Exam Name: IAS (Pre.)
Subject: CSAT Paper -2
Year: 2016
Test Booklet Series: A
Passage-1
Accountability, or the lack of it, in governance generally, and civil
services, in particular, is a major factor underlying the deficiencies in
governance and public administration. Designing an effective framework for
accountability has been a key element of the reform agenda. A fundamental issue
is whether civil services should be accountable to the political executive of
the day or to society at large. In other words, how should internal and
external accountability be reconciled? Internal accountability is sought to be
achieved by internal performance monitoring, official supervision by bodies
like the ---Central-Vigilance Commission-and-Comptroller and Auditor—General,
and judicial review of executive decisions. Articles 311 and 312 of the Indian
Constitution provide job security and safeguards to the civil services,
especially the All India Services. The framers of the Constitution had
envisaged that provision of these safeguards would result in a civil service
that is not totally subservient to the political executive but will have the
strength to function in larger public interest. The need to balance internal
and external accountability is thus built into the Constitution. The issue is
where to draw the line. Over the years, the emphasis seems to have tilted in
favour of greater internal accountability of the civil services to the
political leaders of the day who in turn are expected to be externally
accountable to the society at large through the election process. This system
for seeking accountability to Society has not worked out, and has led to
several adverse consequences for governance.
Some special measures can be considered for improving accountability in civil
services. Provisions of articles 311 and 312 should be reviewed and laws and
regulations framed to ensure external accountability of civil services. The
proposed Civil Services Bill seeks to address some of these requirements. The
respective roles of professional civil services and the political executive
should he defined so that professional managerial functions and management of
civil services are depoliticized. For this purpose, effective statutory civil
service boards should be created at the centre and in the states.
Decentralization and devolution of authority to bring government and decision
making closer to the people also helps to enhance accountability.
1. According to the passage, which of the following factor/factors led to
the adverse consequences for governance/public administration?
1. Inability of civil services to strike a balance between internal and
external accountabilities
2. Lack of sufficient professional training to the officers of All India
Services
3. Lack of proper service benefits in civil services
4. Lack of Constitutional provisions to define the respective roles of
professional civil services vis-a-vis political executive in this context
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 4 only
(d) 2, 3 and 4
Answer .c
2. With reference to the passage, the following assumptions have been
made :
1. Political executive is an obstacle to the accountability of the civil
services to the society
2. In the present framework of Indian polity, the political executive is no
longer accountable to the society
Which of these assumptions is/are valid?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2Earlier UPSC had notified that CSAT would not be considered
in deciding the ranking and cut-off and it would be qualifying in nature.
Answer .d
3. Which one of the following is the essential message implied by this
passage?
(a) Civil services are not accountable to the society they are serving
(b) Educated and enlightened persons are not taking up political leadership
(c) The framers of the Constitution did not envisage the problems being
encountered by the civil services
(d) There is a need and scope for reforms to improve the accountability of
civil services
Answer .d
4. According to the passage, which one of the following is not a means of
enhancing internal accountability of civil services?
(a) Better job security and safeguards
(b) Supervision by Central Vigilance Commission
(c) Judicial review of executive decisions
(d) Seeking accountability through enhanced participation by people in decision
making process
Answer .d
Passage-2
In general, religious traditions stress our duty to god, or to some
universal ethical principle. Our duties to one another derive from these. The
religious concept of rights is primarily derived from our relationship to this
divinity or principle and the implication it has on our other relationships.
This correspondence between rights and duties is critical to any further
understanding of justice. But, for justice to be practiced; rights and duties
cannot remain formal abstraction. They must be grounded in a community (common
unity) bound together by a sense of common union (communion). Even as a
personal virtue, this solidarity is essential to the practice and
understanding of justice.
5. With reference to the passage, the following assumptions have been made :
1. Human relationships are derived from their religious traditions
2. Human beings can be duty bound only if they believe in god
3. Religious traditions are essential to practice and understand justice
Which of these assumption(s) is/are valid?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer . a
6. Which one of the following is the crux of this passage?
(a) Our duties to one another derive from our religious traditions
(b) Having relationship to the divine principle is a great virtue
(c) Balance between and duties is crucial to the delivery of justice in a
society
(d) Religious concept of rights is primarily derived from our relationship to
god
Answer .c
7. A ate grapes and pineapple; B ate grapes and oranges; C ate oranges,
pineapple and apple; D ate grapes, apple and pineapple. After taking fruits, B
and C fell sick. In the light of the above facts, it can be said that the cause
of sickness was:
(a) Apple
(b) Pineapple
(c) Grapes
(d) Oranges
Answer . d
8. Consider the following statements.
1. The rate of population growth is increasing in the country
2. The death rate is declining faster in the country compared to birth rate
3. The birth rate is declining faster in the country compared to death rate
4. Rural-urban migration is taking place regularly in the country
Which one of the following conclusions may be true in the light of the above
facts?
