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SECTION – I

Sub-section I-A : Number of Questions = 15

Note: Questions 1 to 15 carry two marks each.

DIRECTIONS for Question 1: In the given question, the word at the top of the table is used in five differentways, numbered 1 to 5. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.

1. LEAD

1“I will lead them to believe that ignoring this transgression is in the best interest of the college”.

2 Although she was nervous, she managed to lead the group activity confidently.

3 He was ready to give up when a promising lead provided him the opportunity of a lifetime.

4 After his malingering was found out, he was asked to lead down his subordinates.

5 Rajeev Kakkar plays the lead guitar in the band ‘Martians.’

DIRECTIONS for Questions 2 to 5: The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose thebest answer to each question.

Passage

An art critic was testily perambulating “The Gates,” in Central Park, with his wife and a friend from Texas onthe first Sunday afternoon of its installation when he suddenly got a load of their thousands of fellow-walkersand registered the common mood—a sort of vast, blanketing, almost drowsy contentment. He couldn’t thinkof any other occasion on which he had witnessed so many New Yorkers moving slowly when they didn’thave to. Each person looked strangely, nakedly personal: not a New Yorker at all, or anything else in particular.The crowd’s many-voiced sound had an indoor intimacy, like the bright murmur in a theatre, during intermission,when the play is good and everybody knows that everybody knows it. The over-all social effect, which wassomewhat like that of an electrical blackout or a major blizzard, minus the inconvenience, was weird andterrific. The voluble disaffection of the art critic, collapsed, to the relief of my companions. I had to admit thereason for it, which was that “The Gates” is a populist affront to the authority of art critics, and to accept beingjust another shuffling, jostling, helplessly chummy citizen.

Of course, “The Gates” is art, because what else would it be? Art used to mean paintings and statues. Now itmeans practically anything human-made that is unclassifiable otherwise. This loss of a commonsense definitionis a big art-critical problem, but not in Central Park, not this week. What the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claudehave been doing for three and a half decades is self-evident. They propose a grandiose, entirely pointlessalteration of a public place, then advance their plan in the face of a predictable public and bureaucraticresistance, which gradually comes to seem mean-spirited and foolish for want of a reasonable argumentagainst them. They build a constituency of supporters, including collectors who help finance the project bybuying Christo’s drawings and collages of it. What then occurs is like an annual festival—Macy’s ThanksgivingDay Parade, a high-school prom—without the parts about its being annual or a festival. It feels vaguelyreligious. The zealous installers and minders, identifiable on site by their uniforms and chatty pride, are likeacolytes. As with any ritual—though “The Gates” can’t be a ritual, because it is performed just once—howpeople behave during the installation is what it is for and about. Then it’s gone, before it has a chance tobecome boring or, for that matter, interesting.

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Those who deplore “The Gates” as ugly aren’t wrong, just poor sports. The work’s charm-free, syntheticorange hue—saffron? no way—is something you would wear only in the woods during deer season, in orderto avoid being shot. The nylon fabric is sullen to the touch. The proportions of the arches are graceless, anddogs alone esteem the clunky bases. As for the sometimes heard praise of the work for framing and, in theprocess, revealing unsuspected lovelinesses of the Park—C’mon, people! You don’t need artificial aids tonotice things. “The Gates” does trigger beauty when, as on the aforementioned Sunday afternoon, a low sunbacklights the fluttering fabric, which combusts like stained glass in a molten state. This effect lasts all ofabout two seconds—the time span suggested in the observation of the art historian Kenneth Clark that we canenjoy a purely aesthetic sensation for only as long as we can keenly savor the smell of a fresh-cut orange.“The Gates” succeeds precisely by being, on the whole, a big nothing. Comprehended at a glance, it lets usget right down to being crazy about ourselves, in a bubble of participatory narcissism that it will be pitiable tohave missed.

2. It can be inferred that the art critic mentioned in the passage is(1) Christo Claude (2) The author (3) Can’t tell(4) “The Gates” creator (5) The author’s friend

3. What does the author mean by saying “This loss of a commonsense definition is a big art-criticalproblem, but not in Central Park, not this week.”?(1) The installation of “The Gates” was clearly not art in any manner(2) The installation of “The Gates” was unambiguously art(3) The artists of “The Gates” do not believe in any definitions of art(4) Defining art in any manner is self-defeating(5) The artists of “The Gates” are not really interested in art.

4. It can be inferred that the author mentions those who find the “Gates” ugly as “poor sports” because?(1) They do not understand art in the post modernist sense(2) They focus on the details and not the overall experience(3) They dismiss the effort that has gone into the creation of the installation(4) They are closed-minded and adhere to the populist definition of art(5) They are unhappy about the fact that “The Gates” has become an annual event.

5. What is the achievement of “The Gates” as mentioned by the author?(1) It is a nothing but still gets people’s attention(2) Without fitting into the strict definition of art, it has managed to get the attention of art connoisseurs(3) It forces people to turn towards themselves and enjoy it by itself being nothing(4) It makes people look at others around them and relate to each other(5) It has totally changed the way people perceive art.

DIRECTIONS for Questions 6 to 11 : Fill up the blanks, numbered [6], [7] ...... up to [11], in the followingpassage with the most appropriate word from the options given for each blank.“Who Owns Anne Frank?” asked novelist Cynthia Ozick, in an article that holds up the diary as a __[6]__ textand condemns any tamperers. The passions the book __[7]__ suggest that everyone owns Anne Frank, thatshe has __[8]__ above the Holocaust, Judaism, girlhood and even goodness and become a __[9]__ figure ofthe modern world — the moral individual mind __[10]__ by the machinery of destruction, insisting on theright to live and question and __[11]__ for the future of human beings.

6. (1) cursed (2) profane (3) secular (4) sacred (5) humorous

7. (1) ignites (2) snuff’s out (3) glows (4) parches (5) suppresses

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8. (1) evolved (2) risen (3) developed (4) receded (5) flown

9. (1) totemic (2) precursory (3) implacable (4) defunct (5) redundant

10. (1) atoned (2) buttressed (3) reprobate (4) beset (5) blessed

11. (1) hope (2) hunger (3) conjecture (4) surmise (5) insist

DIRECTIONS for Questions 12 to 15: The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choosethe best answer to each question.

Passage

Jawaharlal Nehru had once described agriculture as “India’s greatest living industry”. Yet, 60 years afterIndependence, the country is slowly coming to grips with the effects of having neglected agriculture all theseyears. Addressing a recent seminar on agriculture, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the situation wasalarming. The Tenth Five-Year Plan (2002-07) had assumed that Indian agricultural production would growby 4 per cent every year. “But the reality is that in the first three years of the Plan, we have not been able toensure even 1.5 per cent rate of growth,” he said.

As Singh and his top team see it, if India has to grow by 7-8 per cent every year, agriculture has to grow faster.After all, despite all the industrial development and India’s hi-tech image, the economy remains overwhelminglyagrarian. Unlike the West, where agriculture provides just 3 per cent of the jobs, two out of three Indians earntheir livelihood directly or indirectly from agriculture.

The situation on the ground is alarming. Around 10 per cent of India’s farming households are landless.Another 67 per cent own less than one hectare of land each. Eleven per cent have 1-2 hectares of land. Yieldshave been stagnant. Irrigation facilities remain inadequate. Mechanisation is low. So is the use of farm inputs.Fixing all this is not easy. But in the last one year, Manmohan Singh’s government has put comprehensivereform of Indian agriculture on top of its agenda. Managing such a systemic change on such a huge scale isdaunting. Especially when agriculture is a state subject.

The changes are far too many and far too complex to be addressed in one go.

