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Directions for the following 4 (four) 2. Land productivity is adversely
items :
affected by the prevailing trend of
Read the following two passages and
answer the items that follow the passages. food loss and wastage.
Your answers to these items should be based 3. Reduction in the loss and wastage of
on the passages only. food results in lesser carbon
Passage - 1 footprint.

According to the Food and Agriculture 4. Post-harvest technologies to prevent

Organization, one-third of food produced for or reduce the loss and wastage of food
human consumption is lost or wasted are not available.
globally. Food is lost or wasted throughout Select the correct answer using the code
the supply chain, from initial agricultural given below.
production to final household consumption. (a) 1, 2 and 3
The increasing wastage also results in land (b) 2 and 3 only
degradation by about 45%, mainly due to
(c) 1, 3 and 4
deforestation, unsustainable agricultural
(d) 1, 2 and 4
practices, and excessive groundwater
extraction. The energy spent over wasted 2. Based on the above passage, the
food results in about 3.5 billion tonnes of following assumptions have been made
carbon dioxide production every year. Decay :
also leads to harmful emissions of other 1. The food distribution mechanism
gases in the atmosphere. Addressing the loss needs to be reimagined and made
and wastage of food in all forms is critical to effective to reduce the loss and
complete the cycle of food sufficiency and wastage of food.
food sustainability. 2. Ensuring the reduction of wastage
1. Which of the following statements best and loss of food is a social and moral
reflect the most logical and rational responsibility of an citizens.
inferences that can be made from the Which of the assumptions given above
passage ? is/are valid ?
1. The current methods of food (a) 1 only
distribution are solely responsible (b) 2 only
for the loss and wastage of food.
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

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 Passage - 2 4. Based on the above passage, the
As inflation rises, even governments following assumptions have been made :
previously committed to budget discipline 1. Fiscal policies of governments are
are spending freely to help households. solely responsible for higher prices.
Higher interest rates announced by central 2. Higher prices do not affect the long-
banks are to supposed to help produce term government bonds.
modest fiscal austerity, because to maintain Which of the assumptions given above
stable debts while paying more to borrow, is/are valid ?
governments must cut spending or raise
(a) 1 only
taxes. Without the fiscal backup, monetary
(b) 2 only
policy eventually loses traction. Higher
interest rates become inflationary, not (c) Both 1 and 2
disinflationary, because they simply lead (d)Neither 1 nor 2
governments to borrow more to pay rising 5. What is the least possible number of cuts
debt-service costs. The risk of monetary required to cut a cube into 64 identical
unmooring is greater when public debt pieces ?
rises, because interest rates become more
(a) 8 (b) 9
important to budget deficits.
(c) 12 (d) 16
3. Which of the following statements best
6. In the expression 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1, * is
reflects/reflect the most logical and
chosen from +, –, × each at most two
rational inference/inferences that can be
times. What is the smallest non-
made from the passage ?
negative value of the expression ?
1. Central banks cannot bring down
(a) 3 (b) 2
inflation without budgetary
backing. (c) 1 (d)0

2. The effects of monetary policy 7. A certain number of men can complete

depend on the fiscal policies pursued a piece of work in 6k days, where k is a
by the government. natural number. By what percent
Select the correct answer using the code should the number of men be increased
given below. so that the work can be completed in 5k
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only days ?

(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (a) 10% (b) (50/3)%
(c) 20% (d) 25%

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8. X, Y and Z can complete a piece of work (c) 9th January, 2023
individually in 6 hours, 8 hours and (d) Not possible
8 hours respectively. However, only one Directions for the following 4 (four)
person at a time can work in each hour items :
and nobody can work for two consecutive
Read the following two passages and
hours. All are engaged to finish the
answer the items that follow the passages.
work. What is the minimum amount of
Your answers to these items should be based
time that they will take to finish the
on the passages only.
work ?
(a) 6 hours 15 minutes Passage - 1

(b) 6 hours 30 minutes Today, if we consider cities such as New

York, London and Paris as some of the most
(c) 6 hours 45 minutes
iconic cities in the world, it is because plans
(d) 7 hours
carrying a heavy systems approach were
9. How many consecutive zeros are there imposed on their precincts. The backbone of
at the end of the integer obtained in the the systems theory is the process of
product translating social, spatial and cultural
12 × 24 × 36 × 48 × … × 2550 ? desirables into mathematical models using
(a) 50 computing, statistics, optimization and an
algorithmic way of formulating and solving
(b) 55
problems. The early universities of the West
(c) 100
which began to train professionals in
(d)200 planning, spawned some of the most
10. On January 1st, 2023, a person saved ingenious planners, who were experts in
Rs. 1. On January 2nd 2023, he saved these domains. This was because these very
Rs. 2 more than that on the previous subjects were absorbed into the planning
day. On January 3rd, 2023, he saved Rs curriculum that had its roots in the social
2 more than that on the previous day sciences, geography and architecture.
and so on. At the end of which date was Planning in India, and its education differ
his total savings a perfect square as well from the West.
a perfect cube ?
(a) 7th January, 2023
(b) 8th January, 2023

