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GENERAL AWARENESS 1. The Name of Abdul Karim Telgi is associated with: (1) Oil for Food scam (2) Stamp Paper scam (3) Fodder scam (4) MP LAD’s Fund scam (5) Shares scam 2. Match the following books with their authors: (A) In Line of Fire (i) Pervez Musharraf (B) My Name is Red (ii) Orhan Pamuk (C) Call of Honour (iii) Sagarika Ghose (D) Blind Faith (iv) Jaswant Singh A B C D (1) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv) (2) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii) (3) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii) (4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) (5) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii) 3. Consider the following statements about Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission: (i) The budget for the scheme is approximately Rs 1000 crore. (ii) It will cover 100 cities having population over one million. (iii) It is aimed at infrastructure and the poor. Which of the above is NOT true? (1) (iii) only (2) (i) and (ii) only (3) (i) and (iii) only (4) All (i), (ii) and (iii) (5) None of the above 4. The Tarapore Committee Report is concerned with which of the following: (1) SEZs (2) SBI (3) RBI (4) Exim policy (5) Capital A/c convertibility 5. Out of the following options regarding the Railway Budget announcements, 2006, which of these is not true? (1) Major railway stations will have ATMs and cybercafes (2) Central budgetary of nearly Rs 7500 crores (3) AC fares brought down (4) The railways generated resources worth Rs 13,000 crores internally (5) Railway safety fund was Rs 100 crores 6. Afghan President Hamid Karzai was recently awarded: (1) Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, 2005 (2) Gandhi Peace Prize, 2005 (3) Right Livelihood Award, 2006 (4) Nobel Prize for Peace, 2006 (5) Mother Teresa International Award, 2006 7. Which of the following has completed 50 years in 2006?
(1) HDFC (2) RBI (3) LIC (4) BARC (5) SBI 8. Which of these matchings of recently appointed persons is not correct? (1) A.K. Antony—Foreign Minister (2) M.M. Singh—Chairman of Planning Commission (3) Sureesh Mehta—Chief of Naval Staff (4) M. Nair—Chief of ISRO (5) N. Gopalaswami—Chief Election Commissioner 9. What is the ‘Book of Life’ related to? (1) Book which received Booker prize, 2006 (2) A new book on zoology (3) A comprehensive dictionary on various life-forms on earth. (4) The Human Genome Project (5) Peace efforts in various nations 10. Who was recently invited by the U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to deliver a lecture on poverty alleviation? (1) Anil Ambani (2) Lalu Prasad Yadav (3) Swami Ramdev (4) Atal Behari Vajpayee (5) Pandit Ravi Shankar 11. Given below is the list of Forbes’ powerful women and their fields/posts.: (A) ICICI Bank (i) Sonia Gandhi (B) Pepsico (ii) Lalita Gupte (C) German Chancellor (iii) Indra Nooyi (D) Congress Chief (iv) Angela Merkel Which of these matchings is correct: A B C D 1. (iii) (ii) (iv) (i) 2. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) 3. (ii) (iii) (iv) (i) 4. (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) 5. (i) (iii) (iv) (ii) 12. Considering the Tarapore Atomic Power Plant-3, which of these facts is TRUE? 1. It has 540 MW capacity 2. It is India’s 3rd such plant 3. India’s nuclear energy capacity now goes upto 3890 MW 4. It is situated in Maharashtra (1) All the above are true (2) 1, 2 only are true (3) 1, 2, 3 are true (4) 1, 3, 4 are true (5) Only 3, 4 are true 13. On the basic needs of LPG and kerosene, approximately how much a cylinder and a litre, did the government subsidize in early 2006? (1) Rs 220 and Rs 12 (2) Rs 250 and Rs 20
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT (3) Rs 300 and Rs 30 (4) Rs 180 and Rs 10 (5) None of the above 14. The per capita income in India is estimated by: (1) Census Commission (2) Central Bank (3) RBI (4) t Parliamentary Committee (5) Central Statistical Organisation 15. The Health Ministry has planned to set standards of aerated water, following the controversy between the soft-drink giants and the NGO, Centre for Science and Environment. What is the tentative period assigned for this? (1) by December 2006 (2) by January 2007 (3) by August 2007 (4) by March 2007 (5) by December 2007 16. Roughly how many years has the economic liberalisation programme completed in India? (1) 5 (2) 10 (3) 15 (4) 20 (5) 50 17. Which of the following is correctly matched? 1. Asit Biswas—Stockholm Water Prize 2. Chandrakanta—Vyas Samman 3. Devi Cherian—Rajiv Gandhi Rashtriya Ekta Samman (1) 1 and 2 (2) 2 and 3 (3) Only 1 (4) Only 2 (5) 1, 2 and 3 18. Consider the following statements regarding India and tell which one is not correct: (1) 2005 experienced a fall in total unemployment (2) High Security Animal Disease Lab declared India free of bird flu (3) ULFA chairman Arbinda announced a peace truce with the army (4) The RBI praised SEZs for creating regional balance in the future (5) None of these 19. Regarding the online population of India (accessing the internet), as in mid-2006, which of the following statements is true? (1) There were approximately 18 million s (2) The percentage increase over previous year was 20% (3) India has the 2nd largest online population (4) The population was measured for people aged 18 years or more (5) None of these 20. NA III can be designated as: (1) National AIDS Control Programme (2) National Adult Consultancy Programme (3) National Air Craft Programme (4) New Age Child Programme (5) None of these 21. Match the following: State Rank according to no. of patent applications (A) Delhi (i) 4 (B) Andhra Pradesh (ii) 2 (C) Tamil Nadu (iii) 1 (D) Maharashtra (iv) 3 A B C D (1) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii) (2) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (3) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) (4) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv) (5) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
22. IAF’s recent combat exercise on the Western front was: (1) Garuda (2) Gagan Shakti (3) Vayudoot (4) Sangha Shakti (5) Varuna 23. Consider the following happenings/programmes: I. D. Raju has been appointed for micro-division of reservation. II. India will host International AIDS Conference, 2012. III. Supreme Court upheld that State domicile was needed for contesting election to Rajya Sabha, from a State. Which of the above statements is/are true? (1) Only I (2) Only I and II (3) Only II and III (4) Only III (5) All of the above 24. Recently honoured an Indian with the officer de la legion d’ honneur. The honour was bestowed on: (1) Mukesh Ambani (2) Amitabh Bachchan (3) Sonia Gandhi (4) M.M. Singh (5) Aamir Khan 25. Match the sports events/: (A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy (i) Pankaj Advani (B) Bton (ii) Aparna Popat (C) Shooting (iii) R.S. Rathore (D) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (iv) Panjab University A B C D (1) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (2) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) (3) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i) (4) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) (5) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii) 26. ‘Kadima’ political party is associated with which country? (1) Turkey (2) Kazakhstan (3) S. Arabia (4) Israel (5) Pakistan 27. Arrange the following States in the descending order of the number of child labour—Bihar, M.P., Rajasthan, U.P. (1) Bihar, U.P., M.P., Rajasthan (2) U.P., Bihar, M.P., Rajasthan (3) M.P. Rajasthan, U.P., Bihar (4) U.P., Rajasthan, Bihar, M.P. (5) None of the above 28. ‘Dronacharya’ award is associated with: (1) Teaching (2) Peace (3) Science (4) Armed Forces (5) Sports Coaches 29. Ban Ki-moon, elected as next Secretary-General of the UN, belongs to: (1) Philippines (2) Japan (3) China (4) South Korea (5) Thailand 30. Approximately what was the amount sent by NRIs to their fellowmen in India (in US $) in the year 2004? (1) 10 B (2) 12 B (3) 16 B (4) 18 B (5) 22 B 31. The venue of the World Economic Forum Meet, 2006 was: (1) Davos (2) Manila (3) Beijing (4) New Delhi (5) New York 32. With regard to 2006 Foreign Trade, which one of these is not true? (1) total merchandise export in 2005-06 was nearly $ 100 B (2) the government announced initiatives to promote exports of
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT handicrafts (3) there was realisation of potential in sports good and toys (4) the growth in merchandise exports was almost 25% (5) there was decrease in trade deficit 33. The Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in February 2006 guarantees a minimum how many days of employment in an year? (1) 122 (2) 120 (3) 183 (4) 100 (5) 150 34. The 104th Constitutional Amendment Bill, deals with: (1) Panchayati Raj System (2) Reservation to SCs, STs and OBCs in educational institutes (3) Sixth Pay Commission (4) Better Schemes for the Girl Child (5) Rural Employment Guarantee 35. ‘Kalpana-I’ is actually: (1) INSAT-2B (2) METSAT (3) PSLV (4) EDUSAT (5) None of these 36. Approximately what per cent of the Indian population lives on $ 1 or even less a day? (1) 25 (2) 30 (3) 35 (4) 27 (5) 22 37. The author of ‘Snow’ is: (1) Javed Akhtar (2) Enid Blyton (3) Orhan Pamuk (4) Jennifer Lopez (5) Aishwarya Rai 38. The 10th five-year plan aims at an annual GDP growth rate of: (1) 6% (2) 7% (3) 8% (4) 9% (5) 10% 39. The largest electronic company in India is: (1) Videocon (2) Philips (3) National (4) TCL (5) BPL 40. The Grameen Bank and Microcredit are associated with: (1) Manmohan Singh (2) Mulayam Singh Yadav (3) Bill Gates (4) Aung San Su Ki (5) Muhammad Yunus 41. In the year 2005, the per cent increase in Foreign Direct Investment in India was: (1) 20 (2) 25 (3) 15 (4) 10 (5) 30 42. Which one is India’s Ist LPG powered car? (1) Tatan Indigo (2) Tata Indica (3) Maruti 800 (4) Maruti Alto (5) Maruti WagonR Duo 43. What is the new monthly salary of an MP? (1) Rs 16,000 (2) Rs 14,000 (3) Rs 12,000 (4) Rs 15,000 (5) Rs 13,000 44. Which State is planning to have a port in another State? (1) Jharkhand (2) Andhra Pradesh (3) Uttaranchal (4) Bihar (5) Rajasthan
45. Who is the highest paid Indian brand ambassador? (1) Saurav Ganguli (2) Sachin Tendulkar (3) Mahendra Singh Dhoni (4) Yuvraj Singh (5) Kapil Dev 46. The J.L. Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research was recently in the news because of: (1) success in DNA coding (2) Ist nano-technology lab in India (3) ultra modern scientific courses in India (4) international meeting of scientists (5) None of these 47. Karvar, Sasan, Akaltara, Mudra and Ratnagiri are the sites proposed for: (1) archaeological survey (2) special economic zones (3) ultra-mega power plants (4) test sites for Indian missiles (5) hydroelectric power projects 48. The purpose of deg MSCI indices is: (1) to eliminate poverty from all the nations (2) to encourage international trade (3) to assist UNO in economic projects (4) to study national incomes of various countries (5) to measure stock market performances worldwide 49. New names were proposed for a few cities in South India. which of these is not correctly matched? 1. Bangalooru—Bangalore, 2. Mysooru—Mysore, 3. Pondichooru—Pondicherry (1) Only 1 (2) 3 only (3) 2 only (4) 1 and 2 (5) None of these 50. India’s new Chief of Naval Staff is: (1) Sureesh Mehta (2) Piyush Pandey (3) N. Gopalaswamy (4) Pranab Mukherjee (5) Pratyush Sinha
ENGLISH Directions (Qs. 51-65): Read the following age and answer the questions below it. A few words are given in the bold form to help easy location while answering some questions. To some extent, it is the nature of the intellect to narrow our vision and give it focus. Tragedy comes in when we forget this limitation and think the intellect can comprehend things as a whole. The intellect views the world through a slit. When a cat walks by, it observes the eye, then fur, and then the tail, and then it infers that the eye is the cause of the tail, unless of course, the cat was walking backward. If this sounds absurd, some of the theories about biochemistry and behaviour use very similar reasoning. Nachiketa would object, “Man, why don’t you open the door? That’s just your black cat Frodo, pacing back and forth.” But instead we usually get caught up in clarifying slit-information, even though without a larger view our conclusions may be entirely wrong. To make matters worse, we specialize. I am not against specialization per se but what often happens is that we do not even look through whole slit; we subdivide. My field is the upper part of the tail; yours is the lower. I might even forget about the eye and the fur. My main concern will be my debate with a colleague in Tokyo over whether hair on the tail grows up or down. If anybody asks how the eye fits in, I refer him to another researcher. After all, what have eyes got to do with geotropic hair growth?
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Debates like this cannot be resolved on the slit level. What is required is to open the door; then argument becomes unnecessary. Once the door is opened, even a little, we will not quarrel over whose slit is correct or whether we should confine ourselves to the top of it or the bottom. As long as we see only part of the picture, logic and argumentation can never settle an issue. When the intellect becomes calm and clear, theory gives way to demonstration. It is not beyond our reach to see life whole. We have simply become so attached to this precious slit that we think there is no higher mode of knowing. After a while, we become so used to slits that we put on a special mask with just a hairline crack in front of the eyes. Try walking around wearing a mask like this and see what happens. Every little thing will fill your field of vision. The intellect that sees only a small corner of life makes a very poor guide. We follow it like the blind led by the blind. I see this illustrated every day in the newspapers. To take just one urgent example, I have read that perhaps half a million scientists and engineers around the world are engaged in weapons research. I have no doubt that the vast majority of these people have no desire for war. They feel they are only doing a job, playing a small role in an inevitable activity. Nevertheless, this is not a defence industry, this is a half a million highly skilled men and women preparing for war. Producing and selling instruments of war is one of the biggest business in the world today. Even before the First World War, George Bernard Shaw caught the spirit of the industry in the character of undershaft in Major Barbara. Undershaft is no sinister “merchant of death”. He is just a businessman, whose credo is to give arms to all who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles, to capitalist and socialist, to protestant and catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man, white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities and faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes. The defence-minded intellect might object, “That’s unfortunate, but defence is necessary. Everybody has to have weapons, and somebody is going to sell them. Here is a business that is thriving”. These sales”, the merchant argue, “help supply allies who cannot produce needed equipment.” Needed for what? Any school boy knows that weapons are needed by people in order to kill each other. From the evidence, we would have to conclude that death is a much more desirable goal than health, education, or welfare. Or, look at cancer. Many researchers today maintain that perhaps seventy to ninety per cent of all human cancers are caused by environmental agents involved in manufacturing and processing new products. Most of these substances are relatively recent additions to our environment. We made them, and we can cease to make them if we choose. Yet one way or another such substances appeal to us so much that life without them seems untenable. As a result, instead of trying to eliminate the causes of cancer, we pour millions of dollars into what one writer calls “the Vietnam of modern medicine”: The Search for a Cancer Cure. This kind of myopia is not a necessary fault of the intellect. Given a larger picture, the intellect can rise to the occasion. Then even if the Nobel Prize is dangled before its eyes, it will refuse to work at any project that is at the expense of life, but will give all its attention to matters of real urgency. 51. Which of these is true in context to the age: (1) humans are capable of unlimited applications of the mind (2) whether the slit is small or large, conclusion is the same (3) all researchers view through slit-like intellects (4) it is not possible to view life as a whole (5) the intellect is capable of adjustments 52. The age is against: (a) short-sightedness of the scientists (b) the nature of the intellect
(c) narrowness of the intellect (1) (a) only (2) (b) only (3) (a) and (b) (4) (a) and (c) (5) all (a), (b) and (c) 53. What should be the right approach for argumentation: (1) to specialise in a particular field (2) to study bio-chemistry (3) sub-divide topics and research on them (4) open the doors of the intellect (5) leave attachment to our slits 54. According to the author, the intellect which sees a small corner of life, can: (1) lead to scientific and engineering outcomes (2) lead to follies and crimes (3) race for better defence (4) cause environmental pollution (5) lead to harmful and unwanted results 55. What leads to cancer? (1) pre-existing environmental pollutants (2) man-made additions to environment (3) tasty and good-looking things (4) modern medicines (5) None of the above 56. The difference between narrow and broad vision is: (1) narrow vision leads to specialisations, while broad vision does not (2) narrow vision leads to debates while broad vision easily settles them (3) narrow vision leads to desire for war while broad vision leads to desire for defence sales (4) narrow vision leads to greedy business while broad vision leads to fair salesmanship (5) narrow vision leads to Nobel prizes and broad vision refuses them 57. In context to the age, which one of these is false: (1) weapons are needed by nations for money (2) weapons are needed for security reasons (3) a person with a broad intellect would not sell weapons to all (4) the author is against specialisations (5) scientists all over the world are preparing for war 58. The title to the age can be: (1) Disasters of science (2) Nature of the intellect (3) Intellectual misconducts (4) Human debates (5) Viewing life as a whole 59. The undershaft is: (1) a very clever businessman (2) an intellectual businessman (3) an immoral character (4) the major role in Major Barbara (5) a blindly-led intellect Directions (Qs. 60-62): In context of the above age choose the word which is most similar in meaning to the given word. 60. CREDO (1) crime (2) credit (3) business (4) job (5) management 61. COMPREHEND (1) absorb (2) digest (3) guide (4) assimilate (5) understand
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT 62. GEOTROPIC (1) falling to ground (2) attracted towards earth (3) touching the earth (4) projected toward the earth (5) None of these Directions (Qs. 63-65): In context of the above age choose the word which is most opposite in meaning to the given word. 63. INEVITABLE (1) blasting (2) accidental (3) certain (4) incidental (5) avoidable 64. MYOPIA (1) narrowmindedness (2) brodedness (3) shortsightedness (4) evilsightedness (5) hypermetropia 65. UNTENABLE (1) probable (2) cured (3) unworthy (4) worthsome (5) pleasant Directions (Qs. 66-70): In each of the questions below four sentences are given which are denoted by A, B, C and D. By using all four sentences, frame a meaningful para. Choose answer from the five alternatives given and the correct order of the sentences is your answer. 66. (A) India’s patent authorities are at the centre of global attention. (B) India’s patent law is equipped to drive out frivolous patent seekers and to reward meritorious inventors (C) If successful, Indian generic drug-makers may have to pay royalties. (D) As many MNC drug-makers have applied for patents under India’s new product patent law (1) ABCD (2) ADCB (3) BACD (4) DACB (5) CABD 67. (A) What’s more, if you happen to be inching towards retirement, your EMIs will be structured accordingly. (B) Future credit may get customised. (C) The next time you get a hike in your company, rest assured your Equated Monthly Instalments (EMIs) will go up. (D) EMIs will now be fixed according to your affordability. (1) DCAB (2) BCAD (3) BCDA (4) ABCD (5) CBAD 68. (A) The Tax Return Prepares Scheme has been introduced recently to help individuals file their income tax returns. (B) According to this scheme, certain tax return prepares will be specially trained. (C) The aim is to ease the process of filing returns and reduce the cost for tax payers. (D) However, individuals should carefully examine this service and its likely benefits. (1) ABCD (2) ADCA (3) DABC (4) BACD (5) BCAD 69. (A) There is nothing more soothing to the mind, body and soul than being on the beach front. (B) That’s what Archil, which buys bad loans, thinks. (C) A little bit of business can also be thrown in such a setting. (D) The ARC thought of the idea of organising a workshop
on junk bonds in an exotic beach resort in Goa and has roped in the Indian Bank’s Association. (1) DCAB (2) ABCD (3) DACB (4) ACBD (5) CBDA 70. (A) The financial markets in the country have provided a wide array of such instruments. (B) Doing business is all about managing risk. (C) The profit and loss is a reflection of the risk that is dexterously handled by CFOs. (D) Which have been seized with alacrity by the industry. (1) BACD (2) ABCD (3) ACBD (4) DBCA (5) BCAD Directions (71-80): In the following age there are blanks. Choose the correct answer from the given options to fill the blanks which are numbered. 71 has marked man’s 72 progress from 73 times. Modern medicine is built on the innovative 74 of scientists and physicians such as Louis Pasteur. He 75 in a revolution in medicine by producing a 76 against rabies in 1880. 77 with Robert Koch, Pasteur founded 78. There has been no 79 back 80 then. 71. (1) Discovery (2) Innovation (3) Reforms (4) Applications (5) Interests 72. (1) amazing (2) alluring (3) alarming (4) charming (5) exciting 73. (1) antique (2) mid-historic (3) recent (4) remote (5) prehistoric 74. (1) fantastic (2) dilemma (3) genius (4) brain (5) intellect 75. (1) ushered (2) projected (3) prospered (4) thrushed (5) brushed 76. (1) injection (2) medicine (3) antidote (4) vaccine (5) antibody 77. (1) Along (2) Also (3) Going (4) Working (5) Enjoying 78. (1) immunology (2) pathology (3) zoology (4) botany (5) bacteriology 79. (1) viewing (2) looking (3) seeing (4) peeping (5) hopping 80. (1) till (2) from (3) until (4) since (5) by Directions (Qs. 81-90): In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence, five pairs of words are given. Find out the correct pair of words and fill in the blanks. 81. The world is ___ the way it is, because it is what we wanted . to experience at some level of (1) wonderful, brightness (2) perfect, consciousness (3) famous, search (4) okay, intelligence (5) brilliant, dreams 82. The church of England has that it can’t allow a multiceremony for Prince Charles. faith (1) decided, functional (2) projected, wedding (3) asserted, coronation (4) ordered, birth (5) allowed, dancing 83. The ___ are the poorest and most people in our cities. (1) poor, helpless (2) rural, hardworking
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT (3) workers, happy (4) scheduled castes, strong (5) homeless, vulnerable the U.N., but also contribute 84. Reform will not only help to stability in Asia. (1) revitalise, geopolitical (2) regenerate, economic (3) ascend, social (4) revolutionise, political (5) charge, general . 85. Feeling the of the higher power is an (1) value, dream (2) emotions, theme (3) presence, ecstasy (4) absence, innocence (5) acknowledgement, accomplishment 86. All the for a robust and sustainable growth are being put in . (1) ingredients, place (2) factors, striding (3) points, list (4) component, consideration (5) plans, favour 87. India is firmly in the of vote bank politics. So, the for job reservation for SC and ST in private sector will grow. (1) gloves, greed (2) grip, clamour (3) hands, rush (4) roots, need (5) net, suicide 88. One of the secrets Gandhi gave us is that strength does will. not come from bone and muscle, it comes from an (1) simple, inner (2) straight, ironical (3) wonderful, ideal (4) tactical, iron (5) magnificent, indomitable 89. If disasters and are the wake up call for a world that it has gone , then we are now in the position to acknowledge it to manifest the world we desire to experience. (1) peace, mad (2) wars, insane (3) famines, out (4) tragedies, troublesome (5) mishaps, trivial 90. Inner-faith harmony requires that there is both and among religions. (1) value, esteem (2) establishment, survival (3) trust, respect (4) harmony, co-operation (5) co-existence, concord Directions (Qs. 91-95): Each of the following questions consists of a sentence. Find out whether there is any error in it.The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is answer. If there is no error, mark 5 as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation). 91. (1) Neither of them (2) are coming here (3) to address this (4) large gathering. (5) No error. 92. (1) Hardly she finished (2) her duty when (3) the bell (4) started ringing. (5) No error. 93. (1) More private companies should (2) be permit to enter (3) into field of communication (4) to strengthen the network. (5) No error. 94. (1) Government should severely (2) punish the persons
(3) involved in the (4) practice of female foeticide. (5) No error. 95. (1) Parents should ensure (2) and cultivate (3) reading habits between (4) their children. (5) No error. Directions (Qs. 96-100):These questions are based on idioms. From among the options, choose the one that is closest in meaning to the given idiom/phrase. 96. keep at an arm’s length: (1) keep a good distance (2) keep closeness (3) avoid involvement or friendship (4) hate (5) give a warm welcome 97. take the bull by the horns: (1) invite danger from an enemy (2) prepare for unwanted situation (3) be full of vigour (4) face boldly (5) None of these 98. a dark horse: (1) a person who is not good-looking but is very good at heart (2) a person who is specially called for an event (3) a person having a poor reputation (4) a person whose past is mysterious (5) a person who is quite less known 99. pour oil on troubled waters: (1) create a nice scenery (2) settle down a situation (3) aggravate matters (4) worsen a situation (5) create an unfavourable situation 100. to drag one’s feet: (1) slow down deliberately (2) lazy behaviour (3) uninterested behaviour (4) present opposition to someone (5) move very quietly
QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE 101. If the persons A and B have incomes in the ratio 7 : 5 and expenditures in the ratio 3 : 2 and each one of them saves Rs R, then, the income of A is: (1) 14R
(2)7R
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102. If x + a is a factor of x + ax – 2x + a + 4, then a equals: (1)
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103. At 7 : 55 a.m. a police jeep started chasing a stolen car running at 85 km/hr ahead of it by 5 km. At what time will the police jeep overtake the stolen car, if its speed is 100 km/hr? (1) 8 : 30 a.m. (2) 8 : 20 a.m. (3) 8 : 25 a.m. (4) 8 : 15 a.m. (5) 9 : 00 a.m.
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT 104. It takes the same time to go 20 km downstream as it takes to go 12 km upstream. If the speed of the boat used is 8 km/hr in still water, the speed of the stream (in km/hr) is: (1) 4 (2) 1 (3) 0 (4) 3 (5) 2 105. Ravi and Dev have an age ratio of 15 : 8, which will be 5 : 3 in 10 years time. Their present ages (in years) are: (1) 15, 8 (2) 30, 16 (3) 45, 24 (4) 60, 32 (5) 75, 40 Directions (Qs. 106-108): Each of the following questions has two equations on the basis of which you have to find the relation between a and b. Provide the answers as: (1) if a > b
(2) if a < b
(3) if a = b
(4) if a ≥ b
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a – 10a + 25 = 0. 300% of 60% + 10% of 32 = b. 2 a – 3a – 18 = 0. 2 b + 6b + 9 = 0 17 108. I : 2a + b = 2 9 II : 2b − a + = 0 2 I: II: 107. I: II:
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116. The value of x in the inequality 2x – x + 15 < 0 is:
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106.
114. Is the two-digit number N divisible by 18? Statement I: When N is multiplied with 3, the result is a 3-digit number. Statement II: When N is divided by 3, the remainder is 1. 115. A boat goes upstream and then returns downstream. What is the total distance? Statement I: Upstream speed is 4 km/hr and downstream speed is 8 km/hr. 16 km / hr. Statement II: Average speed is 3
117. What should be the value of the question mark: 1
10,500 = 10 3 ÷ 8 3 + 64 ? × 100 × 250.
Directions (Qs. 109-110): Find the approximate value of x 109. x = log10 160 (given log10 2 = 0.3010). (1) 2.5 (2) 2.2 (3) 2.4 (4) 2.1 (5) 2.8 2 110. 2 sin x – cos x + 4 = 0 1 1 ,− 2 2 (2) 30 °, 120 ° (1)
(3) 60 °, 150 ° 2 1 , 3 2 (5) None of these (4)
Directions (Qs. 111-115): In these questions, each question is followed by two statements. On the basis of the question asked and the given statements, you have to decide whether the data is/are sufficient to answer the question. Give answer as: (1) if the data in statement I alone is sufficient, while not in II alone (2) if the data in statement II alone is sufficient, while I alone is not (3) if the data in either statement I alone or II alone is sufficient (4) if the data in both statements together is not sufficient (5) if the data in both statements I and II are needed together 111. How many straight lines can be formed from 6 points in a plane? Statement I: 4 points are collinear. Statement II: 3 points are collinear. 112. What is the probability that Ravi and Dev contradict a given statement? Statement I: Ravi speaks truth in 60% cases. Statement II: Dev speaks truth in 50% cases. 113. The simple interest on a certain sum of money for 2 years is Rs 260. Find the sum. Statement I: The sum amounts to Rs 5590 in 3 years and Rs 5850 in 5 years. Statement II: The sum is doubled in 40 years.
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118. 2 rice varieties costing Rs 25 per kg and Rs 35 per kg were mixed as 2 : 3 and sold so as to gain 20%. What was the SP of the mixture (Rs/kg)? (1) 37.2 (2) 28.6 (3) 30 (4) 32 (5) 40.5 119. A huge jar contains 2 liquids A and B in the ratio 7 : 4. When 12 litres of mixture is removed and replaced by B, the ratio now becomes 4 : 7. The capacity of the vessel (in litres) is: (1) 120 (2) 240 (3) 280 (4) 300 (5) 560 120. If the difference between CI and SI on Rs 1 lakh was Rs 36 in 2 years, the rate of yearly interest is: (1) 0.6
(2) 0.5
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121. Toffees are bought at 4 for a rupee and the same number at 6 for a rupee. Then, they are mixed and sold at 5 per rupee. What is the net profit or loss? (1) 2% loss (2) 10% profit (3) no profit or loss (4) 4% loss (5) None of these 122. How many triangles can be obtained from 5 coplanar points? (No 3 points are collinear). (1) 5 (2) 3 (3) 10 (4) 20 (5) 8 123. If the chances that Sonu, Monu, Mahesh can solve a 1 1 1 problem are , , , what is the probability that given problem can be 4 3 2 solved if they all try?
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124. In an examination, a candidate can provide answers as True or False. For ten questions, how many sequences are possible? (1) 512 (2) 1024 (3) 100 (4) 10 (5) 2048 Directions (Qs. 125-127): Each question comprises 4 parts, one of which may be wrong and does not yield the same answer as the others. Find out the wrong part and if none is wrong, mark 5 as your answer. 4 125. 45% of 200 +15 = of 720 − 215 = 221 ÷ 13 + 11 × 2 3 9 (1) (2) (3)
Directions (Qs. 136-140): Study the pie-charts and answer the questions below them.
= log2 64 × 7 = None of these (4)
132. The per cent increase in the jeans’ sale between 2001 and 2005 is: (1) 75% (2) 37.5% (3) 375% (4) 750% (5) Can’t be determined 133. If G = 1.5, what per cent is sales of jeans in 2005 of sales of jeans in 2002? (1) 150 (2) 175 (3) 87.5 (4) 160 (5) 190.5 134. If C : D : G = 1 : 2 : 3, then F : B = ? (1) 15.0 (2) 57.3 (3) 7.50 (4) 3.75 (5) 37.5 135. The value of A : E is: (1) 0.6 (2) 0.8 (3) 1.0 (4) 1.2 (5) 1.5
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= 200% of 200 = None of these (4)
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Directions (Qs. 129-130): What should come in place of question mark in these number series: 129. 4 5 18 81 ? 2065. (1) 388 (2) 365 (3) 350 (4) 361 (5) 1032 130. 3 ? 50.5 202.5 810.5. (1) 6 (2) 7.5 (3) 10.5 (4) 22.5 (5) 12.5 Directions (Qs. 131-135): Study the following table carefully and answer the questions that follow. A few data are assigned alphabetically: (Sales of shirts and jeans sold by Co. X in various years, Rs crores) Year Shirts (x) Jeans (y) y/x 2000 28 35 1.25 2001 30 A 1.20 2002 B 80 C 2003 50 70 D 2004 E 80 1.33 2005 100 F G 131. The per cent increase in the shirts’ sale between years 2002 and 2004 is: (1) 40% (2) 50% (3) 45% (4) 60% (5) 100%
Others 31%
Cereals, Pulses, Oils 24%
Fruits & Vegetables 20%
Milk & its products 25%
Year 1980 : Food Breakup
Others 30%
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Cereals, Pulses, Oils 25%
Milk & its products 20%
Year 2005 : Food Breakup
136. How much extra is the availability of spending on other items, during 1980-2005 period? (1) Rs 2760 (2) Rs 2000 (3) Rs 3150 (4) Rs 2250 (5) Rs 2350 137. The ratio of actual spending on food in 2005 to that in 1980 is: (1) 10 : 7 (2) 20 : 9 (3) 5 : 2 (4) 3 : 1 (5) 2 : 3 138. In 1980, people in rural India had 30% less earning and spent 40% on food and out of this, expenditure on milk products was only 10%. Its value is: (1) Rs 84 (2) Rs 92 (3) Rs 60 (4) Rs 42 (5) Rs 90 139. How much other food items are available in 2005, in Rs ? (1) Rs 180 (2) Rs 93 (3) Rs 642 (4) Rs 1200 (5) Rs 558 140. In relative per cent , is there an increase or decrease in the expenditure on milk etc?
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Directions (Qs. 141-145): The following bar chart gives the amount of imports and exports of a leather company over the years (Imports , Exports ) in Rupees crores: 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1970
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141. Total imports for Ist 2 years are what per cent of total exports for these 2 years? (1) 50% (2) 100% (3) 120% (4) 80% (5) 200% 142. For which years is the value of the total imports equal to the total exports? (1) 1970, 1990 (2) 1970, 1980 (3) 1990, 2000 (4) 2000, 2005 (5) None of these 143. The ratio of exports to imports was maximum in the year: (1) 1990, 2000, 2005 (2) 1900, 2005 (3) 2000, 2005 (4) 1970, 1990, 2000 (5) 1970, 1990, 2000 144. When was the per cent increase in exports, over the previous 10-year, the least? (1) 1980 (2) 2000 (3) 1990 (4) 2005 (5) 1970 145. The ratio of total exports to the total of imports for all the years is: (1) 8 : 7 (2) 6 : 5 (3) 4 : 3 (4) 2 : 3 (5) 8 : 5 Directions (Qs. 146-150): Study the following graph and answer the questions (No. of motorcycles in 1,000s sold by Companies A and B, in the recent years) (A ____ , B _ _ _ _). 80
NO. OF MOTORCYCLES
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146. Approximately what per cent is the sale of Company A in 2003, compared to its total sale? (1) 13% (2) 12% (3) 15% (4) 11% (5) 10% 147. What per cent is total sale of Company A with respect to Company B? (approx) (1) 75% (2) 85% (3) 90% (4) 95% (5) 100% 148. For which year(s) did Company B experience the highest per cent increase, compared to the previous year? (1) 2003 (2) 2004 (3) 2004, 2005 (4) 2003, 2004 (5) 2002, 2005 149. The total sale for years 2000, 2001, 2002 for Company B forms what per cent of its total sale? (approx) (1) 20% (2) 25% (3) 30% (4) 35% (5) 40% 150. For Company A, which combination of year and per cent rise in sale from previous year, correct? (1) 2001—40% (2) 2002—30% (3) 2003—100% (4) 2004—50% (5) 2005—20%
TEST OF REASONING 151. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way. Which is the one that does not belong to that group? (1) White (2) Indigo (3) Blue (4) Red (5) Orange 152. ‘Cooler’ is related to ‘summer’ in the same way which of the following is related to ‘rain’? (1) Shirt (2) Umbrella (3) Icecream (4) Fan (5) Fridge 153. City A is larger than city B which is smaller than city D. If city E is larger than city A but smaller than city D, which of the following is the largest? (1) E (2) A (3) D (4) B (5) Cannot be determined 154. If ‘red’ means ‘blue’, ‘blue’ means ‘black’, ‘black’ means ‘yellow’, ‘yellow’ means ‘green’, ‘green’ means ‘white’, ‘white’ means ‘brown’ and ‘brown’ means ‘indigo’, then what is the colour of middle line of our National Flag? (1) white (2) yellow (3) brown (4) green (5) None of these 155. If ‘INVITATION’ is written as ‘KMXHVZVHQM’, then ‘READY’ is written in that code as which of the following? (1) SCDDA (2) TDCDB (3) QFBEZ (4) TDCCA (5) None of these Directions (156-160): Read the following character sequence carefully and then answer the questions given below it.
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT 157. What will be the 2nd last letter of the word made of the 1st, 2nd, 11th, 20th and 22nd characters of the given sequence? If no such word can be made your answer is W. If more than one such word can be made your answer is D. (1) I (2) C (3) A (4) W (5) D 158. Which character is midway between 7th from left and 6th from right in the above series? (1) % (2) 5 (3) S (4) P (5) ∆ 159. If every alternate character in the above sequence from right is dropped (drop B first) then which of the following character will be 5th to the right of 6th character from the left? (1) C (2) 8 (3) ∆ (4) I (5) T 160. If A C 3, 6 ∆ $, P z % + ? ×, then what will come in place of question mark. (1) – (2) ⊕ (3) × (4) S (5) 8 Directions (161-165): In each question below, three statements are given followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they appear at variance from commonly known facts. Then decide which of the conclusions logically follows from the given statements. Mark out an appropriate answer choice that you think is correct. Statements: 161. (a) All papers are books. (b) All books are pages (c) All pages are material. Conclusions: I. Some material are pages. II. All books are material. III. All papers are pages. IV. Some books are papers. (1) All the four follow (2) Only II, III follow (3) Only I, III and IV follow (4) Either I or III and II follow (5) None follows Statements: 162. (a) Some bats are balls. (b) No stars are moons (c) All balls are moons. Conclusions: I. Some moons are not balls. II. No balls are stars. III. Some moons are not balls. IV. Some balls are bats. (1) Only I and II follow (2) Only I, II and IV follow (3) Either II or IV follows (4) All follow (5) None of these follows Statements: 163. (a) All coats are pants. (b) No pants are shirts. (c) Some shirts are pullovers. Conclusions: I. No coat is a shirt. II. Some coats are shirts. III. All coats are shirts.
IV. Some coats are not pullovers. (1) Only I, II and III follow (2) Only Ist follows (3) Only I and IV follow (4) Either I and III or II and IV follow (5) Only III and IV follow Statements: 164. (a) Some pens are pencils. (b) Some rubbers are gum. (c) No bag is a gum. Conclusions: I. Some pencils are gum. II. Some pencils are not gum. III. some rubbers are not bag. IV. Some rubbers are bag. (1) Only I follows (2) Only II follows (3) Only II and III follow (4) Either I or II and either III or IV follow (5) None of these follows Statements: 165. (a) No fruits are bananas. (b) No oranges are peas. (c) All bananas are oranges. Conclusions: I. No bananas are peas. II. Some oranges are not fruits. III. Some bananas are fruits. IV. Some oranges are bananas. (1) Only III follows (2) Only I, II and IV follow (3) Either I or II follows (4) Only I and II follow (5) All follow Directions (Qs. 166-170): Study the following arguments and distinguish between “strong” arguments and ‘weak’ arguments because they relate to the question. “Strong” arguments are those which are both important and directly related to the question. “Weak” arguments are those which are of minor importance and also not directly related to the question. Each question below is followed by two arguments numbered I and II. Decide which of the argument is a “strong” and “weak”. Give answer: (1) if only argument I is “strong”. (2) if only argument II is strong. (3) if either I or II is “strong”. (4) if neither I nor II is “strong”. (5) if both I and II are “strong”. Statement: 166. Should the government punish those schools which charge high ission fee? Arguments: I. Yes, where will the poor students go? II. Yes, education has become more of a business than a pious commitment. Statement: 167. Should there be a quota for those who are poor? Arguments: I. Yes, this will decrease the level of unemployment and poor people will not be discriminated by upper caste. II. No, we already have reservations in our jobs. Statement: 168. Should there be no place for interview in selection?
