Aptitude(Part-1)

1.   Which number is greatest, C, D or E?
(A) 2D > 2E > 2C
(B) C + 2 = D ³ E

(a) if both statements (A) and (B) together are sufficient to answer the question asked, but neither statement alone is sufficient.
(b) if statement (B) alone is sufficient but statement (A) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
(c) if statement (A) alone is sufficient but statement (B) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
(d) if each statement is sufficient by itself to answer the question asked.

2.    What does WXY equal?
(A) W=X+Y
(B) WXYZ = 6Z

(a) if both statements (A) and (B) together are sufficient to answer the question asked, but neither statement alone is sufficient.
(b) if statement (B) alone is sufficient but statement (A) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
(c) if statement (A) alone is sufficient but statement (B) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
(d) if each statement is sufficient by itself to answer the question asked.

 3.    How much did the salesman earn from the sale of 3 cars?
(A) Each car sold for Rs 3,40,000
(B) He received a 2% commission on each sale.

(a) if both statements (A) and (B) together are sufficient to answer the question asked, but neither statement alone is sufficient.
(b) if statement (B) alone is sufficient but statement (A) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
(c) if statement (A) alone is sufficient but statement (B) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
(d) if each statement is sufficient by itself to answer the question asked.

4.How many kg of pure salt must be added to 30 kg of a 2% solution of salt and water to increase it to a 10% solution?

(a) 2 2 3

kg

(b) 15 kg
(c) 3 kg
(d) 14 kg

5.Two persons are walking in the same direction at rates 3 km/hr and 6 km/hr. A train comes running from behind and passes them in 9 and 10 seconds. The speed of the train is
(a) 22 km/hr
(b) 40 km/hr
3) 33 km/hr
(d) 35 km/hr

6.A person travels 285 km in 6 hrs in two stages. In the first part of the journey, he travels by bus at the speed of 40 km per hr. In the second part of the journey, he travels by train at the speed of 55 km per hr. How much distance did he travel by train?
(a) 165 km
(b) 145 km
(c) 205 km
(d) 185 km

7.The average monthly salary of employees, consisting of officers and workers of an organisation is Rs 3000. The average salary of an officer is Rs 10,000 while that of a worker is Rs 2,000 per month. If there are total 400 employees in the organisation, find the number of officers and workers separately.
(a) 50, 350
(b) 350, 450
(c) 50, 275
(d) 325, 350

8.How many kg of sugar costing Rs 5.75 per kg should be mixed with 75 kg of cheaper sugar costing Rs 4.50 per kg so that the mixture is worth Rs 5.50 per kg ?
(a) 350 kg
(b) 300 kg
(c) 250 kg
(d) 325 kg

9.How many kg of tea worth Rs 25 per kg must be blended with 30 kg of tea worth Rs 30 per kg so that by selling the blended variety at Rs 30 per kg there should be a gain of 10%?
(a) 32 kg
(b) 40 kg
(c) 36 kg
(d) 42 kg

10.A car starts running with the initial speed of 40 kmph, with its speed increasing every hour by 5 kmph. How many hours will it take to cover a distance of 385 km?
(a) 9 hrs
(b) 9½ hrs
(c) 8½ hrs
(d) 7 hrs

11.Rampur is 100 km from Sitapur. At 3 pm Bharat Express leaves Rampur for Sitapur and travels at a constant speed of 30 km/h. One hour later, Laxman Mail leaves Sitapur for Rampur and travels at a constant speed of 40 kmph’. Each train makes one stop only at a station 10 km from its starting point and remains there for 15 min.
Which train is nearer to Rampur when they meet?
(a) Both are equidistant
(b) Laxman Mail
(c) Bharat Express
(d) None of these

12.Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 km/hr and including stoppages, it is 45 km/hr. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
(a) 12
(b) 10
(c) 9
(d) 20