(a) The rate of population growth is increasing due to rural-urban migration
(b) The rate of population growth is increasing due to decline in death rate
only
(c) The rate of population growth is increasing due to increase in birth rate
only
(d) The rate of population growth is increasing due to faster decline in death
rate than in birth rate
Answer .d
9. A person X was driving in a place where all roads ran either
north-south or east-west, forming a grid. Roads are at a distance of 1 km from
each other in a parallel. He started at the intersection of two roads, drove 3
km north, 3 km west and 4 km south. Which further route could bring him back to
his starting point, if the same route is not repeated?
(a) 3 km east, then 2 km south
(b) 3 km east, then 1 km north
(c) 1 km north, then 2 km west
(d) 3 km south, then 1 km north
Answer . b
10. Consider the following statement:
"We shall go either for a picnic or for trekking".
Which of the following, if true, would falsify this claim?
(a) We go for a picnic but not for trekking
(b) Activities such as picnic and trekking are encouraged by the health
authorities
(c) We go for trekking and not for picnic
(d) We do not go either for picnic or for trekking
Answer .d
11. There were 50 faculty member comprising 30 males and the rest
females. No male faculty member knew music, but many of the female faculty
members did. The Head of the institution invited six faculty members to a tea
party by draw of lots. At the party is was discovered that no members knew
music. The conclusion is that:
(a) the party comprised male faculty members only
(b) the party comprised only those female faculty members who could not give
renderings in music
(c) the party comprised both male and female faculty members
(d) nothing can be said about the gender composition of the party
Answer .a
12. Five people A, B, C, D and E are seated about a round table. Every
chair is spaced equidistant from adjacent chairs.
(i) C is seated next to A
(ii) A is seated two seats from D
(iii) B is not seated next to A
On the basis of above information, which of the following must be true?
1. D is seated next to B
2. E is seated next to A
3. D and C are separated by two seats
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 3 only
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 nor 3
Answer . b
13. There are five hobby clubs in a college —photography, yachting,
chess, electronics and gardening. The gardening group meets every second day,
the electronics group meets every third day, the chess group meets every fourth
day, the yachting group meets every fifth day and the photography group meets
every sixth day. How many times do all the five groups meet on the same day
within 180 days?
(a) 5
(b) 18
(c) 10
(d) 3
Answer .d
14. There are some nectar-filled flowers on a tree and some bees are
hovering on it. If one bee lands on each flower, one bee will be left out. If
two bees land on each flower, one flower will be left out. The number of
flowers and bees respectively are:
(a) 2 and 4
(b) 3 and 2
(c) 3 and 4
(d) 4 and 3
Answer . c
Directions for the following 5 (five) items: Consider the following
information and answer the five items that follow:
There are five persons in a group — P, Q, R, S and T. The group has one
doctor, one lawyer and one artist. P and S are unmarried students. T is a man
married to one of the group members. Q is the brother of P and is neither
doctor nor artist. R is not doctor.
15. Who is the doctor?
(a) T
(b) P
(c) Q
(d) R
Answer . a
16. Who is the artist?
(a) P
(b) Q
(c) R
(d) T
Answer . c
17. Who is the spouse of R?
(a) P
(b) T
(c) Q
(d) S
Answer . b
18. Who is the lawyer?
(a) P
(b) Q
(c) R
(d) S
Answer . b
19. Who of the following is definitely a man?
(a) P
(b) S
(s) Q
(d) None of the above
Answer . c
20. There is an order of 19000 quantity of a particular product from a
customer. The firm produces 1000 quantity of that product per out of which 5%
are unfit for sale. In how many days will the order be completed?
(a) 18
(b) 19
(c) 20
(d) 22
Answer . c
Directions for the following 5 (five) items : Read the following two
passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Your answers to these
items should be based on the passages only.
Passage-1
Biomass as fuel for power, heat, and transport has the highest mitigation
potential of all renewable sources. It comes from agriculture and forest
residues as well as from energy crops. The biggest challenge in using biomass
residues is a long-term reliable supply delivered to the power plant at
reasonable costs; the key problems are logistical constraints and the costs of
fuel collection. Energy crops, if not managed properly, compete with food
production and may have undesirable impacts on food prices. Biomass production
is also sensitive to the physical impacts of a changing climate.
