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CAT trainers close down centres as aspirants drop, costs rise

Monday, 25 October 2010 17:03
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AHMEDABAD: The Rs 400-crore Common Admission Test (CAT) training business is in a consolidation mode. The number of CAT-takers is decreasing after the MBA entrance went computer-based last year and institutes feel the cost of setting up a computer lab at each centre too high. Experts say, the next two years would see smaller institutes being acquired by bigger players.
CAT scores are considered for admission to 10 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and 150 B-Schools. More than one lakh candidates take coaching to prepare for the test.
With a computer-based test requiring coaching centres to install computers and develop software support, the new investment could be as high as Rs 1 crore. With competition prohibiting raising of fees (Rs 35,000 for an 18-month course), the institutes prefer to close down some centres.
CAT training institutes like IMS and PT Education, who have a national presence, have together closed down some 35 centres in prominent cities like Delhi, Pune, Satara, Kolhapur, Muzzafarpur, Gwalior, Surat, Ajmer and Lucknow. Smaller institutes like Ahmedabad-based Navigator Solutions has stopped CAT coaching and switched over to government and banking competitive exam coaching. A few more are closing down smaller centres.
Experts say, students are increasingly getting aware of the difficulty levels and do not take the test unless they are hopeful of clearing it. Also, departure from the paper-pencil format has discouraged a lot of aspirants from smaller towns who are not too comfortable with computers, thus leading to a drop in applicants. A lacklustre placement season too contributed to a sharp drop in the number of students taking coaching at the smaller centres, making business unviable for the institutes.
In 2008, around 2.71 lakh students appeared for CAT. The number dropped to 2.42 lakh in 2009 when the test changed its format and in 2010, some 2.04 lakh students are expected to take the test.
CAT coaching institutes expanded aggressively after 2001-02 as the number of CAT aspirants shot up and opened centres in smaller towns in 2006.
As CAT went computer-based, there was a need for huge investment to set up a good infrastructure. "We invested around Rs 50 lakh for installing 5-10 computers at each centre. However, we saw the craze for CAT dying in smaller towns. Those who really wanted to appear, would opt for training in bigger cities. As a result, we have closed down around 25 centres in cities like Rajahmundry, Gwalior, Kolhapur, Muzzafarpur and Satara," said Mr Sajnani from IMS. IMS has closed down centres in Delhi as well as the competition is high and margins are low. According to him, the margins were as high as 20%, some three-four years ago in CAT coaching business, but it has come down to only 5% in bigger cities and is even lesser in smaller towns, where the number of students is less.
source : economic times
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IBSAT

Friday, 03 September 2010 00:00
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About IBSAT

ICFAI Business Studies Aptitude Test or IBSAT is a common aptitude test to seek admission in management course at ICFAI Business School. ICFAI Business School is the management Institute of ICFAI University. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) University, Dehradun, Uttaranchal is a UGC (University Grants Commission) recognized University that represents the multi-state network of universities, sponsored by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India in Uttaranchal, Tripura, Sikkim, Meghalaya and Mizoram under respective legislations. The University confers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees to eligible students subject to the University Regulations.

IBSAT exam secures seats for the successful candidates at various campuses of ICFAI all over India.


Colleges that take IBSAT score

ICFAI Business School (IBS)
ICFAI National College (INC)
ICFAI School of Financial Studies (ISFS)
ICFAI School of Marketing Studies (ISMS)
ICFAI School of Human Resource Development (ISHRD)


Test Pattern

IBSAT is based on GMAT format with multiple choice questions and tests your abilities in quantitative techniques, data adequacy, vocabulary, writing skills, analytical reasoning and reading comprehension. IBSAT is usually of 2 hour duration.


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Women Reservation Bill

Sunday, 04 April 2010 07:22
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Empowering the woman..... or is it so?

The women's reservation bill reserving one-third seats for women in Parliament and state legislatures has got through the Rajya Sabha but it has polarised politics and civil society. It may be the most consequential act of lawmaking since independence.

It may make for great politics for one leader after the other to give sound bites on the bill but that does not take away from the fact that it is the easy way out for a nation which 62 years after independence has failed to give its citizens (read women) the wherewithal to grab their due without reservation.

How far will women’s reservation empower women and the society? There are questions on its provisions as they have been reported. The bill seeks to bring more women into parliament by reserving seats.

While this widens the choice for the voter by putting women leaders into circulation it also decreases the choice of candidates for voters in reserved constituencies.

It has to be seen how the bill balances these concerns.

Then there are details like rotation of reserved seats. If a seat is reserved for the next round of elections, what incentive will the sitting (male) member have to nurture the electorate? Will one term of reservation be sufficient for the women members to fight the next election by themselves?

There are doubts on whether women who do make it to the parliament on the strength of reservations would be ‘representative’ enough. The “quota within a quota” only partly and unhelpfully flags this issue.

The “representative” character of the male candidates who are elected year after year is not questioned with the same vehemence. Yet one cannot ignore the fact that money power and nepotism rule in candidate selection. Is the bill going to remedy that? If we have a woman representative who is elected through the same creaky electoral machine that relies on black money, backroom deals and influence peddling then is she going to be different from the existing elected representatives?

Is being a woman enough to “represent” women? In the absence of meaningful inner- party democracy and electoral reforms, is the bill just going to window-dress the republic?

Nevertheless, there are those who root for the passing of the bill. The feminist movement nearly disappeared after women had received the right to vote. During the mid-1900's, however, increasing numbers of women entered the labour force. They found that many high-paying jobs were closed to them. Feminist groups fought to end educational and job discrimination against women. Large numbers of women entered law, medicine, politics, business, and other traditionally male fields. Feminists worked for wider availability of birth control information and legalized abortion in some countries. They also called for men and women to share child care and other family responsibilities.

In parts of the country women have been compelled to commit suicide against the male charges of witchcraft. Many innocent women and girls are exploited in acts and activities of human trafficking conducted by their male counterparts. These weaknesses are due to their marginal role in policy making programmes.

Throughout history, many societies have held women in an inferior status as compared to that of men. Women's lower status was often justified as being the natural result of biological differences between the sexes. In many societies, for example, people believed women to be naturally more emotional and less decisive than men. Women were also held to be less intelligent and less creative by nature. But research shows that women and men have the same range of emotional, intellectual, and creative characteristics.

Many sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists view that various cultures have taught girls to behave according to negative stereotypes (images) of femininity, thus keeping alive the idea that women are naturally inferior. The socialization of men and women are done according to their sex. The entry of women in every field, establishing their identity and making a mark in every sphere can help to provide a better place in society for them.

But then one can say there are other linked issues to question the bill too.