13.Two taps can fill a tank in 20 minutes and 30 minutes respectively. There is an outlet tap at exactly half level of that rectangular tank which can pump out 50 litres of water per minute. If the outlet tap is open, then it takes 24 minutes to fill an empty tank. What is the volume of the tank?
(a) 1800 litres
(b) 1500 litres
(c) 1200 litres
(d) 2400 litres

14.A cistern has two taps which fill it in 12 minutes and 15 minutes respectively. There is also a waste pipe in the cistern. When all the pipes are opened, the empty cistern is full in 20 minutes. How long will the waste pipe take to empty a full cistern?
(a) 12 minutes
(b) 10 minutes
(c) 8 minutes
(d) 16 minutes

15.There are two taps to fill a tank while a third to empty it. When the third tap is closed, they can fill the tank in 10 minutes and 12 minutes, respectively. If all the three taps be opened, the tank is filled in 15 minutes. If the first two taps are closed, in what time can the third tap empty the tank when it is full?
(a) 8 min and 34 sec
(b) 9 min and 32 sec
(c) 7 min
(d) 6 min

16. 15 men can complete a work in 210 days. They started the work but at the end of 10 days 15 additional men, with double efficiency, were inducted. How many days, in whole, did they take to finish the work?

(a) 72 1 2

days

(b) 84 3 4

days

(c) 76 2 3

days

(d) 70 days

17.Two men undertake to do a piece of work for Rs 600. One alone could do it in 6 days and the other in 8 days. With the assistance of a boy they finish it in 3 days. Boy’s share should be
(a) Rs 75
(b) Rs 225
(c) Rs 300
(d) Rs 100

18.Two men undertake to do a piece of work for Rs. 1,400. First man alone can do this work in 7 days while the second man alone can do this work in 8 days. If they working together complete this work in 3 days with the help of a boy, how should money be divided?
(a) Rs 600, Rs 550, Rs 250
(b) Rs 600, Rs 525, Rs 275
(c) Rs 600, Rs 500, Rs 300
(d) Rs 500, Rs 525, Rs 375

19.If the selling price of a product is increased by Rs 162, then the business would make a profit of 17% instead of a loss of 19%. What is the cost price of the product?
(a) Rs 540
(b) Rs 450
(c) Rs 360
(d) Rs 600

20. A manufacturer of a certain item can sell all he can produce at the selling price of Rs 60 each. It costs him Rs 40 in materials and labour to produce each item and he has overhead expenses of Rs 3000 per week in order to operate that plant. The number of units he should produce and sell in order to make a profit of at least Rs 1000 per week is
(a) 250
(b) 300
(c) 400
(d) 200

21.Rahul started a business with a capital of Rs 8,000. After six months, Sanjay joined him with an investment of some capital. If at the end of the year each of them gets equal amount as profit, how much did Sanjay invest in the business?
(a) Rs 16,000
(b) Rs 17,500
(c) Rs 18,000
(d) Rs 16,500

22.A and B enter into a partnership with Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 60,000 respectively. C joins them after x months contributing Rs 70,000 and B leaves x months before the end of the year. If they share the profit in the ratio of 20 : 18: 21, then find the value of x.
(a) 6
(b) 3
(c) 9
(d) 8

23.The ratio between the number of passengers travelling by I and II class between the two railway stations is 1 : 50, whereas the ratio of I and II class fares between the same stations is 3 : 1. If on a particular day, Rs 1325 revenue collected from the passengers travelling between these stations, then what was the amount collected from the II class passengers?
(a) Rs 1000
(b) Rs 850
(c) Rs 750
(d) Rs 1250

24.Identify incorrect sentence.

(a) For years now, pitches have been prepared to suit the home team’s strengths and that is fine so long as the pitch is not a lottery.
(b) It is here that BCCI needs to show the same will, as they have shown in making players play domestic cricket.
(c) The only problem is that the wickets that are on offer for domestic cricket are hardly conducive for batsman.
(d) If one goes by the scores in some of the matches, especially Delhi’s games, then it is quite obvious that the pitches prepared are sub-standard and not conducive to a fair contest between bat and ball.