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Arguments: I. Yes, it is a difficult part of selection. II. No, it is the only way to judge the candidates’ personality and motives. Statement: 169. Should women be provided more job opportunities? Arguments: I. Yes, they should go into the outside world. II. No, they are not interested in jobs. Statement: 170. Should government provide more benefits to those who are the only child of their parents? Arguments: I. Yes, it will control increase of population. II. Yes, it will give them bright future and love of parents. Directions (Qs. 171-175): In these questions, a statement is given, which is followed by various assumptions. Read the statements and the assumptions and decide which one of them are implicit. Statement: 171. “Ensure freedom from thieves with this car locking system.” Assumptions: I. This car locking system is the best. II. It is desired to have freedom from thieves. III. There are thieves everywhere. (1) I and II are implicit. (2) II and III are implicit. (3) I and III are implicit. (4) Only II is implicit. (5) All are implicit. Statement: 172. “We deal in used cars. us at phone no. XYZ, at the earliest possible.”—an ment. Assumptions: I. Some people want to sell old cars. II. The ment will be read by the needy people. III. Used cars may not be totally useless. (1) Only I is implicit. (2) Only II and III are implicit. (3) Only I and III are implicit. (4) All I, II, III are implicit. (5) None of I, II, III are implicit. Statement: 173. “Lalu Prasad is expected to announce several schemes for poor people in the budget.”—a news reporter. Assumptions: I. The reporter has a fair reporting. II. The news-reporter has genuine report sources. III. Lalu Prasad is capable of announcing schemes. (1) I and II are implicit. (2) II and III are implicit. (3) Only III is implicit. (4) All are implicit. (5) None is implicit. Statement: 174. Mr X tells Mrs X: “I cannot send my child to that school. Children over there smoke and drink.” Which of these assumptions is implicit? Assumptions: I. Smoking and drinking are not desirable of children. II. Their child will agree to their decision. III. The school has a good reputation. (1) I and II
(2) II and III (3) III and I (4) I only (5) All I, II, III Statement: 175. Monica’s advice to Sonia: “Go to Chandigarh via Ambala— the best route.” Assumptions: I. Sonia wants to go to Chandigarh. II. Monica loves advising everybody. III. They love Chandigarh. (1) I is implicit. (2) II is implicit. (3) Either I or II is implicit. (4) Neither I nor II is implicit. (5) Both are implicit. Directions (Qs. 176-180): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it: (1) Six friends Asad, Babli, Cajole, Dev, Eva and Fatima are sitting in a closed circle facing the centre. (2) Cajole is between Asad and Babli. (3) Fatima is between Eva and Asad. (4) Eva is to the left of Dev 176. Who is on the left of Babli? (1) Asad (2) Cajole (3) Dev (4) Eva (5) None of these 177. Who is on the left of Cajole? (1) Dev (2) Eva (3) Asad (4) Fatima (5) None of these 178. Which pair of friends is sitting on the opposite of each other? (1) Dev, Asad (2) Dev, Babli (3) Asad, Fatima (4) Cajole, Babli (5) None of these 179. Which of the following is sitting on the right side of Fatima? (1) Eva (2) Dev (3) Asad (4) Babli (5) Cajole 180. Which of the above given statements is superfluous? (1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4 (5) None of these Directions (Qs. 181-185): Read the following information and answer the questions. Four people of different nations live on the same side of a sector in four houses each of different colour. Each person has a different favourite drink. The Englishman lives in the red house. The following additional information is: —The Hindu drinks tea. —The Muslim lives in the first house on the left. —The Muslim lives adjacent to the blue house. —In the second house from the right they drink coffee. —The Sikh drinks banana shake. —Tea is drunk in the blue house —The pink house is to the right of red house 181. Which of the following drink coffee? (1) Muslim (2) Hindu (3) Englishman
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT (4) Muslim and Hindu (5) None of the above 182. The colour of Sikh house is: (1) yellow (2) blue (3) red (4) pink (5) None 183. The Muslim drinks which of the following drink: (1) tea (2) coffee (3) banana shake (4) tea, coffee (5) milk 184. Who sits adjacent to Muslim? (1) Hindu (2) Englishman (3) Sikh (4) Both Hindu and Sikh (5) None of the above 185. Which of the following statement is not true? (1) Hindu lives in the blue house (2) Sikh drinks banana shake and his colour of house is pink (3) Muslim drinks coffee (4) Yellow house is occupied by Muslim (5) None of the above Directions (Qs. 186-195): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it. Given here are the conditions to become the of a Lake Club. A person must: (1) be in the age group of 21-50 as on August 13, 2006. (2) be drawing a minimum salary of Rs 1 lakh per annum. (3) own a house. (4) not have a family of more than five including himself. (5) have excellence in any field of arts and sports. However, if a person: (6) satisfies all except (4) above, but draws a salary of more than 2 lakh per annum, the case may be referred to the Club president. (7) satisfies all except (3) above, the case may be referred to the Club secretary. On the basis of above conditions and information, decide which of the following courses of action should be taken regarding each condition. Mark answer: (1) if the person is eligible to be a member (2) if the person can’t be allowed the hip (3) if the data provided is inadequate. (4) if the case is to be referred to the Club secretary (5) if the case is to be referred to the Club president 186. Mr Rahul Tiwari, living with his mother and father, is a college professor earning Rs 8600 monthly. He has his own house and is having a good record in the field of fine arts. 187. Ravi Tripathi, an IAS officer, draws a salary of Rs 15000 p.m. His date of birth is March 17, 1985. He lives with his mother, father and a brother. He is having his own house and holds a certificate of being the best volleyball player in his college. 188. Mr Pankaj Pandey works as a manager in horticulture. He is 35 years old and lives as a tenant with his wife and two daughters. He draws a monthly salary of Rs 8700 p.m. for the last 7 years. He holds a good record in sports. 189. Mr Dev Taneja, a bachelor, lives in a private house owned by him with his parents and grand parents. He is senior manager in American Express, drawing a salary of Rs 17000 p.m. He has won the Trophy in Bton and his D.O.B. is August 13, 1992. 190. Mrs Radha Kapoor, living with her husband, receives a
salary of Rs 10,000 p.m. She has completed 12 years of service in the company on January 10, 2004. 191. Mrs Poonam completed 33 years in March 2005. She stays in her own house along with his husband and three sons. She works as G.M. in Infosys, and draws Rs 117000 per annum. She has exhibited excellence in the field of arts. 192. Mr Ajay is a Branch Manager in SBI and draws a salary of Rs 201000 per annum. He lives in a flat which is not owned by him, along with his wife and a son. He holds a certificate of excellence in tennis. His D.O.B. is October 15, 1980. 193. Mr Satyakam is 40 years old, lives alone in his house. He works as manager in textile mill and earns Rs 10,200 every month. 194. Ms Kavita lives in her own house with his husband and a daughter. She is working as a Assistant Manager in HDFC. She is 26 years old and having a excellence in painting. 195. Mr Abhinav is a bachelor working as a Computer Engineer in electron company. He draws Rs 10900 p.m. His D.O.B. is October 1982. He has been the captain of the Basketball team. He lives in his own house and having family of four persons including him. Directions (Qs. 196-200): An arrangement machine when given an input of words, rearrange them following a particular rule and solve it. Input: This chapter would give you basic concepts. Step 1: basic this chapter would give you concepts. Step 2: basic chapter this would give you concepts. Step 3: basic chapter concepts this would give you. Step 4: basic chapter concepts give this would you. Study the logic and answer the questions that follow. 196. Input: Do not imitate others work. Which of the following will be Step 3 for the given input? (1) Do others not imitate work. (2) Do imitate not others work. (3) Work do others imitate. (4) Do not others work imitate. (5) None 197. Input: Adequate safety arrangements are must for kids. Which of the following will be 2nd last step for the given input? (1) Adequate are arrangements for kids safety must. (2) Adequate are arrangements for kids must safety. (3) Adequate are safety arrangements must for kids. (4) Adequate safety are arrangements must for kids. (5) None 198. Input: Marcus Brauchli gives inaccurate information. How many steps are required to rearrange the above input properly. (1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 2 (5) None of these 199. Input: Most Indian leaders cannot even visualise free India. Which of the following will be last step of above input? (1) Most Indian even leaders cannot visualise free India. (2) Cannot even free India Indian most leaders visualise. (3) Cannot even free India most Indian leaders visualise. (4) Cannot even free India Indian leaders most visualise. (5) None. 200. Step IV: It is figure anti-establishment from media. Which of the following is the input of the above mentioned step. (1) It is figure from anti-establishment media. (2) Media it is figure from anti-establishment. (3) It is anti-establishment media from. (4) Can’t be determined. (5) None of these
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Directions (Qs. 206-210): These questions are based on inferences. Read the following age carefully and mark your answers as: (1) Probably true (2) Definitely true (3) Probably false (4) Definitely false (5) Data inadequate Most people find change stressful, so I do not find it surprising that researchers have discovered a statistical relation between falling ill and the experience of major life events such as death of a spouse, getting married, etc. Those who have experienced a higher index of such changes, generally report a greater incidence of ill-health. Yet, most of us find that this research quite doesn’t tally with the experience. Reasoning similarly, another group found a strong correlation between health and hassles of life—the thousands of little daily irritations. 206. Generally people tend to get irritated to some extent. 207. Everyone does not experience stress, only few do. 208. One should avoid big changes. 209. The approach of the two research groups is not different. 210. The researchers’ conclusion quite fits into everybody’s life.
Directions (Qs. 211-215): Each of the following series consists of seven figures, two of which at the ends are unnumbered. One of the five numbered figures does not fit into the series. Find out the figure.
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS 1. 5. 6. 8. 9. 12. 13. 18. 23. 26. 27. 28. 32. 33. 38. 43. 48.
General (2) 2. (2) 3. (5) Rs 1365 crores. (1) 7. (3) (1) .... Defence Minister. (4) 10. (3) 11. (4) ... 16th (1) 14. (5) 15. (4) 19. (1) 20. (2) 24. (2) 25. (4) ... major ruling coalition. (4) ... UP = 19 lakh (+). (5) 29. (4) 30. (5) ... (Increase, $ 25 B (4) 34. (2) 35. (3) 39. (1) 40. (1) 44. (1) 45. (5) 49. (2) 50.
Awareness (2) 4. (5)
102. (3) Put x = – a → ( – a) 3 + a( −a) 2 + − 2( −a) + a + 4 = 0 4 i.e. a = − 3 103. (4) 100x − 85x = 5 15 x = 5
(3) (2) (1) (3)
16. (3) 21. (1)
(5) $ 39 B). (2) (6) (2) (1)
31. (1)
104. (5)
20 12 = 8+x 8 −x − 32 x = – 64
36. (3) 41. (1) 46. (2)
37. (3) 42. (6) 47. (3)
English 51. 52. 53. 54.
(5) .... refer last few lines. (4) .... refer Ist and last paragraphs. (4) .... refer 2nd statement, para 2. (5) .... refer last para and the main theme. Other options also follow closely. 55. (2) 56. (2) .... 2nd para. 57. (2) .. para 1. 58. (2) ... para 1, line 1 and subject theme. 59. (5) .... 2nd line, para 3. 60. (4) 61. (5) 62. (2) 63. (5) 64. (5) 65. (1) 66. (2) 67. (2) 68. (1) 69. (4) 70. (5) 71. (2) 72. (1) 73. (5) 74. (3) 75. (1) 76. (4) 77. (1) 78. (5) 79. (2) 80. (4) 81. (2) 82. (3) 83. (5) 84. (1) 85. (3) 86. (1) 87. (2) 88. (5) 89. (2) 90. (3) 91. (2) ... it should be ‘is’ instead of ‘are’. 92. (1) ... hardly should be followed by had. 93. (2) ... ‘permitted’ instead of ‘permit’. 94. (5) 95. (3) ... ‘among’ instead of ‘between’. 96. (3) 97. (4) 98. (4) 99. (4) 100. (3) Quantitative Aptitude 101. (3) Let incomes be 7x and 5x and expenditures be 3y and 2y 7x
:
5x
3y
:
2y
7x − 3y = 5x − 2y = R 2x = y = R x=
1 hrs = 20 mins 3 Re quired time = 7:55 am + 20 mins = 8:15 am x=
17. (5) 22. (2)
R 7R → 7x = 2 2
x = 2 km / hr 105. (4) Let the ages be 15x and 8x 15 x + 10 5 = , i.e. 5x = 20, or x = 4 8x + 10 3 R = 15x = 60 and D = 8x = 32
106. (3) I → (a − 5) 2 = 0, i.e. a = 5 II →1.8 + 3.2 = b, i.e. b = 5 Thus, a = b 107. (4) I → (a − 6) (a + 3) = 0, i.e. a = 6, − 3 II → (b + 3) 2 = 0 i.e. b = − 3
Thus, a ≥ b..
17 108. (2) I → 2a + b = Solving simultaneously, 2 9 II → 2b − a = a = 2b, b = 3.5 Thus, b > a 2 109. (2) Log10 160 = log10 (16 × 10)
}
= log10 16 + log10 10 = log10 24 + 1 = 1 + 4log10 2 = 1+ 4(0.3010) = 2.2041 2 110. (5) 2(1− cos x) − cos x + 4 = 0
2cos 2 x + cos x − 6 = 0 → (cos x + 2) (2 cos x −3) =0 3 2 Both values are not possible as cos x = − 2 or
cos x lies between −1 and +1 111. (3) Both statements are singly sufficient. Only, t he answers wil l be different in each case. Use combinations From I → 6 C 2 − 4 C 2 + 1 = 15 − 6 +1 = 10 lines From II → 6C 2 − 3C 2 + 1 = 15 − 3 +1 = 13 lines 112. (5) We have to use both together 60 40 , q1 = 100 100 50 50 p2 = , q2 = 100 100 Re quired probability = p 1q 2 + p 2 q 1 p1 =
50 60 50 40 × = 50% × + 100 100 100 100 PTR P × 2 ×R 113. (3) Either S.I. = → 260 = 100 100 I. : In 2 years, S.I = 260 =
S.I. for 1 year =
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260 = Rs 130 2
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT 130. (5) 3 × 4 + 0.5 = 12.5, 12.5 × 4 + 0.5 = 50.5, etc 131. (2) Using ratios, Ist obtain values of unknowns
A = 5200 + 650 = 5850 R can be calculated and also P. II. : A = 2P → P =
P× T × R → T = 40 100
A =1.2 → A = 36 30 80 Similarly, B = 40, C = = 2, 40 70 80 D= = 1.4, E = 60, = 1.33 50 60 132. (5) F and G both are unknowns & so cannot be Thus,
114. (2) I. : Not sufficient II. : Since N is not divisible by 3, it is not divis ible by 18 also (As 18 = 6 × 3). 115. (4) Neither. Time and dist ance both are mis sing 116. (2) 2x 2 − 5x + 6x + 15 < 0 (x + 3) ( 2x − 5) < 0
calculated at this stage 20 × 100 = 50% 40 F and G both are unknowns Now, E − B = 60 – 40 , % =
Either x + 3 = − and 2x − 5 = + or vice − versa x + 3 < 0, 2x − 5 > 0 i.e. x < − 3 and x >
5 2
OR, x + 3 > 0, 2x − 5 < 0 i.e. x > − 3, x <
5 2
1
117. (3) 10 3 ÷ 8 3 + 64 ? × 110 × 250 = 10,500 1000 + 64? × 10 × 250 = 10,500 2 64 ? × 2500 = 10,000
133. (3) G = 1.5 →
150 ×100 = 187.5% 80 134. (4) C : D : G = 1: 2 : 3 Since C = 1, B = 80 and since G = 3, F = 300 and ∴
→F :B =
64 = 4 ?
36 = 0.6 60 136. (3) 5% of 3000 → 25% of 10,000 i.e. 150 → 2500
12 × 7 (7 + 4) 2 × ≅ 280 litres 72 − 42 7 × (7 + 4)
12 × 100 ×100 36 6 = = = 0.6 10 6 100 10 121. (4) LCM of 4 and 6 = 12
120. (1) R =
Let total no. of each type = 12
24 5 × 100 = 4%
Re quired% =
% Loss = 5 122. (3) Using combinations, no. of triangles ∠5 = 10 = 5 C3 = ∠3 ∠2 123. (5) p of solving = 1 – p of not solving
142. (2) 1970, 1980,
40 50 60 (1990), (2000), (2005) 20 25 30 144. (3) Exports = 15, 35, 40, 50, 60 Minimum from 35 → 40 45 − 35 ×100 ≅ 15% 35 145. (5) Exports = 15 + 35 + 40 + 50 + 60 = 200 %
3 2 1 = 1− × × 4 3 2 3 = 4
Imports = 10 + 40 + 20 + 25 + 30 = 125 200 8 = 125 5 40 146. (1) 20 + 30 + 40 + 40 + 50 + 70 + 60 × 100 = 13% 147. (3) A = 310, B = 335 Ratio =
10 (2) 2 = 1024 (5) (3) (3)
1 =0 ∞ 3 3 129. (1) 4 × 1 + 1 = 5, 5 × 2 + 2 = 18, 18 × 3 + 3 3 = 81, etc
128. (2) 3∞ will be a large number ( ∞) .
50 ×110 = 100% 50 10 + 40 = 15 + 35 = 50
143. (1)
= 1 − q1 q2 q3
124. 125. 126. 127.
Change = 2500 − 1 50 = 2350 137. (1) 40% of 10,000 : 60% of 3000 = 4000: 1800 = 40 : 18 = 20 : 9 138. (1) 3000 − 30% of 3000 = 3000 − 900 = 2100 40% of 2100 = 840 and 10% of 840 = Rs 84 139. (3) 30% of 40% of 10,000 − 30% of 60% of 3,000 = 1200 − 558 = 642 140. (1) 25% of 60% → 20% of 40% i.e. 15% → 8% (decrease) 141. (2) Total Imports = 10 + 40 = 50 Exports = 15 + 35 = 50
12 12 + =3 +2 =5 4 6 12 + 12 24 and SP = = 5 5 Since SP < → Loss Total =
5−
300 = 3.75 80
135. (1) A = 36, E = 60 → Ratio =
1 3 118. (1) 25 × 2 + 35 × 3 × 100 + 20 = 37.2 2+5 100 ?=
119. (3)
F = 1.5 → F = 150 100
310 × 100 ≅ 90% 335 148. (4) 2 years : 2003, 2004 %=
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT 149. (2) 30 + 45 + 20 = 95 ≅ 25% 335 335 70 − 50 150. (5) 2005 = 40% ( ×110 = 40%) 50 Reasoning 151. (1) All the others are colours of rainbow (VIBGYOR) 152. (2) Cooler is used to protect us from heat. Similarly umbrella is used to protect us from rain. 153. (3) According to first statement or sentence A position of D is not exact. B Second sentence clears that E is larger than A but smaller than D means D — largest city. E A B 154. (4) Colour of middle line of NF is white and green means white is given in the statement so green is the answer. 155. (4) The first letter moves two places forward while the second letters moves one place backward. This process continues for the whole word. 156. (3) The reversed series is:
Pencils
Pen
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165.
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161.
B
166. (1) 167. (1) providing jobs would definitely decrease unemployment, hence 1 is strong. II is not strong because quota for poors doesn’t mean reservation. 168. (2) Ist is not strong but II is obviously strong. 169. (1) Ist is strong, II is void. 170. (5) 171. (4) There is no hint of use of ‘best’and ‘everywhere’ . 172. (4) I and II are definitely implicit. Also an ment is meant to be read. 173. (2) We cannot say anything about I. 174. (4) 175. (1) (176 to 180). In the circle the arrangement is as shown.
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4th to the right of 16th from right is 12th (16 – 4) from right is B. 157. (4) The letters are A, C, P, I, T. No word can be made by using these letters. 158. (1) Seventh from left is
then 5th to the right of 6th from left is 11th from left i.e. T 160. (2) Do it yourself. 161. (1) Using Ist and 2nd statement we get All papers are pages and by using 2nd & 3rd we get All books are material so, 2 & 3 follow and I & IV are conversion of Ist statement and 3rd statement.
R
Eva
Fatima
Cajole
Asad 176. 177. 178. 179. 180.
(3) Dev. (5) Because Babli is on the left of Cajole. (see diagram.) (1) Dev, Asad. (1) Clearly, Eva. (5) Since all the statements are necessary to determine the arrangement.
(181 to 185) Based on given information, the correct sequence of data is as follows. 162.
163.
Bats B M
C
P
Colour Nationality Drink
S
S
C-Coat Pullovers S-Short P-Pants
Yellow Muslim Milk
Blue Hindu Tea
Red Englishman Coffee
Pink Sikh Banana shake
181. (3) see chart. 182. (4) 183. (5) Although it is not mentioned in the question but it appear that milk is his drink.
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT 184. 185. 186. 187. 188.
(1) (3) (3) (1) (4)
(Muslim drinks milk—it is assumed). Condition 1 is missing. Satisfies all the condition. (Condition 7 is fulfilled, as the candidate does not have his own house.) 189. (5) Condition 6 is fulfilled, as the candidate has a family of 5 . 190. (3) Conditions 1 and 5 is missing. 191. (2) She is having a family of five and condition 6 is not fulfilled because her salary is less than 200000. 192. (4) 193. (2) Condition 5 is missing. 194. (2) Condition 2 is missing. 195. (1) All conditions are satisfied. (196-200) The logic is: the words are arranged in alphabetical order by not interchanging places. That is ,basic goes to the first place and the whole remaining sentence is as it is. 196. (5) because in this only one step is possible Input Do not imitate others work. Step-I Do imitate not others work. 197. (1) Step-1 Adequate are safety arrangements must for kids. Step-2 Adequate are arrangements safety must for kids. Steps-3 Adequate are arrangements for safety must kids. Steps-4 Adequate are arrangements for kids safety must. Step-5 Adequate are arrangements for kids must safety. And 2nd last one is step 4. 198. (2) Step-1 Brauchli Marcus gives inaccurate information. Step-2 Brauchli gives Marcus inaccurate information. Step-3 Brauchli gives inaccurate Marcus information. Step-4 Brauchli gives inaccurate information Marcus. 4 Steps are required. 199. (4) Step-1 Cannot most Indian leaders even visualise free India. Step-2 Cannot even most Indian leaders visualise free India. Step-3 Cannot even free most Indian leaders visualise India. Step 4 Cannot even free India most Indian leaders visualise. Step 5 Cannot even free India Indian most leaders visualise. Step 6 Cannot even free India Indian leaders most visualise. Shortcut (Just arrange the input alphabetically). 200. (4) In this type of question determination of previous step or input is not possible. (201-205) 201. (5) 202. (3) 203. (2) 204. (4) 205. (5) (206-210) 206. (2)........last lines. 207. (3)........research done on several people. 208. (5)........no such hint is made. 209. (4)........it is different......one considers big events, the other considers small ones. 210. (3)........3rd sentence. (Yet, most of us....). (211-215) 211. (5) The elements move one step Anti-clockwise in one step while in the next the element on extreme Anti-clockwise position moves Clockwise end and others move one step Anticlockwise.
212. (3) The outermost and innermost sides rotate by 90° Anticlockwise while the middle one rotates by 90° Clockwise. 213. (2) In this the elements shift one step in cyclic order and one element is replaced by a new one. 214. (1) In this the upper and the lower elements rotate by 180° while the middle element inverted vertically in alternate steps. 215. (4) 216. (4) Y changes by 180°, Anti-clockwise & 2 places in Clockwise direction. I changes Clockwise at same place, by 90°. + has no rotation but goes to ends. 217. (2) Notice Clockwise and Anti-clockwise rotations as above. 218 (1) similar to above Qs. 219. (2) end point moves Anti-clockwise, 45°, + move 45° to top. circle moves by 180°. 220. (3) Just send elements to opposite places. 221. (1) notice how the vertically and horizontally attached components change alternately. 222. (3) triangle moves 1 place to ends/sides, Anti-clockwise, moves by ½ places, diagonally, → moves Anti-clockwise by 135° or 1½ places Anticlockwise. 223. (4) semi-circle turns Anti-clockwise and gets diminished/enlarged alternately, T jumps to opposite side and reverses, arrow head changes direction and places, after 2 turns. 224. (1) notice how the various elements move by ½ side and then from one extreme to another. 225. (2) circle changes shade and places Anti-clockwise, triangle tilts Anti-clockwise and Clockwise alternately, 45°.
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1. The Foreign Exchange Reserve of India are kept in the custody of…… (A) World Bank (B) International Monetary Fund (C) Prime Minister Rahat Kosh (D) Reserve Bank of India (E) None of these 2. The Reserve Bank of India issues coins and notes of various denominations. At present RBI does not issue coins of which of the following denominations ? (A) 10 paise (B) 20 paise (C) 25 paise (D) 50 paise (E) 1•00 Rupee 3. The European Union has adopted which of the following as a common currency ? (A) Dollar (B) Dinar (C) Yen (D) Peso (E) Euro 4. Various Banks in the country have installed machines which disburse money to general public. These machines are called…… (A) Coin dispensing machines (B) ATMs (C) Debit Card Machines (D) Ledger Machines (E) None of these 5. Which of the following names is not associated with the insurance business in India ? (A) Bajaj Allianz (B) LIC (C) GIC (D) Tata AIG (E) GE Money 6. Commodity Exchanges at various places in India are trading in many metals like gold, silver, etc. Many times we read in newspapers that gold no more has emained the highest trading option and has been replaced by a non-traditional metal known as…… (A) copper (B) steel (C) zinc (D) white gold (E) None of these 7. Which of the following is known as Plastic money ? 1. Demand Draft 2. Credit Card 3. Debit Card (A) Only 1 (B) Only 2
(C) Only 3 (D) Both 2 and 3 (E) All 1, 2 and 3 8. Many a time we see a term in newspapers ‘IPO’. What is the full form of the same ? (A) Indian Public Offer (B) Institutional Purchase (C) Industrial Purchase Order (D) Indian Purchase Offer (E) Initial Public Offer 9. Many a times we read in financial newspapers a term/name NMCEX. What is the full form of the same ? (A) New Multi Capital Exchange (B) National Medium Commodity Exchange (C) National Multi Commodity Exchange (D) Net Marketable Commodity Exchange (E) None of these 10. Many Banks these days are entering into business of offering loans against property. This business of the banks can be categorized under which of the following heads of banking ? (A) Corporate Banking (B) Personal Banking (C) Merchant Banking (D) Portfolio Management Service (E) None of these 11. Which of the following organizations/banks has done a commendable work in the field of micro finance and was awarded Nobel Prize also in the past ? (A) Gramin Bank of Bangladesh (B) CRY (C) ASHA (D) NABARD (E) None of these 12. Nobel Prizes are not given for the performance in the area of… (A) Literature (B) Physics (C) Chemistry (D) Music (E) Medical Science 13. In which of the following Hindi films has actor Shahrukh Khan played the role of a Hockey Coach ? (A) Guru (B) Chak De India (C) Om Shanti Om (D) Jab We Met (E) None of these 14. Which of the following countries has not made any significant investment in India ? (A) Japan
(B) USA (C) Nepal (D) Britain (E) 15. Which of the following is considered an informal method of getting credit/finance ? (A) Internet Banking (B) Branch visits (C) Going to money lenders (D) Tele Banking (E) All of these 16. Which amongst the following nations is not a member of the SAARC ? (A) Bangladesh (B) Bhutan (C) Nepal (D) Maldives (E) South Africa 17. Which of the following indexes is developed to measure life expectancy, level of literacy, education and standard of living of people in a country ? (A) Inflation (B) Sensex (C) Human Development Index (D) SLR (E) None of these 18. Which of the following is not a Public Sector Unit/Undertaking/Agency ? (A) ECGC (B) SEBI (C) SIDBI (D) Axis Bank (E) BHEL 19. Which of the countries represent letter ‘C’ in the category known as BRIC countries ? (A) Canada (B) Chile (C) Cuba (D) Croatia (E) China 20. Who amongst the following addresses the nation on the Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Delhi ? (A) President of India (B) UPA Chairperson (C) Speaker of the Lok Sabha (D) Prime Minister of India (E) None of these 21. Which of the following awards is given for excellence in the field of sports ? (A) Kalidas Samman (B) Dhyanchand Award
(C) Shram Vir Award (D) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (E) None of these 22. Which of the following does not represent the name of a bank working in India ? (A) YES (B) HDFC (C) TATA (D) Kotak Mahindra (E) Axis 23. Twenty-20 matches are played in the game of…… (A) Hockey (B) Football (C) Bton (D) Tennis (E) Cricket 24. Which of the following deals between India and one major country was put on a hold for some time as India is finding difficult to implement it ? (A) 123 Pact with USA (B) Fifth generation fighter plane deal with Russia (C) Heavy Water deal with Iran (D) Border talks with China (E) None of these 25. Which of the following is a type of tax levied by the Govt. on goods and services ? (A) SAT (B) NET (C) PAN (D) VAT (E) None of these 26. As per the news appeared in some major newspapers India is number two in getting ‘PE’. What is the full form of ‘PE’ as used in the financial world ? (A) Professional and Ecofriendly (B) Profitable Equity (C) Profitable and Economical (D) Private and Economical (E) Private Equity 27. Many a times we read in newspapers about ‘Financial Inclusion’. What does it really mean ? [Pick up correct statement(s)] 1. Allow the merger and acquisition of banks so that only few big banks exist and continue to cater to the need of corporate sector. 2. Expending the network of banks in such a way that people from lower strata of society also get the benefit of services provided by banks. 3. Providing Insurance cover to each and every citizen so that he/she can live a healthy and long life. (A) Only 1 (B) Only 2 (C) Only 3
(D) Both 1 and 2 (E) All 1, 2 and 3 28. Which of the following organizations recently issued some guidelines related to ‘Participatory Notes’ as used in financial world ? (A) RBI (B) IRDA (C) SEBI (D) AMFI (E) None of these 29. Heavy Water is normally used by which of the following industries ? (A) Nuclear Power generation plants (B) Pharma Industry (C) Paper Industry (D) Sugar plants (E) None of these 30. As per news items published in various newspapers, Italy has offered its help in developing ‘SMEs’ in India. What is the full form of ‘SME’ ? (A) Small and Monopolistic Economy (B) Small and Medium Enterprises (C) Speedy and Mechanical (D) Small and Medium Level Economy (E) None of these 31. Which of the following statements about the ‘exports’ from India is true ? 1. Exports are showing good rate of growth. 2. Exports are growing in volume but still they are poorer than imports in of value. 3. Exports are not improving the way they were growing two years back. (A) Only 1 (B) Only 2 (C) Only 3 (D) Both 1 and 3 are correct (E) None of these 32. Which of the following countries for the first time elected a lady as its President recently ? (A) Argentina (B) China (C) New Zealand (D) Russia (E) None of these 33. The Govt. of India keeps on clearing the proposal of setting up new SEZs at several places. What does the letter ‘S’ represent in the ‘SEZ’ ? (A) Soft (B) Small (C) Special (D) ive (E) None of these 34. Which of the following is not a foodgrain ?
(A) Wheat (B) Rice (C) Maize (D) Jowar (E) Cotton 35. Who amongst the following was made the Chairman of the National Land Reforms Council ? (A) Smt. Sonia Gandhi (B) Arjun Singh (C) Pranav Mukherjee (D) Kamal Nath (E) Manmohan Singh 36. Various Govt. agencies/organizations are given responsibilities for implementing various policies/decisions of the Govt. of India. Policies about credit flow to the agricultural/priority sector are framed/implemented through which of the following apex bodies ? (A) ECGC (B) NABARD (C) UTI (D) IDBI Bank (E) None of these 37. As we read every then and now the Monetary and Credit Policy is reviewed and changes/corrections are made frequently. Who amongst the following exactly takes this decision in India ? (A) Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission (B) Prime Minister (C) Finance Minister (D) Chairman Finance Commission (E) None of these 38. The World Bank sanctioned Rs. 18,000 crores to which of the following states for its Poverty Alleviation Programme ? (A) Karnataka (B) Gujarat (C) Maharashtra (D) Uttar Pradesh (E) None of these 39. The UNO has declared year 2008 as the year of…… (A) AIDS Prevention (B) Potato (C) Water Harvesting (D) Social Justice to Children (E) None of these 40. Who amongst the following is the author of the book ‘Pakistan– The Gathering Storms’ ? (A) Benazir Bhutto (B) Parvez Musharraf (C) Arun Shourie (D) Arun Gandhi (E) None of these
41. Which of the following is not a gallantry Award ? (A) Vir Chakra (B) Jeevan Raksha Padak (C) Ashok Chakra (D) Mahavir Chakra (E) Saraswati Samman 42. Which of the following states has approved sharing Neyyar Irrigation Project water with Tamil Nadu ? (A) Karnataka (B) Andhra Pradesh (C) Kerala (D) Maharashtra and Karnataka (E) None of these 43. Which of the following is not a foreign bank working in India ? (A) HSBC (B) Barclays (C) Standard Chartered (D) Yes Bank (E) All are foreign banks 44. Who amongst the following is the Chairman of the 13th Finance Commission ? (A) Bimal Jalan (B) Y. V. Reddy (C) C. Rangarajan (D) Vijay Kelkar (E) None of these 45. India has the least or negligible trade relations with ………… (A) Japan (B) Britain (C) South Africa (D) Uganda (E) Iran 46. Your friend has received a sum of Rs. 10000 from his grandparents. He wants to deposit this sum in a bank under a condition of not to withdraw fully or partially for at least two years. He will be needed to open which type of in the bank ? (A) Small savings (B) Current (C) Fixed deposit (D) Demat (E) None of these 47. Recently, this was in news that ASEAN is an association of …… (A) Commonwealth nations (B) SAARC nations (C) South-Eastern Asian nations (D) Oil-exporting nations (E) African nations
48. Names of two important persons are often visible in newspapers/magazines/electronic media. These names are Dr. C. Rangarajan and Dr. Bimal Jalan. Which of the following facts are identical in the life of both these two persons ? (A) Both are principal economic advisors to the Prime Minister (B) Both are the of the Lok Sabha (C) Both are the former Governors of RBI (D) Both were the Finance Ministers of India (E) There is nothing similar in both 49. Which of the following places of West Bengal was in news recently, since some violent incidences took place due to an attempt of agricultural land aquisition for industrial purposes ? (A) Khadakpur (B) Nandigram (C) Howrah (D) Bolepur (E) None of these 50. In accordance with the reports published in the papers/magazines, the Government of India and some NGOs have declared/started some projects to help/ to provide relief to the farmers in general and specially to perplexed farmers. Which of the following is not such a plan ? (A) Crop insurance plan (B) E-Chaupal (C) Subsidy for chemical fertilizers (D) Reconstruction of watershade/water-bodies (E) Mid-day meal Answers 1. (D) 2. (B) 3. (E) 4. (B) 5. (E) 6. (D) 7. (D) 8. (E) 9. (C) 10. (B) 11. (A) 12. (D) 13. (B) 14. (C) 15. (C) 16. (E) 17. (C) 18. (B) 19. (E) 20. (D) 21. (B) 22. (C) 23. (E) 24. (A) 25. (D) 26. (E) 27. (B) 28. (C) 29. (A) 30. (B) 31. (C) 32. (A) 33. (C) 34. (E) 35. (E) 36. (B) 37. (E) 38. (D) 39. (B) 40. (A) 41. (E) 42. (C) 43. (D) 44. (D) 45. (D) 46. (C) 47. (C) 48. (C) 49. (B) 50. (E)
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RBI Assistant Exam - model question paper
REASONING ABILITY 1. In a certain code language ‘how many goals scored’ is written as ‘5 3 9 7’; ‘many more matches’ is written as ‘9 8 2’ and ‘he scored five’ is written as ‘1 6 3’. How is ‘goals’ written in that code language ? (1) 5 (2) 7 (3) 5 or 7 (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these 2. In a certain code TEMPORAL is written as OLDSMBSP. How is CONSIDER written in that code? (1) RMNBSFEJ (2) BNMRSFEJ (3) RMNBJEFS (4) TOPDQDCH (5) None of these 3. How many meaningful English words can be made with the letters DLEI using each letter only once in each word ? (1) None (2) One (3) Two (4) Three (5) More than three 4. Among A, B, C, D and E each having different weight, D is heavier than only A and C is lighter than B and E. Who among them is the heaviest ? (1) B (2) E (3) C (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these 5. Each odd digit in the number 5263187 is substituted by the next higher digit and each even digit is substituted by the previous lower digit and the digits so obtained are rearranged in ascending order, which of the following will be the, third digit from the left end after the rearrangement ?
(1) 2 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 6 (5) None of these 6. Pratap corrrectly re that his mother’s birthday is before twenty third April but after Nineteenth April, whert as his sister correctly re that their mother’s birthday is not on or after twenty second April. On which day in April is definitely their mother’s birthday ? (1) Twentieth (2) Twenty-first (3) Twentieth or twenty-first (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these 7. Ashok started walking towards South. After walking 50 meters he took a right turn and walked 30 meters. He then took a right turn and walked 100 meters. He again took a right turn and walked 30 meters and stopped. How far and in which direction was he from the starting point? (1) 50 meters South (2) 150 meters North (3) 180 meters East (4) 50 meters North (5) None of these 8. If’–‘ means ‘+’; ‘–’means ‘×’; ‘×’ means ‘÷’and ‘+’means ‘–’; then 15 – 8 × 6 + 12 + 4 = ? 4 (1) 20 (2) 28 (3) 8 7 (4) 2 3 (5) None of these 9. Town D is towards East of town F. Town B is towards North of town D. Town H is towards South of town B. Towards which direction is town H from town F ? (1) East (2) South-East (3) North-East (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these
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10. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word SEARCHES each of which has as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet ? (1) None (2) One (3) Two (4) Three (5) More than three Direction: In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III 8s IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. 11. Statements: All cups are bottles. Some bottles are jugs. No jug is plate. Some plates are tables. Conclusions: I. Some tables are bottles. II. Some plates are cups. III. No table is bottle. IV. Some jugs are cups. (1) Only I follows (2) Only II follows (3) Only III follows (4) Only IV follows (5) Only either I or III follows 12. Statements: Some chairs are handles. All handles are pots. All pots are mats. Some mats are buses. Conclusions: I. Some buses are handles. II. Some mats are chairs. III. No bus is handle. IV. Some mats are handles. (1) Only I, II and IV follow (2) Only II, III and IV follow (3) Only either I or III and II follow (4) Only either I or III and IV follow (5) Only either I or III and II and IV follow 13. Statements: All birds are horses. All horses are tigers. Some tigers are lions. Some lions are monkeys. Conclusions: I. Some tigers are horses. II. Some monkeys are birds. III. Some tigers are birds. IV. Some monkeys are horses.