Any self-respecting woman would want to be where she is because she deserves to be there, not because of her gender. If the state has failed to bring women to that level, then there is hardly anything reservation can achieve.

That could be in the form of the Laadli scheme that the Delhi government started for girl children of families with annual income of below one lakh — the government pays certain amounts of money linked to the girl’s educational progress so that by the time she is ready to go to college there is a corpus of Rs 1 lakh available to her — or CBSE’s scholarship scheme for the single girl child or any other forms of incentive to encourage families to give the same kind of facilities to girls as they give to boys.

Reservation is an acknowledgment of the failure of the state and the political system represented by the likes of some leaders who talk social justice and gender injustice in the same breath.

How much impact will the bill really make and on which side of the scale, only time will tell.

 

Acknowledged Sources:

IBN

Times of India

Reuters

Meri News

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Dealing with Abstract GD Topics

Saturday, 27 March 2010 12:56
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Abstract GD topics are an important aspect of your preparation for your selection in a B-school. Such topics have also been a cause of concern among students due to their abstract nature, but if approached in the right way, they can actually give you as much scope to prove yourself in a GD as a general topic.

The following pointers should put your mind at ease and equip you to go prepared to face abstract topics in your GD confidently.

An understanding that an abstract GD topic puts your lateral thinking skills to test can help you sharpen those skills better. Your critical and creative thinking are being put to test. In fact, an abstract topic is an excellent opportunity for you to display your wide knowledge about a variety of subjects. It is up to you to make connections creatively and explore different possible aspects of a topic. A one word topic like green can be made content rich with your creativity and presence of mind. From prosperity or freshness to Islamic Fundamentalism, the color can have multiple angles to build your arguments on.

Abstract topics are about intangibles and cannot be taken literally. You are free to interpret in different ways and discuss the disparate interpretations. The key is to find a pattern in the random ideas that get thrown up. One basic approach that you can apply to abstract topic apart from the general ones is to analyze the keywords in the topic. You can pick key words of the topic and explain what you feel they stand for.

For instance, let's take the topic,

Only the holy cow produces the best hamburgers

Here, the holy cow represents the quality of the input whose outcome is juicy hamburgers. Going by this association, you can say that the holy cow represents a sound value system that produces the best hamburgers as commendable results. This can be exemplified by the economic equation where business tycoons who worship their work have done wonders for their shareholders.

Or you can reflect on the word holy. In the social context, Indians consider the cow to be holy; hence it is a sin in our culture to slaughter the holy animal to make hamburgers. Hence, holy cows are not worshipped and fattened to produce the best hamburgers at least in our country. Another way of looking at it would be to say that the holy cow might fail to produce the best hamburgers because of mad cow disease which prevents it from being put to good use. This can mean that even the best inputs might fail to produce desired results.

The above example also throws up another technique of effectively handling abstract topic. You can connect the topic creatively to current affairs or other subjects of your interest-sports, economics, politics, entertainment, humor. this will help you feel make an impact by making a confident start of the GD, While practicing for abstract GDs you can pick a topic and make at least two points for every subject you can connect it to.

Abstract topic can be discussed by exploring the metaphoric meanings then can be attributed to the keywords.

For instance,

Life is a chair

A chair can be having different meanings to it with respect to life. You can use it to discuss the constant political struggle to acquire the best chair or the significance of one's position in the society or a company depicted by the chair one occupies. A chair can trace the growth of a person from childhood- baby chair -to old age-a rocking chair. You can use these meanings to talk of different ways in which life can be like a chair.

You also have the freedom to agree or disagree with the topic, you can disagree be saying that you can discard an old or broken chair and get a new one but life goes on despite ups and downs. Also, you can leave a chair and move around when you are tired of sitting but there are no such breaks from life.Some of the most puzzling abstract topics have colors in them. The techniques discussed here should help you handle them.

For instance,

Red is red and white is white and never the two shall meet

A topic like this seems quite abstract. You can easily handle it by creatively explaining the different connotations the keywords-red and white-can have. Red and white can be blood and peace or pristine beauty universe.

Similarly a lot of other things have lost their original colors. Politically, countries in the neighborhood, which were once friends, have become enemies. The Indian society is changing it's colors for the better and emerging as a more liberal one in which Gay marriages have legal sanction. Turning around one of the points from the previous version, we can say that the topic stands for innovation and creativity. The sky and grass can be given different colors to begin a journey of exploration of its effects.                                                           

Abstract topics demand out-of-the-box thinking most of the time.

Let’s look at one last topic,

when the clock strikes thirteen

A clock striking thirteen sounds odd for Indians who follow the 12 hour time cycle. However, it is an everyday occurrence in places where a 24 hour time cycle is used. You can give this international angle to the topic. You can also dwell on the superstition associated with thirteen. In the Indian context, we will get an additional hour to work for better productivity. When the clock strikes thirteen, it might be time for our society to realize that evils like child marriage and communalism are best given up to make the world a better place.

I am sure the above points have thrown the much required light on abstract GD topic. The right approach a can help you excel even in abstract topic making you a winner. Train your mind to make creative associations with the topic and you shall nail the topic confidently.

