Analytics - Real CAT Mock 26 (RC 26) - 13 October 2023
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Question no.1
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Steady blows from flint axes echo through the forest. Each strike cuts deeper into the layers of a tree trunk, rhythmically interrupting the chattering of birds and the hum of swarming insects. Someone is calling, but their voice is drowned out by cracking in the underwood – another tree is falling. We are watching the making of a forest clearing, 5,000 years ago, somewhere near western Jutland in modern-day Denmark.
Beneath a dense weave of oak, hazel, elm and ash is a landscape of gentle hills. We can barely make out their contours through the trees. When we move, we follow passageways made by trunks and branches: here, impassable; there, pliable and yielding. As more trees fall, light pours onto wildlife and plants in the underwood. Down here, among sun-starved grasses and shrubs, is a little plant that will one day be called hæddre or heather. The smell of its burning leaves fills the air.
Deeper in the woods, nomadic Neolithic pastoralists are setting fires. Gray smoke hangs beneath the crowns of standing trees. The fire crackles. Oil in the heather’s shiny leaves – lustrous with fire-loving resin – bursts when ignited, and its dormant seeds begin to awaken in the flames. It is as if the plant is quietly whistling: ‘Burn me!’ Next year, once the last of the fallen trees have been hauled away and the fires in the clearing have been extinguished, new heather shoots will grow in these expanding patches of burned sun-lit pasture. What those shoots promise is a new horizon of pastoral possibility: when winter comes, and other resources dwindle, green and nutritious heather will be thriving here. This clearing will allow the survival of the herd.
Reconstructing moments like these – via pollen records and charred plant materials in archaeological excavations – allows us to tell a unique story about human-changed landscapes. Inside the forest, we witness a small, flammable shrub becoming a key resource that will one day cover millions of hectares across northern Europe, forming a colossal belt of heathlands stretching from Portugal to Ireland, and all the way up to the Lofoten archipelago in Norway. But this is not just another tale of how our species radically transforms its environment. Among the first forest clearings, we see early humans engaging in a new form of worldmaking, unaware that in some distant future this changed landscape would lock its domesticators into trajectories of care and maintenance from which it will become almost impossible to escape. Among the fallen oak, hazel, elm and ash, a trap had been sprung.
We often conceive of domestication as a process involving humans taming, penning or manipulating animals and plants. Domestication turned wild sheep species into livestock, wolves into pets, and weeds into cereal crops. It also transformed whole landscapes, as people learned to domesticate forests, grasslands, jungles and coastlines. But this is not a process that belongs to the distant past. Newer forms of domestication are still emerging as rural landscapes are turned into fields of solar panels, coastlines into concrete seawalls, and former deserts into forests. Each transformation is designed to serve human needs: to increase biomass, reduce food insecurity or sequester carbon. And, in each, domination appears to flow in one direction. Humans domesticate. But can domestication flow the other way?
Why does the author state 'It is as if the plant is quietly whistling: ‘Burn me!’ ?
To bring out the importance of the plant in the process of radicalization of humans.
To bring out the importance of the plant in the survival of human species.
To bring out the importance of the plant in the domestication of human species.
To bring out the importance of the plant in the taming of the world.
Explanation
Answer – B
Option B is correct. Read the lines “Deeper in the woods, nomadic Neolithic pastoralists are setting fires. Gray smoke hangs beneath the crowns of standing trees. The fire crackles. Oil in the heather’s shiny leaves – lustrous with fire-loving resin – bursts when ignited, and its dormant seeds begin to awaken in the flames. It is as if the plant is quietly whistling: ‘Burn me!’ Next year, once the last of the fallen trees have been hauled away and the fires in the clearing have been extinguished, new heather shoots will grow in these expanding patches of burned sun-lit pasture. What those shoots promise is a new horizon of pastoral possibility: when winter comes, and other resources dwindle, green and nutritious heather will be thriving here. This clearing will allow the survival of the herd.’
Option A is twisted due to usage of ‘radicalization’.
Calling it “domestication of human species” would be an exaggeration as it was a longer process.
Option D is too generic.
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 18.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Unanswered
Question no.2
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Steady blows from flint axes echo through the forest. Each strike cuts deeper into the layers of a tree trunk, rhythmically interrupting the chattering of birds and the hum of swarming insects. Someone is calling, but their voice is drowned out by cracking in the underwood – another tree is falling. We are watching the making of a forest clearing, 5,000 years ago, somewhere near western Jutland in modern-day Denmark.
Beneath a dense weave of oak, hazel, elm and ash is a landscape of gentle hills. We can barely make out their contours through the trees. When we move, we follow passageways made by trunks and branches: here, impassable; there, pliable and yielding. As more trees fall, light pours onto wildlife and plants in the underwood. Down here, among sun-starved grasses and shrubs, is a little plant that will one day be called hæddre or heather. The smell of its burning leaves fills the air.
Deeper in the woods, nomadic Neolithic pastoralists are setting fires. Gray smoke hangs beneath the crowns of standing trees. The fire crackles. Oil in the heather’s shiny leaves – lustrous with fire-loving resin – bursts when ignited, and its dormant seeds begin to awaken in the flames. It is as if the plant is quietly whistling: ‘Burn me!’ Next year, once the last of the fallen trees have been hauled away and the fires in the clearing have been extinguished, new heather shoots will grow in these expanding patches of burned sun-lit pasture. What those shoots promise is a new horizon of pastoral possibility: when winter comes, and other resources dwindle, green and nutritious heather will be thriving here. This clearing will allow the survival of the herd.
Reconstructing moments like these – via pollen records and charred plant materials in archaeological excavations – allows us to tell a unique story about human-changed landscapes. Inside the forest, we witness a small, flammable shrub becoming a key resource that will one day cover millions of hectares across northern Europe, forming a colossal belt of heathlands stretching from Portugal to Ireland, and all the way up to the Lofoten archipelago in Norway. But this is not just another tale of how our species radically transforms its environment. Among the first forest clearings, we see early humans engaging in a new form of worldmaking, unaware that in some distant future this changed landscape would lock its domesticators into trajectories of care and maintenance from which it will become almost impossible to escape. Among the fallen oak, hazel, elm and ash, a trap had been sprung.
We often conceive of domestication as a process involving humans taming, penning or manipulating animals and plants. Domestication turned wild sheep species into livestock, wolves into pets, and weeds into cereal crops. It also transformed whole landscapes, as people learned to domesticate forests, grasslands, jungles and coastlines. But this is not a process that belongs to the distant past. Newer forms of domestication are still emerging as rural landscapes are turned into fields of solar panels, coastlines into concrete seawalls, and former deserts into forests. Each transformation is designed to serve human needs: to increase biomass, reduce food insecurity or sequester carbon. And, in each, domination appears to flow in one direction. Humans domesticate. But can domestication flow the other way?
‘Among the fallen oak, hazel, elm and ash, a trap had been sprung.’ What is the trap?
The trap refers to the domestication of human species at specific locations.
The trap refers to the taming of humans by their loved ones.
The trap refers to domestication of the world at large.
There is no trap.
Explanation
Answer – A
Option A is correct. Read the lines “Among the fallen oak, hazel, elm and ash, a trap had been sprung.
We often conceive of domestication as a process involving humans taming, penning or manipulating animals and plants. Domestication turned wild sheep species into livestock, wolves into pets, and weeds into cereal crops. It also transformed whole landscapes, as people learned to domesticate forests, grasslands, jungles and coastlines. But this is not a process that belongs to the distant past. Newer forms of domestication are still emerging as rural landscapes are turned into fields of solar panels, coastlines into concrete seawalls, and former deserts into forests. Each transformation is designed to serve human needs: to increase biomass, reduce food insecurity or sequester carbon. And, in each, domination appears to flow in one direction. Humans domesticate. But can domestication flow the other way?’’
Marks: -1.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 27.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Incorrect
Question no.3
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Steady blows from flint axes echo through the forest. Each strike cuts deeper into the layers of a tree trunk, rhythmically interrupting the chattering of birds and the hum of swarming insects. Someone is calling, but their voice is drowned out by cracking in the underwood – another tree is falling. We are watching the making of a forest clearing, 5,000 years ago, somewhere near western Jutland in modern-day Denmark.
Beneath a dense weave of oak, hazel, elm and ash is a landscape of gentle hills. We can barely make out their contours through the trees. When we move, we follow passageways made by trunks and branches: here, impassable; there, pliable and yielding. As more trees fall, light pours onto wildlife and plants in the underwood. Down here, among sun-starved grasses and shrubs, is a little plant that will one day be called hæddre or heather. The smell of its burning leaves fills the air.
Deeper in the woods, nomadic Neolithic pastoralists are setting fires. Gray smoke hangs beneath the crowns of standing trees. The fire crackles. Oil in the heather’s shiny leaves – lustrous with fire-loving resin – bursts when ignited, and its dormant seeds begin to awaken in the flames. It is as if the plant is quietly whistling: ‘Burn me!’ Next year, once the last of the fallen trees have been hauled away and the fires in the clearing have been extinguished, new heather shoots will grow in these expanding patches of burned sun-lit pasture. What those shoots promise is a new horizon of pastoral possibility: when winter comes, and other resources dwindle, green and nutritious heather will be thriving here. This clearing will allow the survival of the herd.
Reconstructing moments like these – via pollen records and charred plant materials in archaeological excavations – allows us to tell a unique story about human-changed landscapes. Inside the forest, we witness a small, flammable shrub becoming a key resource that will one day cover millions of hectares across northern Europe, forming a colossal belt of heathlands stretching from Portugal to Ireland, and all the way up to the Lofoten archipelago in Norway. But this is not just another tale of how our species radically transforms its environment. Among the first forest clearings, we see early humans engaging in a new form of worldmaking, unaware that in some distant future this changed landscape would lock its domesticators into trajectories of care and maintenance from which it will become almost impossible to escape. Among the fallen oak, hazel, elm and ash, a trap had been sprung.
We often conceive of domestication as a process involving humans taming, penning or manipulating animals and plants. Domestication turned wild sheep species into livestock, wolves into pets, and weeds into cereal crops. It also transformed whole landscapes, as people learned to domesticate forests, grasslands, jungles and coastlines. But this is not a process that belongs to the distant past. Newer forms of domestication are still emerging as rural landscapes are turned into fields of solar panels, coastlines into concrete seawalls, and former deserts into forests. Each transformation is designed to serve human needs: to increase biomass, reduce food insecurity or sequester carbon. And, in each, domination appears to flow in one direction. Humans domesticate. But can domestication flow the other way?
The author is most likely to AGREE with which of the following?
A. Human species are being domesticated themselves without noticing it.
B. Domestication is a long process that has been going on since the birth of human species.
C. Domestication leads to survival of humans.
Only A
Only B
Only C
A and B
Explanation
Answer – A
Option A is correct as per the last paragraph of the passage.
Option B cannot be said to be definitely correct due to mention of “since the birth of human species”.
Similarly, statement C is not stated in the passage explicitly.
Marks: -1.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 13.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Incorrect
Question no.4
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Steady blows from flint axes echo through the forest. Each strike cuts deeper into the layers of a tree trunk, rhythmically interrupting the chattering of birds and the hum of swarming insects. Someone is calling, but their voice is drowned out by cracking in the underwood – another tree is falling. We are watching the making of a forest clearing, 5,000 years ago, somewhere near western Jutland in modern-day Denmark.
Beneath a dense weave of oak, hazel, elm and ash is a landscape of gentle hills. We can barely make out their contours through the trees. When we move, we follow passageways made by trunks and branches: here, impassable; there, pliable and yielding. As more trees fall, light pours onto wildlife and plants in the underwood. Down here, among sun-starved grasses and shrubs, is a little plant that will one day be called hæddre or heather. The smell of its burning leaves fills the air.
Deeper in the woods, nomadic Neolithic pastoralists are setting fires. Gray smoke hangs beneath the crowns of standing trees. The fire crackles. Oil in the heather’s shiny leaves – lustrous with fire-loving resin – bursts when ignited, and its dormant seeds begin to awaken in the flames. It is as if the plant is quietly whistling: ‘Burn me!’ Next year, once the last of the fallen trees have been hauled away and the fires in the clearing have been extinguished, new heather shoots will grow in these expanding patches of burned sun-lit pasture. What those shoots promise is a new horizon of pastoral possibility: when winter comes, and other resources dwindle, green and nutritious heather will be thriving here. This clearing will allow the survival of the herd.
Reconstructing moments like these – via pollen records and charred plant materials in archaeological excavations – allows us to tell a unique story about human-changed landscapes. Inside the forest, we witness a small, flammable shrub becoming a key resource that will one day cover millions of hectares across northern Europe, forming a colossal belt of heathlands stretching from Portugal to Ireland, and all the way up to the Lofoten archipelago in Norway. But this is not just another tale of how our species radically transforms its environment. Among the first forest clearings, we see early humans engaging in a new form of worldmaking, unaware that in some distant future this changed landscape would lock its domesticators into trajectories of care and maintenance from which it will become almost impossible to escape. Among the fallen oak, hazel, elm and ash, a trap had been sprung.
We often conceive of domestication as a process involving humans taming, penning or manipulating animals and plants. Domestication turned wild sheep species into livestock, wolves into pets, and weeds into cereal crops. It also transformed whole landscapes, as people learned to domesticate forests, grasslands, jungles and coastlines. But this is not a process that belongs to the distant past. Newer forms of domestication are still emerging as rural landscapes are turned into fields of solar panels, coastlines into concrete seawalls, and former deserts into forests. Each transformation is designed to serve human needs: to increase biomass, reduce food insecurity or sequester carbon. And, in each, domination appears to flow in one direction. Humans domesticate. But can domestication flow the other way?
Choose a suitable title for the passage.
Domestication
Mutual entrapment
The human trap
Domestication and entrapment
Explanation
Answer – B
Option B is correct as the passage suggests that humans are being trapped while they try to entrap the world via the process of domestication.