(1) Only I and III follow (2) Only I, II and III follow (3) Only II, III and IV follow (4) All I, II, III and IV follow (5) None of these 14. Statements: Some benches are walls. All walls are houses. Some houses are jungles. All jungles are roads. Conclusions: I. Some roads are benches. II. Some jungles are walls. III. Some houses are benches. IV. Some roads are houses. (1) Only land II follow (2) Only I and III follow (3) Only III and IV follow (4) Only II, III and IV follow (5) None of these 15. Statements: Some sticks are lamps. Some flowers are lamps. Some lamps are dresses. All dresses are shirts. Conclusions: I. Some shirts are sticks. II. Some shirts are flowers. III. Some flowers are sticks. IV. Some dresses are sticks. (1) None follows (2) Only I follows (3) Only II follows (4) Only III follows (5) Only IV follows Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of an organization working in three departments viz. Personnel, istration and Marketing with not more than three of them in any department. Each of them has a different choice of sports from football, cricket, volleyball, bton, lawn tennis, basketball, hockey and table tennis not necessarily in the same order. D works in istration and does not like either football or cricket. F works in Personnel with only A who likes table tennis. Eand H do not work in the same department as D. C likes hockey and does
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not work in marketing. G does not work in istration and does not like either cricket or bton. One of those who work in istration likes football. The one who likes volleyball works in personnel. None of those who work in istration likes either bton or lawn tennis. H does not like cricket. 16. Which of the following groups of employees work in istration department ? (1) EGH (2) AF (3) BCD (4) BGD (5) Data inadequate 17. In which department does E work ? (1) Personnel (2) Marketing (3) istration (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these 18. Which of the following combinations of employee-department-favourite sport is correct? (1) E – istration – Cricket (2) F – Personnel – Lawn Tennis (3) H – Marketing – Lawn Tennis (4) B – istration – Table Tennis (5) None of these 19. What is E’s favourite sport ? (1) Cricket (2) Bton (3) Basketball (4) Lawn Tennis (5) None of these 20. What is G’s favourite sport ? (1) Cricket (2) Bton (3) Basketball (4) Lawn Tennis (5) None of these Direction: In the following questions, the symbols # and S are used with the following meaning as illustrated below. P $ Q’ means ‘P is not smaller than Q’. P @ Q’ means ‘P is neither smaller than nor equal to ‘Q ‘P # Q’ means ‘P is neither greater than nor equal to Q’. P δ Q’ means ‘P is neither greater than nor smaller than Q’. ‘P
Q’ means ‘P is not greater than Q’. Now in each of the following questions assuming the given statements to be true, find which of the four conclusions I, II, III and IV given below
them is/are definitely true and give your answer accordingly. V 21. Statements: H @ T, T # F, F δ E, E Conclusions: I. V $ F II. E @ T III. H @ V IV. T # V (1) Only I, II and III are true (2) Only I, II and IV are true (3) Only II, III and IV are true (4) Only I, III and IV are true (5) All I, II, III and IV are true 22. Statements: D#R, R K, K@F, F$J Conclusions: I. J # R II. J # K III. R # F IV. K @ D (1) Only I, II and III are true (2) Only II, III and IV are true (3) Only I, III and IV are true (4) All I, II, III and IV are true (5) None of these 23. Statements: N δ B, B $ W, W # H, H M Conclusions : I. M @ W II. H @ N III. W S N IV. W# N (1) Only I is true (2) Only III is true (3) Only IV is true (4) Only either III or IV is true (5) Only either III or IV and I are true 24. Statements: R D, D $ J, J # M, M @ K Conclusions: I. K # J II. D @ M III. R # M IV. D @ K (1) None is true (2) Only I is true (3) Only II is true (4) Only III is true (5) Only IV is true 25. Statements: M $ K, K @ N, N R, R # W Conclusions: I. W @ K II. M $ R III. K @ W IV. M @ N (1) Only I and II are true (2) Only I, II and III are true (3) Only III and IV are true (4) Only II, III and IV are true (5) None of these
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Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below Following are the conditions for selecting Senior Manager-Credit in a bank. The candidate must— (i) be a graduate in any discipline with atleast 60 percent marks. (ii) have post qualification work experience of at least ten years in the Advances Section of a bank. (iii) be at least 30 years and not more than 40 years as on 1.4.2010. (iv) have secured at least 40 percent marks in the group discussion. (v) have secured at least 50 percent marks in interview. In the case of a candidate who satisfies all the conditions EXCEPT— (A) at (i) above but has secured at least 50 percent marks in graduation and at least 60 percent marks in post graduation in any discipline the case is to be referred to the General Manager Advances. (B) at (ii) above but has total post qualification work experience of at least seven years out of which at least three years as Manager-Credit in a bank, the case is to be referred to Executive Director. In each question below details of one candidate is given. You have to take one of the following courses of action based on the information provided and the conditions and sub-conditions given above and mark the number of that course of action as your answer. You are not to assume anything other than the information provided in each question. All these cases are given to you as on 01.04.2010. Give answer (1) if the case is to be referred to Executive Director. (2) if the case is to be referred to General Manager-Advances. (3) if the data are inadequate to take a decision. (4) if the candidate is not to be selected. (5) if the candidate is to be selected. 26. Shobha Gupta has secured 50 percent marks in the Interview and 40 percent marks in the Group Discussion. She has been working for the past
eight years out of which four years as ManagerCredit in a bank after completing her B. A. degree with 60 percent marks. She was born on 12th September 1978. 27. Rohan Maskare was born on 8th March 1974. He has been working in a bank for the past twelve years after completing his B.Com. degree with 70 percent marks. He has secured 50 percent marks in both the Group Discussion and the Interview. 28. Prakash Gokhale was born on 4th August 1977. He has secured 65 percent marks in. post graduation and 58 percent marks in graduation. He has been working for the past ten years in the Advances Department of a bank after completing his post graduation. He has secured 45 percent marks in the Group Discussion and 50 percent marks in the Interview. 29. Sudha Mehrotra has been working in the Advances department of a bank for the past twelve years after completing her B.Com. degree with 60 percent marks. She has secured 50 percent marks in the Group Discussion and 40 percent marks in the Interview. She was born on 15th February 1972. 30. Amit Narayan was born on 28th May 1974. He has been working in the Advances department of a bank for the past eleven years after completing his B.Sc. degree with 65 percent marks. He has secured 55 percent marks in the Group discussion and 50 percent marks in the interview. Direcion: In each question below is given a statement followed by three courses of action numbered (A), (B) and (C). A course of action is a step or istrative decision to be taken for. improvement, follow-up or further action in regard to the problem, policy, etc. On the basis of the information given in the statement, you have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide which of the suggested courses of action logically follow(s) for pursuing. 31. Statement : A heavy unseasonal downpour during tho last two days has paralysed the, normal life in the state in which five persons were
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killed but this has provided a huge relief to the problem of acute water crisis in the state. Courses of action: (A) The state government should set up a committee to review the alarming situation. (B) The state government should immediately remove all the restrictions, on use of potable water in all the major cities in the state. (C) The state government should send relief supplies to all the affected areas in the state. (1) None (2) Only (A) (3) Only (B) and (C) (4) Only (C) (5) All (A), (B), (C) 32. Statement: A large private bank has decided to retrench one-third of its employees in view of the huge losses incurred by it during the past three quarters. Courses of action: (A) The Govt. should issue a notification to general public to immediately: stop all transactions with the bank. (B) The Govt. should direct the bank to refrain from retrenching its employees. (C) The Govt. should ask the central bank of the country to initiate an enquiry into the bank’s activities and submit its report. (1) None (2) Only (A) (3) Only (B) (4) Only (C) (5) Only (A) and (C) 33. Statement: Many political activists have decided to stage demonstrations and block traffic movement in the city during peak hours to protest against the steep rise in prices of essential commodities. Courses of action: (A) The Govt. should immediately ban all forms of agitations in the country. (B) The police authority of the city should deploy additional forces all over the city to help traffic movement in the city. (C) The state istration should carry out preventive arrests of the known criminals staying in the city. (1) Only (A) (2) Only (B)
(3) Only (C) (4) Only (A) and (B) (5) None of these 34. Statement: The school dropout rate in many districts in the state has increased sharply during the last few years as the parents of these children make them work in the fields owned by others to earn enough for them to get at least one meal a day. Courses of action: (A) The Govt. should put up a mechanism to provide foodgrains to the poor people in these districts through public distribution system to encourage the parents to send their wards to school. (B) The Govt. should close down some of these schools in the district and deploy the teachers of these schools to nearby schools and also ask remaining students to these schools. (C) Govt. should issue arrest warrants for all the parents who force their children to work in fields instead of attending classes. (1) Only (A) (2) Only (B) (3) Only (C) (4) Only (A) and (B) (5) None of these 35. Statement: One aspirant was killed due to stampede while participating in a recruitment drive of police constables. Courses of action: (A) The officials incharge of the recruitment process should immediately be suspended. (B) A team of officials should be asked to find out the circumstances which led to the death of the aspirant and submit its report within a week. (C) The Govt. should ask the home department to stagger the number of aspirants over more number of days to avoid such incidents in future. (1) Only (A) (2) Only (B) (3) Only (C) (4) Only (B) and (C) (5) None of these 36. Effect: Majority of the employees of the ailing organization opted for voluntary retirement scheme and left the organization with all their
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retirement benefits within a fortnight of launching the scheme. Which of the following can be a probable cause of the above effect ? (1) The company has been making huge losses for the past five years and is unable to pay salaryto its employees in time. (2) The management of the company made huge personal gains through unlawful activities. (3) One of the competitors of the company went bankrupt last year. (4) The company owns large tracts of land in the state which will fetch huge sum to its owners. (5) None of these 37. Statement: Most of the companies in IT and ITES sectors in India have started hiring from engineering college campuses this year and are likely to recruit much more than yearly recruitment of the earlier years. Which of the following substantiates the facts stated in the above statement ? (1) IT and ITES are the only sectors in India which are hiring from engineering college campuses. (2) Govt. has stepped up recruitment activities after a gap of five years. (3) The IT and ITES companies have now decided to vi sit the engineering college campuses for tier II cities in India as well. (4) Availability of qualified engineers will substantially in crease in the near future. (5) None of these 38. Cause: The Govt. has recently increased its taxes or, petrol and diesel by about 10 percent. Which of the following can be a possible effect of the above cause ? (1) The petroleum companies will reduce the prices of petrol and diesel by about 10 percent. (3) The petroleum companies will increase the prices of petrol and diesel by about 5 percent. (4) The petrol pumps will stop selling petrol and diesel till the taxes are rolled back by the govt. (5) None of these
39. Statement : The Govt. has decided to instruct the banks to open new branches in such a way that there is one branch of any of the banks in every village of population 1000 and above or a cluster of villages with population less than 1000 to provide banking services to all the citizens. Which of the following will weaken the step taken by the Govt. ? (1) The private sector banks in India have stepped up their branch expansion activities in rural India. (2) Many Govt. owned banks have surplus manpower in its urban branches. (3) All the banks including those in private sector will follow the govt. directive. (4) Large number of branches of many Govt. owned banks in the rural areas are making huge losses every year due to lack of adequate business activities. (5) None of these Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below. The centre reportedly wants to continue providing subsidy to consumers for cooking gas and kerosene for five more years. This is not good news from the point of view of reining in the fiscal deficit. Mounting subventions for subsidies means diversion of savings by the government from investment to consumption, raising the cost of capital in the process. The government must cut expenditure on subsidies to create more fiscal space for investments in both physical and social infrastructure. It should outline a plan for comprehensive reform in major subsidies including petroleum, food and fertilizers and set goal posts. 40. Which of the following is a conclusion which can be drawn from the facts stated in the above paragraph ? (1) Subsidy provided by the government under various heads to the citizen increases the cost of capital. (2) Govt. is unable to withdraw subsidies provided to various items.
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(3) Govt. subsidy on kerosene is purely a political decision. (4) Govt. does not have enough resources to continue providing subsidy on petroleum products. (5) None of these 41. Which of the following is an inference which can be made from the facts stated in the above paragraph ? (1) India’s fiscal deficit is negligible in (omparison to other emerging economies in the world. (2) Subsidy on food and fertilizers are essential for growth of Indian economy. (3) Reform in financial sector will weaken India’s position in the international arena. (4) Gradual withdrawal of subsidy is essential for effectively managing fiscal deficit in India. (5) None of these 42. Which of the following is an assumption which is implicit in the facts stated in the above paragraph ? (1) People in India may not be able to pay more for petroleum products. (2) Many people in India are rich enough to buy petroleum products at market cost. (3) Govt. may not be able to create more infrastructural facilities if the present level of subsidy continues for a longer time. (4) Govt. of India has sought assistance from international financial organizations for its infrastructural projects (5) None of these Direcion: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below. Poverty measurement is an unsettled issue, both conceptually and methodologically. Since poverty is a process as well as an outcome; many come out of it while others may be falling into it. The net effect of these two parallel processes is a proportion commonly identified as the ‘head count ratio’, but these ratios hide the fundamental dynamism that characterizes poverty in practice. The most recent poverty reestimates by an expert group has also missed the
crucial dynamism. In a study conducted on 13,000 households which represented the crucial dynamism. In a study conducted on 13,000 households which represented the entire country in 1993-94 and again on 2004-05, it was found that in the ten-year period 18.2% rural population moved out of poverty whereas another 22.1 % fell into it over this period. This net increase of about four percentage points was seen to have a considerable variation across states and regions. 43. Which of the following is a conclusion which can be drawn from the facts stated in the above paragraph ? (1) Accurate estimates of number of people living below poverty line in India is possible to be made. (2) Many expert groups in India are not interested to measure poverty objectively. (3) Process of poverty measurement needs to take into various factors to tackle its dynamic nature. (4) People living below poverty line remain in that position for a very long time. (5) None of these 44. Which of the following is an assumption which is implicit in the facts stated in the above paragraph ? (1) It may not be possible to have an accurate poverty measurement in India. (2) Level of poverty in India is static over the years. (3) Researchers avoid making conclusions on poverty measurement data in India. (4) Govt. of India has a mechanism to measure level of poverty effectively and accurately. (5) None of these 45. Which of the following is an inference which can be made from the facts stated in the above paragraph ? (1) Poverty measurement tools in India are outdated. (2) Increase in number of persons falling into poverty varies considerably across the country over a period of time. (3) Govt. of India has stopped measuring poverty related studies.
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DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION Direction: Study the following table carefully to answer the questions that follow Number (n) of candidates (in lakhs) appearing for an entrance examination From six different states and the percentage (p) of candidates clearing the same over the years STATE A B C D E F YEAR N P N P N P N P N P N P 2004 1.23 42 1.04 51 1.11 32 1.32 24 1.23 36 1.33 31 2005 1.05 43 1.12 62 1.07 47 1.15 49 1.18 55 1.24 24 2006 2.04 38 1.48 32 1.08 28 1.96 35 1.42 49 1.58 26 2007 1.98 41 2.07 43 1.19 30 1.88 46 1.36 47 1.79 29 2008 1.66 53 1.81 50 1.56 42 1.83 60 1.73 57 1.86 34 2009 1.57 39 1.73 36 1.64 52 2.01 56 1.69 55 1.95 37
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51. What is the respective ratio of total number of candidates clearing the entrance exam from State B in the year 2004 to those clearing the entrance exam from State C in the same year (1) 221: 148 (2) 218: 143 (3) 148: 221 (4) 143: 218 (5) None of these 52. In which year did the highest number of candidates clear the entrance exam from State D ? (1) 2008 (2) 2006 (3) 2009 (4) 2007 (5) None of these 53. What is the number of candidates not clearing the entrance exam from State A in the year 2007? (1) 186820 (2) .11682 (3) 1868200 (4) 1.16820 (5) None of these 54. What is the total numberof candidates clearing the entrance exam from States E and F together in the year 2006 ? (1) 16160 (2) 110660 (3) 1.1066 (4) 1106600 (5) None of these 55. What is the average number of candidates appearing for the entrance exam from State D in the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 together ? (1) 1.907
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62. What is the total number of females working in the Production and Marketing departments together ? (1) 468 (2) 812 (3) 582 (4) 972 (5) None of these 63. How many females work in the s department ? (1) 618 (2) 592 (3) 566 (4) 624 (5) None of these 64. The total number of employees who got promoted from all the departments together was what percent of the total number of employees working in all the departments together ? (Rounded off to the nearest integer) (1) 56 (2) 21 (3) 45 (4) 33 (5) 51 65. The number of employees who got promoted from the HR department was what percent of the total number of employees working in that department ? (rounded off to two digits after decimal) (1) 36.18 (2) 30.56 (3) 47.22 (4) 28.16 (5) None of these
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66. If the profit earned by Company L in the year 2005 was Rs. 1.84 lakhs, what was the profit earned by the company in the year 2006 ? (1) Rs. 2.12 lakhs (2) Rs. 2.3 lakhs (3) Rs. 2.04 lakhs (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these
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67. If the profit earned by Company M in the year 2008 was Rs. 3.63 lakhs, what was he amount of profit earned by it in the year 2006 ? (1) Rs. 2.16 lakhs (2) Rs.1.98 lakhs (3) Rs. 2.42 lakhs (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these 68. What is the average percent rise in profit of Company L over all the years together ? (1) 15
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5 (5) None of these 6 69. Which of the following statements is TRUE with respect to the above graph ? (1) Company M made the highest profit in the year 2009 (2) Company L made least profit in the year 2005 (3) The respective ratio between the profits earned by Company L and M In the year 2006 was 6:5 (4) Company L made the highest profit in the year 2008 (5) All are true 70. What is the percentage increase in percent rise in profit of Company M in the year 2009 from the previour year ? (1) 25 (2) 15 (3) 50 (4) 75 (5) None of these (4) 21
Direction: Study th a information carefully to answer the questions that follow. A school consisting of a total of 1560 students has boys and girls in the ratio of 7:5 respectively. All the students are enrolled in different types of hobby classes, viz: Singing, Dancing and Painting. One-fifth of the boys are enrolled in only Dancing classes. Twenty percent of the girls are enrolled in only Painting classes. Ten percent of the boys are enrolled in only Singing classes. Twenty four percent of the girls are enrolled in both Singing and Dancing classes together. The number of girls enrolled in only Singing
classes is two hundred percent of the boys enrolled in the same. One-thirteenth of the boys are enrolled in all the three classes together. The respective ratio of boys enrolled in Dancing and Painting classes together to the girls enrolled in the same is 2 :1 respectively. Ten percent of the girls are enrolled in only Dancing classes whereas eight percent of the girls are enrolled in both Dancing and Painting classes together. The remaining girls are enrolled in all the three classes together. The number of boys enrolled in Singing and Dancing classes together is fifty percent of the number of girls enrolled in the same. The remaining boys are enrolled in only Painting classes. 71. What is the total number of boys who are enrolled in Dancing ? (1) 318 (2) 364 (3) 292 (4) 434 (5) None of these 72. Total number of girls enrolled in Singing is approximately what percent of the total number of students in the school ? (1) 37 (2) 19 (3) 32 (4) 14 (5) 26 73. What is the total number of students enrolled in all the three classes together ? (1) 135 (2) 164 (3) 187 (4) 142 (5) None of these 74. Number of girls enrolled in only Dancing classes is what percent of the boys enrolled in the same? (rounded off to two digits after decimal) (1) 38.67 (2) 35.71 (3) 41.83 (4) 28.62 (5) None of these 75. What is the respective ratio of the number of girls enrolled in only Painting classes to the number of boys enrolled in the same ? (1) 77 : 26 (2) 21 : 73 (3) 26 : 77 (4) 73 : 21 (5) None of these
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Direction: Study the table carefully to answer the questions that follow. Profit (in rs. ‘000) made by six different shopkeepers over the months Month October November December January February March Shopkeeper 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 P 5.25 6.04 5.84 6.10 5.95 6.02 Q 4.84 4.28 4.97 4.88 5.04 5.12 R 4.99 5.82 5.48 5.45 5.68 5.36 S 5.06 5.11 5.28 5.38 5.44 5.59 T 5.28 4.96 5.31 5.69 4.93 5.72 U 5.94 6.23 5.87 6.07 6.19 6.23 76. What is the respective ratio between the profit earned by shopkeeper U in the months February-2010 and March - 2010 together to that earned by shopkeeper Q in the same months ? (1) 637: 512 (2) 621 : 508 (3) 512: 637 (4) 508: 621 (5) None of these 77. What is the percent increase in profit of shopkeeper S in the month of December - 2009 over the previous month ? (rounded off to two digits after decimal) (1) 3.15 (2) 2.67 (3) 2.18 (4) 3.33 (5) None of these 78. Which shopkeeper’s profit kept increasing continuously over the given months ? (1) R (2) Q (3) T (4) U (5) None of these 79. What is the difference in profit earned by shopkeeper T in January - 2010 from the previous month ? (1) Rs. 640/(2) Rs. 420/(3) Rs. 380/(4) Rs. 760/(5) None of these 80. What was the average profit earned by shopkeeper R in the months of October – 2009 and November – 2009 together ? (1) 5405 (2) 5040 (3) 4825 (4) 4950 (5) None of these Direction: Study the given graph carefully to answer the questions that follow
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81. If Carpenter X and Carpenter Y were to make a chair together how many days would they take? (1) 1 day (2) 4 days (3) 3 days (4) 2 days (5) None of these 82. If Carpenters X, Y and Z were to make a table together how many days would they take ? (1) 4 days (2) 3 days (3) 1 day (4) 2 days (5) None of these 83. What is the total number of days that Carpenter Z will take to make one piece each of all the four items together ? (1) 32 days (2) 24 days 1 days 59 (5) None of these (3) 1
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84. The radius of a circular field is equal to the side of a square field whose perimeter is 784 feet. What is the area of the circular field ? (1) 107914 Sq.ft (2) 120736 Sq.ft. (3) 107362 Sq.ft. (4) 127306 Sq.ft. (5) None of these
85. In how many different ways can the letters of the word ‘STRESS’ be arranged (1) 360 (2) 240 (3) 720 (4) 120 (5) None of these
Direction: Study the given table carefully to answer the questions that follow Number of people staying in five different localities and the percentage breakup of men, women and children in them LOCALITY TOTAL NO. PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE MEN WOMEN CHILDREN F 5640 55 35 10 G 4850 34 44 22 H 5200 48 39 13 I 6020 65 25 10 J 4900 42 41 17 86. Total number of people staying in locality J forms approximately what percent of the total number of people staying in locality F ? (1) 81 (2) 72 (3) 78 (4) 93 (5) 87 87. What is the total number of children staying in localities H and I together ? (1) 1287 (2) 1278 (3) 1827 (4) 1728 (5) None of these 88. The number of women staying in which locality is the highest ? (1) H (2) J (3) F (4) G (5) None of these 89. What is the total number of men and children staying in locality I together (1) 4115 (2) 4551 (3) 4515 (4) 4155 (5) None of these 90. What is the respective ratio of number of men staying in locality F to the number of men staying in locality H ? (1) 517: 416 (2) 403: 522 (3) 416: 517 (4) 522: 403 (5) None of these 91. The compound interest earned by Suresh on a certain amount at the end of two years at the rate of 8 p.c.p.a was Rs. 1,414.4. What was the total
amount that Suresh got back at the end of two years in the form of principal plus interest earned? (1) Rs. 9,414.4 (2) Rs. 9,914.4 (3) Rs. 9,014.4 (4) Rs. 8,914.4 (5) None of these 92. The respective ratio of the present ages of a mother and daughter is 7 : 1. Four years ago the respective ratio of their ages was 19:1. What will be the mother’s age four years from now ? (1) 42 years (2) 38 years (3) 46 years (4) 36 years (5) None of these 93. Three friends J, K and Ljog around a circular stadium and complete one round in 12, 18 and 20 seconds respectively. In how many minutes will all the three meet again at the starting point (1) 5 (2) 8 (3) 12 (4) 3 (5) None of these 94. 4 men can complete a piece of work in 2 days. 4 women can complete the same piece of work in 4 days whereas 5 children can complete the same piece of work in 4 days. If, 2 men, 4 women anW 10 children work together, in how many days can the work be completed ? (1) 1 day (2) 3 days (3) 2 days (4) 4 days (5) None of these
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95. The speed of a boat when travelling downstream is 32 Kms. / Hr. , whereas when travelling upstream it is 28 kms/hr. What is the speed of the boat in still water ? (1) 27 Kms./Hr. (2) 29 Kms./ Hr. (3) 31 Kms./ Hr. (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these Direction: Study the following tables carefully and answer the questions given below Number of Candidates appeared in a CompetitiveExamination from five centres over the years NUMBER Center Mumbai Delhi Kolkata Hydera Chennai Year -bad 2001 35145 65139 45192 51124 37346 2002 17264 58248 52314 50248 48932 2003 24800 63309 56469 52368 51406 2004 28316 70316 71253 54196 52315 2005 36503 69294 69632 58350 55492 2006 29129 59216 64178 48230 57365 2007 32438 61345 563041 49178 58492 Approximate-Percentages of candidatesqualified to appeared in the-Competitiveexamination from five centres over the years PERCENTAGE Mumbai Delhi Kolkata Hyderabad Chennai 12 24 18 17 9 10 28 12 21 12 15 21 23 25 10 11 27 19 24 8 13 23 16 23 13 14 20 21 19 11 16 19 24 20 14 96. In which of the following years was the difference in number of candidates appeared from Mumbai over the previous year the minimum ? (1) 2004 (2) 2006 (3) 2007 (4) 2002 (5) None of these
97. In which of the following years was the number of candidates qualified from Chennai, the maximum among the given years ? (1) 2007 (2) 2006 (3) 2005 (4) 2003 (5) None of these 98. Approximately what was the total number of candidates qualified from Delhi in 2002 and 2006 together ? (1) 27250 (2) 25230 (3) 30150 (4) 28150 (5) 26250 99. Approximately how many candidates appearing from Kolkata in 2004 qualified in the competitive examination ? (1) 13230 (2) 13540 (3) 15130 (4) 15400 (5) 19240 100.Approximately what was the difference between the number of candidates qualified from Hyderabad in 2001 and 2002 ? (1) 1680 (2) 2440 (3) 1450 (4) 2060 (5) 1860
GENERAL AWARENESS / MARKETING / COMPUTERS 101. What is the full form of ‘NBFC’ as used in the Fir ancial Sector ? (1) New Banking Finance Company (2) National Banking & Finance Corporation (3) New Business Finance & Credit (4) Non Business Fund Company (5) None of these 102.100% concession has been given for travelling in the Indian Railways for patients of ... (1) AIDS (2) Cancer (3) Swine Flu (4) T. B. (5) None of these 103.Many a times, we read about Special Drawing Right (SDR) in newspapers. As per its definition, SDR is a monetary unit of the reserve assets of which of the following organizations / agencies? (1) World Bank (2) International Monetary Fund (IMF) (3) Asian Development Bank (4) Reserve Bank of India (5) None of these
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104.Which of the following is/are the highlights of the Union Budget 2010-11 ? (A) Number of new steps taken to simplify the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regime. (B) Rs. 16,500 crore provided to ensure that the Public Sector Banks are able to attain a minimum 8% capital (Tier I) by March 2011. (C) More than Rs. 1,74,000 crore provided for the development of the infrastructure in the country. (1) Only A (2) Only B (3) Only C (4) All A, B & C (5) None of these 105.In how many Routes special tourist trains called ‘Bharat Tirth’ is to start? (1) 19 (2) 16 (3) 17 (4) 18 (5) None of these 106.As per the newspaper reports, the Govt. of India made an auction of the Third Generation Spectrum (3G) recently. Which of the following ministries was actively involved in the process a (1) Ministry of Heavy Industries (2) Ministry of Science & Technology (3) Ministry of Commerce (4) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (5) None of these 107.As per the recent announcement, the Govt. of India will provide an amount of Rs.48,000 crore to develop Rural Infrastructure in the country. This planned development is being undertaken under which of the following schemes ? (1) Bharat Nirman (2) Indira Aawas Yojana (3) Backward Region Grant Fund (4) Drought Mitigation Fund (5) None of these 108.Ladies special trains to be renamed with the Name of ... (1) Bharat Bhoomi Specials (2) Sonia Gandhi Specials (3) Matri Bhoomi Specials (4) Rajiv Gandhi Specials (5) None of these
109.How much funds has been allocated to the Unique Identification Authority of India? (1) Rs 1,500 Crore (2) Rs 1,900 Crore (3) Rs 1,600 Crore (4) Rs 1,800 Crore (5) None of these 110. What is the rate of Income Tax for incomesz above Rs 1.6 lakh upto Rs 5 lakh? (1) 10% (2) 12% (3) 15% (4) 20% (5) None of these 111. Recently, India took part in “Nuclear New Build 2010 Conference” organized in (1) New Delhi (2) London (3) Paris (4) Hong Kong (5) None of these 112. What is the reduction in Service Charges on etickets? (1) Sleeper Class Rs. 20 & AC Class Rs. 10 (2) Sleeper Class Rs. 10 & AC Class Rs. 20 (3) Sleeper Class Rs. 30 & AC Class Rs. 20 (4) Sleeper Class Rs. 20 & AC Class Rs. 30 (5) None of these 113. As we know, with the launch of Nano by Tatas, India has become favourite Small Car Destination of the world. Other than India, which of the following countries is also a popular destination of small cars ? (1) Britain (2) (3) (4) Thailand (5) None of these 114. Imports from China in the Year of 2008-09 in Rs... (1) 100,000 Crore (2) 140,000 Crore (3) 147,605 Crore (4) 151,000 Crore (5) None of these 115. How many new teams have been added in IPL 2010? (1) 2 (2) 1 (3) 4 (4) 7 (5) None of these 116.Which countries have recently faced Tsunami Waves? (1) Japan & Chile (2) Sallie & Korea (3) China & Thailand (4) Japan & China (5) None of these
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117. North Korea and USA decided to resume their peace talks after a gap of several months. Both the countries have a dispute over which of the following issues ? (1) Bailout package offered by USA (2) hip of ASEAN to North Korea (3) Nuclear programme of North Korea (4) Soaring relations of China with North Korea (5) None of these 118. Who amongst the following was the Chairperson of the 13th Finance Commission which submitted its report to the President of India recently ? (1) Mr. M. V. Kamath (2) Dr. C. Rangarajan (3) Dr. D. Subbarao (4) Dr. Rakesh Mohan (5) Dr. Vijay Kelkar 119.As per the news published in various newspapers, the RBI is considering the grant of licence to some new companies, particularly NBFCs to act as full-fledged banks. Which of the following will be considered NBFC ? (1) NABARD (2) Life Insurance Corporation of India (3) Reliance Capital (4) SEBI (5) None of these 120.Who has scored the highest individual ODI Score? (1) Saeed Anwar (Pak) (2) Charls Coventry (Zim) (3) Sachin Tendulkar (IND) (5) Ricky Pointing (Aus) (5) None of these 121. What is an ‘intranet’ (1) Internal internet used to transfer information internally (2) Internal internet used to transfer information to the outside company (3) Internal network designed to serve the internal informational needs of a single organization (4) Internal network designed to transfer the information between two organizations (5) None of these
122.Which of the following groups of cricket teams was declared t winner of the Col. C K Naidu Trophy for 2009 ? (1) Tamil Nadu & Gujarat (2) Maharashtra & Kerala (3) Punjab & Delhi (4) West Bengal & Maharashtra (5) None of these 123. Kaiane Aldorino who was crowned Miss World 2009 is from which of the following countries? (1) (2) Russia (3) Austria (4) Belgium (5) Gibraltar 124. Which of the following teams won the Davis Cup Tennis Finals 2009 ? (1) (2) Spain (3) Russia (4) (5) None of these 125. Who amongst the following is the recipient of the “CNN-IBN Indian of the Year” Award for 2009? (1) Ratan Tata (2) A.R.Rahman (3) Manmohan Singh (4) Sachin Tendulkar (5) None of these 126. The deficit reduction plan of which of the following countries was reviewed recently in the meeting of the Finance Ministers of the European Union ? (1) (2) Romania (3) Brazil (4) Hungary (5) Greece 127. The database ’s function in an organization is — (1) To be responsible for the more technical aspects of managing the information contained in organizational databases (2) To be responsible for the executive level aspects of decisions regarding the information management (3) To show the relationship among entity classes in a data warehouse (4) To define which data mining tools must be used to extract data (5) None of these
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128.Every device on the Internet has a unique______ address (also called an “Internet address”) that identifies it in the same way that a street address identifies the location of a house. (1) DH (2) DA (3) IP (4) IA (5) None of these 129. To send another station a message, the main thing a has to know is (1) how the network works (2) the other station’s address (3) whether the network is packet-switched or circuit-switched (4) whether this is a voice or data network (5) None of these 130. In a client/ server model, a client orogram (1) asks for information (2) provides information and files (3) serves software files to other computers (4) distributes data files to other computers (5) None of these 131. Control in design of an information system is used to — (1) inspect the system and check that it is buiit as per specifications (2) ensure that the system processes data as it was designed to and that the results are reliable (3) ensure privacy of data processed by it (4) protect data from accidental or intentional loss (5) None of these 132. Each of the following is a true statement except— (1) on-line systems continually update the master file (2) in on-line processing, the enters transactions into a device that is directly connected to the computer system (3) batch processing is still used today in older systems or in some systems with massive volumes of transactions (4) information in batch systems will always be up-to-date” (5) None of these
133.A set of interrelated components that collect, process, store, and distribute information to decision making and control in an organization best defines (1) communications technology (2) a network (3) an information system (4) hardware (5) None of these 134.Ais a computer connected to two networks. (1) link (2) server (3) gateway (4) bridge way (5) None of these 135. When you save a presentation, (1) all slides in a presentation are saved in the same file (2) two files are created; one for graphics and one for content (3) a file is created for each slide (4) a file is created for each animation or graphic (5) None of these 136.In a customer database, a customer’s surname would be keyed into a — (1) row (2) text field (3) record (4) computed field (5) None of these 137. Who is the new Prime Minister of Hungry ? (1) Victor Orban (2) Gorden Bajnai (3) Jeno Fock (4) Ference Gyurcsany (5) None of these 138. Storing same data in many places is called (1) iteration (2) concurrency (3) redundancy (4) enumeration (5) None of these 139.Which of the following is the first step in the ‘transaction processing cycle’, which captures business data through various modes such as optical scanning or at an electronic commerce website ? (1) Document and report generation (2) Database maintenance (3) Transaction processing (4) Data Entry (5) None of these
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140.CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is— (1) Apre-sales activity (2) A tool for lead generation (3) An ongoing daily activity (4) The task of a DSA (5) All of the above 141. Who is the new prime minister of Denmark ? (1) Anders Fogh Rasmussen (2) Lars Looke Rasmussen (3) Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (4) Poul Hartling (5) None of these 142. Who is the Author of the book “My China Diary” (1) Kanwal Sibal (2) Salman Haider (3) J.N. Dixit (4) Natwar Singh (5) None of these 143.One of the following is not involved in the Growth Strategies of a Company (1) Horizontal integration (2) Vertical integration (3) Diversification (4) Intensification (5) None of these 144.A successful “Blue Ocean Strategy” requires (1) Effective communication (2) Innovative skills (3) Motivation (4) All of the above (5) None of these 145.Programs from the same developer , sold bundled together , that provide better integration and share common features , toolbars and menus are known as .... (1) software suites (2) integrated software packages (3) software processing packages (4) personal information managers (5) none of these 146.A data warehouse is which of the following ? (1) Can be updated by the end s (2) Contains numerous naming conventions and formats (3) Organized around important subject areas (4) Contains only current data (5) None of these
147.__________ servers store and manages files for network s. (1) Authentication (2) Main (3) Web (4) File (5) None of these 148.One of the following is not included in the 7 P’s of Marketing. Find the same (1) Product (2) Price (3) Production (4) Promotion (5) None of these 149. The target group for SME loans is (1) All Businessmen (2) All Professionals (3) All SSIs (4) All of the above (5) None of these 150. Home Loans can be best canvassed among (1) Builders (2) Flat owners (3) Land developers (4) Agriculturists (5) Individuals wanting to buy a flat or house
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Direction: Read the following age carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/ phrases have been printec in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. Governments have traditionally equated economic progress with steel mills and cement factories. While urban centers thrive and city dwellers get rich, hundreds of millions of farmers remain mired in poverty. However, fears of food shortages, a rethinking of antipoverty priorities and the crushing recession in 2008 are causing a dramatic shift in world economic policy in favour of greater for agriculture. The last time when the world’s farmers felt such love was in the 1970s. At that time, as food prices spiked, there was real concern that the world was facing a crisis in which the planet was simply unable to produce enough grain and meat for an expanding population. Governments across the developing world and international aid organisations plowed investment into agriculture in the early 1970s, while technological breakthroughs, like high-yield strains of important
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food crops, boosted production. The result was the Green Revolution and food production exploded. But the Green Revolution became a victim of its own success. Food prices plunged by some 60% by the late 1980s from their peak in the mid- 1970s. Policymakers and aid workers turned their attention to the poor’s other pressing needs, such as health care and education. Farming got starved of resources and investment. By 2004, aid directed at agriculture sank to 3.5% and “Agriculture lost its glitter.” Also, as consumers in high-growth giants such as China and India became wealthier, they began eating more meat, so grain once used for human consumption got diverted to beef up livestock. By early 2008, panicked buying by importing countries and restrictions slapped on grain exports by some big producers helped drive prices upto heights not seen for three decades. Making matters worse, land and resources got reallocated to produce cash crops such as biofuels and the result was that voluminous reserves of grain evaporated. Protests broke out across the emerging world and fierce food riots toppled governments. This spurred global leaders into action. This made them aware that food security is one of the fundamental issues in the world that has to be dealt with in order to maintain istrative and political stability. This also spurred the U.S. which traditionally provisioned food aid from American grain surpluses to help needy nations, to move towards investing in farm sectors around the globe to boost productivity. This move helped countries become more productive for themselves and be in a better position to feed their own people. Africa, which missed out on the first Green Revolution due to poor policy and limited resources, also witnessed a ‘change’. Swayed by the success of East Asia, the primary poverty-fighting method favoured by many policymakers in Africa was to get farmers off their farms and into modern jobs in factories and urban centers. But that strategy proved to be highly insufficient. Income levels in the countryside badly trailed those in cities while the FAO estimated that the number of poor going hungry in 2009 reached an all time high at more than one billion.
In India on the other hand, with only 40% of its farmland irrigated, entire economic boom currently underway is held hostage by the unpredictable monsoon. With much of India’s farming areas suffering from drought this year, the government will have a tough time meeting its economic growth targets. In a report, Goldman Sachs predicted that if this year too receives weak rains, it could cause agriculture to contract by 2% this fiscal year, making the government’s 7% GDP-growth target look “a bit rich”. Another green revolution is the need of the hour and to make it a reality, the global community still has much backbreaking farm work to do. 151. What is the author’s main objective in writing the age (1) Criticising developed countries for not bolstering economic growth in poor nations (2) Analysing the disadvantages of the Green Revolution (3) Persuading experts that a strong economy depends on industrialization and not agriculture (4) Making a case for the international society to engineer a second Green Revolution (5) Rationalising the faulty agriculture policies of emerging countries 152.Which of the following is an adverse impact of the Green Revolution ? (1) Unchecked crop yields resulted in large tracts of land becoming barren (2) Withdrawal of fiscal impetus from agriculture to other sectors (3) Farmers began soliciting government subsidies for their produce (4) Farmers rioted as food prices fell so low that they could not make ends meet (5) None of these 153.What is the author trying to convey through the phrase “making the government’s 7% GDP growth target look “a bit rich” ? (1) India is unlikely to achieve the targeted growth rate (2) Allocation of funds to agriculture has raised India’s chances of having a high GDP
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(3) Agricultural growth has artificially inflated India’s GDP and such growth is not real (4) India is likely to rave one of the highest GDP growth rates (5) A large portion of India’s GDP is contributed by agriculture 154.Which of the following factors was/were responsible for the neglect of the farming sector after the green revolution ? (A) Steel and cement sectors generated more revenue for the government as compared to agriculture. (B) Large scale protests against favouring agriculture at the cost of other important sectors such as education and healthcare. (C) Attention of policy makers and aid organizations was diverted from agriculture to other sectors. (1) None (2) Only (C) (3) Only (B) & (C) (4) Only (A) 8s (B) (5) All (A), (B) & (C) 155.What prompted leaders throughout the world to take action to boost the agriculture sector in 2008? (1) Coercive tactics by the U.S. which restricted food aid to poor nations (2) The realization of the link between food security and political stability (3) Awareness that performance in agriculture is necessary in order to achieve the targeted GDP (4) Reports that high-growth countries like China and India were boosting their agriculture sectors to capture the international markets (5) Their desire to influence developing nations to slow down their industrial development. 156.What motivated the U.S. to focus on investing in agriculture across the globe ? (1) To make developing countries become more reliant on U.S. aid (2) To ensure grain surpluses so that the U.S. had no need to import food (3) To make those countries more self sufficient to whom it previously provided food
(4) To establish itself in the market before the high-growth giants such as India and China could establish themselves (5) None of these 157. What impact did the economic recession of 2008 have on agriculture ? (1) Governments equated economic stability with industrial development and shifted away from agriculture (2) Lack of implementation of several innovative agriculture programmes owing to shortage of funds (3) It prompted increased investment and interest in agriculture (4) The GDP as targeted by India was never achieved because of losses in agriculture (5) None of these 158. What encouraged African policymakers to focus on urban jobs ? (1) Misapprehension that it would alleviate poverty as it did in other countries (2) Rural development outstripped urban development in many parts of Africa (3) Breaking out of protests in the country and the fear that the government would topple (4) Blind imitation of western models of development (5) None of these 159.Which of the following had contributed to exorbitant food prices in 2008 ? (A) Hoarding of food stocks by local wholesalers which inadvertently created a food shortage. (B) Export of foodgrains was reduced by large producers. (C) Diverting resources from cultivation of foodgrains to that of more profitable crops. (1) None (2) Only (C) (3) Only (B) (4) All (A), (B) & (C) (5) Only (B) & (C) 160.Which of the following is true about the state of agriculture in India at present ? (A) Of all the sectors, agriculture needs the highest allocation of funds. (B) Contribution of agriculture to India’s GDP
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this year would depend greatly upon the monsoon rains. As India is one of the high-growth countries, it has s jrplus food reserves to export to other nations. Only (A) and (C) (2) Only (C) Only (B) (4) Only (B) and (C) None of these
Direction: Choose the word/group of words which is most similar it meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the age. 161. STARVED (1) Deprived (3) Hungry (5) Emaciated 162. SLAPPED (1) Beaten (3) Withdrawn (5) Persuaded 163. PLOWED (1) Cultivated (3) Recovered (5) Withdrew
(2) Disadvantaged (4) Fasting
(2) Imposed (4) Avoided
(2) Bulldozed (4) Instilled
Direction: Choose the word/phrase which is most opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the age. 164. PRESSING (1) Unpopular (3) Unobtrusive (5) Unimportant 165. EVAPORATED (1) Absorbed (3) Grew (5) Mismanaged
(2) Undemanding (4) Unsuitable
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Direction: Which of the phrases (1), (2),(3) and (4) given below each statement should be placed in the blank space provided so as to make a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence ? If none of the sentences is appropriate, mark (5) i.e. ‘None of these’ as the answer. 166.Refuting the rationale behind frequent agitations for formation of separate States, a recent report
(1) proved that such agitations result in loss of governmental property (2) indicated that the formation of small states does not necessarily improve the economy (3) suggested that only large scale agitations have been effective in bringing out desired change in the past (4) recommended dividing large States into smaller ones to improve governance (5) None of these 167. Overlooking the fact that water scarcity intensifies during summer, (1) the government issued guidelines to all builders to limit their consumption to acceptable limits (2) provision for rainwater harvesting has been made to aid irrigation in drought prone areas (3) the water table did not improve even after receiving normal monsoon in the current year (4) many residential areas continue to use swimming pools, wasting large quantities of water (5) None of these 168.He has lost most of his life’s earning in the stock market but (1) He still seems to be leading his life luxuriously and extravagantly (2) he could not save enough to repay his enormous debts (3) stock market is not a safe option to invest money unless done with caution (4) experts have been suggesting to avoid investments in stock market because of its unpredictable nature (5) None of these 169.Achieving equality for women is not only a laudable goal, (1) political reforms are also neglected preventing women from entering legislatures and positions of power (2) the problem is also deep rooted in the society and ed by it (3) their empowerment is purposefully hampered by people with vested interests in all sections of the society
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(4) it is also equally difficult to achieve and maintain for a long term (5) None of these 170. _______or else they would not keep electing him year after year. (1) The party leader gave a strong message to the mayor for improving his political style (2) Owing to numerous scandals against the mayor, he was told to resign from the post immed iately (3) The mayor threatened the residents against filing a complaint against him (4) The residents must really be impressed with the political style of their mayor (5) None of these Direction: Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. 171. Drawing attention to the pitfalls of______solely on Uranium as a fuel for nuclear reactors, Indian scientists warned that Uranium will not last for long and thus research on Thorium as its____ must be revived. (1) using, substitute (2) believing, replacement (3) depending, reserve (4) reckoning, option (5) relying, alternative 172. In an effort to provide ______ for higher education to all, most of the universities have been providing education without adequate infrastructure, thus churning out ______ graduates every year. (1) chances, fresh (2) platform, capable (3) opportunities, unemployable (4) prospects, eligible (5) policy, incompetent 173.The move to allow dumping of mercury _____ an outcry from residents of the area who _____ that high levels of mercury will affect their health and destroy ecologically sensitive forest area.
(1) resulted, insist (2) provoked, fear (3) incited, determined (4) activated, accept (5) angered, believe 174. _______ has been taken against some wholesale drug dealers for dealing in surgical items without a valid license and maintaining a stock of _____ drugs. (1) Note, overwhelming (2) Step, impressive (3) Execution, outdated (4) Action, expired (5) Lawsuit, invalid 175. Even as the _____ else where in the world are struggling to come out of recession, Indian consumers are splurging on consumer goods and to _____ this growth, companies are investing heavily in various sectors. (1) economies, meet (2) countries, inhibit (3) governments, measure (4) nations, inflict (5) companies, counter Direction:Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) to make a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions which follow (A) While these disadvantages of bio fuels are serious, they are the only alternate energy source of the future and the sooner we find solutions to these problems the faster we will be able to solve the problems wo are now facing with gasoline. (B) This fuel can also help to stimulate jobs locally since they are also much safer to handle thaw” gasoline and can thus have the potential to turnaround a global economy. (C) These include dependence on fossil fuels for the machinery required to produce biofuel which ends up polluting as much as the burning of fossil fuels on roads and exorbitant cost of biofuels which makes it very difficult for the common man to switch to this option.