Projections of the future role of biomass are probably overestimated, given
the limits to the sustainable biomass supply, unless breakthrough technologies
substantially increase productivity. Climate-energy models project that biomass
use could increase nearly four-fold to around 150 — 200 exajoules, almost a
quarter of world primary energy in 2050. However the maximum sustainable
technical potential of biomass resources (both residues and energy crops)
without disruption of food and forest resources ranges from 80 — 170 exajoules
a year by 2050, and only part of this is realistically and economically
feasible. In addition, some climate models rely on biomass-based carbon capture
and storage, an unproven technology, to achieve negative emissions and to buy
some time during the first half of the century.
Some liquid biofuels such as corn-based ethanol, mainly for transport, may
aggravate rather than ameliorate carbon emissions on a life-cycle basis. Second
generation biofuels, based on ligno-cellulosic feedstocks — such as straw,
bagasse, grass and wood — hold the promise of sustainable production that is
high-yielding and emit low levels of greenhouse gases, but these are still in
the R & D stage.
21. What is/are the present constraint/constraints in using biomass as
fuel for power generation?
1. Lack of sustainable supply of biomass
2. Biomass production competes with food production
3. Bio-energy may not always be low carbon on a life-cycle basis
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer . d
22. Which of the following can lead to food security problem?
1. Using agricultural and forest residues as feedstock for power
generation
2. Using biomass for carbon capture and storage
3. Promoting the cultivation of energy crops
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer .b
23. In the context of using biomass, which of the following is/are the
characteristic/characteristics of the sustainable production of biofuel?
1. Biomass as a fuel for power generation could meet all the primary energy
requirements of the world by 2050
2. Biomass as a fuel for power generation does not necessarily disrupt food and
forest resources
3. Biomass as a fuel for power generation could help in achieving negative
emissions, given certain nascent technologies
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer .b
24. With reference to the passage, following assumptions have been mad :
1. Some climate-energy models suggest that the use of biomass as a fuel for
power generation helps in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions
2. It is not possible to use biomass as a fuel for power generation without
disrupting food and forest resources
Which of these assumptions is/are valid?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer .a
Passage-2
We are witnessing a dangerous dwindling of biodiversity in our food supply.
The green revolution is a mixed blessing. Over time farmers have come to rely
heavily on broadly adapted, high yield crops to the exclusion of varieties
adapted to the local conditions. Monocropping vast fields with the same
genetically uniform seeds helps boost yield and meet immediate hunger needs.
Yet high-yield varieties are also genetically weaker crops that require
expensive chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. In our focus on increasing
the amount of food we produce today, we have accidentally put ourselves at risk
for food shortages in future.
25. Which among the following is the most logical and critical inference
that can be made from the above passage?
(a) In our agricultural practices, we have become heavily dependent on
expensive chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides only due to green
revolution
(b) Monocropping vast fields with high-yield varieties is possible due to green
revolution
(c) Monocropping with high-yield varieties is the only way to ensure food
security to millions
(d) Green revolution can pose a threat to biodiversity in food supply and food
security in the long run
Answer .d
26. A class starts at 11:00 am and lasts till 2:27 pm. Four periods of
equal duration are held during this interval. After every period, a rest of 5
minutes is given to the students. The exact duration of each period is:
(a) 48 minutes
(b) 50 minutes
(c) 51 minutes
(d) 53 minutes
Answer .a
27. Four friends A, B, C and D need to cross a bridge. A maximum of two
persons can cross it at a time. It is night and they just have one lamp.
Persons that cross the bridge must carry the lamp to find the way. A pair must
walk together at the speed of slower person. After crossing the bridge, the
person having faster speed in the pair will return with the lamp each time to
accompany another person in the group. Finally, the lamp has to be returned at
the original place and the person who returns the lamp has to cross the bridge
again without lamp. To cross the bridge, the time taken by them is as follows :
A: 1 minute, B: 2 minutes, C: 7 minutes and D: 10 minutes. What is the total
minimum time required by all the friends to cross the bridge?
