Passage I

One phase of the business cycle is the expansion phase. This phase is a two fold one, including recovery and prosperity. During the recovery period there is over-growing expansion of existing facilities, and new facilities for production are created. More business are created and older ones expanded. Improvements of various kinds are made. There is an ever-increasing optimism about the future of economic growth. Much capital is invested in machinery of “heavy” industry. More labour is employed. More raw materials are required. As one part of the economy develops, other parts are affected. For example, a great expansion in automobile result is an expansion of the steel, glass, and rubber industries.

Roads are required; thus the cement and machinery industries are stimulated. Demand for labuor and material results in greater prosperity for workers and suppliers of raw materials, including farmers. This increases purchasing power and the volume of goods are bought and sold. Thus prosperity is diffused among various segments of the population. This period of prosperity may continue to rise and rise without an apparent end. However, a time comes when this phase reaches a peak and stops spiralling upwards. This is the end of the expansion phase.

1. Which of the following statements is the best example of the optimism mentioned in passage as being part of the expansion phase?
(a) Public funds are designated for the construction of new highways designed to stimulate tourism.
(b) Industrial firms allocate money for the purchase of machine tools.
(c) The prices of agriculture commodities are increased at the producer level.
(d) Full employment is achieved at all levels of the economy.

2. It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes that
(a) When consumers lose their confidence in the market, a recession follows.
(b) Cyclical ends to business expansion are normal
(c) Luxury goods such as jewelry are unaffected by industrial expansion
(d) With sound economic policies, prosperity can become a fixed pattern

3. Which of the following statements would be most likely to begin the paragraph
(a) Union demands may also have an effect on business cycles.
(b) Some industries are, by their very nature, cyclical, having regular phases of expansion and recession.
(c) Inflation is a factor that must be taken into consideration in any discussion of the expansion phase.
(d) The other phase of the business cycle is called the recession phase.

Passage II

The history of mammals dates is back at least at Triassic time. Development was retarded, however, until the sudden acceleration of evolutional change that occurred in the increase in average size, larger mental capacity, and special adaptations for different modes of life. In the Oligocene Epoch, there was further improvement, with appearance of some new lines and extinction of others.
Miocene and Pliocene time was marked by culmination of several groups and continued approach toward modern characters. The peak of the career of mammals in variety and average large size was attained in the Miocene.

The adaptation of mammals to almost all possible modes of life parallels that of the reptiles in Mesozoic time, and except for greater intelligence, the mammals do not seem to have done much better than corresponding reptilian forms. The bat is doubtless a better flying animals than the pterosaur, but the dolphin and whale are hardly more fishlike than the ichthyosaur. Many swift-running mammals of the plains, like the horse and the antelope, muse excel any of the dinosaurs. The tyrannosaur was a more ponderous and powerful carnivore than any flesh-eating mammal, but the lion or tiger is probably a more efficient and dangerous beast of prey because of a superior brain. The significant point to observe is that different branches of the mammals gradually fitted themselves for all sorts of life, grazing on the plains and able to run swiftly (horse, deer, bison) living in rivers and wamps (hippopotamus), beaver), dwelling in trees (sloth, monkey), digging underground (mole, rodent), feeding on flesh in the forest (tiger) and on the plain (wolf), swimming in the sea (dolphin, whale, seal), and flying in the air (bat). Man is able by mechanical means to conquer the physical word and to adapt himself to almost any set of conditions.

The adaptation produces gradual changes of forms and structure. It is biologically characteristic of the youthful, plastic stage of a group. Early in its career, and animal assemblage seems to possess capacity for change, which, as the unit becomes old and fixed, disappears. The generalized types of organisms retain longest the ability to make adjustments when required, and it is form them that new, fecund stock take origin certainly not from any specialized and products. So, in the mammals, we witness the birth, plastic spread in many direction, increasing specialization and in some branches, the extinction, which we have learned from observation of the geologic record of life is a characteristic of eh evolution of life.

4. Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?
(a) From Dinosaur to Man
(b) Adaptation and Extinction
(c) The Superiority of Mammals
(d) The Geologic Life Span

5. According to the passage, the greatest number of forms of mammalian life is found in the
(a) Triassic period
(b) Eocene period
(c) Oligocene period
(d) Miocene period

6. It can be inferred from the passage that the evidence the author used in discussing the life of past time periods.
(a) Was developed by Charles Darwin
(b) Was uncovered by the author
(c) Has been negated by more recent evidence
(d) Is based on fossil remains

7. With which of the following proverbial expression about human existence would the author be most likely to agree?
(a) It’s a cruel world.
(b) All the world’s stage.
(c) The more things change, the more they remain the same.
(d) Footprints in the sands of time.