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(D) This turnaround can potentially help to bring world peace and end the need to depend on foreign countries for energy requirements. (E) Biofuels are made from plant sources and since these sources are available in abundance and can be reproduced on a massive scale they form an energy source that is potentially unlimited. (F) However everything is not as green with the biofuels as it seems as there are numerous disadvantages involved which at times overshadow their positive impact. 176. Which of the following sentence should be the FIFTH after rearrangement ? (1) A (2) B (3) C (4) E (5) F 177. Which of the following sentence should be the THIRD after rearrangement ? (1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E 178. Which of the following sentence should be the FIRST after rearrangement ? (1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E 179. Which of the following sentence should be the SIXTH (LAST) after rearrangement ? (1) A (2) C (3) D (4) E (5) F 180. Which of the following sentence should be the SECOND after rearrangement ? (1) A (2) B (3) D (4) E (5) F Direction: Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3) and (4) given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct ? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, mark (5) as the answer. 181. Soon after the Tsunami had killed thousands of people along the coasts of southern India, parliament psssas a bill that proposed to set up an institutional mechanism to respond promptly to natural disasters.
(1) ed a bill that proposed (2) es a bill with purpose (3) a bill proposing (4) ed a bill which propose (5) No correction required 182. Denial of wages forced scientists and teachers at the agriculture universities throughout the country to go on strike, crippling crucial research that could help the state of agriculture in the country. (1) from going on strike (2) which went on strike (3) on going for a strike (4) for going to strike (5) No correction required 183. In an attempt to boost their profits many edible oil producing companies have been engaging themselves in propaganda against commonly used oils and. promoting exotic and expensive varieties of oils as more healthier options. (1) as most healthiest options (2) as less healthy option (3) as a healthier option (4) as much healthiest option (5) No correction required 184. Thanks to numerous government initiatives, rural masses which was earlier unaware of the luxuries of urban ways of living are now connected to the same lifestyle. (1) who was earlier unaware (2) which were earlier aware (3) who were earlier conversant (4) who were earlier unaware (5) No correction required 185. Over the last few months, while most industries are busy in restructuring operations, cutting costs and firing, the Indian pharmaceutical and healthcare industry was adding manpower and giving salary hikes. (1) as many industries are (2) while most industries were (3) while many industries is (4) where many industries were (5) No correction required
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BASIC GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Largest – World Largest continent ........................................... Asia Largest ocean ............................................... Pacific Largest river .............................................. Amazon Largest river basin ..................................... Amazon Largest lake (salt water) ....................... Caspian sea Largest lake (fresh water) .......... Lake Superior (North America) Largest artificial lake ..... Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, (USA). Originally known as Boulder. Largest bay ................ Hudson Bay (North Canada) Largest gulf ..................................... Gulf of Mexico Largest gorge ........................ Grand Canyon (USA) Largest sea .................................... South China sea Largest delta ....... Sundarbans (India & Bangladesh) Largest peninsula ........................................ Arabia Largest island ......................................... Greenland Largest country (in area) .............................. Russia Largest country (in population) ...................... China Largest temple` ................... Angkorwat (Cambodia) Largest archipelago ................................. Indonesia Largest airport ... King Khalid International Airport at Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) Largest church ................ St.Peter's Basilica, (Rome) Largest mosque ...... Sha Faisal Mosque (Islamabad) Largest embassy............ Russian Embassy (Beijing) Largest war plane .......................... Mirage () Largest prison ............................. Kharkov (Russia) Largest hotel ........... MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas (USA) Largest desert .................................. Sahara (Africa) Largest forest ........................ Coniferous Forests of Northern Russia Largest stadium ................. Strahove (Czech Republic) Largest library .... United States Library of Congress Largest museum .................... American Museum of Natural History (New York) Largest animal ....................................... Blue whale Largest land animal ........... The African Bush Elephant Largest democracy ......................................... India Largest electorate ........................................... India Largest town ......................... Mt. Isa (Queensland)
Largest palace ..................... Imperial Palace, Beijing Largest dam ........................... Three Gorges (China) Largest landmass ................ The Eurasian Landmass Largest park .. Wood Buffalo National Park (Canada) Largest zoo ...... Krugal National Park (South Africa) Largest river island ......................... Majuli (Assam) Largest inland sea ....................... Mediterranean sea Largest canal ........................ Keil Canal in Largest reef ............... Great Barrier Reef, (Australia) Largest city (population) ................... Tokyo (Japan) Largest estuary..................................... Ob (Russia) Largest cave ........ Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (USA) Largest strait ........................................ Tartar strait Largest wall ......................... The Great Wall (China) Largest cemetery ....................... Leningrad (Russia) Largest railway station ......... Grand Central Terminal (New York) Largest university building ..................................... University of Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) Largest open university ........ Indira Gandhi National Open University (New Delhi) Largest steel plant .......... Nippon Steel plant (Japan) Largest wingspan .................................... Albatross Largest active volcano ............ Mauna lao on Hawaii Largest planet ............................................. Jupiter Largest bird ................................................. Ostrich Largest sea bird ....................................... Albatross Largest diamond ................................. The Cullinan Largest parliament . The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China Largest north to south stretch of land ........ America Largest cold desert ........................ Gobi (Mongolia) Largest plateau ................................... Pamir (Tibet) Largest mountain range ..................... The Himalaya Largest statue ............................... Statue of liberty Largest bank .................... World bank (Washington) Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system known in the world. It is situated in USA. It became a World Heritage Site on October 27, 1981, and an international Biosphere Reserve on September 26, 1990. It is centered around the Green River, with a tributary, the Nolin River, feeding into the Green just inside the park.
Largest army.................................................. China Largest cricket stadium ......... Melbourne (Australia) Largest navy .................................................. USA Largest airforce ............................................... USA Largest natural satellite ............. Ganymede (Jupiter) Largest port .......................................... New Jersey Largest book publishing company .......................... Mc Graw Hill (New York) Largest Dome in the World... Astrodome, in Housten (U.S.A) Largest Epic ........................................ Mahabharat Largest carnivorous mammal ................... Polar Bear
SMALLEST – World Smallest continent .................................... Australia Smallest ocean .............................................. Arctic Smallest republic ........................................... Nauru Smallest colony ......................................... Gibraltar Smallest state .............................................. Vatican Smallest landmass ............... The Australian Mainland Smallest bird ..................................... Humming bird Smallest flowering plant ................................ Wolfia Smallest planet .......................................... Mercury World's Smallest Museum .................... Arizona, US World's Smallest PC ............................. Space Cube
Abu Dhabi’s leaning Tower The 160 met re Capital Gate Tower, developed by the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Co mpany has been recognized as the ‘furthest leaning ‘man made tower’in the world by Guinness world records. The tower leans at 18 degrees over four times the angle of Italy’s famo us Leaning Tower of Pisa.
HIGHEST – World Highest mountain peak Highest mountain Highest lake Highest plateau Highest continent Highest waterfall Highest active volcano Highest capital city Highest town
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Highest volcano Highest airport Highest railway station Highest river bridge Highest road bridge
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Mt. Everest (Nepal) Himalaya Titicaca (Bolivia) Tibet Antartica Angel Falls, (Venezuela) Guayathiri (Chile) La Paz (Bolivia) Wenchuan (Tibet)
Highest railway
Cotopaxy (Ecuador) Lhasa Airport (Tibet) Condor Station (Bolivia) Royal Gorge (Colorado) Bailey bridge built by the Indian Army at Khardungla (Ladakh) - Qinghai - Tibet (5072m)
Highest Bridge
- Milau () 2.46 km)
LONGEST – World Longest river - Nile (Egypt) Longest road - Pan American Highway Longest railway platform - Kharagpur, (West Bengal) Longest dam - Hirakud (Orissa) Longest mountain range - Andes (South America) Longest railway tunnel - Seikan Rail Tunnel (Japan) Longest railway line - Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia) Longest ship canal - Suez Canal Longest estuary - Obeestuary (Russia) Longest road tunnel - St. Gothard Road Tunnel (Switzerland) Longest bridge - Second Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Reliant Astrodome is the world's first domed sports stadium, located in Houston, Texas, USA. It opened in 1965 as Harris County Domed Stadium and was nicknamed the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
Longest fresh water lake Longest epic Longest wall Longest non-stop train Longest drought
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Longest snake Longest dictionary Longest Airport Longest Railway Bridge Longest Throughfare Longest Shipping Canal Longest day Longest Beach Longest Corridor
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Longest Railway Line – Longest Swimming Canal –
Lake Tanganyika Mahabharatha Great Wall of China Flying Scotsman Atacama Desert (North Chile) Python Oxford English Dictionary Dallas (USA) Lower Zambezi (Africa) Broadway (New York) Baltic White Sea Canal June 21 Rio de Janerio (Brazil) Rameswaram Temple (India) Trans - Siberian Railway English Canal
TALLEST – World Tallest fountain ................... Fountain Hills, Arizona Tallest free standing structure (tower) .... CN Tower, Toronto (Canada) Tallest active geyser ................. Steam boat Geyser Yellowstone National Park, (USA) Tallest building ..................... Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Tallest tree ................................ The Redwood Tree Tallest animal ............................................... Giraffe Tallest road.... Khardungla (Leh Manali, India) Tallest office building .............. Petronas Twin Tower (Kualalumpur, Malaysia) Tallest bridge ...... Royal Gorge Arkansas, America) Tallest Statue ........... Statue of Motherland (USSR) Tallest Minaret ...... Sultan Hassan Mosque (Egypt) Tallest Railwayline .......... Quin - Hai - Tibet (China)
BIGGEST –World Biggest dome ........................... Gol Gumbaz (India) Gol Gumbaz is the mausoleum of Mohammed Adil Shah (1627-55) of the Adil Shahi dynasty who ruled the Sultanate of Bijapur from 1490 to 1686. Biggest library .................. National Kie Library (CIS) Biggest palace .................................. Vatican (Italy) Biggest desert ................................ Sahara (Africa)
Biggest reptile ......................... Saltwater Crocodile Biggest lizard .............................. Komodo Dragons Biggest bird ................................... African Ostrich Biggest eggs ..................................... Ostrich Eggs Biggest flower ......................................... Rafflesia. The Ostrich, Struthio camelus, is a large flightless bird native to Africa. The Ostrich is the largest living species of bird Biggest planet ............................................ Jupiter Biggest enger ship .............. Queen Elizebeth II Biggest diamond mine ...... Kimberley (South Africa) Biggest car manufacturer ............... General Motors (Detroit, America) Irrigation scheme .............. Llyod barraye (Pakistan) Island .......... Greenland (Renamed Kalaallit Nunnat) Water fall .......................................... Guaira (Brazil) Hotel ............................................... Conrad Hilton Biggest Park ................. Yellow stone National Park Biggest Auditorium .............. Municipal Auditorium at Atlantic City Biggest football stadium ............. Marakana (Brazil)
DEEPEST – World Deepest ocean ................................... Pacific Ocean Deepest lake ........................... Lake Baikal, (Siberia) Deepest gorge ....................... Hell’s Canyon, (USA) Deepest point in the ocean ........ Challenger deep of Mariana Trench in Pacific Ocean
MISCELLANEOUS – World Fastest land animal .................................... Cheetah Oldest national flag ................................... Denmark Fastest bird .................................................... Swift Shortest river ........ Roe river in Montana (61 m long) Lowest point on earth .............................. Dead Sea Most densely populated province ............ Monacco Least populous city ..................................... Vatican The oldest plant ............................................. Rose The oldest capital city............................. Damascus Most poisonous fish .............................. Puffer fish Coldest place ............................ Vostok,(Antarctica) Hottest planet ............................................... Venus Strongest natural fibre ...................................... Silk Lowest temperature ............. Absolute Zero (-273oC) Widest Bridge..................... Sydney Harbour Bridge Busiest airport Chicago O'Hare International Airport
Island continents ............... Antarctica and Australia Lowest mountains ........................... Bheinna Bhaile Hottest region .... North-West Sahara, Azisia (Libya) Fastest planet ............................................ Mercury Coldest planet ........................................... Neptune Widest Waterfall .................................. Khone Falls Oldest Religion ........................................ Hinduism
Slowest animal ................................................ Snail Heaviest Rainfall ....................... Mawsynram (India) Driest place ....................... Death valley (California) Hottest place ..................................... Azizia (Libya) Furthest planet (from the sun) .................... Neptune Shortest day ....................................... December 22
FIRST in World
The first persons to reach Mount Everest – – Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary The first person to reach North Pole – Robert Peary The first person to reach South Pole – Amundsen The first religion of the world – Hinduism The first country to print book – China The first country to issue paper currency – China The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services – China The first President of the U.S.A – George Washington The first Prime Minister of Britain – Robert Walpole The first Governor General of the United Nations – Trigveli (Norway) The first country to prepare a constitution – U.S.A The first Governor General of Pakistan – Mohd. Ali Jinnah The first country to host NAM summit – Belgrade (Yugoslavia) The first European to attack India – Alexander, The Great The first European to reach China – Marco Polo The first person to fly aeroplane – Wright Brothers The first person to sail round the world – Magellan
The first country to send man to the moon – U.S.A The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space – Russia The first country to host the modern Olympics – Greece First human in space - Yuri Gagarin (Russia) The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped – Hiroshima (Japan) The first person to land on the moon Neil Armstrong followed by – Edwin E. Aldrin The first shuttle to go in space – Columbia The first spacecraft to reach on Mars – Viking-I The first woman Prime Minister of England – Margaret Thatcher The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country – Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan) The first woman cosmonaut of the world – Valentina Tereshkova (Russia) The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut – Mohd. Azharuddin The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice – Nawang Gombu
The first U.S. President to resign Presidency – Richard Nixon Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Junko Taibei The first European to visit China – Marco Polo Man to walk in Space – Alexei Leonov The first woman Prime Minister of a country – Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike The first woman President of a country – Maria Estela Peron The first woman to Command a Space Mission Colonel – Eileen Collins (U.S.A.) First talkie movie in the world – “The jazz Singer” (1927). The first residents of International Space station – Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia) The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest – Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001) The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International – lrine Zubeida Khan The first space astronaut to go into space seven times till date – Jerry Ross (U.S.A.) The first South African to become the second space tourist – Mark Shuttleworth The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea – Ms. Chang Sang The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess – Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine) The first adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft – Felix Baumgartner (July 2003)
China's first man in space – Yang Liwei The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize – Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003) The woman with the highest individual Test score making a new world record – Kiran Baloch (Pakistani cricketer, scoring 242 runs playing women's cricket test against West Indies in Karachi in March, 2004) The first woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest four times – Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali) The first woman to cross seven important seas of the world by swimming – Bula Chaudhury (India) First Asian city to host Olympics – Tokyo, Japan (1964) First woman black tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon – A Gibson (1957) First woman to win a Grand Slam – Maureen Catherine (195 3) First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal – Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900) First professional woman bullfighter – Patricia Mccormick (1952) First man to fly solo non stop across the Atlantic – Charles Lindbergh (1927) First person to cross Antarctic Circle – James Cook (1773) First people to reach the North Pole – Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict (1952) First person to conquer the Everest twice – Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965) First person with only one arm to climb the Everest – American Gary Guller(2003) First woman to fly solo around the world – jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964) First woman to fly solo across the English Channel – Hariiet Quimby
First ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen – Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner, (Italy) (1978) First woman to set foot on North Pole – Ann Bancroft, USA (1986) – tly developed by Sony and Philips (1978) First Atom Bomb – “Little Boy” dropped over Hiroshima by the US during the second world war (1945) First manned space vehicle – Vostok 1,USSR (1961) First human to walk on the Moon – Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969) First human to walk in space – Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)
GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES DISCOVERER
DISCOVERY
Christopher Columbus (Italian)................... America Vasco da Gama (Portuguese) ...... Sea route to India John Cabot (British) ....................... New foundland Pedro Alvarez Cabral (Portuguese) ................. Brazil Tasman (Dutch) Island of Tasmania & New Zealand Captian Cook (British) . Sandwich (Hawaiin) Islands Robert Peary (USA) ............................... North Pole Amundsun (Norway) ............................. South Pole Ferdinand de Lesseps (Designed) .......... Suez Canal David Livingstone (British) ................ Victoria Falls Bartholomew Diaz (Portuguese) ....... Cape of Good Hope Norseman Eric ........................................... Greenland
RIVERSIDE CITIES & COUNTRIES
City
River
Country
Alexandria Brussels Chittagong Glasgow Khartoum Lisbon Liverpool Shanghai Berlin Bonn Amsterdam Baghdad Bangkok Belgrade London Montreal Moscow Budapest Colombo Cairo Karachi Lahore New York Paris Yangoon Rome Tokyo Vienna Warsaw Washington Basra
Nile Seine Karnaphuli Clyde Nile Tagus Mersey Yangtze-Kiang Spree Rhine Amsel Tigris Menam Danube Thames Ottawa Moskva Danube Kaliganga Nile Indus Ravi Hudson Seine Irawadi Tiber Sumida Danube Vistula Potamac Eupharates and Tigris Avon Rhine Liphi Elbe Delawara Vitava St. Lawrence Volga
Egypt Belgium Bangladesh Scotland Sudan Portugal England China Netherlands Iraq Thailand Serbia England Canada Russia Hungary Sri Lanka Egypt Pakistan Pakistan USA Myanmar Italy Japan Austria Poland U.S.A.
Leif Ericsson ....................................... North America Mungo park ............................... Nigeria river in Africa Richard Francis Burton ..................... Lake Tanganyika Henry Hudson ....................................... Hudson Bay Gobot Sebastian ................................ New Foundland Marco Polo ..................................................... China Kepler .......................................................... Planets
Bristol Cologne Dublin Hamburg Philadelphia Prague Quebec Stalingrad
Iraq England Ireland America Czechoslovakia Canada Russia
NATIONAL EMBLEMS EMBLEM ............................................. COUNTRY Kangaroo ................................................ Australia Water Lilly .......................................... Bangladesh White Lilly ........................................ Canada, Italy Beach ....................................................... Denmark Lily ............................................................. Corn Flower ............................................. Lioned Capital ................................................ India Lion ..................................... Sri lanka, Sierra Leone Rose ......................................................... UK, Iran Shamrock .................................................... Ireland White Lilly ...................................................... Italy Chrysanthemum ............................................ Japan Kiwi .................................................. New Zealand Crescent .................................................... Pakistan Eagle ............................................................. Spain Elephant .............................................. Ivory Coast Lion with Crown .................................. Luxembourg Golden Rod ................................................... U.S.A Secretary Bird............................................... Sudan Bauhinia (orchid tree) .......................... Hong Kong Baobab tree ................................................ Senegal Lion .......................... Netherland, Norway, Belgium Crescent and Star ........................................ Turkey Cedar tree ................................................ Lebanon The Soyombo.......................................... Mongolia
SOBRIQUETS World Britain of the East : Britain of the South : Battle field of Europe : City of Cycles : City of Dreaming Spires : City of Eternal Springs : City of Sky Scrappers : City of Magnificent Distances : City of Golden Gate : City of Seven Hills Cockpit of Europe Copper Country Dark Continent Empire City Emerald Island
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Japan New Zealand Belgium Beijing Oxford Quito (Ecuador) NewYork Washington D.C San Francisco (U.S.A) Rome (Italy) Belgium Zambia Africa NewYork (U.S.A) Ireland
Eternal City Forbidden City Gateway of Tears
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Garden of England George Cross Island Granite City
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Herring Pond : Hill Queen : Holy Land : Hermit Kingdom : Island of Pearls : Island of Cloves : Key to the Mediterranean : Land of Eagles : Land of Golden Fleece : Land of Kangaroo : Land of Lilies : Land of Golden Pagoda : Land of Maple : Land of Thousand Lakes : Land of Morning Calm : Land of Rising Sun : Land of Setting Sun : Land of Midnight Sun : Land of Lakes : Land of the Tulips : Land of White Elephant : Land of Thunder Bolt : Land of Thousand Elephants : Manchester of the Orient : Never, Never Land : Land of Thunder Dragon Nation of Thousand Hills Pearl of Arabia Pearl of Antilles Pillars of Hercules Playground of Europe Quaker City of USA Queen of the Adriatic Roof of the World Sorrow of China Sickman of Europe
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Rome, Italy Lhasa, Tibet Strait of Bab-el Mandeb Kent Malta Aberdeen (Scotland) Atlantic Ocean Shimla Palestine Korea Bahrain Madagascar Gibraltar Albania Australia Australia Canada Myanmar Canada Finland Korea Japan Britain Norway Scotland Netherlands Thailand Bhutan Laos Osaka Prairies, N. Australia China Rwanda Bahrain Cuba Strait of Gibraltar Switzerland Philadelphia,USA Venice, Italy Pamirs River Huang Ho Turkey
Sugar Bowl of World Venice of the North
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White City Windy City World’s Bread Basket Island of fire Land of windmills Land of Perpetual Greenary World Loneliest island
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Cuba Stockholm, Sweden Belgrade Chicago Paris of N. America Iceland Polland Natal Tristanda Cunha
COUNTRIES AND CURRENCIES Brazil ................................................ :Cruzeiro Real Bulgaria ......................................................... : Lev Belgium ......................................................... Euro China ........................................... : Yuan/Renminbi Columbia ..................................................... : Peso Cuba ........................................................... : Peso Costa Rica ................................................... Colon Croatia ......................................................... Kuna Cyprus ........................................... Cyprus pound Czech Republic .......................................... Koruna Denmark .................................................... : Krone Egypt ......................................... : Egyptian Pound Afghanistan ........................................... : Afghani Argentina .................................................... : Peso Australia ................................... : Australian Dollar Bahrain ....................................................... : Dinar Bangladesh .................................................. : Taka Bhutan ................................................. : Ngultrum Hungary ..................................................... : Forint Iran .............................................................. : Rial Switzerland....................................... : Swiss Franc Thailand ....................................................... : Bhat U.K. ............................................. : Pound Sterling U.S.A. ........................................................ : Dollar Norway ....................................................... Krone Vatican City State .......................................... : Lira Iraq .................................................... : Iraqi Dinar Israel ......................................................... : Shekel Japan ............................................................ : Yen Kazakhstan ............................................... : Tenge Korea .......................................................... : Won Kuwait ........................................... : Kuwaiti Dinar Malaysia ................................................. : Ringgit Mexico ........................................................ : Peso
Myanmar ..................................................... : Kyat Russia ...................................................... : Rouble Saudi Arabia ................................................ : Riyal Vietnam ...................................................... : Dong Mongolia .................................................. : Tugrik Algeria ............................................. Algeria Dinar Angola .............................................. New Kwanza Armenia ........................................................ Dram Azerbaijan ................................................... Manat Austria .................................................... Schilling Bahrain ........................................................ Dinar Georgia ........................................................... Lari Ghana ............................................................ Cedi Indonesia ................................................... Rupiah 16 European Countries with Eura as currency are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, , , Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.
COUNTRIES AND THEIR PARLIAMENT Afganistan Australia Bangladesh Bhutan Britain China Denmark Hungary Iceland India Iran Iraq Israel Japan Kuwait Libya Maldives Myanmar Nepal Netherlands Poland Russia
: Shora : Federal Parliament : Jatiya Sangsad : Tshogdu (National Assembly) : Parliament (Commons & Lords) : National People’s Congress : Folketing : National Assembly : National Assembly : Althing : Parliament (Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha) : Majlis : National Assembly : Knesset : Diet : National Assembly : General People’s Congress : Majlis : People’s Assembly : National Panchayat : States General : Sejm : State Duma
South Africa Sweden Switzerland Afganistan Algeria Australia Cuba Egypt Greenland Norway Pakistan USA Srilanka Sudan Syria USA: Vietnam
: House of Assembly : Riksdag : Federal Assembly : Bundestag : Shora : National Peoples Assembly : House of representative of senate : National Assembly of people power : People’s Assembly : Landstraad : Sterling : National Assembly : Congress : National State : National Assembly : People Council Congress : National Assembly
NEW AND OLD NAMES OF PLACES, COUNTRIES New Name ........................................... Old Name Ankara ..................................................... Angora Banjail .................................................... Bathurst Bengalooru........................................... Bangalore Beijing ....................................................... Peking Belize ......................................... British Honduras Bangladesh ..................................... East Pakistan Botswana ..................................... Bechuana Land
National Flowers
Maple leaf ............................ Canada ............... ..... Lotus ... ... .................. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... a Indi .. Thistle .............................. Scotland ............... .................. Pomegranate ... Spain ..................... old Vatle .......................... G sissa s ... ... ... ... ... ar Australia N . ... ........................ nflower China .................. Su ... ... ... .................. ... ... ... ... ... ... ia ss Ru ater Lilly .......................... W Ba ngladesh ......... ................................. Lilly ... .................. ................... Corn Flower ... ... ... ... ... ... y. German Shamrock ........................... ... ... ... ... ... ... nd la Ire nthemum ............... Chrysa Japan ..................... ................. Gol den Rose ...... USA ..................... ... Rose .............................. ... ... ... ... ... ... UK ......
Burkino Faso ...................................... Upper Volta Cape Kennedy.............................. Cape Caneveral Cambodia ........................................... Kampuchia Djibouti .................................... French Somaliland Ethiopia ................................................ Abyssinia Ghana ................................................. Gold Coast Guyana ........................................... British Guinia Guianea Bissau ...................... Portuguese Gayana. Harare .................................................. Salisburry Hawaiin Islands ......................... Sandwich Islands Indonesia ............................ The Dutch East India Iran ............................................................ Persia Iraq ................................................. Mesopotamia Istanbul ........................................ Constantinople Jakartha .................................................... Batavia Japan ....................................................... Nippon Kinshasa ........................................... Leopoldville Kiribati ............................................ Gilbert Island Laos ........................................................ Lanxang Lesotho............................................... Basitoland Mexico ................................................ New Spain Malavi ................................................. Nyasaland Mali ............................................... French Sudan Malaysia .................................................. Malaya Malabo ............................................. Santa Isabet Madhya Pradesh ........................ Central Province Manchuria ........................................... Manchuko Myanmar .................................................... Burma Mosambique ......................... Potuguese East Africa Mumbai ................................................... Bombay Namibia .................................... South West Africa Nauru ........................................... Pleasant Island Orissa ...................................................... Kalinga Papua New Guinea ...... Trust Territory of New Guinea Portuguese ............................................. Lucitania Sri Lanka ................................................... Ceylon St. Petersburg ....................................... Leningrad Surinam .......................................... Dutch Gayana Taiwan ................................................... Formosa Tasmani .................................. Van Diemen’s Land Thailand ....................................................... Siam Togo ..................................................... Togoland Tuvalu ...................................... The Ellice Islands Varanasi .................................................. Banares
Volgograd ............................................. Stalingrad Zaire ......................................................... Congo Zambia .................................... Northern Rhodesia Zimbabwe.............................................. Rhodesia
india HIGHEST Highest peak Highest water falls Highest gate way
- Mt. K2 (Godwin Austin) - Jog falls (Karnataka) - Buland Darwaza (Fathepur sikri) Highest literacy among state - Kerala Highest tower - Qutabminar Highest dam - Bhakra Dam (Punjab) Highest multiple arch dam - Idukki (Kerala)
LARGEST Largest populated city Largest fresh water lake
- Mumbai - Kolleru (Andhra Pradesh) Largest salt water lake - Chilka (Orissa) Largest state - Rajasthan Largest populated state - Uttar Pradesh Largest museum - Indian museum (Kolkata) Largest zoo - Zoological Garden (Kolkata) Largest dome - Gol Gumbaz (Karnataka) Largest mosque - Jama Masjid (New Delhi) Largest desert - Thar (Rajasthan) Largest river Island - Majuli (Brahmaputra) Largest monastery - Tawang monastery (Arunachal Pradesh) Largest cave temple - Ellora (Maharashtra) Largest animal fair - Sonepur fair (Bihar) Largest plateau - Deccan plateau Largest river in South India Godavari Largest prison - Puzhal Jail (Chennai) Largest planetarium - Birla planetarium (Kolkata) Largest G.P.O - Mumbai G.P.O Largest church - St. Cathedral (Old Goa) Largest cinema theatre - Thangam Theatre
Largest exhibition ground - Pragati Maidan (New Delhi) Largest arch dam - Idukki dam (Kerala) Largest library - National library (Kolkata) Largest aircraft carrier - INS Viraat Largest landing ship - INS Magrar Largest union territory - Andaman Nicobar Islands Largest gurudwara - Golden Temple (Amritsar) Largest residence - Rashtrapati Bhavan Largest river Barrage - Farakka Barrage Largest open university - Indira Gandhi Open University (New Delhi) Largest Ocean Island - Middle Andaman
LONGEST Longest Canal Longest River Longest Tunnel
- Indira Gandhi canal - Ganga - Kharbude (Konkan Railway) Longest Dam - Hirakud (Orissa) Longest National Highway- N.H. 7 Longest Railway platform - Kharagpur (West Bengal) Longest Corridor - Rameswaram Temple corridor Longest Hanging bridge - Howra bridge Longest Train Service - Himasagar express Longest Bridge - Anna Indira(Rameswaram to Mandap) Longest Glacier - Siachen Glacier Longest River bridge - Mahatma Gandhi Sethu
SMALLEST Smallest state (Area) Smallest state (population) Smallest state (forest area) Smallest Union Territory -
Goa Sikkim Haryana Lakshadweep
Miscellaneous (India) Biggest hotel .............. Oberoi - Sheraton (Mumbai) Highest statue ........................ Gomateswara Statue
Highest award (civilian) ..................... Bharat Ratna Highest Gallantry award ............... Param vir chakra Most literate state ........................................ Kerala Least literate state .......................................... Bihar Most densely populated state ............ West Bengal Least densely populated state ... Arunachal Pradesh Most populated city ................................. Mumbai Busiest bridge ............................. Howra (Calcutta) Oldest Refinery.............................. Digboi (Assam) Most literate Union Territory............. Lakshadweep Fastest Train ............................... Shatabdi express Least populated Union Territory........ Lakshadweep
SOBRIQUETS India All Seasons State Blue Mountains City of Palaces City of Golden Temple Garden City of India Gateway of India Granary of India Land of Five Rivers Pearl of the Orient Pink City
: Himachal Pradesh : Nilgiri : Calcutta : Amritsar : Bangalore : Mumbai : Punjab : Punjab : Goa : Jaipur
Lake City Switzerland of India Paradise on Earth Mini-Switzerland in India
: Udaipur : Kashmir : Kashmir : Khajjar (Himachal Pradesh) Sorrow of Bengal : River Damodar Sorrow of Bihar : River Kosi Sorrow of Assam : Brahmaputra Spice Garden of India : Kerala Sugar Bowl of India : Uttar Pradesh Tea Garden of India : Assam Detroit of India : Pitampur Land of Sunrise in India : Arunachal Pradesh Hi-Tech City : Hyderabad Manchester of South India : Coimbatore Manchestor of India : Ahamadabad Mini Switzerland : Himachal Pradesh City of orange : Nagpur Weavers city of India : Panipat Silicon vally of India : Banglore Clouds of house : Megalaya Gods own land of India : Kerala City of Padala : Jaipur Holly wood of India : Mumbai Silent Share : Hadakh Perly East : Goa
PERSONS WITH POPULAR NAMES WORLD Light of the world : Jesus Prince of Pilgrimage : Huien Tsang The Wizard of Menlopark: Edison Rascal monk : Rasputin Good Shepherd : Jesus Christ Apostle of Free Trade : Richard Cobden King of Rock & Roll : Elvis Presley Columbus of Space : Neil Armstrong Master of Suspense : Alfred Hitchcock Second Duke : Benitto Mussolini Iron Duke : Duke of Wellington
Poet’s Poet : Edmund Spenser Desert Fox : Erwin Rommel Lady with the Lamp : Florence Nightingale G.B.S : George Bernard Shaw Little Corporal : Napoleon Bonaparte Maid of Orleans : Joan of Arc Fuhrer (also Fuehrer) : Adolf Hitler Man of Blood and Iron : Otto von Bismarck Maiden Queen : Queen Elizabeth I Bard of Avon : William Shakespeare Grand Old Man of Britain : Gladstone American Gandhi : Martin Luther King
The Daughter of East Iron Butterfly Iron Lady African Gandhi
: Benazir Bhutto : Margaret Thatcher : Margaret Thatcher : Dr. Kenneth Kaunda
INDIA Prince of Beggars Bengali Tiger Maratha Kesari Punjab Lion Sage of Sabarmati Indian Machiavelli Indian Napoleon Leopard of the Snow Indian Bismarck Light of Asia Lokmanya Loknayak J.P C.R. Rajaji Deenabandhu Deshabandhu Grand Old Man of India Mahamana
: Madan Mohan Malaviya : Bipin Chandra Pal : Bal Gangadhar Tilak : Lala Lajpat Rai : Mahatma Gandhi : Chanakya : Samudragupta : Ang Rita : Sardar Vallabhai Patel : Buddha : Bal Gangadhar Tilak : Jayaprakash Narayan : Jayaprakash Narayan : C. Rajagopalachari : C. Rajagopalachari : C.F. Andrews : C.R. Das : Dadabhai Naoroji : Madan Mohan Malaviya Mahatma : Gandhiji Bapu : Gandhiji Gurudev : Rabindranath Tagore Guruji : Golwalkar Iron Lady of India : Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini : Indira Gandhi Barefooted painter : M.F. Hussain Kipper : K.M. Cariappa Indian Shakespeare : Kalidasa Badshah Khan : KhanAbdul Ghaffar Khan Frontier Gandhi : KhanAbdul Ghaffar Khan Faker-e-Afghan : KhanAbdul Ghaffar Khan Netaji : Subash Chandra Bose Prince of Patriots : Subash Chandra Bose Birdman of India : Salim Ali Nightingale of India : Sarojini Naidu Lion of Kashmir : Sheikh Mohammed T.T.K. : T.T. Krishnamachari Andhra Kesari : Tangutri Prakasam Grand Old Man of IndianJournalism : Tushar Kanti Ghosh
Acharya : Vinobha Bhave Sage of Paunar : Vinobha Bhave Man of Peace : Lal Bahadur Shastri Babuji : Jagjeevan Ram Little Master : Sunil Gavaskar Flying Sikh : Milkha Singh Mysore Tiger : Tippu Sultan Sage of Kanchi : Sankaracharya Saint of Gutters : Mother Theresa Man of the Masses : K. Kamaraj Golden Girl of Indian Athletics: P.T. Usha Anna : C.N. Annadurai Akbar of Kashmir : Zian-ul-Abideen Kuvembu : K.V. Puttappa Rani of Jhansi : Lakshmibai Shahid : Bhagat Singh Kathal Mannan : Gemini Ganesan Natikar Tilakam : Sivaji Ganesan Chachaji : Jawaharlal Nehru Sher-e-Punjab : Ranjit Singh Punjab Kesari : Lala Lajpat Rai Milkman of India
: Varghese Kurian
KERALA Bharat Kesari Beypore Sultan Mayyazhi Gandhi Kerala Simham Swadeshabhimani Pulayaraja Valiya Diwanji Kerala Kalidasa Kerala Panini Kerala Vyasa Kerala Chaucer Kerala Orphuse Kerala Gandhi KeralaValmiki Kerala Scott
: Mannathu Panabhan : Vaikam Mohammed Bashir : K.P. Kumaran Master : Pazhassi Raja : Ramakrishna Pillai : Ayyankali : Raja Keshavadas : Kerala Varma Valiya Koyithampuran : A.R. Rajaraja Varma : Kodungalloor Kunhikuttan Thampuran : Chiramakavi : Changampuzha Krishna Pillai : K. Kelappan : Vallathol Narayana Menon : C.V. Raman Pillai
Kerala Ibsen Kerala Mauppasant Kerala Thulasidas Kerala Hemmingway Kesari Deshabhimani Sahitya Panchanan
: N. Krishna Pillai : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai : Vennikulam Gopala Kurup : M.T. Vasudevan Nair : A. Balakrishna Pillai : Ramakrishna Pillai : P.K. Narayana Pillai
FAMOUS FATHERS World Father of Psychology.................. Sigmund Freud Father of Cloning ............................... Ian Wilmut Father of Printing .............................. Guttenberg Father of History ............................... Herodotus Father of Economics ........................ Adam Smith Father of Philosophy ............................ Socrates Father of Sociology ................. Augustus Comte Father of English Poetry .......... Geoffrey Chaucer Father of Biology.................................. Aristotle Father of Essay................................. Montaigne Father of Medicine .......................... Hippocrates Father of Homeopathy .............. Samuel Haniman Father of Socialism ......................... Robert Owen Father of Scientific Socialism ................. Karl Marx Father of Co-operation ................... Robert Owen Father of Jurisprudence .................. John Locke Father of Atom Bomb .......................... Otto Hahn Father of Genetics ........................ Gregor Mendel Father of Motor Car ......................... Henry Ford Father of Reformation ................... Martin Luther Father of Greek Democracy .............. Clesthenes Father of Bangladesh . Sheikh Mujibur Rehman Father of Pakistan ............. Muhammed Ali Jinnah Father of Tanzania ......................... Julius Nyrere Father of Mathematics ...................... Pythagorus Father of Modern Cartoon ........ William Hogarth Father of Modern Computer .......... Charles Babbage Father of Nuclear Physics ...... : Ernest Rutherford Father of Modern Drama ............. Henrik J. Ibsen Father of Modern Tourism ............ Thomas Cook Father of Painting .................. Leonardo Da Vinci Father of Green Revolution ........ Norman Borlaug Father of Renaissance ............................ Petrarch
INDIA Father of the Nation ................... Mahatma Gandhi Father of Ayurveda ................................ Athreya Father of Astronomy....................... Varahamihira Father of Sanskrit Drama ....................... Kalidasa Father of Indian Renaissance . Raja Ram Mohan Roy Father of Surgery.................................... Susruta Father of Indian Unrest ............ .Bal Gangadhar Tilak Father of Indian Budget ........ Professor Mahalanobis Father of Indian Painting ............... Nandalal Bose Father of Indian Cinema .............. Dada Saheb Phalke Father of Indian Engineering ............ M.Visweswariah Father of Indian Green Revolution .......................... Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Father of Indian Railway ............. Lord Dalhousie Father of Co-operative Movement in India .......... Frederic Nicholson Father of Indian Printing ................ James Hickey Father of Local Self Government in India ... Lord Ripon
KERALA Father of Malayalam Language ........ Ezhuthachan Father of Modern Travancore ... Marthanda Varma Father of Kerala Renaissance .... Sree Narayana Guru Father of Modern Hinduism .. Adi Shankaracharya
WORLD INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR FOUNDERS United Nations
: Joseph Stalin (USSR), Winston Churchill (UK) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (USA) Red Cross : Jean-Henri Dunant Boy Scouts : Baden Powell Y.M.C.A. : Sir George Williams Kindergarten : Froebel Lion’s Club : Melvin John Salvation Army : William Booth Nursing System : Florence Nightingale Fascism : Benito Mussolini Protestant Religion : Martin Luther Nazism : Adolf Hitler Montessori System : Maria Montessori Cubism : Pablo Picasso Amnesty International : Peter Berenson
India Jainism : Vardhamana Mahavira Taoism : Lao Tse Bahaism : Mirza Hussain Ali Confucianism : Confucius Sikhism : Guru Nanak Zorastrianism (Parsis) : Zoraster Bhoodan Movement : Vinoba Bhave Sarvodaya Movement : Jaya Prakash Narayan Ramakrishna Mission : Swami Vivekananda Arya Samaj : Dayananda Saraswathi Brahma Samaj : Raja Ram Mohan Roy Dev Samaj : Siva Narayan Agnihothri Prarthana Samaj : Kesab Chandra Sen Suddhi Movement : Swami Shradhanand Chinmaya Mission : Swami Chinmayananda Servants of India Society: Gopalakrishna Gokhale Indian Association : Surendranath Banerji Peoples Education Society : Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Vana Mahothsav : K.M. Munshi Theosophical Society of India : Annie Besant
MANKIND AND VARIOUS TRIBES Mongolians living in Assam regions ........ Abhors The Dutch born in South Africa ............ Afrikaners The people of England ...................... Anglo Saxon Ancient Dravidians living in central India and Rajastan ........................................................ Bhils Dutch settlers in South Africa ....................... Boers People of Croatia, Slovenia .......................... Croats People in south east frontiers of Russia .. Cossacks Inhabitants of Greenland and of Arctic regions... Eskimos Natives of the Philippine Islands ............. Flemings Hill tribes of Assam ........................ Khasis / Garos People of W.Asia. (Turkey, Iran and Iraq) ... Kurds Natives of New Zealand ............................. Maoris Short sized people found in the forests of Africa .... .. Pygmies Original inhabitants of North America . Red Indians Aborigines of West Bengal, Bihar & Orissa.... ........... Santhals Natives of Nilgiri Hills (South India) ............. Todas People of South Africa living in certain parts of Natal Zulus The people of Nagaland ............................. Angami
Arunachal Pradesh ................................. A palamis Tamil Nadu .............................................. Badagas Uttar Pradesh ............................................ Bhotias Hazaribagh .................................................. Birhor Himachal Pradesh ....................................... Gaddis Orissa ...................................................... Khonds Madhya Pradesh ............................................. Kol Manipur ........................................................ Kuki Sikkim ........................................................ Labora Tripura ...................................................... Lushais Bihar ......................................................... Munda Kerala ........................................................ Ooralis Maharashtra .............................................. Warlies
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
Red crystal flag Black Flag Yellow flag
: Red Cross : Protest : Put on ship carrying people with infectious disease Dove : Peace Olive branch : Peace Red Flag : Revolution Red triangle : Family planning White Flag : Peace Maharaja : Air India Lotus : Culture and Civilization Wheel : Progress Red Cross : Hospital / Medical Service Black band arm : Sign of Mourning, in Protest Blind folded woman : Justice holding a Balance Scale Flag at a half most : National Mourning Flag up side down :Distress
OFFICIAL BOOKS Blue Book Green Book Orange Book White Book White Paper Gray Book
: British : Italy & : Netherlands : & China : India : Japan & Belgium
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES Air Brake ........................... George Westinghouse Aniline Dyes .......................................... Hoffman Adding Machine ............................. Balise Pascal Aeroplane ................................. : Wright Brothers Air Conditioner ....................................... : Carrier Atom Bomb ....................................... : Otto Hahn Aspirin .................................................... : Dreser Alcohol Thermometer .......................... : Farenheit Atomic Thermometer .................................. : Bohr Atomic Theory ........................................ : Dalton Atomic Number ....................................... Mosley Atomic Structure ................. Bohr and Rutherford Automobile ............................................ : Daimler Antiseptic Surgery .................. Lord Joseph Lister Archimedean Screw .......................... Archimedies Avogadro's Hypothesis ........................ Avogadro Ball Pen ..................................................... : Loud Balloon ......................................... : Montogolfier Blood Circulation ................................... : Harvey Barometer ............................................ : Torricelli Bicycle ............................................. : Mac Millan Braily System ................................. : Louis Braille Beri - Beri ................................................ Eijkman Blood Circulation ..................................... Harvey Boson ................................................... S.N.Bose Boyle's law ................................................. Boyle Braille ............................................... Louis Braille Computer ................................ : Charles Babbage Chloroform ...................... : James Young Simpson Cinema .................................... : Lumiere Brothers Cinema Projector ............... : Thomas Alva Edison Crescograph ........................................ : J.C. Bose Celluloid ................................................... Parkes Chloroform ............................ James Harrison and James Young Simpson Cholera Bacillus .................................. Robert Koch Coloured Photography ............................... Lippman Cosmic Rays ....................................... R.A.Millikan Cyclotron ................................................. Lawrence Diesel Engine ............................... : Rudolf Diesel Dynamo ................................... : Michael Faraday Dynamite ........................................ : Alfred Nobel Deuterium (Heavy Water) ...................... H.C.Urey
Diesel Oil Engine ............................ Rudolf Diesel Discovery of Solar System ...... Copernicus (1540) Discovery of Specific Gravity ........... Archimedes Electric Battery ............................................. Volta Electric Lamp ............................................ Edison Electricity ................................................ Faraday Electron Theory ........................................... Bohr Electrical Waves .......................................... Heitz Electric Measurement ................................. Gauss DDT ........................................... : Dr. Paul Muller Electron ....................................... : J.J. Thompson Electric Lamp ..................... : Thomas Alva Edison Elevator .......................................... : Elisha G Otis Fountain Pen ...................................... : Waterman Fahrenheit Scale ................................. Fahrenheit Film & Photographic goods ....................... Kodak Glider .......................................... : George Cayley Generator ............................................. : Piciontti Gramaphone ...................... : Thomas Alva Edison Gun Powder .................................. : Roger Bacon Geometry.................................................... Euclid Hydrogen .......................................... : Cavendish Helicopter .............................................. Broquett Helium Gas .............................................. Lockyer Homoeopathy .................................. Hahnemann Hovercraft ............................................... Cockrell Hydrophobia .................................. Louis Pasteur Jet Engine ............................... : Sir Frank Whittle Intelligence Tests ...................................... : Binet Insulin ................................................ : F. Banting Induction of Electric Current .................... Faraday Incandescent Bulb ................................... Edison Induction Coil ................................... Rohm Korff Insulin .................................................. F.Banting Intelligence test ........................................... Binet Jet Propulsion ................................ Frank Whittle Law of Gravitation ........................ : Issac Newton Law of Heredity.................................. : G. Mendal Laser ..................................... : Theodore Maiman Lightning Conductor .............. : Benjamin Franklin Logarithm ....................................... : John Napier Laughing Gas ......................................... Priestley Life Boat .................................. Henry Great Head
Lift (Elevators) .............................................. Otis Linotype ........................................ Mergenthaler Line of demarcation (ship) ....................... Plimsoll Laws of Electrical Resistance ........................ Ohm Law of Electrolysis .................................. Faraday Law of gases ..................................... Gay Lussac Laws of Gravitation ................................. Newton Laws of Heredity ........................ Gregory Mandel Laws of Motion ....................................... Newton Laws of Natural Selections ....................... Darwin Laws of Multiple Proportion ...................... Dalton Liquid Oxygen ........................................... Dewar Machine Gun ...................... : Dr. Richard Gattling Maser ................................... : Charles H. Townes Microphone .................................... : Graham Bell Measurement of Electrical Energy............... Joule, James Prescoft Meson .......................................... Hideki Yakawa Microscope ................................................ Janes Molecular Scattering of light in fluid . Ramanathan Neon Gas ................................... Ramsay, Travers Neutron ................................................ Chadwick Nuclear Fission .......... Otto Hahn, Bohr and Fermi Nylon Plastic ........................................ Carothers Oxygen ............................................ : J.B.Preistly Origin of Species .......................... Charles Darwin Parachute ..................................... : A.J. Garnerian Pencillin ................................ : Alexander Fleming Photography (Film) ........................ : John Carbutt Periodic Law....................................... Mendeleef Phonograph ............................................. Edison Phonographic Shorthand ........................... Pitman Photograph ......................................... Dauguerre Principle for lever (S.P.Gravity).......... Archimedes Phototherapy ..................................... N.R.Finsen Positive Electrons ................................. Anderson Powerloom .......................................... Cartwright Pneumatic Tyre ......................................... Dunlop Printing for the Blind .................................. Braille Printing Press ........................................... Caxton Printing Types ........................... John Guttenberg Psycho-analysis ...................... Dr.Sigmund Freud Rayon ...................................... : Sir Joseph Swan Radio-activity of Uranium .......... Henry Becquerel Raman effect ....................................... C.V.Raman Radium .......................................... Madame Curie
Railway Engine ................................. Stephenson Radio transmitter ............................ Alexanderson Rare Gas ............................................. Cavandish Replacing human heart ............. Christian Barnard Revolver ....................................................... Colt Quantum Theory ................................. Max plank Refrigerator ................................ : James Harrison Safety Lamp ................................ Humphry Davy Safety Match .................................... Land Strom Safety Pin ........................................ William Hunt Safety Razor ............................................. Gillette Sewing Machine ............... Barthelling Thimonnier Short Hand................................................ Pitman Solar System ..................................... Copernicus Steam Engine .................................... James Watt Steam Turbine ......................................... Parsons Spectroscope .......................................... Bunsen Stethoscope .................................. Rene Laennee Submarine ................................... David Bushnell Seismograph ................................ Roberts Mallet Sextant ..................................................... Hadley Steam boat ................................................ Fulton Submarine ............................................. Bushwell Talkies ............................................. Lee-de-Frost Tank ....................................................... Swinton Telegraphy .. William F.Cooke & Charles Wheatstone Telegraph Code ......................................... Morse Telephone ......................... Alexander Graham Bell Telescope.................................................. Galileo Television ............................................. J.L. Baird Thermosflask ............................................ Dewar Transistor ........................... Shockly and Bardeen Typewriter ................................................. Sholes Theory of Evolution ..................... Charles Darwin Theory of Relativity ..................... Albert Einstein Uranium fusion .................................... Oho Hahn Uranus (Planet) ......................... Herschel William Vaccination ............................................... Jenner Vaccum Flask ............................. Sir James Dewar Vulcanisation ...................................... Good Year Washing Soda ......................................... Lablanc Wireless Communication ................. Oliver Lodge Wireless Telegraphy .............................. Marcony Wireless ................................................. Marconi X-ray............................................. W.C. Rontgen
FAMOUS LINES AND FRONTIERS • Boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan: Durand Line
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WHERE THEY REST Place Person Rajghat ........................................ Mahatma Gandhi Santhivan ..................................... Jawaharlal Nehru Chaithrabhoomi .............................. B. R. Ambedkar Shakthisthal ...................................... Indira Gandhi Ekthasthal .............................................. Zail Singh Kisanghat ......................................... Charan Singh Veerbhoomi ........................................ Rajiv Gandhi Abhyaghat ........................................ Morarji Desai Narayanghat .................................. Gulzarilal Nanda Samathasthal ...................................... Jagjivan Ram Vijayghat ................................... Lal Bahadur Shastri Nigam Bodhghat .................................. Kishan Kant Karmabhumi .................................. K. R. Narayanan Shantivan ......................................... Sanjay Gandhi Budha Purnima Park ..................... P. V. Narasimha Rao
NEW AND OLD NAMES OF PLACES IN INDIA Pondichery ........................................... Puthuchery Indraprastham ................................................ Delhi Magadham ..................................................... Bihar Vangarangyam ............................................. Bengal Pataliputhram ................................................ Patna Kalingam ...................................................... Orissa Kashi ........................................................ Banaras Prayag ..................................................... Alahabad Karnavathi ........................................ Ahemadabad
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India): 20th Parallel The border between USA and Canada: 49th Parallel The border between and Poland: Oder Niesse Line Boundary between and Poland : Hindenberg Line Boundary between Namibia and Angola : 16th Parallel Boundary between Russia and Finland : Mannar Haime Line
Saketham ................................................. Ayodhya Purushapuram ......................................... Peshawar Gandharam ............................................ Khandahar Avanthi ...................................................... Ujjayini Kanyakubjam .............................................. Kanouj Kamaroop ................................................... Assam Devagiri ............................................. Doulathabad Kosalam ................................................... Faizabad Kanchi .............................................. Kanchipuram Vadodara ..................................................... Baroda Thiruvanchikkulam, Mahodayapuram ... Kodungallur Madras ..................................................... Chennai Calcutta ...................................................... Kolkata Bangalore ............................................. Bengalooru
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES Started by Indians Young India, Harijan: Mahatma Gandhi National Herald: Jawaharlal Nehru Vande Matharam, Karma Yogi: Aurobindo Ghosh New India: Annie Besant Voice of India: Dadabhai Naoroji Al-Hilal: Edited by Abdul Kalam Azad Kesari: Bal Gangadhar Tilak Indian Opinion: Gandhiji Kerala Kaumudi: K. Sukumaran Malayala Manorama: Kandathil Vargheese Mappila Mathrubhumi: K.P. Kesava Menon
RIVERSIDE CITIES & STATES (INDIA) CITY
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Ayodhya .......................................................... Badrinath ......................................................... Kolkata ............................................................ Cuttack ............................................................ Delhi ................................................................ Guwahati .......................................................... Haridwar .......................................................... Agra ................................................................ Ahmedabad ...................................................... Surat ................................................................ Varanasi ........................................................... Vijayawada ....................................................... Hyderabad ....................................................... Kanpur ............................................................. Lucknow .......................................................... Nasik ................................................................ Patna ................................................................ Srinagar ............................................................ Allahabad ........................................................ Ferozepur ......................................................... Jabalpur ........................................................... Ludhiana .......................................................... Madurai ........................................................... Mysore ............................................................ Tirunelveli ........................................................ Jamshedpur ...................................................... Howarh ............................................................ Alwaye ............................................................ Bhaglpur .......................................................... Buxar ................................................................ Dibugarh .......................................................... Kota ................................................................. Karnool ............................................................ Leh .................................................................. Moradabad ...................................................... Mathura ........................................................... Pandharpur ...................................................... Sambalpur ........................................................ Srirangapatanam ............................................... Tiruchirapally ................................................... Ujjine ............................................................... Dhaka .............................................................. Mongar ............................................................