(a) 23 minutes
(b) 22 minutes
(c) 21 minutes
(d) 20 minutes
Answer .a
28. 30g of sugar was mixed in 180 ml water in a vessel A, 40 g of sugar
Was mixed in 280 ml of water in vessel B and 20 g of sugar was mixed in 100 ml
of water in vessel C. The solution in vessel B is
(a) sweeter than that in C
(b) sweeter than that in A
(c) as sweet as that in C
(d) less sweet than that in C
Answer .d
29. In aid of charity, every student in a class contributes as many
rupees as the number of students in that class. With the additional
contribution of Rs. 2 by one student only, the total collection is Rs. 443.
Then how many students are there in the class?
(a) 12
(b) 21
(c) 43
(d) 45
Answer .b
30. Anita's mathematics test had 70 problems carrying equal marks i.e.,
10 arithmetic, 30 algebra and 30 geometry. Although she answered 70% of the
arithmetic, 40% of the algebra and 60% of the geometry problems correctly, she
did not pass the test because she got less than 60% marks. The number of more
questions she would have to answer correctly to earn a 60% passing marks is:
(a) 1
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 9
Answer .b
31. In a class, there are 18 very tall boys. If these constitute
three-fourths of the boys and the total number of boys is two-thirds of the
total number of students in the class, what is the number of girls in the
class?
(a) 6
(b) 12
(c) 18
(d) 21
Answer .b
32. Consider the following statements:
1. Either A and B are of the same age or A is older than B
2. Either C and D are of the same age or D is older than C
3. B is older than C
Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above
statements?
(a) A is older than B
(b) B and D are of the same age
(c) D is older than C
(d) A is older than C
Answer .d
33. The monthly average salary paid to all the employees of a company was
Rs. 5000. The monthly average salary paid to male and female employees was Rs.
5200 and Rs. 4200 respectively. Then the percentage of males employed in the
company is
(a) 75%
(b) 80%
(c) 85%
(d) 90%
Answer .c
Direction for the following 3 (three) items: Consider the given
-formation and answer the three items that follow.
Six boxes A, B, C, D, E and F have been painted with six different colours
viz., violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow and orange and arranged from left to
right (not necessarily either kept or painted with the colours in the same
order). Each box contains a ball of any one of the following six games:
cricket, hockey, tennis, golf, football and volleyball (not necessarily in the
same order). The golf ball is in violet box and is not in the box D. The box A
which contains tennis ball is orange in colour and is at the extreme right. The
hockey ball is neither in box D nor in box E. The box C having cricket ball is
painted green. The hockey ball is neither in the box painted blue nor in the
box painted yellow. The box C is fifth from right and next to box B. The box B
contains volleyball. The box containing the hockey ball is between the boxes
containing golf ball and volleyball.
34. Which one of the following boxes contains the golf ball?
(a) F
(b) E
(c) D
(d) None of the above
Answer .b
35. Which of the following statements is/are correct?
(a) D is painted yellow
(b) F is painted indigo
(c) B is painted blue
(d) All of the above
Answer .b
36. The football is in the box of which colour?
(a) Yellow
(b) Indigo
(c) Cannot be determined as data are inadequate
(d) Blue
Answer .c
37. Two numbers X and Y are respectively 20% and 28% less than a third
number Z. By what percentage is the number Y less than the number X ?
(a) 12%
(b) 10%
(c) 9%
(d) 8%
Answer .b
38. A daily train is to be introduced between station A and station B
starting from each end at 6 AM and the journey is to be completed in 42 hours.
What is the number of trains needed in order to maintain the Shuttle
Service?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 7
Answer . a*
39. A piece of tin is in the form of a rectangle having length 12 cm and
width 8 cm. This is used to construct a closed cube. The side of the cube is:
(a) 2 cm
(b) 3 cm
(c) 4 cm
(d) 7 cm
Answer .c
40. In a. question paper there are five questions to be attempted and answer
to each question has two choices - True (T) or False (F). It is given that no
two candidates have given the answers to the five questions in an identical
sequence. For this to happen the maximum number of candidates is:
(a) 10
(b) 18
(c) 26
(d) 32
Answer . *
Directions for the following 8 (eight) items :
Read the following eight passages and answer the item that follows each
passage. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
Passage-1
By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free
enterprise, opportunity and economic growth. Crony capitalism, where rich and
the influential are alleged to have received land and natural resources and
various licences in return forpayoffs to venal politicians, is now a major
issue to be tackled. One of the greatest dangers to growth of developing
economies like India is the middle-income where crony capitalism creates
oligarchies that slow down the growth.
41. Which among the following is the most logical corollary to the above
passage ?