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 8.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Unanswered
Question no.5
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The struggle to achieve gender equality and bridge the gap between men and women is a long and difficult one. India has got another opportunity to do much better for half of the population with the Global Gender Gap Index for 2022, released by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, placing it at 135 out of 146 countries. But the new data — India’s ranking in 2021 was 140 out of 156 countries — hardly brings cheer as India has fared the worst in at least one of the parameters — ‘health and survival’ — in which it took the last spot. The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four dimensions: economic participation and opportunity; educational attainment; health and survival, and political empowerment. India ranks poorly among its neighbors and is behind Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bhutan. Only Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan perform worse than India in the region. In 2022, coming on the back of a pandemic, war and economic crises, the global gender gap has been closed by 68.1%, which means at the current rate of progress it will take 132 years to reach full parity. Among all the regions, it will take the longest for South Asia to reach the target — 197 years — “due to a broad stagnation in gender parity scores ... in the region”.
In the pandemic years, as incomes shrank, women faced hurdles on every front, from food, health, and education for the girl child to jobs. The latest NFHS data (2019-2021) show that 57% of women (15-49 age bracket) are anemic, up from 53% in 2015-16; though 88.7% of married women participate in key household decisions, only 25.4% of women, aged 15-49 years, who worked in the last 12 months (2019-2021), were paid in cash. Women having a bank account or savings account that they themselves use have increased to 78.6%, with schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana helping, but women participation in the labor force has shrunk. According to Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, in 2016-17 about 15% women were employed or looking for jobs; this metric dipped to 9.2% in 2021-22. The best way to improve India’s abysmal ranking is to do it right by women. For that, it is imperative to increase representation of women in leadership positions at all levels so that women get greater access to jobs and resources.
“According to Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, in 2016-17 about 15% women were employed or looking for jobs; this metric dipped to 9.2% in 2021-22.” Which of the following would explain the fall in women looking for jobs?
As more women got married, they decided to become a homemaker rather than getting other employment.
The pandemic reduced the opportunities available to women in India.
Women find it easier to use bank accounts but find it difficult to get employment.
The fall is due to the fall in gender ratio of India.
Explanation
Answer – B
Option B is correct. Read the lines “In the pandemic years, as incomes shrank, women faced hurdles on every front, from food, health, and education for the girl child to jobs. The latest NFHS data (2019-2021) show that 57% of women (15-49 age bracket) are anemic, up from 53% in 2015-16; though 88.7% of married women participate in key household decisions, only 25.4% of women, aged 15-49 years, who worked in the last 12 months (2019-2021), were paid in cash. Women having a bank account or savings account that they themselves use have increased to 78.6%, with schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana helping, but women participation in the labor force has shrunk. According to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, in 2016-17 about 15% women were employed or looking for jobs; this metric dipped to 9.2% in 2021-22.”
A and D are not mentioned in the passage at all. C is an exaggerated choice and should be avoided.
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Easy
Trivia: 63.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Correct
Question no.6
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The struggle to achieve gender equality and bridge the gap between men and women is a long and difficult one. India has got another opportunity to do much better for half of the population with the Global Gender Gap Index for 2022, released by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, placing it at 135 out of 146 countries. But the new data — India’s ranking in 2021 was 140 out of 156 countries — hardly brings cheer as India has fared the worst in at least one of the parameters — ‘health and survival’ — in which it took the last spot. The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four dimensions: economic participation and opportunity; educational attainment; health and survival, and political empowerment. India ranks poorly among its neighbors and is behind Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bhutan. Only Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan perform worse than India in the region. In 2022, coming on the back of a pandemic, war and economic crises, the global gender gap has been closed by 68.1%, which means at the current rate of progress it will take 132 years to reach full parity. Among all the regions, it will take the longest for South Asia to reach the target — 197 years — “due to a broad stagnation in gender parity scores ... in the region”.
In the pandemic years, as incomes shrank, women faced hurdles on every front, from food, health, and education for the girl child to jobs. The latest NFHS data (2019-2021) show that 57% of women (15-49 age bracket) are anemic, up from 53% in 2015-16; though 88.7% of married women participate in key household decisions, only 25.4% of women, aged 15-49 years, who worked in the last 12 months (2019-2021), were paid in cash. Women having a bank account or savings account that they themselves use have increased to 78.6%, with schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana helping, but women participation in the labor force has shrunk. According to Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, in 2016-17 about 15% women were employed or looking for jobs; this metric dipped to 9.2% in 2021-22. The best way to improve India’s abysmal ranking is to do it right by women. For that, it is imperative to increase representation of women in leadership positions at all levels so that women get greater access to jobs and resources.
Why does the author say “hardly brings cheer”?
A. Because India has not really improved in ranking as the number of countries being ranked has reduced.
B. Because India is performing the worst on important parameters.
C. Because India is performing worse than all its neighbors.
A and B
B and C
A and C
A, B and C
Explanation
Answer – A
Option A is correct. Read the lines “India has got another opportunity to do much better for half of the population with the Global Gender Gap Index for 2022, released by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, placing it at 135 out of 146 countries. But the new data — India’s ranking in 2021 was 140 out of 156 countries — hardly brings cheer as India has fared the worst in at least one of the parameters — ‘health and survival’ — in which it took the last spot. The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four dimensions: economic participation and opportunity; educational attainment; health and survival, and political empowerment. India ranks poorly among its neighbors and is behind Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bhutan. Only Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan perform worse than India in the region.”
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Easy
Trivia: 48.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Correct
Question no.7
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The struggle to achieve gender equality and bridge the gap between men and women is a long and difficult one. India has got another opportunity to do much better for half of the population with the Global Gender Gap Index for 2022, released by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, placing it at 135 out of 146 countries. But the new data — India’s ranking in 2021 was 140 out of 156 countries — hardly brings cheer as India has fared the worst in at least one of the parameters — ‘health and survival’ — in which it took the last spot. The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four dimensions: economic participation and opportunity; educational attainment; health and survival, and political empowerment. India ranks poorly among its neighbors and is behind Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bhutan. Only Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan perform worse than India in the region. In 2022, coming on the back of a pandemic, war and economic crises, the global gender gap has been closed by 68.1%, which means at the current rate of progress it will take 132 years to reach full parity. Among all the regions, it will take the longest for South Asia to reach the target — 197 years — “due to a broad stagnation in gender parity scores ... in the region”.
In the pandemic years, as incomes shrank, women faced hurdles on every front, from food, health, and education for the girl child to jobs. The latest NFHS data (2019-2021) show that 57% of women (15-49 age bracket) are anemic, up from 53% in 2015-16; though 88.7% of married women participate in key household decisions, only 25.4% of women, aged 15-49 years, who worked in the last 12 months (2019-2021), were paid in cash. Women having a bank account or savings account that they themselves use have increased to 78.6%, with schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana helping, but women participation in the labor force has shrunk. According to Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, in 2016-17 about 15% women were employed or looking for jobs; this metric dipped to 9.2% in 2021-22. The best way to improve India’s abysmal ranking is to do it right by women. For that, it is imperative to increase representation of women in leadership positions at all levels so that women get greater access to jobs and resources.
Which of the following, if proven to be true, would jeopardize the relevance of the global gender gap index?
The ability to make decisions for themselves at the domestic level is one of the most important powers for women.
Indian women want to be more and more politically active.
GGGI relies on census data for the status of health and economic participation in India. Census is the largest manual exercise done once in a decade.
GGGI’s parameters are fixed by a committee whose head is a male.
Explanation
Answer – C
Solution- Option C is correct as it would show that GGGI does not have latest data which would question its relevance.
A and D are incorporated in the context of political empowerment.
D does not create any impact at all.
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Easy
Trivia: 33.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Correct
Question no.8
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The struggle to achieve gender equality and bridge the gap between men and women is a long and difficult one. India has got another opportunity to do much better for half of the population with the Global Gender Gap Index for 2022, released by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, placing it at 135 out of 146 countries. But the new data — India’s ranking in 2021 was 140 out of 156 countries — hardly brings cheer as India has fared the worst in at least one of the parameters — ‘health and survival’ — in which it took the last spot. The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four dimensions: economic participation and opportunity; educational attainment; health and survival, and political empowerment. India ranks poorly among its neighbors and is behind Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bhutan. Only Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan perform worse than India in the region. In 2022, coming on the back of a pandemic, war and economic crises, the global gender gap has been closed by 68.1%, which means at the current rate of progress it will take 132 years to reach full parity. Among all the regions, it will take the longest for South Asia to reach the target — 197 years — “due to a broad stagnation in gender parity scores ... in the region”.
In the pandemic years, as incomes shrank, women faced hurdles on every front, from food, health, and education for the girl child to jobs. The latest NFHS data (2019-2021) show that 57% of women (15-49 age bracket) are anemic, up from 53% in 2015-16; though 88.7% of married women participate in key household decisions, only 25.4% of women, aged 15-49 years, who worked in the last 12 months (2019-2021), were paid in cash. Women having a bank account or savings account that they themselves use have increased to 78.6%, with schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana helping, but women participation in the labor force has shrunk. According to Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, in 2016-17 about 15% women were employed or looking for jobs; this metric dipped to 9.2% in 2021-22. The best way to improve India’s abysmal ranking is to do it right by women. For that, it is imperative to increase representation of women in leadership positions at all levels so that women get greater access to jobs and resources.
Which of the following can be inferred from the last passage?
Increase in bank accounts leads to increase in payments.
Women can be decision makers but are still mal-nourished
Financial independence leads to overall freedom.
Both B and C
Explanation
Answer – B
Solution- Option B is correct. Read the lines ‘The latest NFHS data (2019-2021) show that 57% of women (15-49 age bracket) are anemic, up from 53% in 2015-16; though 88.7% of married women participate in key household decisions, only 25.4% of women, aged 15-49 years, who worked in the last 12 months (2019-2021), were paid in cash. Women having a bank account or savings account that they themselves use have increased to 78.6%, with schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana helping, but women participation in the labor force has shrunk. According to Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, in 2016-17 about 15% women were employed or looking for jobs; this metric dipped to 9.2% in 2021-22.’
Only B can be definitely inferred from the above.
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Easy
Trivia: 30.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Correct
Question no.9
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
I have only the highest respect for the documentarian Ken Burns. He’s America’s storyteller: an unrivaled filmmaker whose creativity, passion and style shine through every history he portrays. My intent is not to dunk on anyone, but rather to start a conversation about how Americans as a society grapple with our own contentious history. Our identities are shaped by the collective experiences of our past, and how we see ourselves in relation to them. Together, we constantly reframe and revise the past to make it make sense to us in the present.
It just so happens that the best place to start that conversation is with Burns and Lynn Novick’s five-and-a-half-hour TV miniseries Prohibition (2011), which covers that most misunderstood chapter in US history, from the 1919 ratification of the 18th Amendment – prohibiting ‘the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors’ – until its repeal by the 21st Amendment in 1933. Prohibition deserves our attention because it reflects what we think we know about history, rather than the actual history itself. It is what the comedian Stephen Colbert called ‘truthiness’ in truth’s stead. The problems start within the first five seconds of the film. The filmmakers set the narrative tone for the entire series with an epigraph – stark white letters centered against a black background:
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky.
It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.
– Mark Twain
Direct. Eloquent. Authoritative. Damning. The framing is clear: temperance activists are the bad guys, ‘fanatics’ hellbent on changing other people’s habits who are dumb enough to ‘never learn’ the most obvious lessons staring them right in the face. The problem is that Twain never really said that. Instead, it is a mosaic of unconnected quotes, spanning different works of fiction and nonfiction over the years.
‘Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits’ comes from Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894): Twain’s serialised novel about race, slavery and small-town religion. ‘Fanatics will never learn that …’ was scrawled in Twain’s travel notebook while in London in November 1896 as he extolled the virtues of ‘temperate temperance’. And ‘it is the prohibition that makes anything precious’ came 11 months earlier while in India, as Twain ruminated about Adam, Eve and forbidden fruit during his visit to Allahabad.
When stitched together, they make for a compelling framework for what we feel to be true about temperance and prohibitionism. In the 11 years since the release of the TV series, nobody seems to have noticed this. Still, the epigraph sets the stage for what’s to come. Burns and Novick are gifted storytellers, and every story needs conflict – heroes versus villains, good guys versus bad guys. They’ve cast prohibitionists as the bad guys, as they so often are when prohibition is remembered: hard-headed fanatics intent on dictating ‘other people’s habits’ in a manner most undemocratic and un-American.
What was the story narrated by Burns and Novick as per the passage?
They narrated the story of how liquor was prohibited to improve the habits of people.
They narrated a story of how liquor was prohibited.
They narrated a story as to how prohibition of liquor led to an increase in its popularity.
It cannot be definitely determined.
Explanation
Answer – D
Option D is correct. Read the lines “Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky.
It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.
– Mark Twain
Direct. Eloquent. Authoritative. Damning. The framing is clear: temperance activists are the bad guys, ‘fanatics’ hellbent on changing other people’s habits who are dumb enough to ‘never learn’ the most obvious lessons staring them right in the face. The problem is that Twain never really said that. Instead, it is a mosaic of unconnected quotes, spanning different works of fiction and nonfiction over the years.”
Here, we know that the story is about prohibition of liquor but we do not know “how liquor was prohibited” specifically.
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Question no.10
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
I have only the highest respect for the documentarian Ken Burns. He’s America’s storyteller: an unrivaled filmmaker whose creativity, passion and style shine through every history he portrays. My intent is not to dunk on anyone, but rather to start a conversation about how Americans as a society grapple with our own contentious history. Our identities are shaped by the collective experiences of our past, and how we see ourselves in relation to them. Together, we constantly reframe and revise the past to make it make sense to us in the present.
It just so happens that the best place to start that conversation is with Burns and Lynn Novick’s five-and-a-half-hour TV miniseries Prohibition (2011), which covers that most misunderstood chapter in US history, from the 1919 ratification of the 18th Amendment – prohibiting ‘the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors’ – until its repeal by the 21st Amendment in 1933. Prohibition deserves our attention because it reflects what we think we know about history, rather than the actual history itself. It is what the comedian Stephen Colbert called ‘truthiness’ in truth’s stead. The problems start within the first five seconds of the film. The filmmakers set the narrative tone for the entire series with an epigraph – stark white letters centered against a black background:
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky.
It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.
– Mark Twain
Direct. Eloquent. Authoritative. Damning. The framing is clear: temperance activists are the bad guys, ‘fanatics’ hellbent on changing other people’s habits who are dumb enough to ‘never learn’ the most obvious lessons staring them right in the face. The problem is that Twain never really said that. Instead, it is a mosaic of unconnected quotes, spanning different works of fiction and nonfiction over the years.