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Sarayu .................................................................... U.P Alaknanda ................................................ Uttarakhand Hoogly.......................................................... W. Bengal Mahanadi ............................................................ Orissa Yamuna ................................................................ Delhi Brahmaputra ....................................................... Assam Ganges (Bhagirathi) ................................... Uttarakhand Yamuna ................................................................... U.P Sabarmati .......................................................... Gujarat Tapti ................................................................. Gujarat Ganges .................................................... Uttar Pradesh Krishna ............................................... Andhra Pradesh Musi ................................................... Andhra Pradesh Ganges .................................................... Uttar Pradesh Gomati .................................................... Uttar Pradesh Godawari ................................................... Maharashtra Ganges ................................................................. Bihar Jhelum ................................................................. J & K Ganga - Yamuna ....................................................... U.P Sutlej ................................................................. Punjab Narmada ................................................................. M.P Sutlej ................................................................. Punjab Vaigai .......................................................... Tamil Nadu Kaveri ........................................................... Karnataka Tamaraparni ................................................ Tamil Nadu Subarnarekha ....................................................... Bihar Hoogly...................................................... West Bengal Periyar ................................................................ Kerala Ganga .................................................................. Bihar Ganga .................................................................. Bihar Brahmaputra ....................................................... Assam Chambal .......................................................... Rajastan Tungabhadra ........................................ Andhrapradesh Indus ................................................ Jammu & Kashmir Ramganga ............................................................... U.P Yamuna ................................................................... U.P Bhima .......................................................... Maharastra Mahanadi ............................................................ Orissa Cauvery ........................................................ Karnataka Cauvery ...................................................... Tamil Nadu Narmada ............................................... Madya Pradesh Buriganga .................................................. Bangladesh Ganges ................................................................. Bihar
WELL KNOWN QUOTATIONS
‘Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I would not like to be a master’ ‘A Government, of the people by the people and for the people’ Abraham Lincoln ‘Give us tool and we will finish the job’ ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.’ Sir Winston Churchill ‘If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ‘Crush the infamous thing’. Voltaire ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’ ‘Other men live to eat. I eat to live. ‘Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death.’ ‘I know nothing except that fact of my ignorance’ ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’. Socrates ‘The Gods help them who help themselves’ Aesop ‘The State ? It is me’ Louis XIV ‘I am not a culprit’ Fidel Castro ‘It was only one life, what is one life in the affairs of a state’ Benitto Mussolini ‘Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong’ Adolf Hitler ‘The throne is but a piece of wood covered with velvet’. ‘Give me good mothers. I shall give you a good nation.’ ‘There is no word such as impossible in my dictionary’ Napolean Bonaparte “Et tu Brute”. Vini Vidi Vici (I came, I saw, I, conquered) Julius Caesar ‘I am dying with the help of too many physicians’ Alexander the Great
‘Let a hundred flowers bloom and let a thousand schools of thought contend’ “Powers flows from the barrel of a gun”. Mao- Tse -Tung “We can secure peace only by preparing for war”. John F. Kennedy ‘The living need charity more than the dead George Arnold ‘Reading make a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man’. ‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested’. ‘Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability’. Francis Bacon ‘Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought “If winter comes can spring be far behind’’ P.B. Shelley ‘Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great judgement seat’. ‘East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet’. Rudyard Kipling ‘The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is’ Bernard Shaw Where wealth accumulates, men decay’. ‘Wisdom makes but a slow defence against trouble, though at last at sure one’. Oliver Goldsmith ‘The roots of education are bitter, but fruit is sweet. ‘Virtue is the mean state between two vices, the one of excess and other deficiency’. ‘Man is by nature a political animal’ Aristotle ‘Let them eat cakes’. Marie Antoinette “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me” Jesus Christ ‘Nevertheless it moves’ Galileo ‘Play the game in the spirit of game’. Baron Peirre de Coubertin ‘The empty vessel makes the greatest sound’. ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’
‘There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so’. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’. ‘Frailty thy name is woman’. ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’. ‘Cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste death but once’. ‘All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players’ William Shakespere ‘All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance’. T.S. Eliot ‘End justifies the means Nicholo Machiavelli ‘Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration’. Thomas Alva Edison ‘Knowledge is power’ Thomas Hobbes ‘Superstition is the religion of feeble minds’ Edmund Burke ‘The style is the name himself’ Buffon ‘Proper words in proper place’ Johnathan Swift ‘Nature never did betray the heart that loved her’. ‘The child is the father of man’. William Wordsworth ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing’. ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’ Alexander Pope ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’ ‘Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter’. “Beauty is truth and truth beauty”. John Keats ‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. Lord Acton ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’. ‘Man is born free, yet every where he is in chains’. Jean - Jacques Rousseau ‘Whom the Gods love die young’. Lord Byron
‘It takes two to speak the truth - on to speak and the other to hear’. Henry David Thoreau ‘The history of the world is but the biographies of great men’. Thomas Carlyle ‘Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven’. John Milton ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel’ Dr. Samuel Johnson ‘Better a live sparrow than a dead eagle’. Fitzgerald ‘Romanticism is disease classicism is health’ Von Goethe ‘Taxation without prosperity’ Jacob Molecschott ‘To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ Sir Isaac Newton ‘Thank God I have done my duty’. Last words of Lord Nelson ‘Virtue is its own reward’ ‘The good of the people is the chief law’ Cicero “Give me a place to stand and I can move the entire earth”. ‘Eureka ! Eureka! (I have found it)’ Archimedes ‘Religion is the opium of the people’ Karl Marx ‘Man is a tool making animal’ Benjamin Franklin ‘Direct Action’ Mohammed Ali Jinnah ‘Good government is no substitute for self government’. Morley One small step for men a leap for mankind (On the stepping on moon) Neil Armstrong ‘I think therefore I am’. Descartes ‘Truth and non - violence are my God’ ‘Do or die’ ‘Hai Ram’ ‘Untouchability is a crime against God and mankind’
‘A customer is the most important person in our premises’. Mahatma Gandhi ‘Ram and Rahim are the two different names of the same God’ Kabir Das ‘Kerala is a lunatic asylum’ ‘Live fast; die young’. Swami Vivekananda ‘We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and determination as we fought against aggression’. ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ Lal Bahadur Shastri ‘One caste, one God, one religion for man’. Sree Narayana Guru ‘Back to Vedas’ Swami Dayananda Saraswati ‘Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked up on this earth’. Einstein (About Gandhi) ‘The whole universe is my native land’ Kalpana Chawla ‘Swaraj is my birthright I shall have it’ Balagangadhara Tilak ‘We have made a tryst with destiny’. ‘Aram Haram Hai’ ‘At the stroke of midnight hour when the world sleeps India will wake to life and freedom’. Jawaharlal Nehru ‘Dilli Chalo’. ‘Give me blood’ I shall give you freedom’ Subhash Chandra Bose ‘Garibi Hatao’ Indira Gandhi ‘Freedom is in peril. Defend it with all your might’. ‘Work like a bull and live like a hermit’. Dr. Ambedkar ‘Aiming low is a crime’ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam ...... the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light ..... for that light represented that living truth ... Jawaharlal Nehru ‘This was their finest hour’ Sir Winston Churchill
‘More things are wrought by prayers than this world dreams of’. Tennyson ‘Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get’. George Bernad Shaw ‘The goal of war is peace; of business, leisure’ The roots of education are bitter, but fruit is sweet Aristotle Marriage is the only adventure open to the timid Voltaire ‘Know them thy self, presume not God to scan’ ‘The proper study of mankind of a man’ Alexander Pope The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved’ Victor Hugo ‘Among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet’ Abraham Lincolin ‘There is no god higher than truth’ Mahatma Gandhi ‘The best portion of a good Men’s life. His little nameless, uned acts of kindness and of love’ William Wordsworth “I am restless, I thirst for the distant, the far away” ‘I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest’ John Keats ‘The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat’ Karl Marx (1818 - 83) Big, Bright and beautiful (Describing the view of the earth from the space) “The responsibility for their flight lies from with history and with the giants of science who proceeded the effort”. (Farewell telecast from space) Neil Armstrong ‘Big brother is watching you’ George Orwel ‘Be proud that you are Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother’ Vivekanada
INTERNATIONAL DAYS World Laughter Day ............................. January 10 World Customs Day ............................. January 26 Valentine’s Day.................................... February 14 World Mother Language Day ................. February 21 World Women’s Day................................. March 8 World Consumer Day ............................. March 15 World Disabled Day ............................... March 15 World Forestry Day ................................ March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ........................................ March 21 World Day for Water ............................... March 22 World MeteorologicalDay .........................................March 23 World Tuberculosis Day ......................... March 24 World Theatre Day ................................. March 27 World Ship Day .......................................... April 5 World Health Day ....................................... April 7 World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day ...... April 12 International Special Librarians Day ........... April 15 World Haemophilia Day ............................. April 17 World Heritage Day ................................... April 18 World Secretaries Day ............................... April 21 World Earth Day ........................................ April 22 World Book and Copy Right Day ............... April 23 International Dance Day ............................ April 29 May Day, International Labourers Day ......... May 1 World Solar Energy Day .............................. May 3 World Press Freedom Day............................ May 3 World Red Cross Day .................................. May 8 International Nurses Day ........................... May 12 International Mothers Day .. 2nd sunday of every May World Day of the Family ............................ May 15 World Telecommunication Day................... May 17 Commonwealth Day ................................... May 24 World Anti-tobacco Day ............................ May 31 International Day of innocent, Children Victims of Aggression Day ............ June 4 World Environment Day .............................. June 5 World day to combat desertification
and drought .............................................. June 17 Father’s Day .............................................. June 20 UN Charter g Day ............................ June 25 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking .................................. June 26 World Architectural Day ............................... July 1 World Population Day ................................ July 11 World Breast Feeding Day ...................... August 1 International Friendship Day ................... August 3 Hiroshima Day........................................ August 6 Nagasaki Day ......................................... August 9 World Youth Day.......................... August 12 (UN) World Folklore Day................................ August 22 World Sanskrit Day................................ August 22 World Enforced Disappearance Day ....... August 31 World Coconut Day ............................ September 2 World Literacy Day............................. September 8 World Ozone Day ............................. September 16 U.N. Peace Day................................. September 20 World Alzheimer’s Day ..................... September 21 World Tourism Day........................... September 27 World Heart Day.................. Last Sunday September World Animal Welfare Day ...................... October 4 World Postal Day ................................... October 9 Territorial Army Day ............................... October 9 World Standards Day ........................... October 14 World Blind Day (World white cane day) October 15 World Food Day ................................... October 16 Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Day October 21 U.N Day ............................................... October 24 World Information Development Day .... October 24 World Thrift Day .................................. October 30 World Diabetes Day .......................... Novemebr 14 World Citizen Day.............................. November 14 World Environmental ............................................. Protection day ................................... November 25 World AIDS Day.................................. December 1 World Human Rights Day .................. December 10 World Asthma Day ............................ December 11 Marconi Day .................................... December 12
NATIONAL DAYS (INDIA) Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ........................... January 9 National Youth Day ............................... January 12 Army Day ............................................. January 15 Netaji Day ............................................. January 23 India Tourism Day ................................. January 25 Republic Day......................................... January 26 Martyr’s Day ......................................... January 30 Panchayat Day ..................................... February 19 Arunachal Day ..................................... February 20 Central Excise Day ................................ February 24 National Science Day ............................ February 28 National Security Day ................................ March 4 Ordinance Factories Day (India) ............... March 18 Orissa Day .................................................. April 1 National Maritime Day ................................. April 5 Jallianwala bagh Day .................................. April 13 National Technology Day ........................... May 11 National Mother Security Day..................... April 11 Solidarity Day............................................. May 13 Fire force day............................................. April 14 Sikkim Day ................................................. May 16 Anti Terrorism Day (Death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi) .............................................. May 21 Everest Day................................................ May 29 Doctor’s Day ................................................. July 1 Kargil Vijay Day........................................... July 26 Quit India Day ......................................... August 9 Independence Day ................................. August 15 Sadbhavana Day ........... (Birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi) .................................................. August 20 National Sports Day (Dhyanchand’s Brithday) ........ August 29 Teachers Day (Birth anniversary of Dr. Radhakrishnan) .............................. September 5 Hindi Day .......................................... September 14 Engineers day.................................... September 15 Deaf Day .......................................... September 26 National Blood Donation Day .................. October 1 Gandhi Jayanti Day.................................. October 2
National Voters Day January 25 will here after be celebrated as National Voters Day. January 25 is the foundation day of the Election Commission of India.
Wild Life Week .............................. October 1st to 7 Air Force Day .......................................... October 8 National Postal Day ............................... October 10 Azad Hind day ...................................... October 21 National Rededication Day (Death anniversary of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhai Patel) ........................... October 31 Legal Service Day ................................ November 9 Transport Day .................................... November 10 Childrens Day..................................... November 14 National News Paper day .................... November 16 National Mental disorder day ................ November 17 Indian Citizen Day .............................. November 19 NCC Day ............................................ November 24 National Law Day ............................... November 26 Navy Day ............................................. December 4 Armed Force Flag Day .......................... December 7 National Mental disorder ..................... December 8 Conservation Day............................... December 14 National energy protect day .................. December 14 Vijay Divas ......................................... December 16 National Minorities Rights Day ........... December 18 Kissan Day (Farmer’s Day) ................. December 23 National Consumer Day ...................... December 24 Kisan Divas celebrated on the birth day of Sri Charan Singh. Children’s day is being celebrated on the birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Teachers Day is being celebrated on the birthday of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan National youth Day is being celebrated on the birthday of Vivekananda National Sports day is being celebrated on the birthday of Dhyan Chand. National Technology day is being celebrated to commemorate India’s achievements on nuclear capability. National Science Day is celebrated on the day in 1928 C. V. Raman discovered Raman Effect. Doctor’s Day is celebrated on the birthday of Dr. B. C. Roy National Broadcasting Day is celebrated on that day when Gandhiji addressed the nation.
UNITED NATIONS YEAR
IMPORTANT MUSEUMS
Refugees year ............................................. 1959-60 Co-operation Year ............................................ 1965 Tourism year .................................................... 1967 Human Rights Year .......................................... 1968 Education Year ................................................ 1970 Fight against Racial discrimination Year ............ 1971 Book Year ........................................................ 1972 Copper Nicus Year ........................................... 1973 Population Year ............................................... 1974 Women’s Year .................................................. 1975 Fight Against Untouchability ........................... 1978 Childrens Year ................................................. 1979 Handicapped year ............................................ 1981 Communication Year ........................................ 1983 Youth Year ....................................................... 1985 Peace Year ....................................................... 1986 AIDS Year ....................................................... 1988 Literacy Year .................................................... 1990 Space Year ....................................................... 1992 Sports and Family Year .................................... 1994 Poverty Eradication Year .................................. 1996 Ocean Year ...................................................... 1998 Old Age Year ................................................... 1999 Peace and Cultural Year .................................... 2000 Self Service Year .............................................. 2001 Mountains Year ............................................... 2002 Eco Tourism Year ............................................. 2002 Fresh Water Year ............................................. 2003 International Rice Year ..................................... 2004 International Micro Credit Year ......................... 2005 International Physics Year ................................ 2005 International Sports and Physical Education ..... 2005 International Dolphin – Pole Year ..................... 2007 International Potato Year .................................. 2008 International Earth Year .................................... 2008 International Natural Fibre Year ........................ 2009 Bio Diversity Year ............................................ 2010 Forest Year ...................................................... 2011
National Childrens Museum .................... New Delhi Calico Textile Museum ....................... Ahemadabad Visvesarayya Industrial And Technological Museum Bangalore Tippu Sulthan Museum ............... Sreerangapatnam Sree Chithra Art Gallery........... Thiruvananthapuram Birla Industrial & Technological Museum .... Kolkata Birla Planetorium ......................................... Kolkata Nethaji Museum ......................................... Kolkata National Gallery of Modern Art ............... New Delhi Indian Museum .......................................... Kolkata National Museum ....................................... Kolkata Salarjung Museum ................................. Hyderabad Nehru Museum ....................................... New Delhi Archeological Museum ........................... New Delhi Victoria Memorial Hall ................................. Kolkata Rail Transport Museum .......................... New Delhi National Museum of Natural History ....... New Delhi Indian War Memorial Museum ................ New Delhi Prince of Wales Museum ........................... Mumbai
KERALA - DAYS
INDUSTRIAL NAMES
June 19 ............................................... Reading Day June 19 - 25....................................... Reading Week Chingam 1 .................................... Agricultural Day October 4 .......................................... Elephant Day October 13 ............................................. Sports Day November 1 ........................... Kerala formation Day
Ambassador ..................................................... Car Nicon .......................................................... Camera Alvin .................................................... Refrigerator Amul ................................................... Milk Powder Usha ..................................... Fan, Sewing Machine Merit ............................................ Sewing Machine
OFFICIAL RESIDENCE Indian President ..................... Rashtrapathi Bhavan Indian Prime Minister ........ No. 7, Race Course Road Pope ................................................. Vatical Palace Governor .............................................. Raj Bhavan American President ............................ White House Britain Prime Minister ................ 10, Downing Street King & Queen of Britain ............ Bekkingham Palace South Korean President ........................ Blue House Sreelankan President .......................... Temple Trees Nepal King ............................. Narayan Hithi Palace Kongo President ................................ Marbil Palace Pakistan President ............................... Ivane Sadan French President ............................... Eleesee Palace
Bush, Murphy ............................................... Radio Philips, Panasoni ....................... Radio & Television Kelvinator ............................................ Refrigerator Prestige ......................................... Pressure Cooker Chandrika, Lux, Pears, Radhas, Lifeboy ........... Soap Sunlight ............................................... Soap Power Shalimar, Nerolac ............................................ Paint Lactogen, Lactose ............................... Milk Powder Ashok, Zenith ............................................... Blade Fiat, Premier, Standars ....................................... Car Ciat, Dunlop, Bridgestone ................................ Tyre Crompton, Rally, GEC ........................................ Fan Hero ................................................................. Pen Colgate, Cibaca, Forehands, Close up ... Tooth Paste Signal .................................................. Tooth Paste Wills, Charminar, Panama, Scissors ............ Cigarette Rolex, Titan, Ceeko, Favourluba .................... Watch Citizen, Omega, Jovial ................................... Watch Jumbo ....................................................... Jet Plain Avro ...................................................... Aero Plain Raj Dooth, Bullet, Royal Enfield ........... Motor Cycle Benze, Leyland ................................ Bus, Car, Lorry Sakthiman ..................................................... Treck Jubily, Bismi ..................................................... Pen Everady, Jeep, Toshiba Anand, Nippo .......... Battery Hercules, BSA, Hero ...................................... Cycle Bata ............................................................. Shoes Chethak, Lamby, Vijay ................................. Scooter Remington, Halda, Godrej ...................... Typewriter Bajaj ............................................................... Bulb Bruke Bond ........................................... Coffee, Tea Lipton .............................................................. Tea
PUBLICATIONS The Times .................................................. London The Sunday Times ...................................... London Daily Telegraph .......................................... London Morning Star .............................................. London The Guardian ............................................. London The Sun ..................................................... London The Economist ........................................... London The Observor ............................................. London Financial Times ........................................... London The Daily Mail ............................................ London The Hindu ...................................................... India
Newyork Times ......................................... Newyork Washington Post ................................. Washington International Herald Tribune ..................... Newyork The Don ..................................................... Karachi Pakistan Times ........................................... Karachi Kabool Mail ................................................ Kabool Outlook ...................................................... Karachi Red Flag ..................................................... Beejing China Times ................................................ Tai Pey Rudepravo .................................................. Pregue Limonde ......................................................... Paris Pravda ...................................................... Moscow Isestya ..................................................... Moscow Straight Times ........................................ Singapore Akbar Al Kuwait .......................................... Kuwait Al thavara .............................................. Demascus Peoples Daily ............................................. Beejing Statesman ................................................ Colombo Ashi Shimban ............................................... Tokyo Australian ................................................ Canberra Mainichi Shimban .......................................... Japan Times of India ................................................. India Morning News ..................................... Bangladesh Sydney Morning News ............................... Sydney Reference News ............................................. China Rising Nepal ........................................... Katmandu
FIRST IN KERALA Governor ............................. Dr. B Ramakrishna Rao Chief Minister ..................... E.M.S. Namboothiripad Deputy Chief Minister ............................. R. Sankar Assembly Speaker R. Sankarana Narayanan Thampi Congress Chief Minister ................ R. Sankar (1962) Jnapeeda Winner (India) ............... G. Sankara Kurup Malayalee Governor .............................. V.P. Menon First Malayalee Member of UPSC ... Dr. K.G. Adiyodi First Malayalee winner of Dhronacharya Award ....... O.M. Nambiar Woman Magistrate ....................... Omanakunjamma Woman High Court Judge ................. Anna Chandy Woman Minister .................................... K.R. Gowri Woman member of Parliament............ Anne Maskrin First woman I.A.S ......................... Anna Malhothra Woman IPS Officer .................................. Sreelekha
President -Kerala Sahithya Academy Sardar K.M. Paniker College ............................................... CMS College Printing Press ....................... CMS Press, Kottayam Movie ........................................... Vigathakumaran Movie with sound ......................................... Balan Colour Movie .......................... Kandam Bech Kottu Olympian ............................................ Suresh Babu Malayalee President INC ................ C. Sankaran Nair National Park ......................................... Eravikulam Novelist ...................................... Appu Nedungadi Champu in Malayam ............... Unniyachi Charitham Sanskrit Champu ....................... Amogha Raghavam Newspaper ................................ Rajya Samacharam Woman Vice Chancellor ................... Dr. Janci James Printed Malayalam Book ....... Samkshepa Vedartham First Book in which Malayalam Alphabet was printed Horthus Malabaricus Press in India where Malayalam was printed ............ Career Press, Mumbai Monthly Literary Magazine ................. Vidyavilasini Short Story ..................................... Vasana Vikruthi Social Novel ............................................ Indulekha Detective Novel ............................ Bhaskara Menon Drama ......................................... Kalyani Nadakam University ................................... Kerala University Radio Station .......................... Thiruvananthapuram Malayalam Internet Literary Club ....... www.puzha.com Bank ............................................ Nedungadi Bank Malayalam Internet Portal .................. Indiainfo.com Post Office ............................................ Alappuzha English School ................................... Mattanchery Indian Principal ....................... A.R. Raja Raja Varma Keralite appearing Postal Stamp . Sreenarayana Guru Museum ............................................... Trivandrum Zoo ...................................................... Trivandrum Concrete Bridge ........................... Karamana, TVPM Film Hero ............................................... A.K. Aroor Film Heroine ............................................. Kamalam Hanging Bridge ........................................ Punaloor Audio Novel .................................... Ithanente Peru Private TV Channel ..................................... Asianet Cinema Studio ................. Udaya Studio, Alappuzha Malayalee Magsaysay Award winner ...................... Varghese Kurian Mineral Water Plant ............................. Kumbalangi Daily Newspaper ......................... Rajyasamacharam
WORLD NEWS AGENCIES Reutors ........................................... Britain Kyodo ............................................. Japan Andara ...................................... Indonesia Erna .................................................... Iran Sinhwa ............................................. China Associated Press ............................... USA Ritha ............................................... Russia Ansa ................................................ Spain Agents Press (AFP) ............. Bernama ....................................... Malesya Dentas Press Agenter ................... Nafen ........................................ Hongkong Al Jaseera ...................................... Khattar Tass ............................................... Russia Press Trust of India ............................ India United News of India ......................... India Interpress Service ............................. Rome
VEHICLE PRODUCERS General Motors ............................................... USA Ford Motors ................................................... USA Toyotta Motors ............................................. Japan Benze ....................................................... Nissam Motor ................................................ Japan Devoo ................................................. South Korea Fiat ................................................................. Italy Honda Motors ............................................... Japan Mitsbushi Motors ......................................... Japan Pyugiyottu .................................................. Hyundai .............................................. South Korea
GANDHI NAMES African Gandhi ............................ Kennath Kounda Modern Gandhi ................................... Baba Amthe Burmese Gandhi ........................................ Ong San Kosavo Gandhi ............................... Ibrahim Rugeva Kerala Gandhi ...................................... K. Kelappan Mayyazhi Gandhi ................... I.K. Kumaran Master American Gandhi ...................... Martin Luther King Sreelankan Gandhi ............................... Ariya Retne Frontier Gandhi ................. Khan Abdul Gaffer Khan
BASIC GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Largest – World Largest continent ........................................... Asia Largest ocean ............................................... Pacific Largest river .............................................. Amazon Largest river basin ..................................... Amazon Largest lake (salt water) ....................... Caspian sea Largest lake (fresh water) .......... Lake Superior (North America) Largest artificial lake ..... Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, (USA). Originally known as Boulder. Largest bay ................ Hudson Bay (North Canada) Largest gulf ..................................... Gulf of Mexico Largest gorge ........................ Grand Canyon (USA) Largest sea .................................... South China sea Largest delta ....... Sundarbans (India & Bangladesh) Largest peninsula ........................................ Arabia Largest island ......................................... Greenland Largest country (in area) .............................. Russia Largest country (in population) ...................... China Largest temple` ................... Angkorwat (Cambodia) Largest archipelago ................................. Indonesia Largest airport ... King Khalid International Airport at Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) Largest church ................ St.Peter's Basilica, (Rome) Largest mosque ...... Sha Faisal Mosque (Islamabad) Largest embassy............ Russian Embassy (Beijing) Largest war plane .......................... Mirage () Largest prison ............................. Kharkov (Russia) Largest hotel ........... MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas (USA) Largest desert .................................. Sahara (Africa) Largest forest ........................ Coniferous Forests of Northern Russia Largest stadium ................. Strahove (Czech Republic) Largest library .... United States Library of Congress Largest museum .................... American Museum of Natural History (New York) Largest animal ....................................... Blue whale Largest land animal ........... The African Bush Elephant Largest democracy ......................................... India Largest electorate ........................................... India Largest town ......................... Mt. Isa (Queensland)
Largest palace ..................... Imperial Palace, Beijing Largest dam ........................... Three Gorges (China) Largest landmass ................ The Eurasian Landmass Largest park .. Wood Buffalo National Park (Canada) Largest zoo ...... Krugal National Park (South Africa) Largest river island ......................... Majuli (Assam) Largest inland sea ....................... Mediterranean sea Largest canal ........................ Keil Canal in Largest reef ............... Great Barrier Reef, (Australia) Largest city (population) ................... Tokyo (Japan) Largest estuary..................................... Ob (Russia) Largest cave ........ Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (USA) Largest strait ........................................ Tartar strait Largest wall ......................... The Great Wall (China) Largest cemetery ....................... Leningrad (Russia) Largest railway station ......... Grand Central Terminal (New York) Largest university building ..................................... University of Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) Largest open university ........ Indira Gandhi National Open University (New Delhi) Largest steel plant .......... Nippon Steel plant (Japan) Largest wingspan .................................... Albatross Largest active volcano ............ Mauna lao on Hawaii Largest planet ............................................. Jupiter Largest bird ................................................. Ostrich Largest sea bird ....................................... Albatross Largest diamond ................................. The Cullinan Largest parliament . The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China Largest north to south stretch of land ........ America Largest cold desert ........................ Gobi (Mongolia) Largest plateau ................................... Pamir (Tibet) Largest mountain range ..................... The Himalaya Largest statue ............................... Statue of liberty Largest bank .................... World bank (Washington) Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system known in the world. It is situated in USA. It became a World Heritage Site on October 27, 1981, and an international Biosphere Reserve on September 26, 1990. It is centered around the Green River, with a tributary, the Nolin River, feeding into the Green just inside the park.
Largest army.................................................. China Largest cricket stadium ......... Melbourne (Australia) Largest navy .................................................. USA Largest airforce ............................................... USA Largest natural satellite ............. Ganymede (Jupiter) Largest port .......................................... New Jersey Largest book publishing company .......................... Mc Graw Hill (New York) Largest Dome in the World... Astrodome, in Housten (U.S.A) Largest Epic ........................................ Mahabharat Largest carnivorous mammal ................... Polar Bear
SMALLEST – World Smallest continent .................................... Australia Smallest ocean .............................................. Arctic Smallest republic ........................................... Nauru Smallest colony ......................................... Gibraltar Smallest state .............................................. Vatican Smallest landmass ............... The Australian Mainland Smallest bird ..................................... Humming bird Smallest flowering plant ................................ Wolfia Smallest planet .......................................... Mercury World's Smallest Museum .................... Arizona, US World's Smallest PC ............................. Space Cube
Abu Dhabi’s leaning Tower The 160 met re Capital Gate Tower, developed by the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Co mpany has been recognized as the ‘furthest leaning ‘man made tower’in the world by Guinness world records. The tower leans at 18 degrees over four times the angle of Italy’s famo us Leaning Tower of Pisa.