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A List of GD Topics

Saturday, 06 March 2010 12:36
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Topics of various GDs performed in IIM B
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- MBAs should be taxed at higher rates in the country.
- Are we raising a generation of burnt out children?
- The government should stop funding the IITs and the IIMs and, instead, divert the funds to primary education.
- Profit is the only business of business.
- Democracy has hampered India’s progress.
- India should be reorganized into smaller states.
- Growth and integrity are poles apart.
- Managerial skills learnt from classroom can never match those learnt from experience.
- Government should reduce defence expenditure and spend more on social sector.
- The UN has not served any purpose in the last decade.
- Religion is a private matter and should be no concern of the state.
- Is corrupt but efficient politicians better than honest and in-efficient politicians.
- Beauty contests do little to improve the stature of women.
- To sustain India’s integrity it is necessary to devolve more power to states.
- Women reservation in parliament is against the tenets of democracy.
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FMS GD Topics
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Computers result in unemployment.
- The parliamentary form of democracy has failed in India.
- Consumer satisfaction should be achieved at any cost.
- Managers do not add value to the society.
- Democracy is the only way to a sustained economic growth.
- Should youth indulge in politics?
- Liberalisation in 1991 was a forced one.
- Democracy is a luxury in India.
- Business Ethics.
- Infrastructure and India.
- Effectiveness of economic embargo on Iraq.
- The parliamentary form of democracy has failed in India.
- Consumer satisfaction should be achieved at any cost.
- Managers do not add value to the society.
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IIFT GD Topics
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Benefits of professional integrity.
Bilateralism vs multilateralism.
Ecology and tourism.
Technical Modernization and job employment do not go hand in hand.
Can politics be delineated from sports?
Can International boundary be dissolved?
India makes nuclear bombs, but cannot make quake resistant houses.
Role of money in elections.
Fast changes in Information Technology— excitement or agony?
India makes nuclear bombs, but cannot make quake resistant houses.
Role of money in elections.
Fast changes in Information Technology— excitement or agony?
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MDI GD Topics
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Modern cinema is a boon to the Indian society.
Reservation is necessary for social transformation.
Education or empowerment leads to a quicker.
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IIM Kozhikode GD Topics
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Women’s empowerment will lead to social development.
Is corrupt but efficient politicians better than honest and in-efficient politicians.
Science and not rhetoric underpins the National Policy.
Human rights impedes economic programme.
Women empowerment is the basis for social development.
Subsidies for higher studies should be done away with.
More GD Topics
A Unipolar World spells disaster for underdeveloped countries like India
Is Globalisation Really Necessary?
What shall we do about our ever-increasing Population?
Corruption is the price we pay for Democracy
Foreign Television Channels are destroying our culture
What India needs is a Dictatorship.
With media publishing and telecasting trivia, censorship is the need of the hour.
Kaun Banega Krorepati is less about knowledge but more about money and personality.
Beauty contests degrade womanhood
The rise of regional blocs threatens independent nations like India
Six billion and one bronze!
Is dependence on computers a good thing?
Should the public sector be privatised?
China and India are similar nations with contrasting ways
Is India a Soft Nation?
Value based politics is the need of the hour
Religion should not be mixed with politics
How to deal with high oil prices
Our cricketers are not to blame for match fixing
Why cant we be world players in industry as we are in software?
Multinational corporations: Are they devils in disguise?
Should there be limits on artistic freedom (the controversy on Fire).
Should there be private universities?
Does banning fashion shows and New Year parties save our culture
Is India moving away from a secularist state?
Education in India - or the lack of it
What ails Indian sports?
The Age of Information
Is Philosophy just an armchair theory?
Success is all about human relations
Borderless worlds - Dream or reality?
Quality is a myth in India.
Education and success - Is there a correlation?
We don't learn from history, we repeat it
Do we need a global policeman
Indian villages - our strength or our weakness?
Agrarian Economy in India - boon or bane
if there were no armies in the world......
Indian customs - are we in a time warp?
"How green was my valley........". Is  nature paying the price ?
Management Education - Is it necessary  to succeed in business
The role of NGOs  in economics and politics
NGOs - Do they serve peoples interests or are they pressure groups?
Death of  Socialism
Role of women in development
Kids today are not what they used to be
Casteless India - A pipe dream
Should Trade Unionism be banned in India
Repeated elections - Should taxpayers pay for it?
Indian bureaucracy - foundation strengths or colonial hangovers?
In India, the whole is less than the parts - Do we lack in team spirit?
Generation X - Drivers of our future or are they our lost souls?
Do we need a cut in the defence budget?
"Dot.com" companies - Is there room for everyone?
Artificial Intelligence - Will man be ever replaced by machines?
if I were to choose my person of the millennium...
All the world is a stage....
when managers become Hamlets...
If Patel were our first Prime Minister.......
Materialism - Have we sold our souls to the Devil?
You've come a long way, baby - The rise and rise of feminist power.
Role of ethics in tobacco industry, liquor industry etc.
Should gambling be legalised in India?
Are we unfit for Democracy?
Survival tools for the new millennium
Examinations - has it killed education
Cultural Invasion through the air waves
Should doctors be tried in Consumer Courts
Abortion and Euthanasia - Is it morally right for society
Are beauty pageants necessary?
The relevance of Gandhism today
India and the WTO
Did India handle the hijack issue properly?
Is E-Commerce the best thing for India
Managerial skills learnt in the classroom can never
match those learnt from experience
Democracy is hampering India progress
MBA in India is highly overrated.
Religion is a private affair and should be of no concern for the state
Decreasing defense expenditure and increasing social expenditure is the need of the hour


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Sentence Completion Sample Questions

Friday, 26 February 2010 14:18
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Sentence Completion Sample Questions

Directions:

Each sentence below has one or two blanks. Each blank shows that something has been omitted. Under each sentence five words are given as choice. Choose the one correct word for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentences as a whole.