‘Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits’ comes from Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894): Twain’s serialised novel about race, slavery and small-town religion. ‘Fanatics will never learn that …’ was scrawled in Twain’s travel notebook while in London in November 1896 as he extolled the virtues of ‘temperate temperance’. And ‘it is the prohibition that makes anything precious’ came 11 months earlier while in India, as Twain ruminated about Adam, Eve and forbidden fruit during his visit to Allahabad.
When stitched together, they make for a compelling framework for what we feel to be true about temperance and prohibitionism. In the 11 years since the release of the TV series, nobody seems to have noticed this. Still, the epigraph sets the stage for what’s to come. Burns and Novick are gifted storytellers, and every story needs conflict – heroes versus villains, good guys versus bad guys. They’ve cast prohibitionists as the bad guys, as they so often are when prohibition is remembered: hard-headed fanatics intent on dictating ‘other people’s habits’ in a manner most undemocratic and un-American.
“It is what the comedian Stephen Colbert called ‘truthiness’ in truth’s stead.” What is truthiness?
The actual history
The interpretation of history
The truth that is shown to the general public.
The truth that one should understand.
Explanation
Answer – B
Option B is correct. Read the lines “It just so happens that the best place to start that conversation is with Burns and Lynn Novick’s five-and-a-half-hour TV miniseries Prohibition (2011), which covers that most misunderstood chapter in US history, from the 1919 ratification of the 18th Amendment – prohibiting ‘the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors’ – until its repeal by the 21st Amendment in 1933. Prohibition deserves our attention because it reflects what we think we know about history, rather than the actual history itself. It is what the comedian Stephen Colbert called ‘truthiness’ in truth’s stead.”
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Question no.11
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
I have only the highest respect for the documentarian Ken Burns. He’s America’s storyteller: an unrivaled filmmaker whose creativity, passion and style shine through every history he portrays. My intent is not to dunk on anyone, but rather to start a conversation about how Americans as a society grapple with our own contentious history. Our identities are shaped by the collective experiences of our past, and how we see ourselves in relation to them. Together, we constantly reframe and revise the past to make it make sense to us in the present.
It just so happens that the best place to start that conversation is with Burns and Lynn Novick’s five-and-a-half-hour TV miniseries Prohibition (2011), which covers that most misunderstood chapter in US history, from the 1919 ratification of the 18th Amendment – prohibiting ‘the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors’ – until its repeal by the 21st Amendment in 1933. Prohibition deserves our attention because it reflects what we think we know about history, rather than the actual history itself. It is what the comedian Stephen Colbert called ‘truthiness’ in truth’s stead. The problems start within the first five seconds of the film. The filmmakers set the narrative tone for the entire series with an epigraph – stark white letters centered against a black background:
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky.
It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.
– Mark Twain
Direct. Eloquent. Authoritative. Damning. The framing is clear: temperance activists are the bad guys, ‘fanatics’ hellbent on changing other people’s habits who are dumb enough to ‘never learn’ the most obvious lessons staring them right in the face. The problem is that Twain never really said that. Instead, it is a mosaic of unconnected quotes, spanning different works of fiction and nonfiction over the years.
‘Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits’ comes from Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894): Twain’s serialised novel about race, slavery and small-town religion. ‘Fanatics will never learn that …’ was scrawled in Twain’s travel notebook while in London in November 1896 as he extolled the virtues of ‘temperate temperance’. And ‘it is the prohibition that makes anything precious’ came 11 months earlier while in India, as Twain ruminated about Adam, Eve and forbidden fruit during his visit to Allahabad.
When stitched together, they make for a compelling framework for what we feel to be true about temperance and prohibitionism. In the 11 years since the release of the TV series, nobody seems to have noticed this. Still, the epigraph sets the stage for what’s to come. Burns and Novick are gifted storytellers, and every story needs conflict – heroes versus villains, good guys versus bad guys. They’ve cast prohibitionists as the bad guys, as they so often are when prohibition is remembered: hard-headed fanatics intent on dictating ‘other people’s habits’ in a manner most undemocratic and un-American.
Which of the following can be definitely inferred from the passage?
A. Film- makers tend to twist words of artists to suit their messages.
B. Mark Twain was a great supporter of prohibition of alcohol.
C. People tend to be affected by words easily, even when they are twisted.
A and B
B and C
A and C
None of these
Explanation
Answer – D
Option D is correct.
Statement A is true for Novick and Burns but cannot be generalized to all “ film- makers”.
B and C are not explicitly stated in the passage.
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Question no.12
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
I have only the highest respect for the documentarian Ken Burns. He’s America’s storyteller: an unrivaled filmmaker whose creativity, passion and style shine through every history he portrays. My intent is not to dunk on anyone, but rather to start a conversation about how Americans as a society grapple with our own contentious history. Our identities are shaped by the collective experiences of our past, and how we see ourselves in relation to them. Together, we constantly reframe and revise the past to make it make sense to us in the present.
It just so happens that the best place to start that conversation is with Burns and Lynn Novick’s five-and-a-half-hour TV miniseries Prohibition (2011), which covers that most misunderstood chapter in US history, from the 1919 ratification of the 18th Amendment – prohibiting ‘the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors’ – until its repeal by the 21st Amendment in 1933. Prohibition deserves our attention because it reflects what we think we know about history, rather than the actual history itself. It is what the comedian Stephen Colbert called ‘truthiness’ in truth’s stead. The problems start within the first five seconds of the film. The filmmakers set the narrative tone for the entire series with an epigraph – stark white letters centered against a black background:
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky.
It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.
– Mark Twain
Direct. Eloquent. Authoritative. Damning. The framing is clear: temperance activists are the bad guys, ‘fanatics’ hellbent on changing other people’s habits who are dumb enough to ‘never learn’ the most obvious lessons staring them right in the face. The problem is that Twain never really said that. Instead, it is a mosaic of unconnected quotes, spanning different works of fiction and nonfiction over the years.
‘Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits’ comes from Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894): Twain’s serialised novel about race, slavery and small-town religion. ‘Fanatics will never learn that …’ was scrawled in Twain’s travel notebook while in London in November 1896 as he extolled the virtues of ‘temperate temperance’. And ‘it is the prohibition that makes anything precious’ came 11 months earlier while in India, as Twain ruminated about Adam, Eve and forbidden fruit during his visit to Allahabad.
When stitched together, they make for a compelling framework for what we feel to be true about temperance and prohibitionism. In the 11 years since the release of the TV series, nobody seems to have noticed this. Still, the epigraph sets the stage for what’s to come. Burns and Novick are gifted storytellers, and every story needs conflict – heroes versus villains, good guys versus bad guys. They’ve cast prohibitionists as the bad guys, as they so often are when prohibition is remembered: hard-headed fanatics intent on dictating ‘other people’s habits’ in a manner most undemocratic and un-American.
What is the attitude of the author towards Burns and Novick?
He despises them for their twisting of words.
He admires them for their smart usage of content.
He applauds them for their storytelling.
Both A and C
Explanation
Answer – C
Option C is correct. Read the lines “Burns and Novick are gifted storytellers, and every story needs conflict – heroes versus villains, good guys versus bad guys. They’ve cast prohibitionists as the bad guys, as they so often are when prohibition is remembered: hard-headed fanatics intent on dictating ‘other people’s habits’ in a manner most undemocratic and un-American.”
A and B cannot be definitely concluded on the basis of the passage.
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Question no.13
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The cashless society – which more accurately should be called the bank-payments society – is often presented as an inevitability, an outcome of ‘natural progress’. This claim is either naïve or disingenuous. Any future cashless bank-payments society will be the outcome of a deliberate war on cash waged by an alliance of three elite groups with deep interests in seeing it emerge.
The first is the banking industry, which controls the core digital fiat money system that our public system of cash currently competes with. It irritates banks that people do indeed act upon their right to convert their bank deposits into state money. It forces them to keep the ATM network running. The cashless society, in their eyes, is a utopia where money cannot leave – or even exist – outside the banking system, but can only be transferred from bank to bank.
The second is the private payments industry – the likes of Mastercard – that profits from running the infrastructure that services that bank system, streamlining the process by which we transfer digital money between bank accounts. They have self-serving reasons to push for the removal of the cash option. Cash transactions are peer-to-peer, requiring no intermediary, and are thus transactions that Visa cannot skim a cut off.
The third – perhaps ironically – is the state, and quasi-state entities such as central banks. They are united with the financial industry in forcing everyone to buy into this privatized bank-payments society for reasons of monitoring and control. The bank-money system forms a panopticon that enables – in theory – all transactions to be recorded, watched and analyzed, good or bad. Furthermore, cash’s ‘offline’ nature means it cannot be remotely altered or frozen. This hampers central banks in implementing ‘innovative’ monetary policies, such as setting negative interest rates that slowly edit away bank deposits in order to coerce people into spending.
Governments don’t really mention that monetary policy agenda. It isn’t catchy enough. Rather, the key weapons used by the alliance are more classic shock-and-awe scare tactics. Cash is used by criminals! People buy drugs with cash! It’s the black economy! It supports tax evasion! The ability to present control as protection relies on constant calls to imagine an external enemy, the terrorist or Mafiosi. These cries of moral panic are set in contrast to the glossy smiling adverts about digital payment. The emerging cashless society looms like a futuristic sunrise, cleansing us of these dangerous filthy notes with rays of hygienic, convenient, digital salvation.
Supporting this core alliance are auxiliary corps of establishment academics, economists and futurists, living life in leafy suburbs, flying business class to speak at technology conferences, attended to by a wall of sycophantic media pundits and innovation journalists preaching the gospel of cashlessness. The Curse of Cash (2016) by Kenneth Rogoff, economics professor at Harvard, was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, undoubtedly accompanied by invitations to financial industry-sponsored conference parties in five-star hotel lobbies. The psychological assault is working. The Netherlands – where I face my vending machine – has become one key front in the war on cash. Here cash is becoming viewed like an illegal alien on the run, increasingly excluded from the formal economy, drawing dirty looks from shop assistants. Signs say ‘Card only’. Who is Card? Card is a glamorous socialite, welcomed into stores. Cards are superior. Look at the bank adverts showcasing their accessories for Card. Nobody is tower accessories for Cash.
Which of the following appropriately reflects the author’s mood towards the role of banks in enabling “cashless society”?
The author is critical of their role
The author is making sarcastic comments
The author admires the role they have played so far.
The author feels that the banks could do better to further accelerate the process
Explanation
Answer – B
Option B is correct. Read the lines “. This hampers central banks in implementing ‘innovative’ monetary policies, such as setting negative interest rates that slowly edit away bank deposits in order to coerce people into spending.
Governments don’t really mention that monetary policy agenda. It isn’t catchy enough. Rather, the key weapons used by the alliance are more classic shock-and-awe scare tactics. Cash is used by criminals! People buy drugs with cash! It’s the black economy! It supports tax evasion! The ability to present control as protection relies on constant calls to imagine an external enemy, the terrorist or Mafiosi. These cries of moral panic are set in contrast to the glossy smiling adverts about digital payment.” By giving the examples of sentences used by the government, the author is trying to make a sarcastic comment on their approach towards pushing for a “cashless society”.
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Question no.14
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The cashless society – which more accurately should be called the bank-payments society – is often presented as an inevitability, an outcome of ‘natural progress’. This claim is either naïve or disingenuous. Any future cashless bank-payments society will be the outcome of a deliberate war on cash waged by an alliance of three elite groups with deep interests in seeing it emerge.
The first is the banking industry, which controls the core digital fiat money system that our public system of cash currently competes with. It irritates banks that people do indeed act upon their right to convert their bank deposits into state money. It forces them to keep the ATM network running. The cashless society, in their eyes, is a utopia where money cannot leave – or even exist – outside the banking system, but can only be transferred from bank to bank.
The second is the private payments industry – the likes of Mastercard – that profits from running the infrastructure that services that bank system, streamlining the process by which we transfer digital money between bank accounts. They have self-serving reasons to push for the removal of the cash option. Cash transactions are peer-to-peer, requiring no intermediary, and are thus transactions that Visa cannot skim a cut off.
The third – perhaps ironically – is the state, and quasi-state entities such as central banks. They are united with the financial industry in forcing everyone to buy into this privatized bank-payments society for reasons of monitoring and control. The bank-money system forms a panopticon that enables – in theory – all transactions to be recorded, watched and analyzed, good or bad. Furthermore, cash’s ‘offline’ nature means it cannot be remotely altered or frozen. This hampers central banks in implementing ‘innovative’ monetary policies, such as setting negative interest rates that slowly edit away bank deposits in order to coerce people into spending.
Governments don’t really mention that monetary policy agenda. It isn’t catchy enough. Rather, the key weapons used by the alliance are more classic shock-and-awe scare tactics. Cash is used by criminals! People buy drugs with cash! It’s the black economy! It supports tax evasion! The ability to present control as protection relies on constant calls to imagine an external enemy, the terrorist or Mafiosi. These cries of moral panic are set in contrast to the glossy smiling adverts about digital payment. The emerging cashless society looms like a futuristic sunrise, cleansing us of these dangerous filthy notes with rays of hygienic, convenient, digital salvation.
Supporting this core alliance are auxiliary corps of establishment academics, economists and futurists, living life in leafy suburbs, flying business class to speak at technology conferences, attended to by a wall of sycophantic media pundits and innovation journalists preaching the gospel of cashlessness. The Curse of Cash (2016) by Kenneth Rogoff, economics professor at Harvard, was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, undoubtedly accompanied by invitations to financial industry-sponsored conference parties in five-star hotel lobbies. The psychological assault is working. The Netherlands – where I face my vending machine – has become one key front in the war on cash. Here cash is becoming viewed like an illegal alien on the run, increasingly excluded from the formal economy, drawing dirty looks from shop assistants. Signs say ‘Card only’. Who is Card? Card is a glamorous socialite, welcomed into stores. Cards are superior. Look at the bank adverts showcasing their accessories for Card. Nobody is tower accessories for Cash.
“The psychological assault is working.” What is psychological assault?
