career path.

First, students answered a survey that would categorize them as either “techy”—slang for interested in math and science—or “fuzzy,” meaning interested in the arts or humanities. They also filled out a survey determining how much they agreed with the idea that people’s core interests don’t change over time. They then read an article that mismatched their interests—a piece on the future of algorithms for the fuzzies, and a piece on Derrida for the techies. The more the participants endorsed a “fixed” theory of interests, the less interested they were in the article that mismatched their aforementioned identity as a techy or fuzzy.

Readers respond: ‘Find Your Passion’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does. The authors then repeated a similar procedure, but they had students read first about either the fixed theory of interests or the growth theory. Again, those who learned that interests are fixed throughout a person’s life were less captivated by an article that mismatched their interests. The authors believe this could mean that students who have fixed theories of interest might forgo interesting lectures or opportunities because they don’t align with their previously stated passions. Or that they might overlook ways that other disciplines can intersect with their own.

“If passions are things found fully formed, and your job is to look around the world for your passion—it’s a crazy thought,” Walton told me. “It doesn’t reflect the way I or my students experience school, where you go to a class and have a lecture or a conversation, and you think, That’s interesting. It’s through a process of investment and development that you develop an abiding passion in a field.”

Another reason not to buy into the fixed theory is that it can cause people to give up too easily. If something becomes difficult, it’s easy to assume that it simply must not have been your passion, after all. In one portion of this study, the students who thought interests were fixed were also less likely to think that pursuing a passion would be difficult at times. Instead, they thought it would provide “endless motivation.”

As per the passage, Dweck is most likely to endorse:

Explanation

Let us refer to the passage

“One is a “fixed theory of interests”—the idea that core interests are there from birth, just waiting to be discovered—and the other is a “growth theory,” the idea that interests are something anyone can cultivate over time.”

“That’s why he and two co-authors—Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford—recently performed a study that suggests it might be time to change the way we think about our interests. Passions aren’t “found,” they argue. They’re developed”

From the above-mentioned excerpts we can understand that as per growth theory interests are cultivated over time. Also the study by Dweck came to the conclusion that passions are developed. This indicates that Dweck is a proponent of the Growth Theory. Hence, Option B is the correct answer.

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Question no.10

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University, remembers asking an undergraduate seminar recently, “How many of you are waiting to find your passion?” “Almost all of them raised their hand and got dreamy looks in their eyes,” she told me. They talked about it “like a tidal wave would sweep over them.” Sploosh. Huzzah! It’s accounting!

Would they have unlimited motivation for their passion? They nodded solemnly.“I hate to burst your balloon,” she said, “but it doesn’t usually happen that way.” What Dweck asked her students is a common refrain in American society. The term “Follow your passion” has increased ninefold in English books since 1990. “Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life” is another college-counseling standby of unknown provenance.

But according to Dweck and others, that advice is steering people wrong. “What are the consequences of that?” asked Paul O’Keefe, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale—NUS College. “That means that if you do something that feels like work, it means you don’t love it.” He gave me the example of a student who jumps from lab to lab, trying to find one whose research topic feels like her passion. “It’s this idea that if I’m not completely overwhelmed by emotion when I walk into a lab, then it won’t be my passion or my interest.”

That’s why he and two co-authors—Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford—recently performed a study that suggests it might be time to change the way we think about our interests. Passions aren’t “found,” they argue. They’re developed.

In a paper that is forthcoming in Psychological Science, the authors delineate the difference between the two mindsets. One is a “fixed theory of interests”—the idea that core interests are there from birth, just waiting to be discovered—and the other is a “growth theory,” the idea that interests are something anyone can cultivate over time.

To examine how these different mindsets affect our pursuit of different topics, the authors performed a series of studies on college students—a group that’s frequently advised to find their passion in the form of a major or career path.

First, students answered a survey that would categorize them as either “techy”—slang for interested in math and science—or “fuzzy,” meaning interested in the arts or humanities. They also filled out a survey determining how much they agreed with the idea that people’s core interests don’t change over time. They then read an article that mismatched their interests—a piece on the future of algorithms for the fuzzies, and a piece on Derrida for the techies. The more the participants endorsed a “fixed” theory of interests, the less interested they were in the article that mismatched their aforementioned identity as a techy or fuzzy.

Readers respond: ‘Find Your Passion’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does. The authors then repeated a similar procedure, but they had students read first about either the fixed theory of interests or the growth theory. Again, those who learned that interests are fixed throughout a person’s life were less captivated by an article that mismatched their interests. The authors believe this could mean that students who have fixed theories of interest might forgo interesting lectures or opportunities because they don’t align with their previously stated passions. Or that they might overlook ways that other disciplines can intersect with their own.

“If passions are things found fully formed, and your job is to look around the world for your passion—it’s a crazy thought,” Walton told me. “It doesn’t reflect the way I or my students experience school, where you go to a class and have a lecture or a conversation, and you think, That’s interesting. It’s through a process of investment and development that you develop an abiding passion in a field.”

Another reason not to buy into the fixed theory is that it can cause people to give up too easily. If something becomes difficult, it’s easy to assume that it simply must not have been your passion, after all. In one portion of this study, the students who thought interests were fixed were also less likely to think that pursuing a passion would be difficult at times. Instead, they thought it would provide “endless motivation.”

A person who is described as “fuzzy” is most likely to:

Explanation

Let us refer to the passage

“Again, those who learned that interests are fixed throughout a person’s life were less captivated by an article that mismatched their interests. The authors believe this could mean that students who have fixed theories of interest might forgo interesting lectures or opportunities because they don’t align with their previously stated passions. Or that they might overlook ways that other disciplines can intersect with their own.”

We understand that fuzzy means someone interested in the arts or humanities but to answer this question we need to know if the person believes in growth theory or fixed interest theory

This is best captured in Option D. Hence, it is the correct answer.

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Question no.11

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University, remembers asking an undergraduate seminar recently, “How many of you are waiting to find your passion?” “Almost all of them raised their hand and got dreamy looks in their eyes,” she told me. They talked about it “like a tidal wave would sweep over them.” Sploosh. Huzzah! It’s accounting!

Would they have unlimited motivation for their passion? They nodded solemnly.“I hate to burst your balloon,” she said, “but it doesn’t usually happen that way.” What Dweck asked her students is a common refrain in American society. The term “Follow your passion” has increased ninefold in English books since 1990. “Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life” is another college-counseling standby of unknown provenance.

But according to Dweck and others, that advice is steering people wrong. “What are the consequences of that?” asked Paul O’Keefe, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale—NUS College. “That means that if you do something that feels like work, it means you don’t love it.” He gave me the example of a student who jumps from lab to lab, trying to find one whose research topic feels like her passion. “It’s this idea that if I’m not completely overwhelmed by emotion when I walk into a lab, then it won’t be my passion or my interest.”

That’s why he and two co-authors—Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford—recently performed a study that suggests it might be time to change the way we think about our interests. Passions aren’t “found,” they argue. They’re developed.

In a paper that is forthcoming in Psychological Science, the authors delineate the difference between the two mindsets. One is a “fixed theory of interests”—the idea that core interests are there from birth, just waiting to be discovered—and the other is a “growth theory,” the idea that interests are something anyone can cultivate over time.

To examine how these different mindsets affect our pursuit of different topics, the authors performed a series of studies on college students—a group that’s frequently advised to find their passion in the form of a major or career path.

First, students answered a survey that would categorize them as either “techy”—slang for interested in math and science—or “fuzzy,” meaning interested in the arts or humanities. They also filled out a survey determining how much they agreed with the idea that people’s core interests don’t change over time. They then read an article that mismatched their interests—a piece on the future of algorithms for the fuzzies, and a piece on Derrida for the techies. The more the participants endorsed a “fixed” theory of interests, the less interested they were in the article that mismatched their aforementioned identity as a techy or fuzzy.

Readers respond: ‘Find Your Passion’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does. The authors then repeated a similar procedure, but they had students read first about either the fixed theory of interests or the growth theory. Again, those who learned that interests are fixed throughout a person’s life were less captivated by an article that mismatched their interests. The authors believe this could mean that students who have fixed theories of interest might forgo interesting lectures or opportunities because they don’t align with their previously stated passions. Or that they might overlook ways that other disciplines can intersect with their own.

“If passions are things found fully formed, and your job is to look around the world for your passion—it’s a crazy thought,” Walton told me. “It doesn’t reflect the way I or my students experience school, where you go to a class and have a lecture or a conversation, and you think, That’s interesting. It’s through a process of investment and development that you develop an abiding passion in a field.”

Another reason not to buy into the fixed theory is that it can cause people to give up too easily. If something becomes difficult, it’s easy to assume that it simply must not have been your passion, after all. In one portion of this study, the students who thought interests were fixed were also less likely to think that pursuing a passion would be difficult at times. Instead, they thought it would provide “endless motivation.”

Which of the following is FALSE as per the passage?

Explanation

Option A – “Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford—recently performed a study that suggests it might be time to change the way we think about our interests. Passions aren’t “found,” they argue. They’re developed.”
Basis the above-mentioned excerpt we can infer this option to be true. Hence, this option is not correct. 

Option B – The author has not mentioned about proponents of a particular theory being more successful than the other. Hence, this option cannot be inferred from the passage and is the correct answer.

Option C – “Another reason not to buy into the fixed theory is that it can cause people to give up too easily. If something becomes difficult, it’s easy to assume that it simply must not have been your passion, after all.”
Basis the above-mentioned excerpt we can infer this option to be true. Hence, this option is not correct. 

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Question no.12

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University, remembers asking an undergraduate seminar recently, “How many of you are waiting to find your passion?” “Almost all of them raised their hand and got dreamy looks in their eyes,” she told me. They talked about it “like a tidal wave would sweep over them.” Sploosh. Huzzah! It’s accounting!