One big factor hobbling Indian farmers is the 7,000-strong mandi system — the large agricultural producemarkets that have aggregated and dispatched grains, fruits, vegetables and the rest from farms to towns forages now. A big effort is on to develop an alternative mechanism that will connect farmers more efficiently tomarkets. Competition, it is hoped, will discipline the old mandi system and also give farmers their due share.

But mere efficiency won’t help. Today, most Indian farmers don’t think enough about what the market wantsbefore they choose their crop. The government is, therefore, trying to also bring in a new market orientation.Its new National Horticulture Mission — and its focus on high-value agriculture — is part of this drive.Opening up foreign direct investment in retail could also allow big retailers to deal directly with the farms.All these big shifts require huge investments in building hard and soft infrastructure - something that thegovernment alone is in no position to bear. The Prime Minister has already talked about replacing publiclyfunded R&D in agriculture and rural infrastructure with a new private participation model. But the privatesector will not step in till the larger environment itself is conducive for it to function smoothly. That is why amore favourable environment is being created — largely through an overhaul of several antiquated laws.

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Today, there is renewed optimism among private sector firms. In the next two to three years, most peoplereckon a lot of these changes will begin to fall into place. And it could once again kick-start a new cycle ofinvestment and growth in “India’s greatest living industry”.

12. Why is agriculture being a state subject mentioned in the passage?(1) To showcase one of the many problems agriculture faces since state subjects are usually an

unimportant part of the economy.(2) To show how the lack of a national agenda has forced the Prime Minister to find issues within

various states.(3) To indicate the practical problems related to the Prime Minister’s statement.(4) To ensure that the reader understands the depth of the problem.(5) To show the seriousness and the importance of this issue.

13. It can be inferred that the National Horticulture Mission intends to(1) orient farmers towards the market(2) encourage farmers to produce high-value crops(3) remove the mandi in the buying and selling of high-value crops(4) encourage farmers to use the mandi in an efficient and productive manner(5) Both (1) and (2)

14. The issue of government’s interest in involving the private sector and the hesitation of the latter until theenvironment is positive is best represented as a case of(1) a cyclical situation(2) a periodic cycle(3) a linear trend with an upward growth(4) a haphazard trend line(5) a vicious cycle

15. What is the author trying to convey by using the word ‘systemic’ to describe Indian agriculture?(1) Dominated by the governmental system(2) Integrated network of processes(3) Slow moving and gradual(4) Being related closely to manufacturing(5) Being related closely to distribution

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Sub-section I-B : Number of Questions = 10

Note: Questions 16 to 25 carry three marks each.

DIRECTIONS for Questions 16 to 18: Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequencebetween sentence 1 and 6.

16. 1. When you compare costs embroidery backing is a minute investment sent to buying sewingmachinery, but choosing the right backing for each project can mean the difference between aproduct customers will want to buy and one they won’t.

A. Backing is a non-woven material placed behind the garment to be embroidered that stabilizes thefabric and keeps it from moving or stretching during the embroidery process.

B. Although there are some fabrics that don’t necessarily require backing before embroidery, likeheavy canvas or some woven shirt materials, most do.

C. The garment is protected from pressure and friction of the thread and bobbin as it is sewn.D. A good backing prolongs the life of the embroidery and enhances its appearance.6. It adds stability to the fabric and gives stitches more dimensions as thread has more to hold on to as

it is sewn.

(1) BCAD (2) BDAC (3) DBCA (4) ADCB (5) DCBA

17. 1. Man and nature were the culprits as Venice sank hopelessly – or so it seemed - into the 177 canalson which the city is built.

A. The sinking has been arrested and Venice should start rising again, like an oceanic phoenix from thecanals.

B. While nature’s work took ages, man’s work was much quicker and more brutal.C . The saving of Venice is the problem of the Italian Government, of course, but Venice is also a

concern for Europe.D. But now man is using his ingenuity to save what he had destroyed.6. And it happened that in the second half of 1975 Italy was in the chair of the European Council of

Ministers, but the EC as such has no program for the salvation of Venice.

(1) CADB (2) BDAC (3) DBAC (4) BADC (5) ADBC

18. 1. Last summer, I went to pass the hot weather season in the town of Meridian.A. His practice, never very extensive, had after a few years been given up entirely.B. After some difficulty I succeeded in renting a vacant lot that had been occupied by an eccentric

doctor of the name of Mannering, who had gone away years before, no one knew where, not evenhis agent.

C. He had built the house himself and had lived in it with an old servant for about ten years.D. The relative at whose home I had intended to stay was ill, so I sought other quarters.6. Not only so, he had also withdrawn himself almost altogether from social life and become a recluse.

(1) DBCA (2) ABCD (3) DCBA (4) CDBA (5) CBAD

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Passage

More than any other American writer, Robert Stone is a product of the 1960s - or maybe it’s just that he waseverywhere. Although he began the decade in New Orleans, his counterculture roots go back to Beat-eraTimes Square, where his wife, Janice, worked at the Seven Arts coffee shop, a meeting place for Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsberg and Herbert Huncke. Later, Stone moved to Northern California as a Wallace Stegner fellowat Stanford University and became part of Ken Kesey’s circle at his La Honda compound in the hills near PaloAlto; he also spent time in Mexico, Hollywood and London, becoming (to borrow a phrase from his 1975novel Dog Soldiers) a “journalist of sorts” in Vietnam during the waning days of the war.

For Stone, however, the 1960s were not a Technicolor dreamscape but an abyss of moral ambiguity, indistinctand dangerous, a defining legacy of which has been the tendency to fool ourselves. As he suggests in hismemoir, Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties: “Those of us who cared most deeply about the changes,those who gave their lives to them, were, I think, the most deceived. ... Curved, finned, corporate Tomorrowland,as presented at the 1964 World’s Fair, was over before it began, and we were borne along with it into a futurethat no one would have recognized, a world that no one could have wanted. Sex, drugs and death weredemystified. The LSD we took as a tonic of psychic liberation turned out to have been developed by CIAresearchers as a weapon of the Cold War. We had gone to a party in La Honda in 1963 that followed us out thedoor and into the street and filled the world with funny colors. But the prank was on us.”

Prime Green is Stone’s first work of nonfiction, an opportunity, as it were, to get a glimpse behind the curtainof his novels. Opening in the late 1950s, the book continues, in fits and starts, through his 1971 reporting stintin Vietnam. If this makes for a broad definition of the decade, it’s only appropriate, for history rarely fits theneat categorizations of human time. Rather, events have precedents, consequences; they grow out of one setof circumstances and into another, a loose chain of experience understood in retrospect, if at all. For Stone,that’s one of the points here - the notion that memory is not orderly but kaleidoscopic, and meaning is whatwe bestow. “It’s so long now that I have only fragments of recollection,” he writes, “river mists, magnolia,gardens enclosed in old stone.”

Indeed, he reminds us, there is no way to encompass reality even in a memoir, only the chance to circumscribea shadow territory between fact and myth. “I decided,” Stone explains, “ ... that between ‘realism’ and formalisticexperiment there was no substantial difference. Originality was always welcome; experiments worked or theydidn’t. Language was language and life was life, one tracking, undermining, enlightening the other.” That’s atelling statement, offering insight into his sense of what exactly literature can do. The truth is elusive, and thebest we can hope for is to frame a story that makes sense to us. All else is folly, false impression, the illusionof a self-deceiving mind. Or, as Kesey puts it, in one of the book’s most trenchant comments: “If you’ve gotit all together ... what’s that all around it?”

Kesey’s prankster persona drifts through much of Prime Green like an animating spirit - although, to hiscredit, Stone sees it for what it is. His account of the Merry Prankster era and its aftermath (in which Keseyfaked his suicide and fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution on drug charges) is compelling not because Stonehas anything new to tell us but because he recognizes the peculiar mix of hope and desperation that made thetime what it was.