Ganging up of various parties to push for a cashless economy.
Consistent convincing that a cashless economy is the future.
Assaulting those who want to use cash.
Assaulting those who stand for the banking economy.
Explanation
Answer – B
Option B is correct. Read the lines “Supporting this core alliance are auxiliary corps of establishment academics, economists and futurists, living life in leafy suburbs, flying business class to speak at technology conferences, attended to by a wall of sycophantic media pundits and innovation journalists preaching the gospel of cashlessness. The Curse of Cash (2016) by Kenneth Rogoff, economics professor at Harvard, was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, undoubtedly accompanied by invitations to financial industry-sponsored conference parties in five-star hotel lobbies. The psychological assault is working.”
Hence, everyone is trying to convince us that a cashless economy is the future.
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Question no.15
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The cashless society – which more accurately should be called the bank-payments society – is often presented as an inevitability, an outcome of ‘natural progress’. This claim is either naïve or disingenuous. Any future cashless bank-payments society will be the outcome of a deliberate war on cash waged by an alliance of three elite groups with deep interests in seeing it emerge.
The first is the banking industry, which controls the core digital fiat money system that our public system of cash currently competes with. It irritates banks that people do indeed act upon their right to convert their bank deposits into state money. It forces them to keep the ATM network running. The cashless society, in their eyes, is a utopia where money cannot leave – or even exist – outside the banking system, but can only be transferred from bank to bank.
The second is the private payments industry – the likes of Mastercard – that profits from running the infrastructure that services that bank system, streamlining the process by which we transfer digital money between bank accounts. They have self-serving reasons to push for the removal of the cash option. Cash transactions are peer-to-peer, requiring no intermediary, and are thus transactions that Visa cannot skim a cut off.
The third – perhaps ironically – is the state, and quasi-state entities such as central banks. They are united with the financial industry in forcing everyone to buy into this privatized bank-payments society for reasons of monitoring and control. The bank-money system forms a panopticon that enables – in theory – all transactions to be recorded, watched and analyzed, good or bad. Furthermore, cash’s ‘offline’ nature means it cannot be remotely altered or frozen. This hampers central banks in implementing ‘innovative’ monetary policies, such as setting negative interest rates that slowly edit away bank deposits in order to coerce people into spending.
Governments don’t really mention that monetary policy agenda. It isn’t catchy enough. Rather, the key weapons used by the alliance are more classic shock-and-awe scare tactics. Cash is used by criminals! People buy drugs with cash! It’s the black economy! It supports tax evasion! The ability to present control as protection relies on constant calls to imagine an external enemy, the terrorist or Mafiosi. These cries of moral panic are set in contrast to the glossy smiling adverts about digital payment. The emerging cashless society looms like a futuristic sunrise, cleansing us of these dangerous filthy notes with rays of hygienic, convenient, digital salvation.
Supporting this core alliance are auxiliary corps of establishment academics, economists and futurists, living life in leafy suburbs, flying business class to speak at technology conferences, attended to by a wall of sycophantic media pundits and innovation journalists preaching the gospel of cashlessness. The Curse of Cash (2016) by Kenneth Rogoff, economics professor at Harvard, was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, undoubtedly accompanied by invitations to financial industry-sponsored conference parties in five-star hotel lobbies. The psychological assault is working. The Netherlands – where I face my vending machine – has become one key front in the war on cash. Here cash is becoming viewed like an illegal alien on the run, increasingly excluded from the formal economy, drawing dirty looks from shop assistants. Signs say ‘Card only’. Who is Card? Card is a glamorous socialite, welcomed into stores. Cards are superior. Look at the bank adverts showcasing their accessories for Card. Nobody is tower accessories for Cash.
Which of the following is true regarding “fiat money” as per the passage?
A. It is a type of money in existence due to the banking system.
B. It is an alternative to cash.
C. It is a type of cash.
Only A
Only B
Only C
A and B
Explanation
Answer – D
Option D is correct. Read the lines “The first is the banking industry, which controls the core digital fiat money system that our public system of cash currently competes with.”
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Question no.16
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The cashless society – which more accurately should be called the bank-payments society – is often presented as an inevitability, an outcome of ‘natural progress’. This claim is either naïve or disingenuous. Any future cashless bank-payments society will be the outcome of a deliberate war on cash waged by an alliance of three elite groups with deep interests in seeing it emerge.
The first is the banking industry, which controls the core digital fiat money system that our public system of cash currently competes with. It irritates banks that people do indeed act upon their right to convert their bank deposits into state money. It forces them to keep the ATM network running. The cashless society, in their eyes, is a utopia where money cannot leave – or even exist – outside the banking system, but can only be transferred from bank to bank.
The second is the private payments industry – the likes of Mastercard – that profits from running the infrastructure that services that bank system, streamlining the process by which we transfer digital money between bank accounts. They have self-serving reasons to push for the removal of the cash option. Cash transactions are peer-to-peer, requiring no intermediary, and are thus transactions that Visa cannot skim a cut off.
The third – perhaps ironically – is the state, and quasi-state entities such as central banks. They are united with the financial industry in forcing everyone to buy into this privatized bank-payments society for reasons of monitoring and control. The bank-money system forms a panopticon that enables – in theory – all transactions to be recorded, watched and analyzed, good or bad. Furthermore, cash’s ‘offline’ nature means it cannot be remotely altered or frozen. This hampers central banks in implementing ‘innovative’ monetary policies, such as setting negative interest rates that slowly edit away bank deposits in order to coerce people into spending.
Governments don’t really mention that monetary policy agenda. It isn’t catchy enough. Rather, the key weapons used by the alliance are more classic shock-and-awe scare tactics. Cash is used by criminals! People buy drugs with cash! It’s the black economy! It supports tax evasion! The ability to present control as protection relies on constant calls to imagine an external enemy, the terrorist or Mafiosi. These cries of moral panic are set in contrast to the glossy smiling adverts about digital payment. The emerging cashless society looms like a futuristic sunrise, cleansing us of these dangerous filthy notes with rays of hygienic, convenient, digital salvation.
Supporting this core alliance are auxiliary corps of establishment academics, economists and futurists, living life in leafy suburbs, flying business class to speak at technology conferences, attended to by a wall of sycophantic media pundits and innovation journalists preaching the gospel of cashlessness. The Curse of Cash (2016) by Kenneth Rogoff, economics professor at Harvard, was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, undoubtedly accompanied by invitations to financial industry-sponsored conference parties in five-star hotel lobbies. The psychological assault is working. The Netherlands – where I face my vending machine – has become one key front in the war on cash. Here cash is becoming viewed like an illegal alien on the run, increasingly excluded from the formal economy, drawing dirty looks from shop assistants. Signs say ‘Card only’. Who is Card? Card is a glamorous socialite, welcomed into stores. Cards are superior. Look at the bank adverts showcasing their accessories for Card. Nobody is tower accessories for Cash.
Which of the following is NOT a reason why the central government pushes for a cashless economy?
It gives them total control via monetary policy.
Each and every transaction can be verified and checked.
It promotes tax evasion.
It enables monitoring and control.
Explanation
Answer – C
Option C is correct. Read the lines “The third – perhaps ironically – is the state, and quasi-state entities such as central banks. They are united with the financial industry in forcing everyone to buy into this privatized bank-payments society for reasons of monitoring and control. The bank-money system forms a panopticon that enables – in theory – all transactions to be recorded, watched and analyzed, good or bad. Furthermore, cash’s ‘offline’ nature means it cannot be remotely altered or frozen. This hampers central banks in implementing ‘innovative’ monetary policies, such as setting negative interest rates that slowly edit away bank deposits in order to coerce people into spending.”
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Question no.17
4 sentences are given. Re-arrange them to make a meaningful paragraph.
1. The cells pursue with determination and gusto: under a microscope you can watch a blob-like macrophage chase a bacterium across the slide, switching course this way and that as its prey tries to escape through an obstacle course of red blood cells, before it finally catches the rogue microbe and gobbles it up.
2. Single cells don’t have minds of their own – so surely they don’t have goals, determination, gusto?
3. But hang on: isn’t this an absurdly anthropomorphic way of describing a biological process?
4. Animal immune systems depend on white blood cells called macrophages that devour and engulf invaders.
Explanation
Answer - 4132
4 should begin the paragraph as all other sentences provide a link to the previous sentence and cannot be the beginning sentence. 1 should follow as it defines how the immune system works. 3 should follow 1 as the “anthropomorphic way” is defined in 1. 2 gives a specific question following 3.
So, 4132 is the right sequence
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Question no.18
4 sentences are given. Re-arrange them to make a meaningful paragraph.
1. These words, which could have been written yesterday, come from Thinking to Some Purpose
2. This little book, which could easily be slipped into a pocket and read on the train, in a lunch hour, or at a bus stop, was pitched at the intelligent general reader.
3. a popular book by the British philosopher Susan Stebbing, first published in 1939 in the Penguin ‘Pelican’ books series, with that familiar blue-and-white cover
4. ‘There is an urgent need today for the citizens of a democracy to think well.’
Explanation
Answer – 4132
41 forms a mandatory pair as “these words” mentioned in 1 are stated in 5. 3 then explains about the book mentioned in 1 and 2 carries it forward. So, 4132 is the right sequence. So, 4132 is the correct sequence.
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 46.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Correct
Question no.19
4 sentences are given. Re-arrange them to make a meaningful paragraph.
1. Although Fukuzawa thought that Westerners’ manners were dreadful, he admired their independence of thought and open discourses.
2. In 1860, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a young Japanese student still learning English himself, accompanied the first ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States as its English interpreter.
3. This American encounter, along with a second trip with a Japanese Embassy to Europe in 1862 and a third trip back to the US in 1867, greatly influenced his thinking about Japan and its future.
4. On his trips, he focused not on Western philosophy and science, knowledge he thought he could absorb by reading a book on the subject but on the more practical side of US and European affairs.
Explanation
Answer – 2314
2 should be the 1st sentence as it contains the complete name. 3 should follow 2 as the “American encounter” is explained in 2. 1 then carries the point made in 3 forward. So, 231 is the right sequence. Following the rule of complete name to surname to pronoun, 4 should come after 231.
So, 2314 is the right sequence.
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 10.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Correct
Question no.20
A passage is given followed by 4 options. Choose the option which aptly captures the essence of the passage.
Almost a decade ago, Conservatives thought that Labor’s proposed energy price freeze was part of the “Marxist universe” the party inhabited. Now the prime minister, Liz Truss, finds herself there. Labor and the Tories see eye-to-eye on the need for intervention in energy markets because of a dizzying surge in domestic energy bills. Not since the 1970s have politicians put themselves center-stage in energy markets. Freezing the average annual household energy bill at £2,500 from October is a good policy, but it is not good enough to prevent 6.7m homes finding themselves in fuel poverty. The answer would be to increase benefits, but Ms Truss is adverse to “handouts”. That said, her policy leaves bills £1,000 lower than what the regulator predicted. Businesses will get similar-sized help. The package is expected to reduce inflation by up to 5%.
Liz Truss is coming up with policies to reduce energy bills in Britain despite it being against her party’s policies.
Britain faces an energy crisis with the prime minister Liz Truss being at the center of it. Her policies will not suffice to resolve the issues.
Liz Truss policies may alleviate energy issues in Britain- but just freezing prices is not sufficient.
Liz Truss’ “Marxist universe” is not a solution for the mounting energy bills in Britain.
Explanation
Answer – C
Option C is correct. It encompasses all the aspects of the passage: energy issues in Britain- how Truss policies may help- how more needs to be done for resolving the issue.
Option A is twisted as we do not know if it is against her party’s policies or not.
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 24.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Unanswered
Question no.21
A passage is given followed by 4 options. Choose the option which aptly captures the essence of the passage.
At the turn of the 1600s, a handful of Protestant pastors and chaplains in Amsterdam began accompanying ships of the United East India Company (VOC) to small Dutch commercial settlements in Southeast Asia. These Calvinist (also Reformed Protestant) ministers went to faraway lands to keep company employees from falling prey to false religions and to convert ‘heathens’ and ‘Moors’ (Muslims) to Protestant Christianity. Thus, Calvinism went global in the 17th century and, by the time the VOC closed its doors in December 1799, the Dutch Reformed Church had established dozens of churches, planted hundreds of schools, and converted thousands of Indigenous peoples around the world. Calvinism achieved these distinctions against all odds. Its operations got underway a century after Catholic missions; the number of its ministers paled in comparison with the legions sent out by the Roman Church; and Calvinists held to the doctrine of predestination, which taught that God had already decided everyone’s eternal fate before he created the world.
Calvinism became global on the back of Protestant Christians and went on to deploy its operations despite many setbacks.
Calvinism spread with Dutch settlements and went on to expand as its followers grew globally while taking upon to reform “heathens” and “moors”.
Calvinism spread with Dutch settlements and went on to improve the heathens and moors with its expansion.
Calvinism spread with commercial settlements and took followers to grow globally.
Explanation
Answer – B
Option B is correct. The passage states that Calvinism or reformed protestants spread with dutch settlements and took to improve those it considered heathens and moors. It spread as its followers grew. Option B captures this aptly.
A is wrong as it mentions “on the back of protestant christians”.
C is wrong as the passage does not mention it improved heathens and moors- it took it upon itself to improve them.
D mentions commercial settlements and not Dutch settlements specifically.
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Hard
Trivia: 29.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Unanswered
Question no.22
A passage is given followed by 4 options. Choose the option which aptly captures the essence of the passage.
“Merely a trifle! Merely a trifle! And it isn’t really finished!” says CS Lewis’s Mr Beaver when Susan, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, compliments his dam. In icy Narnia, the Beavers come to the children’s rescue after their friend Mr Tumnus is captured. They are ingenious, energetic, helpful to humans – in other words, not entirely dissimilar from how conservationists might describe them (with the exception of Lewis’s thoroughly old-fashioned view of gender roles: while Mr Beaver is the couple’s builder, Mrs Beaver is a seamstress). Beavers were hunted to extinction across much of Europe hundreds of years ago. When The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was published in 1950 they were, although not mythical creatures, partly imaginary ones in the sense that vanishingly few Britons had ever seen one. It is no wonder, given how warmly their memory lived on in books such as Lewis’s, that their successful reintroduction to England and Scotland is widely if not universally regarded as good news.