Would they have unlimited motivation for their passion? They nodded solemnly.“I hate to burst your balloon,” she said, “but it doesn’t usually happen that way.” What Dweck asked her students is a common refrain in American society. The term “Follow your passion” has increased ninefold in English books since 1990. “Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life” is another college-counseling standby of unknown provenance.

But according to Dweck and others, that advice is steering people wrong. “What are the consequences of that?” asked Paul O’Keefe, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale—NUS College. “That means that if you do something that feels like work, it means you don’t love it.” He gave me the example of a student who jumps from lab to lab, trying to find one whose research topic feels like her passion. “It’s this idea that if I’m not completely overwhelmed by emotion when I walk into a lab, then it won’t be my passion or my interest.”

That’s why he and two co-authors—Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford—recently performed a study that suggests it might be time to change the way we think about our interests. Passions aren’t “found,” they argue. They’re developed.

In a paper that is forthcoming in Psychological Science, the authors delineate the difference between the two mindsets. One is a “fixed theory of interests”—the idea that core interests are there from birth, just waiting to be discovered—and the other is a “growth theory,” the idea that interests are something anyone can cultivate over time.

To examine how these different mindsets affect our pursuit of different topics, the authors performed a series of studies on college students—a group that’s frequently advised to find their passion in the form of a major or career path.

First, students answered a survey that would categorize them as either “techy”—slang for interested in math and science—or “fuzzy,” meaning interested in the arts or humanities. They also filled out a survey determining how much they agreed with the idea that people’s core interests don’t change over time. They then read an article that mismatched their interests—a piece on the future of algorithms for the fuzzies, and a piece on Derrida for the techies. The more the participants endorsed a “fixed” theory of interests, the less interested they were in the article that mismatched their aforementioned identity as a techy or fuzzy.

Readers respond: ‘Find Your Passion’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does. The authors then repeated a similar procedure, but they had students read first about either the fixed theory of interests or the growth theory. Again, those who learned that interests are fixed throughout a person’s life were less captivated by an article that mismatched their interests. The authors believe this could mean that students who have fixed theories of interest might forgo interesting lectures or opportunities because they don’t align with their previously stated passions. Or that they might overlook ways that other disciplines can intersect with their own.

“If passions are things found fully formed, and your job is to look around the world for your passion—it’s a crazy thought,” Walton told me. “It doesn’t reflect the way I or my students experience school, where you go to a class and have a lecture or a conversation, and you think, That’s interesting. It’s through a process of investment and development that you develop an abiding passion in a field.”

Another reason not to buy into the fixed theory is that it can cause people to give up too easily. If something becomes difficult, it’s easy to assume that it simply must not have been your passion, after all. In one portion of this study, the students who thought interests were fixed were also less likely to think that pursuing a passion would be difficult at times. Instead, they thought it would provide “endless motivation.”

Choose a suitable summary for the passage.

Explanation

Let us refer to the passage

“That’s why he and two co-authors—Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford—recently performed a study that suggests it might be time to change the way we think about our interests. Passions aren’t “found,” they argue. They’re developed.

In a paper that is forthcoming in Psychological Science, the authors delineate the difference between the two mindsets

It’s through a process of investment and development that you develop an abiding passion in a field.”

From the above-mentioned excerpt we can see that the author presents a study by Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford where they talks about hoe Passions aren’t found innately in a person but they are developed. The same point is supported by the next two paragraphs talking about the study and its conclusion and in the end we can see the highlighted piece of the excerpt coming out as a conclusion.

This is best captured in Option A. Hence, it is the correct answer.

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Question no.13

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

In 1947, Wilma Soss rose to speak at the annual general meeting of US Steel, asking the corporation to take the unusual step of appointing a woman to the board. The gentlemen declined and showed their displeasure at Soss’s temerity. But, as she said later, ‘if they had treated me better there would have been no Federation of Women Shareholders’ – the organization Soss founded soon after the incident.

Soss continued to use flamboyant tactics to make a point at AGMs, including in 1949 showing up in Victorian dress – a large purple hat, a two-piece grey suit, and a lacy blouse (‘The costume represents management’s thinking on stockholder relations,’ as she put it). Soss’s antics were among the first modern instances of environmental and social shareholder engagement, involving tactics that – quite unbeknown to those who opposed her – would usher in a form of investor activism that continues to the present day. Sadly, Soss also inaugurated a concomitant tradition: that of shareholders’ having little to no real impact on the companies they pressure.

Since 1947, the ownership structure of the financial system has changed dramatically: pension funds – either directly or through their fund managers – now control a much greater proportion of companies such as US Steel than do individual investors like Soss. Shareholder engagement has become much more widespread, as have other strategies designed to produce positive social or environmental outcomes. Practices such as divestment (selling investments in particular companies or sectors), positive and negative screening (refusing to own certain harmful companies or sectors, or actively seeking out good companies), and other forms of so-called responsible investment or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing have proliferated. There’s one unfortunate commonality among them all: most of it doesn’t work.

This is a desperately depressing conclusion to face up to at a time of overlapping social and environmental crises: climate change, mass extinction, growing income and wealth inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic, just to name a few. Responsible investment has been rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic for decades now, using the wrong tools to the wrong ends. What if there were an alternative that made better use of the efforts of people like Soss?

You’d be forgiven for knowing little about the sometimes arcane practices of the investment world. Let’s say you own a share in Exxon, the US oil and gas major. This means that you own a tiny fraction of the company. Exxon is listed on the stock market, meaning that its shares are ‘publicly traded’: that is, a member of the public can quite easily buy or sell a share in the company. For a publicly listed company such as Exxon, its shares will be traded on what’s called the ‘secondary market’. When Exxon’s precursors were listed on the stock market in the first place, they would have received the proceeds of the sale of their shares; these were ‘primary market’ transactions. Since then, however, Exxon’s shares have traded between shareholders, with the money passing hands among them instead of feeding back into Exxon’s coffers. This is an underappreciated point for wannabe responsible investors and their fund managers, who tend to focus their efforts on large companies that are listed on the stock market: for the companies, it doesn’t really matter when and to whom their shares are bought and sold, provided they’re not publicly embarrassed by the announcement of a morally motivated sale (such as through a divestment announcement).

What is the main issue being raised by the author in the passage?

Explanation

Let us refer to the passage

“Shareholder engagement has become much more widespread, as have other strategies designed to produce positive social or environmental outcomes. Practices such as divestment (selling investments in particular companies or sectors), positive and negative screening (refusing to own certain harmful companies or sectors, or actively seeking out good companies), and other forms of so-called responsible investment or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing have proliferated. There’s one unfortunate commonality among them all: most of it doesn’t work.

This is a desperately depressing conclusion to face up to at a time of overlapping social and environmental crises: climate change, mass extinction, growing income and wealth inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic, just to name a few. Responsible investment has been rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic for decades now, using the wrong tools to the wrong ends. What if there were an alternative that made better use of the efforts of people like Soss?”

The passage talks about various practices of shareholder investment but as we can see in the passage, the author states that most of it doesn’t work which leads to a depressing conclusion about the lack of ethical investment practices in the industry.
This is best captured in Option A, hence it is the correct answer.

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Question no.14

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

In 1947, Wilma Soss rose to speak at the annual general meeting of US Steel, asking the corporation to take the unusual step of appointing a woman to the board. The gentlemen declined and showed their displeasure at Soss’s temerity. But, as she said later, ‘if they had treated me better there would have been no Federation of Women Shareholders’ – the organization Soss founded soon after the incident.

Soss continued to use flamboyant tactics to make a point at AGMs, including in 1949 showing up in Victorian dress – a large purple hat, a two-piece grey suit, and a lacy blouse (‘The costume represents management’s thinking on stockholder relations,’ as she put it). Soss’s antics were among the first modern instances of environmental and social shareholder engagement, involving tactics that – quite unbeknown to those who opposed her – would usher in a form of investor activism that continues to the present day. Sadly, Soss also inaugurated a concomitant tradition: that of shareholders’ having little to no real impact on the companies they pressure.

Since 1947, the ownership structure of the financial system has changed dramatically: pension funds – either directly or through their fund managers – now control a much greater proportion of companies such as US Steel than do individual investors like Soss. Shareholder engagement has become much more widespread, as have other strategies designed to produce positive social or environmental outcomes. Practices such as divestment (selling investments in particular companies or sectors), positive and negative screening (refusing to own certain harmful companies or sectors, or actively seeking out good companies), and other forms of so-called responsible investment or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing have proliferated. There’s one unfortunate commonality among them all: most of it doesn’t work.

This is a desperately depressing conclusion to face up to at a time of overlapping social and environmental crises: climate change, mass extinction, growing income and wealth inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic, just to name a few. Responsible investment has been rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic for decades now, using the wrong tools to the wrong ends. What if there were an alternative that made better use of the efforts of people like Soss?

You’d be forgiven for knowing little about the sometimes arcane practices of the investment world. Let’s say you own a share in Exxon, the US oil and gas major. This means that you own a tiny fraction of the company. Exxon is listed on the stock market, meaning that its shares are ‘publicly traded’: that is, a member of the public can quite easily buy or sell a share in the company. For a publicly listed company such as Exxon, its shares will be traded on what’s called the ‘secondary market’. When Exxon’s precursors were listed on the stock market in the first place, they would have received the proceeds of the sale of their shares; these were ‘primary market’ transactions. Since then, however, Exxon’s shares have traded between shareholders, with the money passing hands among them instead of feeding back into Exxon’s coffers. This is an underappreciated point for wannabe responsible investors and their fund managers, who tend to focus their efforts on large companies that are listed on the stock market: for the companies, it doesn’t really matter when and to whom their shares are bought and sold, provided they’re not publicly embarrassed by the announcement of a morally motivated sale (such as through a divestment announcement).

What does the author mean by “Responsible investment has been rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic for decades now, using the wrong tools to the wrong ends.”?

Explanation

Let us refer to the passage

“There’s one unfortunate commonality among them all: most of it doesn’t work.
 