Unfortunately, the rest of the book lacks this focus; it’s meandering, even dull. Part of the problem is that,despite Stone’s presence at scenes ranging from the legendary Acid Tests to military briefing rooms, fromPaul Newman’s production office to the Beatles’ Savile Row headquarters, he was never much of a joiner but

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someone who held himself apart. This, of course, is the key to his fiction, which revolves around loners andoutcasts, cut loose in a cosmos they can’t define. In that sense, it’s hardly surprising that the best bits here arethe interior observations, such as the description of sunrise over Mexico’s Manzanillo Bay from which thememoir draws its name: “In the moments after dawn, before the sun had reached the peaks of the sierra, theslopes and valleys of the rain forest would explode in green light, erupting inside a silence that seemed barelyto contain it. ... We called that light Prime Green; it was primal, primary, primo.”

More often, though, Stone seems not quite clear on his intentions, writing in a kind of shorthand that makesPrime Green read more like a glorified daybook than a fully realized work. Most problematic is his insistenceon apologizing, at length, for WUSA, the 1970 film made from his 1967 debut novel A Hall of Mirrors. It’s asif in turning the lens on himself he can’t see beneath the surface of his experiences to get at the elusive innerlife.

Here we have the issue in a nutshell. Over the past 40 years, Stone has staked his career on precisely thenuances Prime Green is lacking, framing the human condition in bleakly existential terms. The best of hisfiction - Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, the magisterial Damascus Gate - is informed by a fierce andunrelenting moral vision, the sense that we live not in a godless universe but one in which God has abandonedus, leaving an emptiness for which there is neither comfort nor redress. This, Stone’s novels mean to tell us, isthe source of all our trouble, be it sectarian squabbling or dissolute soul-searching, none of which can ever beresolved. These are the roots of our deep divisions, our endless dissatisfactions, our inability to recognizeeach other or ourselves.

It’s a sensibility worthy of Conrad or Dostoevsky (both of whom Stone has cited as influences), one thatspeaks to the very essence of modernity, to our growing alienation from the world. Yet with Prime Green,Stone backs away from such complexities, offering commonplaces as opposed to questions, anecdotes thatnever add up to anything larger than themselves. That may well be how memory works, but there’s a differencebetween memory and memoir, which requires not just recollection but reflection, a perspective and a point ofview.

To be fair, this could have something to do with genre; Stone is a novelist, after all. His 1997 short fictioncollection, Bear and His Daughter, failed because he was not as adept in a compressed form as in the novel’sexpansive whirl. More troubling, though, is that Stone’s most recent novel, Bay of Souls, suffered fromsimilar difficulties, glib in places, superficial, indistinct. At the time, this seemed an anomaly, but Prime Greenmakes me think again. “Life,” Stone writes, “sometimes can be subsumed in magic, although the supply is notinexhaustible.” The same, I’d suggest, can be true of literature.

19. What according to the passage is not a characteristic of the 1960s ?(1) The 1960s has not exactly been characterized by clarity of morals and values.(2) The 1960s has been characterized by people who wanted to embrace change.(3) The time and circumstances of the 1960s were such that people were fooled into sacrificing themselves

for something which they would have never wanted.(4) It cannot be said that the 1960s was not a time of ambiguity and danger.(5) Drugs were considered mysterious and esoteric.

20. Which of the following novels is mentioned in the passage?(1) Lion and his daughter(2) True Soldiers(3) A Hall of Mirrors(4) A Sea of Souls(5) None of the above

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21. The author would most agree with which of the following statements?(1) Stone suffers from an identity crisis which is apparent in ‘Prime Green’.(2) Stone has met with success in his fictional works because of his journalistic tendencies.(3) Stone has the ability to look at things in the light of their background / circumstances.(4) Lack of anecdotes and perspectives does not take away the compelling nature of the work ‘Prime

Green’.(5) Stone’s atheistic tendencies colour even his best work of fiction.

22. Which of the following is not a characteristic of ‘Prime Green’?(1) Stone remains slightly detached from many scenes despite being present in them.(2) Many times Stone’s intentions are vague and ambiguous.(3) Stone fully succeeds in describing the elusive inner life.(4) Stone’s writing seems to lack the depth of a fully realized work.(5) Stone’s apology for WUSA is quite long winded and seems problematic.

23. According to the author, Stone is a(1) True non-fiction writer(2) An eternal optimist(3) A politician(4) A novelist(5) A true philosopher

DIRECTIONS for Questions 24 and 25: Five alternative summaries are given below each text. Choose theoption that best captures the essence of the text.

24. Modernity comes from modo, meaning “just now.” Modernity is about novelty, the constant reworkingof nature into concepts, making, or as we say, “creating,” a “thingless perceptual after-world.” One ofthese concepts is human equality, from which can come individualism— the goal of the AmericanConstitution. The Constitution has “a large-minded liberality of governance” that sets limits so as tocontain humans, but sets them widely so as to give them space. The “contrived newness” or “systematicproduction of novelty” characteristic of modernity elevates method over substance, and reason overnature. It works well for us in politics, in procedural democracy, which is “our political salvation,” butit leaves us vulnerable to “eager beaver” intellectuals and academics who want to reform us.(1) Modernity puts an emphasis on consistently redefining concepts. In the context of the American

Constitution it makes sense in that this is appropriate in politics, but in other spheres it allows forunnecessary redefinitions.

(2) Modernity means reworking old concepts into new. This makes sense in the American Constitutionbut academics thereby get a reason to redefine the Constitution, which is uncalled for.

(3) Modernity is the means to an end but when the means become more important the ends becomevague. This is the case with American politics where academics have spoiled the concept of“procedural democracy”.

(4) Academics are the upholders of modernity. This is due to the American Constitution’s emphasis onit and this leads to problems.

(5) The American constitution is based on the concepts of modernity. These concepts have been criticizedby the intellectuals.

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25. It will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear, and round dealing, is the honourof man’s nature; and that mixture of falsehoods, is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may makethe metal work the better, but it embases it. For these winding, and crooked courses, are the goings ofthe serpent; which goes basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice, that doth socover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore the reason why the word ofthe lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge is that if it be well weighed, to say that aman lies, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men. For a lie facesGod, and shrinks from man.(1) Lies ruin a person’s character in that they might be effective but it demeans the liar. This shame is

best expressed in terms of fear of God.(2) Lies ruin a person’s character in that they are effective but it demeans the liar. Lying is a contradiction

in that it means a person is more afraid of others, of his stature but less afraid of God, a superiorbeing who knows everything.

(3) Lies ruin a person’s character in that he has to continuously think of ways to not get caught. But, inthe end God knows the truth and so his effort is redundant.

(4) Lies affect a person deeply – both the liar and the one lied to. Eventually, God will persecute bothof them.

(5) Lies affect a person’s character. The liar is constantly haunted by the fear of God and men.

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Sub-section I-C : Number of Questions = 10

Note: Questions 26 to 35 carry four marks each.

DIRECTIONS for Questions 26 to 28: Five alternative summaries are given below each text. Choose theoption that best captures the essence of the text.

26. Further, the state is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual, since the whole is ofnecessity prior to the part; for example, if the whole body be destroyed, there will be no foot or hand,except in an equivocal sense, as we might speak of a stone hand; for when destroyed the hand will beno better than that. But things are defined by their working and power; and we ought not to say that theyare the same when they no longer have their proper quality, but only that they have the same name. Theproof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated,is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.

(1) Nature is the most superior of all things since human beings are its creations. All other institutionsneed nature to function and achieve their optimum efficiency.