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11. Which one of the following statements Passage - 2
best reflects the most logical and Not every voice on the internet commands
rational inference that can be made the same kind of audience. When
from the above passage ? anonymous private entities with high
(a) Curriculum for urban planning capital can pay for more space for their
courses should have diverse opinions, they are effectively buying a
and interdisciplinary louder voice. If political discourse in the
approach. digital sphere is a matter of outshining one's
(b) In India, city administration is opponent till the election is Won, then the
under bureaucracy which lacks quality of politics suffers. The focus of social
formal training in urban planning media is restricted to the promotion of
and management. content that generates more user
(c) In India, the management of urban engagement, regardless of how
areas is a local affair with a chronic inflammatory the content may be.
problem of insufficient funds. 13. Which one of the following statements
(d) With high density of population and best reflects the central idea of the above
widespread poverty in our urban passage ?
areas, planned development in them (a) Constructed as a marketplace of
is very difficult. views, social media ensures instant
12. Based on the above passage, the access to information.
following assumptions have been made : (b) Social media are not ideal or
1. India needs a new generation of moral institutions but the
urban professionals with knowledge products built by companies to
relevant to modem urban practice. make profits.

2. Indian universities at present have (c) Social media have been created to
no capacity or potential to impart strengthen democracies.
training in systems approach. (d) In today's world, social media are
Which of the assumptions given above inevitable for well-informed social
is/are correct ? life.

(a) 1 only (b) 2 only

(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2

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14. Based on the above passage, the 18. 421 and 427, when divided by the same
following assumptions have been made : number, leave the same remainder 1.
1. Internet is not inclusive enough. How many numbers can be used as the
2. Internet can adversely affect the divisor in order to get the same
quality of politics in a country. remainder 1 ?

Which of the assumptions given above (a) 1 (b) 2

is/are valid ? (c) 3 (d) 4
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only 19. A can X contains 399 litres of petrol and
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 a can Y contains 532 litres of diesel.
They are to be bottled in bottles of equal
15. 222333 + 333222 is divisible by which of
size so that whole of petrol and diesel
the following numbers ?
would be separately bottled. the bottle
(a) 2 and 3 but not 37
capacity in terms of litres is an integer.
(b) 3 and 37 but not 2 How many different bottle sizes are
(c) 2 and 37 but not 3 possible ?
(d) 2, 3 and 37 (a) 3 (b) 4

16. What percent of water must be mixed (c) 5 (d) 6

with honey so as to gain 20% by selling 20. Consider the following statements in
the mixture at the cost price of honey ? respect of the sum S = x + y + z, where
(a) 20% x, y and z are distinct prime numbers
(b) 10% each less than 10 :
(c) 5% 1. The unit digit of S can be 0.
(d) 4% 2. The unit digit of S can be 9.
3. The unit digit of S can be 5.
17. What is the rightmost digit preceding
the zeros in the value of 3030 ? Which of the statements given above
are correct ?
(a) 1
(a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only
(b) 3
(c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 7
(d)9

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Directions for the following 3 (three) 21. Based on the above passage, the
items : following assumptions have been made :
Read the following two passages and 1. For effective school education,
answer the items that follow the passages. parents have greater role than the
Your answers to these items should be based governments.
on the passages only. 2. School curriculum that conforms to
Passage - 1 today's requirements and is uniform
for the entire country may address
By the time children reach class 8, the bulk
the issues brought out.
of them tend to be in the age range of 13
years to 15 years. But in our country, about Which of the assumptions given above
a quarter of all children in class 8 struggle is/are valid ?
with reading simple texts and more than (a) 1 only (b) 2 only
half are still unable to do basic arithmetic (c) Both 1 and 2 (d)Neither 1 nor 2
operations like division. Every year about
22. Which one of the following statements
25 million young boys and girls from
best reflects the central idea conveyed
elementary school move into the life that
by the passage ?
lies for them beyond compulsory schooling.
(a) Total eradication of poverty in the
They cannot enter the workforce at least in
country will resolve the issue of
the organized sector till they are 18. For
under-performance of our school-
many families, these children are the first
children.
from their families ever to get this far in
school. Parents and children expect that (b) Monetary incentives to parents and
such 'graduates' from school will go on to teachers is a strategy to improve the
high school and college. Hardly anyone children's academic performance.
wants to go back to agriculture. On the other (c) Public policy should ensure that
hand, abilities in terms of academic competencies and achievements
competencies are far lower than they should of young people are aligned with
be even based on curricular expectations of their expectations.
class 8. (d) India is not going to take advantage
of the demographic dividend unless
some school pass-outs go back to
agriculture.