This is a desperately depressing conclusion to face up to at a time of overlapping social and environmental crises: climate change, mass extinction, growing income and wealth inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic, just to name a few. Responsible investment has been rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic for decades now, using the wrong tools to the wrong ends. What if there were an alternative that made better use of the efforts of people like Soss?”

From the above-mentioned excerpt we can understand that the author makes two points. Responsible investing practices aren’t working and he approach to the responsible investing piece is incorrect as seen in the lines “using the wrong tools to the wrong ends”.

These 2 points are captured in Option A and Option B. Hence, Option D is the correct answer.

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Question no.15

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

In 1947, Wilma Soss rose to speak at the annual general meeting of US Steel, asking the corporation to take the unusual step of appointing a woman to the board. The gentlemen declined and showed their displeasure at Soss’s temerity. But, as she said later, ‘if they had treated me better there would have been no Federation of Women Shareholders’ – the organization Soss founded soon after the incident.

Soss continued to use flamboyant tactics to make a point at AGMs, including in 1949 showing up in Victorian dress – a large purple hat, a two-piece grey suit, and a lacy blouse (‘The costume represents management’s thinking on stockholder relations,’ as she put it). Soss’s antics were among the first modern instances of environmental and social shareholder engagement, involving tactics that – quite unbeknown to those who opposed her – would usher in a form of investor activism that continues to the present day. Sadly, Soss also inaugurated a concomitant tradition: that of shareholders’ having little to no real impact on the companies they pressure.

Since 1947, the ownership structure of the financial system has changed dramatically: pension funds – either directly or through their fund managers – now control a much greater proportion of companies such as US Steel than do individual investors like Soss. Shareholder engagement has become much more widespread, as have other strategies designed to produce positive social or environmental outcomes. Practices such as divestment (selling investments in particular companies or sectors), positive and negative screening (refusing to own certain harmful companies or sectors, or actively seeking out good companies), and other forms of so-called responsible investment or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing have proliferated. There’s one unfortunate commonality among them all: most of it doesn’t work.

This is a desperately depressing conclusion to face up to at a time of overlapping social and environmental crises: climate change, mass extinction, growing income and wealth inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic, just to name a few. Responsible investment has been rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic for decades now, using the wrong tools to the wrong ends. What if there were an alternative that made better use of the efforts of people like Soss?

You’d be forgiven for knowing little about the sometimes arcane practices of the investment world. Let’s say you own a share in Exxon, the US oil and gas major. This means that you own a tiny fraction of the company. Exxon is listed on the stock market, meaning that its shares are ‘publicly traded’: that is, a member of the public can quite easily buy or sell a share in the company. For a publicly listed company such as Exxon, its shares will be traded on what’s called the ‘secondary market’. When Exxon’s precursors were listed on the stock market in the first place, they would have received the proceeds of the sale of their shares; these were ‘primary market’ transactions. Since then, however, Exxon’s shares have traded between shareholders, with the money passing hands among them instead of feeding back into Exxon’s coffers. This is an underappreciated point for wannabe responsible investors and their fund managers, who tend to focus their efforts on large companies that are listed on the stock market: for the companies, it doesn’t really matter when and to whom their shares are bought and sold, provided they’re not publicly embarrassed by the announcement of a morally motivated sale (such as through a divestment announcement).

Which of the following can be understood regarding Soss from the passage?

A. Soss started social shareholder activism in the world.

B. Soss became the head of the Federation of Women’s Shareholders.

C. The author is highly impressed by Soss’ practices.

Explanation

Statement A – “But, as she said later, ‘if they had treated me better there would have been no Federation of Women Shareholders’ – the organization Soss founded soon after the incident.

Soss continued to use flamboyant tactics to make a point at AGMs, including in 1949 showing up in Victorian dress – a large purple hat, a two-piece grey suit, and a lacy blouse (‘The costume represents management’s thinking on stockholder relations,’ as she put it). Soss’s antics were among the first modern instances of environmental and social shareholder engagement, involving tactics that – quite unbeknown to those who opposed her – would usher in a form of investor activism that continues to the present day. Sadly, Soss also inaugurated a concomitant tradition: that of shareholders’ having little to no real impact on the companies they pressure.”
Basis the above-mentioned excerpt we can infer this statement to be true. Hence, this option is correct. 

Statement B – Soss has been mentioned as co-founder of the organisation and not the head.
CATKING TIP – Never assume things, if the passage says co-founder then we cannot assume them to be the head also. Hence, this statement is not correct.

Statement C – “Soss also inaugurated a concomitant tradition: that of shareholders’ having little to no real impact on the companies they pressure.”
From the above-mentioned excerpt the statement can be refuted as the author has also mentioned a negative side of Soss’s activities. Hence, this statement is incorrect.

Hence, Option A is correct.

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Question no.16

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

In 1947, Wilma Soss rose to speak at the annual general meeting of US Steel, asking the corporation to take the unusual step of appointing a woman to the board. The gentlemen declined and showed their displeasure at Soss’s temerity. But, as she said later, ‘if they had treated me better there would have been no Federation of Women Shareholders’ – the organization Soss founded soon after the incident.

Soss continued to use flamboyant tactics to make a point at AGMs, including in 1949 showing up in Victorian dress – a large purple hat, a two-piece grey suit, and a lacy blouse (‘The costume represents management’s thinking on stockholder relations,’ as she put it). Soss’s antics were among the first modern instances of environmental and social shareholder engagement, involving tactics that – quite unbeknown to those who opposed her – would usher in a form of investor activism that continues to the present day. Sadly, Soss also inaugurated a concomitant tradition: that of shareholders’ having little to no real impact on the companies they pressure.

Since 1947, the ownership structure of the financial system has changed dramatically: pension funds – either directly or through their fund managers – now control a much greater proportion of companies such as US Steel than do individual investors like Soss. Shareholder engagement has become much more widespread, as have other strategies designed to produce positive social or environmental outcomes. Practices such as divestment (selling investments in particular companies or sectors), positive and negative screening (refusing to own certain harmful companies or sectors, or actively seeking out good companies), and other forms of so-called responsible investment or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing have proliferated. There’s one unfortunate commonality among them all: most of it doesn’t work.

This is a desperately depressing conclusion to face up to at a time of overlapping social and environmental crises: climate change, mass extinction, growing income and wealth inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic, just to name a few. Responsible investment has been rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic for decades now, using the wrong tools to the wrong ends. What if there were an alternative that made better use of the efforts of people like Soss?

You’d be forgiven for knowing little about the sometimes arcane practices of the investment world. Let’s say you own a share in Exxon, the US oil and gas major. This means that you own a tiny fraction of the company. Exxon is listed on the stock market, meaning that its shares are ‘publicly traded’: that is, a member of the public can quite easily buy or sell a share in the company. For a publicly listed company such as Exxon, its shares will be traded on what’s called the ‘secondary market’. When Exxon’s precursors were listed on the stock market in the first place, they would have received the proceeds of the sale of their shares; these were ‘primary market’ transactions. Since then, however, Exxon’s shares have traded between shareholders, with the money passing hands among them instead of feeding back into Exxon’s coffers. This is an underappreciated point for wannabe responsible investors and their fund managers, who tend to focus their efforts on large companies that are listed on the stock market: for the companies, it doesn’t really matter when and to whom their shares are bought and sold, provided they’re not publicly embarrassed by the announcement of a morally motivated sale (such as through a divestment announcement).

Which of the following, if proven to be true, would weaken the author’s claim that social shareholder engagement does not work anymore?

Explanation

Let us refer to the passage

“Practices such as divestment (selling investments in particular companies or sectors), positive and negative screening (refusing to own certain harmful companies or sectors, or actively seeking out good companies), and other forms of so-called responsible investment or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing have proliferated. There’s one unfortunate commonality among them all: most of it doesn’t work.”

The point the author makes in the passage is that responsible investing practices are ineffective in bringing about positive change.

Now if we have a look at Option C

“Shareholders of a major oil company have forced it to look for renewable sources of energy.”

Shareholders via responsible investing have forced a major oil company to re-look at their business and come up with more sustainable options. Hence, Option C is the correct answer.

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Question no.21

Choose the correct summary which aptly captures the essence of the passage.

By the nineteen-sixties, Bunting’s life was at an uncharacteristic lull: he had spent the previous decade in his home of Northumberland, working at local newspapers, where he ended up subediting the business page and stock tables. He confessed in a letter to the publisher Jonathan Williams that his life had been “one of struggling to keep my belly filled and my children’s bellies filled, and be left with no time whatever for literary pre-occupations. ”

Explanation

Let us refer to the passage

“By the nineteen-sixties, Bunting’s life was at an uncharacteristic lull: he had spent the previous decade in his home of Northumberland, working at local newspapers, where he ended up subediting the business page and stock tables. He confessed in a letter to the publisher Jonathan Williams that his life had been “one of struggling to keep my belly filled and my children’s bellies filled, and be left with no time whatever for literary pre-occupations”. “

The key points in the passage are highlighted in the above-mentioned excerpt and must be included in the summary.
These aspects are completely covered in Option D, hence it is the correct answer.

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Question no.22

Choose the correct summary which aptly captures the essence of the passage.

The first difference between early democracy and our democracies today is that this earlier form of rule was a small-scale phenomenon. In some cases, governance took place only at the level of a small community, as was the case with the Hidatsa, an Indigenous American group living on the banks of the upper Missouri River. When governance was local like this, councils tended to meet very frequently. In other instances, such as with the Mesopotamian Kingdom of Mari, a larger polity existed, but early democracy remained a local phenomenon practiced through the assemblies of individual towns.

Explanation

Option A – Democracy being symbolic is not stated in the passage. Hence, this option is incorrect.

Option B – Democracy did start as a small scale phenomenon but this option doesn’t mention about the infrequency of meetings. Hence, this option is incorrect.

