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UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA

Department of Development Studies

Master of Development Studies

Written Test for Qualifying Examination

TEST BOOK

Candidate’s Name___________________________________________________

Examination Roll Number________

Application Form Serial Number ___________

Applicant’s Signature___________________

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Signature of the Invigilator

INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXAMINEES

1. The duration of the test is 2 hours. The test consists of two parts: Part – I: Quantitative

Aptitude Part in MCQ Format for 30 minutes and Part – II: Writing Skill and

Analytical Ability Part in Written Form for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

2. Write both Application Form Serial Number and Examination Roll Number by

using a ballpoint pen. Appropriate digits corresponding to the application serial

number and examination roll number must be filled in by using ballpoint pen only.

Also write your name and put your signature in the appropriate places.

3. Answer MCQ questions in the OMR answer sheet by completely darkening the circle

using 2B pencil/ballpoint pen.

4. Do all your rough works in the margin of the test book. No rough work is allowed in

the OMR answer sheet.

5. Use of calculator and mobile phone in the examination hall is strictly prohibited.

6. 0.25 marks will be deducted for each incorrect or multiple answer. All unanswered

questions will earn ‘0’ mark.

7. Candidates are required to score a minimum acceptable mark in each section.

8. Adopting any sort of unfair means will result into cancellation of candidature.

9. Candidates must return the OMR sheet at 10:30 A.M. They may start writing the

answers of Part-II if they complete Part-I before the stipulated time. Answering Part-II

of the test book must be completed by 12:00 P.M.

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Sample Questionnaire

1. If the length and width of a rectangular garden plot were each increased by 20 percent,

what would be the percent increase in the area of the plot?

A) 20% B) 24% C) 36% D) 40% E) 44%

2. Helen purchased brand X pens for Tk. 4.00 a piece and brand Y pens for Tk. 2.80 a piece.

If Helen purchased a total of 12 of these pens for Tk. 42.00, how many brand X pens did

she purchase?

A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) 7 E) 8

3. If the total payroll expense of a certain business in year Y was Tk. 84,000 which was 20

percent more than in year X, what was the total payroll expense in year X?

A) 70,000 B) 68,320 C) 64,000 D) 60,000 E) 52,320

4. What is the length of the line that connects point A (1, 3) to Point B (-1, 5)?

A) 3 B) 2 C) 2 2 D) 4 E) 8

5. Rabeya is two years younger than Sumon. If Sumon is m years old, how old was Rabeya

two years ago?

A) m +2 B) m -2 C) m -4 D) m +4 E) 2m -2

6. If 1.5x=0.04y then the value of (y-x)/(y+x) is

A) 730/77 B) 73/77 C) 7.3/77 D) 73/7.7 E) 73/770

7. A dog starts to chase a cat when it is 195 m ahead from the dog. The dog runs at a

speed of 10 m per second while the cat runs at a speed of 4 m per second. After how many

seconds the dog will catch the cat?

A) 34.5 B) 33 C) 32.5 D) 30 E) 28.5

8. A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one-third of the passengers

and takes 280 more. At the second station, it drops one-half of the new total and takes 12

more. On arriving at the third station, it is found to have 248 passengers. Find the number

of passengers at the beginning.

A) 240 B) 248 C) 280 D) 288 E) 320

9. A rectangle is 14 cm long and 10 cm wide. If the length is reduced by x cm and its width

is increased also by x cm so as to make it a square then its area changes by:

A) 4 sq cm B) 144 sq cm C) 12 sq cm D) 2 sq cm E) 44 sq cm

PART – I: Quantitative Aptitude (1-20)

Marks – 20


10. Box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight of box is

264kg. How many 2kg packets are there?

A) 96 B) 67 C) 100 D) 114 E) 118

11. When the price of oranges is lowered by 40%, 4 more oranges can be purchased for

Taka 12 than can be purchased for the original price. How many oranges can be purchased

for Taka 24 at the original price?

A) 8 B) 12 C) 16 D) 20 E) 24

12. When the integer a is multiplied by 3, the result is 4 less than 6 times the integer b.

Therefore, a-2b is

A) -12 B) -4/3 C) -3/4 D) 4/3 E) 12

13. If x=3a and y=9b, then which of the following is equal to 2(x+y)

A) 2(3a) +9b B) 12a +9b C) 6a+18b B) 6a+21b E) 3a+9b

14. The average of seven numbers is 9. The average of three of these numbers is 5. What

is the average of the other four numbers?

A) 4 B) 7 C) 10 D) 12 E) 16

15. What is the length of the longest distance between any two corners in a rectangular

box with dimensions 3 inches by 4 inches by 5 inches?

A) 5 B) 12 C) 5√2 D) 12√2 E) 5√12

16. If u>t, r>q, s>t and t>r, which of the following must be true?

I. u>s II. s>q III.u>r

A) I only B) II only C) III only D) I and II E) II and III

17. The ratio of male to female students in a class is 7:5 with a total number of students of

72. What is the difference between numbers of male and female students in the class?

A) 12 B) 14 C) 16 D) 18 E) 20

18. Share price of a stock drops from Taka 250 to Taka 210. What is the percentage decline

for this stock?