HIGHEST – World Highest mountain peak Highest mountain Highest lake Highest plateau Highest continent Highest waterfall Highest active volcano Highest capital city Highest town
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Highest volcano Highest airport Highest railway station Highest river bridge Highest road bridge
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Mt. Everest (Nepal) Himalaya Titicaca (Bolivia) Tibet Antartica Angel Falls, (Venezuela) Guayathiri (Chile) La Paz (Bolivia) Wenchuan (Tibet)
Highest railway
Cotopaxy (Ecuador) Lhasa Airport (Tibet) Condor Station (Bolivia) Royal Gorge (Colorado) Bailey bridge built by the Indian Army at Khardungla (Ladakh) - Qinghai - Tibet (5072m)
Highest Bridge
- Milau () 2.46 km)
LONGEST – World Longest river - Nile (Egypt) Longest road - Pan American Highway Longest railway platform - Kharagpur, (West Bengal) Longest dam - Hirakud (Orissa) Longest mountain range - Andes (South America) Longest railway tunnel - Seikan Rail Tunnel (Japan) Longest railway line - Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia) Longest ship canal - Suez Canal Longest estuary - Obeestuary (Russia) Longest road tunnel - St. Gothard Road Tunnel (Switzerland) Longest bridge - Second Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Reliant Astrodome is the world's first domed sports stadium, located in Houston, Texas, USA. It opened in 1965 as Harris County Domed Stadium and was nicknamed the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
Longest fresh water lake Longest epic Longest wall Longest non-stop train Longest drought
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Longest snake Longest dictionary Longest Airport Longest Railway Bridge Longest Throughfare Longest Shipping Canal Longest day Longest Beach Longest Corridor
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Lake Tanganyika Mahabharatha Great Wall of China Flying Scotsman Atacama Desert (North Chile) Python Oxford English Dictionary Dallas (USA) Lower Zambezi (Africa) Broadway (New York) Baltic White Sea Canal June 21 Rio de Janerio (Brazil) Rameswaram Temple (India) Trans - Siberian Railway English Canal
TALLEST – World Tallest fountain ................... Fountain Hills, Arizona Tallest free standing structure (tower) .... CN Tower, Toronto (Canada) Tallest active geyser ................. Steam boat Geyser Yellowstone National Park, (USA) Tallest building ..................... Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Tallest tree ................................ The Redwood Tree Tallest animal ............................................... Giraffe Tallest road.... Khardungla (Leh Manali, India) Tallest office building .............. Petronas Twin Tower (Kualalumpur, Malaysia) Tallest bridge ...... Royal Gorge Arkansas, America) Tallest Statue ........... Statue of Motherland (USSR) Tallest Minaret ...... Sultan Hassan Mosque (Egypt) Tallest Railwayline .......... Quin - Hai - Tibet (China)
BIGGEST –World Biggest dome ........................... Gol Gumbaz (India) Gol Gumbaz is the mausoleum of Mohammed Adil Shah (1627-55) of the Adil Shahi dynasty who ruled the Sultanate of Bijapur from 1490 to 1686. Biggest library .................. National Kie Library (CIS) Biggest palace .................................. Vatican (Italy) Biggest desert ................................ Sahara (Africa)
Biggest reptile ......................... Saltwater Crocodile Biggest lizard .............................. Komodo Dragons Biggest bird ................................... African Ostrich Biggest eggs ..................................... Ostrich Eggs Biggest flower ......................................... Rafflesia. The Ostrich, Struthio camelus, is a large flightless bird native to Africa. The Ostrich is the largest living species of bird Biggest planet ............................................ Jupiter Biggest enger ship .............. Queen Elizebeth II Biggest diamond mine ...... Kimberley (South Africa) Biggest car manufacturer ............... General Motors (Detroit, America) Irrigation scheme .............. Llyod barraye (Pakistan) Island .......... Greenland (Renamed Kalaallit Nunnat) Water fall .......................................... Guaira (Brazil) Hotel ............................................... Conrad Hilton Biggest Park ................. Yellow stone National Park Biggest Auditorium .............. Municipal Auditorium at Atlantic City Biggest football stadium ............. Marakana (Brazil)
DEEPEST – World Deepest ocean ................................... Pacific Ocean Deepest lake ........................... Lake Baikal, (Siberia) Deepest gorge ....................... Hell’s Canyon, (USA) Deepest point in the ocean ........ Challenger deep of Mariana Trench in Pacific Ocean
MISCELLANEOUS – World Fastest land animal .................................... Cheetah Oldest national flag ................................... Denmark Fastest bird .................................................... Swift Shortest river ........ Roe river in Montana (61 m long) Lowest point on earth .............................. Dead Sea Most densely populated province ............ Monacco Least populous city ..................................... Vatican The oldest plant ............................................. Rose The oldest capital city............................. Damascus Most poisonous fish .............................. Puffer fish Coldest place ............................ Vostok,(Antarctica) Hottest planet ............................................... Venus Strongest natural fibre ...................................... Silk Lowest temperature ............. Absolute Zero (-273oC) Widest Bridge..................... Sydney Harbour Bridge Busiest airport Chicago O'Hare International Airport
Island continents ............... Antarctica and Australia Lowest mountains ........................... Bheinna Bhaile Hottest region .... North-West Sahara, Azisia (Libya) Fastest planet ............................................ Mercury Coldest planet ........................................... Neptune Widest Waterfall .................................. Khone Falls Oldest Religion ........................................ Hinduism
Slowest animal ................................................ Snail Heaviest Rainfall ....................... Mawsynram (India) Driest place ....................... Death valley (California) Hottest place ..................................... Azizia (Libya) Furthest planet (from the sun) .................... Neptune Shortest day ....................................... December 22
FIRST in World
The first persons to reach Mount Everest – – Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary The first person to reach North Pole – Robert Peary The first person to reach South Pole – Amundsen The first religion of the world – Hinduism The first country to print book – China The first country to issue paper currency – China The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services – China The first President of the U.S.A – George Washington The first Prime Minister of Britain – Robert Walpole The first Governor General of the United Nations – Trigveli (Norway) The first country to prepare a constitution – U.S.A The first Governor General of Pakistan – Mohd. Ali Jinnah The first country to host NAM summit – Belgrade (Yugoslavia) The first European to attack India – Alexander, The Great The first European to reach China – Marco Polo The first person to fly aeroplane – Wright Brothers The first person to sail round the world – Magellan
The first country to send man to the moon – U.S.A The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space – Russia The first country to host the modern Olympics – Greece First human in space - Yuri Gagarin (Russia) The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped – Hiroshima (Japan) The first person to land on the moon Neil Armstrong followed by – Edwin E. Aldrin The first shuttle to go in space – Columbia The first spacecraft to reach on Mars – Viking-I The first woman Prime Minister of England – Margaret Thatcher The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country – Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan) The first woman cosmonaut of the world – Valentina Tereshkova (Russia) The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut – Mohd. Azharuddin The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice – Nawang Gombu
The first U.S. President to resign Presidency – Richard Nixon Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Junko Taibei The first European to visit China – Marco Polo Man to walk in Space – Alexei Leonov The first woman Prime Minister of a country – Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike The first woman President of a country – Maria Estela Peron The first woman to Command a Space Mission Colonel – Eileen Collins (U.S.A.) First talkie movie in the world – “The jazz Singer” (1927). The first residents of International Space station – Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia) The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest – Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001) The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International – lrine Zubeida Khan The first space astronaut to go into space seven times till date – Jerry Ross (U.S.A.) The first South African to become the second space tourist – Mark Shuttleworth The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea – Ms. Chang Sang The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess – Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine) The first adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft – Felix Baumgartner (July 2003)
China's first man in space – Yang Liwei The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize – Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003) The woman with the highest individual Test score making a new world record – Kiran Baloch (Pakistani cricketer, scoring 242 runs playing women's cricket test against West Indies in Karachi in March, 2004) The first woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest four times – Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali) The first woman to cross seven important seas of the world by swimming – Bula Chaudhury (India) First Asian city to host Olympics – Tokyo, Japan (1964) First woman black tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon – A Gibson (1957) First woman to win a Grand Slam – Maureen Catherine (195 3) First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal – Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900) First professional woman bullfighter – Patricia Mccormick (1952) First man to fly solo non stop across the Atlantic – Charles Lindbergh (1927) First person to cross Antarctic Circle – James Cook (1773) First people to reach the North Pole – Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict (1952) First person to conquer the Everest twice – Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965) First person with only one arm to climb the Everest – American Gary Guller(2003) First woman to fly solo around the world – jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964) First woman to fly solo across the English Channel – Hariiet Quimby
First ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen – Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner, (Italy) (1978) First woman to set foot on North Pole – Ann Bancroft, USA (1986) – tly developed by Sony and Philips (1978) First Atom Bomb – “Little Boy” dropped over Hiroshima by the US during the second world war (1945) First manned space vehicle – Vostok 1,USSR (1961) First human to walk on the Moon – Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969) First human to walk in space – Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)
GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES DISCOVERER
DISCOVERY
Christopher Columbus (Italian)................... America Vasco da Gama (Portuguese) ...... Sea route to India John Cabot (British) ....................... New foundland Pedro Alvarez Cabral (Portuguese) ................. Brazil Tasman (Dutch) Island of Tasmania & New Zealand Captian Cook (British) . Sandwich (Hawaiin) Islands Robert Peary (USA) ............................... North Pole Amundsun (Norway) ............................. South Pole Ferdinand de Lesseps (Designed) .......... Suez Canal David Livingstone (British) ................ Victoria Falls Bartholomew Diaz (Portuguese) ....... Cape of Good Hope Norseman Eric ........................................... Greenland
RIVERSIDE CITIES & COUNTRIES
City
River
Country
Alexandria Brussels Chittagong Glasgow Khartoum Lisbon Liverpool Shanghai Berlin Bonn Amsterdam Baghdad Bangkok Belgrade London Montreal Moscow Budapest Colombo Cairo Karachi Lahore New York Paris Yangoon Rome Tokyo Vienna Warsaw Washington Basra
Nile Seine Karnaphuli Clyde Nile Tagus Mersey Yangtze-Kiang Spree Rhine Amsel Tigris Menam Danube Thames Ottawa Moskva Danube Kaliganga Nile Indus Ravi Hudson Seine Irawadi Tiber Sumida Danube Vistula Potamac Eupharates and Tigris Avon Rhine Liphi Elbe Delawara Vitava St. Lawrence Volga
Egypt Belgium Bangladesh Scotland Sudan Portugal England China Netherlands Iraq Thailand Serbia England Canada Russia Hungary Sri Lanka Egypt Pakistan Pakistan USA Myanmar Italy Japan Austria Poland U.S.A.
Leif Ericsson ....................................... North America Mungo park ............................... Nigeria river in Africa Richard Francis Burton ..................... Lake Tanganyika Henry Hudson ....................................... Hudson Bay Gobot Sebastian ................................ New Foundland Marco Polo ..................................................... China Kepler .......................................................... Planets
Bristol Cologne Dublin Hamburg Philadelphia Prague Quebec Stalingrad
Iraq England Ireland America Czechoslovakia Canada Russia
NATIONAL EMBLEMS EMBLEM ............................................. COUNTRY Kangaroo ................................................ Australia Water Lilly .......................................... Bangladesh White Lilly ........................................ Canada, Italy Beach ....................................................... Denmark Lily ............................................................. Corn Flower ............................................. Lioned Capital ................................................ India Lion ..................................... Sri lanka, Sierra Leone Rose ......................................................... UK, Iran Shamrock .................................................... Ireland White Lilly ...................................................... Italy Chrysanthemum ............................................ Japan Kiwi .................................................. New Zealand Crescent .................................................... Pakistan Eagle ............................................................. Spain Elephant .............................................. Ivory Coast Lion with Crown .................................. Luxembourg Golden Rod ................................................... U.S.A Secretary Bird............................................... Sudan Bauhinia (orchid tree) .......................... Hong Kong Baobab tree ................................................ Senegal Lion .......................... Netherland, Norway, Belgium Crescent and Star ........................................ Turkey Cedar tree ................................................ Lebanon The Soyombo.......................................... Mongolia
SOBRIQUETS World Britain of the East : Britain of the South : Battle field of Europe : City of Cycles : City of Dreaming Spires : City of Eternal Springs : City of Sky Scrappers : City of Magnificent Distances : City of Golden Gate : City of Seven Hills Cockpit of Europe Copper Country Dark Continent Empire City Emerald Island
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Japan New Zealand Belgium Beijing Oxford Quito (Ecuador) NewYork Washington D.C San Francisco (U.S.A) Rome (Italy) Belgium Zambia Africa NewYork (U.S.A) Ireland
Eternal City Forbidden City Gateway of Tears
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Garden of England George Cross Island Granite City
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Herring Pond : Hill Queen : Holy Land : Hermit Kingdom : Island of Pearls : Island of Cloves : Key to the Mediterranean : Land of Eagles : Land of Golden Fleece : Land of Kangaroo : Land of Lilies : Land of Golden Pagoda : Land of Maple : Land of Thousand Lakes : Land of Morning Calm : Land of Rising Sun : Land of Setting Sun : Land of Midnight Sun : Land of Lakes : Land of the Tulips : Land of White Elephant : Land of Thunder Bolt : Land of Thousand Elephants : Manchester of the Orient : Never, Never Land : Land of Thunder Dragon Nation of Thousand Hills Pearl of Arabia Pearl of Antilles Pillars of Hercules Playground of Europe Quaker City of USA Queen of the Adriatic Roof of the World Sorrow of China Sickman of Europe
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Rome, Italy Lhasa, Tibet Strait of Bab-el Mandeb Kent Malta Aberdeen (Scotland) Atlantic Ocean Shimla Palestine Korea Bahrain Madagascar Gibraltar Albania Australia Australia Canada Myanmar Canada Finland Korea Japan Britain Norway Scotland Netherlands Thailand Bhutan Laos Osaka Prairies, N. Australia China Rwanda Bahrain Cuba Strait of Gibraltar Switzerland Philadelphia,USA Venice, Italy Pamirs River Huang Ho Turkey
Sugar Bowl of World Venice of the North
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White City Windy City World’s Bread Basket Island of fire Land of windmills Land of Perpetual Greenary World Loneliest island
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Cuba Stockholm, Sweden Belgrade Chicago Paris of N. America Iceland Polland Natal Tristanda Cunha
COUNTRIES AND CURRENCIES Brazil ................................................ :Cruzeiro Real Bulgaria ......................................................... : Lev Belgium ......................................................... Euro China ........................................... : Yuan/Renminbi Columbia ..................................................... : Peso Cuba ........................................................... : Peso Costa Rica ................................................... Colon Croatia ......................................................... Kuna Cyprus ........................................... Cyprus pound Czech Republic .......................................... Koruna Denmark .................................................... : Krone Egypt ......................................... : Egyptian Pound Afghanistan ........................................... : Afghani Argentina .................................................... : Peso Australia ................................... : Australian Dollar Bahrain ....................................................... : Dinar Bangladesh .................................................. : Taka Bhutan ................................................. : Ngultrum Hungary ..................................................... : Forint Iran .............................................................. : Rial Switzerland....................................... : Swiss Franc Thailand ....................................................... : Bhat U.K. ............................................. : Pound Sterling U.S.A. ........................................................ : Dollar Norway ....................................................... Krone Vatican City State .......................................... : Lira Iraq .................................................... : Iraqi Dinar Israel ......................................................... : Shekel Japan ............................................................ : Yen Kazakhstan ............................................... : Tenge Korea .......................................................... : Won Kuwait ........................................... : Kuwaiti Dinar Malaysia ................................................. : Ringgit Mexico ........................................................ : Peso
Myanmar ..................................................... : Kyat Russia ...................................................... : Rouble Saudi Arabia ................................................ : Riyal Vietnam ...................................................... : Dong Mongolia .................................................. : Tugrik Algeria ............................................. Algeria Dinar Angola .............................................. New Kwanza Armenia ........................................................ Dram Azerbaijan ................................................... Manat Austria .................................................... Schilling Bahrain ........................................................ Dinar Georgia ........................................................... Lari Ghana ............................................................ Cedi Indonesia ................................................... Rupiah 16 European Countries with Eura as currency are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, , , Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.
COUNTRIES AND THEIR PARLIAMENT Afganistan Australia Bangladesh Bhutan Britain China Denmark Hungary Iceland India Iran Iraq Israel Japan Kuwait Libya Maldives Myanmar Nepal Netherlands Poland Russia
: Shora : Federal Parliament : Jatiya Sangsad : Tshogdu (National Assembly) : Parliament (Commons & Lords) : National People’s Congress : Folketing : National Assembly : National Assembly : Althing : Parliament (Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha) : Majlis : National Assembly : Knesset : Diet : National Assembly : General People’s Congress : Majlis : People’s Assembly : National Panchayat : States General : Sejm : State Duma
South Africa Sweden Switzerland Afganistan Algeria Australia Cuba Egypt Greenland Norway Pakistan USA Srilanka Sudan Syria USA: Vietnam
: House of Assembly : Riksdag : Federal Assembly : Bundestag : Shora : National Peoples Assembly : House of representative of senate : National Assembly of people power : People’s Assembly : Landstraad : Sterling : National Assembly : Congress : National State : National Assembly : People Council Congress : National Assembly
NEW AND OLD NAMES OF PLACES, COUNTRIES New Name ........................................... Old Name Ankara ..................................................... Angora Banjail .................................................... Bathurst Bengalooru........................................... Bangalore Beijing ....................................................... Peking Belize ......................................... British Honduras Bangladesh ..................................... East Pakistan Botswana ..................................... Bechuana Land
National Flowers
Maple leaf ............................ Canada ............... ..... Lotus ... ... .................. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... a Indi .. Thistle .............................. Scotland ............... .................. Pomegranate ... Spain ..................... old Vatle .......................... G sissa s ... ... ... ... ... ar Australia N . ... ........................ nflower China .................. Su ... ... ... .................. ... ... ... ... ... ... ia ss Ru ater Lilly .......................... W Ba ngladesh ......... ................................. Lilly ... .................. ................... Corn Flower ... ... ... ... ... ... y. German Shamrock ........................... ... ... ... ... ... ... nd la Ire nthemum ............... Chrysa Japan ..................... ................. Gol den Rose ...... USA ..................... ... Rose .............................. ... ... ... ... ... ... UK ......
Burkino Faso ...................................... Upper Volta Cape Kennedy.............................. Cape Caneveral Cambodia ........................................... Kampuchia Djibouti .................................... French Somaliland Ethiopia ................................................ Abyssinia Ghana ................................................. Gold Coast Guyana ........................................... British Guinia Guianea Bissau ...................... Portuguese Gayana. Harare .................................................. Salisburry Hawaiin Islands ......................... Sandwich Islands Indonesia ............................ The Dutch East India Iran ............................................................ Persia Iraq ................................................. Mesopotamia Istanbul ........................................ Constantinople Jakartha .................................................... Batavia Japan ....................................................... Nippon Kinshasa ........................................... Leopoldville Kiribati ............................................ Gilbert Island Laos ........................................................ Lanxang Lesotho............................................... Basitoland Mexico ................................................ New Spain Malavi ................................................. Nyasaland Mali ............................................... French Sudan Malaysia .................................................. Malaya Malabo ............................................. Santa Isabet Madhya Pradesh ........................ Central Province Manchuria ........................................... Manchuko Myanmar .................................................... Burma Mosambique ......................... Potuguese East Africa Mumbai ................................................... Bombay Namibia .................................... South West Africa Nauru ........................................... Pleasant Island Orissa ...................................................... Kalinga Papua New Guinea ...... Trust Territory of New Guinea Portuguese ............................................. Lucitania Sri Lanka ................................................... Ceylon St. Petersburg ....................................... Leningrad Surinam .......................................... Dutch Gayana Taiwan ................................................... Formosa Tasmani .................................. Van Diemen’s Land Thailand ....................................................... Siam Togo ..................................................... Togoland Tuvalu ...................................... The Ellice Islands Varanasi .................................................. Banares
Volgograd ............................................. Stalingrad Zaire ......................................................... Congo Zambia .................................... Northern Rhodesia Zimbabwe.............................................. Rhodesia
india HIGHEST Highest peak Highest water falls Highest gate way
- Mt. K2 (Godwin Austin) - Jog falls (Karnataka) - Buland Darwaza (Fathepur sikri) Highest literacy among state - Kerala Highest tower - Qutabminar Highest dam - Bhakra Dam (Punjab) Highest multiple arch dam - Idukki (Kerala)
LARGEST Largest populated city Largest fresh water lake
- Mumbai - Kolleru (Andhra Pradesh) Largest salt water lake - Chilka (Orissa) Largest state - Rajasthan Largest populated state - Uttar Pradesh Largest museum - Indian museum (Kolkata) Largest zoo - Zoological Garden (Kolkata) Largest dome - Gol Gumbaz (Karnataka) Largest mosque - Jama Masjid (New Delhi) Largest desert - Thar (Rajasthan) Largest river Island - Majuli (Brahmaputra) Largest monastery - Tawang monastery (Arunachal Pradesh) Largest cave temple - Ellora (Maharashtra) Largest animal fair - Sonepur fair (Bihar) Largest plateau - Deccan plateau Largest river in South India Godavari Largest prison - Puzhal Jail (Chennai) Largest planetarium - Birla planetarium (Kolkata) Largest G.P.O - Mumbai G.P.O Largest church - St. Cathedral (Old Goa) Largest cinema theatre - Thangam Theatre
Largest exhibition ground - Pragati Maidan (New Delhi) Largest arch dam - Idukki dam (Kerala) Largest library - National library (Kolkata) Largest aircraft carrier - INS Viraat Largest landing ship - INS Magrar Largest union territory - Andaman Nicobar Islands Largest gurudwara - Golden Temple (Amritsar) Largest residence - Rashtrapati Bhavan Largest river Barrage - Farakka Barrage Largest open university - Indira Gandhi Open University (New Delhi) Largest Ocean Island - Middle Andaman
LONGEST Longest Canal Longest River Longest Tunnel
- Indira Gandhi canal - Ganga - Kharbude (Konkan Railway) Longest Dam - Hirakud (Orissa) Longest National Highway- N.H. 7 Longest Railway platform - Kharagpur (West Bengal) Longest Corridor - Rameswaram Temple corridor Longest Hanging bridge - Howra bridge Longest Train Service - Himasagar express Longest Bridge - Anna Indira(Rameswaram to Mandap) Longest Glacier - Siachen Glacier Longest River bridge - Mahatma Gandhi Sethu
SMALLEST Smallest state (Area) Smallest state (population) Smallest state (forest area) Smallest Union Territory -
Goa Sikkim Haryana Lakshadweep
Miscellaneous (India) Biggest hotel .............. Oberoi - Sheraton (Mumbai) Highest statue ........................ Gomateswara Statue
Highest award (civilian) ..................... Bharat Ratna Highest Gallantry award ............... Param vir chakra Most literate state ........................................ Kerala Least literate state .......................................... Bihar Most densely populated state ............ West Bengal Least densely populated state ... Arunachal Pradesh Most populated city ................................. Mumbai Busiest bridge ............................. Howra (Calcutta) Oldest Refinery.............................. Digboi (Assam) Most literate Union Territory............. Lakshadweep Fastest Train ............................... Shatabdi express Least populated Union Territory........ Lakshadweep
SOBRIQUETS India All Seasons State Blue Mountains City of Palaces City of Golden Temple Garden City of India Gateway of India Granary of India Land of Five Rivers Pearl of the Orient Pink City
: Himachal Pradesh : Nilgiri : Calcutta : Amritsar : Bangalore : Mumbai : Punjab : Punjab : Goa : Jaipur
Lake City Switzerland of India Paradise on Earth Mini-Switzerland in India
: Udaipur : Kashmir : Kashmir : Khajjar (Himachal Pradesh) Sorrow of Bengal : River Damodar Sorrow of Bihar : River Kosi Sorrow of Assam : Brahmaputra Spice Garden of India : Kerala Sugar Bowl of India : Uttar Pradesh Tea Garden of India : Assam Detroit of India : Pitampur Land of Sunrise in India : Arunachal Pradesh Hi-Tech City : Hyderabad Manchester of South India : Coimbatore Manchestor of India : Ahamadabad Mini Switzerland : Himachal Pradesh City of orange : Nagpur Weavers city of India : Panipat Silicon vally of India : Banglore Clouds of house : Megalaya Gods own land of India : Kerala City of Padala : Jaipur Holly wood of India : Mumbai Silent Share : Hadakh Perly East : Goa
PERSONS WITH POPULAR NAMES WORLD Light of the world : Jesus Prince of Pilgrimage : Huien Tsang The Wizard of Menlopark: Edison Rascal monk : Rasputin Good Shepherd : Jesus Christ Apostle of Free Trade : Richard Cobden King of Rock & Roll : Elvis Presley Columbus of Space : Neil Armstrong Master of Suspense : Alfred Hitchcock Second Duke : Benitto Mussolini Iron Duke : Duke of Wellington
Poet’s Poet : Edmund Spenser Desert Fox : Erwin Rommel Lady with the Lamp : Florence Nightingale G.B.S : George Bernard Shaw Little Corporal : Napoleon Bonaparte Maid of Orleans : Joan of Arc Fuhrer (also Fuehrer) : Adolf Hitler Man of Blood and Iron : Otto von Bismarck Maiden Queen : Queen Elizabeth I Bard of Avon : William Shakespeare Grand Old Man of Britain : Gladstone American Gandhi : Martin Luther King
The Daughter of East Iron Butterfly Iron Lady African Gandhi
: Benazir Bhutto : Margaret Thatcher : Margaret Thatcher : Dr. Kenneth Kaunda
INDIA Prince of Beggars Bengali Tiger Maratha Kesari Punjab Lion Sage of Sabarmati Indian Machiavelli Indian Napoleon Leopard of the Snow Indian Bismarck Light of Asia Lokmanya Loknayak J.P C.R. Rajaji Deenabandhu Deshabandhu Grand Old Man of India Mahamana
: Madan Mohan Malaviya : Bipin Chandra Pal : Bal Gangadhar Tilak : Lala Lajpat Rai : Mahatma Gandhi : Chanakya : Samudragupta : Ang Rita : Sardar Vallabhai Patel : Buddha : Bal Gangadhar Tilak : Jayaprakash Narayan : Jayaprakash Narayan : C. Rajagopalachari : C. Rajagopalachari : C.F. Andrews : C.R. Das : Dadabhai Naoroji : Madan Mohan Malaviya Mahatma : Gandhiji Bapu : Gandhiji Gurudev : Rabindranath Tagore Guruji : Golwalkar Iron Lady of India : Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini : Indira Gandhi Barefooted painter : M.F. Hussain Kipper : K.M. Cariappa Indian Shakespeare : Kalidasa Badshah Khan : KhanAbdul Ghaffar Khan Frontier Gandhi : KhanAbdul Ghaffar Khan Faker-e-Afghan : KhanAbdul Ghaffar Khan Netaji : Subash Chandra Bose Prince of Patriots : Subash Chandra Bose Birdman of India : Salim Ali Nightingale of India : Sarojini Naidu Lion of Kashmir : Sheikh Mohammed T.T.K. : T.T. Krishnamachari Andhra Kesari : Tangutri Prakasam Grand Old Man of IndianJournalism : Tushar Kanti Ghosh
Acharya : Vinobha Bhave Sage of Paunar : Vinobha Bhave Man of Peace : Lal Bahadur Shastri Babuji : Jagjeevan Ram Little Master : Sunil Gavaskar Flying Sikh : Milkha Singh Mysore Tiger : Tippu Sultan Sage of Kanchi : Sankaracharya Saint of Gutters : Mother Theresa Man of the Masses : K. Kamaraj Golden Girl of Indian Athletics: P.T. Usha Anna : C.N. Annadurai Akbar of Kashmir : Zian-ul-Abideen Kuvembu : K.V. Puttappa Rani of Jhansi : Lakshmibai Shahid : Bhagat Singh Kathal Mannan : Gemini Ganesan Natikar Tilakam : Sivaji Ganesan Chachaji : Jawaharlal Nehru Sher-e-Punjab : Ranjit Singh Punjab Kesari : Lala Lajpat Rai Milkman of India
: Varghese Kurian
KERALA Bharat Kesari Beypore Sultan Mayyazhi Gandhi Kerala Simham Swadeshabhimani Pulayaraja Valiya Diwanji Kerala Kalidasa Kerala Panini Kerala Vyasa Kerala Chaucer Kerala Orphuse Kerala Gandhi KeralaValmiki Kerala Scott
: Mannathu Panabhan : Vaikam Mohammed Bashir : K.P. Kumaran Master : Pazhassi Raja : Ramakrishna Pillai : Ayyankali : Raja Keshavadas : Kerala Varma Valiya Koyithampuran : A.R. Rajaraja Varma : Kodungalloor Kunhikuttan Thampuran : Chiramakavi : Changampuzha Krishna Pillai : K. Kelappan : Vallathol Narayana Menon : C.V. Raman Pillai
Kerala Ibsen Kerala Mauppasant Kerala Thulasidas Kerala Hemmingway Kesari Deshabhimani Sahitya Panchanan
: N. Krishna Pillai : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai : Vennikulam Gopala Kurup : M.T. Vasudevan Nair : A. Balakrishna Pillai : Ramakrishna Pillai : P.K. Narayana Pillai
FAMOUS FATHERS World Father of Psychology.................. Sigmund Freud Father of Cloning ............................... Ian Wilmut Father of Printing .............................. Guttenberg Father of History ............................... Herodotus Father of Economics ........................ Adam Smith Father of Philosophy ............................ Socrates Father of Sociology ................. Augustus Comte Father of English Poetry .......... Geoffrey Chaucer Father of Biology.................................. Aristotle Father of Essay................................. Montaigne Father of Medicine .......................... Hippocrates Father of Homeopathy .............. Samuel Haniman Father of Socialism ......................... Robert Owen Father of Scientific Socialism ................. Karl Marx Father of Co-operation ................... Robert Owen Father of Jurisprudence .................. John Locke Father of Atom Bomb .......................... Otto Hahn Father of Genetics ........................ Gregor Mendel Father of Motor Car ......................... Henry Ford Father of Reformation ................... Martin Luther Father of Greek Democracy .............. Clesthenes Father of Bangladesh . Sheikh Mujibur Rehman Father of Pakistan ............. Muhammed Ali Jinnah Father of Tanzania ......................... Julius Nyrere Father of Mathematics ...................... Pythagorus Father of Modern Cartoon ........ William Hogarth Father of Modern Computer .......... Charles Babbage Father of Nuclear Physics ...... : Ernest Rutherford Father of Modern Drama ............. Henrik J. Ibsen Father of Modern Tourism ............ Thomas Cook Father of Painting .................. Leonardo Da Vinci Father of Green Revolution ........ Norman Borlaug Father of Renaissance ............................ Petrarch
INDIA Father of the Nation ................... Mahatma Gandhi Father of Ayurveda ................................ Athreya Father of Astronomy....................... Varahamihira Father of Sanskrit Drama ....................... Kalidasa Father of Indian Renaissance . Raja Ram Mohan Roy Father of Surgery.................................... Susruta Father of Indian Unrest ............ .Bal Gangadhar Tilak Father of Indian Budget ........ Professor Mahalanobis Father of Indian Painting ............... Nandalal Bose Father of Indian Cinema .............. Dada Saheb Phalke Father of Indian Engineering ............ M.Visweswariah Father of Indian Green Revolution .......................... Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Father of Indian Railway ............. Lord Dalhousie Father of Co-operative Movement in India .......... Frederic Nicholson Father of Indian Printing ................ James Hickey Father of Local Self Government in India ... Lord Ripon
KERALA Father of Malayalam Language ........ Ezhuthachan Father of Modern Travancore ... Marthanda Varma Father of Kerala Renaissance .... Sree Narayana Guru Father of Modern Hinduism .. Adi Shankaracharya
WORLD INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR FOUNDERS United Nations
: Joseph Stalin (USSR), Winston Churchill (UK) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (USA) Red Cross : Jean-Henri Dunant Boy Scouts : Baden Powell Y.M.C.A. : Sir George Williams Kindergarten : Froebel Lion’s Club : Melvin John Salvation Army : William Booth Nursing System : Florence Nightingale Fascism : Benito Mussolini Protestant Religion : Martin Luther Nazism : Adolf Hitler Montessori System : Maria Montessori Cubism : Pablo Picasso Amnesty International : Peter Berenson
India Jainism : Vardhamana Mahavira Taoism : Lao Tse Bahaism : Mirza Hussain Ali Confucianism : Confucius Sikhism : Guru Nanak Zorastrianism (Parsis) : Zoraster Bhoodan Movement : Vinoba Bhave Sarvodaya Movement : Jaya Prakash Narayan Ramakrishna Mission : Swami Vivekananda Arya Samaj : Dayananda Saraswathi Brahma Samaj : Raja Ram Mohan Roy Dev Samaj : Siva Narayan Agnihothri Prarthana Samaj : Kesab Chandra Sen Suddhi Movement : Swami Shradhanand Chinmaya Mission : Swami Chinmayananda Servants of India Society: Gopalakrishna Gokhale Indian Association : Surendranath Banerji Peoples Education Society : Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Vana Mahothsav : K.M. Munshi Theosophical Society of India : Annie Besant
MANKIND AND VARIOUS TRIBES Mongolians living in Assam regions ........ Abhors The Dutch born in South Africa ............ Afrikaners The people of England ...................... Anglo Saxon Ancient Dravidians living in central India and Rajastan ........................................................ Bhils Dutch settlers in South Africa ....................... Boers People of Croatia, Slovenia .......................... Croats People in south east frontiers of Russia .. Cossacks Inhabitants of Greenland and of Arctic regions... Eskimos Natives of the Philippine Islands ............. Flemings Hill tribes of Assam ........................ Khasis / Garos People of W.Asia. (Turkey, Iran and Iraq) ... Kurds Natives of New Zealand ............................. Maoris Short sized people found in the forests of Africa .... .. Pygmies Original inhabitants of North America . Red Indians Aborigines of West Bengal, Bihar & Orissa.... ........... Santhals Natives of Nilgiri Hills (South India) ............. Todas People of South Africa living in certain parts of Natal Zulus The people of Nagaland ............................. Angami
Arunachal Pradesh ................................. A palamis Tamil Nadu .............................................. Badagas Uttar Pradesh ............................................ Bhotias Hazaribagh .................................................. Birhor Himachal Pradesh ....................................... Gaddis Orissa ...................................................... Khonds Madhya Pradesh ............................................. Kol Manipur ........................................................ Kuki Sikkim ........................................................ Labora Tripura ...................................................... Lushais Bihar ......................................................... Munda Kerala ........................................................ Ooralis Maharashtra .............................................. Warlies
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
Red crystal flag Black Flag Yellow flag
: Red Cross : Protest : Put on ship carrying people with infectious disease Dove : Peace Olive branch : Peace Red Flag : Revolution Red triangle : Family planning White Flag : Peace Maharaja : Air India Lotus : Culture and Civilization Wheel : Progress Red Cross : Hospital / Medical Service Black band arm : Sign of Mourning, in Protest Blind folded woman : Justice holding a Balance Scale Flag at a half most : National Mourning Flag up side down :Distress
OFFICIAL BOOKS Blue Book Green Book Orange Book White Book White Paper Gray Book
: British : Italy & : Netherlands : & China : India : Japan & Belgium
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES Air Brake ........................... George Westinghouse Aniline Dyes .......................................... Hoffman Adding Machine ............................. Balise Pascal Aeroplane ................................. : Wright Brothers Air Conditioner ....................................... : Carrier Atom Bomb ....................................... : Otto Hahn Aspirin .................................................... : Dreser Alcohol Thermometer .......................... : Farenheit Atomic Thermometer .................................. : Bohr Atomic Theory ........................................ : Dalton Atomic Number ....................................... Mosley Atomic Structure ................. Bohr and Rutherford Automobile ............................................ : Daimler Antiseptic Surgery .................. Lord Joseph Lister Archimedean Screw .......................... Archimedies Avogadro's Hypothesis ........................ Avogadro Ball Pen ..................................................... : Loud Balloon ......................................... : Montogolfier Blood Circulation ................................... : Harvey Barometer ............................................ : Torricelli Bicycle ............................................. : Mac Millan Braily System ................................. : Louis Braille Beri - Beri ................................................ Eijkman Blood Circulation ..................................... Harvey Boson ................................................... S.N.Bose Boyle's law ................................................. Boyle Braille ............................................... Louis Braille Computer ................................ : Charles Babbage Chloroform ...................... : James Young Simpson Cinema .................................... : Lumiere Brothers Cinema Projector ............... : Thomas Alva Edison Crescograph ........................................ : J.C. Bose Celluloid ................................................... Parkes Chloroform ............................ James Harrison and James Young Simpson Cholera Bacillus .................................. Robert Koch Coloured Photography ............................... Lippman Cosmic Rays ....................................... R.A.Millikan Cyclotron ................................................. Lawrence Diesel Engine ............................... : Rudolf Diesel Dynamo ................................... : Michael Faraday Dynamite ........................................ : Alfred Nobel Deuterium (Heavy Water) ...................... H.C.Urey
Diesel Oil Engine ............................ Rudolf Diesel Discovery of Solar System ...... Copernicus (1540) Discovery of Specific Gravity ........... Archimedes Electric Battery ............................................. Volta Electric Lamp ............................................ Edison Electricity ................................................ Faraday Electron Theory ........................................... Bohr Electrical Waves .......................................... Heitz Electric Measurement ................................. Gauss DDT ........................................... : Dr. Paul Muller Electron ....................................... : J.J. Thompson Electric Lamp ..................... : Thomas Alva Edison Elevator .......................................... : Elisha G Otis Fountain Pen ...................................... : Waterman Fahrenheit Scale ................................. Fahrenheit Film & Photographic goods ....................... Kodak Glider .......................................... : George Cayley Generator ............................................. : Piciontti Gramaphone ...................... : Thomas Alva Edison Gun Powder .................................. : Roger Bacon Geometry.................................................... Euclid Hydrogen .......................................... : Cavendish Helicopter .............................................. Broquett Helium Gas .............................................. Lockyer Homoeopathy .................................. Hahnemann Hovercraft ............................................... Cockrell Hydrophobia .................................. Louis Pasteur Jet Engine ............................... : Sir Frank Whittle Intelligence Tests ...................................... : Binet Insulin ................................................ : F. Banting Induction of Electric Current .................... Faraday Incandescent Bulb ................................... Edison Induction Coil ................................... Rohm Korff Insulin .................................................. F.Banting Intelligence test ........................................... Binet Jet Propulsion ................................ Frank Whittle Law of Gravitation ........................ : Issac Newton Law of Heredity.................................. : G. Mendal Laser ..................................... : Theodore Maiman Lightning Conductor .............. : Benjamin Franklin Logarithm ....................................... : John Napier Laughing Gas ......................................... Priestley Life Boat .................................. Henry Great Head
Lift (Elevators) .............................................. Otis Linotype ........................................ Mergenthaler Line of demarcation (ship) ....................... Plimsoll Laws of Electrical Resistance ........................ Ohm Law of Electrolysis .................................. Faraday Law of gases ..................................... Gay Lussac Laws of Gravitation ................................. Newton Laws of Heredity ........................ Gregory Mandel Laws of Motion ....................................... Newton Laws of Natural Selections ....................... Darwin Laws of Multiple Proportion ...................... Dalton Liquid Oxygen ........................................... Dewar Machine Gun ...................... : Dr. Richard Gattling Maser ................................... : Charles H. Townes Microphone .................................... : Graham Bell Measurement of Electrical Energy............... Joule, James Prescoft Meson .......................................... Hideki Yakawa Microscope ................................................ Janes Molecular Scattering of light in fluid . Ramanathan Neon Gas ................................... Ramsay, Travers Neutron ................................................ Chadwick Nuclear Fission .......... Otto Hahn, Bohr and Fermi Nylon Plastic ........................................ Carothers Oxygen ............................................ : J.B.Preistly Origin of Species .......................... Charles Darwin Parachute ..................................... : A.J. Garnerian Pencillin ................................ : Alexander Fleming Photography (Film) ........................ : John Carbutt Periodic Law....................................... Mendeleef Phonograph ............................................. Edison Phonographic Shorthand ........................... Pitman Photograph ......................................... Dauguerre Principle for lever (S.P.Gravity).......... Archimedes Phototherapy ..................................... N.R.Finsen Positive Electrons ................................. Anderson Powerloom .......................................... Cartwright Pneumatic Tyre ......................................... Dunlop Printing for the Blind .................................. Braille Printing Press ........................................... Caxton Printing Types ........................... John Guttenberg Psycho-analysis ...................... Dr.Sigmund Freud Rayon ...................................... : Sir Joseph Swan Radio-activity of Uranium .......... Henry Becquerel Raman effect ....................................... C.V.Raman Radium .......................................... Madame Curie
Railway Engine ................................. Stephenson Radio transmitter ............................ Alexanderson Rare Gas ............................................. Cavandish Replacing human heart ............. Christian Barnard Revolver ....................................................... Colt Quantum Theory ................................. Max plank Refrigerator ................................ : James Harrison Safety Lamp ................................ Humphry Davy Safety Match .................................... Land Strom Safety Pin ........................................ William Hunt Safety Razor ............................................. Gillette Sewing Machine ............... Barthelling Thimonnier Short Hand................................................ Pitman Solar System ..................................... Copernicus Steam Engine .................................... James Watt Steam Turbine ......................................... Parsons Spectroscope .......................................... Bunsen Stethoscope .................................. Rene Laennee Submarine ................................... David Bushnell Seismograph ................................ Roberts Mallet Sextant ..................................................... Hadley Steam boat ................................................ Fulton Submarine ............................................. Bushwell Talkies ............................................. Lee-de-Frost Tank ....................................................... Swinton Telegraphy .. William F.Cooke & Charles Wheatstone Telegraph Code ......................................... Morse Telephone ......................... Alexander Graham Bell Telescope.................................................. Galileo Television ............................................. J.L. Baird Thermosflask ............................................ Dewar Transistor ........................... Shockly and Bardeen Typewriter ................................................. Sholes Theory of Evolution ..................... Charles Darwin Theory of Relativity ..................... Albert Einstein Uranium fusion .................................... Oho Hahn Uranus (Planet) ......................... Herschel William Vaccination ............................................... Jenner Vaccum Flask ............................. Sir James Dewar Vulcanisation ...................................... Good Year Washing Soda ......................................... Lablanc Wireless Communication ................. Oliver Lodge Wireless Telegraphy .............................. Marcony Wireless ................................................. Marconi X-ray............................................. W.C. Rontgen
FAMOUS LINES AND FRONTIERS • Boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan: Durand Line
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WHERE THEY REST Place Person Rajghat ........................................ Mahatma Gandhi Santhivan ..................................... Jawaharlal Nehru Chaithrabhoomi .............................. B. R. Ambedkar Shakthisthal ...................................... Indira Gandhi Ekthasthal .............................................. Zail Singh Kisanghat ......................................... Charan Singh Veerbhoomi ........................................ Rajiv Gandhi Abhyaghat ........................................ Morarji Desai Narayanghat .................................. Gulzarilal Nanda Samathasthal ...................................... Jagjivan Ram Vijayghat ................................... Lal Bahadur Shastri Nigam Bodhghat .................................. Kishan Kant Karmabhumi .................................. K. R. Narayanan Shantivan ......................................... Sanjay Gandhi Budha Purnima Park ..................... P. V. Narasimha Rao
NEW AND OLD NAMES OF PLACES IN INDIA Pondichery ........................................... Puthuchery Indraprastham ................................................ Delhi Magadham ..................................................... Bihar Vangarangyam ............................................. Bengal Pataliputhram ................................................ Patna Kalingam ...................................................... Orissa Kashi ........................................................ Banaras Prayag ..................................................... Alahabad Karnavathi ........................................ Ahemadabad
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India): 20th Parallel The border between USA and Canada: 49th Parallel The border between and Poland: Oder Niesse Line Boundary between and Poland : Hindenberg Line Boundary between Namibia and Angola : 16th Parallel Boundary between Russia and Finland : Mannar Haime Line
Saketham ................................................. Ayodhya Purushapuram ......................................... Peshawar Gandharam ............................................ Khandahar Avanthi ...................................................... Ujjayini Kanyakubjam .............................................. Kanouj Kamaroop ................................................... Assam Devagiri ............................................. Doulathabad Kosalam ................................................... Faizabad Kanchi .............................................. Kanchipuram Vadodara ..................................................... Baroda Thiruvanchikkulam, Mahodayapuram ... Kodungallur Madras ..................................................... Chennai Calcutta ...................................................... Kolkata Bangalore ............................................. Bengalooru
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES Started by Indians Young India, Harijan: Mahatma Gandhi National Herald: Jawaharlal Nehru Vande Matharam, Karma Yogi: Aurobindo Ghosh New India: Annie Besant Voice of India: Dadabhai Naoroji Al-Hilal: Edited by Abdul Kalam Azad Kesari: Bal Gangadhar Tilak Indian Opinion: Gandhiji Kerala Kaumudi: K. Sukumaran Malayala Manorama: Kandathil Vargheese Mappila Mathrubhumi: K.P. Kesava Menon
RIVERSIDE CITIES & STATES (INDIA) CITY
RIVER
Ayodhya .......................................................... Badrinath ......................................................... Kolkata ............................................................ Cuttack ............................................................ Delhi ................................................................ Guwahati .......................................................... Haridwar .......................................................... Agra ................................................................ Ahmedabad ...................................................... Surat ................................................................ Varanasi ........................................................... Vijayawada ....................................................... Hyderabad ....................................................... Kanpur ............................................................. Lucknow .......................................................... Nasik ................................................................ Patna ................................................................ Srinagar ............................................................ Allahabad ........................................................ Ferozepur ......................................................... Jabalpur ........................................................... Ludhiana .......................................................... Madurai ........................................................... Mysore ............................................................ Tirunelveli ........................................................ Jamshedpur ...................................................... Howarh ............................................................ Alwaye ............................................................ Bhaglpur .......................................................... Buxar ................................................................ Dibugarh .......................................................... Kota ................................................................. Karnool ............................................................ Leh .................................................................. Moradabad ...................................................... Mathura ........................................................... Pandharpur ...................................................... Sambalpur ........................................................ Srirangapatanam ............................................... Tiruchirapally ................................................... Ujjine ............................................................... Dhaka .............................................................. Mongar ............................................................