Option C – The passage talks about how democracy began and changed from frequent meetings of all members over time to infrequent meetings with expansion, which is perfectly captured in this option. Hence, this option is correct.

Option D – Similar to Option B, this option can be negated. Hence, this option is incorrect.

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Question no.1

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

In the country, ABC, the income tax rate is as given below and the currency of the country is IRN

IRN 0 to 1000000 – 20%

And above IRN 1000000 – 25%

Tax is always calculated on the income after deductions if any. The deductions are as follows.

1. The standard deduction is IRN 50000 for salaried employees.
2. Any donation to a government-run scheme is also 100% tax-deductible but the maximum deduction is IRN 50000 only.
3. Premium paid towards life insurance and medical insurance is 75% tax-deductible with a condition of a maximum deduction of INR 75000.
4. If a person puts in saving schemes such as EPF, PPF, or NPS, the 80% of the amount is tax-deductible. The upper limit for each investment is IRN 40000.

The tax will be calculated hereunder the above-given brackets

If a person invests in the stock or bond market there will be 30% and 40% of the amount will be deducted from the stock market and bond market respectively from tax calculated before considering these two instruments. This will be the final tax payable on income. The maximum allowed investment amount is IRN 100000 each.

There will be a 0.05% of education cess and a 0.45% surcharge levied on the calculated income tax. This will be the total income tax liability of the individual.

If Mr. Karthik, a textile businessman, pays IRN 60 as an educational cess and he donated IRN 50000 to Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, invested the same amount in the stock market and bond market each, paid the same amount off premium towards his life insurance then find out his actual income.

Explanation

Answer- B

(all the values are in IRN)
Education cess paid is 60. So, the surcharge must be 540.

Total after tax calculation charges is 600 which is 0.5%

So, Income tax is = (600/0.05)*100 = 120000

He invested 50000 in stock and bond market each.

Stock market rebate is = 30% of 50000 = 15000

Bond market rebate is 20000 (40% of 50000)

So, the total income tax before rebate must be = 120000 + 15000 + 20000 = 155000.

Now, let x be the income of Mr. Karthik

Income tax payable after all the legal deductions is = x – 50000 – 75% of 50000 (He is a businessman so standard deduction of salaried employee is not available to him).

X – 87500……………..(1)

Now, we have two cases here

Case 1: (1) is above 1000000

0.25(x - 87500) = 155000

0.25x – 21875 = 155000

x = 707500 which is itself contradictory so it's not possible.

Case 2: (1) is below 1000000

0.2(x - 87500) = 155000

0.2x – 17500 = 155000

0.2x = 172500

x = 862500

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Question no.2

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

In the country, ABC, the income tax rate is as given below and the currency of the country is IRN

IRN 0 to 1000000 – 20%

And above IRN 1000000 – 25%

Tax is always calculated on the income after deductions if any. The deductions are as follows.

1. The standard deduction is IRN 50000 for salaried employees.
2. Any donation to a government-run scheme is also 100% tax-deductible but the maximum deduction is IRN 50000 only.
3. Premium paid towards life insurance and medical insurance is 75% tax-deductible with a condition of a maximum deduction of INR 75000.
4. If a person puts in saving schemes such as EPF, PPF, or NPS, the 80% of the amount is tax-deductible. The upper limit for each investment is IRN 40000.

The tax will be calculated hereunder the above-given brackets

If a person invests in the stock or bond market there will be 30% and 40% of the amount will be deducted from the stock market and bond market respectively from tax calculated before considering these two instruments. This will be the final tax payable on income. The maximum allowed investment amount is IRN 100000 each.

There will be a 0.05% of education cess and a 0.45% surcharge levied on the calculated income tax. This will be the total income tax liability of the individual.

If a salaried employee is earning 1000000 then find out the minimum tax an employee has to pay?

Explanation

Answer- D

The person here is a salaried employee and his income is IRN 1000000.

We need to find minimum income tax so he has to invest in such a manner that he gets maximum possible deductions.

The standard deduction is 50000.
Deduction under Government schemes is 50000.

Maximum Deduction under life insurance and medical insurance is 75000 (75% of 100000).

Consider person opts for all EPF, PPF and NPS scheme.

Deduction is = 40000 * 0.8 * 3 = IRN 96000

Now, the tax is = 0.2(1000000 – 50000 – 50000 – 75000 – 96000)

= 145800

Rebate for investment in Stock market and the bond market is 30% and 40% respectively.

So, 145800 – 30000 – 40000 = 75800

Education cess and surcharge with 0.05% and 0.45% if = 0.5%

Total tax is = 75800 + 0.5% 0f 75800

= 76179

So, the correct answer is option D.

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Question no.3

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

In the country, ABC, the income tax rate is as given below and the currency of the country is IRN

IRN 0 to 1000000 – 20%

And above IRN 1000000 – 25%

Tax is always calculated on the income after deductions if any. The deductions are as follows.

1. The standard deduction is IRN 50000 for salaried employees.
2. Any donation to a government-run scheme is also 100% tax-deductible but the maximum deduction is IRN 50000 only.
3. Premium paid towards life insurance and medical insurance is 75% tax-deductible with a condition of a maximum deduction of INR 75000.
4. If a person puts in saving schemes such as EPF, PPF, or NPS, the 80% of the amount is tax-deductible. The upper limit for each investment is IRN 40000.

The tax will be calculated hereunder the above-given brackets

If a person invests in the stock or bond market there will be 30% and 40% of the amount will be deducted from the stock market and bond market respectively from tax calculated before considering these two instruments. This will be the final tax payable on income. The maximum allowed investment amount is IRN 100000 each.

There will be a 0.05% of education cess and a 0.45% surcharge levied on the calculated income tax. This will be the total income tax liability of the individual.

consider a scenario where the government gives additional liberty from taxes due to upcoming elections. Now, the standard deduction is only a fourth of the annual salary, all the others remaining the same, then what would be the monthly salary of a person who paid 900 IRN surcharge and did not have any investment except IRN 100000 in the Stock market and bond market each. For this case rebate from bond market investment is also 30%?

Explanation

Answer- A

(all the values are in IRN)
Education cess will be 100 because surcharge is 900.

Total after tax calculation charges is 1000 which is 0.5%.

So, Income tax is = 1000/0.5*100 = 200000

He invested 200000 in Stock market.

Stock market rebate is = 30% of 200000 = 60000

So, the total income tax before rebate must be = 200000 + 60000 = 260000

Now, let x be the income.

3x/4 because 1/4^th of salary is the standard deduction.

Now, we have two cases here.

Case 1: (1) is above 1000000

0.25 * 3x/4 = 260000

x = 1386667

Case 2: (1) is below 1000000

0.2 * 3x/4 = 260000

0.2x * 3x/4 = 260000

X = 1733334 which is itself contradictory.

Monthly income = 1386667/12 = 115556.

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Question no.4

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

In the country, ABC, the income tax rate is as given below and the currency of the country is IRN

IRN 0 to 1000000 – 20%

And above IRN 1000000 – 25%

Tax is always calculated on the income after deductions if any. The deductions are as follows.

1. The standard deduction is IRN 50000 for salaried employees.
2. Any donation to a government-run scheme is also 100% tax-deductible but the maximum deduction is IRN 50000 only.
3. Premium paid towards life insurance and medical insurance is 75% tax-deductible with a condition of a maximum deduction of INR 75000.
4. If a person puts in saving schemes such as EPF, PPF, or NPS, the 80% of the amount is tax-deductible. The upper limit for each investment is IRN 40000.

The tax will be calculated hereunder the above-given brackets

If a person invests in the stock or bond market there will be 30% and 40% of the amount will be deducted from the stock market and bond market respectively from tax calculated before considering these two instruments. This will be the final tax payable on income. The maximum allowed investment amount is IRN 100000 each.

There will be a 0.05% of education cess and a 0.45% surcharge levied on the calculated income tax. This will be the total income tax liability of the individual.

Mr. Martin works for a company that cuts IRN 20000 per month from his salary. His annual salary is IRN 1650000. He invests 50000, 40000, 30000, 20000, and 10000 respectively in the government schemes, insurance, EPF, PPF, and NPS. He further made an investment of IRN 60000 in the stock market and IRN 90000 in the bond market. Find out what will be the take-home salary of the last month.

Explanation

Answer- A

Salary is 1650000.

Standard deduction is IRN 50000.

Taxable income is = 1650000 – 50000 – 0.75 * 40000 – 0.8*30000 – 0.8*20000 – 0.8*10000

= 1650000 – 50000 – 30000 – 24000 – 16000 – 8000

= 1522000

Tax = 0.25 * 1522000 = 380500

Rebate = 0.3 * 60000 + 0.4 * 90000 = 18000 + 36000 = 54000

Tax = 380500 – 54000 = 326500

Education cess and surcharge = 0.5% * 326500 = 1632.5

Total tax liability = 326500 + 1632.5 = 328132.5

Tax paid in first 11 months = 20000*11 = 220000.

Tax due in the last month = 328132.5 – 220000 = 108132.5.

In hand of the last month = 137500 – 108132.5 = 29367.5.

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Question no.5

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

In the country, ABC, the income tax rate is as given below and the currency of the country is IRN

IRN 0 to 1000000 – 20%

And above IRN 1000000 – 25%

Tax is always calculated on the income after deductions if any. The deductions are as follows.

1. The standard deduction is IRN 50000 for salaried employees.
2. Any donation to a government-run scheme is also 100% tax-deductible but the maximum deduction is IRN 50000 only.
3. Premium paid towards life insurance and medical insurance is 75% tax-deductible with a condition of a maximum deduction of INR 75000.
4. If a person puts in saving schemes such as EPF, PPF, or NPS, the 80% of the amount is tax-deductible. The upper limit for each investment is IRN 40000.