A) 16% B) 15% C) 24% D) 17% E) 12%

19. When my daughter was born I was 30 years old. At what age of mine, my age will be 3

times of that of my daughter?

A) 35 years B) 45 years C) 50 years D) 60 years E) 75 years

20. A trader buys 30 eggs for Taka 120. How many Eggs should he sell for Taka 100 to

make a profit of 25%?

A) 26 B) 22 C) 32 D) 20 E) 16


1. Read the passage below and answer the following questions Marks - 15

Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free

enterprise system is the most efficient economic system. Maximum freedom means maximum

productiveness; our “openness” is to be the measure of our stability. Fascination with this ideal has

made Americans defy the “Old World” categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling

deprivation, the cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of seizure, a “status quo” defended or

attacked. The United States, it was believed, had no status quo ante. Our only “station” was the

turning of a stationary wheel, spinning faster and faster. We did not base our system on property but

opportunity—which meant we based it not on stability but on mobility.

The more things changed, that is, the more rapidly the wheel turned, the steadier we would be. The

conventional picture of class politics is composed of the Haves, who want a stability to keep what

they have, and the Have-Nots, who want a touch of instability and change in which to scramble for

the things they have not. But Americans imagined a condition in which speculators, self-makers,

runners are always using the new opportunities given by our land. These economic leaders (front-

runners) would thus be mainly agents of change. The nonstarters were considered the ones who

wanted stability, a strong referee to give them some position in the race, a regulative hand to calm

manic speculation; an authority that can call things to a halt, begin things again from compensatory

staggered “starting lines.” “Reform” in America has been sterile because it can imagine no change

except through the extension of this metaphor of a race, wider inclusion of competitors, “a piece of

the action,” as it were, for the disenfranchised. There is no attempt to call off the race.

Since our only stability is change, America seems not to honor the quiet work that achieves social

interdependence and stability. There is, in our legends, no heroism of the office clerk, no stable

industrial work force of the people who actually make the system work. There is no pride in being an

employee (Wilson asked for a return to the time when everyone was an employer). There has been no

boasting about our social workers—they are merely signs of the system’s failure, of opportunity

denied or not taken, of things to be eliminated. We have no pride in our growing interdependence, in

the fact that our system can serve others, that we are able to help those in need; empty boasts from the

past make us ashamed of our present achievements, make us try to forget or deny them, move away

from them. There is no honor but in the Wonderland race we must all run, all trying to win, none

winning in the end (for there is no end).

(Tick (√) the best possible answer)

1.1. The primary purpose of the passage is to

A) Criticize the inflexibility of American economic mythology

B) Contrast “Old World” and “New World” economic ideologies

C) Challenge the integrity of traditional political leaders

PART – II : Writing Skill and Analytical Ability (1-8)

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D) Champion those Americans whom the author deems to be neglected

1.2. According to the passage, “Old World” values were based on

A) Ability B) Property

C) Family connections D) Guild hierarchies

1.3. In the context of the author’s discussion of regulating change, which of the following could

be most probably regarded as a “strong referee” in the United States?

A) A school principal B) A political theorist

C) A federal court judge D) A social worker

1.4. The author sets off the word “Reform” with quotation marks in order to

A) Emphasize its departure from the concept of settled possessiveness

B) Show his support for a systematic program of change

C) Underscore the flexibility and even amorphousness of United States society

D) Assert that reform in the United States has not been fundamental

1.5. Which of the following best expresses the author’s main point?

A) Americans’ pride in their jobs continues to give them stamina today.

B) The absence of a status quo ante has undermined United States economic structure.

C) The free enterprise system has been only a useless concept in the United States.

D) The myth of the American free enterprise system is seriously flawed.

2. Analyze and interpret in your own words the following table on incidence of poverty by educational status in Bangladesh Marks - 4

Table: Incidence of Poverty (Cost of Basic Needs) by Educational Status (Using Lower Poverty Line)

Characteristics of Households 2010 2005

National Rural Urban National Rural Urban National 17.6 21.1 7.7 25.1 28.6 14.6 Literacy status:

Illiterate 25.1 27.2 15.6 36.3 37.5 29.9

Literate 9.2 12.4 3.3 12.3 15.3 6.7

Educational level:

No education 25.1 27.1 15.6 36.3 37.4 30.3

Completed class I-IV 15.8 18.4 7.9 19.3 21.8 12.6

Completed class V-IX 11.4 13.8 5.4 15.8 17.5 11.1

Completed class SSC+ 3.4 6.1 0.8 4.4 7.1 1.9

Answer:


3. Data Table/Chart Analysis Marks – 6

3.1. How many more people voted for the most popular color than for the least popular color?

A) 12 B) 13 C) 14 D) 15 E) None of these

Amount Spent on Computer Imports

3.2. If the amount spent on computer imports into the UK in Year 5 was 20% lower than in Year 4, what was spent in Year 5?