Passage III

The emancipation of women, “James Joyce told one of his friends, “has caused the greatest revolution in our time in the most important relationship there is – that between men and women.” Other modernists agreed: Virgina Woolf, claiming that in about 1910 “human character changed,” and illustrating the new balance between the sexes, urged, “Read the ‘Agamemnon, ‘and see whether ….. your sympathies are not almost entirely with Clytemnestra.” D.H. Lawrence wrote, “perhaps the deepest fight for 2000 years and more, has been the flight for women’s independence.” But if modernist writers considered women’s revolt against men’s domination one of their “greatest” and “deepest” themes, only recently – in perhaps the past 15 years – has literary criticism begun to catch up with it. Not that the images of sexual antagonism that bound in modern literature have gone unremarked: for form it. But what we are able to see in literary work depends on the perspectives we bring to them, and now that women-enough to make a difference – are landscapes of literary history and the features of individual book have begun to change.

8. The author quotes James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and D.H. Lawrence primarily in order to show that
(a) These were feminist writers
(b) Although well-meaning, they were ineffectual
(c) Before the twentieth, century, there was little interest in women’s literature
(d) The interest in feminist issues is not new

9. The author’s attitude toward women’s reformation of literary canons can best be described as one of
(a) Ambivalence
(b) Antagonism
(c) Indifference
(d) Endorsement

10. Which of the following title best describes the content of the passage?
(a) Modernist Writers and the Search for Equality
(b) The Meaning of Literary Works
(c) Toward a New Criticism
(d) Women in Literature, from 1910 On

Passage IV

To open up a field of study, to draw attention to its vital elements, the lecture is invaluable. To listen to a lecture can be thrilling experience from which the student may gain ideas obtainable in no their way. But possibly to a greater degree than other forms in instruction, lecturing presumes a high order of intellectual competence on the part of learners. The purposes of the lecture are to summarize, to clarify, to stimulate, and to humanize the materials of the course. It should synthesize, evaluate, criticise, and compare ideas and facts with which students have come in contact through out-of-class assignments.

The effectiveness of lectures cold be enhanced by introducing the lecture with a brief review of the work preceding. It should also be indicated how the day’s lecture fits into the course pattern. A lecture should seldom be presented in one unbroken discourse. Unless exceptionally interesting, a long lecture strains the capacity for concentrated listening, causing intermittent wandering of attention and loss of continuity in thought. The lecture should, therefore, be organized in a few blocks or units. As a rule, the exposition should be concluded before the end of the class period so as to allow some time for general discussion.
For students to obtain maximum benefit from a lecture, individual participation in study both precedes and follows it. On their own initiative, most students would not engage in preparatory study, hence formal assignments have been fulfilled. It pays to explore the aids available for teaching a course particularly through lectures, since verbal exposition alone however lucid, has its shortcomings.

11. Compared to other methods, lecturing requires
(a) more competent trainer
(b) bigger number of students
(c) higher level of learner
(d) a new field of study.

12. An uninterrupted discourse – type method results into
(a) loss of attention
(b) a thrilling experience
(c) stimulation of interest
(d) humanizing the course material

13. The effective of lectures can be enhanced by which of the following?
(i) breaking it into units
(ii) showing its integration in the course.
(iii) in the end giving some times for discussion

(a) (i) and (ii) only
(b) (i) and (iii) only
(c) (ii) and (iii) only
(d) all (i), (ii) and (iii)

14. Which of the following is not true in the context of the passage?
(a) students of their won take up assignments
(b) lecture methods humanizes the courses content
(c) there are many methods of teaching
(d) improvement’s can be made in the traditional lecture method of instructions.