(2) Man is a part in relation to the state, which can be considered as a whole. If the state is remove thenman will be unable to function and this makes the state prior and superior.

(3) Utility of nature is dictated by who controls it. Human beings appear to control it, but in reality it isthe other way round.

(4) Human beings appear superior in their ability to mould nature according to their nature, but this ispossible only when they work in collaboration. This makes it possible for states to be created.

(5) One should always look at things in a holistic manner instead of looking at insignificant parts.

27. Herein lies an important lesson that I have learned in many years of paranormal investigations: Whatpeople remember rarely corresponds to what actually happened. Case in point: A man named GuySavelli said that he had seen soldiers kill goats by staring at them, and that he himself had also done so.But as the story unfolds I discovered that Savelli is recalling, years later, what he remembers about aparticular “experiment” with 30 numbered goats. Savelli randomly chose goat number 16 and gave ithis best death stare. But he couldn’t concentrate that day, so he quit the experiment, only to be told laterthat goat number 17 had died. End of story. No autopsy or explanation of the cause of death. Noinformation about how much time had elapsed; the conditions, like temperature, of the room into whichthe 30 goats had been placed; how long they had been there, and so forth.

(1) Paranormal investigations are subjective and closely guarded.(2) In paranormal investigations, people are seen to create versions that do not withstand questioning.(3) People blank out paranormal events, thereby making paranormal investigations doubtful.(4) In paranormal investigations, the issue of what is professed and what had happened are different

things.(5) People take paranormal investigations lightly.

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28. Counterfeiting is big business, but China needs to protect an even bigger one: Future investment in itseconomy, both foreign and domestic. Always thinking ahead, Beijing’s leaders want state-of-the-artinvestments from foreign companies to keep the country’s economy powering forward. And thoughChina seems to be getting its fair share of Western businesses willing to open research and developmentcenters and build factories producing high-tech goods, rampant piracy rightly gives many potentialinvestors pause. At the same time, a growing number of Chinese concerns are investing heavily inR&D in an effort to become global brands. The last thing they need is massive rip-offs from domesticcounterfeiters. Foreign and Chinese investors alike should get together and step up the pressure onBeijing to forcefully crack down or risk damaging the nation’s competitiveness.

(1) Although making fakes is a big business in Chinese economy it is likely to damage the country’sfuture. The government needs to stop it so as to encourage more foreign investments.

(2) Although making fakes is a big business in Chinese economy it is likely to damage the country’sfuture. At the same time, the presence of powerful companies which produce fake goods is puttingpressure on the government to discreetly encourage it.

(3) Chinese government is in a tough situation of trying to balance to the country’s foreign exchangeearnings with its brand image.

(4) Chinese government is likely to risk anti-populism if it seeks to make its economy counterfeits-free.

(5) The Chinese government is really interested in increasing investment in its economy.


Passage

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and forthis reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. But a certain difference isfound among ends; some are activities, others are products apart from the activities that produce them. Wherethere are ends apart from the actions, it is the nature of the products to be better than the activities. Now, asthere are many actions, arts, and sciences, their ends also are many; the end of the medical art is health, that ofshipbuilding a vessel, that of strategy victory, that of economics wealth. But where such arts fall under asingle capacity- as bridle-making and the other arts concerned with the equipment of horses fall under the artof riding, and this and every military action under strategy, in the same way other arts fall under yet others- inall of these the ends of the master arts are to be preferred to all the subordinate ends; for it is for the sake of theformer that the latter are pursued. It makes no difference whether the activities themselves are the ends of theactions, or something else apart from the activities, as in the case of the sciences just mentioned.

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desiredfor the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate theprocess would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good andthe chief good. Will not the knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archerswho have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right? If so, we must try, in outline at least, todetermine what it is, and of which of the sciences or capacities it is the object. It would seem to belong to themost authoritative art and that which is most truly the master art. And politics appears to be of this nature; forit is this that ordains which of the sciences should be studied in a state, and which each class of citizens shouldlearn and up to what point they should learn them; and we see even the most highly esteemed of capacities tofall under this, e.g. strategy, economics, rhetoric; now, since politics uses the rest of the sciences, and since,again, it legislates as to what we are to do and what we are to abstain from, the end of this science must includethose of the others, so that this end must be the good for man. For even if the end is the same for a single man

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and for a state, that of the state seems at all events something greater and more complete whether to attain orto preserve; though it is worth while to attain the end merely for one man, it is finer and more godlike to attainit for a nation or for city-states. These, then, are the ends at which our inquiry aims, since it is political science,in one sense of that term.

Our discussion will be adequate if it has as much clearness as the subject-matter admits of, for precision is notto be sought for alike in all discussions, any more than in all the products of the crafts. Now fine and justactions, which political science investigates, admit of much variety and fluctuation of opinion, so that theymay be thought to exist only by convention, and not by nature. And goods also give rise to a similar fluctuationbecause they bring harm to many people; for before now men have been undone by reason of their wealth,and others by reason of their courage. We must be content, then, in speaking of such subjects and with suchpremisses to indicate the truth roughly and in outline, and in speaking about things which are only for themost part true and with premisses of the same kind to reach conclusions that are no better. In the same spirit,therefore, should each type of statement be received; for it is the mark of an educated man to look forprecision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish toaccept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.

Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a good judge. And so the man who hasbeen educated in a subject is a good judge of that subject, and the man who has received an all-roundeducation is a good judge in general. Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on politicalscience; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and areabout these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable,because the end aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young inyears or youthful in character; the defect does not depend on time, but on his living, and pursuing eachsuccessive object, as passion directs. For to such persons, as to the incontinent, knowledge brings no profit;but to those who desire and act in accordance with a rational principle knowledge about such matters will beof great benefit.

29. Which of the following assumptions cannot be inferred from the passage?(1) Every action and thought is directed and aimed at something good(2) Everything has a purpose or an end(3) Many times, some of the creative pursuits are subordinate to a master art(4) Every person is a good judge of a subject which is known to him(5) Every person assumes that his contribution towards one art will lead to the common good of the

state

30. Why does the author suggest that desiring something for the sake of that thing itself must be the chiefgood?(1) Because every means has a desirable end(2) Because our life has an ultimate goal(3) Because politics is an authoritative art(4) Because every activity should be directed towards another activity(5) Because our purpose in life is to achieve precision in whatever we choose to do

31. According to the passage, the author gives a warning to those who:(1) aim to pursue happiness for the sake of happiness(2) aim to act by means of their virtue(3) aim to work in the field of politics(4) aim to pass judgements on subjects that are unknown to them(5) aim to exercise action rather than gain knowledge

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32. According to the passage, if politics is the most authoritative art then it cannot be inferred that:(1) no other science dominates our actions more than politics(2) politics determines the semblance, structure and content of other sciences(3) art is equally dependent on other sciences and not just politics(4) politics is the master art(5) politics not only uses these sciences, it also legislates their limit

DIRECTIONS for Questions 33 to 35: In each question, four sentences are given. Identify the incorrectsentence or sentences.

33. A. All black writers of the Renaissance period cannot be described as crusaders.B. Some were not immediately concerned with the injustices heaped on Negroes.C. Some contrived their poems, novels and song merely for the sake of art, while others took up their

pens to escape the sordid aspect of their existence.D. If an element of race exists in the work of these writers, it is because their material flows out of their

individual and group experiences reflecting the emergence of a distant cultural community.

(1) D and A (2) C and D (3) B and D (4) A and C (5) A and B

34. A. Flying alone is an open plane is the purest experience of flight possible.B. That pure experience is felt at its most intense in acrobatic flying where you are upside down, or

pointed at the sky or at the earth, and moving in ways that you can only in the unsubstantialmedium of the air.