The tax will be calculated hereunder the above-given brackets

If a person invests in the stock or bond market there will be 30% and 40% of the amount will be deducted from the stock market and bond market respectively from tax calculated before considering these two instruments. This will be the final tax payable on income. The maximum allowed investment amount is IRN 100000 each.

There will be a 0.05% of education cess and a 0.45% surcharge levied on the calculated income tax. This will be the total income tax liability of the individual.

Mr Enigma had overpaid his income tax last year by IRN 20000 and was eligible for a tax discount of the same amount this year which can only be deducted from the last month's tax amount. His annual salary for the current year was His annual salary is IRN 2000000. He invests 60000, 40000, 30000, 30000, and 50000 respectively in government schemes, insurance, EPF, PPF, and NPS. He further made no investment in the stock market and the bond market this year. Assuming the annual tax was initially supposed to be deducted evenly every month. Find the percentage decrease in the tax paid in the last month as compared to the previous month. 

Explanation

Answer - C

Salary is IRN 2000000.

Standard deduction is IRN 50000.

Government Scheme deduction = 50000 (60000 invested but can be 100% deducted upto 50000).

Life insurance deduction = 0.75 * 40000 = 30000

EPF deduction = 0.8 * 30000 = 24000

PPF deduction = 0.8 * 30000 = 24000

NPF deduction = 0.8 * 50000 = 40000

Total deductions = 50000 + 30000 + 24000 + 24000 + 40000 = 168000

Total taxable income = 2000000 - 168000 = 1832000

Tax = 1832000 * 0.25  = 458000

Education cess and surcharge = 0.5% * 458000 = 2290

Total annual tax liability = 458000 + 2290 = 460290

Tax to be paid per month = 460290/12 =  38357.5

Since 20000 can be deducted from the last month's tax due to prepayment.

Last month's tax = 18357.5.

Tax paid in the rest of the 11 months  = 38357.5 per month.

Percentage decrease in the tax amount paid in the last month = [(38357.5 - 18357.5) / 38357.5 ] * 100 = 52.14%.

Hence Option C.

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Question no.6

Read the following information carefully, analyze it, and answer the question based on it.

There was a charity match between India and India A team on Independence Day. Following is the table which gives you details about the runs scored by an individual batsman of Indian team. Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan were openers 

Following are the scores at which the wickets fell:

34, 65, 150, 200, 280, 283, 295, 301, 319, 327

Consider there was not a single extra run from the opposition.

Who was the seventh person to get out?

Explanation

Answer- D

As we can see that the first wicket was on the score of 34 and both of the openers scored less than this so either of them could get out first. So we have two cases here.

Case 1: Rohit got out first and Case 2: Shikhar Dhawan got out first. Actually, it is not that significant as the second person who got out had to be the other opener.

So we will consider this question commonly.

Wicket – 1 Rohit/Shikhar

Wicket – 2 Shikhar/Rohit

Wicket – 3 must be Suresh Raina as Virat Kohli scored the century so he could not be the person to get out as 3^rd wicket.

Till the time 3^rd wicket fell, the score was 150 and score of Virat was = 150 – 18 – 25 – 54 = 53. So he was very far from getting out.

Wicket 4 must be Kedhar Jadhav and at that time score of Kohli was 78.

Now, the real problem starts.

5^th Wicket fell at 280 and both Kohli and Dhoni could be the fifth wicket so we need to consider two cases:

Case 1: Virat Kohli got out.

Wicket 5 – Virat Kohli, then MS Dhoni was on 53. He was only 4 runs from getting out.

Wicket 6 was on 283, only 3 runs from the last wicket so it must be Hardik Pandya and at that time MS Dhoni was on 54.

Wicket 7 must be MS Dhoni and at that time Kumar was on 9, only 6 runs from getting out.

Wicket 8 must be Kumar as Kuldeep scored 7 runs and the wicket fell after 6 runs only.

Wicket 9 must be Kuldeep as Shami scored 19 runs.

Wicket 10 can be either Shami or Bumrah.

Case 2:

Wicket 5 – MS Dhoni got out, Virat was on 101, only 4 runs from getting out.

Wicket 6 – Hardik Pandya as Virat was 4 runs away from getting out and the wicket fell after 3 runs only.

Wicket 7 – Virat Kohli and at that time Kumar was on 9 runs.

Wicket 8 – Kumar as wicket fell after 6 runs and Kuldeep scored 7 runs.

Wicket 9 must be Kuldeep as Shami scored 19 runs.

Wicket 10 can be either Shami or Bumrah.

So, the final arrangements

According to the solution, there are two possibilities so either Virat or MS Dhoni was the seventh person to get out. So, the answer is option D.

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Question no.7

Read the following information carefully, analyze it, and answer the question based on it.

There was a charity match between India and India A team on Independence Day. Following is the table which gives you details about the runs scored by an individual batsman of Indian team. Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan were openers 

Following are the scores at which the wickets fell:

34, 65, 150, 200, 280, 283, 295, 301, 319, 327

Consider there was not a single extra run from the opposition.

Find out how many were yet to bat when Virat completed his century?

Explanation

Answer- C

As we can see that the first wicket was on the score of 34 and both of the openers scored less than this so either of them could get out first. So we have two cases here:

Case 1: Rohit got out first and Case 2: Shikhar Dhawan got out first. Actually, it is not that significant as the second person who got out had to be the other opener.

So we will consider this question commonly

Wicket – 1 Rohit/Shikhar

Wicket – 2 Shikhar/Rohit

Wicket – 3 must be Suresh Raina as Virat Kohli scored the century so he could not be the person to get out as 3^rd wicket.

Till the time 3^rd wicket fell, the score was 150 and score of Virat was = 150 – 18 – 25 – 54 = 53. So he was very far from getting out.

Wicket 4 must be Kedhar Jadhav and at that time score of Kohli was 78.

Now, the real problem starts.

5^th Wicket fell at 280 and both Kohli and Dhoni could be the fifth wicket so we need to consider two cases:

Case 1: Virat Kohli got out.

Wicket 5 – Virat Kohli, then MS Dhoni was on 53. He was only 4 runs from getting out.

Wicket 6 was on 283, only 3 runs from the last wicket so it must be Hardik Pandya and at that time MS Dhoni was on 54.

Wicket 7 must be MS Dhoni and at that time Kumar was on 9, only 6 runs from getting out.

Wicket 8 must be Kumar as Kuldeep scored 7 runs and the wicket fell after 6 runs only.

Wicket 9 must be Kuldeep as Shami scored 19 runs.

Wicket 10 can be either Shami or Bumrah.

Case 2:

Wicket 5 – MS Dhoni got out, Virat was on 101, only 4 runs from getting out.

Wicket 6 – Hardik Pandya as Virat was 4 runs away from getting out and the wicket fell after 3 runs only.

Wicket 7 – Virat Kohli and at that time Kumar was on 9 runs.

Wicket 8 – Kumar as wicket fell after 6 runs and Kuldeep scored 7 runs.

Wicket 9 must be Kuldeep as Shami scored 19 runs.

Wicket 10 can be either Shami or Bumrah.

So, the final arrangements

Virat would have completed his century by the fall of the fifth wicket in both cases. Thus, 5 more players were left to bat.

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Question no.8

Read the following information carefully, analyze it, and answer the question based on it.

There was a charity match between India and India A team on Independence Day. Following is the table which gives you details about the runs scored by an individual batsman of Indian team. Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan were openers 

Following are the scores at which the wickets fell:

34, 65, 150, 200, 280, 283, 295, 301, 319, 327

Consider there was not a single extra run from the opposition.

What was the score when Hardik Pandya got out?

Explanation

Answer- 283

As we can see that the first wicket was on the score of 34 and both of the openers scored less than this so either of them could get out first. So we have two cases here:

Case 1: Rohit got out first and Case 2: Shikhar Dhawan got out first. Actually, it is not that significant as the second person who got out had to be the other opener.

So we will consider this question commonly.

Wicket – 1 Rohit/Shikhar

Wicket – 2 Shikhar/Rohit

Wicket – 3 must be Suresh Raina as Virat Kohli scored the century so he could not be the person to get out as 3^rd wicket.

Till the time 3^rd wicket fell, the score was 150 and score of Virat was = 150 – 18 – 25 – 54 = 53. So he was very far from getting out.

Wicket 4 must be Kedhar Jadhav and at that time score of Kohli was 78.

Now, the real problem starts.

5^th Wicket fell at 280 and both Kohli and Dhoni could be the fifth wicket so we need to consider two cases.

Case 1: Virat Kohli got out.

Wicket 5 – Virat Kohli, then MS Dhoni was on 53. He was only 4 runs from getting out.

Wicket 6 – was on 283, only 3 runs from the last wicket so it must be Hardik Pandya and at that time MS Dhoni was on 54.

Wicket 7 – must be MS Dhoni and at that time Kumar was on 9, only 6 runs from getting out.

Wicket 8 – must be Kumar as Kuldeep scored 7 runs and the wicket fell after 6 runs only.

Wicket 9 – must be Kuldeep as Shami scored 19 runs.

Wicket 10 – can be either Shami or Bumrah.

Case 2:

Wicket 5 – MS Dhoni got out, Virat was on 101, only 4 runs from getting out.

Wicket 6 – Hardik Pandya as Virat was 4 runs away from getting out and the wicket fell after 3 runs only.

Wicket 7 – Virat Kohli and at that time Kumar was on 9 runs.

Wicket 8 – Kumar as wicket fell after 6 runs and Kuldeep scored 7 runs.

Wicket 9 – must be Kuldeep as Shami scored 19 runs.

Wicket 10 – can be either Shami or Bumrah.

So, the final arrangements:

In both the cases Hardik got out as the 6^th wicket. So, the score was 283.

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Question no.9

Read the following information carefully, analyze it, and answer the question based on it.

There was a charity match between India and India A team on Independence Day. Following is the table which gives you details about the runs scored by an individual batsman of Indian team. Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan were openers 

Following are the scores at which the wickets fell:

34, 65, 150, 200, 280, 283, 295, 301, 319, 327

Consider there was not a single extra run from the opposition.