Beavers are helpful creatures and should be protected from being extinct.
The helpful nature of beavers is well captured in CS Lewis’ movie and will facilitate their reintroduction in England and New Zealand.
The helpful nature of beavers needs to be understood by people and movies like The Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe go a long way in explaining the same.
Beavers are to be reintroduced to New Zealand and England and movies like The Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe go a long way the same.
Explanation
Answer – B
The passage mentions how beavers are helpful, as captured in the movie, and how their reintroduction is good news. This is aptly captured in B.
A does not mention the movie at all.
C does not mention the “re-introduction”.
D does not mention their helpful nature.
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Easy
Trivia: 16.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Unanswered
Question no.23
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.
Sentence: The Stanway physician, if that was his profession, may therefore have been someone who doubled as a ritual healer, just as some modern shamans do.
Paragraph: The possibility that the Stanway ‘doctor’ practised Druid-like divination is further demonstrated by another group of grave goods, also positioned on the game board: two sets of metal rods, four of bronze and four of iron, four small and four larger. __(1)__ They don’t appear to have had a practical function but they strongly suggest to me their use as divining rods. __(2)__ Tacitus describes the wooden rods that Germanic priests used to gather into bundles and toss onto a piece of white cloth. __(3)__ They divined the will of the gods by reading the patterns made by these rods when they had fallen. __(4)__
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Option 4
Explanation
Answer: D
The fourth blank is the most appropriate because it directly reinforces rod divination, which supplements the context offered by the preceding phrases. It is a logical extension of the discussion of divining rods, providing historical insight into their use by Germanic priests. This statement adds important information on the cultural and religious activities involved with divination, which helps the reader understand. By putting it in the fourth blank, it coincides with the narrative flow and ensures that readers get a complete picture of this historical practice. This arrangement improves the coherence and efficacy of the paragraph in expressing its content.
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 16.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Unanswered
Question no.24
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.
Sentence: The passing of time does not necessarily heal economic and social wounds.
Paragraph: The 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe occurred over three decades ago, yet the echoes of these stories, and their enduring moral significance, continue to resonate today. __(1)__ The notion that individual responsibility solely determines economic outcomes is highly divisive and largely misrepresents the workings of society. __(2)__ However, we cannot and should not give up on the idea of political responsibility. __(3)__ As Marci Shore reminds us, the readiness to assume responsibility emerges as a key political lesson from the convoluted eastern European experience of the 20th century, and now – in light of the Maidan protest movement, and the struggle against reactionary Russia and its far Right-wing allies around the world – also the 21st. __(4)__
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Option 4
Explanation
Answer: A
Blank 1 is well-placed since it establishes the paragraph's main theme: the long-term consequences of the 1989 upheavals. It emphasizes that the passage of time has not alleviated the economic and social concerns caused by those events. This puts the subsequent assertions about individual and political responsibility into context. The logical flow would be disrupted if this sentence was placed in blanks 2, 3, or 4. For example, in void 2, it would abruptly change the attention to economic results without first establishing the context. In void 3, it would enter into political duty too soon. The immediate background for this statement is not Blank 4, which discusses Maidan and worldwide struggles.
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 21.00% users answered right
Subject: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Result: Unanswered
Question no.1
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
Bharat Suburban has a total population of 7000 Lakhs and is divided into 5 talukas – A to E. Each taluka has a representation of men, women and children. The following information is known about the population in Bharat Suburban.
Which ward had the highest male population?
B
D
E
A
Explanation
Answers – C
Sol: A quick glance through the questions must make it clear that in most of the questions you are not expected to tabulate the exact numbers. Simply using the percentages one can easily solve the given questions. However, for the benefit of all test takers let us show the information in tabular format as below -
|
|
Percentage of total population |
Total population |
Percentage of women and children in each ward |
Number of women and children |
Percentage of children |
Number of children |
|
A |
20 |
20% of 7000 = 1400 |
20 |
20%*1400= 280 |
75 |
75%*280=210 |
|
B |
15 |
1050 |
40 |
420 |
50 |
210 |
|
C |
12 |
840 |
60 |
504 |
50 |
252 |
|
D |
20 |
1400 |
80 |
1120 |
30 |
336 |
|
E |
33 |
2310 |
10 |
231 |
100 |
231 |
|
|
|
7000 |
|
|
|
|
And the number of each population segment in can ward be shown as –
Number of men = total population – number of women and children
Number of women = number of women and children – number of children
|
|
Number of Men |
Number of Women |
Number of Children |
|
A |
1120 |
70 |
210 |
|
B |
630 |
210 |
210 |
|
C |
336 |
252 |
252 |
|
D |
280 |
784 |
336 |
|
E |
2079 |
0 |
231 |
From the table we know that E has the highest male population. Hence, C
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 84.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Correct
Question no.2
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
Bharat Suburban has a total population of 7000 Lakhs and is divided into 5 talukas – A to E. Each taluka has a representation of men, women and children. The following information is known about the population in Bharat Suburban.
Which ward had the lowest children population?
A
B
C
Both 1 and 2
Explanation
Answer – D
Sol: A quick glance through the questions must make it clear that in most of the questions you are not expected to tabulate the exact numbers. Simply using the percentages one can easily solve the given questions. However, for the benefit of all test takers let us show the information in tabular format as below -
|
|
Percentage of total population |
Total population |
Percentage of women and children in each ward |
Number of women and children |
Percentage of children |
Number of children |
|
A |
20 |
20% of 7000 = 1400 |
20 |
20%*1400= 280 |
75 |
75%*280=210 |
|
B |
15 |
1050 |
40 |
420 |
50 |
210 |
|
C |
12 |
840 |
60 |
504 |
50 |
252 |
|
D |
20 |
1400 |
80 |
1120 |
30 |
336 |
|
E |
33 |
2310 |
10 |
231 |
100 |
231 |
|
|
|
7000 |
|
|
|
|
And the number of each population segment in can ward be shown as –
Number of men = total population – number of women and children
Number of women = number of women and children – number of children
|
|
Number of Men |
Number of Women |
Number of Children |
|
A |
1120 |
70 |
210 |
|
B |
630 |
210 |
210 |
|
C |
336 |
252 |
252 |
|
D |
280 |
784 |
336 |
|
E |
2079 |
0 |
231 |
Hence, D
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 69.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Correct
Question no.3
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
Bharat Suburban has a total population of 7000 Lakhs and is divided into 5 talukas – A to E. Each taluka has a representation of men, women and children. The following information is known about the population in Bharat Suburban.
The number of women is highest in ___________
A
B
C
D
Explanation
Answer – D
Sol: A quick glance through the questions must make it clear that in most of the questions you are not expected to tabulate the exact numbers. Simply using the percentages one can easily solve the given questions. However, for the benefit of all test takers let us show the information in tabular format as below -
|
|
Percentage of total population |
Total population |
Percentage of women and children in each ward |
Number of women and children |
Percentage of children |
Number of children |
|
A |
20 |
20% of 7000 = 1400 |
20 |
20%*1400= 280 |
75 |
75%*280=210 |
|
B |
15 |
1050 |
40 |
420 |
50 |
210 |
|
C |
12 |
840 |
60 |
504 |
50 |
252 |
|
D |
20 |
1400 |
80 |
1120 |
30 |
336 |
|
E |
33 |
2310 |
10 |
231 |
100 |
231 |
|
|
|
7000 |
|
|
|
|
And the number of each population segment in can ward be shown as –
Number of men = total population – number of women and children
Number of women = number of women and children – number of children
|
|
Number of Men |
Number of Women |
Number of Children |
|
A |
1120 |
70 |
210 |
|
B |
630 |
210 |
210 |
|
C |
336 |
252 |
252 |
|
D |
280 |
784 |
336 |
|
E |
2079 |
0 |
231 |
Hence, D
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 87.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Correct
Question no.4
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
Bharat Suburban has a total population of 7000 Lakhs and is divided into 5 talukas – A to E. Each taluka has a representation of men, women and children. The following information is known about the population in Bharat Suburban.
The number of children (in Lakhs) in D is _________. (Mark ‘0’ if the answer cannot be determined)
Explanation
Answer – 336
Sol: A quick glance through the questions must make it clear that in most of the questions you are not expected to tabulate the exact numbers. Simply using the percentages one can easily solve the given questions. However, for the benefit of all test takers let us show the information in tabular format as below -
|
|
Percentage of total population |
Total population |
Percentage of women and children in each ward |
Number of women and children |
Percentage of children |
Number of children |
|
A |
20 |
20% of 7000 = 1400 |
20 |
20%*1400= 280 |
75 |
75%*280=210 |
|
B |
15 |
1050 |
40 |
420 |
50 |
210 |
|
C |
12 |
840 |
60 |
504 |
50 |
252 |
|
D |
20 |
1400 |
80 |
1120 |
30 |
336 |
|
E |
33 |
2310 |
10 |
231 |
100 |
231 |
|
|
|
7000 |
|
|
|
|
And the number of each population segment in can ward be shown as –
Number of men = total population – number of women and children
Number of women = number of women and children – number of children
|
|
Number of Men |
Number of Women |
Number of Children |
|
A |
1120 |
70 |
210 |
|
B |
630 |
210 |
210 |
|
C |
336 |
252 |
252 |
|
D |
280 |
784 |
336 |
|
E |
2079 |
0 |
231 |
Hence, 336
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 62.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Incorrect
Question no.5
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
Bharat Suburban has a total population of 7000 Lakhs and is divided into 5 talukas – A to E. Each taluka has a representation of men, women and children. The following information is known about the population in Bharat Suburban.
The number of men in ward B is what percentage of the number of women in ward D?
80.35%
85.26%
78.2%
85%
Explanation
Answer – A
Sol: A quick glance through the questions must make it clear that in most of the questions you are not expected to tabulate the exact numbers. Simply using the percentages one can easily solve the given questions. However, for the benefit of all test takers let us show the information in tabular format as below -
|
|
Percentage of total population |
Total population |
Percentage of women and children in each ward |
Number of women and children |
Percentage of children |
Number of children |
|
A |
20 |
20% of 7000 = 1400 |
20 |
20%*1400= 280 |
75 |
75%*280=210 |
|
B |
15 |
1050 |
40 |
420 |
50 |
210 |
|
C |
12 |
840 |
60 |
504 |
50 |
252 |
|
D |
20 |
1400 |
80 |
1120 |
30 |
336 |
|
E |
33 |
2310 |
10 |
231 |
100 |
231 |
|
|
|
7000 |
|
|
|
|
And the number of each population segment in can ward be shown as –
Number of men = total population – number of women and children
Number of women = number of women and children – number of children
|
|
Number of Men |
Number of Women |
Number of Children |
|
A |
1120 |
70 |
210 |
|
B |
630 |
210 |
210 |
|
C |
336 |
252 |
252 |
|
D |
280 |
784 |
336 |
|
E |
2079 |
0 |
231 |
number of men in ward B = 630
number of women in ward D = 784
Required percentage will be
630/784 x100 = 80.35%
Hence, A
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 77.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Correct
Question no.6
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
Jeeyo, a telecom company offers free simcards to its users. However, there have been instances of people not using the simcards effectively causing unnecessary allotment of numbers. To tackle this the MD of Jeeyo rolled out a plan where a new simcard that is not used within 2 days gets locked automatically and not suitable for use. For a particular week (W) the following were the day-wise trends of simcards locked, used and booked. No card was used on the same day of allotment i.e. either next day or the day after that. Further it is known that the number of cards used on the second day of allotment for Saturday and Sunday of week (X-1) and Monday of week (X) was 2, 3 and 5 respectively.
|
|
Cumulative cards allotted |
Cards used |
Cards blocked |
|
Mon |
68 |
30 |
13 |
|
Tue |
76 |
12 |
14 |
|
Wed |
89 |
10 |
20 |
|
Thur |
107 |
9 |
23 |
|
Fri |
129 |
14 |
27 |
|
Sat |
138 |
12 |
29 |
|
Sun |
144 |
6 |
35 |
How many cards were allotted on Saturday of week (X-1)?
16
32
20
None of these
Explanation
Answer – A
Sol: We are given that 2, 3 and 5 cards allotted on Sat, Sun and Mon were used on day 2. We can create a table to show the daywise information as follows –
|
|
Cumulative cards alloted |
Cards alloted on day K |
Cards Used |
Cards used on day K+1 |
Cards used on day K+2 |
Cumulative cards locked |
Cards locked |
|
Saturday |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
Sunday |
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
Monday |
68 |
|
30 |
|
5 |
13 |
|
|
Tuesday |
76 |
|
12 |
|
|
14 |
|
|
Wednesday |
89 |
|
10 |
|
|
20 |
|
|
Thursday |
107 |
|
9 |
|
|
23 |
|
|
Friday |
129 |
|
14 |
|
|
27 |
|
|
Saturday |
138 |
|
12 |
|
|
29 |
|
|
Sunday |
144 |
|
6 |
|
|
35 |
|
The day wise cards allotted and locked can be easily calculated by taking the difference between 2 cumulative values. Thus,
Now, the 30 cards used on Monday must have been allotted on either Saturday or Sunday. For Saturday, 2 cards allotted were used on Sunday. Thus the remaining 30-2 =28 cards must be allotted on Sunday and used on day K+1 i.e. Monday. Also, the cards allotted on Sunday can be calculated as
Cards allotted on Sunday = cards used on Monday + Cards used on Tuesday + Cards locked on Tuesday. = 28+3+1= 32. Similarly for Monday. Thus,
Now, for each day starting from Tuesday, cards used on Day K+2 = Cards allotted on day K – cards used on day K+1 – Cards lost on day K+2 (Thursday) = 8-5-3 = 0 and so on for other days. Also, Cards used on day K+1 = Cards used on Wednesday – Cards used on day K+2 = 10-5 = 5. Using the same logic for all other days we can get the final table as –
Hence, 16
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Hard
Trivia: 4.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Unanswered
Question no.7
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
Jeeyo, a telecom company offers free simcards to its users. However, there have been instances of people not using the simcards effectively causing unnecessary allotment of numbers. To tackle this the MD of Jeeyo rolled out a plan where a new simcard that is not used within 2 days gets locked automatically and not suitable for use. For a particular week (W) the following were the day-wise trends of simcards locked, used and booked. No card was used on the same day of allotment i.e. either next day or the day after that. Further it is known that the number of cards used on the second day of allotment for Saturday and Sunday of week (X-1) and Monday of week (X) was 2, 3 and 5 respectively.
|
|
Cumulative cards allotted |
Cards used |
Cards blocked |
|
Mon |
68 |
30 |
13 |
|
Tue |
76 |
12 |
14 |
|
Wed |
89 |
10 |
20 |
|
Thur |
107 |
9 |
23 |
|
Fri |
129 |
14 |
27 |
|
Sat |
138 |
12 |
29 |
|
Sun |
144 |
6 |
35 |
Which day for week X had the highest allotment of cards?