(a) Launching more welfare schemes and allocating more finances for the
current schemes r are urgently needed
(b) Efforts should be made to push up economic growth by other means and
provide licences to the poor
(c) Greater transparency in the functioning of the government and promoting the
financial inclusion are needed at present
(d) We should concentrate more on developing manufacturing sector than service
sector
Answer .c
Passage-2
Climate adaptation may be rendered ineffective if policies are not designed
in the context of other development concerns. For instance, a comprehensive
strategy that seeks to improve food security in the context of climate change
may include a set of coordinated measures related to agricultural extension,
crop diversification, integrated water and pest management and agricultural
information series. Some of these measures may have to do with climate changes
and others with economic development.
42. What is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from
the above passage?
(a) It is difficult to pursue climate adaptation in the developing countries
(b) Improving food security is a far more complex issue than climate adaptation
(c) Every developmental activity is directly or indirectly linked to climate
adaptation
(d) Climate adaptation should be examined in tandem with other economic development
ptions
Answer .d
Passage-3
Understanding of the role of biodiversity in the hydrological cycle enables
better policy-making. The term biodiversity refers to the variety of plants,
animals, microorganisms, and the ecosystems in which they occur. Water and
biodiversity are interdependent. In reality, the hydrological cycle decides how
biodiversity functions. In turn, vegetation and soil drive the movement of
water. Every glass of water we drink has, at least in part, passed through
fish, trees, bacteria, soil and other organisms. Passing through these
ecosystems, it is cleansed and made fit for consumption. The supply of water is
a critical service that the environment provides.
43. Which among the following is the most critical inference that can be
made from the above passage ?
(a) biodiversity sustains the ability of nature to recycle water
(b) We cannot get potable water without the existence of living organisms
(c) Plants, animals and microorganisms continuously interact among themselves
(d) Living organisms could not have come into existence without hydrological
cycle
Answer .a
Passage-4
In the last decade, the banking sector has been restructured with a high
degree of automation and products that mainly serve middle-class and upper
middle-class society. Today there is need for a new agenda for the banking and
non-banking financial services that does not exclude the common man
44. Which one of the following is the message that is essentially implied in
the above passage?
(a) Need for more automation and more products of bank
(b) Need for a radical restructuring of our entire public finance system
(c) Need to integrate banking and non-banking institutions
(d) Need to promote financial inclusion
Answer .d
Passage-5
Safe and sustainable sanitation in slums has immeasurable benefits to
women and girls in terms of their health, safety, privacy and dimity. However,
women do not feature in most of the schemes and policies on urban sanitation.
The fact that even now the manual scavenging exists, ones to show that not
enough has been done to promote pour-flush toilets and discontinue the
use of dry latrines. A more sustained and rigorous campaign needs to be
launched towards the right to sanitation on a very large scale. This should
primarily focus on the abolition of manual scavenging.
45. With reference to the above passage, consider the following statements:
1. Urban sanitation problems can be fully solved by the abolition of manual
scavenging only
2. There is a need to promote greater awareness on safe sanitation practices in
urban areas Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both I and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer .b
Passage-6
To understand the nature and quantity of Government proper for man, it is
necessary to attend to his character. As nature created him for social life,
she fitted him for the station she intended. In all cases she made his natural
wants greater than his individual powers. No one man is capable, without the
aid of society, of supplying his own wants; and those wants, acting upon
every individual, impel the whole of them into society.
46. Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference
that can be made from the above passage ?
(a) Nature has created a great diversity in human society
(b) Any given human society is always short of its wants
(c) Social life is a specific characteristic of man
(d) Diverse natural wants forced man towards social system
Answer
.d
Passage-7
The nature of the legal imperatives in any given state corresponds to the
effective demands that state encounters, and that these, in their turn, depend,
in a general way, upon the manner in which economic power is distributed in the
society which the state controls.
47. The statement refers to:
(a) the antithesis of Politics and Economics
(b) the interrelationship of Politics and Economics
(c) the predominance of Economics over Politics
(d) the predominance of Politics over Economics
Answer .b
Passage-8
About 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from
agricultural practices. This includes nitrous oxide fertilizers; methane from
livestock, rice production, and manure storage; and carbon dioxide (CO2) from
burning biomass, but this excludes CO2 emissions from soil management practices,
sayannah burning and deforestation. Foresty and use, and land-use change
account for another percent of greenhouse gas emissions each
ear, three quarters of which come from tropical deforestation. The remainder is
largely from draining and burning tropical peatland. About the same amount of
carbon is stored in the world's peatlands as is stored in the Amazon
rainforest.
48. Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference
that can be made from the above passage?
(a) Organic farming should immediately replace mechanised and chemical
dependant agricultural practices all over the world
(b) It is imperative for us to modify our land use practices in order to
mitigate climate change.
(c) There are no technological solutions to the problem of greenhouse gas
emissions
(d) Tropical areas are the chief sites of carbon sequestration
Answer .a
49. A person climbs a hill in a straight path from point 'O' on the ground
in the direction of north-east and reaches a point 'A' after travelling a
distance of 5 km. Then, from the point 'A' he moves to point 'B' in the
direction of north-west. Let the distance AB be 12 km. Now, how far is the
person away from the starting point 'O'?
(a) 7 km
(b) 13 km
(c) 17 km
(d) 11 km
Answer .b
50. An agricultural field is in the form of a rectangle having length X1
meters and breadth X2 meters (X1 and X2 are variable). If X1 + X2 = 40 meters,
then the area of the agricultural field will not exceed which one of the
following values?
(a) 400 sq m
(b) 300 sq m
(c) 200 sq m
(d) 80 sq m
Answer .a
51. The sum of the ages of 5 members comprising a family, 3 years ago was 80
years. The average age of the family today is the same as it was 3 years ago,
because of an addition of a baby during the intervening period. How old is the
baby ?
(a) 6 months
(b) 1 year
(c) 2 years
(d) 2 years and 6 months
Answer .b
52. The total emoluments of two persons are the same, but one gets
allowances to the extent of 65% of his basic pay and the other gets allowances
to the extent of 80% of his basic pay. The ratio of the basic pay of the former
to the basic pay of the latter is:
(a) 16 : 13
(b) 5 : 4
(c) 7 : 5
(d) 12 : 11
Answer .a
53. A person is standing on the first step from the bottom of a ladder. If
he has to climb 4 more steps to reach exactly the middle step, how many steps
doe he ladder have?
(a) 8
(b) 9
(c) 10
(d) 11
Answer .b
Direction for the following 3 (three) items : Consider the given information
and answer the three items that follow.
When three friends A, B and C met, it was found that each of them wore an outer
garment of a different colour. In random order, the garments are: jacket,
sweater and tie; and the colours are: blue, white and black. Their surnames in
random order Kumar and Singh.
Further, we know that :
1. neither B nor Ribeiro wore a white sweater
2. C wore a tie
3. Singh's garment was not white
4. Kumar does not wear a jacket
5. Ribeiro does not like to wear the black colour
6. Each of the friends wore only one outer garment of only one colour
54. What is C's surname ?
(a) Riberio
(b) Kumar
(c) Singh
(d) Cannot be determined
Answer .a
55. What is the colour of the tie ?
(a) Black
(b) Blue
(c) White
(d) Cannot be determined
Answer .b
56. Who wore the sweater ?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) Cannot be determined
Answer .a
57. AB is a vertical trunk of a huge tree with A being the point where the
base of the trunk touches the ground. Due to a cyclone, the trunk has been
broken at C which is at a height of 12 meters, broken part is partially
attached to the vertical portion of the trunk at C. If the end of the broken
part B touches the ground at D which is at a distance of 5 meters from A, then
the original height of the trunk is:
(a) 20 m
(b) 25 m
(c) 30 m
(d) 35 m
Answer .b
58. A person walks 12 km due north, then 15 km due east, after that 19 km
due west and then 15 km due south. How far is he from the starting point?
(a) 5 km
(b) 9 km
(c) 37 km
(d) 61 km
Answer .a
59. A cube has all its faces painted with different colours. It is cut into
smaller cubes of equal sizes such that the side of the small cube is one-fourth
the big cube. The number of small cubes with only one of the sides painted is:
(a) 32
(b) 24
(c) 16
(d) 8
Answer .d
60. Ram and Shyam work on a job together for four days and
complete 60% of it. Ram takes leave then and Shyam works for eight more days to
complete the job. How long would Ram take to complete the entire
job alone?
(a) 6 days
(b) 8 days
(c) 10 days
(d) 11 days
Answer .c
61. A military code writes SYSTEM as SYSMET and NEARER as
AENRER. Using the same code, FRACTION can be written as:
(a) CARFTION
(b) FRACNOIT
(c) NOITCARF
(d) CARFNOIT
Answer .d
62. If R and S are different integers both divisible by 5, then which of
the following is not necessarily true?