A) 1,080 million B) 1,120 million C) 1,160 million D) 1,220 million

E) 1,300 million

3.3. From a survey of 100 university students, a marketing research company found that 75 students owned stereos, 45 owned cars, and 35 owned cars and stereos.

How many students did not own either a car or a stereo? A) 25 B) 15 C) 38 D) 85 E) None of these


4. Translate the following paragraph into chaste Bangla Marks - 10

“A market economy is an economic system controlled, regulated, and directed by markets alone;

order in the production and distribution of goods is entrusted to this self-regulating mechanism. An

economy of this kind derives from the expectation that human beings behave in such a way as to

achieve maximum money gains. It assumes markets in which the supply of goods (including services)

available at a definite price will equal the demand at that price. It assumes the presence of money,

which functions as purchasing power in the hands of its owners. Production will then be controlled by

prices, for the profits of those who direct production will depend upon them; the distribution of the

goods also will depend upon prices, for prices form incomes, and it is with the help of these incomes

that the goods produced are distributed amongst the members of the society. Under these assumptions

order in the production and distribution of goods is ensured by prices alone.” (Adapted from

Karl Polanyi, 2005, p-99)

(Alternative for Foreign Nationals)

Expand the following idea in English. ‘Friendship is like a book which needs many years to write but takes a second to burn.’

Answer: 5. Write a Précis of the following paragraph with an appropriate caption Marks – 10

Traditionally, India’s village economy was sustained through inherited intercaste exchanges of grain

for services, a ritual barter system that William and Charlotte Wiser first identified as the “jajmani

system” after observing it closely for several years in the North Indian village of Karimpur. A village

jajman was usually a well-to-do landlord, possibly Brahman but at any rate born to the dominant jati

of his region, who provided annual sustenance shares of his harvest to a network of artisans and

village servants of every variety, each of whom repaid his jajman with labor-service in kind. Thus

each landlord had his own barber, washerman, blacksmith, sweeper, accountant, and astrologer, and

although all such specialists might serve several or many landlord households, each was expected to

provide whatever services he performed on a regular required basis around the calendar and in

perpetuity. Heirs to the landlord and barber or washerman would in turn continue the tradition bound

system. India’s modern monetary economy has, for the most part, replaced the jajmani system with

wage- for- work, but the residue of intercaste relationships going back for as many generations as


memory serves is still found in most villages, where the same households are served by the sons and

daughters of the same dhobi, teli, and mali families that have “always” worked for them. In most

villages a mixture of jajmani and monetary economies coexist, field “hands” receiving partial

payment in rupees, the other part in one or two meals during each day they work. The last time she

returned to Karimpur in 1970, Charlotte Wiser noted that many traditional relationships, especially

between oilsmiths and cotton carders and their jajmans, had broken down, becoming “casualties” of

modernity.

Answer: 6. Analysis of Issue/Argument Marks – 3

6.1 Habib, Farid and Sultana are the three employees of a private firm. Habib is Farid’s

brother. Farid is Sultana’s brother. Sultana is not Farid’s brother. Therefore, Shilpi is Habib’s

sister.

A) Should be True B) May be False

C) Should be False D) Cannot be determined

6.2. At midnight, you heard the voice of several people shouting “fire”. Which of the following

you would do?

A) Ensure where the fire had taken place and to what extent

B) Continue to sleep till you are called for

C) Rush out of the room with buckets of water to extinguish the fire

D) Rush to the fire brigade station and inform the officials about the fire

6.3. In 2002, according to a news poll, 36 % of the voters had leaning towards party “Y”. In

2004, this figure rose to 46%. But in another survey the percentage was down to 40%.

Therefore, party “X” is likely to win the next election. Which of the following, if true, would

seriously weaken the above conclusion?

A) People tend to switch their votes at the last minute

B) It has been shown that 85% of the voters belonging to party “Y” vote in an election as compared

to 50% of the voters belonging to party “X”

C) People vote for the best candidate, not for the party

D) No one can predict how people will vote


7. Write critique on the main argument presented in the following passage Marks - 7

Of late, Facebook has become a key medium of social networking and liaison. It has widened our

remit of communications and interactions in virtual form. Notwithstanding its popularity, however,

some argue that Facebook has narrowed down the scope of physical communications and actual

socialization – which has traditionally been a trait of the Asian culture. Others, on the contrary, opine

that Facebook has made it possible to reach out to a much wider global community, and thereby,

expanding our horizons.

Answer:

8. Write a short essay in English on any one of the following topics Marks – 15

A) Small is Beautiful

B) Politicization of Public Universities and Academic Institutions in Bangladesh

C) The Caretaker Government in Bangladesh

D) Child Labor in Bangladesh

E) Globalization and Development

Answer:

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