15. Which of the following is the same in meaning to the world strains as used in the passage?
(a) spoils
(b) damages
(c) drains energy from
(d) requires greater effort

Passage V

I was asked to examine the minister. His complaint was ‘pain in the neck’. In technical parlance we refer to it as cervical spondylosis. I tried to explain to the honorable minister that the condition is brought on by a mis-alignment of the neck vertebrae, which is brought on by unusual strain on the neck. Common illustrations of unusual strain are over bending, which could be a political necessity, keeping it too stiff, called political posturing, or trying to balance a swollen head over an un-pivoted spine. He wriggled out of all the options. He was not from the ruling party at the Centre so he couldn’t be framed for too much head nodding, or for keeping his neck too stiff.

That he was in the Opposition took away the wind from the swollen-head hypothesis. On my way out, I was accosted by the officer on special duty. He came up with his ingenious explanation for the etiology of the garlanding that was the cause. At each public meeting the minister had to put his neck forward to hold the 10-pound rope of flowers, and on an average there were a score of these at each meeting. Then to talk for half an hour, holding the garlands for the sake of the visual media, and to multiply it by five meeting a day during election time, and then spread it over 20 years. On my drive pack, I pondered over the benefits of straight prostration as practiced in Tamil Nadu. Though it is healthy, the only problem is that those with round bellies are in danger of rolling over on their backs, and in case the safety knot on the lungi was not secure. It could be embarrassing for the leader and the subject. I thought about the CPM Politburo. They believe they everyone is equal and sit equally on wooden chairs inside the Writers Building. Their octogenarians may have dementia, but no spinal problems have been reported so far. The background of blue lime washed walls and green curtains resembling disposed surgical linen perhaps helps to stiffen the backs.

16. In the passage ‘pain in the neck’ means
(a) a discomfort in the back
(b) a trying situation
(c) painful neck
(d) a boring person

17. The idiom ‘took away the wind’ means
(a) blow away the hurt
(b) reduced the veracity
(c) made into a storm
(d) create a vacuum

18. The phrase to ‘wriggle out’ means
(a) to accept
(b) to over rule
(c) to avoid devious arguments
(d) to struggle

19. The world ‘accost’ means
(a) cost of something
(b) to approach and to speak
(c) to avoid someone
(d) to abuse someone

20. In the passage the phrase political posturing means
(a) a difficult situation
(b) a stand taken for political mileage
(c) to remain inflexible in a situation
(d) to win the elections 

Passage VI

Platinum is one of the earth’s most expensive and least published metals. Contrary to popular belief that platinum is used only in jewellery, almost 75 per cent of the world’s output is used in industry. It has increased the supply and lowered the cost of food, fibre and fuel. It is used from aeroplanes to household electrical appliances including computers. It is considered the most reliable material for the tiny electrodes of heart pacemakers. The features which have elevated the metal in the technological world are unique and partly contradictory. Its resistance to volatile acids is phenomenal and its melting point is 1700oC, which is higher than that of steel. Almost all high quality glass for spectacles, cameras and television tubes are created in platinum crucibles as are the crystals used in leasers. Others materials would disintegrate in the intense heat and corrosive atmosphere. Combined with a little iridium, it is one of the hardest metals and is applied to razor blades, surgical instruments providing the most durable cutting edges. In its pure form it is malleable and ductile. Its ability to provide vacuum tight seals enabled the development of the incandescent lamp and X-ray machine. Even in the frigid stratosphere glow points remain red hot and ignite the fuel under all conditions, thus preventing engine failure in aeroplanes. Its largest use is as a catalyst. Using gauze of platinum-rhodium wire, ammonia and oxygen are made to combine to produce nitrates in abundance and at low costs. Without the fertilizers, starvation would be widely prevalent of the earth. It also increase petrol yields at low cost helping the economy greatly. Although only 70-million grams of platinum are produced the world over in a year, the metal can be recycled and hence its availability is never threatened.

21. Platinum is
(a) used only Jewellary.
(b) used as pollution free fuel
(c) widely-known for its various uses since it does not harm the environment
(d) technically-appreciated because of its unique properties.

22. Platinum has assisted in solving the problem of hunger in the world
(a) because its salt are edible
(b) since it can be used as manure
(c) since it facilitates the production of fertilisers
(d) because it produces ammonia and oxygen.