1.    The fact that the___ of confrontation is no longer as popular as it once was ___procatss in race relations.
A.    insidiousness - reiterates
B.    practice - inculcates
C.    glimmer - foreshadows
D.    technique - presages
E.    reticence - indicates
Ans :D
2.    A child should not be ___ as being either very shy or over ___ agcatssive.
A.    categorized
B.    instructed
C.    intoned
D.    distracted
E.    refrained
Ans :A
3.    President Anwar el - Sadat of Egypt, disregarding ___criticism in the Alab world and in his own Government, ___ accepted prime minister Menahem Begin's invitation to visit Israel in order to address the Israeli parliament.
A.    acrimonious - formally
B.    blemished - stiffly
C.    categorical - previously
D.    malignant - plaintively
E.    charismatic - meticulously
Ans :A
4.    In his usual - manner, he had insured himself against this type of loss.
A.    pensive
B.    providential
C.    indifferent
D.    circumspect
E.    caustic
Ans :D
5.    We never believed that he would resort to - in order to achieve his goal; we always regarded him as a - man.
A.    charm - insincere
B.    necromancy - pietistic
C.    logic - honorable
D.    prestidigitation - articulate
E.    subterfuge - honest
Ans :E
6.    The Sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was - by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.
A.    unproven
B.    banal
C.    superficial
D.    complex
E.    heretical
Ans :E
7.    Despite assorted effusion to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and quite possibly, there may be something of a - between them.
A.    dichotomy
B.    congruity
C.    reciprocity
D.    fusion
E.    generosity
Ans :E
8.    The most technologically advanced societies have been responsible for the catatest - indeed savagery seems to be indirect proposition to -
A.    inventions - know-how
B.    wars - viciousness
C.    triumphs - civilizations
D.    atrocities - development
E.    catastrophes - ill-will
Ans :D
9.    Ironically, the party leaders encountered no catater - their efforts to build as Procatssive Party than the - of the procatssive already elected to the legislature.
A.    obstacle to - resistance
B.    support for - advocacy
C.    praise for - reputation
D.    threat to - promise
E.    benefit - success
Ans :A
10.    The simplicity of the theory - its main attraction - is also its - for only by - the assumptions of the theory is it possible to explain the most recent observations made by researchers.
A.    glory - rejecting
B.    liability - accepting
C.    undoing - supplementing
D.    downfall - considering
E.    virtue - qualifying
Ans : C
11.    That the Third Battalion's fifty percent casually rate transformed its assault on Hill 306 from a brilliant stratagem into a debacledoes not - eyewitness reports of its commander's extra-ordinary - in deploying his forces.
A.    invalidate - brutality
B.    gainsay - cleverness
C.    underscore - ineptitude
D.    justify - rapidity
E.    corroborate -determination
Ans : B
12.    No longer - by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual - for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
A.    satisfied - reasons
B.    reassured - justifications
C.    restricted - parallels
D.    sustained - substitutes
E.    hampered - equivalents
Ans : D
13.    In eighth-century Japan, people who - wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of - fields.
A.    cultivated - domestic
B.    located - desirable
C.    conserved - forested
D.    reclaimed - arable
E.    irrigated - accessible.
Ans :D
14.    Clearly refuting sceptics, researchers have - not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory- it should do.
A.    assumed - deducted
B.    estimated - accepted
C.    supposed - asserted
D.    doubted - warranted
E.    demonstrated - predicted.
Ans :E
15.    Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world - of -
A.    deprived - polarity
B.    full - circumstantiality
C.    bereft - theatricality
D.    devoid - neutrality
E.    composed - adversity.
Ans :D
16.    Sponsors of the bill were-because there was no opposition to it within the legislative, until after the measure had been signed into law.
A.    well-intentioned
B.    persistent
C.    detained
D.    unreliable
E.    relieved.
Ans :B
17.    Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable - through a complex network of producers and consumers.
A.    nutrients
B.    dividends
C.    communications
D.    artifacts
E.    commodities.
Ans :C
18.    Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by - the leaders of the movement have recently - most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
A.    proclamation - codified
B.    coercion - repudiated
C.    participation - moderated
D.    intimidation - issued
E.    demonstration - deliberated.
Ans :B
19.    It would be difficult for one so - to be led to believe that all men are equal and that we must disregard race, color and creed.
A.    tolerant
B.    democratic
C.    broadminded
D.    emotional
E.    intolerant.
Ans :E
20.    Many philosophers agree that the verbal aggression of profanity in certain redical newspapers is not - or childish, but an assault on- essential to the revolutionary's purpose.
A.    insolent - sociability
B.    trivial - decorum
C.    belligerent - fallibility
D.    serious - propriety
E.    deliberate - affectation.
Ans :B
21.    The - tones of the flute succeeded in - his tense nerves.
A.    rhapsodic - minimising
B.    blatant - enhancing
C.    hovendous - calming
D.    vibrant - portraying
E.    mellifluous - soothing.
Ans :E
22.    Without the psychiatrist's promise of confidentiality, trust is - and the patient's communication limited; even though confidentialitycan thus be seen to be precious in thercopy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to - it.
A.    lost - forget
B.    implicit - extend
C.    impaired - sacrifise
D.    ambiguous - apply
E.    assumed - examine.
Ans :C
23.    Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look -they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the - of natural beauty and human glory.
A.    great - immutability
B.    joyful - mortality
C.    conventional - wildness
D.    cheerful - transitoriness
E.    colorful - abstractness.
Ans :D
24.    Despite the - of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize ''pop culture'' as a key for - the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.
A.    pedantry - reinstating
B.    enthusiasm - symbolizing
C.    skepticism - deciphering
D.    antipathy - involving
E.    discernment - evaluating.
Ans :C
25.    If duty is the natural - of one's the course of future events, then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not.
A.    outgrowth - control over
B.    arbiter - responsibility for
C.    correlate - understanding of
D.    determinant - involvement in
E.    mitigant - preoccupation with .
Ans :A
26.    Clearly refuting sceptics, researches have - not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory - it should do.
A.    supposed - asserted
B.    voubted -warranted
C.    assumed - deduced
D.    demonstrated - predicted
E.    estimated - accepted
Ans :D
27.    The Neolatonists' conception of a deity, in which perfection was measured by abundant fecundity, was contradicted by that of the Aristotelians, in which perfection was displayed in the - of creation.
A.    variety
B.    economy
C.    profusion
D.    clarity
E.    precision.
Ans :B
28.    It is a great - to be able to transfer useful genes with as little extra gene material as possible, because the donor's genome may contain, in addition to desirable genes, many genes with - effects.
A.    Disappointment - superfluous
B.    Convenience - exquisite
C.    Advantage - deleterious
D.    Accomplishment - profound
E.    Misfortune - unpredictable.
Ans :C
29.    While admitting that the risks incurred by use of the insecticide were not - the manufacturer's spokesperson argued that effective - were simply not available.
A.    indeterminable - safeguards
B.    unusual - alternatives
C.    inconsequential - substitutes
D.    proven - antidotes
E.    increasing - procedures.
Ans :C
30.    Human reaction to the realm of though is often as strong as that to sensible presences; our higher moral life is based on the fact that - sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action than do ideas of - facts.
A.    emotional - impersonal
B.    familiar : symbolic
C.    disturbing - ordinary
D.    material - remote
E.    defenitive - controvoisial.
Ans :D
31.    
Even though in today's Soviet union the - Muslim clergy have been accorded power and privileges, the Muslim laity and the rank - and - file clergy still. Have little - to practice their religion.
A.    adversaries of - inclination
B.    traditionalists among - incentive
C.    practitioners among - opportunity
D.    leaders of - latitude
E.    dissidents within -obligation
Ans :D
32.    Unlike the Shakespearean plays, The ''closet dramas'' of the nineteenth century were meant to be - rather than -
A.    seen - acted
B.    read - acted
C.    produced - acted
D.    quiet - loud
E.    sophisticated - urbane
Ans :B
33.    The little - known but rapidly expanding use of computers in mapmaking is technologically similar to the more - uses in designing everything from bolts to satellites.
A.    ingenuous
B.    recent
C.    secure
D.    publicized
E.    successful
Ans :D
34.    Although his out numbered troops fought bravely, the general felt he had no choice but to - defeat and - a retreat.
A.    oversee - reject
B.    acknowledge - order
C.    hasten - suggest
D.    seek - try
E.    overcome - request
Ans :B
41.    No hero of ancient or modern times can surpass the Indian with his lofty contempt of death and the - with which he sustained the cruelest coffliction.
A.    guide
B.    assent
C.    reverence
D.    fortitude
E.    concern
Ans :D
42.    The hostess attempted to - a romantic atmosphere that would bring the two young people together in -
A.    expand - fealty
B.    present - collusion
C.    simulate - conflict
D.    introduce - cacophony
E.    contrive - matrimony
Ans :E
43.    Employers who retire people who are willing and able to continue working should realize that - age is not an effective - in determining whether an individual is capable of working.
A.    intellectual - criterion
B.    Chronological - criterion
C.    Physical - barrier
D.    deteriorating - value
E.    chronological - factor
Ans :B
44.    As the sun rose, the morning mists were borne away on the - like strands of -
A.    whirlwind - flotsam
B.    wind - cactus
C.    morass - tundra
D.    zephyr - gossamer
E.    holocaust - taffeta
Ans :D
45.    The playwright was known not for his original ideas that had been propounded by others.
A.    rejection
B.    consideration
C.    invention
D.    reiteration
E.    plagiarism
Ans :E
46.    The gypsy girl, decked out in - finery, and with her disheveled hair streaming over shoulders, was indeed a - sight.
A.    verdant - wistful
B.    sartorial - flagrant
C.    specious - poignant
D.    tawdry - bizarre
E.    opulent - debonair
Ans :D
47.    Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so - Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in - in the western hemisphere.
A.    disabled - quarantine
B.    decimated - abeyance
C.    terrorized - contention
D.    ravaged - secret
E.    coupled - quiescence
Ans :B
48.    The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for hanging in a darkened recess of the chapel, it was - by the perspective.
A.    embellished
B.    improved
C.    jeopardised
D.    aggrandized
E.    diminished
Ans :E
49.    We have in America - speech that is neither American, Oxford English, nor English but a - of all three.
A.    motley - miracle
B.    nasal - blend
C.    feigned - patchwork
D.    mangled - medley
E.    hybrid - combination
Ans :E
50.    Old beliefs die hard, even when jobs become - the long - standing fear that unemployment could return at a moments notice -
A.    protected - subsided
B.    vacant - perished
C.    available - receded
D.    plentiful - persisted
E.    easier - charged
Ans :D
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Ratio And Proportion