(a) R - S is divisible by 5
(b) R + S is divisible by 10
(c) R x S is divisible by 25
(d) R2 + S2 is divisible by 5
Answer .b
63. How many numbers are there between 100 and 300 which either begin
with or end with 2?
(a) 110
(b) 111
(c) 112
(d) None of the above
Answer .a
Directions for the following 8 (eight) items: Read the following
five passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Your answers to
these items should be based on the passages only.
Passage-1
As we look to 2050, when we will need to feed two billion more people, the
question of which diet is best hartaen on new urgency. The foods we choose to
eat in the coming decades will have dramatic ramifications for the planet.
Simply put, a diet that revolves around meat and dairy a way of eating that is
on the rise throughout the developing. world, will take a greater toll on the
world's resources than one that revolves around unrefined grains, nuts, fruits
and vegetables.
64. What is the critical message conveyed by the above passage?
(a) Our increasing demand for foods sourced from animals puts a greater
burden on our natural resources
(b) Diets based on grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables are best suited for
health in developing countries
(c) Human beings change their food habits from time to time irrespective of
the health concerns
(d) From a global perspective, we still do not know which type of diet is
best for us
Answer .a
Passage-2
All humans digest mother's milk as infants, but until cattle began being
domesticated 10,000 years ago, children once weaned no longer needed to digest
milk. As a result, they stopped making the enzyme lactase, which breaks down
the sugar lactose into simple sugars. After humans began herding cattle, it
became tremendously advantageous to digest milk, and lactose tolerance evolved
independently among cattle herders in Europe, the middle East and Africa.
Groups not dependant on cattle, such as the Chinese and Thai, remain lactose
intolerant.
65. Which among the following is the most logical assumption that can be
made from the above passage?
(a) About 10,000 years ago, the domestication of animals took place in some
parts of the world
(b) A permanent change in the food habits of a community can bring about a
genetic change in its members
(c) Lactose tolerant people only are capable of getting simple sugars in
their bodies
(d) People who are not lactose tolerant cannot digest any dairy product
Answer .b
Passage-3
"The conceptual difficulties in National Income comparisons between
underdeveloped and industrialised countries are particularly serious because a
part of the national output in various underdeveloped countries is produced
without passing through the commercial channels."
66. In the above statement, the author implies that:
(a) the entire national output produced and consumed in industrialized countries
passes through commercial channels
(b) the existence of a non-commercialized sector in different underdeveloped
countries renders the national income comparisons over countries difficult
(c) no part of national output should be produced and consumed without
passing through commercial channels
(d) a part of the national output being produced and consumed without
passing through commercial channels is a sign of underdevelopment
Answer .d
Passage-4
An increase in human-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could initiate a
chain reaction between plant and microorganisms that would unsettle one of the
largest carbon reservoirs on the planet soil In a study, it was found that the
soil, which contains twice the amount of carbon present in a plants and Earth's
atmosphere combined, could become increasingly volatile people add more carbon
dioxide to the atmosphere. This is largely because of increased plant growth.
Although a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, carbon dioxide also supports plant
growth. As trees and other vegetation flourish in a carbon dioxide-rich future,
their roots could stimulate microbial activity in soil that may in turn
accelerate the decomposition of soil carbon and its relsase into the atmosphere
as carbon dioxide.
67. Which among the following is the most logical corollary to the above
passage ?
(a) Carbon dioxide is essential for the survival of microorganisms and
plants
(b) Humans are solely responsible for the release of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere
(c) Microorganisms and soil carbon are mainly responsible for the increased
plant growth
(d) Increasing green cover could trigger the release of carbon trapped in
soil
Answer .d
Passage-5
Historically, the biggest Challenge to world agriculture has been to achieve
a balance between demand for and supply of food. At the level of individual
countries, the demand-supply balance can be a critical issue for a closed
economy, especially if it is a populous economy and its domesticagriculture is
not growing sufficiently enough to ensure food supplies, on an enduring basis;
it is not so much and not always, of a constraint for an open, and growing
economy, which has adequate exchange surplues to buy food abroad. For the world
as a whole, Spply-demand balance is always an inescapable prerequisite for
warding off hunger and starvation. However, global availability of adequate
supply does not necessarily mean that food would automatically move from
countries of surplus to of deficit if the latter lack in purchasing power. The
uneven distribution of Inoger, starvation, under or malnourishment, etc., at
the world-level, thus owes itself to the presence of empty-pock hungry
mouths, overwhelmingly confined to the underdeveloped economies. Inasmuch as 'a
two-square meal' is of elemental significance to basic human existence, the
issue of worldwide supply` of food has been gaining significance, in recent
times, both because the quantum and the composition of demand has been
undergoing big changes, and because, in recent years, the capailities
individual countries to generate uninterrupted chain of food supplies have come
under strain. Food production, marketing and prices, especially
price-affordability by the poor in the developing world, have become global
issues that need global thinking and global solutions.