23. Crucibles made of Platinum are
(a) brittle and inexpensive
(b) corrode and get disintegrated
(c) highly durable and reliable
(d) not useful at high temperature

24. The mental platinum
(a) has a high yield stress
(b) can he easily drawn into wires
(c) is porous
(d) gets powered when hammered

25. Platinum is used in aero planes because
(a) it is light and easily-available
(b) it is highly heat-resistant
(c) even extreme cold is not detrimental to its effectiveness
(d) it can provide tight vacuum seals

Passage VII

What is love? Throughout the history of mankind, we as a world culture have made love out to be mysterious, complex, difficult, and indefinable. It’s the subject of endless poems and literary works. There is an enormous amount of material available out there about love, a lot of it contradictory.

We’ve been given the impression that to define love it near to impossible. May be there’s fear that if we define it, it would somehow be less powerful…..less exhilarating. Maybe we like the mystery of it.
But is it really that complicated? Perhaps the complications surrounding love come from all stuff we add on to this powerful emotion. Let’s drop all the baggage surrounding relationships and define what it we are experiencing in the moment of love.

What do you feel when you love someone? If distilled down to its core components, what would those be? Yes, love is an emotion, a feeling, a wanting, and a being. We know it feels good, but what specific feelings, wanting, and beings are present when we feel love? Here are the common denominators of love………….
Acceptance is labeling someone as ‘okay’ and having no particular desire to change them. Who they are is perfectly fine with you. You pose no correction on whether you will love them or not. This is called unconditional love. When your love is conditional, the moment they step outside your set of conditions, love evaporates. Appreciation is one step beyond acceptance. It’s when your focus is on what you like about another. We look at them and feel this sweeping appreciation for who they are, their joy, their insights, their humour, their companionship.

26. ‘Acceptance’ and defined in the passage, does not include
(a) status quo
(b) consciousness of the partner’s weaknesses
(c) unconditionally
(d) tuning with partner

27. According to the passage, there has been difficulty defining
(a) We feel powerless in defining it
(b) There is no definite guideline for it
(c) It is a complicated emotion
(d) Not mentioned in the passage

28. The world view regarding love is one of
(a) Ambivalence
(b) Ignorance
(c) Ambiguity
(d) Confusion

29. Which one of the following statements is false regarding ‘appreciation’ according to the passage?
(a) even the partner’s weakness are also admired
(b) it comes after acceptance
(c) one likes everything of the partner
(d) one accepts another’s physical-mental inclinations

30. What could be the most suitable title of the passage?
(a) unconditional love
(b) love unraveled
(c) what makes you love
(d) love-a mysterious feeling

Passage VIII

See the world as an abundant, providing, friendly place. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you see the world as abundant and friendly, your intentions are genuine possibilities. They will, in fact, become a certainty, because you world will be experienced from the higher frequencies. In this first step, you’re receptive to a world that provides rather than restricts. You’ll see a world that wants you to be successful and abundant, rather than one that conspires against you. Affirm: I attract success and abundance into my life because that is who I am. This puts you into vibratory harmony with your source. Your goal is to eliminate any distance between what you desire and that from which you pull it into your life. Abundance and success aren’t out there waiting to show up for you. You are already it, and the Source can only provide you with what it is, and, consequently, what you are already.

Stay in an attitude of allowing. Resistance is disharmony between your desire for abundance and your beliefs about your our ability or unworthiness. Allowing means a perfect alignment. An attitude of allowing means that you ignore efforts by others to dissuade you. It also means that you don’t rely on your pervious ego-oriented beliefs about abundance being part of or not a part of your life. In an attitude of allowing, all resistance in the form of thoughts of negativity or doubt is replaced with simply knowing that you and your Source are one and the same. Picture the abundance you desire freely flowing directly to you. Refuse to do anything or have any through that compromises your alignment with source.

31. Those who desire abundance, according to passage, do all of the following except they
(a) allow
(b) try their heart out
(c) look at the world with warmth of feeling
(d) are in the proximity with God

32. ‘Success’ according to the passage is
(a) finding the source
(b) believing
(c) self incarnate
(d) to be realized and achieved

33. ‘Allowing,’ in the light of the passage, stands for
(a) abundance
(b) self belief
(c) success
(d) harmony with God

34. Once one starts seeing the world with a positive thought and warmth.
(a) success is guaranteed
(b) the world is helping
(c) possibilities become realities
(d) one is more receptive

35. ‘Resistance, according to the passage, does not
(a) create harmony
(b) show self-belief
(c) disturb alignment with God
(d) given positive thoughts.