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 Passage - 2 24. Consider the sequence:
We take it for granted now that science has A _ BCD _ BBCDABC _ DABC _ D
a social responsibility. The idea would not that follows a certain pattern. Which
have occurred to Newton or Galileo. They one of the following completes the
thought of science as an account of the world sequence ?
as it is, and the only responsibility that they (a) B, A, D, C (b) B, A, C, C
acknowledged was to tell the truth. The idea
(c) A, A, C, D (d) A, A, D, C
that science is a social enterprise is modern,
and it begins at the industrial revolution. 25. Two persons P and Q enter into a
We are surprised that we cannot trace a business. P puts Rs. 14,000 more than
social sense further back, because we nurse Q, but P has invested for 8 months and
the illusion that the industrial revolution Q has invested for 10 months. If P’s
ended a golden age. share is Rs. 400 more than Q’s share out
of the total profit of Rs. 2,000, what is
23. Which one of the following statements
the capital contributed by P ?
best reflects the thinking of the author
(a) Rs. 30,000 (b) Rs. 26,000
about the science ?
(c) Rs. 24,000 (d) Rs. 20,000
(a) Science must value the commitment
of the scientists. 26. P’s salary is 20% lower than Q’s salary
(b) Science is a product of civilized which is 20% lower than R’s salary. By
society and must be used for the how much percent is R’s salary more
promotion of scientific awareness in than P’s salary ?
people. (a) 48.75% (b) 56.25%
(c) Industrial revolution was made (c) 60.50% (d) 62.25%
possible by the advancements in
27. A number is mistakenly divided by 4
science.
instead of multiplying by 4. What is the
(d)Science must pursue truth but percentage change in the result due to
be responsible for social this mistake ?
welfare.
(a) 25% (b) 50%
(c) 72.75% (d)93.75%

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28. In an examination, 80% of students Directions for the following 4 (four)
items :
passed in English, 70% of students
Read the following two passages and
passed in Hindi and 15% failed in both answer the items that follow the passages.
the subjects. What is the percentage of Your answers to these items should be based
students who failed in only one subject ? on the passages only.

(a) 15% Passage - 1

“The history of science is the real history of
(b) 20%
mankind.” In this striking epigram, a
(c) 25% nineteenth-century writer links science with
its background. Like most epigrams, its
(d) 35%
power lies in emphasizing by contrast an
29. A father said to his son, “n years back I aspect of truth which may be easily
overlooked. In this case, it is easy to overlook
was as old as you are now. My present age the relations between science and mankind,
is four times your age n years back”. If and to treat the former as some abstract
the sum of the present ages of the father third party, which can sometimes be praised
for its beneficial influences, but frequently
and the son is 130 years, what is the
and conveniently blamed for the horrors of
difference of their ages ? war. Science and mankind cannot be
(a) 30 years divorced from time to time at men's
convenience. Yet we have seen that, in spite
(b) 32 years of countless opportunities of improvement,
(c) 34 years the opening years of the present period of
civilization have been dominated by
(d) 36 years international conflict. Is this the inevitable
result of the progress of science or does the
30. Consider the following :
fault lie elsewhere ?
1. 1000 litres = 1 m3
31. Which of the following is/are
2. 1 metric ton = 1000 kg emphatically conveyed by the author of
the passage ?
3. 1 hectare = 10000 m2
1. Without science, mankind could not
Which of the above are correct ? have continued to exist till today.
(a) 1 and 2 only 2. It is the science that will ultimately
determine the destiny of mankind.
(b) 2 and 3 only
Select the correct answer using the code
(c) 1 and 3 only given below.
(d)1, 2 and 3 (a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d)Neither 1 nor 2

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32. Based on the above passage, the 33. When we meet other people while we
following assumptions have been made : travel, we learn to differentiate between
1. The horrors of modem life are the (a) imagination and understanding
inevitable result of the progress of (b) communities and nationalities
science. (c) local values and universal
2. The aspect of truth likely to be values
overlooked is that science is what (d) friends and foes
man has made it.
34. With reference to the above passage,
Which of the assumptions given above
the following assumptions have been
is/ are correct ?
made :
(a) 1 only
1. Travel leads to an understanding of
(b) 2 only
humans.
(c) Both 1 and 2
2. Travel helps those who wish to learn
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 fundamental common values.