Who among the following was the last one to get out?

Explanation

Answer- B

As we can see that the first wicket was on the score of 34 and both of the openers scored less than this so either of them could get out first. So we have two cases here

Case 1: Rohit got out first and Case 2: Shikhar Dhawan got out first. Actually, it is not that significant as the second person who got out had to be the other opener.

So we will consider this question commonly.

Wicket – 1 Rohit/Shikhar

Wicket – 2 Shikhar/Rohit

Wicket – 3 must be Suresh Raina as Virat Kohli scored the century so he could not be the person to get out as 3^rd wicket.

Till the time 3^rd wicket fell, the score was 150 and score of Virat was = 150 – 18 – 25 – 54 = 53. So he was very far from getting out.

Wicket 4 must be Kedhar Jadhav and at that time score of Kohli was 78.

Now, the real problem starts.

5^th Wicket fell at 280 and both Kohli and Dhoni could be the fifth wicket so we need to consider two cases.

Case 1: Virat Kohli got out.

Wicket 5 – Virat Kohli, then MS Dhoni was on 53. He was only 4 runs from getting out.

Wicket 6 – was on 283, only 3 runs from the last wicket so it must be Hardik Pandya and at that time MS Dhoni was on 54.

Wicket 7 – must be MS Dhoni and at that time Kumar was on 9, only 6 runs from getting out.

Wicket 8 – must be Kumar as Kuldeep scored 7 runs and the wicket fell after 6 runs only.

Wicket 9 – must be Kuldeep as Shami scored 19 runs.

Wicket 10 – can be either Shami or Bumrah.

Case 2:

Wicket 5 – MS Dhoni got out, Virat was on 101, only 4 runs from getting out.

Wicket 6 – Hardik Pandya as Virat was 4 runs away from getting out and the wicket fell after 3 runs only.

Wicket 7 – Virat Kohli and at that time Kumar was on 9 runs.

Wicket 8 – Kumar as wicket fell after 6 runs and Kuldeep scored 7 runs.

Wicket 9 – must be Kuldeep as Shami scored 19 runs.

Wicket 10 – can be either Shami or Bumrah.

So, the final arrangements

The last person to get out is Shami or Bumrah. So among the following options given in the question, only Bumrah is the feasible choice.

So, option b is the right answer.

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Question no.10

Read the following information carefully, analyze it, and answer the question based on it.

There was a charity match between India and India A team on Independence Day. Following is the table which gives you details about the runs scored by an individual batsman of Indian team. Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan were openers 

Following are the scores at which the wickets fell:

34, 65, 150, 200, 280, 283, 295, 301, 319, 327

Consider there was not a single extra run from the opposition.

Who was the fourth person to get out?

Explanation

Answer- A

As we can see that the first wicket was on the score of 34 and both of the openers scored less than this so either of them could get out first. So we have two cases here.

Case 1: Rohit got out first and Case 2: Shikhar Dhawan got out first. Actually, it is not that significant as the second person who got out had to be the other opener.

So we will consider this question commonly.

Wicket – 1 Rohit/Shikhar

Wicket – 2 Shikhar/Rohit

Wicket – 3 must be Suresh Raina as Virat Kohli scored the century so he could not be the person to get out as 3^rd wicket.

Till the time 3^rd wicket fell, the score was 150 and score of Virat was = 150 – 18 – 25 – 54 = 53. So he was very far from getting out.

Wicket 4 must be Kedhar Jadhav and at that time score of Kohli was 78.

Now, the real problem starts.

5^th Wicket fell at 280 and both Kohli and Dhoni could be the fifth wicket so we need to consider two cases.

Case 1: Virat Kohli got out.

Wicket 5 – Virat Kohli, then MS Dhoni was on 53. He was only 4 runs from getting out.

Wicket 6 – was on 283, only 3 runs from the last wicket so it must be Hardik Pandya and at that time MS Dhoni was on 54.

Wicket 7 – must be MS Dhoni and at that time Kumar was on 9, only 6 runs from getting out.

Wicket 8 – must be Kumar as Kuldeep scored 7 runs and the wicket fell after 6 runs only.

Wicket 9 – must be Kuldeep as Shami scored 19 runs.

Wicket 10 – can be either Shami or Bumrah.

Case 2:

Wicket 5 – MS Dhoni got out, Virat was on 101, only 4 runs from getting out.

Wicket 6 – Hardik Pandya as Virat was 4 runs away from getting out and the wicket fell after 3 runs only.

Wicket 7 – Virat Kohli and at that time Kumar was on 9 runs.

Wicket 8 – Kumar as wicket fell after 6 runs and Kuldeep scored 7 runs.

Wicket 9 – must be Kuldeep as Shami scored 19 runs.

Wicket 10 – can be either Shami or Bumrah.

So, the final arrangements:

The fourth person to get out in both the cases is Kedhar Jadhav.

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Question no.11

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

Mankind is the world’s largest FMCG brand. In their top management, they have seven people named A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. The top management consists of three departments – MNS, Fin, and Ops. All the seven top management employee works for one and only one of the departments. Further, all of them have different packages from 9 mn and 18 mn. The company has provided them with luxurious flats in the locality. Their houses are in one row not necessary in the given order facing north. Further, the following information is known about them.

1. There are as many persons between C and A as between F and D, who earns more than average.
2. Both the highest and the lowest packages are for MNS employees. No one earns the same amount as the average (all 7 employees) of their packages. There is more number of persons earning lesser than average. No one earns 15 mn package.
3. All the packages are in integer and their average is also integer.
4. No two employee of the same department lives beside, MNS has the highest number of employees which is a unique number.
5. E lives at the right extreme works in the Fin department and earns less than average.
6. The employee who lives on the extreme left works for the MNS department and earns the least.
7. Neither C, who earns the second-highest package nor F works in the MNS department but A works in the operation department.
8. G earns the highest and lives in the exact center.
9. F lives to the immediate right of C.

Find out the total number of arrangements possible

Explanation

Answer- B

There are a total of 7 employees. We need to distribute them on the basis of package, department, and location of their house.

From 4, there are two possibilities 4 in MNS and 1 or 2 in Fin and 2 or 1 in Ops. but in that case, MNS employees must be at the 1^st , 3^rd , 5^th  and 7^th position otherwise first statement of (4) will be violated but this is also not possible as from (5) E lives at the right extreme and works in the Fin department. So among these 7, 3 works from MNS, 2 works for Fin and 2 works for Ops department.

From (7) and (5), E works for Fin, A works for Ops and B, G & D works for MNS department. One of C and F works for the Ops department and the other works for the Fin department.

From (8) it is clear that G lives in the middle and must be working in the MNS department with 19 mn of package. The other MNS employee must be in the 6^th position to satisfy the condition and hence one of the people who work for the Ops department must be between G and the other MNS employee otherwise condition 4 will get violated.

From (9) F and C lives immediate next to each other which is only possible when they are in 2^nd and 3^rd position otherwise one of them will become an MNS employee which violates one of the conditions and hence A lives at the 5^th position.

To satisfy condition (1), D has to be at the 6^th position.

The table will look like below from the given information till now:

 
The highest possible total of their packages = 9 + 18 + 17 + 16 + 15 + 14 + 13 = 102.

The lowest possible total of their packages = 9 + 18 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 = 87.

There are only two possibilities when the average is an integer if the total is either 91 or 98.

Now, if we take 98 as the total, 14 is the average. That means, as per condition (2), we have to take 4 numbers among 9,10,11,12, and 13 and all the three greater than 14, which are 16,17, and 18. But even then, a total of 98 can’t be achieved. Thus, this case is not possible.

If we take 91 as the total then 13 will be the average.

We must include 9,10, 11, and 12, then the other three must be among 14,16,17, and 18.

To satisfy condition (2), only 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, and 18  is the possible case in terms of package.

Now, C earns second highest so the package of C must be 17 and hence package of D must be 14.

Final table,

From, the common solution,

Fin and Ops can be arranged in 2 ways and 10-11-12 package can be arranged in 3! Means 6 ways

Total arrangements = 6 * 2 = 12

The right answer is option (b).

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Question no.15

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

Mankind is the world’s largest FMCG brand. In their top management, they have seven people named A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. The top management consists of three departments – MNS, Fin, and Ops. All the seven top management employee works for one and only one of the departments. Further, all of them have different packages from 9 mn and 18 mn. The company has provided them with luxurious flats in the locality. Their houses are in one row not necessary in the given order facing north. Further, the following information is known about them.

1. There are as many persons between C and A as between F and D, who earns more than average.
2. Both the highest and the lowest packages are for MNS employees. No one earns the same amount as the average (all 7 employees) of their packages. There is more number of persons earning lesser than average. No one earns 15 mn package.
3. All the packages are in integer and their average is also integer.
4. No two employee of the same department lives beside, MNS has the highest number of employees which is a unique number.
5. E lives at the right extreme works in the Fin department and earns less than average.
6. The employee who lives on the extreme left works for the MNS department and earns the least.
7. Neither C, who earns the second-highest package nor F works in the MNS department but A works in the operation department.
8. G earns the highest and lives in the exact center.
9. F lives to the immediate right of C.

 If Finance department has got the second highest package then who among the following are from Operations department?

Explanation

Answer - A

There are a total of 7 employees. We need to distribute them on the basis of package, department, and location of their house.

From 4, there are two possibilities 4 in MNS and 1 or 2 in Fin and 2 or 1 in Ops. but in that case, MNS employees must be at the 1^st , 3^rd , 5^th  and 7^th position otherwise first statement of (4) will be violated but this is also not possible as from (5) E lives at the right extreme and works in the Fin department. So among these 7, 3 works from MNS, 2 works for Fin and 2 works for Ops department.

From (7) and (5), E works for Fin, A works for Ops and B, G & D works for MNS department. One of C and F works for the Ops department and the other works for the Fin department.