25.Identify incorrect sentence.

(a) The second risk lies in the global macroeconomic imbalances, reflected in the twin deficits of the US and rising surpluses of Asia.
(b) Therefore, addressing infrastructure gaps needs to doing our topmost priority next year.
(c) As the growing economy makes increasing demands on infrastructure inputs, these problems could worsen in the coming year.
(d) The longer these imbalances have persisted, the greater has become the risk of a disruptive correction.

26.Identify incorrect sentence.

(a) It’s said without artifice and without care for political correctness.
(b) At the most surprising of moments they exactly blurt it out.
(c) When they want to, Indians have an amazing way of telling the truth.
(d) Unvarnished it no doubt is but it’s also refreshingly unalloyed.

27.Identify incorrect sentence.

(a) The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavour will light our country and all who serve it.
(b) I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation.
(c) In the long history of the world, only a few generations has been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
(d) The glow from that fire can truly light the world.

28.Identify the best way of writing the sentence in the context of the correct usage of standard written English. While doing so, ensure that the message being conveyed remains the same in all the cases.

Ever since the sting operation, there has been much opposition from they who maintain that it was an unauthorised act.

(a) Ever since the sting operation, there has been much opposition from those who maintain that it was an unauthorised act.
(b) Ever since the sting operation, there has been much opposition from they who maintain that it had been an unauthorised act.
(c) Ever since the sting operation, there has been much opposition from they who maintain that it was an unauthorised act.
(d) Ever since the sting operation, there has been much opposition from those maintaining that it was an unauthorised act.

29.Identify the best way of writing the sentence in the context of the correct usage of standard written English. While doing so, ensure that the message being conveyed remains the same in all the cases.

The moral of the entire story is how money doesn’t make you happy.

(a) In this novel, the moral of the story is how money doesn’t make you happy.
(b) The moral of the entire story is that money doesn’t make you happy.
(c) The moral of the entire story is how money doesn’t make you happy.
(d) That money does not make you happy, is the entire moral of the story.

30.  Identify the best way of writing the sentence in the context of the correct usage of standard written English. While doing so, ensure that the message being conveyed remains the same in all the cases.

Anyone interested in flying planes can learn much if you have access to a flight simulation machine.

(a) Anyone interested in flying planes can learn much if access is available to a flight simulation machine.
(b) Anyone interested in flying planes can learn much if he has access to a flight simulation machine.
(c) Anyone interested in flying planes can learn much if you have access to a flight simulation machine.
(d) Anyone interested in flying planes can learn much from access to a flight simulation machine.

31.Identify the best way of writing the sentence in the context of the correct usage of standard written English. While doing so, ensure that the message being conveyed remains the same in all the cases.

Having bowed our heads, the priest in the temple led us in prayer.

(a) After we bowed our heads, the priest in the temple led us to prayer.
(b) After we bowed our heads, the priest in the temple led us to prayer.
(c) Having bowed our heads, the priest in the temple led us in prayer.
(d) After we had bowed our heads, the priest in the temple led us in prayer.

32.A part of the sentence has been underlined. Find the best way of writing the underlined part of the sentence.

Panchayati Raj institutions are now entrusted upon the execution of all rural upliftment schemes and programs in India.

(a) entrusted with the execution of all rural upliftment schemes and programs
(b) entrusted with the execution of all rural uplift schemes and programs
(c) entrusted upon the execution of all rural upliftment schemes and programs
(d) entrusted within the execution for all rural uplift programs and schemes

33.A part of the sentence has been underlined. Find the best way of writing the underlined part of the sentence.

Mental intelligence and common sense are essential for outstanding achievement because they involve your natural ability to comprehend difficult concepts quicker and to analyse them clearly and incisively.