Passage - 2 3. A person with long experience in

travel can resolve differences
Only with long experience and opening of
amongst people.
his wares on many a beach where his
language is not spoken, will the merchant Which of the assumptions given above
come to know the worth of what he carries, are valid ?
and what is parochial and what is universal (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only
in his choice. Such delicate goods as justice, (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
love and honour, courtesy, and indeed all
35. Let X be a two-digit number and Y be
the things we care for, are valid everywhere
another two-digit number formed by
but they are variously moulded and often
interchanging the digits of X. If (X + Y)
differently handled, and sometimes nearly
is the greatest two-digit number, then
unrecognizable if you meet them in a
what is the number of possible values
foreign land, and the art of learning
of X ?
fundamental common values is perhaps the
greatest gain of travel to those who wish to (a) 2 (b) 4
live at ease among their fellows. (c) 6 (d)8

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36. Consider the following : Directions for the following 4 (four)
items :
Weight of 6 boys = Weight of 7 girls =
Read the following two passages and
Weight of 3 men = Weight of 4 women.
answer the items that follow the passages.
If the average weight of the women is 63 Your answers to these items should be based
kg, then what is the average weight of on the passages only.
the boys ?
Passage - 1
(a) 40 kg (b) 42 kg
Conventional classrooms, by emphasizing
(c) 45 kg (d) 63 kg fixed duration over learning effectiveness,
37. How many times the hour hand and the resign themselves to variable outcomes. The
minutes hand coincide in a clock tyranny of the classroom is that every
between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. (same learner is subjected to the same set of
day) ? lectures in the same way for the same
duration. In the end, a few learners shine,
(a) 3 times (b) 4 times some survive, and the rest are left behind.
(c) 5 times (d) 6 times After the fixed duration, the classroom
38. The calendar for the year 2025 is same model moves on, with not a thought spared
for those left behind. This is how we end up
for
with 10 percent employability in our
(a) 2029 (b) 2030 graduates after a decade and half of formal
(c) 2031 (d) 2033 education. Repeating the same ineffectual
script in the realm of skill education will not
39. Let p, q, r and s be distinct positive
produce different results.
integers. Let p, q be odd and r, s be even.
Consider the following statements : 41. Which of the following statements best
1. (p – r)2(qs) is even. reflects/reflect the most logical and
rational inference/inferences that can be
2. (q – s)q2s is even.
made from the passage ?
3. (q + r)2(p + s) is odd.
1. In conventional classroom learning,
Which of the statements given above the central goal is duration of
are correct ? learning rather than attainment of
(a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only competency.
(c) 1 and 3 only (d)1, 2 and 3 2. Conventional classrooms encourage
one-size-fits-all approach and stamp
40. What is the angle between the minute out all differentiation.
hand and hour hand when the clock
Select the correct answer using the code
shows 4:25 hours ?
given below.
(a) 12.5° (b) 15°
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) 17.5° (d) 20°
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2

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42. Based on the above passage, the 43. Based on the above passage, the
following assumptions have been made : following assumptions have been made :
1. As a large number of workers in our 1. The adolescent does not feel
country are employed in comfortable with his parents because
unorganized sector, India does not they tend to be dominating and
need to change its present assertive.
conventional classroom system of 2. The adolescent of modern times does
education. not have much respect for parents.
2. Even with its present conventional Which of the assumptions given above
classroom system of education, India is/are valid ?
produces sufficient number of skilled (a) 1 only (b) 2 only
workers to fully realize the benefits (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
of demographic dividend.
44. Which one of the following statements
Which of the assumptions given above
best reflects the central idea of the above
is/are valid ?
passage ?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only (a) Parents in general may not be
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 of much help when children are
on their way to becoming
Passage - 2
adults.
When a child reaches adolescence, there is
(b) When children reach adolescence,
apt to be a conflict between the parents and
involvement of parents in their lives
the child, since the latter considers himself
is unnecessary.
to be by now quite capable of managing his
(c) Modern-day nuclear families are not
own affairs, while the former are filled with
capable of bringing up children
parental solicitude, which is often a disguise
properly.
for love of power. Parents consider, usually,
(d) In modern societies, adolescents
that the various moral problems which arise
tend to be stubborn, disobedient and
in adolescence are peculiarly their province.
careless.
The options they express, however, are so
dogmatic that the young seldom confide in 45. What is the number of fives used in
them, and usually go their own way in numbering a 260-page book ?
secret. (a) 55 (b) 56
(c) 57 (d) 60