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Sarayu .................................................................... U.P Alaknanda ................................................ Uttarakhand Hoogly.......................................................... W. Bengal Mahanadi ............................................................ Orissa Yamuna ................................................................ Delhi Brahmaputra ....................................................... Assam Ganges (Bhagirathi) ................................... Uttarakhand Yamuna ................................................................... U.P Sabarmati .......................................................... Gujarat Tapti ................................................................. Gujarat Ganges .................................................... Uttar Pradesh Krishna ............................................... Andhra Pradesh Musi ................................................... Andhra Pradesh Ganges .................................................... Uttar Pradesh Gomati .................................................... Uttar Pradesh Godawari ................................................... Maharashtra Ganges ................................................................. Bihar Jhelum ................................................................. J & K Ganga - Yamuna ....................................................... U.P Sutlej ................................................................. Punjab Narmada ................................................................. M.P Sutlej ................................................................. Punjab Vaigai .......................................................... Tamil Nadu Kaveri ........................................................... Karnataka Tamaraparni ................................................ Tamil Nadu Subarnarekha ....................................................... Bihar Hoogly...................................................... West Bengal Periyar ................................................................ Kerala Ganga .................................................................. Bihar Ganga .................................................................. Bihar Brahmaputra ....................................................... Assam Chambal .......................................................... Rajastan Tungabhadra ........................................ Andhrapradesh Indus ................................................ Jammu & Kashmir Ramganga ............................................................... U.P Yamuna ................................................................... U.P Bhima .......................................................... Maharastra Mahanadi ............................................................ Orissa Cauvery ........................................................ Karnataka Cauvery ...................................................... Tamil Nadu Narmada ............................................... Madya Pradesh Buriganga .................................................. Bangladesh Ganges ................................................................. Bihar
WELL KNOWN QUOTATIONS
‘Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I would not like to be a master’ ‘A Government, of the people by the people and for the people’ Abraham Lincoln ‘Give us tool and we will finish the job’ ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.’ Sir Winston Churchill ‘If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ‘Crush the infamous thing’. Voltaire ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’ ‘Other men live to eat. I eat to live. ‘Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death.’ ‘I know nothing except that fact of my ignorance’ ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’. Socrates ‘The Gods help them who help themselves’ Aesop ‘The State ? It is me’ Louis XIV ‘I am not a culprit’ Fidel Castro ‘It was only one life, what is one life in the affairs of a state’ Benitto Mussolini ‘Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong’ Adolf Hitler ‘The throne is but a piece of wood covered with velvet’. ‘Give me good mothers. I shall give you a good nation.’ ‘There is no word such as impossible in my dictionary’ Napolean Bonaparte “Et tu Brute”. Vini Vidi Vici (I came, I saw, I, conquered) Julius Caesar ‘I am dying with the help of too many physicians’ Alexander the Great
‘Let a hundred flowers bloom and let a thousand schools of thought contend’ “Powers flows from the barrel of a gun”. Mao- Tse -Tung “We can secure peace only by preparing for war”. John F. Kennedy ‘The living need charity more than the dead George Arnold ‘Reading make a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man’. ‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested’. ‘Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability’. Francis Bacon ‘Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought “If winter comes can spring be far behind’’ P.B. Shelley ‘Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great judgement seat’. ‘East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet’. Rudyard Kipling ‘The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is’ Bernard Shaw Where wealth accumulates, men decay’. ‘Wisdom makes but a slow defence against trouble, though at last at sure one’. Oliver Goldsmith ‘The roots of education are bitter, but fruit is sweet. ‘Virtue is the mean state between two vices, the one of excess and other deficiency’. ‘Man is by nature a political animal’ Aristotle ‘Let them eat cakes’. Marie Antoinette “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me” Jesus Christ ‘Nevertheless it moves’ Galileo ‘Play the game in the spirit of game’. Baron Peirre de Coubertin ‘The empty vessel makes the greatest sound’. ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’
‘There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so’. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’. ‘Frailty thy name is woman’. ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’. ‘Cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste death but once’. ‘All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players’ William Shakespere ‘All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance’. T.S. Eliot ‘End justifies the means Nicholo Machiavelli ‘Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration’. Thomas Alva Edison ‘Knowledge is power’ Thomas Hobbes ‘Superstition is the religion of feeble minds’ Edmund Burke ‘The style is the name himself’ Buffon ‘Proper words in proper place’ Johnathan Swift ‘Nature never did betray the heart that loved her’. ‘The child is the father of man’. William Wordsworth ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing’. ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’ Alexander Pope ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’ ‘Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter’. “Beauty is truth and truth beauty”. John Keats ‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. Lord Acton ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’. ‘Man is born free, yet every where he is in chains’. Jean - Jacques Rousseau ‘Whom the Gods love die young’. Lord Byron
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L.C.M & H.C.F Factors and Multiples: If a number `m' divides another number `n' exactly, then we say that `m' is a factor of `n' and that `n' is a multiple of `m'. eg. 3 is a factor of 12 and therefore 12 is a multiple of 3. Least Common Multiple (L.C.M.) L.C.M. is the least non-zero number in common multiples of two or more numbers. Multiple of 6 = 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, ........ Multiple of 8 = 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, ........ Common Multiple of 6 and 8 = 24, 48 ............... Least Common Multiple = 24 Factorisation Method: Find the L.C.M. of 12, 27 and 40 Factors of 12 = 2x2x3 = 2 2 x3 2 12 3 27 2 40 Factors of 27 2 6 3 9 2 20 3 = 3x3x3 = 3 3 3 3 3 2 10 Factors of 40 1 1 5 5 = 2x2x2x5 = 2 3 x5 1 L. C. M . 2 3 x 3 3 x 5 1 0 8 0
SHORT CUT METHOD (Division Method) Find the L.C.M. of 12, 27, 40 2 12, 2 6, 3 3, 1,
27, 4 0 27, 2 0 27, 1 0 9,1 0
HIGHEST COMMON FACTOR (H.C.F) The highest common factor of two or more numbers is the greatest number which divides each of them exactly. eg. Find the H.C.F. of 24 and 56 Factors of 24 = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24 Factors of 56 = 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 14, 28, 56 Common factors of 24 and 56 are 1, 2, 4, 8 H.C.F. of 24 and 56 = 8 Factorisation Method: H.C.F. can be found by resolving the given numbers into prime factors and then taking the product of least powers of all common factors, that occur in these numbers. Eg. Find H.C.F. of 48, 108, 140 2 48 2 24 = 2x2x2x2x3 2 12 = 2 4 x3 2 6 Factors of 108 3 = 2x2x3x3x3 = 2 2 x3 3 Factors of 48
Factors of 140 = 2x2x5x7 = 2 2 x 5 x 7 H.C.F. = 2 2 = 4 Division Method Find the H.C.F. of 48, 108, 140 2 4 8 , 1 08 , 1 4 0 2 24, 54, 70 12, 27, 35 H.C.F.=2x2= 4
L. C. M. 2x2x3x9x10 = 1080
2 108 2 54 3 27 3 9 3
2 140 2 70 5 35 7
QUICKER & SHORT CUT METHOD Find the H.C.F. of 777 and 1147 777) 1 1 4 7 (1 777 370) 777(2 740 37) 370 (10 370 0 H.C.F. of 777 and 1147 is 37 * The product of two given numbers is equal to the product of their H.C.F. and L.C.M. L.C.M. of two numbers Product of numbers = H. C. F. of numbers
L.C.M. of given fractions L. C. M. of numerators = H. C. F. of deno min ators
H.C.F of given fractions H. C. F. of numerators = L. C. M. of deno min at ors
The L.C.M of a given set of numbers would be either the highest or higher than the highest of the given numbers. The H.C.F. of a given set of numbers would be either the lowest or lower than the lowest. Solved Examples 1 . Find the L.C.M. of 125,64,8 and 3. Ans : Given numbers are 5 3, 26, 23 and 3 L.C.M. 5 3x2 6x3 = 24,000 2 . Find the L.C.M. of
1 5 5 10 , , , ? 3 6 9 27
Ans: L.C.M. of fractions L. C. M. of numerat ors = H. C. F. of deno min ators
L.C.M. of 1, 5 and 10 is 10 H.C.F of 3, 6, 9 and 27 is 3 L.C.M. of given fractions =
3 . Find the H.C.F. of Ans: =
10 3
1 3 5 7 9 , , , , 2 4 6 8 10
H.C.F. of fractions H. C. F. of numerat ors L. C. M. of deno min ators
H.C.F. of 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 is 1 L.C.M of 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 is 120 H.C.F. of given fractions =
1 120
4 . The L.C.M. of two number is 2310. Their H.C.F. is 30. If one number is 210, the other is: Ans: The other number =
L. C. M. xH. C. F. 2310 x 30 330 given number = 210
5 . The H.C.F. and L.C.M. of two numbers are 44 and 264 respectively. If the first number is divided by 2, the quotient is 44, The other number is Ans: First number = 2x44 = 88 Second number =
44 x264 132 88
6 . The least square number which is divisible by 6, 8 and 15 is: Ans: The least number divisible by 6, 8 and 15 is their L.C.M. which is 120 Now 120 = 2x2x2x3x5 To make it a perfect square, it must be multiplied by 2x3x5 Required Number=120x2x3x5=3600 7 . The least number of square tiles required to pave the ceiling of a room 15m 17cm long and 9m. 2cm broad is: Ans: Size of largest square tile
= H.C.F. of 1517 cm and 902 cm = 41 cm. Least number of tiles required
3.
2 3 4 , and 5 10 15
a)
1 30
b) 2
1517 x 902 814 = 41 x 41
c)
24 750
d)
2.
Find the L.C.M. of
Areaof the room = Areaof one tile
8. Find the least number which when divided separately by 15, 20, 36 and 48 leaves 3 as remainder in each case. Ans : Required number = L.C.M. of (15,20,36 and 48) +3 = 720 + 3 = 723 9 . Find the greatest number that will divide 197 and 269 and leaves 5 as remainder in each case. Required number = H.C.F. of [(197-5) and (269-5)] = H.C.F. of (192 and 264) = 8 1 2 . Five bells begin to toll together and toll respectively at intervals of 6,7,8,9 and 12 seconds. How many times they will toll together in one hour, excluding the one at the start? Ans: L.C.M. of 6,7,8,9 and 12 = 2x2x3x7x2x3 = 504 ie, The bells will toll together after each 504 seconds. In one hour, they will toll together
1.
4.
60 x60 7 times 504
PRACTICE TEST Find the L.C.M of 12, 15, 18 and 27. a) 1, 08 0 b) 5 4 0 c) 2 7 0 d) 7 6 0 Find the H.C.F. of 72, 48 and 30. a) 3 0 b) 1 2 c) 6 d) 3 Find the L.C.M. of 2 2x33x53 and 2 3 x3 2 x5. a) 27 , 0 00 b) 1 8 0 c) 3 6 d) 13 , 5 00
5.
6. is.
Find the H.C.F. of
2 5
2 5
4 3 7 , and 5 10 15
a)
1 5
b)
84 5
c)
84 30
d)
1 30
If the L.C.M of x and y is z, their H.C.F.
a)
xy z
b) xyz
c)
x+ y z
d)
z xy
7 . H.C.F of two numbers is 24 and their L.C.M is 1080. If one of the numbers is 120, find the other. a) 2 1 6 b) 5 3 2 c) 1 0 8 d) 8 2 0 8 . L.C.M. of 2.5, 0.5 and 0.175 = ? a) 2 . 5 b) 0 . 5 c) 0. 17 5 d) 1 7. 5 9 . H.C.F. of two numbers is 24 and their L.C.M is 1344. If the difference between the numbers is 80, their sum is: a) 3 6 8 b) 3 5 6 c) 3 3 2 c) 3 0 4 1 0 . Find the greatest number which can divide 1354, 1866 and 2762 leaving the same remainder 10 in each case. a) 6 4 b) 1 2 4 c) 1 5 6 d) 2 6 0 1 1 . Find the least perfect square which is di-
visible by 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8. a) 2 5 0 0 b) 1 2 0 0 c) 3 6 0 0 d) 9 0 0 1 2 . The least number which when divided by 15, 27, 35 and 42 leaves in each case a remainder 7 is: a) 1 8 9 7 b) 1 9 8 7 c) 1 8 8 3 d) 2 0 0 7 1 3 . Two containers contain 60 and 165 litres of milk respectively. Find the maximum capacity of a container which can measure the milk in each container an exact number of times (in litres) a) 1 5 b) 3 c) 5 d) 1 0 1 4 . Two baskets contain 195 and 250 bananas respectively, which are distributed in equal number among children. Find the largest number of bananas that can be given, so that 3 bananas are left over from the first basket and 2 from the second. a) 4 b) 1 8 c) 8 d) 6 Qn: (15- 18) :- Write in ascending order 15.
16.
17.
1 2 3 3 , , , 2 5 4 2
a)
7 1 3 5 , , , 8 3 4 6
b)
5 7 3 1 , , , 6 8 4 3
c)
3 7 1 3 , , , 4 8 3 4
d)
1 3 5 7 , , , 3 4 6 8
Qn: 18- 20 Write in descending order 18.
19.
20.
1 2 3 1 , , , 3 5 4 6 a)
1 2 3 1 , , , 3 5 4 6
b)
1 2 1 3 , , , 6 5 3 4
c)
2 3 1 1 , , , 5 4 3 6
d)
3 2 1 1 , , , 4 5 3 6
5 7 11 3 , , , 6 8 12 10
a)
5 7 11 3 , , , 6 8 12 10
b)
7 5 11 3 , , , 8 6 12 10
c)
11 7 5 3 , , , 12 8 6 10
d)
7 5 11 3 , , , 8 6 12 10
5 11 5 7 , , , 3 9 6 12
a)
2 1 3 3 , , , 5 2 4 2
b)
3 1 2 3 , , , 4 2 5 2
a)
5 11 5 7 , , , 3 9 6 12
b)
11 5 7 5 , , , 9 3 12 6
c)
3 3 1 2 , , , 2 4 2 5
d)
3 1 2 3 , , , 2 2 5 4
c)
5 11 5 7 , , , 3 9 6 12
d)
11 5 5 7 , , , 9 6 3 12
5 11 5 7 , , , 3 9 6 12
Qn 21-23 Find the greatest of the given fractions
a)
11 7 5 5 , , , 9 12 3 6
b)
7 5 11 5 , , , 12 6 9 3
c)
5 7 11 5 , , , 6 12 9 3
d)
5 11 5 7 , , , 3 9 6 12
21.
5 7 3 1 , , , 6 8 4 3
22.
2 4 3 3 , , , 3 15 5 4
a)
4 15
b)
3 4
c)
3 5
d)
2 3
5 6 13 9 , , , 8 11 22 13
23.
a)
5 8
b)
6 11
c)
13 22
d)
9 13
3 5 2 8 , , , 4 7 3 11
a)
3 4
29. b)
5 7
2 8 d) 3 11 Qn: (24 - 26) Find the smallest of the given fraction.
30.
c)
24.
2 5 9 9 7 , , , , 3 7 13 14 4
31. 32.
a)
9 14
b)
2 3
c)
7 4
d)
5 7
33.
11 14 17 23 29 , , , , 25. 14 17 20 26 32
26.
a)
29 32
b)
11 14
c)
17 20
d)
14 17
b)
6 7
5 3 5 6 , , , 6 4 8 7
a)
3 4
5 5 c) d) 8 6 2 7 . A heap of stones can be made in groups of 21 but when made up into groups of 16, 20, 25 and 45 there are 3 stones left in each case, The number of stones in the heap is a) 3 6 0 0 b) 3603 c) 7 2 0 0 d) 7203 2 8 . Three measuring rods are 64cm, 80cm
34.
and 96 cm in length. The least length of cloth (in metres) that can be measured exact number of times using any of the three rods is a) 0.96m b) 9.6m c) 96 m d) 96 0m The largest number, which exactly divides the product of any three consecutive integers is a) 2 b) 3 c) 6 d) 1 2 The L.C.M. of two numbers is 63 and their H.C.F. is 9. If one of the numbers is 27, the other number will be a) 9 b) 2 1 c) 1 7 d) 1 8 9 The HCF of two numbers is 32 and their product is 10240. Find their L.C.M? a) 6 4 0 b) 3 2 0 c) 3 2 4 d) 2 3 0 A gardener had a number of shrubs to plant in rows. At first he tried to plant 8, then 12 and then 16 in a row but he had always 3 shrubs left with him. On trying 7 he had none left. Find the total number of shrubs. a) 1 4 7 b) 1 5 0 c) 1 3 7 d) 1 5 4 Six bells commencing tolling together and toll at intervals of 2,4,6,8,10 and 12 seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together. a) 1 7 b) 1 5 c) 1 6 d) 2 0 In a seminar the number of participants in Hindi, English and Mathematics are 60, 84 and 108 respectively. Find the minimum number of rooms required, where in each room the same number of participants are to be seated; and all of them being in the same subject. a) 2 0 b) 2 2 c) 2 5 d) 2 1
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE TEST - 6 1. (b)
2. (c)
3. (a)
4. (b)
5. (d)
6. (a)
7. (a)
8. (d)
9. (a)
10. (a)
11. (c)
12. (a)
13. (a)
14. (c)
15. (a)
16. (b)
17. (d)
18. (d)
19. (c)
20. (a)
21. (b)
22.(d)
23. (a)
24. (a)
25. (b)
26. (c)
27. (d)
28.(b)
29. (c)
30. (b)
31. (b)
32. (a)
33. (b)
34. (d)
Percentage A fraction with its denominator as `100' is called a percentage. Percentage means per hundred. So it is a fraction of the form
if a student secures y marks and fails by z marks, then the maximum mark
6 37 151 , and and these fractions 100 100 100
A candidate scores x% in an examination fails by `a' marks while another candidate who scores y% gets `b' marks more than the minimum required for a , then the
can be expressed as 6%, 37% and 151% respectively. In such a fraction, the numerator is called rate percent. To express x% as a fraction or a decimal, divide x by 100. If the price of an item increases by r%, then the reduction in consumption, so that the expenditure remains the same is r x100% r 100
If the price of the commodity decreases by r%, the increase in consumption, so that the expenditure remains the same is
If the length of a rectangle is increased by x% and the breadth is decreased by y%, then the area is increased or decreased by xy )% according to the (+) ve or 100 (-) ve sign obtained. If the present population is P which increases R% annually, then (i) the population after n years (x y
100 R 100
(ii)
the population n years ago 100 100 R
n
= P
If the present value of a machine is P which depreciates at R% per annum, then (i) the value of the machine after n years 100 R 100
If marks in an examination is x% and
n
= P (ii)
the value of the machine n years ago
2
x % 100
n
= P
xy x y % 100 If there is a decrease instead of increase, a negative sign is attached to the corresponding rate percent. If the value of a number is first increased by x% and later it is decreased by x% then net change is always a decrease which is equal to
100 (a b) y x
maximum mark =
r x100% 1 0 0 r
If the value is first increased by x% and then by y%, the final increase is
1 0 0 ( y z) x
=
=
100 P 100 R
n
If x% students failed in a particular subject, y% students failed in another subject, and z% students failed in both subjects, then the present = 100+z-( x+y) Fractional Equivalents of important percents 1
1%
8
1 4 1 3
1
4%
100
50
25
2
3
4
40% 6
1
2% 60%
5
% %
1 16 1 12
12 16
1 2 2 3
80%
5
% %
1
25%
8 1
33
6
1 3
5%
Then 36% of x = 27 or
1 3 37 % 2 8
1 4 1 3
2 2 66 % 3 3
x
2 7 x1 0 0 75 36
Hence, maximum marks = 75 The answer can be arrived quickly by Maximum marks =
2 25 1 50% 2 1 5 83 % 3 6 8%
1 10 % 10 1 5 62 % 2 8 87
1 2
%
7 8
20%
1
=
5 3 75% 48 2 1 4 133 % 3 3
Find 33
1 % of 600 3
x
2.
1 1 % of 600 = x600 = 200 3 3
What percent of 144 is 36? Ans: Let x% of 144 = 36 (ie)
x x 144 36 100
(ie) x 3.
3 6 x1 0 0 25 144
2.5 is 5% of what? Ans : Let the number be x
5% of x 2.5 5 x x 2 .5 x 5 0 100
100 x 27 75 36
2 40 x 3 0 (ie) x 1 3 0 5 100
x 30 x
Ans: 33
1 0 0 (1 7 1 0 ) 36
5 . Subtracting 40% of a number from the number, we get the result as 30. Find the number. Ans: Let the number be x.
SOLVED EXAMPLES: 1.
36 x x 27 100
20 100% 1
5
%
1
4 In an examination 36% are marks. If an examinee gets 17 marks and fails by 10 marks, what are the maximum marks? Ans : mark=(17+10)= 27 Let maximum marks be x
5 50 3
6 . If the price of sugar be increased by 25%, find by how much percent must its consumption be decreased to keep the expenditure fixed on sugar? Ans: Decrease in consumption
25 2 5 x1 0 0 100% = % 20% = 100 25 125 7 . The salary of a worker was first increased by 10% and thereafter decreased by 5%. What was the effect in his salary? 10 x5 % Ans: % effect = 10 5 100
His salary is increased by 4.5% (because the sign is +ve.)
8 . The value of a machine depriciates at the rate of 10% per annum. If its present value is Rs. 81,000 what will be its worth after 2 year s? Ans: The value of the machine after
2 years = Rs. 81,000x 1 = Rs. 81000 x
10 100
2
9 9 x Rs. 6 5 , 6 1 0 10 10
9 . Due to fall of 10% in the rate of sugar, 500 gm more sugar can be purchased for Rs. 140. Find the original rate and reduced rate. Ans : Money spent originally=Rs. 140 Less Money to be spent now = 10% of 140 = Rs. 14
Rs. 14 now yield 500gm sugar Present rate of sugar = Rs. 28 per kg. If the present value is Rs. 90, the original value = Rs. 100 If the present value is Rs. 28 the original value = Rs.
100 x 28 90
= Rs. 31.11 1 0 . In an examination, 42% students failed in History and 52% failed in Geography. If 17% students failed in both subjects, find the percentage of those students who ed in both the subjects. Ans:- percent=100+17-(42+52) = 117 - 94 = 23 PRACTICE TEST 1.
65% of 7+35% of 3 = ?% of 56 a) 1 b) 1 0 c) 5 0 d) 1 0 0
2 . What is 20% of a number whose 200% is 360? a) 7 2 b) 3 6 c) 5 2 d) 1 4 4
3.
What percent of
4 2 is ? 7 35
a) 2 . 5 % b) 1 0 0 0 % c) 2 5 % d) 1 0 % 4 . The total income of A and B is Rs. 6000. A spends 60% of his income and B spends 80% of his income. If their savings are equal, then the income of A is, a) Rs. 3500 b) Rs. 2000 c) Rs. 4000 d) Rs. 3000 5 . With an increase of Rs. 2,000, Vishnu's monthly salary became Rs. 12,000. What is the percent increase in his salary? a) 2 0 b) 2 5 c) 4 0 d) 8 0 6 . if 75% of the students in a school are boys and the number of girls is 420, the number of boys is a) 1 1 7 6 b) 1 3 5 0 c) 1 2 6 0 d) 1 1 2 5 7 . The salary of a worker is first increased by 10% and therafter it was reduced by 10%. What was the change in his salary? a) 1% increase b) 5% increase c) no change d) 1% decrease 8 . A water tank contains 5% salt by weight. x litres of fresh water is added to 40 litres of tank water, so that the solution contains 2% salt. The value of x is a) 4 0 b) 5 0 c) 5 5 d) 6 0 9 . The population of a town increases 5% annually. If it is 15,435 now, what was it 2 years ago? a) 14 , 0 00 b) 13 , 4 73 c) 12 , 3 45 d) 10 , 1 45 1 0 . Navin spends 15% of his salary on cloths, 30% on food and 10% on transport. After this if he is left with Rs. 900/- what is his salary? a) Rs. 1,500 b) Rs. 2000 c) Rs. 1,635 d) Rs. 2500 1 1 . When the price of an article was reduced by 15% the sale of the article is increased by
20%. What was the effect on the sales? a) 2% increase b) 1% increase c) 2% decrease d) 1% decrease 1 2 . In an election between two candidates, the one gets 35% of the votes polled is defeated by 15000 votes. The number of votes casted by the winning candidate is a) 15 , 0 00 b) 1, 75, 000 c) 32 , 5 00 d) 52 , 5 00 1 3 . In an examination, 70% students ed in English and 75% in Hindi while 20% failed in both the subjects. If 260 students ed in both the subjects, the total number of students is a) 4 0 0 b) 5 0 0 c) 3 4 0 d) 4 6 0 1 4 . If the radius of a circle is diminished by 10%, the area is diminished by a) 3 6 % b) 2 0 % c) 1 9 % d) 1 0 % 1 5 . The price of an article is cut by 10%. In order to restore it to its former value, the new price must be increased by a)
1 10 % 3
job seekers are graduates, 20% are postgraduates and remaining 6000 are non-graduates. How many post-graduate job seekers are there? a) 3, 00 0 b) 6, 00 0 c) 9, 00 0 d) 12 , 0 00 1 9 . A company hired a salesman on a monthly salary of Rs. 3,000. In addition to it, the salesman was entitled for 20% commission on the monthly sale. How much sale the salesman should do if he wants his monthly income as Rs. 10,000? a) Rs. 50,000 b) Rs. 15,000 c) Rs. 35,000 d) Rs. 21,000 2 0 . In a public sector company, 30% employees opted for pension and 50% employees opted for provident fund. The remaining employees were uncertain. If the difference between those who opted for provident fund and those who were uncertain was 1440, how many employees were there in the company? a) 7, 20 0 b) 2, 40 0 c) 2, 88 0 d) 4, 80 0 2 1 . Prasanna spends 25% of her monthly income on petrol for her car,
b) 1 1 %
1 1 11 % d) 12 % 9 9 1 6 . The breadth of a rectangular field is 60% of its length. If the perimeter of the field is 800m, What is the area of the field? a) 37,500 sq.m. b) 4,800 sq.m c) 18,750 sq.m d) 40,000 sq.m 1 7 . In a factory, 60% of the employees are males. Among them 20% are matriculates and the remaining are graduates. Among the females 40% are matriculates and the remaining are graduates. If the total number of female employees in the factory is 640, how many graduates are there in the factory ? a) 1024 b) 896 c) 1,152 d) 1 0 0 0 1 8 . In an employment exchange, 40% of the
c)
2 rd of the remain3
ing income on house hold items, rent, etc. If she is left with Rs. 1,800 with her at the end of the month how much does she spend on petrol? a) Rs. 1,800 b) Rs. 720 c) Rs. 2,500 d) Rs. 1,440 2 2 . Rajesh earns Rs. 2,300 per month. He spends Rs. 1,200 on food, Rs. 630 on conveyance, 10% of his monthly income on other incidentals and saves the remaining amount. How much money will he save in one year? a) Rs. 2300 b) Rs. 2880 c) Rs. 2600 d) Rs. 2400 2 3 . In an examination, Hari got 8 marks less than 80% of the full marks and Ravi got 5 marks more than 70% of the full marks. Hari beats Ravi by 2 marks. The marks scored by Ravi is a) 9 0 b) 1 1 0 c) 1 3 0 d) 1 4 0
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE 1 . (b) 9 . (a) 1 7 . (c)
2 . (b) 1 0 . (b) 1 8 . (a)
3 . (d) 1 1 . (a) 1 9 . (c)
4 . (b) 1 2 . (c) 2 0 . (d)
5 . (a) 13. (a) 21.(a)
6 . (c) 1 4 . (c) 2 2 . (b)
7 . (d) 1 5 . (c) 2 3 . (b)
8.(d) 16.(a)
Profit & Loss Cost Price: The price for which an article is purchased is called the Cost Price (C.P.) Selling price : The price at which an article is sold is called the Selling Price (S.P.) Profit (Gain) : The difference between the selling price and the cost price (when S.P. is more than C.P) is called the Profit. Loss:The difference between the cost price and selling price (when C.P. is more than S.P.) is called the Loss. Points to : 1 . Gain = (S.P) - (C.P); Loss = (C.P) - (S.P) 2.
Gain%=
G ain x 1 0 0 SP = x 1 00 C. P.
Lo ssx 1 0 0 Loss%= = C. P.
S P x 100
3 . When the cost price and gain percent are given, 100 Gain% 100
S.P. = C.P. x
4 . When the cost price and loss percent are given 100 Loss% 100
S.P. = C.P. x
5 . When the selling price and gain percent are given 100 C.P. = S.P. x 100 Gain%
6 . When the selling price and loss percent are given 100
C.P. = S.P. x (1 0 0 Lo ss% )
7 . The discount percent is calculated on the marked price. Discount percent =
Disc ount x100 M arked price
8 . If there are two successive profits of x% and y% in a transaction then the resultant profit percent is xy
xy 100
9 . If there is a profit of x% and loss of y% in a transaction, then the resultant profit and loss percent is xy according to the (+)ve and 100 the (-)ve signs respectively. xy
1 0 . If cost price of x articles is equal to the selling price of y articles, then profit percent. =
x y x 100 y
SOLVED EXAMPLES 1 . A man buys a toy for Rs. 25 and sells it for Rs. 30. Find his gain percent. Ans: Gain = 30 - 25 = Rs. 5 Gain % =
5 x 1 0 0 Rs. 2 0 % 25
2 . By selling a watch for Rs. 144 a man loses 10%. At what price should he sell it in order to gain 10%? Ans: S.P. = Rs. 144; Loss = 10%
100 C. P. Rs x 144 100 10
= Rs.
100 x 1 4 4 Rs. 1 6 0 90
If S.P = Rs. 50, loss = Rs. ( x-50) (X 4 0 ) (X 5 0 )
Gain required = 15% S. P. Rs.
115 x 1 6 0 Rs. 1 8 4 100
Short cut: Required SP =
144 x 1 1 5 Rs.1 8 4 90
3 . I sold a book at a profit of 16%. Had I sold it for Rs. 18 more, 20% would have been gained. Find the cost price. Ans: Here 120% of C.P. _ 116% of C.P. = Rs. 18
4% of cos t Rs.18
10
5 x X 100
5 x X X R s. 2 0 0 0 100
6 . A grocer sells rice at a profit of 10% and uses weights which are 20% less than the marked weight. The total gain earned by him will be Ans: Let us consider a packet of rice marked 1 Kg. Then its actual weight=80% of 1Kg.=0.8 Kg. Let C.P. of 1 Kg be Rs. x Then C.P. of 0.8Kg = Rs. 0.8 x Now, S.P. = 110% of C.P. of 1 Kg 110
18 x100 C. P. Rs.450 4 Formula : M o re g ain x 1 0 0
C.P = D if f . in p erc en t ag e p ro f it =
1 8 x1 0 0 Rs. 4 5 0 20 16
4 . A shopkeeper mixes two varieties of tea, one costing Rs. 35 per kg. and another at Rs. 45 per kg. in the ratio 3:2. If he sells the mixed variety at Rs. 41.60 per kg. what is his gain or loss percent? Ans: - C.P of 5 kg. mix = Rs. (35x3+45x2) = Rs. 195 S.P. of 5 kg. mix = Rs. (41.60x5) = Rs. 208 Gain = Rs. (208-195) = Rs. 13 13 2 x 100 6 % Gain% = 195 3
5 . By selling a table for Rs. 40 instead of Rs. 50, 5% more is lost. Find the cost of the table. Ans : Let the C.P. be Rs. x Then if S.P.=Rs. 40, loss=Rs. ( x-40)
. X = 1 0 0 x X Rs. 11 0 .3 X
Gain %= 0 .8 X x 100% = 37.5% 7 . The cost price of 10 articles is equal to the selling price of 9 articles. Find the gain percent. Ans: Let the of 1 article = Rs. 1 Then of 9 articles = Rs. 9 of 10 articles = Rs. 10 SP of 9 articles = Rs. 10 100 1 10 9 11 % 100 9 9 9
Gain =
8 . A boy buys oranges at Rs. 2 for 3 oranges and sells them at one rupee each. To make a profit of Rs. 10 he must sell: Ans: Suppose he sells x oranges.
2 x 3 SP of x oranges = Rs. x of x oranges = Rs.
Profit on x oranges = x
x 10 x = 30 3
2x x = 3 3
9 . A man sells two horses for Rs. 4000 each neither losing nor gaining in the deal. If he sold one horse at a gain of 25%, the other horse would be sold at a loss of: Ans: Let the other horse be sold at x% loss Then 25 - x-
25 x 0 100
x 20% 1 0 . A discount series of 10%, 20% and 40% is equal to a single discount of ..... Ans: Equivalent single discount = 100
60 80 x x 90 56.8% 100 100
PRACTICE TEST 1 . By selling an article for Rs. 100, one gains Rs. 10. Then the gain percent is a) 1 0 % b) 9 % c)
1 11 % 9
d) 10
1 % 2
2 . A loss of 5% was suffered by selling a plot for Rs. 4,085. The cost price of the plot wa s: a) Rs. 4350 b) Rs. 4259.25 c) Rs. 4200 d) Rs. 4300 3 . A dealer sold a mixer for Rs. 420 at a loss of 12.5%. At what price should he have sold it to gain 12.5%? a) Rs. 620 b) Rs. 540 c) Rs. 650 d) Rs. 750 4 . 4 . On selling 33m. of cloth, a person gained an amount equivalent to the S.P. of 11m. of cloth. The profit in the deal is a) 5 0 % b) 2 0 % c) 7 0 % d) 3 0 % 5 . There are two consecutive discounts of 35% and 10% on a saree. If a person paid Rs. 1170 for that, then what was the original price of the saree before the discounts? a) Rs. 2,000 b) Rs. 1,800 c) Rs. 1,900 d) Rs. 1,700
6 . A dishonest dealer claims to sell his goods at cost price, but he uses a weight of 960 gm for the kg weight. His gain percent is a)
4%
c)
2
1 % 2
b) 4
1 % 6
d) 3
3 % 4
7 . By selling a vehicle for Rs. 36,300, a person gains 21% profit. What was his gain in Rupees? a) Rs. 3,000 b) Rs. 7,623 c) Rs. 3,600 d) Rs. 6,300 8 . Hameed bought a calculator for Rs. 520 and sold it with 15% profit on the price he bought. At what price did he sell the calculator? a) Rs. 598/b) Rs. 542/c) Rs. 528/d) Rs. 780/9 . Ramesh purchased four old cycles at the rate of Rs. 625 for each. He spent Rs. 175 on each cycle for repairing and painting. At what price should he sell each cycle in order to make 35% profit on the money he spent? a) Rs. 1,019 b) Rs. 1,000 c) Rs. 1,080 d) Rs. 844 1 0 . Raghu bought 10kg. of sugar at the rate of Rs. 14 per kg and 15kg. of sugar at the rate of Rs. 16 per kg. He mixed the two varieties and sold the mixture at the rate of Rs. 18 per kg. What was his total gain by doing so? a) Rs. 50 b) Rs. 70 c) Rs. 40 d) Rs. 80 1 1 . Ravi buys a radio three-fourth of its value and sells it for 20% more than its value. What will be the profit percent? a) 5 0 % b) 4 0 % c) 6 0 % d) 7 0 % 1 2 . A man buys pencils at 10 for Rs. 3 and sells at 8 for Rs. 3. His gain percent is a) 20 b) 25 c) 30 d) 27
1 3 . A fruit seller buys lemons at 2 for a rupee and sells them at 5 for three rupees. His gain percent is a) 1 0 % b) 1 5 % c) 2 0 % d) 1 2 % 1 4 . Toffee are bought at a rate of 8 for one rupee. To gain 60% they must be sold at a) 6 for Re. 1 b) 5 for Re. 1 c) 9 for Re. 2 d) 24 for Re. 5 1 5 . By selling sugar at Rs. 5.58 per kg. a man loses 7%. To gain 7% it must be sold at the rate of Rs. a) 5.62 per kg b) 6.42 per kg c) 7.32 per kg d) 6.62 per kg 1 6 . A tradesman's prices are 20% above C.P. He allows his customers some discount on his bill and makes a profit of 8%. The rate of discount is : a) 1 0 % b) 1 2 % c) 1 4 % d) 1 6 % 1 7 . An article was sold at a loss of 5%.If it were sold for Rs. 30 more ,the gain would have been 1.25%. The cost price of the article is a) Rs. 488 b) Rs. 480 c) Rs. 460 d) Rs. 420 1 8 . Anitha sold a painting at a profit of 11%. Had she sold it for Rs.175 more, she would have gained 18%. The C.P of the painting is a) Rs. 2250 b) Rs. 2350 c) Rs. 2500 d) Rs. 2550 1 9 . Pradeep bought a toy with 20% discount on its labelled price. He sold it for Rs. 468 at 4% profit on the labelled price. At what price did he by the toy ? a) Rs. 450 b) Rs. 360 c) Rs. 390 d) Rs. 380 2 0 . Arun purchased a bag with 25% discount on the labelled price. At what percentage profit on the price he bought should he sell it
to make 20% profit on the labelled price? a) 6 0 % b) 4 0 % c) 4 5 % d) 5 0 % 2 1 . Nimesh bought a cycle for Rs. 1,850.He spent Rs.380 for buying different accessories. Approximately, at what price should he sell the cycle to make 20% profit in the transaction? a) Rs. 2900 b) Rs. 2676 c) Rs. 3000 d) Rs. 3125 22. A man buys an article and sells it at a profit of 20%.If he bought at 20%less and sold it for Rs. 75 less, he would have gained 25%. What is the cost price ? a) Rs. 375 b) Rs. 425 c) Rs. 350 d)Data inadequate 23. A man sells a car to his friend at 10% loss. If the friend sells it for Rs. 54,000 and gains 20%, the C.P. of the car was: a) Rs. 25,000 b) Rs. 37,500 c) Rs. 50,000 d) Rs. 60,000 24. Listed price of an article is Rs. 65. A customer pays Rs. 56.16 for it. He was given two successive discounts. If the first discount is 10% find the second . a) 8 % b) 6% c) 5 % d) 4% 25. A single discount equivalent to a discount series of 20%,10% and 25% is a) 5 5 % b) 54% c) 4 6 % d) 42% 2 6 . A trader allows two successive discounts of 20% and 10%. if he sells an article for Rs. 108, then the market price of the article is a) Rs. 140 b) Rs. 142 c) Rs. 148 d) Rs. 150
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE 1.
(c)
2.
(d)
9.