From (8) it is clear that G lives in the middle and must be working in the MNS department with 19 mn of package. The other MNS employee must be in the 6^th position to satisfy the condition and hence one of the people who work for the Ops department must be between G and the other MNS employee otherwise condition 4 will get violated.

From (9) F and C lives immediate next to each other which is only possible when they are in 2^nd and 3^rd position otherwise one of them will become an MNS employee which violates one of the conditions and hence A lives at the 5^th position.

To satisfy condition (1), D has to be at the 6^th position.

The table will look like below from the given information till now:

 
The highest possible total of their packages = 9 + 18 + 17 + 16 + 15 + 14 + 13 = 102.

The lowest possible total of their packages = 9 + 18 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 = 87.

There are only two possibilities when the average is an integer if the total is either 91 or 98.

Now, if we take 98 as the total, 14 is the average. That means, as per condition (2), we have to take 4 numbers among 9,10,11,12, and 13 and all the three greater than 14, which are 16,17, and 18. But even then, a total of 98 can’t be achieved. Thus, this case is not possible.

If we take 91 as the total then 13 will be the average.

We must include 9,10, 11, and 12, then the other three must be among 14,16,17, and 18.

To satisfy condition (2), only 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, and 18  is the possible case in terms of package.

Now, C earns second highest so the package of C must be 17 and hence package of D must be 14.

Final table,

C has got the second highest package, therefore F is from Operations.

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Question no.16

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

Rahul Sharma is a very well-known analyst of competitive exams of engineering. He has an experience of 20 years. He has been asked to analyze the type of questions for the recently concluded paper of the ITT exam. He usually judges any question on three types. They are Hard/Moderate for difficulty level, MCQ or Descriptive for the type of questions, and Numerical or theoretical for questions type. He has come up with the following analysis.

1. The total number of questions in the paper was 120.
2. He considered 8 questions as Moderate, MCQ, and theoretical.
3. 15 questions were put in the category of theoretically hard MCQ.
4. 22 questions out of the total number of hard questions are also either Numerical or Descriptive.
5. 28 questions are Numerical, descriptive and moderate.
6. He has put a total of 75 questions under numerical type and 9.33% of them are hard MCQ.
7. 3 numerical are descriptive and hard.

Find out the number of questions that are numerical moderate MCQ?

Explanation

Answer- 37

We will focus on one type of each of the given possibilities.

We will form a Venn diagram of numerical, descriptive, and hard.

a = only numerical

b = only descriptive

c = only hard

d = Numerical and descriptive but not hard

e = Numerical and hard but not descriptive

f = Descriptive and hard but not numerical

g = numerical, descriptive and hard

h = Moderate, MCQ and theoretical

From 2, 8 questions are moderate MCQ and theoretical means they must not be Numerical, descriptive and hard. h = 8.

From 3, 15 questions are theoretically hard MCQ means they are hard but not numerical and descriptive hence c = 15.

From 5, 28 questions are numerical and descriptive but not hard. Hence, d = 28.

 From 6, the questions which are hard and MCQ type but not descriptive are 9.33% of 75 which is 7. Means e = 7.

From 7, g = 3

As of now, c = 15, d = 28, e = 7, g = 3 and h = 8.

Now, from 4, e + f + g = 22 and hence f = 12.

From 6, a + d + e +g = 75 so a = 37 and hence b = 10.

Now,

Hard question = 37 means moderate questions = 83.

Numerical questions = 75 means theoretical questions = 45.

Descriptive questions = 53 means MCQ questions = 67.

From the solution above,

Numerical but not hard and not descriptive which is 37.

The right answer is 37.

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Question no.17

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

Rahul Sharma is a very well-known analyst of competitive exams of engineering. He has an experience of 20 years. He has been asked to analyze the type of questions for the recently concluded paper of the ITT exam. He usually judges any question on three types. They are Hard/Moderate for difficulty level, MCQ or Descriptive for the type of questions, and Numerical or theoretical for questions type. He has come up with the following analysis.

1. The total number of questions in the paper was 120.
2. He considered 8 questions as Moderate, MCQ, and theoretical.
3. 15 questions were put in the category of theoretically hard MCQ.
4. 22 questions out of the total number of hard questions are also either Numerical or Descriptive.
5. 28 questions are Numerical, descriptive and moderate.
6. He has put a total of 75 questions under numerical type and 9.33% of them are hard MCQ.
7. 3 numerical are descriptive and hard.

The number of numerical questions is how much percentage greater or less than MCQ type questions

Explanation

Answer- 12

We will focus on one type of each of the given possibilities

We will form a Venn diagram of numerical, descriptive, and hard

a = only numerical

b = only descriptive

c = only hard

d = Numerical and descriptive but not hard

e = Numerical and hard but not descriptive

f = Descriptive and hard but not numerical

g = numerical, descriptive and hard

h = Moderate, MCQ and theoretical

From 2, 8 questions are moderate MCQ and theoretical means they must not be Numerical, descriptive and hard. h = 8.

From 3, 15 questions are theoretically hard MCQ means they are hard but not numerical and descriptive hence c = 15.

From 5, 28 questions are numerical and descriptive but not hard. Hence, d = 28.

 From 6, the questions which are hard and MCQ type but not descriptive are 9.33% of 75 which is 7. Means e = 7.

From 7, g = 3

As of now, c = 15, d = 28, e = 7, g = 3 and h = 8

Now, from 4, e + f + g = 22 and hence f = 12

From 6, a + d + e +g = 75 so a = 37 and hence b = 10

Now,

Hard question = 37 means moderate questions = 83

Numerical questions = 75 means theoretical questions = 45

Descriptive questions = 53 means MCQ questions = 67

From the solution above,

Total number of numerical questions are = 75 and total number of MCQ questions are 67.

(75-67)/67 * 100 = 12%

The right answer is 12.

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Question no.18

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

Rahul Sharma is a very well-known analyst of competitive exams of engineering. He has an experience of 20 years. He has been asked to analyze the type of questions for the recently concluded paper of the ITT exam. He usually judges any question on three types. They are Hard/Moderate for difficulty level, MCQ or Descriptive for the type of questions, and Numerical or theoretical for questions type. He has come up with the following analysis.

1. The total number of questions in the paper was 120.
2. He considered 8 questions as Moderate, MCQ, and theoretical.
3. 15 questions were put in the category of theoretically hard MCQ.
4. 22 questions out of the total number of hard questions are also either Numerical or Descriptive.
5. 28 questions are Numerical, descriptive and moderate.
6. He has put a total of 75 questions under numerical type and 9.33% of them are hard MCQ.
7. 3 numerical are descriptive and hard.

What is the total number of descriptive questions?

Explanation

Answer- 53

We will focus on one type of each of the given possibilities.

We will form a Venn diagram of numerical, descriptive, and hard.

a = only numerical

b = only descriptive

c = only hard

d = Numerical and descriptive but not hard

e = Numerical and hard but not descriptive

f = Descriptive and hard but not numerical

g = numerical, descriptive and hard

h = Moderate, MCQ and theoretical

From 2, 8 questions are moderate MCQ and theoretical means they must not be Numerical, descriptive and hard. h = 8.

From 3, 15 questions are theoretically hard MCQ means they are hard but not numerical and descriptive hence c = 15.

From 5, 28 questions are numerical and descriptive but not hard. Hence, d = 28.

 From 6, the questions which are hard and MCQ type but not descriptive are 9.33% of 75 which is 7. Means e = 7.

From 7, g = 3

As of now, c = 15, d = 28, e = 7, g = 3 and h = 8

Now, from 4, e + f + g = 22 and hence f = 12

From 6, a + d + e +g = 75 so a = 37 and hence b = 10.

Now,

Hard question = 37 means moderate questions = 83

Numerical questions = 75 means theoretical questions = 45.

Descriptive questions = 53 means MCQ questions = 67.

From the solution above,

Total number of descriptive questions = 28 + 3 + 12 + 10 = 53.

The right answer is 53.

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Question no.19

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

Rahul Sharma is a very well-known analyst of competitive exams of engineering. He has an experience of 20 years. He has been asked to analyze the type of questions for the recently concluded paper of the ITT exam. He usually judges any question on three types. They are Hard/Moderate for difficulty level, MCQ or Descriptive for the type of questions, and Numerical or theoretical for questions type. He has come up with the following analysis.

1. The total number of questions in the paper was 120.
2. He considered 8 questions as Moderate, MCQ, and theoretical.
3. 15 questions were put in the category of theoretically hard MCQ.
4. 22 questions out of the total number of hard questions are also either Numerical or Descriptive.
5. 28 questions are Numerical, descriptive and moderate.
6. He has put a total of 75 questions under numerical type and 9.33% of them are hard MCQ.
7. 3 numerical are descriptive and hard.

Find out the number of questions that are hard and theoretical but not descriptive.

Explanation

We will focus on one type of each of the given possibilities.

We will form a Venn diagram of numerical, descriptive, and hard.

a = only numerical

b = only descriptive

c = only hard

d = Numerical and descriptive but not hard

e = Numerical and hard but not descriptive

f = Descriptive and hard but not numerical

g = numerical, descriptive and hard

h = Moderate, MCQ and theoretical

From 2, 8 questions are moderate MCQ and theoretical means they must not be Numerical, descriptive and hard. h = 8.

From 3, 15 questions are theoretically hard MCQ means they are hard but not numerical and descriptive hence c = 15.

From 5, 28 questions are numerical and descriptive but not hard. Hence, d = 28.

 From 6, the questions which are hard and MCQ type but not descriptive are 9.33% of 75 which is 7. Means e = 7.

From 7, g = 3

As of now, c = 15, d = 28, e = 7, g = 3 and h = 8

Now, from 4, e + f + g = 22 and hence f = 12

From 6, a + d + e +g = 75 so a = 37 and hence b = 10

Now,

Hard question = 37 means moderate questions = 83

Numerical questions = 75 means theoretical questions = 45

Descriptive questions = 53 means MCQ questions = 67

From the solution above

The number of questions which are hard and theoretical but not descriptive means the number of questions which are hard but neither numerical not descriptive.