1.    Rs.432 is divided amongst three workers A, B and C such that 8 times A's share is equal to 12 times B's share which is equal to 6 times C's share. How much did A get?
A.    Rs.192
B.    Rs.133
C.    Rs.144
D.    Rs.128
Ans : C

2.    If 20 men or 24 women or 40 boys can do a job in 12 days working for 8 hours a day, how many men working with 6 women and 2 boys take to do a job four times as big working for 5 hours a day for 12 days?
A.    8 men
B.    12 men
C.    2 men
D.    24 men
Ans : C

3.    Two cogged wheels of which one has 32 cogs and other 54 cogs, work into each other. If the latter turns 80 times in three quarters of a minute, how often does the other turn in 8 seconds?
A.    48
B.    135
C.    24
D.    None of these
Ans : C

4.    The proportion of milk and water in 3 samples is 2:1, 3:2 and 5:3. A mixture comprising of equal quantities of all 3 samples is made. The proportion of milk and water in the mixture is
A.    2:1
B.    5:1
C.    99:61
D.    227:133
Ans : D

5.    A group of workers can do a piece of work in 24 days. However as 7 of them were absent it took 30 days to complete the work. How many people actually worked on the job to complete it?
A.    35
B.    30
C.    28
D.    42
Ans : C

6.    A, B and C play cricket. A's runs are to B's runs and B's runs are to C's as 3:2. They get altogether 342 runs. How many runs did A make?
A.    162
B.    108
C.    72
D.    None of these
Ans : A

7.    The monthly salaries of two persons are in the ratio of 4:7. If each receives an increase of Rs.25 in the salary, the ratio is altered to 3: 5. Find their respective salaries.
A.    120 and 210
B.    80 and 140
C.    180 and 300
D.    200 and 350
Ans : D

8.    A fort has provisions for 60 days. If after 15 days 500 men strengthen them and the food lasts 40 days longer, how many men are there in the fort?
A.    3500
B.    4000
C.    6000
D.    None of these
Ans : B

9.    The ratio of marks obtained by vinod and Basu is 6:5. If the combined average of their percentage is 68.75 and their sum of the marks is 275, find the total marks for which exam was conducted.
A.    150
B.    200
C.    400
D.    None of these.
Ans : B

10.    The present ages of A and B are as 6 : 4. Five years ago their ages were in the ratio 5 : 3. Find their present ages.
A.    42, 28
B.    36, 24
C.    30, 20
D.    25, 15
Ans : C

11.    A, B and C enter into a partnership by investing Rs.3600, Rs.4400 and Rs.2800. A is a working partner and gets a fourth of the profit for his services and the remaining profit is divided amongst the three in the rate of their investments. What is the amount of profit that B gets if A gets a total of Rs. 8000?
A.    4888.88
B.    9333.33
C.    4000
D.    3666.66
Ans : A

12.    A, B and C, each of them working alone can complete a job in 6, 8 and 12 days respectively. If all three of them work together to complete a job and earn Rs.2340, what ill be C's share of the earnings?
A.    Rs.520
B.    Rs.1080
C.    Rs.1170
D.    Rs.630
Ans : A

13.    In what ratio must a person mix three kinds of tea costing Rs.60/kg, Rs.75/kg and Rs.100 /kg so that the resultant mixture when sold at Rs.96/kg yields a profit of 20%?
A.    1 : 2 : 4
B.    3 : 7 : 6
C.    1 : 4 : 2
D.    None of these
Ans : C

14.    A merchant mixes three varieties of rice costing Rs.20/kg, Rs.24/kg and Rs.30/kg and sells the mixture at a profit of 20% at Rs.30 / kg.How many kgs of the second variety will be in the mixture if 2 kgs of the third variety is there in the mixture?
A.    1 kg
B.    5 kgs
C.    3 kgs
D.    6 kgs
Ans : B

15.    How many litres of water should be added to a 30 litre mixture of milk and water containing milk and water in the ratio of 7 : 3 such that the resultant mixture has 40% water in it?
A.    7 litres
B.    10 litres
C.    5 litres
D.    None of these
Ans : C

16.    How many kgs of Basmati rice costing Rs.42/kg should a shopkeeper mix with 25 kgs of ordinary rice costing Rs.24 per kg so that he makes a profit of 25% on selling the mixture at Rs.40/kg?
A.    20 kgs
B.    12.5 kgs
C.    16 kgs
D.    200 kgs
Ans : A

17.    How many litres of a 12 litre mixture containing milk and water in the ratio of 2 : 3 be replaced with pure milk so that the resultant mixturecontains milk and water in equal proportion?
A.    4 litres
B.    2 litres
C.    1 litre
D.    1.5 litres
Ans : B