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46. What is the sum of the first 28 terms in 50. The total cost of 4 oranges, 6 mangoes
the following sequence ? and 8 apples is equal to twice the total
1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 2, … cost of 1 orange, 2 mangoes and 5
apples.
(a) 83 (b) 84
Consider the following statements :
(c) 85 (d) 86
1. The total cost of 3 oranges, 5
47. A person buys three articles P, Q and R mangoes and 9 apples is equal to the
for Rs. 3,330. If P costs 25% more than total cost of 4 oranges, 6 mangoes
R and R costs 20% more than Q, then and 8 apples.
what is the cost of P ?
2. The total cost of one orange and one
(a) Rs. 1,000 mango is equal to the cost of one
(b) Rs. 1,200 apple.
(c) Rs. 1,250 Which of the statements given above is/
(d)Rs. 1,350 are correct ?

48. If the sum of the two-digit numbers AB (a) 1 only (b) 2 only
and CD is the three-digit number 1CE, (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
where the letters A, B, C, D, E denote
Directions for the following 3 (three)
distinct digits, then what is the value of
items :
A?
Read the following three passages and
(a) 9
answer the items that follow the passages.
(b) 8
Your answers to these items should be based
(c) 7 on the passages only.
(d) Cannot be determined due to
Passage - 1
insufficient data
When an international team of scientists
49. Three numbers x, y, z are selected from pumped a carbon dioxide and water mix into
the set of the first seven natural underground basalt rocks, basic chemistry
numbers such that x > 2y > 3z. How took over. The acidic mixture dissolved
many such distinct triplets (x, y, z) are rocks’ calcium and magnesium and formed
possible ? limestone. Basically, carbon dioxide is
(a) One triplet (b) Two triplets converted into stone, exclaimed the
(c) Three triplets (d)Four triplets scientists.

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51. Which one of the following statements Which of the assumptions given above
best reflects the most logical, rational is/are valid ?
and practical suggestion implied by the (a) 1 only (b) 2 only
passage ? (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
(a) It is a cheap and practical method
to produce limestone at commercial Passage - 3
level for building purposes. Evolution has endowed caterpillars that feed
(b) This can be used as one of the on corn with a unique ability, they can
methods of carbon induce the plant to turn off its defence
sequestration. against insect predators. This helps
caterpillars to eat more and grow faster. The
(c) Basalt rock can be made a good
agent that causes this effect is the
source of calcium and magnesium
caterpillar's faeces or frass. The find could
minerals by this method.
throw new light on compounds associated
(d) Good rock-dissolving acid can be
with plant response to pathogens like fungi
produced by mixing carbon dioxide
or bacteria.
and water.
53. Which one of the following statements
Passage - 2
best reflects the most logical, rational
Geographers analyzed 175 satellite images of and practical message conveyed by the
ocean colour, which is an indicator of passage ?
phytoplankton productivity at the ocean’s
(a) Farmers can use caterpillars to feed
surface, and found that giant icebergs are
on weeds in their crop fields/
responsible for storing up to 20 percent of
plantations.
carbon in the Southern Ocean. The researchers
(b) This finding can help in the
discovered that melting water from giant
development of clinically useful
icebergs which contains iron and other
antimicrobial compounds.
nutrients, supports hitherto unexpectedly high
levels of phytoplankton growth. (c) This finding can help in the
development of organic,
52. Based on the above passage, the ecologically sustainable
following assumptions have been made : pesticides.
1. Giant icebergs have a bearing on (d) Caterpillars can be genetically
primary productivity and food modified to be predators of the other
chains of the Southern Ocean.
plant pests.
2. Melting of giant icebergs can
produce climate change effects and
impact world fisheries.