(a) your natural ability of comprehension of difficult concepts quickly and clear and incisive analysis of it.
(b) one’s natural ability for the comprehension of difficult concepts quickly and analysing them clearly and incisively.
(c) your natural ability to comprehend difficult concepts quicker and to analyse them clearly and incisively.
(d) one’s natural ability to comprehend difficult concepts quickly and to analyse them clearly and incisively.

 

34.A part of the sentence has been underlined. Find the best way of writing the underlined part of the sentence.

In rural India, many mango trees are planted at the end of a village or at the border of a district, for providing excellent shade during summer, and shelter during winter.

(a) in order to provide excellent shade in summer, and shelter in winter.
(b) to provide excellent shade in summer, and shelter in winter.
(c) for providing excellent shade during summer, and shelter during winter.
(d) so as to excellently provide shade in summer, and shelter in winter.

35.A part of the sentence has been underlined. Find the best way of writing the underlined part of the sentence.

To prepare himself, he subjected himself to two weeks of total abstinence and intensive training in the open fields of Panipat, climbing the hills nearby 30 times, spend nights in the open and to test to see how long he could hold out without food.

(a) spending nights in the open by climbing the hills nearby 30 times and tested for seeing
(b) climbed the hills nearby 30 times, spending nights in the open and tested to see
(c) climbing the hills nearby 30 times, spend nights in the open and to test to see
(d) climbing the hills nearby 30 times, spending nights in the open and testing to see

36.Identify the arrangement of these sentences which makes a logical sequence.

(A) When the future date arrives, the hear expects to buy in at a lower price deliver the stock that had been sold under the future contract at a higher price.
(B) A market in which prices are falling or are expected to fall is called by economists a bear market.
(C) Likewise, the term bear can be applied to a person who expects stock prices to fall and sells stock that he or she does not have for delivery at a future date.
(D) It is a designation commonly used in securities markets and commodity markets and is the opposite of a bull market.

(a) BDCA
(b) BCAD
(c) BACD
(d) ACBD

37.Identify the arrangement of these sentences which makes a logical sequence.

(A) fossil evidence suggests that the mammals underwent adaptive radiation to produce the range of mammal types extant today.
(B) Adaptive radiation, in the life sciences, refers to the differentiation (or anagenesis) of one or a few species into many to fill a large number of related ecological niches by adaptation.
(C) Thus the first bird species may have given rise to many more bird species by adaptive radiation.
(D) Typically, a species adapts to colonize a new habitat and, this adaptation opening up a new range of niches, adapts again to fill the new niches which are presented.

(a) CBAD
(b) BDCA
(c) BADC
(d) CBDA

38.Identify the arrangement of these sentences which makes a logical sequence.

(A) The accomodation theory, in linguistics, starts from the premise that speech accommodation takes place when people modify their speech so that it conforms more with the way their conversational partners speaks.
(B) For example, the speed at which people talks, the length of both pauses and utterances, the kind of vocabulary and syntax used, as well as intonation, voice pitch and pronunciation are all subject to the accommodation process.
(C) A wide range of subtle adaptations have been observed, which tend to occur more or less unconsciously.
(D) This kind of convergence is by no means an automatic feature of all conversations, and we can discern certain social contexts in which accommodation can be predicted.

(a) BDAC
(b) DABC
(c) ACBD
(d) ABCD

39.Identify the arrangement of these sentences which makes a logical sequence.

(A) It marks off the beginning mathematics from what went before.
(B) Ever since this discovery, abstraction has been a major theme in the development of mathematics, as those interested in the field have come up with ideas further and further divorced from their basis in the real world, and then sought ways to bring them back to tell us things about the real world which we might otherwise not have known.
(C) The discoverer of abstraction was the person who first realized that numbers are independent of the objects being counted, that two oranges and two apples (for instance) share a property, ‘twoness’, which is independent of what kinds of fruit they are.
(D) Abstraction, the action of divorcing properties of physical objects from the objects themselves, is a fundamental concept, perhaps the most fundamental concept, in mathematics.