18.    A sample of x litres from a container having a 60 litre mixture of milk and water containing milk and water in the ratio of 2 : 3 is replaced with pure milk so that the container will have milk and water in equal proportions. What is the value of x?
A.    6 litres
B.    10 litres
C.    30 litres
D.    None of these
Ans : B

19.    A zookeeper counted the heads of the animals in a zoo and found it to be 80. When he counted the legs of the animals he found it to be 260. If the zoo had either pigeons or horses, how many horses were there in the zoo?
A.    40
B.    30
C.    50
D.    60
Ans : C

20.    From a cask of milk containing 30 litres, 6 litres are drawn out and the cask is filled up with water. If the same process is repeated a second, then a third time, what will be the number of litres of milk left in the cask?
A.    0.512 liters
B.    12 liters
C.    14.38 liters
D.    15.36 liters
Ans : D

21.    In a km race, A gives B a start of 20 seconds and beats him by 40m. However, when he gives B a start of 25 seconds they finish in a dead heat. What is A's speed in m/sec?
A.    12.5 m/sec
B.    20 m/sec
C.    8 m/sec
D.    10 m/sec
Ans : D

22.    A gives B a start of 10 metres in a 100 metre race and still beats him by 1.25 seconds. How long does B take to complete the 100 metre race if A runs at the rate of 10 m/sec?
A.    8 seconds
B.    10 seconds
C.    16.67 seconds
D.    12.5 seconds
Ans : D

23.    A predator is chasing its prey. The predator takes 4 leaps for every 6 leaps of the prey and the predator covers as much distance in 2 leaps as 3 leaps of the prey. Will the predator succeed in getting its food?
A.    Yes
B.    In the 6th leap
C.    Never
D.    Cannot determine
Ans : D

24.    A skating champion moves along the circumference of a circle of radius 21 meters in 44 seconds. How many seconds will it take her to move along the perimeter of a hexagon of side 42 meters?
A.    56
B.    84
C.    64
D.    48
Ans : B

25.    A runs 13/5 times as fast as B. If A gives a start of 240m, how far must the post be so that A and B might reach at the same time.
A.    390 m
B.    330 m
C.    600 m
D.    720 m
Ans : A

26.    A gives B a start of 30 seconds in a km race and still beats him by 20 m. However, when he gives B a start of 35 seconds, they finish the race in a dead heat. How long does A take to run the km?
A.    250 seconds
B.    285 seconds
C.    220 seconds
D.    215 seconds
Ans : D

27.    A can give B 20 points, A can give C 32 points and B can give C 15 points. How many points make the game?
A.    150
B.    200
C.    100
D.    170
Ans : D

28.    A can give B a start of 50 metres or 10 seconds in a kilometer race. How long does A take to complete the race?
A.    200 seconds
B.    140 seconds
C.    220 seconds
D.    190 seconds
Ans : D

29.    Three runners A, B and C run a race, with runner A finishing 12 meters ahead of runner B and 18 meters ahead of runner C, while runner B finishes 8 meters ahead of runner C. Each runner travels the entire distance at a constant speed.
What was the length of the race?
A.    36 meters
B.    48 meters
C.    60 meters
D.    72 meters
Ans : B

30.    P can give Q a start of 20 seconds in a kilometer race. P can give R a start of 200 meters in the same kilometer race. And Q can give R a start of 20 seconds in the same kilometer race. How long does P take to run the kilometer?
A.    200 seconds
B.    240 seconds
C.    160 seconds
D.    140 seconds
Ans : C

1.     A rectangle is 14 cm long and 10 cm wide. If the length is reduced by x cms and its width is increased also by x cms so as to make it a square then its area changes by :

A.     4

B.     144

C.    12

D.    2

E.     None of the above.

Ans : A

2.     A motorcycle stunts man belonging to a fair, rides over the vertical walls of a circular well at an average speed of 54 kph for 5 minutes. If the radius of the well is 5 meters then the distance traveled is:

A.     2.5 kms

B.     3.5 kms

C.    4.5 kms

D.    5.5 kms

E.     None of the above

Ans : C

3.     If 1 cm on a map corresponds to an actual distance of 40 kms. And the distance on the map between Bombay and Calcutta is 37.5 cms., the actual distance between them is :

A.     375 kms

B.     3750 kms

C.    1500 kms

D.    1375 kms

E.     None of the above

Ans : C

4.     A box contains 90 mts each of 100 gms and 100 bolts each of 150 gms. If the entire box weighs 35.5 kg., then the weight of the empty box is :

A.     10 kg

B.     10.5 kg

C.    11 kg

D.    11.5 kg

E.     None of the above

Ans : D

5.     If the radius of a circle is increased by 20% then the area is increased by :

A.     44%

B.     120%

C.    144%

D.    40%

E.     None of the above

Ans : A

6.     Tom, Dick and Harry went for lunch to a restaurant. Tom had $100 with him, Dick had $60 and Harry had $409. They got a bill for $104 and decided to give a tip of $16. They further decided to share the total expenses in the ratio of the amounts of money each carried. The amount of money which Tom paid more than what Harry paid is

A.     120

B.     200

C.    60

D.    24

E.     36

Ans : E

7.     A plot of land is in the shape of a trapezium whose dimensions are given in the figure below : 
 
Hence the perimeter of the field is

A.     50 m

B.     64 m

C.    72 m

D.    84 m

E.     None of the above

Ans : c

8.     Four concentric ( having the same center ) circles with radii, x, 2x, 3x and 4x are drawn to form two rings A and B as shown in the figure. 
 
Ratio of the area of inner ring A to the area of outer ring B is

A.     1 : 2

B.     1 : 4

C.    2 : 3

D.    3 : 7

E.     None of the above

Ans : D

9.     If 3/p = 6 and 3/q = 15 then p - q = ?

A.     1/3

B.     2/5

C.    3/10

D.    5/6

E.     None of the above

Ans : C

10.   A father is three times as old as his son. After fifteen years the father will be twice as old as his son's age at that time. Hence the father's present age is

A.     36

B.     42

C.    45

D.    48

E.     None of the above

Ans : C

11.   If the area of two circles are in the ratio 169 : 196 then the ratio of their radii is

A.     10 : 11

B.     11 : 12

C.    12 : 13

D.    13 : 14

E.     None of the above

Ans : D

12.   A semi-circle is surmounted on the side of a square. The ratio of the area of the semi-circle to the area of the square is 

A.     1 : 2

B.     2 : p

C.    p : 8

D.    8 : p

E.     None of the above

Ans : C

13.   Which of the following is the greatest ?

A.     40% of 30

B.     3/5 of 25

C.    6.5% of 200

D.    Five more than the square of 3

E.     1/2-4

Ans : E

14.   Two identical taps fill 2/5 of a tank in 20 minutes. When one of the taps goes dry in how many minutes will the remaining one tap fill the rest of the tank ?