Passage IX

The purpose of time: From the spiritual perspective, time is a device in Place on the earth plane, so that we can experience individual aspects of the self. The best way to experience one thing fully is to also experience its opposite. To know joy, we must know pain. To know joy, we must known down. To experience opposites, there must be separation a division in time and space, so we can experience one, in the absence of the other. This is the purpose of time on the earth plane to experience all aspects of physical reality fully.

It’s all happening now. From the ethereal perspective, everything is actually all happening now, simultaneously. It is for this reason we could say we live many lifetimes, or we could say we live only one. There is only one moment, this instant, and all the layers of all instances are embedded within each other.

All the while, we have access to it all; we can tap into any state at any time. Memory is the powerful window to another moment in time another now layered beneath this moment. We can re-experience anything via memory, at times so vivid, recreating all the emotions and physical attributes that went with that moment.  Seeing energy and auras: some people see auras naturally. Some can learn how, according to several books. An aura is what we call the light of the energy that resides in and is visible around a person, animal or object.

We all have our own proof: all of us capable of seeing the energy of the universe. By seeing, I mean sensing, knowing, felling, in your own unique way. Some people can visually see energy, some hear the whispers of the spirit world, some people feel a presence, and others simply know things by their thoughts and intuition. We all have our own proof, out own inner way of knowing our connection to the universe.

36. Experience of the opposite at the same time is made possible by
(a) Memory
(b) Time
(c) Spirituality
(d) Life

37. To experience something in totality
(1) it should be viewed in the perspective of time.
(2) it and its opposite both should be placed in view.
(3) there should be a time –gap between the two aspects

(a) 1 and 3
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 2
(d) All of them

38. Which one of the following is not a way by which we experience our relationship with the universe?
(a) feeling the presence
(b) listening the subtle sounds
(c) seeing spirits
(d) making a subjective analysis

39. ‘We live only one life’ in that
(a) time blurs all division
(b) all experiences are engrained in the present
(c) we undergo diverse and opposite experience
(d) we have a definite connection with the universe.

40. What is the meaning of “Aura” in the follow options?
(a) ettune
(b) engross
(c) odour
(d) algid

41. What will do to bring about immediate relief to citizen stuck in some drastic situation (in the case of flood)—
(a) Console them and entertain them.
(b) Provide immediate relief and assurance.
(c) Share the feelings.
(d) Divert their feelings by engaging them in other relevant tasks.

42. How will you keep your argument to have its best impact on others—
(a) Through magnetic personality and dominating talk.
(b) Keeping others at same level and talking an issue.
(c) Lovingly, humorously, putting them and pedestal.
(d) All of the above according to the context.

43. What type of ‘goal’ you select for yourself—
(a) Decided by ‘self’
(b) Decided by ‘family’
(c) Decided by ‘country’
(d) All of the above

44. How will you prefer to spend a money (which is under your description), as a collector of a district—
(a) Build old age home for senior citizen
(b) Build women college for higher education
(c) Make provision to invest in cottage for poor’s
(d) Providing food to hungry & Badly off people

45. What according to you is biggest advantage of punishment?
(a) Helps is eradicating crime
(b) Helps in eliminating criminals.
(c) Help’s in creating awareness, in people behavioral changes
(d) All of the above.

46. As a superintendent of de-addition centre, which is the best means of de-addiction?
(a) Show them the dangers of drug addiction
(b) Show them the positively ‘life’ after quitting addiction
(c) Give them medication
(d) All of the above are element

47. How do you express your ‘distresses’—
(a) Doing some household work, cleaning etc.
(b) Through participating in some sports.
(c) Doing all’s hobby.
(d) All of the above

48. How do you prefer to boost the motivation level of the subordinates working under you, to increase the efficiency?
(a) Should be their training relevant and updated.
(b) By leading through example of self work
(c) By increasing their salary
(d) By making provision for penalty

49. You notice that one of your colleagues is over-worked because of his tendency to accept more work than what he is capable of. In facts his problem in his inability to say ‘no’. How would you help him?
(a) By teaching him how to refuse work
(b) By advising him on time-management skills
(c) By making him more assertive
(d) By raising his self-esteem and self-worth

50. In a medical camp, you notice that some of the doctors are being very casual about dispensing medicines and seeing this:
(a) You will accost them
(b) You will preach them
(c) You will talk to them
(d) You will sensitize them