C. Acrobatic flying is a useless skill in its particulars – nobody needs to do a loop or a roll, not even afighter pilot – but this skills extends your control of a plane.

D. When you reach the top of a loop, upside down and engine at full throttle, and tilt your head up topick up the horizon line behind you, you are as far outside instinctive human behaviour as you cango.

(1) A, C and D (2) D, B and C (3) B, A and C (4) D, A and B (5) C and B

35. A. But this summer might just be about the flag, when the book is written about it.B. The coming Monday, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down the long-expected decision on

the Pledge of Allegiance.C. In alliance the House of Representatives just passed yesterday, buried by other events of the day,

an amendment to the Constitution to ban flag burning.D. They have passed it before on two occasions, most recently in the year 2000, and both times it has

been tried and killed in the Senate.

(1) D and C (2) C and B (3) B and D (4) D and A (5) A and C

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SECTION – II

Sub-section II-A : Number of Questions = 15


DIRECTIONS for Questions 36 and 37: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.I forgot the ten digit mobile number of my friend Rakesh. However, I still have some information about thenumber, moving from left to right.i. Every fifth digit is the third multiple of two.ii. It contains the largest single digit multiple of three twice.iii. Second multiple of two appears next to each other twice in the last five digits.iv. The first digit is three more than the last digit.v. Fourth digit from the last is three.vi. Sum of the second and the fourth digit is equal to the first digit.vii. Sum of the fourth, fifth and the sixth digit is seven.viii. Sum of the last four digits is same as that of the last five digits.

36. The second digit in the mobile number as we move from left to right is(1) 1 (2) 8 (3) 2 (4) 7 (5) Cannot be determined

37. Places occupied by the pair of second multiples of 2 in the mobile number are(1) 5, 6 (2) 7, 8 (3) 6, 7 (4) 1, 4 (5) 8, 9

38. There were two groups A and B in a tournament. Both the groups had equal number of teams. In thetournament each team played exactly one match with every other team of the same group. If someteams were shifted from group A to group B, then the number of matches in the tournament increasesby 9. If the number of teams in group B after the shift is 9, then find the total number of teams thatparticipated in the tournament.(1) 10 (2) 12 (3) 24 (4) 30 (5) Data Insufficient

DIRECTIONS for Questions 39 to 42: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.The chart given below shows the annual consumption of different food items of the residents of an apartmentin Mumbai. The data is shown for two consecutive years 2001 and 2002. The pyramid of 2001 shows theannual consumption (in kgs) for the different food items and the corresponding pyramid for 2002 shows thepercentage change ('+' sign indicates percentage increase) for the items in the same order as that of 2001 fromtop to bottom. The table associated with 2002 pyramid shows the age-wise and item-wise distribution of allthe residents of the apartment consuming a particular food item in 2002. The only food items consumed bythese residents are those given in the chart and each resident (as shown in the table) necessarily consumes thegiven food items.

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2

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8

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6

6

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39. Which of the following statement(s) is/are TRUE, based on the given data?A. The quantity of vegetables consumed as a percentage of quantity all the food items in 2002 is more

than twice as compared to 2001.B. The increase in the quantity of milk consumed in 2002 as compared to 2001 is less than the increase

in the quantity of grains consumed in 2002 as compared to 2001.C. Men (19-30 years) consumed the maximum quantity of grains in 2001.(1) A, B and C (2) Only C (3) Both A and C(4) Only B (5) Both B and C

40. The given data is sufficient to find the answers of which of the following questions?A. What is the quantity of fruits consumed by children (4 to 8 years) in 2002?B. Find the ratio of the quantity of meat consumed by men (19-30 years) in 2001 and 2002.C. What is the average consumption of grains per resident of the apartment in 2002?(1) A, B and C (2) Both A and B (3) Only B and C(4) Both A and C (5) Only C

41. Assume that the residents of different age-groups who consume a food item, do it in the same quantity.In 2001, there were 21 residents in the apartment who consumed milk. Find the approximate milkconsumption per child (4-8 years) in 2001.(1) 391 kg (2) 190 kg (3)150 kg (4) 395 kg (5) Cannot be determined.

42. If the given age-wise and item-wise consumer chart for 2002 is also valid for 2001, then find the ratioof the average vegetable consumption per resident in 2001 to the average fruit consumption per residentin 2002?(1) 4 : 9 (2) 5 : 9 (3) 1 : 3 (4) 2 : 3 (5) Cannot be determined

DIRECTIONS for Questions 43 to 45: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below:In a chartered bus, tickets are available for passengers in two fare slabs: Rs. 5 for distance below 5 km andRs. 8 for distance of 5 km or above. The conductor of the bus issues one of the two tickets to each passengeraccording to the distance one has to travel. Any passenger tenders him the amount in the denomination ofRe. 1, Rs. 2, Rs. 5, Rs.10 or Rs. 20 only. The conductor has to return the remaining amount to each passengerin these denominations only. The conductor had 5 notes of Re. 1, 20 notes of Rs. 2 and 3 notes of Rs. 5 to startwith.

43. The bus has a seating capacity of 80 passengers. If the bus was full when it started and no passengerboarded the bus after that, then which of the following is a possible amount with the conductor whenthe bus finished the journey?(1) Rs. 520 (2) Rs. 530 (3) Rs. 540 (4) Rs. 545 (5) Rs. 535

44. If each passenger in the bus is having a Rs. 10 note only, then at most how many passengers theconductor can serve without facing any problem in rendering the change to the passengers?(1) 23 (2) 24 (3) 25 (4) 26 (5) 27

45. If 60% of the passengers travel a distance that is less than 5 kms, then find the minimum possiblenumber of passengers the bus should have so that the conductor is left with only Rs. 10 notes?(1) 20 (2) 30 (3) 35 (4) 45 (5) 50

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 46 to 50: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.Trooti and Frooti are two brands of mango drink that is available at the local grocer’s shop – ‘GopaljeeStores’. The owner Mr. Gopal had started stocking these brands in his shop. He started stocking Trooti in themonth of March whereas Frooti in the month of May. He did not have any stock of Trooti or Frooti before themonth of March. The bar chart given below provides information about the number of standard packs (of 300ml) of each brand being bought by Mr. Gopal at the beginning of the corresponding month. He manages tosell only a fraction of the total stock available at the beginning of the month (stock left over from previousmonth + the new stocks bought in that month) for that brand. Both the brands are sold in standard packs only(consider the nearest integer in any calculation that involves number of packs)

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The fraction of stocks of each brand sold in the six-month period from March to August is below.

Month Fraction of Trooti sold Fraction of Frooti soldMarch 0.5 —April 0.6 —May 0.7 0.7June 0.8 0.9July 0.9 0.7

August 0.8 0.5

46. In which month the aggregate number of packs of Trooti and Frooti sold in Gopaljee stores is themaximum?(1) June (2) July (3) August (4) May (5) Cannot be determined

47. In which month did Gopaljee Stores have the highest stock of Frooti (in terms of number of packs)?(1) June (2) July (3) August (4) May (5) Cannot be determined

48. Which month had the highest sales of Trooti brand from Gopaljee Stores (in terms of number of packs)?(1) June (2) July (3) August (4) May (5) Cannot be determined

49. In which month the total stock of Frooti, before being sold, was higher than Trooti in Gopaljee Stores?(1) May (2) June (3) July (4) August (5) April

50. Considering both the brands, in which month the difference between total quantity sold and bought isthe maximum?(1) Trooti, March (2) Frooti, May (3) Frooti, July(4) Frooti, August (5) None of these

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Sub-section II-B : Number of Questions = 10


DIRECTIONS for Questions 51 to 55: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.The charts below shows various parameters related to four different cities namely Pune, Hyderabad, Chennaiand Bangalore in India for 2001 and 2002.