A.     5 minutes

B.     10 minutes

C.    15 minutes

D.    20 minutes

E.     None of the above

Ans : C

15.   If the value of XYZ Company stock drops from $25 per share to $21 per share, what is the percent of the decrease?

A.     4

B.     8

C.    12

D.    16

E.     20

Ans : D

16.   If a building b feet high casts a shadow f feet long, then, at the same time of day, a tree t feet high will cast a shadow how many feet long?

A.     ft/b

B.     fb/t

C.    b/ft

D.    tb/f

E.     t/fb

Ans : A

17.   If x, y, and z are consecutive negative integers, and if x > y > z, which of the following must be a positive odd integer?

A.     xyz

B.     (x - y) (y - z)

C.    x - yz

D.    x(y + z)

E.     x + y + z

Ans : B

18.   At a certain ice cream parlor, customers can choose among five different ice cream flavors and can choose either a sugar cone or a waffle cone. Considering both ice cream flavor and cone type, how many distinct triple-scoop cones with three different ice cream flavorsare available?

A.     12

B.     16

C.    20

D.    24

E.     30

Ans : C

19.   What is the greatest value of a positive integer n such that 3n is a factor of 1815?

A.     15

B.     18

C.    30

D.    33

E.     45

Ans : C

21.   Five years ago, Beth's age was three times that of Amy. Ten years ago, Beth's age was one half that of Chelsea. If C repre- sents Chelsea's current age, which of the following represents Amy's current age?

A.     c/6 + 5

B.     2c

C.    (c-10)/3

D.    3c-5

E.     5c/3 - 10

Ans : A

22.   A portion of $7200 is invested at a 4% annual return, while the remainder is invested at a 5% annual return. If the annual income from both portions is the same, what is the total income from the two investments?

A.     $160

B.     $320

C.    $400

D.    $720

E.     $1,600

Ans : B

23.   An empty swimming pool can be filled to capacity through an inlet pipe in 3 hours, and it can be completely drained by a drainpipe in 6 hours. If both pipes are fully open at the same time, in how many hours will the empty pool be filled to capacity?

A.     4

B.     4.5

C.    5

D.    5.5

E.     6

Ans : E

24.   If r = (3p + q)/2 and s = p - q, for which of the following values of p would r2 = s2?

A.     1q/5

B.     10 - 3q/2

C.    q - 1

D.    3q

E.     9q/2 - 9

Ans : A

25.   At 10 a.m. two trains started traveling toward each other from stations 287 miles apart. They passed each other at 1:30 p.m. the same day. If the average speed of the faster train exceeded the average speed of the slower train by 6 miles per hour, which of the following represents the speed of the faster train, in miles per hour?

A.     38

B.     40

C.    44

D.    48

E.     50

Ans : C

26.   On the xy-coordinate plane, points A and B both lie on the circumference of a circle whose center is O, and the length of AB equals the circle's diameter. If the (x,y) coordinates of O are (2,1) and the (x,y) coordinates of B are (4,6), what are the (x,y) coordinates of A?

A.     (3, 3/2)

B.     (1, 2/2)

C.    (0, -4)

D.    (2/2, 1)

E.     (-1, -2/2)

Ans : C

27.   If a rectangle's length and width are both doubled, by what percent is the rectangle's area increased?

A.     50

B.     100

C.    200

D.    300

E.     400

Ans : D

28.   A rectangular tank 10" by 8" by 4" is filled with water. If all of the water is to be transferred to cube-shaped tanks, each one 3 inches on a side, how many of these smaller tanks are needed?

A.     9

B.     12

C.    16

D.    21

E.     39

Ans : B

29.   Point Q lies at the center of the square base (ABCD) of the pyramid pictured above. The pyramid's height (PQ) measures exactly one half the length of each edge of its base, and point E lies exactly halfway between C and D along one edge of the base. What is the ratio of thesurface area of any of the pyramid's four triangular faces to the surface area of the shaded triangle?

A.     3 :√2

B.     √5:1

C.    4√3:3

D.    2√2:1

E.     8:√5

Ans : D

31.   The average of 5 quantities is 6. The average of 3 of them is 8. What is the average of the remaining two numbers?

A.     6.5

B.     4

C.    3

D.    3.5

Ans : C

32.   The average temperature on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 250. The average temperature on Thursday, Friday and Saturday was 240. If the temperature on Saturday was 270, what was the temperature on Wednesday?

A.     240

B.     210

C.    270

D.    300

Ans : D

33.   The average age of a group of 12 students is 20years. If 4 more students join the group, the average age increases by 1 year. The average age of the new students is

A.     24

B.     26

C.    23

D.    22

Ans : A

34.   When a student weighing 45 kgs left a class, the average weight of the remaining 59 students increased by 200g. What is the average weight of the remaining 59 students?

A.     57 kgs

B.     56.8 kgs

C.    58.2 kgs

D.    52.2 kgs

Ans : A

35.   Three math classes: X, Y, and Z, take an algebra test. 
The average score in class X is 83. 
The average score in class Y is 76. 
The average score in class Z is 85. 
The average score of all students in classes X and Y together is 79. 
The average score of all students in classes Y and Z together is 81.

What is the average for all the three classes?

A.     81

B.     81.5

C.    82

D.    84.5

Ans : B

36.   The average weight of a class of 24 students is 36 years. When the weight of the teacher is also included, the average weight increases by 1kg. What is the weight of the teacher?

A.     60 kgs

B.     61 kgs

C.    37 kgs

D.    None of these

Ans : B

37.   The average of 5 quantities is 10 and the average of 3 of them is 9. What is the average of the remaining 2?

A.     11

B.     12

C.    11.5

D.    12.5

Ans : C

38.   The average age of a family of 5 members is 20 years. If the age of the youngest member be 10 years then what was the average age of the family at the time of the birth of the youngest member?

A.     13.5

B.     14

C.    15

D.    12.5

Ans : D

39.   A student finds the average of 10 positive integers. Each integer contains two digits. By mistake, the boy interchanges the digits of one number say ba for ab. Due to this, the average becomes 1.8 less than the previous one. What was the difference of the two digits a and b?

A.     8

B.     6

C.    2

D.    4

Ans : C

40.   Average cost of 5 apples and 4 mangoes is Rs. 36. The average cost of 7 apples and 8 mangoes is Rs. 48. Find the total cost of 24 apples and 24 mangoes.