51. A slum clearance effort had created a volatile situation and in this situation what will you do defuse tempers?
(a) Talk to the effected citizens
(b) Talk to the community leaders
(c) Call for more security personal
(d) Stop slum clearance for a while in order to let tempers cool

52. If almost been more than two months since you had applied for a passport, and after waiting for two months you try to find out reasons for its non arrival. After making enquiries you find that there was something wrong with the information that you baa filled up in the form To sort it out you go to the passport office and to your horror, you find nothing was wrong with the information. And when questioned, the clerk replied that it was just a plain oversight. Now how will you respond?
(a) By reporting to the Head
(b) By filling a written complaint
(c) By ignoring it, because you know how things work in government offices
(d) By talking to a tout outside so that your passport can be expedited

53. Imagine that you get back to work after vacation and the moment you reach office you find that a crisis had erupted and to compound matters, your Leader has just got transferred. In this situation you get elevated to the position of the leader and your first task is to tackle the crisis.
How would you handle it?
(a) Call a meeting and seek everyone’s opinion for resolving the crisis
(b) Give instructions on what to do. And delegate specific actions
(c) Develop a quick plan and use it for setting the agenda of meeting
(d) Allocate ad hoc roles immediately and call for a team meeting after 24 hours so that you have a plan ready

54. While talking to your friend, you notice that he is not looking at you when you are speaking. This makes you a little concerned because:
(a) Of your friend’s aloofness
(b) Of the display of lack of interest
(c) Of his irresponsible attitude
(d) Of his insensitive behavior

55. Which of the following are critical non-verbal clues that reflect and individuals’ withdrawal from any discussion?
(a) Lack of head shakes
(b) Reduced eye contact
(c) Smooth gestures
(d) Relaxed posture

56. Which of the following are the most effective way displaying support to team members by the leaders?
(a) Through non-verbal cues
(b) Frequent feedback
(c) Challenging goals
(d) Better training

57. Your Department Head speaks loudly about the importance of subordinate staff acting ethically but then when it comes to promotions recommendation. He recommends people whose ethical conduct is a suspect. How would you react to such situation?
(a) You will put a transfer request
(b) You will discuss the matter informally with you head
(c) You will ignore and keep working as usual
(d) You will raise the issue in the staff meeting

58. How will you ‘attribute’ temporary deviation in your studies?
(a) Sometimes it happens! There no in it.
(b) It happens because of excessive friend.
(c) Make responsibility is the reason behind it
(d) All of the above

59. You are a senior officer in the Health Department. By virtue of your designation, you are invited to a seminar and speak on the topic “Predecided future of a newly born child”. What do you deliver in your talk?
(a) Advise the people that no one can predict the child’s future unless he/she is born.
(b) Suggest the people that they should not aspire that every child should become an officer. Rather, explain to them that it is more important for a child to become a good citizen.
(c) Tell the audience to first take care of the child’s upbringing. Also that they must get him/her education. This is the best was to enure that the child learns important value in life.
(d) Tell the audience that one should leave it to the child to decide what he/she wants to do depending on the interest areas and the capability of each child.

60. A man buys a music system valued at Rs. 8000. He pays Rs. 3500 at once and the rest 18 months later, on which he is charged simple interest at the rate of 8% per annum. Find the total amount he pays for the music system
(a) Rs. 9260
(b) Rs. 8540
(c) Rs. 8720
(d) Rs. 9410

61. The present worth of Rs.2809 due 2 yr hence at 6% per annum, is
(a) Rs. 2100
(b) Rs. 2600
(c) Rs. 2400
(d) Rs. 2500

62. What annual payment (in rupees) will be discharge a debt of Rs. 7620 due in 3 yr at per annum compound interest?
(a) Rs. 2540
(b) Rs. 3260
(c) Rs. 3380
(d) Rs. 3430

63. A man borrows Rs. 12500 from a bank at 20% compound interest. At the end of every year he pays Rs. 2000 as part repayment. How much (in rupees) does he still owe to the bank after three such instalments?
(a) 15600
(b) 12864
(c) 13780
(d) 14320

64. A sum of Rs. 390200 is to be paid back in three equal annual instalments. How much is each instalment, if the rate of interest charged is 4% per annum compounded annually?
(a) Rs. 140608
(b) Rs. 120560
(c) Rs. 10000
(d) Rs. 18000

65. A sum of Rs. 2400 deposited at CI, doubled after 5 yr. After 20 yr it will become
(a) Rs. 24000
(b) Rs. 38400
(c) Rs. 19200
(d) Can’t be determined

66. Statement: Should there be complete ban on setting up of thermal power, plants in India ?
Arguments
I. Yes, this is the only way to arrest further addition to environmental pollution.
II. No, there is a huge shortage of electricity in most parts of the country and hence generation of electricity needs to be augmented.
III. No, many developed countries continue to set up thermal power plants in their countries.