Monday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Explanation
Answer – C
Sol: We are given that 2, 3 and 5 cards allotted on Sat, Sun and Mon were used on day 2. We can create a table to show the daywise information as follows –
|
|
Cumulative cards alloted |
Cards alloted on day K |
Cards Used |
Cards used on day K+1 |
Cards used on day K+2 |
Cumulative cards locked |
Cards locked |
|
Saturday |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
Sunday |
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
Monday |
68 |
|
30 |
|
5 |
13 |
|
|
Tuesday |
76 |
|
12 |
|
|
14 |
|
|
Wednesday |
89 |
|
10 |
|
|
20 |
|
|
Thursday |
107 |
|
9 |
|
|
23 |
|
|
Friday |
129 |
|
14 |
|
|
27 |
|
|
Saturday |
138 |
|
12 |
|
|
29 |
|
|
Sunday |
144 |
|
6 |
|
|
35 |
|
The day wise cards allotted and locked can be easily calculated by taking the difference between 2 cumulative values. Thus,
Now, the 30 cards used on Monday must have been allotted on either Saturday or Sunday. For Saturday, 2 cards allotted were used on Sunday. Thus the remaining 30-2 =28 cards must be allotted on Sunday and used on day K+1 i.e. Monday. Also, the cards allotted on Sunday can be calculated as
Cards allotted on Sunday = cards used on Monday + Cards used on Tuesday + Cards locked on Tuesday. = 28+3+1= 32. Similarly for Monday. Thus,
Now, for each day starting from Tuesday, cards used on Day K+2 = Cards allotted on day K – cards used on day K+1 – Cards lost on day K+2 (Thursday) = 8-5-3 = 0 and so on for other days. Also, Cards used on day K+1 = Cards used on Wednesday – Cards used on day K+2 = 10-5 = 5. Using the same logic for all other days we can get the final table as –
Hence, C
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Hard
Trivia: 20.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Unanswered
Question no.8
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
Jeeyo, a telecom company offers free simcards to its users. However, there have been instances of people not using the simcards effectively causing unnecessary allotment of numbers. To tackle this the MD of Jeeyo rolled out a plan where a new simcard that is not used within 2 days gets locked automatically and not suitable for use. For a particular week (W) the following were the day-wise trends of simcards locked, used and booked. No card was used on the same day of allotment i.e. either next day or the day after that. Further it is known that the number of cards used on the second day of allotment for Saturday and Sunday of week (X-1) and Monday of week (X) was 2, 3 and 5 respectively.
|
|
Cumulative cards allotted |
Cards used |
Cards blocked |
|
Mon |
68 |
30 |
13 |
|
Tue |
76 |
12 |
14 |
|
Wed |
89 |
10 |
20 |
|
Thur |
107 |
9 |
23 |
|
Fri |
129 |
14 |
27 |
|
Sat |
138 |
12 |
29 |
|
Sun |
144 |
6 |
35 |
What was the total number of cards locked in week X?
Explanation
Answer – 22
Sol: We are given that 2, 3 and 5 cards allotted on Sat, Sun and Mon were used on day 2. We can create a table to show the daywise information as follows –
|
|
Cumulative cards alloted |
Cards alloted on day K |
Cards Used |
Cards used on day K+1 |
Cards used on day K+2 |
Cumulative cards locked |
Cards locked |
|
Saturday |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
Sunday |
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
Monday |
68 |
|
30 |
|
5 |
13 |
|
|
Tuesday |
76 |
|
12 |
|
|
14 |
|
|
Wednesday |
89 |
|
10 |
|
|
20 |
|
|
Thursday |
107 |
|
9 |
|
|
23 |
|
|
Friday |
129 |
|
14 |
|
|
27 |
|
|
Saturday |
138 |
|
12 |
|
|
29 |
|
|
Sunday |
144 |
|
6 |
|
|
35 |
|
The day wise cards allotted and locked can be easily calculated by taking the difference between 2 cumulative values. Thus,
Now, the 30 cards used on Monday must have been allotted on either Saturday or Sunday. For Saturday, 2 cards allotted were used on Sunday. Thus the remaining 30-2 =28 cards must be allotted on Sunday and used on day K+1 i.e. Monday. Also, the cards allotted on Sunday can be calculated as
Cards allotted on Sunday = cards used on Monday + Cards used on Tuesday + Cards locked on Tuesday. = 28+3+1= 32. Similarly for Monday. Thus,
Now, for each day starting from Tuesday, cards used on Day K+2 = Cards allotted on day K – cards used on day K+1 – Cards lost on day K+2 (Thursday) = 8-5-3 = 0 and so on for other days. Also, Cards used on day K+1 = Cards used on Wednesday – Cards used on day K+2 = 10-5 = 5. Using the same logic for all other days we can get the final table as –
Hence, 1+6+3+4+2+6 = 22
Marks:
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Hard
Trivia: 3.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Unanswered
Question no.9
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
Jeeyo, a telecom company offers free simcards to its users. However, there have been instances of people not using the simcards effectively causing unnecessary allotment of numbers. To tackle this the MD of Jeeyo rolled out a plan where a new simcard that is not used within 2 days gets locked automatically and not suitable for use. For a particular week (W) the following were the day-wise trends of simcards locked, used and booked. No card was used on the same day of allotment i.e. either next day or the day after that. Further it is known that the number of cards used on the second day of allotment for Saturday and Sunday of week (X-1) and Monday of week (X) was 2, 3 and 5 respectively.
|
|
Cumulative cards allotted |
Cards used |
Cards blocked |
|
Mon |
68 |
30 |
13 |
|
Tue |
76 |
12 |
14 |
|
Wed |
89 |
10 |
20 |
|
Thur |
107 |
9 |
23 |
|
Fri |
129 |
14 |
27 |
|
Sat |
138 |
12 |
29 |
|
Sun |
144 |
6 |
35 |
The cards allotted on which among the following days of week X had the maximum number of usage on the immediate next day?
Monday
Thursday
Friday
Tuesday
Explanation
Answers – B
Sol: We are given that 2, 3 and 5 cards allotted on Sat, Sun and Mon were used on day 2. We can create a table to show the daywise information as follows –
|
|
Cumulative cards alloted |
Cards alloted on day K |
Cards Used |
Cards used on day K+1 |
Cards used on day K+2 |
Cumulative cards locked |
Cards locked |
|
Saturday |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
Sunday |
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
Monday |
68 |
|
30 |
|
5 |
13 |
|
|
Tuesday |
76 |
|
12 |
|
|
14 |
|
|
Wednesday |
89 |
|
10 |
|
|
20 |
|
|
Thursday |
107 |
|
9 |
|
|
23 |
|
|
Friday |
129 |
|
14 |
|
|
27 |
|
|
Saturday |
138 |
|
12 |
|
|
29 |
|
|
Sunday |
144 |
|
6 |
|
|
35 |
|
The day wise cards allotted and locked can be easily calculated by taking the difference between 2 cumulative values. Thus,
Now, the 30 cards used on Monday must have been allotted on either Saturday or Sunday. For Saturday, 2 cards allotted were used on Sunday. Thus the remaining 30-2 =28 cards must be allotted on Sunday and used on day K+1 i.e. Monday. Also, the cards allotted on Sunday can be calculated as
Cards allotted on Sunday = cards used on Monday + Cards used on Tuesday + Cards locked on Tuesday. = 28+3+1= 32. Similarly for Monday. Thus,
Now, for each day starting from Tuesday, cards used on Day K+2 = Cards allotted on day K – cards used on day K+1 – Cards lost on day K+2 (Thursday) = 8-5-3 = 0 and so on for other days. Also, Cards used on day K+1 = Cards used on Wednesday – Cards used on day K+2 = 10-5 = 5. Using the same logic for all other days we can get the final table as –
Hence, B
Marks:
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Hard
Trivia: 6.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Unanswered
Question no.10
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
Jeeyo, a telecom company offers free simcards to its users. However, there have been instances of people not using the simcards effectively causing unnecessary allotment of numbers. To tackle this the MD of Jeeyo rolled out a plan where a new simcard that is not used within 2 days gets locked automatically and not suitable for use. For a particular week (W) the following were the day-wise trends of simcards locked, used and booked. No card was used on the same day of allotment i.e. either next day or the day after that. Further it is known that the number of cards used on the second day of allotment for Saturday and Sunday of week (X-1) and Monday of week (X) was 2, 3 and 5 respectively.
|
|
Cumulative cards allotted |
Cards used |
Cards blocked |
|
Mon |
68 |
30 |
13 |
|
Tue |
76 |
12 |
14 |
|
Wed |
89 |
10 |
20 |
|
Thur |
107 |
9 |
23 |
|
Fri |
129 |
14 |
27 |
|
Sat |
138 |
12 |
29 |
|
Sun |
144 |
6 |
35 |
The cards allotted on which day of week X had the minimum number of usage on the immediate next day?
Monday
Thursday
Friday
Cannot be determined
Explanation
Answers – D
Sol: We are given that 2, 3 and 5 cards allotted on Sat, Sun and Mon were used on day 2. We can create a table to show the daywise information as follows –
|
|
Cumulative cards alloted |
Cards alloted on day K |
Cards Used |
Cards used on day K+1 |
Cards used on day K+2 |
Cumulative cards locked |
Cards locked |
|
Saturday |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
Sunday |
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
Monday |
68 |
|
30 |
|
5 |
13 |
|
|
Tuesday |
76 |
|
12 |
|
|
14 |
|
|
Wednesday |
89 |
|
10 |
|
|
20 |
|
|
Thursday |
107 |
|
9 |
|
|
23 |
|
|
Friday |
129 |
|
14 |
|
|
27 |
|
|
Saturday |
138 |
|
12 |
|
|
29 |
|
|
Sunday |
144 |
|
6 |
|
|
35 |
|
The day wise cards allotted and locked can be easily calculated by taking the difference between 2 cumulative values. Thus,
Now, the 30 cards used on Monday must have been allotted on either Saturday or Sunday. For Saturday, 2 cards allotted were used on Sunday. Thus the remaining 30-2 =28 cards must be allotted on Sunday and used on day K+1 i.e. Monday. Also, the cards allotted on Sunday can be calculated as
Cards allotted on Sunday = cards used on Monday + Cards used on Tuesday + Cards locked on Tuesday. = 28+3+1= 32. Similarly for Monday. Thus,
Now, for each day starting from Tuesday, cards used on Day K+2 = Cards allotted on day K – cards used on day K+1 – Cards lost on day K+2 (Thursday) = 8-5-3 = 0 and so on for other days. Also, Cards used on day K+1 = Cards used on Wednesday – Cards used on day K+2 = 10-5 = 5. Using the same logic for all other days we can get the final table as –
The dataset is incomplete as the values for Saturday and Sunday of week X cannot be directly calculated. More information is required to answer this. Hence, D
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Hard
Trivia: 4.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Unanswered
Question no.11
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
5 students – Jigar, Jatin, Jignesh, Jayant and Jaimin took an exam of 50 marks in which no two people scored the same marks. It is known that
1. The marks scored by all the students was more than 33
2. Jatin was the third highest scorer. Both Jatin and Jigar had prime scores
3. Exactly 2 people had prime scores
4. Jignesh was not the top scorer but Jatin-Jigar-3= Jignesh /7
5. Jaimin = (Jatin + Jigar)/2 + 2
Who scored the highest marks?
Jignesh
Jayant
Jaimin
Cannot be determined
Explanation
Answer – B
Soln: From (i) and (iii), exactly 2 people had prime scores and each person scored more than 33 marks. Thus, the two prime scores must be among 37, 41, 43 and 47 marks.
From (iv), Jignesh was not the top scorer but Jatin - Jigar-3= Jignesh /7. Clearly, marks scored by Jignesh must be a multiple of 7 🡪 possible values 42, 49
If Jignesh = 42, Jatin - Jigar = 9 which is not possible from the above prime score possibilities
If Jignesh = 49, Jatin - Jigar = 10 🡪 Jatin =47 and Jigar =37
From (v), Jaimin = 44 and the remaining person Jayant would have scored full marks.
|
Person |
Jigar |
Jatin |
Jignesh |
Jayant |
Jaimin |
|
Marks |
37 |
47 |
49 |
50 |
44 |
Marks: -1.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 70.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Incorrect
Question no.12
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
5 students – Jigar, Jatin, Jignesh, Jayant and Jaimin took an exam of 50 marks in which no two people scored the same marks. It is known that
1. The marks scored by all the students was more than 33
2. Jatin was the third highest scorer. Both Jatin and Jigar had prime scores
3. Exactly 2 people had prime scores
4. Jignesh was not the top scorer but Jatin-Jigar-3= Jignesh /7
5. Jaimin = (Jatin + Jigar)/2 + 2
What was the highest score in the exam? (Mark ‘0’ if the answer cannot be determined)
Explanation
Answer – 50
Soln: From (i) and (iii), exactly 2 people had prime scores and each person scored more than 33 marks. Thus, the two prime scores must be among 37, 41, 43 and 47 marks.