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54. 325 + 227 is divisible by Conclusion-2:
(a) 3 (b) 7 India does not import milk.
(c) 10 (d) 11 Which one of the following is correct ?
(a) Only conclusion-1 follows.
55. Let p and q be positive integers satisfying
(b) Only conclusion-2 follows.
p < q and p + q = k. What is the smallest
value of k that does not determine p and (c) Both conclusion-1 and conclusion-2
q uniquely ? follow.
(d)Neither conclusion-1 nor
(a) 3 (b) 4
conclusion-2 follows.
(c) 5 (d) 6
59. A Question is given followed by two
56. A person walks 100 m straight from his Statements 1 and 2. Consider the
house, turn left and walks 100 m, again Question and the Statements.
turns left and walks 300 m, then turns Question:
right and walks 100 m to reach his office.
What are the values of m and n, where
In which direction does he walk initially
m and n are natural numbers ?
from his house if his office is exactly in
Statement-1:
the North-East direction ?
m + n > mn and m > n.
(a) North-West (b) West
Statement-2:
(c) South (d) South-West
The product of m and n is 24.
57. A person walks 100 m Westward, then Which one of the following is correct in
turns left and walks 100 m. He then respect of the above Question and the
takes 225° turn clockwise. In which Statements ?
direction is he walking now ? (a) The Question can be answered by
(a) South-West (b) South-East using one of the Statements alone,
(c) North-West (d)North-East but cannot be answered using the
other Statement alone.
58. A Statement is given followed by two (b) The Question can be answered by
Conclusions number 1 and 2. Consider using either Statement alone.
the Statement and the Conclusions. (c) The Question can be answered
Statement: by using both the Statements
India is the world’s largest producer of together, but cannot be
milk. answered using either
Statement alone.
Conclusion-1:
(d) The Question cannot be answered
India is the world’s largest exporter of
even by using both the Statements
milk.
together.

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60. A Question is given followed by two Directions for the following 3 (three)
Statements 1 and 2. Consider the items :
Question and the Statements. Read the following three passages and
Question: answer the items that follow the passages.
What is the time required to download Your answers to these items should be based
the software ? on the passages only.

Statement-1: Passage - 1
The size of the software is 12 megabytes. In a robust democracy, reality, howsoever
Statement-2: inconvenient it may be, finds its expression
both in the speech of political leaders and
The transfer rate is 2.4 kilobytes per
the other social forms of assertion. The
second.
existence of the real has to be transparent,
Which one of the following is correct in both through its circulation in and by the
respect of the above Question and the media as well as its argumentative
Statements ? articulation in deliberative democracy. A
(a) The Question can be answered by normatively responsible media through its
using one of the Statements alone, communication effect has the responsibility
but cannot be answered using the to circulate the content of reality without
other Statement alone. distortion.
(b) The Question can be answered by 61. Which one of the following statements
using either Statement alone. best reflects the crux of the above
(c) The Question can be answered passage ?
by using both the Statements (a) Responsible media should not
together, but cannot be distort the real in an ideal
answered using either democracy.
Statement alone. (b) Fake news seems inherent in the life
(d) The Question cannot be answered of an ideal democracy.
even by using both the Statements (c) There should not be any kind of
together. restrictions on the freedom of
expression in an ideal democracy.
(d) Irresponsible media and political
leaders cannot be effectively
controlled in an ideal democracy.

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 Passage - 2 Passage - 3
Now-a-days there is a growing trend to use Green growth involves rethinking growth
interconnected home devices. As consumers strategies with regard to the impacts on
increasingly network their homes, the environmental sustainability and the
connected home device manufacturers and environmental resources available to poor
service providers will seek to overcome “thin and vulnerable groups. In rethinking
growth, we need to focus on the current
profit margins by gathering more of our
reality of a resource-constrained world.
personal data—with or without our
Resource intensive and, in particular energy
agreement—turning the home into a
intensive processes will need to make way
corporate storefront”. Corporate marketers for more efficient and resource frugal
will have powerful incentives to observe development strategies if we are to avoid an
consumer behaviour to understand the economic dead end or a world in which only
buying needs and preferences of the device a small elite is able to enjoy affluence in the
owners. midst of a sea of poverty.

62. Which one of the following statements 63. Which one of the following statements
best reflects the most logical, rational best reflects the crux of the above
and practical message implied by the passage ?
passage ? (a) Environmental sustainability is
inimical to our objective of achieving
(a) Knowledge of consumer behaviour
a high rate of GDP growth.
leads to more capital expenditure in
(b) Poverty eradication is not possible
manufacturing sector.
without a rapid economic growth
(b) Knowledge of consumer behaviour and the consequent environmental
stimulates the growth of commerce degradation.
and trade and thus helps in the (c) Maintaining high
overall economic development of the environmental standards is
country. now a prerequisite for
(c) Interconnected devices give a lot of achieving a steady, sufficient
comfort to home users and improve and inclusive growth.
the overall quality of life. (d) With large populations, rampant
poverty and limited resources of
(d)Interconnected devices can be
today’s world, environmental
at security risk and home users
degradation cannot be prevented
may have privacy risk. and inequalities are inevitable.