 The number is 15 (Only hard).

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Question no.20

Read the following information carefully, analyze it and answer the question based on it.

Rahul Sharma is a very well-known analyst of competitive exams of engineering. He has an experience of 20 years. He has been asked to analyze the type of questions for the recently concluded paper of the ITT exam. He usually judges any question on three types. They are Hard/Moderate for difficulty level, MCQ or Descriptive for the type of questions, and Numerical or theoretical for questions type. He has come up with the following analysis.

1. The total number of questions in the paper was 120.
2. He considered 8 questions as Moderate, MCQ, and theoretical.
3. 15 questions were put in the category of theoretically hard MCQ.
4. 22 questions out of the total number of hard questions are also either Numerical or Descriptive.
5. 28 questions are Numerical, descriptive and moderate.
6. He has put a total of 75 questions under numerical type and 9.33% of them are hard MCQ.
7. 3 numerical are descriptive and hard.

What percentage of the total number of questions are descriptive but not hard?

Explanation

We will focus on one type of each of the given possibilities

We will form a Venn diagram of numerical, descriptive, and hard

a = only numerical

b = only descriptive

c = only hard

d = Numerical and descriptive but not hard

e = Numerical and hard but not descriptive

f = Descriptive and hard but not numerical

g = numerical, descriptive and hard

h = Moderate, MCQ and theoretical

From 2, 8 questions are moderate MCQ and theoretical means they must not be Numerical, descriptive and hard. h = 8.

From 3, 15 questions are theoretically hard MCQ means they are hard but not numerical and descriptive hence c = 15.

From 5, 28 questions are numerical and descriptive but not hard. Hence, d = 28

From 6, the questions which are hard and MCQ type but not descriptive are 9.33% of 75 which is 7. Means e = 7.

From 7, g = 3

As of now, c = 15, d = 28, e = 7, g = 3 and h = 8

Now, from 4, e + f + g = 22 and hence f = 12

From 6, a + d + e +g = 75 so a = 37 and hence b = 10

Now,

Hard question = 37 means moderate questions = 83

Numerical questions = 75 means theoretical questions = 45

Descriptive questions = 53 means MCQ questions = 67

From the solution above,

Total number of descriptive questions = 53 but not hard means 12 + 3 needs to be subtracted.

53 – 12 – 3 = 38

total questions = 120

In percentage terms, 38/120 * 100 = 32 %

The right answer is 32%.

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Question no.2

Find out all the possible value of x for log x + log (x-16) + log 9 – log 19 = 3 (the base of all the logs is 3).

Explanation

Answer- B

log x + log (x-16) + log 9 – log 19 = 3 is given

log_{3\((x*(x-16)*9)\over19\)} = 3

x * (x-16) * 9 = 19 * 3³

x² – 16x = 57

x² – 16x - 57 = 0

(x-19) (x+3)=0

x is 19 or -3 but log can’t take negative values. Hence the only possible value is 19

Hence, the answer is option (b).

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Question no.3

Find out the equation of line passing through intersection point of 5x + 4y = 13 and 3x – 2y + 1 = 0 and parallel to x + 2y = 1.

Explanation

Answer- A

By elimination method the intersection point of 5x + 4y = 13 and 3x-2y = -1 is (1, 2).

The slope will be -1/2 as the required line is parallel to x + 2y = 1

The equation of the line is = y – 2 = -1/2(x – 1)

2y – 4 = -x + 1

x + 2y = 5

Hence, the answer is option (a).

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Question no.6

If 3^(x+y) = 1.73 and 3^(x-y) = 5.196 then find out the value of x*y (Hint: 5.196 = z^3/2).

Explanation

Answer- C

3^(x+y) = 1.73

Now as we know 1.73 = 3^1/2

x + y = ½

Now, 3^(x-y) = 5.196

5.196 = (z³)^1/2

Since , 5²  < (5.196)² < 6²  

z³ must be between 25 and 36

The only such possible number is 27

z = 3

So, 3^(x-y)  = 3^3/2

x – y = 3/2

By elimination method, x = 1 and y = -0.5

Their multiplication = -0.5

Hence, the answer is option (c).

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Question no.8

Find out the sum of : (1*50) + (2*49) + ……. (50*1).

Explanation

Answer- 22100

S = (1*50) + (2*49) + ……. (50*1)

S = n * (51-n) where n starts from 1 till 50

S = 51n – n²

S = \({51*n(n+1)\over2}-{n*(n+1)(2n+1)\over6}\) where n = 50

S = \({51*50*51\over2}-{50*51*101\over6}\)

S = 65025 – 42925

S = 22100

Hence, the answer is 22100.

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Question no.10

Find out the remainder when 6¹⁷⁹ is divided by 89.

Explanation

Answer- B

According to Fermat’s theorem.

If a and p are co-prime then a^(p-1) – 1 is always divisible by p.

So, 6⁸⁸ is divided by 89 the remainder will be 1.

6⁸⁸ = 89k + 1

6⁸⁹ = 89k*6 + 6

When 6^{89 is} divided by 6, the remainder will be 6.

When 6^{178 is} divided by 6, the remainder will be 36.

When 6^{179 is} divided by 6, the remainder will be 216.

The remainder is = 216/89 = 38.

Hence, the answer is option (b).

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Question no.11

Julie beat Juhi by 200 meters and Juhi beat Jasmin by 150 meters in a 1200 meter race. Find out by what margin Julie beat Jasmin in the same race (in meters).

Explanation

Answer- A

When Julie covers 1200 meters Juhi covers 1000 meters so the ratio of their speed is 12:10.

Similarly, the ratio of the speed of Juhi and Jasmin = 8:7.

When Julie covers 1200 meters Jasmin covers 875 meters (48:35 ratio of speed).

So Julie beats Jasmin by 325 meters.

Hence, the answer is option (a).

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Question no.13

For a certain sum, the difference between simple interest and compound interest for a 2 years is equal to 0.025 times simple interest for 2 years for Rs. 200000. Find out the rate of interest. 

Explanation

Answer- 5

P = 200000 and N =2 years and Take R = rate of interest

Simple Interest = 200000 * R * 2/100 = 4000R

Now for 2 years difference between compound interest and simple interest is interest on 1st-year simple interest

So, the difference is = (P*R*1/100) * R/100

= 200000*R * 1/100 * R /100 = 20R²

This is equal to 0.025 time of simple interest of 2 years

20R² = 0.025 * 200000 * 2 * R/100

20R = 100

R = 5%

Hence, the answer is 5.

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Question no.14

Which of the following is not a possible solution to the inequality -3(x + 4) < 12?

Explanation

Answer- B

-3 (x+4) < 12

(x+4) > -4

x + 4 > -4

x > -8

Here in all options, only -10 < - 8

Hence, the answer is option (b).

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Question no.16

The triangle above is a right-angled triangle. Find out the distance between the vertex opposite to the hypotenuse and the midpoint of the hypotenuse. The measurement of sides which form a right angle are 6 and 8.

Explanation

Answer- A

In a right-angle triangle distance between the vertex opposite to hypotenuse and the midpoint of hypotenuse is half of the hypotenuse.

So hypotenuse is (8² + 6²)^1/2

The required distance is = 10/2 = 5.

Hence, the answer is option (a).

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Question no.19

Every day Grishma starts from her home at 7:00 PM to pick up her son from coaching classes and comes back home at 8:30 PM. She drives at a speed of 40 km/h. One day her son got early leave from coaching classes and he started in the direction of home. Grishma started as usual from her home at 7:00 PM, she met her son in between and they came back home at 8:15 PM. Find out the speed of the son in km/h and the distance covered by him in km.

Explanation

Answer- B

H----------------------I----------C

Let H, I, and C be the home, Intermediate point, and coaching classes respectively

Grishma usually travels HC and CH. When she met her son at I, she traveled to HI and IH

Her speed is always constant. So, the ratio of time must be in the same ratio as the distance

HC/HI = [(8:30 PM – 7:00 PM)/2] / [(8:15 PM – 7:00 PM)/2] = 1 hours 30 minutes / 1 hour 15 minutes

HC/HI = 6/5

HC = HI + IC

So, IC/HC = 1/6

HI/HC = 5/6

IC/HI = 1/5 must be equal to the ratio of their speeds

IC/HI = Speed of Son/ Speed of Grishma

1/5 = x/40

Hence, x = 8 kmph

Now, Grishma drives for 1.5 hours with a speed of 40 km

So total travel of 60 km and distance from home to coaching classes is 60/2 = 30 km

Grishma drove for only 1 hour 15 minutes so she traveled 40*1.25 (1 hour 15 minutes) = 50km

Means 25 km on one side.

So she must-have traveled = 30 – 25 = 5 km 

Hence, the answer is option (b).

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Question no.20

Sapan is standing near the tower and observed the top. The angle of elevation is 60⁰. He walks for 45 meters away from the initial point and now the angle of elevation is 45⁰. Find out the height of the tower (in meters)? 

Explanation

Answer- B

From point B, angle of elevation is 60⁰ and AB = 45 meters

Tan 60⁰ = CD/BC

And Tan 45⁰ = CD/x + 45

Take CD = y and BC = x

y = x + 45

y = 1.73x

1.73x = x + 45

0.73x = 45

x = 61.64

Length of tower = 61.64 + 45 = 106.64

Hence, the answer is option (b).

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Question no.22

There are two functions f(x) = 2x + 5 and g(x) = (-x²) . Find out the range of function h if h(x) = f(g(x)).

Explanation

Answer- D

h(x) = f(g(x))

= 2(-x²) + 5

= -2x² + 5

For x = 0 it is 5

For any value of x, -2x² will surely be negative so the range is (-∞, 5]

Hence, the answer is option (d).

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