68. According to the above passage, which of, the following are the
fundamental solutions for the world food security problem?
1. Setting up more agro-based industries
2. Improving the price affordability by the poor
3. Regulating the conditions of marketing
4. Providing food subsidy to one and all
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 3 an 4 only
(d) 1, 2, and 4
Answer .b
69. According to the above passage, the biggest challenge to world agriculture
is:
(a) to find sufficient land for agriculture and to expand food processing
industries
(b) to eradicate hunger in underdeveloped countries
(c) to achieve a balance between the production of food and non-food items
(d) to achieve a balance between demand for and supply of food
Answer .d
70. According to the above passage, which of the following helps/help in
reducing hunger and starvation in the developing economies ?
1. Balancing demand and supply of food
2. Increasing imports of food
3. creasing purchasing power of the poor
4. Changing the food consumption patterns and practices
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2, 3 and 4 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer .c
71. The issue of worldwide supply of food has gained importance mainly
because of:
1. overgrowth of the population worldwide
2. sharp decline in the area of food production
3. limitation in the capabilities for sustained supply of food
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer .b
72. Four-digit numbers are to be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3 and 4;
and none of these four digits are repeated in any manner. Further,
1. 2 and 3 are not to immediately follow each other
2. 1 is not to be immediately followed by 3
3. 4 is not to appear at the last place
4. 1 is not to appear at the first place
How many different numbers can be formed?
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 9
(d) None of the above
Answer .a
73. A cylindrical overhead tank of radius 2 m and height 7 m is to be
filled from an underground tank of size 5.5m x 4m x 6m. How much portion of the
underground tank is still filled with water after filling the overhead tank
completely?
(a) 1/3
(b) 1/2
(c) 1/4
(d) 1/6
Answer .a
74. In a class of 60 students, where the number of girls is twice that of
boys, Kamal, a boy, ranked seventeenth from the top. If there are 9 girls ahead
of Kamal, the number of boys in rank after him is:
(a) 13
(b 12
(c) 7
(d) 3
Answer .b
75. A and B walk around a circular park. They start at 8 a.m. from the
same point in the opposite directions. A and B walk at a speed of 2
rounds per hour and 3 rounds per hour respecely. How many times shall they
cross each other after 8 00 a.m. and before 9.30. a.m.?
(a) 7
(b) 6
(c) 5
(d) 8
Answer .a
76. W can do 25% of a work-in 30 days, X can do 1/4 of the work in 10
days, Y can do 40% of the work in 40 days and Z can do 1/3 of the work in 13
days. Who will complete the work first?
(a) W
(b) X
(c) Y
(d) Z
Answer .d
77. The average monthly income of a person in a certain family of 5 is
Rs. 10,000. What will be the average monthly income of a person in the same
family if the income of one person increased by Rs. 1,20,000 per year?
(a) Rs. 12,000
(b) Rs. 16,000
(c) Rs. 20,000
(d) Rs. 34,000
Answer .d
78. In a race, a competitor has to collect 6 apples which are kept in a
straight line On a track and a bucket is placed at the beginning of the track
which is a starting point. The condition is that the competitor can pick
only one apple at a time, run back with it and drop it in the bucket. If
he has to drop all the apples in the bucket, how much total distance he
has to run if the bucket is 5 meters from the first apple and all other apples
are placed 3 meters apart ?
(a) 40 m
(b) 50 m
(c) 150 m
(d) 75 m
Answer .d
79. A round archery target of diameter 1 m is marked with four scoring
regions from the centre outwards as red, blue, yellow and white. The radius of
the red band is 0.20 m. The width of all the remaining bands is equal. If
archers throw arrows towards the target, what is the probability, that the
arrows fall in the red region of the archery target?
(a) 0.40
(b) 0.20
(c) 0.16
(d) 0.04
Answer .c
80. A person allows 10% discount for cash payment from the marked price
of a toy and still he makes a 10% gain. What is the cost price of the toy which
is marked Rs. 770?
(a) Rs. 610
(b) Rs. 620
(c) Rs. 630
(d) Rs. 640
Answer .c