(a) None is strong
(b) Only I is strong
(c) Only II is strong
(d) Only III is strong

67. Statement: Should road repair work in big cities be carried out only late night ?
Arguments
I. No, this way the work will never get completed.
II. No, there will be unnecessary use of electricity.
III. Yes, the commuters will face lot of problems due to repair work during the day.

(a) None is strong
(b) Only I is strong
(c) Only III is strong
(d) Only II and III are strong

68. Statement: Should all the deemed universities be derecognized and attached to any to the central or state universities in India ?
Arguments
I. Yes, many of these deemed universities do not conform to the required standards of a full-fledged university and hence the level of education is compromised.
II. No, these deemed universities have been to introduce innovative courses suitable to the requirement of various industries as they are free from strict Govt. controls.
III. Yes, many such universities are basically money spinning activities and education takes a backseat in these institutions.

(a) Only I and II are strong
(b) Only II and III are strong
(c) Only I and III are strong
(d) All I, II and III are strong

69. Statement: Should there be a cap on drawing groundwater for irrigation purposes in India?
Arguments
I. No, irrigation is of prime importance for food production in India and is heavily dependent on groundwater in many parts of he country.
II. Yes, water tables have gone down to alarmingly low levels in some parts of the country where irrigation is primarily dependent on groundwater, which may lead to serious environmental consequences.
III. Yes, India just cannot afford to draw groundwater any further as the international agencies have cautioned India against it.

(a) Only I and II are strong
(b) Only II and III are strong
(c) Only I and III are strong
(d) All I, II and III are strong

70. Statement: Should there be a restriction on the construction of high rise building in big cities in India ?
Arguments
I. No, big cities in India do not have adequate open land plots to accommodate the growing population.
II. Yes, only the builders and developers benefit from the construction of high rise buildings.
III. Yes, the Govt. should first provide adequate infra structural facilities to existing buildings before al lowing the construction of new high rise buildings.

(a) Only II is strong
(b) Only III is strong
(c) Only I and III are strong
(d) Only I is strong

71. Libertine : Immorality
(a) victim : depravation
(b) miser : selfishness
(c) altruist : selflessness
(d) policeman : law

72. Extort : Obtain
(a) Purify : Strain
(b) Steal : Borrow
(c) Explode : Ignite
(d) Pilfer : Steal

73. Billy : Goat
(a) Cow : Bull
(b) Lord : Maid
(c) Man : Woman
(d) Cow : Calf

74. Blade : Grass : :
(a) Dig : Shovel
(b) Size : Hole
(c) Grain : Rice
(d) Food : Morsel

75. Work : Motive
(a) Body : Mind
(b) Wall : Paint
(c) Body : Food
(d) Petrol : Car

76. 202 102 55 36.5 34.25 42.125 57.625
(a) 55
(b) 202
(c) 36.5
(d) 57.625

77. 12 18 26.25 40.5 60.75 91.125 136.6875
(a) 26.25
(b) 18
(c) 136.6875
(d) 60.75

78. How many 4s are there in the following series of numbers which are proceeded by 6 but not immediately followed by 5 ? ...
3 4 2 6 4 5 6 4 7 9 9 6 4 5 9 5 6 4 8 7 8 4 6 4 3
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four

79. In the following number sequence, how many such even numbers are there which are exactly divisible by its immediate preceding number but not exactly divisible by its immediate following number ?
3 8 4 1 5 7 2 8 3 4 8 9 3 9 4 2 1 5 8 2
(a) Two
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) More than four

80. How many 8s are there in the following sequence, which are preceded by 5, but not immediately followed by 3 ?
5 8 3 7 5 8 6 3 8 5 4 5 8 4 7 6 5 5 8 3 5 8 7 5 8 2 8 5
(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 4

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