(a) CBAD
(b) DBCA
(c) DACB
(d) DABC

40.The analysis of anything but ........ the coach’s report was but those of us who have learned to discount such dismal ................ are optimistic.

(a) malicious - benefits
(b) sanguinary - traps
(c) pessimistic - confusion
(d) pleasant - prognostications

41.  In the absence of native predators, to stop the spread of their population, the imported goats............to such an inordinate degree that they over-grazed the countryside and ............. the native vegetation.

(a) thrived- threatened
(b) suffered - abandoned
(c) propagated - cultivated
(d) dwindled-eliminated

42.Because of its tendency to ............... most Indian art is.............. Japanese art, where symbols have been minimized and meaning has been conveyed by using the method of the merest suggestion.

(a) overdraw - similar to
(b) understate - reminiscent of
(c) imitate - superior to
(d) sentimentalism - supportive of

43.Pipes are not a safer ............ to cigarettes because, though pipe smokers do not inhale, they are still .......... higher rates of lung and mouth cancers than non-smokers.

(a) alternative - subject to
(b) answer - responsible for
(c) preference - tree from
(d) rejoinder- involved in

44.

In each of these questions two quantities are given, one in column A and one in column B. Compare the two quantities.

[1]	Given Information :: x = –2 Column A :: 3x2  + 2x – 1 Column B :: x3  + 2x2  + 1 (a) if the two quantities are equal (b) if the quantity in column B is greater (c) if the quantity in column A is greater (d) if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

[2]	Given Information :: a/(a+b) = c/(c+d) Column A :: cd Column B ::ab (a) if the two quantities are equal (b) if the quantity in column B is greater (c) if the quantity in column A is greater (d) if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

[3]

Given Information :: An audio cassette priced at Rs 47.25 includes a 5% mark-up. Column A :: Rs 44. 89 price before mark-up. Column B :: The original (a) if the two quantities are equal (b) if the quantity in column B is greater (c) if the quantity in column A is greater (d) if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

[4]

Given Information :: 25% of the 300 girls in our school wear spectacles. Column A :: The ratio of girls wearing to those who do not. Column B :: 1 : 3 (a) if the two quantities are equal (b) if the quantity in column B is greater (c) if the quantity in column A is greater (d) if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

45.Which of the following rates is not decided by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?

(a) Repo Rate
(b) SLR
(c) CRR
(d) Savings Bank Rate

46.Consider the following statements

A) GATT was succeeded by the World Trade Organization in the year 1995.
B) Headquarters of WTO are in Doha.
C) World Intellectual Property Organization is a specialized agency of WTO.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are corect?

(a) (B) and (C) only
(b) (A) and (B) only
(c) (A) only
(d) (A), (B) and (C)

47.For the purpose of Census 200 I, which one of the fol lowing was taken as being literate?

(a) A person aged 8 years and above, who can both read and write with understanding in any language
(b) A person aged 9 years and above, who can both read and write with understanding in any language
(c) A person aged 10 years and above, who can both read and write with understanding in any language
(d) A person aged 7 years and above, who can both read and write with understanding in any language

48.GNP (Gross National Product) is the money value of

(a) Tangible goods available in the economy
(b) Annual service generation in the economy.
(c) Final goods and services produced annually within the economy
(d) Tangible goods produced annually in the economy

49.The economic growth of how much per cent has the Indian Credit Rating Agency (ICRA) predicted in the current fiscal year?

(a) 8.4%
(b) 8.1%
(c) 7.9%
(d) 8.7%

50.Which of the following two countries will jointly host the South Asian Football Championship in 2007 ?

(a) Bangladesh and Pakistan
(b) Maldives and SriLanka
(c) India and Nepal
(d) SriLanka and Pakistan