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64. A Question is given followed by two Statement-2:
Statements 1 and 2. Consider the Y received 2/7 of what X and Z together
Question and the Statements. received.
Question: Which one of the following is correct in
What are the unique values of x and y, respect of the above Question and the
where x, y are distinct natural numbers ? Statements ?
Statement-1: x/y is odd. (a) The Question can be answered by
Statement-2: xy = 12. using one of the Statements alone,
but cannot be answered using the
Which one of the following is correct in
other Statement alone.
respect of the above Question and the
Statements ? (b) The Question can be answered by
using either Statement alone.
(a) The Question can be answered by
using one of the Statements alone, (c) The Question can be answered
but cannot be answered using the by using both the Statements
other Statement alone. together, but cannot be
answered using either
(b) The Question can be answered by
Statement alone.
using either Statement alone.
(d) The Question cannot be answered
(c) The Question can be answered
even by using both the Statements
by using both the Statements
together.
together, but cannot be
answered using either 66. A Question is given followed by two
Statement alone. Statements 1 and 2. Consider the
(d) The Question cannot be answered Question and the Statements.
even by using both the Statements Question:
together. If the average marks in a class are 60,
65. A Question is given followed by two then what is the number of students in
Statements 1 and 2. Consider the the class ?
Question and the Statements. Statement-1:
A certain amount was distributed The highest marks in the class are 70
among X, Y and Z. and the lowest marks are 50.
Question: Statement-2:
Who received the least amount ? Exclusion of highest and lowest marks
Statement-1: from the class does not change the
average.
X received 4/5 of what Y and Z together
received.

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 Which one of the following is correct in (b) The Question can be answered by
respect of the above Question and the using either Statement alone.
Statements ? (c) The Question can be answered by
(a) The Question can be answered by using both the Statements together,
using one of the Statements alone, but cannot be answered using either
but cannot be answered using the Statement alone.
other Statement alone. (d) The Question cannot be answered
(b) The Question can be answered by even by using both the Statements
using either Statement alone. together.
(c) The Question can be answered by 68. A Question is given followed by two
using both the Statements together, Statements 1 and 2. Consider the
but cannot be answered using either Question and the Statements.
Statement alone.
Question:
(d)The Question cannot be
Is (x + y) an integer ?
answered even by using both
the Statements together. Statement-1:
(2x + y) is an integer.
67. A Question is given followed by two
Statement-2:
Statements 1 and 2. Consider the
Question and the Statements. (x + 2y) is an integer.
There are three distinct prime numbers Which one of the following is correct in
whose sum is a prime number. respect of the above Question and the
Statements ?
Question:
(a) The Question can be answered by
What are those three numbers ?
using one of the Statements alone,
Statement-1: but cannot be answered using the
Their sum is less than 23. other Statement alone.
Statement-2: (b) The Question can be answered by
One of the numbers is 5. using either Statement alone.
Which one of the following is correct in (c) The Question can be answered by
respect of the above Question and the using both the Statements together,
Statements ? but cannot be answered using either
(a) The Question can be answered Statement alone.
by using one of the Statements (d)The Question cannot be
alone, but cannot be answered answered even by using both
using the other Statement the Statements together.
alone.

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69. A Question is given followed by two 70. A Question is given followed by two
Statements 1 and 2. Consider the Statements 1 and 2. Consider the
Question and the Statements. Question and the Statements.
A person buys three articles p, q and r P, Q, R and S appeared in a test.
for Rs. 50. The price of the article q is Question:
Rs. 16 which is the least. Has P scored more marks than Q ?
Question: Statement-1:
What is the price of the article p ? The sum of the marks scored by P and
Statement-1: Q is equal to the sum of the marks scored
The cost of p is not more than that of r. by R and S.
Statement-2: Statement-2:
The cost of r is not more than that of p. The sum of the marks scored by P and
Which one of the following is correct in S is more than the sum of the marks
respect of the above Question and the scored by Q and R.
Statements ? Which one of the following is correct in
(a) The Question can be answered by respect of the above Question and the
using one of the Statements alone, Statements ?
but cannot be answered using the (a) The Question can be answered by
other Statement alone. using one of the Statements alone,
(b) The Question can be answered by but cannot be answered using the
using either Statement alone. other Statement alone.
(c) The Question can be answered (b) The Question can be answered by
by using both the Statements using either Statement alone.
together, but cannot be (c) The Question can be answered by
answered using either using both the Statements together,
Statement alone. but cannot be answered using either
(d) The Question cannot be answered Statement alone.
even by using both the Statements (d)The Question cannot be
together. answered even by using both
the Statements together.