Per Capita Income (in rupees)

31,876

22,000

23,000

50,40028,064

19,954

27,512

20,700

Bangalore

Chennai

Hyderabad

Pune

2001 2002

Violent Crimes

141

127

128127

116

263

138

62

Bangalore

Chennai

Hyderabad

Pune

2001 2002

Waste Generated

3,640

3,721

2,300

1,075

2,100

2,812

3,316

986

Bangalore

Chennai

Hyderabad

Pune

2001 2002

Peak Power Demand

1,217

1,590

1,120

641

1,330

1,050

962

675

Bangalore

Chennai

Hyderabad

Pune

2001 2002

51. As a rule, increase in per capita income always results in an increase in peak-power demand. Percentincrease in per capita income is denoted by IPC and percent increase in peak power demand is denotedby IPP for any city. For how many cities, (IPC – IPP) will be negative when calculated over the period2001 and 2002?(1) 0 (2) 1 (3) 2 (4) 3 (5) 4

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52. The amount of waste generated is directly proportional to human population in the city. On an average,a person generates x% more wastage per annum in 2002 than in 2001. Different cities have differentvalues of x which are as follows:

City Value of xBangalore 4Chennai 3Hydrabad 5Pune 4

Which city among the following has witnessed maximum percentage increase in their waste generatedin 2002 over 2001?(1) Bangalore (2) Chennai (3) Pune (4) Hyderabad (5) Cannot be determined

53. Which city has witnessed the maximum percentage drop in crime in 2002?(1) Bangalore (2) Hyderabad (3) Chennai (4) Pune (5) Cannot be determined

Additional data for questions 54 and 55: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.In 2002, QoL (Quality of Life) in different cities is calculated through an algorithm which assigns differentweightage to different factors in the following way:

Factor Weightage1. Per Capita Income 60%2. Waste Generated 20%3. Peak Power demand 30%4. Violent Crime (–10%)

Based on the data and weightage given above, a score is calculated for each of the four cities. The more thescore, the better is the QoL.

54. Which city provides the best QoL in 2002?(1) Bangalore (2) Chennai (3) Hyderabad (4) Pune (5) Chennai or Bangalore

55. Which city provides the worst QoL in 2002?(1) Bangalore (2) Chennai (3) Hyderabad (4) Pune (5) Bangalore or Hyderabad

DIRECTIONS for Questions 56 to 58: Each question is followed by two statements A and B. Answer eachquestion using the following instructions.

Choose (1) if the question can be answered by statement A alone, but cannot be answered by using the otherstatement alone.

Choose (2) if the question can be answered by statement B alone, but cannot be answered by using the otherstatement alone.

Choose (3) if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.Choose (4) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot be answered

by using either statement alone.Choose (5) if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together.

56. Out of a pack of 52 playing cards, Manohar draws 4 cards. Is there a king of hearts in them?A: All 4 cards were drawn without replacement and each of them were either kings or queens or jacks.B: All the 4 cards were kings.

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57. In a family P, Q, R, S and T are the only members out of which atleast three are females. If Q is thefather of R and P has two sons, then who will be the uncle of R?A: P is the grandmother of R.B: T is the aunt of R.

58. What is the length of the shadow of the stick when the angle of elevation of the sun is 60°?A: The length of the stick is 2 m. The length of the shadow is 0.5 m, if the angle of elevation of the sun

is 30°.B: The length of the stick is 2 m. The length of the shadow is 3 m, if the angle of elevation of the sun

is 30°.

DIRECTIONS for Questions 59 and 60: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.Five aspiring ministers namely Mr. Kallu Yadav, Mr. Laxman Vilas, Mr. Tamambaram, Mr. S.M. Iyer and Mr.Tamalnath went to Mrs. Sona Chandi to lobby for important ministerial berths in the cabinet. Mrs. Chandi asksthese people to submit their individual preferences. Each of them submitted their two preferred ministerialberths as given in the table below.

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59. From the above preference table, which of the following statement is definitely true?(1) Kallu Yadav - Petroleum(2) Tamalnath - Steel(3) S.M. Iyer - Commerce(4) Laxman - Railways(5) None of these

60. Mr. Kallu Yadav is willing to relinquish his demand for both the ministries if he is given the berth forDeputy Prime Minister in the cabinet. If Kallu is then out of contention for other ministerial berths, thenmaximum of how many aspirants simultaneously can get both the ministries of their choice, providedeverybody else gets at least one ministry of his choice?(1) 3 (2) 2 (3) 1 (4) 0 (5) 4

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Sub-section II-C : Number of Questions = 10


DIRECTIONS for Questions 61 to 65: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.A juice manufacturing company manufactures six different varieties of juices namely J1, J2, J3, J4, J5 and J6.Eight friends namely A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H bought either one or two varieties of the mentioned juiceseach. The aggregate volume of juice bought by each of the friends is 80 L. If A buys two particular varieties,then all other friends also buy only those two varieties of juice in the same quantity as A. Similarly, if A buysone particular variety of juice, then all other friends also buy only that particular variety of juice in the samequantity as A. This holds true for all the other friends. The following table provides information about the cost(in Rupees) at which the friends may buy one liter of each variety of juice.

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Additional Information for questions 61 to 63: The average cost of the juice with A is Rs. 60 per L.

61. Find the maximum possible average cost of juice with ‘H’.(1) Rs. 54.29 (2) Rs. 66.29 (3) Rs. 56.43 (4) Rs. 62.57 (5) Rs. 45

62. With how many friends the average cost of juice is definitely not more than the average cost of juicewith A?(1) 0 (2) 1 (3) 2 (4) 3 (5) 4

63. For whom the difference between the maximum and the minimum possible average cost of juice withhim is the largest?(1) E (2) G (3) F (4) C (5) B

Additional Information for questions 64 and 65: The average cost of juice with C is Rs. 82 per L.

64. What can be the maximum possible quantity of J4 bought by C?(1) 66.4 L (2) 66.8 L (3) 68.4 L (4) 67.2 L (5) 67.8 L

65. Which of the following cannot be a possible quantity of J5 or J3 bought by C?(1) 17.2 L (2) 9.6 L (3) 5.33 L (4) 12.8 L (5) 21.33 L

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 66 to 70: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.The KAT Group met after the KAT examination was conducted. Unfortunately there were some errors in thepaper in spite of the Group’s dedicated effort. The purpose of the meeting was to look into those errors andcome out with a solution that would be in the best interest of all the candidates. In the KAT examination, therewere 25 Questions in each of the two sections viz. Quant and English. 4 marks were awarded for each correctanswer and 1 mark was deducted for each wrong answer. Question paper of the KAT examination wasavailable in 2 different sets — 111 & 222, each having the same questions, but arranged in different order.The errors were as follows:

1. SET 111 had two erroneous questions, one each in Quant and English sections.2. SET 222 had one erroneous question, in English, which was the same question in which there was an

error in SET 111 English section.

The errors were in the incorrect framing of the questions and in spite of the errors, it was possible for acandidate to get the right answer as per the KAT Group answer key.

After the meeting, the KAT Group came out with 3 different solutions.

Decision 1: Take into account all the questions for evaluation, whether correct or erroneous.Decision 2: Ignore the erroneous questions for the particular SET. For example in SET 111 both the erroneous

questions to be ignored, while in SET 222, only the erroneous English question to be ignored.Decision 3: Ignore the erroneous questions in both the SETs for evaluation. i.e. the erroneous Quant question

in SET 111 will also be ignored in SET 222.

Ignoring a question would mean that the particular question will not be considered for evaluation irrespectiveof the candidate’s answer.