From (iv), Jignesh was not the top scorer but Jatin - Jigar-3= Jignesh /7. Clearly, marks scored by Jignesh must be a multiple of 7 🡪 possible values 42, 49
If Jignesh = 42, Jatin - Jigar = 9 which is not possible from the above prime score possibilities
If Jignesh = 49, Jatin - Jigar = 10 🡪 Jatin =47 and Jigar =37
From (v), Jaimin = 44 and the remaining person Jayant would have scored full marks.
|
Person |
Jigar |
Jatin |
Jignesh |
Jayant |
Jaimin |
|
Marks |
37 |
47 |
49 |
50 |
44 |
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 67.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Incorrect
Question no.13
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
5 students – Jigar, Jatin, Jignesh, Jayant and Jaimin took an exam of 50 marks in which no two people scored the same marks. It is known that
1. The marks scored by all the students was more than 33
2. Jatin was the third highest scorer. Both Jatin and Jigar had prime scores
3. Exactly 2 people had prime scores
4. Jignesh was not the top scorer but Jatin-Jigar-3= Jignesh /7
5. Jaimin = (Jatin + Jigar)/2 + 2
What was the sum of the scores of all 5 students in the exam? (Mark ‘0’ if the answer cannot be determined)
Explanation
Answer – 227
Soln: From (i) and (iii), exactly 2 people had prime scores and each person scored more than 33 marks. Thus, the two prime scores must be among 37, 41, 43 and 47 marks.
From (iv), Jignesh was not the top scorer but Jatin - Jigar-3= Jignesh /7. Clearly, marks scored by Jignesh must be a multiple of 7 🡪 possible values 42, 49
If Jignesh = 42, Jatin - Jigar = 9 which is not possible from the above prime score possibilities
If Jignesh = 49, Jatin - Jigar = 10 🡪 Jatin =47 and Jigar =37
From (v), Jaimin = 44 and the remaining person Jayant would have scored full marks.
|
Person |
Jigar |
Jatin |
Jignesh |
Jayant |
Jaimin |
|
Marks |
37 |
47 |
49 |
50 |
44 |
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 56.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Incorrect
Question no.14
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
5 students – Jigar, Jatin, Jignesh, Jayant and Jaimin took an exam of 50 marks in which no two people scored the same marks. It is known that
1. The marks scored by all the students was more than 33
2. Jatin was the third highest scorer. Both Jatin and Jigar had prime scores
3. Exactly 2 people had prime scores
4. Jignesh was not the top scorer but Jatin-Jigar-3= Jignesh /7
5. Jaimin = (Jatin + Jigar)/2 + 2
How many students scored more than Jigar but less than Jatin?
2
1
0
3
Explanation
Answer – B
Soln: From (i) and (iii), exactly 2 people had prime scores and each person scored more than 33 marks. Thus, the two prime scores must be among 37, 41, 43 and 47 marks.
From (iv), Jignesh was not the top scorer but Jatin - Jigar-3= Jignesh /7. Clearly, marks scored by Jignesh must be a multiple of 7 🡪 possible values 42, 49
If Jignesh = 42, Jatin - Jigar = 9 which is not possible from the above prime score possibilities
If Jignesh = 49, Jatin - Jigar = 10 🡪 Jatin =47 and Jigar =37
From (v), Jaimin = 44 and the remaining person Jayant would have scored full marks.
|
Person |
Jigar |
Jatin |
Jignesh |
Jayant |
Jaimin |
|
Marks |
37 |
47 |
49 |
50 |
44 |
Only Jaimin scored more than Jigar but less than Jatin.
Hence B
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 78.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Correct
Question no.15
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
5 students – Jigar, Jatin, Jignesh, Jayant and Jaimin took an exam of 50 marks in which no two people scored the same marks. It is known that
1. The marks scored by all the students was more than 33
2. Jatin was the third highest scorer. Both Jatin and Jigar had prime scores
3. Exactly 2 people had prime scores
4. Jignesh was not the top scorer but Jatin-Jigar-3= Jignesh /7
5. Jaimin = (Jatin + Jigar)/2 + 2
How many students scored more than Jaimin? (Mark ‘0’ if the answer cannot be determined)
Explanation
Answer – 3
Soln: From (i) and (iii), exactly 2 people had prime scores and each person scored more than 33 marks. Thus, the two prime scores must be among 37, 41, 43 and 47 marks.
From (iv), Jignesh was not the top scorer but Jatin - Jigar-3= Jignesh /7. Clearly, marks scored by Jignesh must be a multiple of 7 🡪 possible values 42, 49
If Jignesh = 42, Jatin - Jigar = 9 which is not possible from the above prime score possibilities
If Jignesh = 49, Jatin - Jigar = 10 🡪 Jatin =47 and Jigar =37
From (v), Jaimin = 44 and the remaining person Jayant would have scored full marks.
|
Person |
Jigar |
Jatin |
Jignesh |
Jayant |
Jaimin |
|
Marks |
37 |
47 |
49 |
50 |
44 |
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 71.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Correct
Question no.16
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
A cube with side 1.3m is placed in a math lab of St. Jospeh’s High School. Ms. Annie, the geometry teacher, gives the students certain problems to solve and expects the correct answer for them all.
What can be the maximum number of pieces obtained when 6 cuts are made to the cube?
Explanation
Answer – 27
Sol: This is a very simple puzzle if one knows the basic concept of splitting objects. In order to obtain the maximum number of pieces on cutting a 3D object, the cuts must be distributed in an equal manner along the 3 axis.
Let us consider an example of cutting the cube by 3 cuts. Thus, along each axis we must have 1 cut each for maximum number of pieces. Each cut results in 2 pieces 🡪 resulting in (1+1) * (1+1) * (1+1) = 2*2*2 = 8 pieces in total
Similarly, let us consider an example of cutting the cube by 6 cuts. Thus, along each axis we must have 6/3= 2 cuts each for maximum number of pieces. 2 cuts along each axis result in 3 pieces 🡪 resulting in 3*3*3 = 27 pieces in total.
Hence, 27
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 26.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Unanswered
Question no.17
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
A cube with side 1.3m is placed in a math lab of St. Jospeh’s High School. Ms. Annie, the geometry teacher, gives the students certain problems to solve and expects the correct answer for them all.
What can be the maximum number of pieces obtained when 12 cuts are made to the cube?
Explanation
Answer – 125
Sol: This is a very simple puzzle if one knows the basic concept of splitting objects. In order to obtain the maximum number of pieces on cutting a 3D object, the cuts must be distributed in an equal manner along the 3 axis.
Let us consider an example of cutting the cube by 3 cuts. Thus, along each axis we must have 1 cut each for maximum number of pieces. Each cut results in 2 pieces 🡪 resulting in (1+1) * (1+1) * (1+1) = 2*2*2 = 8 pieces in total
Now when the cube is cut 12 cuts. Thus, along each axis we must have 12/3= 4 cuts each for maximum number of pieces. 4 cuts along each axis result in 5 pieces 🡪 resulting in 5*5*5 = 125 pieces in total.
Hence, 125
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 29.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Unanswered
Question no.18
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
A cube with side 1.3m is placed in a math lab of St. Jospeh’s High School. Ms. Annie, the geometry teacher, gives the students certain problems to solve and expects the correct answer for them all.
What can be the maximum number of pieces obtained when 13 cuts are made to the cube?
Explanation
Answer – 150
Sol: This is a very simple puzzle if one knows the basic concept of splitting objects. In order to obtain the maximum number of pieces on cutting a 3D object, the cuts must be distributed in an equal manner along the 3 axis.
Let us consider an example of cutting the cube by 3 cuts. Thus, along each axis we must have 1 cut each for maximum number of pieces. Each cut results in 2 pieces 🡪 resulting in (1+1) * (1+1) * (1+1) = 2*2*2 = 8 pieces in total
In cases where the total number of cuts is odd, we try to split the cuts as equal as possible among the 3 axes for maximum number of pieces. 13 cuts can be split into 4, 4 and 5 cuts that result in 5,5 and 6 pieces along each axis respectively i.e. 5x5x6= 150 pieces.
Hence, 150
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 28.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Unanswered
Question no.19
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
A cube with side 1.3m is placed in a math lab of St. Jospeh’s High School. Ms. Annie, the geometry teacher, gives the students certain problems to solve and expects the correct answer for them all.
If the number of pieces after cutting were 512, then what can be the minimum number of cuts made?
16
21
24
Cannot be determined
Explanation
Answer – B
Sol: This is a very simple puzzle if one knows the basic concept of splitting objects. In order to obtain the maximum number of pieces on cutting a 3D object, the cuts must be distributed in an equal manner along the 3 axis.
Let us consider an example of cutting the cube by 3 cuts. Thus, along each axis we must have 1 cut each for maximum number of pieces. Each cut results in 2 pieces 🡪 resulting in (1+1) * (1+1) * (1+1) = 2*2*2 = 8 pieces in total
In such cases, we must factorise the given number of pieces and denote it as a product of 3 numbers as close as possible to each other.
512 = 8 x 8 x 8 where 8 pieces are formed along each axis using 8-1 = 7 cuts.
For all 3 axis, total number of cuts made = 7+7+7 = 21 cuts
Hence, B
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 24.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Unanswered
Question no.20
Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions based on it
A cube with side 1.3m is placed in a math lab of St. Jospeh’s High School. Ms. Annie, the geometry teacher, gives the students certain problems to solve and expects the correct answer for them all.
If the number of pieces after cutting were 180, then what can be the minimum number of cuts made?
14
15
17
Cannot be determined
Explanation
Answer – A
Sol: This is a very simple puzzle if one knows the basic concept of splitting objects. In order to obtain the maximum number of pieces on cutting a 3D object, the cuts must be distributed in an equal manner along the 3 axis.
Let us consider an example of cutting the cube by 3 cuts. Thus, along each axis we must have 1 cut each for maximum number of pieces. Each cut results in 2 pieces 🡪 resulting in (1+1) * (1+1) * (1+1) = 2*2*2 = 8 pieces in total
In such cases, we must factorise the given number of pieces and denote it as a product of 3 numbers as close as possible to each other.
180 = 6 x 6 x 5 where 6, 6 and 5 pieces are formed along each axis using 5, 5 and 4 cuts respectively.
For all 3 axis, total number of cuts made = 5+5+4 = 14 cuts
Hence, A
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 19.00% users answered right
Subject: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Result: Unanswered
Question no.1
If p(x)=p(x+1).p(x-1), then for what value of ‘k’ will p(x).p(x+k).p(x-1)-1=1 hold true?
Explanation
Answer - 4
p(x)=p(x+1).p(x-1)
p(x+1) = p(x)/p(x-1)
Let p(x)=m & p(x-1)=n
p(x+1) = m/n …….(i)
Similarly, p(x+2) = p(x+1)/p(x) = 
= 
p(x+3) = 
= 
p(x+4) =
= 
…..(ii)
From (i) and (ii),
p(x+1). p(x+4) = 1
p(x).[p(x-1)]-1.p(x+4) = 1
Hence, k=4
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Hard
Trivia: 1.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.2
The arithmetic mean of x, y and z is 40, and that of x, y, z, u and v is 38, where u=(x+y)/2 and v=(y+z)/2. If x ≥ z, then the minimum possible value of x is
Explanation
Answer - 50
Given that the arithmetic mean of x, y and z is 40.
= (x + y + z)/3 = 40
= (x + y + z) = 120 ------- (1)
x + y + z + v + u = 190------- (2)
Substituting values from equation (1),
= v + u = 70
= x + 2y + z = 140
y = 20
x+z = 100
We are also given that x ≥ z,
Hence,xmin = 100/2 = 50
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 25.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Correct
Question no.3
Kishor, a geometry professor at SuperX school asks his students to draw an obtuse angled triangle with sides 8 and 15 cm, intentionally not disclosing the measure of the third side. If it is known that each of his students was able to draw a triangle with unique measures of the third side, then how many students were there in the class?
10
13
15
Cannot be determined
Explanation
Answer - A
For any triangle with sides p, q and r (r being the longest side); r<p+q
Also, for an obtuse angled triangle, r2>p2+q2
Let the third side be ‘x’
Case I: 15 is the longest side
Thus, 15<x+8 and 152>x2+82
x>7 and x2<161
Thus, x can take values 8,9, 10, 11 and 12 i.e. 5 values in this case
Case II: x is the longest side
Thus, x<15+8 and x2>152+82
x<23 and x2>289
Thus, x can take values 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 i.e. 5 values in this case
Now since each student drew a unique obtuse angled triangle there must be 10 students in the class.
Hence, A
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 15.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.4
The diagonally opposite vertices of a square of side 8cm meet at a point P such that the line joining P to each of these vertices is of the same length ‘x’. If the line joining P to one of the remaining two vertices measures 8 cm, then what must be the area of the triangle (in sq. cm) formed by P, center of the square and a vertex of the square?
36
16(
-1)
32
8(
-1)
Explanation
Answer - B
Let ABCD be the square, O be its center. The given information can be diagrammatically shown as –
Since AP = PD = x cm, P must line on the line joining C-O-B, either inside or outside the square. Let us consider a case where P is inside the square. We are required to find the area of 
AOP. Also, CP = 8cm (given)
As AB = 8cm, CB= diagonal = 8
cm
OP=8-CB/2 = 8-4
cm
AO = 4
(half of the diagonal)
Thus, Area(
AOP) = ½ x (8-4
) x 4
= 16(
-1) sq. cms
Hence, B
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Hard
Trivia: 4.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.5
Mata, an IT company, wants to light its logo board (an infinite symbol) for Diwali. The craftsman was given the following figure to wound a light strip on it.
What is the approximate minimum length of strip (in cm) required to ensure complete lighting around the logo (path A-B-D-C-A)? (
= 3.14)
298 cm
470 cm
349 cm
140 cm
Explanation
Answer - B
Let us label the points further for our convenience.
Clearly A, B, C and D are tangent points to which tangents are drawn from an exterior point P. Thus, these tangents will form 90o with the radii of their respective circles.
Thus, with 3 angles having 90o, AOBP and PDQC are squares 🡪 PA=PB=20cm and DQ=CQ=50cm.
Now, m(major arc AB) = Radius x Angle in radians = 20 x 
= 30
Similarly, m(major arc DC) = Radius x Angle in radians = 50 x 
= 75
Required answer = 30
+ 20+20+50+50+75
= 140+105
= 470cm
Hence, B
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Hard
Trivia: 12.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.6
If log10(m+8), log10(m+11) and log10(m+15) are in an Arithmetic Progression, then what must be the value of ‘m’?