A.     1044

B.     2088

C.    720

D.    324

Ans : B

41.   What will Rs.1500 amount to in three years if it is invested in 20% p.a. compound interest, interest being compounded annually?

A.     2400

B.     2592

C.    2678

D.    2540

Ans : B

42.   If a sum of money grows to 144/121 times when invested for two years in a scheme where interest is compounded annually, how long will the same sum of money take to treble if invested at the same rate of interest in a scheme where interest is computed using simple interest method?

A.     9 years

B.     22 years

C.    18 years

D.    33 years

Ans : B

43.   The population of a town was 3600 three years back. It is 4800 right now. What will be the population three years down the line, if the rate of growth of population has been constant over the years and has been compounding annually?

A.     6000

B.     6400

C.    7200

D.    9600

Ans : B

44.   A man invests Rs.5000 for 3 years at 5% p.a. compound interest reckoned yearly. Income tax at the rate of 20% on the interest earned is deducted at the end of each year. Find the amount at the end of the third year.

A.     5624.32

B.     5630.50

C.    5788.125

D.    5627.20

Ans : A

45.   The difference between the compound interest and the simple interest on a certain sum at 12% p.a. for two years is Rs.90. What will be the value of the amount at the end of 3 years?

A.     9000

B.     6250

C.    8530.80

D.    8780.80

Ans : D

46.   Vijay invested Rs.50,000 partly at 10% and partly at 15%. His total income after a year was Rs.7000. How much did he invest at the rate of 10%?

A.     Rs.40,000

B.     Rs.40,000

C.    Rs.12,000

D.    Rs.20,000

Ans : B

47.   A sum of money invested for a certain number of years at 8% p.a. simple interest grows to Rs.180. The same sum of money invested for the same number of years at 4% p.a. simple interest grows to Rs.120 only. For how many years was the sum invested?

A.     25 years

B.     40 years

C.    33 years and 4 months

D.    Cannot be determined

Ans : A

48.   How long will it take for a sum of money to grow from Rs.1250 to Rs.10,000, if it is invested at 12.5% p.a simple interest?

A.     8 years

B.     64 years

C.    72 years

D.    56 years

Ans : D

49.   Rs. 5887 is divided between Shyam and Ram, such that Shyam's share at the end of 9 years is equal to Ram's share at the end of 11 years, compounded annually at the rate of 5%. Find the share of Shyam.

A.     2088

B.     2000

C.    3087

D.    None of these

Ans : C

51.   Find the number of triangles in an octagon.

A.     326

B.     120

C.    56

D.    Cannot be determined

Ans : C

52.   Find the equation of a line whose intercepts are twice of the line 3x - 2y - 12 = 0

A.     3x - 2y = 24

B.     2x - 3y = 12

C.    2x - 3y = 24

D.    None of these

Ans : A

53.   Find the area of the sector covered by the hour hand after it has moved through 3 hours and the length of the hour hand is 7cm.

A.     77 sq.cm

B.     38.5 sq.cm

C.    35 sq.cm

D.    70 sq.cm

Ans : B

54.   Find the area of the triangle whose vertices are (-6, -2), (-4, -6), (-2, 5).

A.     36

B.     18

C.    15

D.    30

Ans : C

55.   A stairway 10ft high is such that each step accounts for half a foot upward and one-foot forward. What distance will an ant travel if it starts from ground level to reach the top of the stairway?

A.     30 ft

B.     33 ft

C.    10 ft

D.    29 ft

Ans : D

56.   Each interior angle of a regular polygon is 120 degrees greater than each exterior angle. How many sides are there in the polygon?

A.     6

B.     8

C.    12

D.    3

Ans : C

57.   What is the area of the largest triangle that can be fitted into a rectangle of length 'l' units and width 'w' units?

A.     lw/3

B.     (2lw)/3

C.    (3lw)/4

D.    (lw)/2

Ans : D

58.   Which of the following is inCorrect?

A.     An incentre is a point where the angle bisectors meet.

B.     The median of any side of a triangle bisects the side at right angle.

C.    The point at which the three altitudes of a triangle meet is the orthocentre

D.    The point at which the three perpendicular bisectors meet is the centre of the circumcircle.

Ans : B

59.   A and B are two points with the co-ordinates (-2, 0) and (0, 5). What is the length of the diagonal AC if AB form one of the sides of the square ABCD?

A.     units

B.     units

C.    units

D.    units

Ans : B

61.   If the sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon measures up to 1440 degrees, how many sides does the polygon have?

A.     10 sides

B.     8 sides

C.    12 sides

D.    9 sides

Ans : A

62.   If ABC is a right angle triangle with angle A = 900 and 2s = a + b + c, where a > b > c where notations have their usual meanings, then which one of the following is Correct?

A.     (s - b) (s - c) > s (s - a)

B.     (s - a) (s - c) > s (s - b)

C.    (s - a) (s - b) < s (s - c)

D.    4s (s - a) (s - b) (s - c) = bc

Ans : C

63.   What is the measure of in radius of the triangle whose sides are 24, 7 and 25?

A.     12.5

B.     3

C.    6

D.    None of these

Ans : B

64.   What is the circum radius of a triangle whose sides are 7, 24 and 25 respectively?

A.     18

B.     12.5

C.    12

D.    14

Ans : B

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IIFT 2008 - An Overview

The third test in the series – IIFT 2008 – did not throw any major surprise in terms of test structure or answer options. Conducted on 23rd November 2008, IIFT was a fairly easy paper with a mix of easy and moderately difficult questions. One had to spend time in reading each question because it was framed in a lengthy manner. There were no business judgement cases this year.

SECTION - 1: Logical & Analytical Ability Ideally one should have attempted 11-14 questions in Logical and Analytical Reasoning section with a possible accuracy of 8-10 questions. A possible score in this section would be 6+.

SECTION - 2: Quantitative Ability Ideally one should have attempted 8-10 questions with a possible accuracy of 6-8 questions. A possible score in this section would be 4+.

SECTION - 3: Data Interpretation Ideally one should have attempted 8-10 questions in Data Interpretation section with a possible accuracy of 7-9 questions. A possible score in this section would be 5+.

SECTION - 4: Reading Comprehension One could have attempted 6 to 7 questions in this section with a possible accuracy of 4 to 5 questions. A possible score in this section would be 3+.

SECTION - 5: Verbal Ability One could have attempted 15-17questions in Verbal Ability section with a possible accuracy of 11-12 questions. A possible score in this section would be 7+.

SECTION - 6: General Knowledge A good attempt in this section would be 15-18 questions in General Knowledge section with a possible accuracy of 10-12 questions. A possible score in this section would be 4+.

OVERALL, a good score could be 29+ marks.

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