The following table shows the number of questions attempted, (correctly and incorrectly) for 4 candidatesAaltu, Faltu, Confused and Ignorant along with the status of erroneous question in their respective SETs.Their attempts in Quant and English section include the erroneous questions. Both Faltu and Ignorant attemptedthe Quant question which was erroneously framed in SET 111. Whereas Faltu attempted that question correctly,Ignorant attempted the same question incorrectly.

Sl.No NameSET Type

Attempt Correct Wrong Attempt Correct Wrong

No. of erroneous questions attempted

Sectional detail of the erroneous question

attempted

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key

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1 in English Wrong

2 Faltu 222 21 18 3 20 11 9 1 1 in English Wrong

1 in Quant Wrong

1 in English Wrong

4 Ignorant 222 20 17 3 19 12 7 1 1 in English Correct

Erroneous question related information

1 Aaltu 111 19 16 3 18

19 14

Quant English

5 23

13 5 2

Confused 111 20 15 5

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The KAT Group has decided that the best two (based on maximum total marks in Quant and English takentogether) out of the above mentioned four candidates will be selected for the next round depending on thedecision criteria. In case of two candidates scoring the same marks, the candidate with higher marks inEnglish will be selected.

66. If the KAT Group decided to follow Decision 1, then who are the two candidates likely to be selected?(1) Aaltu and Confused(2) Faltu and Confused(3) Faltu and Ignorant(4) Aaltu and Ignorant(5) Confused and Ignorant

67 Which candidate(s) is/are likely to have the maximum gain in total marks if Decision 3 is followedinstead of Decision 1?(1) Faltu only(2) Confused only(3) Aaltu and Ignorant only(4) Confused and Faltu only(5) All of them will lose marks

68. If Faltu aspires to be one of the candidates to get selected, then the KAT group should follow(1) Decision 1 or 2(2) Decision 2 or 3(3) Decision 1 only(4) Decision 2 only(5) Faltu cannot be selected in any case.

69. If Decision 2 is followed, then who will have the lowest total score?(1) Confused(2) Faltu(3) Ignorant(4) Aaltu(5) Both Aaltu and Faltu

70. A 5th candidate Jholtoo knows that he will have a maximum of 14 questions in the KAT examination,responses to which may be either wrong or among one of the ignored questions in any situation. Also,Jholtoo knows that he will have a minimum of 16 questions correct in English. What is the minimumnumber of total questions that Jholtoo should attempt to ensure that he is one of the two candidates toget selected?(1) 41 (2) 42 (3) 43 (4) 44 (5) 45

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SECTION – III

Sub-section III-A : Number of questions = 15


71. The cost price of a pair of shoes is increased by 18%. A trader who revised the selling price of the pairof shoes to maintain the same profit percentage noted that he got Rs. 9 more than the earlier profit byselling one pair of shoes. What was the earlier profit?(1) Rs.36 (2) Rs.45 (3) Rs.50 (4) Rs.54 (5) Cannot be determined

72. Sharat, Chandra and Mayank completed a job in 10 days. They worked together for 3 days in whichthey completed 37% of the total work. But due to unavoidable circumstances, Sharat quits the job at thispoint and Chandra and Mayank continued to work together to complete the job. If the work done byChandra in 4 days is equal to the work done by Mayank in 5 days, then what is the time taken by thefastest worker amongst the three mentioned persons to complete the whole work alone?(1) 20 (2) 25 (3) 30 (4) 15 (5) None of these

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< < (3) 0 y≤ < ∞ (4) 1

y15

< < ∞ (5) –1 < y < 15

74. Find the number of possible values of integer ‘x’ such that 41n when divided by ‘x’ leaves 1 as theremainder. (‘n’ is any prime number greater than 5)(1) 8 (2) 12 (3) 16 (4) 6 (5) None of these

75. In the given figure, ABCD and BDQP are two rectangles, in which AB = 12 units and AD = 5 units. Findthe area of the rectangle BDQP.

A

D

Q

P

B

C

(1) 78 sq. units (2) 60 sq. units (3) 65 sq. units (4) 52 sq. units (5) 30 3 sq.units

76. Rajkishor can do a piece of work in 10 days working 8 hrs per day. If Brijkishor works with two-thirdof the efficiency with which his friend Rajkishor works, then in how many days can Brijkishor do thesame piece of work, working 6 hrs per day?(1) 15 days (2) 18 days (3) 20 days (4) 24 days (5) None of these

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77. P and Q are two natural numbers, both greater than 1 such that P × Q = 5!. If Q can be represented as xy

where, (x + y) is minimum and P is not a multiple of x, then what is the value of P?(1) 60 (2) 40 (3) 30 (4) 10 (5) 15

78. A boat is moving in a stream. While going down stream, it crosses a wooden piece. After 1 hr, the boatreaches the port, and starts travelling in the opposite direction. Now, after moving from the port for 1 hr,the boat crosses that wooden piece again at a point which is 8 km ahead of the place where it wasencountered earlier. Find the speed of the stream.(1) 4 km/hr (2) 3 km/hr (3) 2 km/hr (4) 1 km/hr (5) 8 km/hr

79. The first term of an arithmetic series of consecutive integers is ‘k2 + 1’. Sum of the first ‘2k + 1’ termsof this series is(1) k + (k + 1)3 (2) (k – 1)3 + k3 (3) (k + 1)3 + k3 (4) k3 + k2 (5) (k – 1)2 + k2

DIRECTIONS for Questions 80 and 81: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.A container is having three different varieties of fruits raspberry, guava and blackberry. The number of fruitsof each variety is more than one. The ratio of the number of raspberries to the number of guavas is equal to theratio of the number of guavas to the number of blackberries.

80. If the total number of fruits is 61, then find the number of guavas.(1) 16 (2) 20 (3) 25 (4) 30 (5) Cannot be determined

81. If the number of guavas is 21, then which of the following can be the total number of all the fruits in thecontainer?(1) 63 (2) 89 (3) 101 (4) 117 (5) None of these

DIRECTIONS for Questions 82 and 83: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.In a colony, there are 350 residents. The number of residents who smoke cigar, hookah and cigarette as apercentage of the total number of residents is atleast 40%, atleast 30% and atleast 22% respectively.

82. If ‘p’ is the number of residents smoking all the three, i.e. cigar, hookah and cigarette, then

(1) ≤ ≤28 p 77 (2) ≤ ≤0 p 100 (3) ≤ ≤0 p 7 (4) ≤ ≤0 p 350 (5) ≤ ≤0 p 28

83. If 50% of the residents do not smoke, then at most how many residents smoke exactly one of cigar,cigarette and hookah?(1) 50 (2) 175 (3) 70 (4) 91 (5) 100

84. Nine parallel chords are drawn in a circle of diameter 10 cm. If the distance between any two of theadjacent chords is 1 cm, then which of the following is always true?(1) One of the chords is the diameter of the circle.(2) At least two of the chords must be of equal length.(3) The smallest chord is not less than 3 cm.(4) All of (a), (b) and (c)(5) None of these.

85. a, b, c, d and e are five natural numbers in an arithmetic progression. It was noted that a + b + c + d + e= x3 and x3 – a – e = y2 where, ‘x’ and ‘y’ are natural numbers. What is the minimum possiblevalue of c?(1) 525 (2) 675 (3) 2025 (4) 3375 (5) 225

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 86 and 87: Each question is followed by two statements A and B. Answer eachquestion using the following instructions.

Choose (1) if the question can be answered by statement A alone, but cannot be answered by using the otherstatement alone.

Choose (2) if the question can be answered by statement B alone, but cannot be answered by using the otherstatement alone.

Choose (3) if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.Choose (4) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot be answered by

using either statement alone.Choose (5) if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together.