1
3
0
None of the above
Explanation
Answer - A
Let us consider 3 numbers a, b=ar and c=ar2 to be in GP. Now, let's take on on both sides of these terms,
log b = log a + log r
log c = log a + 2 logr= log b + log r
Thus, log a, log b and log c are in AP.
From the given question, if log10(m+8), log10(m+11) and log10(m+15) are in an AP, then (m+8), (m+11) and (m+15) must be in GP.
(m+11)2 = (m+8).(m+15)
🡪 m=1
Hence, A
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 45.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.7
What will be the area enclosed between y-3=|x-5|, the axes and the line x=5 , x=0 and y=0?
Explanation
Answer – 27.5
The equation given is y-3=|x-5|🡪 y= |x-5|+3
y=|x| can be drawn as –
y= |x-5|+ 3 will shift the graph by 5 units to the right on x-axis and 3 units above y-axis.
We thus have to find the area of the blue region shown above. y=|x-5|+3 will intersect the y axis at (0,8). The required area can be calculated by simply adding the area of a rectangle of sides 5 and 3 to the area of a triangle with base 5 and ht. 5.
Required answer = 5 x 3 + 0.5(5)(5) = 27.5 sq. units.
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 11.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.8
What is the minimum possible sum of digits of ‘a’ such that a>b where a and b are natural numbers and the LCM of a and b is 455.
9
6
7
8
Explanation
Answer- D
Factoring 455;
455 = 1x 455
5 x 91
7 x 65
13 x 35
Now a > b
So, the possible pairs are (455,1); (91,5); (65,7); (35,13)
The possible sum of digits of a are: 14, 10, 11, 8
The minimum possible sum of digits of a is 8, Hence D
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 30.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.9
The difference between the sixth power of 7 and the sixth power of 6 is not divisible by which of the following numbers?
13
127
559
233
Explanation
Answer - D
We must note that an-bn will be divisible by both (a-b) and (a+b) when n is even & will be divisible by (a-b) when n is odd.
76-66 will clearly be divisible by both (7-6) and (7+6) i.e. 1 and 13.
Also, 76-66 = (72)3-(62)3 which will be divisible by 72-62=13..since 3 is odd
Also, 76-66 = (73)2-(63)2 which will be divisible by 73-63=127 and 73+63=559
Hence, D
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 47.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Correct
Question no.10
The integers 34041 and 32506 when divided by a three-digit integer n leave the same remainder. What is the value of n
968
231
402
307
Explanation
Answer - D
The difference of the numbers = 34041 - 32506 = 1535
The number that leaves the same remainder with both these numbers must be a factor of 1535.
307 is the only 3-digit integer that divides 1535.
Hence , D
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Easy
Trivia: 24.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.11
Ajay was traveling on NH-10 on his bike when he witnessed a road accident in which Minu and Sonu were seriously injured. Ajay needs to make sure that both of them reach the Highway hospital, which is 180 km, at the earliest (one person at a time). Even after being injured Minu and Sonu can walk at a speed of 4kmph while Ajay’s motorcycle can travel at 36kmph. What is the earliest time at which all three can reach the hospital if Ajay witnessed the accident at 11:00am?
8:40pm
9:45pm
10:40pm
11:45pm
Explanation
Answer - C
Ajay can pick one person, take them to the hospital and then return for the second person and take him to the hospital again. However, this will take more time compared to a case where Ajay picks one person – drops him at a distance (x) away from the hospital (who covers the remaining distance walking) and then picks the second person such that all three reach at the same time.
This can be diagrammatically shown as –
By the time Sonu travels by kms, Ajay would have covered (180-y) + (180-2y) = 360-3y. We know that the speed of Ajay is 36 i.e. 9 times the speed of Sonu. Thus, the distance covered by Ajay must be 9 times the distance covered by Sonu = 9y
Thus, 360-3y=9y 🡪 y = 30.
In this entire trip, Ajay covers (180-y) + (180-2y) + (180-y) = 540 – 4y = 420 km in 420/36=11.66 hours = 11 hours and 40 mins. Thus, all of them will reach the hospital at 11 hours and 40 mins after 11am i.e. 10:40pm.
Hence, C
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 6.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.12
For an Arithmetic Progression, the sum of the first 53 terms is 530 and this is half the sum of the next 53 terms. What can be the approximate common difference (d) for this AP?
0.19
0.3
0.47
Cannot be determined
Explanation
Answer - A
For the given series, let the sum of the first 53 terms be X i.e. S53 = X
Now, the sum of the next 53 terms = S’53 = 2X
We must note that each term in the second sum can be represented as related to the each of the first 53 terms as,
a54 = a1 + 53d
a55 = a2 + 53d
a56 = a3 + 53d and so on…
Also, the sum of the next 53 terms can be shown as S’53 = a54 + a55 + ...... + a106
= a1 + 53d + a2 + 53d + ...... + a53 + 53d
= a1 + a2 + ...... + a53 + 53(53d)
Thus, 2X = X + 53(53d)
d = 530/2809 = 0.19
Hence, A
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Easy
Trivia: 19.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.13
Lapik Lala is a landlord who earns 50% returns every year on his original sum at the start of the year. However, to save taxes he declares only 60% of his income while the rest is stored in his locker as black money. If at the end of the 3rd year he declared a total income of Rs. 39,690, then what was the total amount in his locker at the end of year 2?
62067
Explanation
Answer - 62067
Let the initial amount that Lapik Lala has to be Rs. 100.
Thus,
| Beginning of Year | Amount | Return Amount | Stored in Locker | Amount at year - end |
| 1 | 100 | 50 | 0.4 (150) = 60 | 90 |
| 2 | 90 | 45 | 0.4 (135) = 54 | 81 |
| 3 | 81 | 40.5 | 0.4(121.5) = 48.6 | 72.9 |
Thus, 72.9 🡪 39690
Add 114 taken as y1+y2
Thus, the amount in his locker at the end of year 2 = (39690/72.9) x 114 = 62066.67
Hence, 62067
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Hard
Trivia: 0.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Incorrect
Question no.14
A 60% concentration solution of Allium Cepa, a homeopathic medicine used to treat Sinus, is made using 2 units of Onion drops with 3 units Cepa drops, both having a certain concentration of Allium Cepa. If the concentration of Allium Cepa in Onion is greater than that in Cepa, then how many integer values can the concentration of Allium Cepa in Onion drops take?
Explanation
Answer - 8
Let the concentration of Allium Cepa in Onion and Cepa be x and y respectively. We are given that x > y, thus x > 60 > y
This can be shown as –
which gives, (60-y)/(x-60) = 2/3 🡪 (x-60) = 3/2 x (60-y)
For x to be an integer, y must be an integer and (x-60) must be a multiple of 3 but divisible by 2. This is possible when (x-60) takes the value of 6,12,18,24,30,36,42,48 i.e. x takes the values of 66, 72, 78, ….98 🡪 8 values
Hence, 8
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 0.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.15
If ‘x’ tomatoes out of 40 are sold at x% profit and the remaining at 1-x%, then what will be the minimum profit that can be earned if each tomato costs Rs. 3?
33.5
46.5
59.0
63.45
Explanation
Answer - B
On selling ‘x’ tomatoes at x% profit, the profit earned would be = CP x No of tomatoes x profit percentage = 3x2/100
Similarly, on selling ’40-x’ tomatoes at 1-x% profit, the profit earned would be 3(40-x)(100-x)/100
Total profit earned = 
We have to minimize the above expression. Minimizing 
is same as minimizing 
i.e. same as minimizing 
🡪 2x2-140x+4000 🡪 x2-70x+2000
x2-70x+2000 can be written as x2-70x+1225-1225+2000 = (x-35)2+775
The minima for which will occur at x=35, and the corresponding profit value will be
= 
= Rs. 46.5
Hence, B
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Easy
Trivia: 5.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.16
There is a piece of pizza which is triangular in shape with sides of lengths 8 cm, 5 cm and 7 cm. From the centroid of the triangular pizza, a triangular portion is cut off and eaten. The area, in sq cm, of the remaining portion of pizza is:
25√3
64√3
125
20/√3
Explanation
Answer – D
Here is the triangular pizza piece ABC with sides of lengths 8 cm, 5 cm and 7 cm, a triangular portion GBC is cut off where G is the centroid of pizza.
As we know, the centroid divides the pizza into three equal parts. Therefore, the area of GBC will be one third of the area of the triangle.
Area of triangle = √(s(s−a)(s−b)(s−c))
where, semi perimeter (s) = (8+5+7)/2= 10
Area = √(10(10 − 8)(10 − 5)(10 − 7))
Area = √(10(2)(5)(3))
Area = 10√3
Therefore area of the remaining pizza =(2/3) × 10√3 =20/√3 sq.cm
Hence, D
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Easy
Trivia: 19.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.17
A number is formed by interchanging the digits of a 2-digit number such that the original number is more than 4 times the number formed by interchanging the position of its digit. How many possible numbers are there?
Explanation
Answer - 3
Let 'ab' be the two-digit number. Where b ≠ 0.
We will get the number 'ba' after interchanging its digit.
It is given that 10a+b > 4(10b + a)
10a + b > 40b + 4a
6a > 39 b
a > 13/2 b
a > 6.5 b
If b = 1, then a = {7, 8, 9}
If b >= 2, then no value of 'a' is possible. Hence, we can say that there is a total of
3 such numbers {71, 81, 91}.
Hence, 3
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 7.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.18
Two trains Geetanjali Express and Kaveri Express are 300 m and 450 m long respectively. They are moving in opposite directions at the speed of 72 Km/hr and 36 Km/hr respectively. Ajay is traveling to his native place by Kaveri Express and sits in coach S2. What is the time that Ajay takes to completely cross Geetanjali express?
10 Seconds
12 Seconds
15 Seconds
25 Seconds
Explanation
Answer – A
Speed of Geetanjali Express = 72 x (5/18) = 20 m/s
Speed of Kaveri Express = 36 x (5/18) = 10 m/s
Since, they are traveling in opposite directions relative speed = 20+10 = 30 m/s
Ajay must cross the length of complete Geetanjali express = 300m
Therefore, time taken to cross = distance/speed = 300/30 = 10 s
Hence, A
Marks: 3.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 35.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Correct
Question no.19
A truck traveling at 70 kilometers per hour uses 30% more diesel to travel a certain distance than it does when it travels at the speed of 50 kilometers per hour. If the truck can travel 19.5 kilometers on a liter of diesel at 50 kilometers per hour, how far can the truck travel on 10 liters of diesel at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour?
120 km
110 km
150 km
160 km
Explanation
Answer - C
If the truck is being driven at 70 kmph, it takes 1.3 liters of diesel to travel 19.5 km.
Therefore, with 10 liters of diesel, the truck can travel 10/1.3 * 19.5 km = 150 km.
Hence, C
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Easy
Trivia: 32.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.20
A sum of Rs. 30000 is borrowed at the rate of 5% per annum compounded annually which is paid back in 3 equal annual installments. What is the amount of each installment?
12124.25
11016.25
57413.25
11068.25
Explanation
Answer - B
30000 = x [20/21 + (20/21)^2 + (20/21)^3]
30000 = x * (20/21) [1+(20/21) + (400/441)]
30000 = x * 20/21 (441+420+400/441)
30000 = x * 20/21 (1261/441)
x = 11016.25
Therefore, the correct answer is Option B.
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 33.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.21
How many solutions exist for the equation |x|= 
? (Mark ‘0’ if the answer cannot be determined)
Explanation
Answer - 5
We know that |x2|= x2
Thus, let us replace |x| by m
m=
m(1+35m2) = 12m2……….(i)
Which on further solving gives the quadratic equation 35m2-12m+1=0
The roots of which are (1/5) and (1/7)
Thus,
m= 1/5 or m=1/7
Thus, x can take values 1/5, -1/5, 1/7 and -1/7 i.e. 4 values
An important point to note is that we canceled out an ‘m’ in (i), thus m=0 is also a solution
The required answer is 5
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 6.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
Question no.22
The climax scene of Batman vs Superman has both of them colliding leading to an immediate sonic blast. It is known that Batman and Superman are 1331 km apart and travel towards each other at speeds of 13 kmph and 23 km h respectively. How far are they 1 minute before they collide?
240 m
360 m
121 m
600 m
Explanation
Answer - D
Since they are traveling in the opposite direction,
Relative Speed = (13+23) kmph = 36 kmph = 36/60 km/min = 0.6 km/min = 600 m/min
Thus, one minute before colliding they are 600m apart.
Hence, D
Marks: 0.00
Negative Marks: 0.00
Difficulty Level: Medium
Trivia: 32.00% users answered right
Subject: Quantitative Ability
Result: Unanswered
| Section | Marks | Total Qs | Attempts | Correct Qs | Incorrect Qs | Accuracy % | Percentage | Percentile | Topper's Score | Total Time | Time Taken |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVERALL | 50.00 | 66 | 27 | 18 | 9 | 66 | 25 | 63.37 | NA | 2:00:00 | 2:00:04 |
| Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension | 24.00 | 24 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 69 | 33.33 | 91.01 | 64.00 | 0:40:00 | |
| Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning | 17.00 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 60 | 28.33 | 37.7 | 60.00 | 0:40:00 | |
| Quantitative Ability | 9.00 | 22 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 75 | 13.64 | 56.43 | 54.00 | 0:40:00 |
| Subject Name | Total Questions | Correct | Incorrect | Unanswered | Score |
|---|
Overall Analysis
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| Area | Total Qs = T | Correct Qs = C |
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| Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning | 20 | 6 |
| Quantitative Ability | 22 | 3 |
| Overall | 66 | 18 |
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| No. of correct questions | ||
| Marks scored in correct | Total Marks | % of marks scored |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 24.00 | 64% |
| 6 | 17.00 | 55% |
| 3 | 9.00 | 60% |
| 18 | 50.00 | 27% |
Tip - 1 :
Pro tip (Based on last 10 years analysis - CAT 2010-21):
| No. of Questions | Percentile in CAT |
|---|---|
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| 11/11/11 | 95%ile |
| 13/13/13 | 99%ile |
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Pro tip (Based on last years analysis - CAT 2022):
| No. of Questions | Percentile (%tile) in CAT 2022 |
|---|---|
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| 8/8/8 | 94%ile |
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| 13/13/13 | 99.99%ile |
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