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Directions for the following 2 (two) (c) Poetry is romantic, imaginary and
items : is about feeling whereas science and
Read the following two passages and religion are about truth.
answer the items that follow the passages. (d)In a world of violence, tyranny
Your answers to these items should be based and bigotry, poetry is a form of
on the passages only. dynamic resistance.
Passage - 1
Passage - 2
Unlike religion and science, poetry does not
The flower was not invented to please us. It
posit or expect any belief in absolute truths.
flaunted its petals and spread its perfume
Those forces or individuals who claim to
to attract an insect. The insect carries the
have absolute truths in their grasp tend to
pollen from flower to flower so that pollen is
turn dictatorial and tyrannical. Truth
not carried away by wind and thus not
usually does not admit any contradictions
wasted. What we call a flower's beauty is
or imperfections. It is unitarian. It is,
merely a by-product and a human invention.
therefore, not of much use for poetry. Poetry
The perfume is not there to please us, it
abides by the plurality of life and existence.
pleases us because it is there and we have
Perhaps poetry follows reality which is
been conditioned to it.
plural, anachronistic, full of contradictions.
Against the tyranny of truth, poetry 72. Based on the above passage, the
remains a partisan of democratic reality. following assumptions have been made :
Against the arrogance of power, wealth and 1. The author of the passage believes
hierarchy, poetry proposes both humility that flowers are creations of Nature’s
and defiance. luxury.

71. Which one of the following statements 2. The author of the passage does not
best reflects the most logical and believe in the usefulness of flowers
rational message conveyed by the above except as things of beauty.
passage ? Which of the assumptions given above
(a) It is the poetry, not science or is/are valid ?
religion, which recognizes and (a) 1 only
accepts imperfections in humans. (b) 2 only
(b) Truth is revealed through science or (c) Both 1 and 2
religion and poetry is anathema to (d)Neither 1 nor 2
truth.

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73. A Question is given followed by two 74. A Main Statement is followed by four
Statements 1 and 2. Consider the Statements labelled P, Q, R and S.
Question and the Statements. Choose the ordered pair of the
Age of each of P and Q is less than 100 Statements where the first Statement
years but more than 10 years. If you implies the second, and the two
interchange the digits of the age of P, Statements are logically consistent with
the number represents the age of Q. the Main Statement.
Question: Main Statement :
What is the difference of their ages ? Pradeep becomes either a Director or a
Statement-1: Producer.

The age of P is greater than the age of Statement P: Pradeep is a Director.

Q. Statement Q: Pradeep is a Producer.
Statement-2: Statement R: Pradeep is not a Director.
The sum of their ages is 11/6 times their Statement S: Pradeep is not a Producer.
difference. Select the correct answer.
Which one of the following is correct in (a) SP only
respect of the above Question and the (b) RQ only
Statements ? (c) Both SP and RQ
(a) The Question can be answered (d) Neither SP nor RQ
by using one of the Statements
alone, but cannot be answered 75. If a + b means a – b; a – b means a × b;
using the other Statement a × b means a y b; a y b means a + b;
alone. then what is the value of 10 + 30 – 100 ×
50 y 25 ? (Operations are to be replaced
(b) The Question can be answered by
simultaneously)
using either Statement alone.
(a) 15
(c) The Question can be answered by
using both the Statements together, (b) 0
but cannot be answered using either (c) –15
Statement alone. (d)–25
(d) The Question cannot be answered
even by using both the Statements
together.

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76. If P means ‘greater than (>)’; Q means 79. What will come in place of * in the
‘less than (<)’; R means ‘not greater than sequence 3, 14, 39, 84, *, 258 ?
( )’; S means ‘not less than ( )’ and T (a) 150
means ‘equal to (=)’, then consider the (b) 155
following statements :
(c) 160
1. If 2x(S)3y and 3x(T)4z, then 9y(P)8z.
(d) 176
2. If x(Q)2y and y(R)z, then x(R)z.
80. In some code, letters P, Q, R, S, T
Which of the statements given above is/
represent numbers 4, 5, 10, 12, 15. It is
are correct ?
not known which letter represents which
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
number. If
(c) Both 1 and 2 Q – S = 2S and T = R + S + 3, then what
(d)Neither 1 nor 2 is the value of P + R – T ?
77. If in a certain code, ‘ABCD’ is written (a) 1
as 24 and ‘EFGH’ is written as 1680, (b) 2
then how is ‘IJKL’ written in that code ? (c) 3
(a) 11880 (b) 11240 (d) Cannot be determined due to
(c) 7920 (d) 5940 insufficient data

78. If in a certain code, ‘POT’ is written as

ATOP and ‘TRAP’ is written as APART,
then how is ‘ARENA’ written in that
code ?
(a) AARENA (b) AANREA
(c) AANEAR (d)AANERA

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