86. If the two trains started simultaneously, then what is the distance between the two stations X and Y?A: Both the trains were travelling from Y to X. The train travelling at 60 kmph arrived at X 50 min

before the train travelling at 50 kmph.B: The trains were travelling in the opposite direction such that one is travelling from Y to X and the

other from X to Y . The difference between speeds is 15 km/hr. They take 20 min and 30 min toreach their respective stations after they cross each other.

87. Tarun eats chicken only on Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Did he eat chicken today?A: He ate chicken yesterday.B: He ate chicken two days before yesterday.

88. If s s s 31

s2 3 5 30

+ + = , where[s] is the greatest integer less than or equal to ‘s’ and 0 < s < 1000, then

find the number of possible values of ‘s’.(1) 48 (2) 999 (3) 11 (4) 33 (5) Cannot be determined

89. There are two alloys of gold and copper. In the first alloy, there is twice as much gold as copper and inthe second alloy, the quantity of copper is four times more than the quantity of gold. In what ratio wemust mix the first and the second alloy such that the amount of copper is twice the amount of the goldin this new alloy?(1) 1 : 1 (2). 1 : 2 (3) 1 : 1.5 (4) 1 : 2.5 (5) 2 : 1

90. How many integral values of x satisfy the inequality | [x 3] | 5?+ <{Here, [x] denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to x}(1) 6 (2) 7 (3) 8 (4) 9 (5) 10

91. Single copy of a book costs $16, but purchasers of 20 or more books pay only $13 per book.

How many values of n ( n 0≠ ) exist for which one could buy 20 copies at a cost which is lower than thecost in which one could buy exactly ‘n’ copies of that book?(1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 2 (5) None of these

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92. The product of three positive integers is 6 times their sum. One of these integers is the sum of the othertwo integers. Find the sum of all distinct possible products of these three integers.(1) 432 (2) 252 (3) 144 (4) 324 (5) 336

DIRECTIONS for Questions 93 and 94: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.In a matrimonial database of 30 girls, it is observed that only 12 of them are working, 19 of them are less than23 years old and 25 of them never married before. It is also observed that there are 8 girls who never marriedbefore, but more than and equal to 23 years old and are not working anywhere. There are 2 girls, who areworking, but married before and more than and equal to 23 years old. There is no such girl in the database,who has married before but not working.

93. What is the number of working girls listed in that database, who never married before?(1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 7 (4) 8 (5) 9

94. What is the number of non-working girls listed in that database, who are less than 23 years old butnever married before?(1) 13 (2) 10 (3) 11 (4) 12 (5) Cannot be determined

95. Gloria has 160 cellular phones with her. The cellular phones with her are either GSM or CDMA. Theratio of number of GSM to CDMA cellular phones is 3 : 5. The number of cellular phones withblue-tooth to those without a blue tooth is 1 : 4. The ratio of number of GSM cellular phones withblue-tooth to CDMA cellular phones with blue-tooth is 3 : 1. Find the ratio of number of GSM cellularphones without blue-tooth to CDMA cellular phones without blue-tooth.(1) 9 : 23 (2) 11 : 21 (3) 1 : 3 (4) 5 : 11 (5) 7 : 25

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96. Two identical semicircles are drawn with unit radii and with AC and CG as diameter as shown in thefigure given below such that the points A, C and G are collinear. E and D are the centers of the semicircleshaving diameter AC and CG respectively. F and N are points on the circular arcs such that F, E and Nare collinear as shown in the figure. If the length of the line segment CN is 1 unit, then find the lengthof line segment FD..

F

E C D G

N

A

(1) 4 3 3 units+ (2) 5 3 3 units+ (3) 4 2 3 units+

(4) 5 2 3 units+ (5) None of these

97. There are two buttons inside an elevator in a complex with 20 floor marked 1 to 20. The first buttonwhen pressed takes the elevator 8 floors down and the second button when pressed takes the elevator13 floors up. (up or down button can be pressed only when there are enough floors available to godown or go up). A person has to go to the 8th floor from the 13th floor. What is the minimum possiblenumber of times the buttons are required to be pressed?(1) 22 (2) 19 (3) 7 (4) 13 (5) 17

98. Akhil, Bunty, Chameli, Disha and Eku are working upon a project, which is divided into phases suchthat only one person works on each phase. The work done per phase by them is inversely proportionalto their age in years. Akhil has worked on 4 phases of the project whereas Bunty has worked on5 phases. Eku and Disha have worked on 8 phases each and the rest of the phases were worked uponby Chameli, who received the honour of having worked upon 40% of the project. If the ages of these5 persons are 36 yrs, 18 yrs, 9 yrs, 72 yrs and 24 yrs respectively, then on how many phases of theproject did Chameli work?(1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 6 (5) 7

99. Jerry’s field is circular in shape. He has a long rod which he places in his field such that both the endsof this rod just touch the periphery of this field. Furthermore, he finds that the boundary on one side ofthis rod is 400% longer than that on the other side. Jerry’s son Micky arrives in a while, takes a200π m long iron coil and describes the smallest possible circle around that rod. He, then discarded the

remaining 50 mπ of the coil. What is the area of the region outside Jerry’s field but inside Micky’scircle?

(1) π−

2 23150 m

8 4(2) 2 23

150 m3 2

π+ (3) 2 23

150 m4 24

π−

(4) π−

2 23150 m

4 12(5) None of these

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100. A sequence X1, X

2, X

3, ......, is in arithmetic progression and another sequence Y

1, Y

2, Y

3, .... is also in

arithmetic progression. By multiplying the corresponding terms of the two sequences (example X1Y

1,

X2Y

2, ..... and so on) a new sequence is formed first three terms obtained are 1440, 1716 and 1848 in

that order. What will be the eighth term of this new sequence such formed?(1) 144 (2) 348 (3) 248 (4) 558 (5) 464

101. If a, b and c are positive real numbers, then find the minimum possible value of + ++ + +a b c

.b 3c c 3a a 3b

(1) 3

8(2) 3

5(3) 15

22(4) 18

25(5) 3

4

102. In the figure given below, a circle is drawn inside the square of side 100 units. The second square isthen drawn at one of the four corners (as shown in the figure) such that one vertice of the square justtouches the circle. A circle is then drawn inside the smaller square. This process is repeated till we getthree squares in all. What is the side of the smallest square drawn?

1 0 0

(1) ( )2252 1

2− units (2) ( )225

2 14

− units (3) ( )225 2 2− units

(4) + 225(1 2) units

4(5) 225

( 2 1) units2

+

103. There are four persons A1, A2 , A3 and A4 on a straight road who start moving simultaneously withconstant speeds along the road in the same direction. A1 catches up with A2, A3, A4 in time T12, T13, T14respectively; A2 catches up with A3 and A4 in time T23 and T24 respectively and A3 catches up with A4in time T34. Which of the following is equal to (T12 – T13) (T14 – T34) (T23 – T24)?(1) (T12 – T23) (T13 – T14) (T24 – T34)(2) (T12 – T14) (T13 – T24) (T23 – T34)(3) (T12 – T34) (T13 – T23) (T14 – T24)(4) (T12 – T24) (T13 – T34) (T14 – T23)(5) (T12 – T24) (T13 – T23) (T14 – T23)

104. The symbols ‘xx’, ‘yz’ denote a pair of two-digit numbers. Similarly ‘t00t’ denotes a four-digit number.Find the number of solutions of the equation (xx)(yz) = t00t.(1) 16 (2) 15 (3) 9 (4) 7 (5) 13

105. Find the ratio of the sum of first 20 terms to the sum of first 40 terms of the series S, where

= + + + + + ∞4 4 4 4 4S .... .

5 45 117 221 357

(1) 80

81(2) 90

91(3) 181

182(4) 121

122(5) 161

162

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