(c)
1 0 . (b)
1 7 . (b)
1 8 . (c)
2 5 . (c)
2 6 . (d)
3.
(b)
4.
(a)
5 . (a)
6.
(b)
7.
(d)
8.(a)
1 1 . (c)
1 2 . (b)
13. (c)
1 4 . (b)
1 5 . (b)
16.(a)
1 9 . (b)
2 0 . (a)
21.(b)
2 2 . (a)
2 3 . (c)
2 4 . (d)
Average An average, or an arithmetic mean, is the sum of `n' different data divided by `n' su m o f d at a
Average = N o. o f d at a sum of data No. of data = Average
Sum = Average x No. of data Points to : 1 . Age of new entrant = New average + No. of old x change in average 2 . Age of one who left = New average No. of old x change in average 3 . Age of new person = Age of the removed person + No. of x change in avera ge In all the above three cases, if there is a decrease in the average, the sign of change in average will be negative. 4 . If a certain distance is covered at x km/hr and the same distance is covered by y km/hr, then the average speed during the whole journey is 2 xy km/hr x y
Examples 1 . The average age of 30 boys of a class is equal to 14 years. When the age of the class teacher is included the average becomes 15 years. Find the age of the class teacher. Total age of 30 boys = 14x30=420 years Total age when the teacher is included = 15x31 = 465 years Age of the class teacher = 465 - 420 = 45 years
Direct Formula Age of new entrant = New average + No. of old x change in average = 15+30(15-14) = 45 years. 2 . The average weight of 8 men is increased by 1.5 g. when one of the men who weighs 65 kg is replaced by a new man. The weight of the new man is: Weight of the new man = Weight of the man replaced + (Number x change in average) = 65 + (8x1.5) = 65+12 = 77 kg. 3 . The average of 11 results is 50. If the average of first six results is 49 and that of last six is 52, find the sixth result. The sum of 11 results = 11x50 = 550 The sum of first 6 results = 6x49 = 294 The sum of last 6 results = 6x52 = 312 Sixth results = 294+312-550 = 56 4 . There were 35 students in a hostel. If the number of students increased by 7, the expenses of the mess were increased by Rs. 42 per day, while the average expenditure per head diminished by Re. 1. The original expenditure of the mess was: Ans: Let the original expenditure per head be Rs. x. Then 35 x + 42 = ( x-1) 42 35 x + 42 = 42 x - 42 or x = 12 5 . The average expenditure of a man for the first five months was Rs. 120 and for the next seven months is Rs. 130. What was his monthly average income if he saved Rs. 290 in that years. Total income for 12 months. = Rs. (120x5+130x7+290) = Rs. 1800
Average monthly income =
1800 Rs.150 12
6 . There are 50 boys in a class. Their average weight is 45 kg. When one boy leaves the class, the average reduces by 100 gms. Find the weight of the boy who left the class. Weight of the boy left = New average No. of old x change in average = 44.9-50x(-0.1) = 44.9+5 = 49.9kg. 7 . The average attendance in a school for the first 4 days of the week is 30 and for the first 5 days of the week is 32. The attendance on the fifth day is: Total attendance for the first 4 days = 4x30 = 120 Total attendance for the first 5 days = 5x32 = 160 Attendance on the fifth day = 160-120 = 40 PRACTICE TEST 1 . The marks obtained by a student in five subjects are 68,73,62,85 and 79. Find the average score. a) 7 3 b) 7 3. 4 c) 7 5 d) 7 4. 5 2 . The average income of a group of 9 workers is Rs. 137.30 and that of another group of 7 workers is Rs. 95.06. The average income of all the persons is: a) Rs. 118.82 b) Rs. 116.18 c) Rs. 125.18 d) Rs. 128.15 3 . There are 40 boys in a class. One boy weighing 40 kg goes away, and at the same time another boy s the class. If the average weight of the class is thus increased by 100 gm, the weight of the new boy is. a) 39.9 kg b) 44.1 kg c) 40.1 kg d) 44 kg 4 . My average expenses for 4 days is Rs. 6.00. I spend Rs. 7.70 on first day and Rs.
6.30 on second day. If I spent Rs. 10 on third day, what did I spend on the 4th day? a) Rs. 2/b) Rs. 3/c) Rs. 4/d) Nothing 5 . The average temperature on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 37° centigrade. The average tempeature on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 38° centigrade. If the temperature on Friday was 39° centigrade, the temperature on Tuesday was: a) 35° C b) 36° C c) 37° C d) 38° C 6 . The average age of students in two classes of 40 students each is 10 years and 8 years respectively. The average age of students in both the classes taken together is: a) 8 years b) 9 years c) 10 years d) 11 years 7 . The average age of 50 soldiers in troop is 25 years. If the captain's age is included, the average age of all of them still remains the same. What is the captain's age in years? a) 2 5 b) More than 25 c) Less than 25 d) Cannot be determined 8 . Two towns A and B are some distance apart. A girl cycles from A to B at a speed of 10 km/hr and then back from B to A at the rate of 15 km/ hr. The average speed during the journey is: a) 12.5 km/hr b) 15 km/hr c) 12 km/hr d) 13.5 km/hr 9 . An employee's average contribution to his provident fund for the first 9 months was Rs. 3,500 each and for each of the remaining 3 months, the contribution was Rs. 5,500. By what amount was his total contribution short of Rs. 58,000? a) Rs. 4,000 b) Rs. 16,500 c) Rs. 8,000 d) Rs. 10,000 1 0 . What fraction must be subtracted from the sum of
1 1 and to have an average of 6 4
1 of these the two fractiaons? 12
a)
1 3
b)
1 2
c)
1 4
d)
1 8
1 1 . The average marks of 12 students was calculated as 40. But it was later found that marks of one student had been entered wrongly as 42 instead of 54 and of another as 74 instead of 50. The correct average is: a) 3 9 b) 4 0 c) 4 1 d) 4 3 1 2 . The average salary of workers in an industry is Rs. 2000, the average salary of 150 technicians being Rs. 4000, and the non-technicians being Rs. 1,250. The total number of workers is a) 4 5 0 b) 3 0 0 c) 5 5 0 d) 500 1 3 . The average age of a husband and a wife who were married four years ago was 20 years then. What will be the average age of the family now if they have a three years old child? a)
15
2 3
years
b) 1 6
1 years 3
c) 17 years d) 16 years 1 4 . The average of three consecutive odd numbers is 39. What is the sum of the first two of these numbers? a) 7 8 b) 7 6 c) 2 4 d) 1 1 1 5 . If the average of 9 consecutive numbers is 20, the highest of these numbers is: a) 2 0 b) 2 1 c) 2 4 d) 2 6 1 6 . The sum of two consecutive even numbers is 23 more than the average of these two numbers. What is the second number? a) 2 2 b) 2 4 c) 2 6 d) Data indequate
1 7 . The average of 17 numbers is 10.9 If the average of first nine is 10.5 and that of the last nine is 11.4, the middle number is a) 1 1. 8 b) 1 1. 4 c) 1 0. 9 d) 1 1. 7 1 8 . The average monthly expenditure of a family was Rs. 2,200 during first 3 months, Rs. 2,550 during next 4 months and Rs. 3,120 during last 5 months of the year. If the total saving during the year was Rs. 1,260, find average monthly income. a) Rs. 3,960 b) Rs. 760.8 c) Rs. 2,805 d) Rs. 3,125 1 9 . 30 pens and 75 pencils were purchased for Rs. 510. if the average price of a pencil was Rs. 2.00, find the average price of a pen. a) Rs. 12 b) Rs. 15 c) Rs. 19 d) Rs. 25 2 0 . the average age of the husband and wife who were married 7 years ago was 25 years then. The average age of the family including the husband, wife and the child born during the interval is 22 years, now. How old is the child now? a) 2 years b) 3.5 years c) 1 years d) 4 years 2 1 . Average monthly income of a family of four earning was Rs. 735. One of the earning died and therefore the average income came down to Rs. 650. The income of the deceased was: a) Rs. 820 b) Rs. 990 c) Rs. 692.50 d) Rs. 1,385 2 2 . A batsman has certain average runs for 20 innings. In the 21st inning, he served 107 runs thereby increasing his average by 2. What is his average after 21 innings? a) 6 7 b) 6 5 c) 6 0 d) 7 2
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE TEST 1 . (b) 9 . (d) 1 7 . (a)
2 . (a) 1 0 . (c) 1 8 . (c)
3 . (d) 1 1 . (a) 1 9 . (a)
4 . (d) 1 2 . (c) 2 0 . (a)
5 . (b) 13. (c) 21.(b)
6 . (b) 1 4 . (b) 2 2 . (a)
7 . (a) 1 5 . (c)
8.(c) 16.(b)
Ratio & Proportion Ratio: The number of times one quantity contains another quantity of the same kind is called ratio of the two quantities. The ratio of a to b is written as a : b a a b b In the ratio a : b, a and b are called the of ratio, `a' is the antecedent and `b' is the consequent.
ii) In a:b : : c:d, d is the fourth proportional to a,b and c. iii) If x is the third proportional to a and b then a: b : : b: x. iv) Mean proportional between a and b is
(ab). Other properties If
a c `or' a: b : : c:d. b d
Points to : i) ii) iii)
iv)
The order of the in a ratio is very important The quantities of a ratio must be expressed in the same units. The ratio is unaltered if each term is multiplied or divided by the same number. When a certain quantity`q' is divided in a given ratio a:b, the two parts are
aq bq and ab a b v) If a: b and c : d are two ratios, then ac: bd is called the compounded ratio of the given ratios. Proportion: The equality of the two ratios is called proportion. Suppose the two ratios a:b and c:d are equal, i.e, a:b = c:d, then we write, a:b: : c:d Here, a and d are called as extremes and b, c are called means. Rule: i) ad = bc `or' Product of extremes = Product of means.
i)
ab cd b d
ii)
ab c d b d
iii)
ab c d ab c d
iv)
a c a c ka kc b d b d kb kd
Solved examples: 1 . If a: b = 4:5 and b:c = 6:7, find the ratios a:c and a:b:c Given,
a 4 b 6 ; b 5 c 7
a b 4 6 a 24 x x (ie ) b c 5 7 c 35
a: c 24 : 35 Here `b' term is common to both the equations and so their corresponding values should be made equal. (ie) a:b = 24 : 3 0 b:c = 30 : 35 a : b: c 24 : 30 : 35
2.
Divide Rs. 54 in the ratio 4 : 5 Sum of ratios = 4+5 = 9 4
First part = 54 x 9 = Rs. 24 5 Second part = 54 x = Rs. 30 9
3 . In a ratio, which is equal to 7 : 8 , if the antecedent is 35, what is the consequent? Let the consequent be x
8x 35 ; x
4.
8x3 5 40 7
=
3 x 40 30 litres 4
Quantity of water = 40-30=10 litres Suppose x litres of water be added in 40 litres of mixture. 30
2
1 0 x 1 2 10 x 30 x 5 litres 7 . Two numbers are such that the ratio between them is 3:5 but if each is increased by 10, the ratio between them becomes 5:7. Find the numbers. Let the numbers be 3 x and 5x
The sides of a triangle are in the ratio of
3 x 10 5 5 x 10 7
1 1 1 : : . If the perimeter is 104 cms, find 2 3 4
Then
the length of the smallest side.
7 (3 x+10)=5(5 x+10) x = 5
Given ratio is
1 1 1 : : 6: 4:3 2 3 4
(Multiplying with the L.C.M. of 2,3, & 4) Sum of ratio = 6+4+3= 13 3 de x 1 0 4 2 4 cms. Smallest side 13
5 . The incomes of A and B are in the ratio 2:3 and their expenditure are in the ratio 1:2, If each saves Rs. 2,400, find A's income. Let the income of A and B be 2x and 3x Since, Income - Savings = Expenditure, (2x - 2400) : (3 x - 2400) = 1:2
2 (2 x-2400) = 3 x - 2400 x = 2400 As income 2 x=2x2400 = Rs. 4800. 6 . In 40 litres mixture of milk and water, the ratio of milk and water is 3:1. How much water should be added in the mixture so that the ratio of milk to water becomes 2:1? In 40 litres of mixture, quantity of milk
The numbers are 15 and 25 8 . A bag contains rupees, fifty paise, and twenty five paise coins in the proportion 5:6:8. If the total amount is Rs. 210. Find the number of coins of each kind. Ans: Let there be 5 rupee coins, 6 fifty paise coins, and 8 twenty five paise coins the value of 6 fifty paise coins = Rs. 3 The value of 8 twenty five paise coins = Rs. 2 The number of rupee coins =
5 x2 1 0 105 10
The number of 50 paise coins =
6 x2 1 0 126 10
The number of 25 paise coins =
8 x2 1 0 168 10
PRACTICE TEST 1.
If A:B = 3:2 B:C= 4:3 then A:B:C=? a) 6:4:3 b) 3:2:3 c) 3:4:3 d) 3:2:1 2 . Ratio between two numbers is 3:2 and their difference is 225, then the smaller number is: a) 9 0 b) 6 7 5 c) 1 3 5 d) 4 5 0 3 . If 2x=3y = 4z, then x : y : z is a) 4:3:2 b) 6:3:4 c) 3:4:2 d) 6:4:3 4 . The mean proportion between 9 and 36 is a) 2 2. 5 b) 1 8 c) 6 d) 3 6 5 . The fourth proportion to 3,6,15 is a) 1 5 b) 3 0 c) 5 d) 1 8 6 . Two numbres are in the ratio 7:9. If 12 is subtracted from each of them, the ratio becomes 3:5. The product of the numbers is: a) 4 3 2 b) 5 6 7 c) 1 5 7 5 d) 1 2 6 3 7 . What must be added to each term of the ratio 7:13 so that the ratio becomes 2:3? a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 5 8 . A total amount of Rs. 1800 is to be divided among A,B and C in such a way that half of A's part, one third of B's part and onefourth of C's part is equal. The A's part is a) Rs. 400 b) Rs. 600 c) Rs. 800 d) Rs. 900 9 . A sum of Rs. 53 is divided among A,B,C in such a way that A gets Rs. 7 more than B and B to gets Rs. 8 more than C. Then the ratio of their shares is a) 10: 18:25 b) 18: 25:10 c) 25: 18:10 d) 15: 18:20 1 0 . The ratio of number of boys and girls in a school of 720 students is 7:5. How many more
girls should be itted to make the ratio 1:1? a) 9 0 b) 1 2 0 c) 2 2 0 d) 2 4 0 1 1 . The ratio of the number of boys and girls at a party was 1:2 but when 2 boys and 2 girls left, the ratio became 1:3. then the number of persons initially in the party was a) 2 4 b) 3 6 c) 1 2 d) 1 5 1 2 . A sum of Rs. 3400 has been divided among A,B and C in such a way that A gets 2 3
of what B gets and B gets
1 of what C 4
gets. Then, B's share is a) Rs. 600 b) Rs. 340 c) Rs. 400 d) Rs. 500 1 3 . Two numbers are in the ratio 3:5, If 8 is subtracted from each, then they are in the ratio 1:3. Then, the second number is a) 1 5 b) 2 0 c) 4 d) 1 2 1 4 . The proportion of copper and zinc in brass is 13:7. How much zinc will be there in 100 kg of brass? a) 20 kg b) 35 kg c) 45 kg d) 50kg 1 5 . The ratio of the father's age to son's age is 4:1. The product of their ages is 196. The ratio of their ages after 5 years will be: a) 3: 1 b) 10 : 3 c) 11 : 4 d) 14 : 5 1 6 . The ages of Manoj and Amit are in the ratio 2:3. After 12 years, their ages will be in the ratio 11:15. The age of Amit is: a) 32 years b) 40 years c) 48 years d) 56 years 1 7 . Rs. 780 is divided among 2 men, 6 women and 8 boys so that the share of a man, a woman and a boy are in the ratio 3:2:1. Then, how much does a boy get? a) Rs. 130 b) Rs. 60 c) Rs. 240 d) Rs. 40
1 8 . The ratio between the annual incomes of A and B is 5:4 and between their expenditures is 4:3. If at the end of the year, A and B respectively save Rs. 400 and Rs. 500, then the income of A is: a) Rs. 4,000 b) Rs. 3,200 c) Rs. 3,700 d) Rs. 4,800 1 9 . A bag contains one rupee, 50 paise and 25 paise coins in the ratio 5:7:9. If the total amount in the bag is Rs. 430, find the number of coins of 25 paise. a) 2 0 0 b) 2 8 0 c) 3 6 0 d) 3 0 0 2 0 . A mixture contains milk and water in the ratio 3:2. If 4 litres of water is added to the mixture, milk and water in the mixture becomes equal. The quantity of milk in the mixture in litre is. a) 1 8 b) 4 c) 6 d) 1 2 2 1 . Two equal glasses are
1 2 and full of 2 3
milk respectively. The two are completely filled up with water. The contents of the two glasses are then mixed in another vessel. The ratio of milk and water in the vessel is a) 5: 7 b) 7: 5 c) 1: 1 d) 2: 3 2 2 . An amount is to be distributed among A,B and C in the ratio 3:7:5 respectively. If the difference in the shares of A and B is Rs. 7,600/ - what will be the share of C? a) Rs. 5,700 b) Rs. 19,000 c) Rs. 9,500 d) Rs. 10,000 2 3 . Two varieties of oil are mixed in the ratio 4:3 to produce first quality and if they are mixed in the ratio 2:3 second quality is obtained. How many kg. of the first quality be mixed with 10kg of the second quality so that a third quality having the two verieties in the
ratio 5 : 4 may be produced? a) 48 kg b) 42 kg c) 88 kg d) 98 kg 2 4 . The ratio of the number of gents to ladies in a party was 2:3. When 20 more gents ed the group, the ratio was reversed. The number of ladies in the party was a) 1 6 b) 2 4 c) 3 0 d) 3 6 2 5 . The HCF of three numbers is 12. If they are in the ratio of 1:2:3, the numbers are a) 12, 24, 36 b) 10, 20, 30 c) 5, 10, 15 d) 4, 8, 12 2 6 . If the ratio of the areas of two squares is 1:4, the ratio of their perimeters is a) 1: 2 b) 1: 4 c) 1: 6 d) 1: 8 2 7 . Two numbers are such that their difference, their sum and their product are in the ratio of 1:7:24. The product of the numbers is a) 6 b) 1 2 c) 2 4 d) 4 8 2 8 . The incomes of A, B and C are in the ratio 7:9:12 and their spending are in the ratio 8:9:15. If A saves
1 th of his income, then 4
the savings of A,B and C are in the ratio of a) 56: 99:69 b) 99: 56:69 c) 69: 56:99 d) 99: 69:56 2 9 . Rs. 180 contained in a box is made up of one rupee, 50 paise, and 25 paise coins in the proportion of 2:3:4. What is the number of 50 paise coins? a) 1 5 0 b) 1 8 0 c) 2 4 0 d) 120 3 0 . 81 is divided into three parts, such that half of the first part, one-third of the second part and one-fourth of the third part are equal. The third part is more than the first by a) 9 b) 1 8 c)
27
d) 3 6
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE TEST 1.
(a)
2. (d)
3. (d)
4. (b)
5. (b)
6. (b)
7. (d)
8. (a)
9.
(c)
1 0 . (b)
1 1 . (c)
1 2 . (a)
13. (b)
1 4 . (b)
1 5 . (c)
16.(c)
1 7 . (b)
1 8 . (a)
1 9 . (c)
2 0 . (d)
21.(b)
2 2 . (c)
2 3 . (d)
24.(b)
2 5 . (a)
2 6 . (a)
2 7 . (d)
2 8 . (a)
29.(d)
3 0 . (b)
QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE Simplification
VBODMAS
'VBODMAS' (Vinculum - Bracket - Of - Division - Multiplication - Addition - Subtraction) rule should be applied for solvingproblems involving one or more mathematical operationslike multiplication, division, addition, subtraction etc. Such problemsare solved in the order of vinculum, bracket, of, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction. 'Of' in VBODMAS means multiplication.
3 ( 8 5 )
2.
3.
13 3 x7 3 3 3 13 7
21 3 (10 - 3) - 20 + 1 = ? = 21 3 x 7 - 20 + 1 = 7 x 7 - 20 + 1 = 49 - 20 + 1 = 30
3 of
8 2 ? 1 3
1 3 3 3 2 x 3 4
45 - 4 x 6 - 5 + 14 7 = ? 45 - 4 x 6 - 5 + 14 7 = 45- 24- 5 + 2 = 18
4 4 1 3 of ? 5 5 6
( 4 2 )
34 3 3 2 13
4.
Solved Examples 1.
12 5 1 1 1 x 3 3 5 4 6 6 6
5.
3x13 13 3x7 7
(4 4 4 ) 4 ? 666 6
( 4 4 4) 4 12 4 3 666 6 6 6 1 13
4 4 1 12 4 1 5 5 6 5 5 6
SIMPLIFICATION USING IDENTITIES 1.
a x (b + c) = a x b + a x c
2.
(a + b)2 = a2 + 2ab + b2
3.
(a - b)2 = a2 - 2ab + b2
4.
(a + b)2 = (a - b)2 + 4ab
5.
(a - b)2 = (a + b)2 - 4ab
6. 7.
2
11.
12.
13.
2
(a - b) (a + b) = a - b 3
3
3
(a + b) = a + 3ab (a + b) + b
8.
(a - b)3 = a3 - 3ab (a - b) - b3
9.
a3 + b3 = (a + b) (a2 - ab + b2)
10.
a3 - b3 = (a - b) (a2 + ab + b2)
14.
a3 b3 a2 ab b2 a3 b3 a2 ab b2 a2 ab b2 3
3
a b
a2 ab b2 a3 b3
ab
ab
1 ab
1 ab
15.
(a + b)2 + (a - b)2 = 2 (a2 + b2)
16.
(a + b)2 - (a - b)2 = 4ab
FRACTIONS CLASSIFICATION OF FRACTIONS 1 . Proper Fraction : A Proper fraction is one whose numerator is less than its denominator.
1 4 eg. , 3 9 2 . Improper Fraction : An improper fraction is one whose numerator is equal to or greater than its denominator
dividing the numerator and the denominator by the same number. a ac b bc Reduction of a fraction to its lowest To change a fraction to its lowest , divide its numerator and denominator by the H.C.F. of the numbers. ie.
6 4 , 5 4 3 . Mixed Fraction: A mixed fraction is a quantity consisting of two parts, one a whole number and other a proper fraction.
eg. Reduce
eg.
1 3 ,9 8 4 A mixed fraction can always be expressed as an improper fraction. eg. 4
2 2 (5 x 3) 2 17 5 3 3 3 3 Similarly an improper fraction can always be expressed as a mixed fraction. For that divide the numerator by the denominator and write the quotient as the whole number part of the mixed fraction, the remainder as the numerator and the divisor as the denominator. eg. 5
19 4 26 5 3 ; 3 5 5 7 7 Basic Property of Fractions 1 . The value of a fraction is not altered by multiplying the numerator and denominator by the same number. eg.
a axc ac b bxc bc The value of a fraction is not altered by
ie. 2.
12 to its lowest . 36
12 12 12 1 36 36 12 3
(Since H.C.F. of 12 and 36 is 12) Reducing fractions to their common denominators To reduce fractions to their common denominators, change the denominators into their L.C.M.
3 4 , 4 5 L.C.M. of 4 and 5 = 20 eg.
3 into 20, 4 multiply it by 5. To convert the denominator of
To convert the denominator of
4 into 20, multiply it by 4. 5 3 x5 4 x 4 15 16 ; (ie) ; 4 x5 5 x 4 20 20 Comparing Fractions
(ie)
a b and , be two fractions with same c c denominator c. Let
a b c c
Then
a b c c
if a>b
4 3 eg. 5 5
if a
1 2 eg. 3 3
if a=b
1 1 eg. 2 2
=
6.
13
2 1
1 19 2 20 20
1 3 5 11 12 11 10 ? 3 4 6 12
L.C.M. of 3, 4, 6 and 12 is 12 a b c c
Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Method : Convert the fractions with the same denominator by taking L.C.M. and then add or subtract. Examples 3 2 3 2 5 7 7 7 7
2.
1 3 4 1 4 4 4
3.
2 4 ? 7 9
L.C.M. of 7, 9 = 63
2 3 4 ? 3 4 5
L.C.M. of 3, 4 and 5 is 60
=
5.
0
eg. 2 x
4 11 9 10 4 1 12 12 3
40 45 48 133 13 2 60 60 60
3 4 6 3 ? 4 5 3 4 3 4 6 3 (6 3) 4 5 4 5 15 16 1 3 20 20
3 (2 x 3) 6 5 5 5
2 . To multiply a fraction by another fraction multiply corresponding numerators and denominators and then simplify.
eg.
4 3 4x3 1 x 5 12 5 x12 5
Division of Fractions 1 . To divide a fraction by a whole number, multiply the denominator of the fraction by the whole number.
2 3 4 40 45 48 3 4 5 60 60 60
= 3
=
1 11 3 5 3 12 4 6
1 . To multiply a fraction by a whole number, multiply the numerator by the whole number.
2 4 18 28 46 7 9 63 63 63
(13 10 12 11)
Multiplication of fractions
1.
4.
=
eg.
2 2 2 7 3 3 x7 21
2 . To divide a fraction by a fraction, find the reciprocal of the divisor and then multiply. eg.
2 4 2 5 10 5 3 5 3 4 12 6
Note: Cancellation can be performed only to multiplication and division of fractions; it can not be perfomed in addition or subtraction of fractions. Point to : 1.
To multiply a whole number and a mixed
fraction together, perform separate multiplication and then add the results. eg. 1 8 x 5
2 2 (1 8 x 5 ) 1 8 x 3 3
90 12 102 2 . To divide a mixed fraction by a whole number divide the whole number part of the mixed fraction by the divisor (let the quotient be a). Reduce the remainder to a single fraction and divide this single fraction by the divisor. (Let the quotient be b). Now the required result is a+b. 2 eg. 21 4 3
2 3 1 of his toTotally he spends 5 10 8 tal salary.
2 5 3 3
33 1 40 x total salary = 1400 7 x total salary = 1400 40
40 Rs. 8000 7 In an examination, a studnet was asked
to find
2 5 5 21 4 5 5 3 12 12
3 of a certain number. By mistake, 14
3 of it. His answer was 150 more 4 than the correct answer. Find the given number. Let the given number be x, then
he found
3x 3x 150 4 14
More Solved Examples There are 40 students in a class. One day
15 3 3 x 150 x 150 4 14 28
7 only th of total students were present. 10 Find the number of absentees on that day.
x =
Number of absentees = Fraction of absentees x Total number
2.
4.
7 1 x 40 12 students 10
A man spends
1
ary.
3.
5 5 1 5 4 x Now 3 3 4 12
=
3
total salary = 1400 x
20
1.
2
He saves 1 5 10 8 part of his sal
(ie)
2 4) 21 (5 3
1
3 1 of his salary on house rent and of the 10 8 salary on clothes. He still has Rs. 1,400 left with him. Find his total salary.
2 of his salary on food, 5
150 x 28 280 15
By how much is
4 5 of 70 less than of 5 7
112?
5 4 x 112 x 70 5 x16 4 x14 24 7 5 5.
5 part of what amount will be equal to 12
3
3 part of Rs. 100. 4
Let the amount be Rs.y 5 3 of y 3 of 100 12 4
5 15 y x 100 12 4
15 x100 12 y x 4 5
y 900 Decimal Fractions Fractions that have powers of 10 in the denominators are called decimal fractions. (ie) Fractions whose denominators are 10, 102, 103, 104 ......... are called decimal fractions. eg. 0.5, 0.063, 8.98 etc.
Subtraction In subtraction also, the given numbers are to be written in such a way that the number of decimal places become equal for all numbers. eg. 5 - 0.473 Maximum number of decimal place = 3 (in 0.473) ie. 5-0.473=5.000 - 0.473 = 4.527 Multiplication 1 . Multiplication of a Decimal Fraction by a power of 10: Shift the decimal point to the right by as many places of decimal as the power of 10. eg. 4.5291 x 100 = 452.91 2 . Multiplication of two or more decimal fractions : 0.002 x 0.08 x 0.5 = ? Step 1: Multiply the given numbers as if they are without any decimal point. ie. 2x8x5 = 80
Here
5 63 898 ; 0.063 ; 8.98 0.5 = 10 1000 100 Annexing zeros to the extreme right of decimal fraction does not change its value. 0.47 = 0.470 = 0.4700 etc. Addition For adding a decimal number with another decimal number or with another whole number write the given number in such a way that the number of decimal places are equal for all the numbers. eg. 2+0.63 + 0.712 Here maximum number of decimal place= 3
Convert all the numbers to 3 decimal places.
2+ 0.63 + 0.712 = 2.000 + 0.630 + 0.712 = 3.342
Step 2 : Add the total number of decimal places in the given numbers ie 3+2+1 = 6 Step 3 : Write the result of step 1 and convert it to a number whose number of decimal places is same as the number obtained in step 2 by shifting the decimal point to the left.
0.002x0.08x0.5=0.000080 = 0.00008 Division 1 . While dividing a decimal fraction by powers of 10, the result is obtained by shifting the decimal point to the left by as many places of decimal as is the power of 10. eg. 3.45 10 = 0.345 961.1 100 = 9.611 2 . While dividing a decimal fraction by a natural number, divide the given fraction without the decimal point by the given natural number. In the answer thus got, place the decimal point
to the left as many places of decimal as are there in the dividend. eg.
125 . ? 25
First step is
125 5 25
When a divisor as well as dividend is a decimal, we multiply both the dividend and the divisor by suitable multiple of 10 to make the divisor a whole number and then proceed division. Solved Examples: 1.
2 37 x 2 37 + 36 3 x3 6 3 + 2 x 23 7 x 36 3
125 . 0.05 25
3 . While dividing a decimal fraction by a decimal fraction, shift the decimal point to the right of the dividend and the divisor both by equal number of digits such that the divisor is converted into a whole number. eg.
Given expression is of the form a 2 + b 2 + 2ab = (a+b) 2 = (237 363)2 (600 )2 360000 2.
a 2 - b2 =(a+b) (a-b) = (221 + 220) (221 - 220)
28.6 28600 200 0.143 143
Put 1 in the denominator under the decimal point and annex with it as many zeros as is the number of digits after the decimal point. Remove the decimal point and reduce the fraction to its lowest . Thus
eg.
= 441 x 1 = 21 3.
a3 b3
To divide a decimal by any multiple of ten move the decimal point as many places to the left as is the number of zeros in the divisor.
a b 0.45 0.21 0.24
a2 ab b2 4.
4.7 x 6.5 5.3 x 6.5 ? 13 . x 7.9 13 . x 6.9 ax bx (a b) x Given expression is cy dy (c d) y
8.86 886 9.25 925
To multiply a decimal by any multiple of ten, move the decimal point as many places to the right as is the number of zeros in the multiplier.
0.45 x 0.45 x0.45 0.21 x 0.21 x 0.21 0.45 x 0.45 0.45 x 0.21 0.21 x 0.21
Given expression is of the form
0.125 125 1 1000 . 1000 8
If numerator and denominator of a fraction contain the same number of decimal places, then we may remove the decimal sign.
2212 220 2 ?
Given expression is
3.15 315 . 0.9 3.5 35
Expressing a decimal into a vulgar fraction
Evaluate
(4.7 5.3) 6.5 10 x 6.5 50 (7.9 6.9)13 . 1x13 .
5.
0.75 x 0.75 0.74 x 0.74 ? 149 .
Given expression is
a2 b2 a b ab
= 0.75 - 0.74 = 0.01 6.4 x 6.4 2 x 6.4 x 3.6 3.6 x3.6
6.
2
2
(6.4) (3.6)
5
4 1
?
1
3
a2 b2
= =
1
(a b) a b (6.4 3.6) (a b)(a b) a b (6.4 3.6) = 4
= 7.
10 100 25 4 3 2.8 28 7 7
1
1
3
4 9
5
4
2
5
1 2 4
a2 2 ab b2
The given expression is
= 4
1
9 = 31
31 32 31 1 8 8 8
1 0 . Find the value of
0.7 x 0.7 x 0.7 - 0.3 x 0.3 x 0.3 - 3x0.7x0.3x0.4 = ?
1 1 1 1 1 2 2
The given expression is
1 1 3
1 1 1 1 3 4
1 4
a3 - b3 - 3ab (a-b) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4
= (a-b) 3 =(0.7-0.3) 3 =(0.4) 3 = 0.064 8.
Simplify 7
7
9.
=
1 1 1 1 1 1 4 9 16
=
3 8 15 5 x x 4 9 16 8
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 4 4 2 2 3 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 4 4 2 2 3 6
=
1 1 1 1 7 2 1 x 1 2 4 4 2
=
1 1 3 7 2 2 4 4
=
1 9 4 1 1 7 x 7 3 4 2 4 3 2 2 5
Find the value of 4
1 1 . Find the value of 2
2
2
2
2 2
1 2
2
1 2
2
3
1 1 2 4
2 2 1 2 2
2 2 2 2
2 2
2 2
=
2
2 2 2 2 4
=
2
2
1
1
1
2 2
=
x 3 1 2 . If y 4 then find the value of
6.
6 yx 7 yx
7.
x 1 6 y x 6 y x 7 y x 7 1 y
2 of
3 3 1 ? 4 4 4
a)
4 9
=
=
9.
10.
1. 2.
a) d) 1 9
17
b) 1 3
c) 1 9
12.
d) 1 5
31
b) 1 5
c) 2 4
d) 4 2
1 3
b)
4 5
c)
1 2
d)
1 6
14.
(7 7 7 ) 7 ? 3333 a)
3 11
b)
3 13
5 7
c) 5 4
d) 6 7 0
900
b) 3 0
c) 5 0 0
?
d) 1 2 2 5
75
b) 1 0. 3
c) 1 4. 5 d) 7 . 5
188 . 0.3
b)
1 88 30
c)
47 75
d)
16 25
d)
3 7
4
b) 1
c) 1 0
d) 1 6
(0.356)2 x 2 x 0.356 x 0.106 (0.106 )2 ? (0.632 )2 2 x 0.632 x 0.368 (0.368 )2
a)
0. 62 5
b) 0. 06 25
c)
0. 03 45
d) 0. 34 5
a)
1. 13 2
b) 0. 24 2
c)
1. 42 2
d) 1
4.75x 4.75x 4.75 125 . x125 . x125 . ? 4.75x 4.75 125 . x125 . 4.75x125 . a)
c)
b) 2 7
. x0637 . 2x0637 . x0395 . 0395 . x0395 . 1 3 . 0637 ? 0242 .
1 1 1 1 x 2 3 4 12 a)
5.
c) 1 7
1 of 35+4 (9-3) = ? 5 a)
4.
b) 1 5
6+[2+{4x(8-3) - (2x6)-1}+2]= ? a)
3.
20
540
11. 0. 7x0.7x0. 7+0.3x0.3x0. 3+3x0.7x0.3=?
20 - [9-{7+(2x3)} +5] = ? a)
1 4
24.4 x 24.4 2 x 24.4 x 5.6 5.6 x 5.6 ? 24.4 x 24.4 5.6 x 5.6
a)
PRACTICE TEST
d) 2
8.9 x 8.9 x 8.9 1.4 x 1.4 x 1.4 ? 8.9 x 8.9 8.9 x 1.4 1.4 x 1.4 a)
1 6 6 1 4 1 7 7 7 7 4
c) 2
32.5x32.5-2x32.5x2.5+2.5x2.5= a)
3 1 6 4 7 1 3 4
3 2
2 3.5 x 2 3.5 3.5 x 3.5 ? 9.6 x 9.6 2 x 9.6 x 8.6 8.6 x 8.6
a) 8.
b)
15.
5.25
b) 3 . 5
c) 0
d) 6
7 7 5 x7 7 5 2 2 5 x 2 2 5 7 7 5 x 2 2 5 ? 7 7 5 x 7 7 5 x 7 7 5 + 2 2 5 x 2 2 5 x 2 2 5
a) c)
1000 0. 00 1
b) 0 . 0 1 d) 0.0001
(0 .3 3 7 0.12 6 )2 (0.3 3 7 0 .1 26 )2 ? 16. 0 .3 3 7 x 0.1 2 6
a) c)
0. 21 1 4
25.
b) 0. 46 3 d) 2 . 1 1
(6 9 5 3 4 5 )2 (6 9 5 3 4 5 )2 ? 17. (6 9 5 )2 (3 4 5 )2
a)2
b) 3 4 5
c) 6 9 5
19.
(4.621 2.954 ) (4.621 2.954 ) ? 4.621x 4.621 2.954 x 2.954 a) 4 b) 2 c) 0 d) 1
22.
27.
0.52 x 0.52 0.4 x 0.4 2 x 0.52 x 0.4 ? 0.52 0.4 1.2 0.48
b) 0 . 9 2 d) 0 . 1 2
4.5
1
23.
1
a)
c) 5 . 1
28.
b)
27 32
c)
27 64
d)
107 112
c)
1 5
1 1 1 of 5 5 5 ? 1 1 1 of 5 5 5
b) 5
3
b)
5 3
c) 1
d)
3 5
d)
25
7 9 2 4 x 1 1 6 ? 5 x 9 (1 3 1 2 )
d) 2 . 2 0
1 2
1 2
27 16
a)
8
c)
5 4
?
1
1
b) 0 . 4 5
d) 21
a)
a) 1
(4.8 )3 0 .0 2 7 ? (4.8 )2 1.4 4 0 .0 9
a)
1 2
7 12
1 1 3 1 7 3 2 6 . 2 2 4 2 8 4 ?
6 4 8 5 2 x 6 4 8 5 2 2 4 8 5 2 x2 4 8 5 2 ? 64852 24852
a) c)
b) 2
c) 15
2
a) 2 0 0 0 0 b) 80000 c) 3 0 0 0 0 d) 40000 20. 126.5x126.5-2x126.5x6.5+6.5x6.5=? a) 12000 b) 1 4 4 0 0 c) 17689 d) 1 4 4 0 21.
1 6
a)
d) 4
2
18.
1 4 5 of 4 5 6 ? 1 1 3 1 4 21 3 5 1 0 5 3
2 9 . If
7 20
b)
55 4
d)
1 20
14 2 b a a 7 , then is equal 23 2 b a b 8
to 3 1 1 1 2 4 . 5 4 2 2 0 .5 6 7 ?
a)
1
19 84
b) 2
61 23 47 c) 2 d) 2 84 84 84
a)
5 14
b)
5 9
c)
5 23
d)
5 92
1 3 0 . 2 3
3 5 7 997 2 2 2 ..... 2 ? 5 7 9 999
a)
5 999
b)
7 1000
c)
1000 7
d)
1001 3
3 1 . If
a)
-1
b) 3
c) 4
a)
13 b) 22
1
33.
d)
2
a)
1
34. 1
1
10 19
d)
19 10
a)
4.0
b) 0 . 4
c)
0.04
d) 0. 00 4
a)
1 9 99 9 9
b) 2 0 11 1 0
c)
2 1 11 1 0
d) 1 09 9 99 9
3 8 . The sum of two numbers is 22 and their difference is 14. Find the product of the numbers. a)
70
b) 7 5
c) 7 2
d) 8 2
3 9 . The sum of squares of two numbers is 80 and the square of their difference is 36. The product of the two numbers is
19 8
c)
7 8
d)
8 9
a)
22
b) 4 4
c) 5 8
d) 1 1 6
4 0 . The product of two numbers is 120. The sum of their squares is 289. The sum of the two numbers is
?
1
1
d) 4
1 2 2 b)
c)
3 7 . The sum of the smallest six digit number and the greatest five digit number is
1
8 19
10 19
(7.98 x 7.98+7.98x x + 0.02 x 0.02) will be a perfect square for x equal to
5
?
1
2
c) 2
b) 1
3 6 . The expression
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , then the 3 2 . If x 2 3 4 2 3 value of x is
1 4
5 9
3 5 . If (a-b) is 6 more than (c+d) and (a+b) is 3 less than (c-d), then (a-c) is a) 0 . 5 b) 1 . 0 c) 1 . 5 d) 2 . 0
a 4 6a 4 b is , then the value of b 3 6a 5b
a)
1
1 9
a)
20
b) 2 3
c) 1 6 9
d) 1 5 0
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE TEST 1.
(d)
2.
(a)
9.
(d)
1 0 . (c)
1 7 . (a)
3.
(a)
4.
(c)
5 . (d)
6.
(d)
7.
(a)
8.
(a)
1 1 . (b)
1 2 . (b)
13. (b)
1 4 . (d)
1 5 . (c)
1 6 . (c)
1 8 . (b)
1 9 . (d)
2 0 . (b)
21.(d)
2 2 . (a)
2 3 . (d)
2 4 . (c)
2 5 . (c)
2 6 . (b)
2 7 . (d)
2 8 . (b)
29.(c)
3 0 . (d)
3 1 . (c)
32.(b)
3 3 . (a)
3 4 . (b)
3 5 . (c)
3 6 (c)
37. (a)
38. (c)
39. (a)
40.(b)
Time and Work 1
Points to 1.
If A can finish a piece of work in `n' days,
then A's 1 day's work is
1 . n
ab (a b)
Solved Examples:
2 . If the number of men engaged to do a piece of work is changed in the ratio a:b, the time required for the work will be changed in the ratio b:a 3.
and the entire tank is filled in 1 1 2 b hours.
If A is X times as good a workman as B,
then A will take 1 x of the time that B takes to do a certain work.
1 . 8 boys can arrange all the books of school library in 12 days. In how many days can 6 boys arrange them? Ans: M1 D1 = M2 D2 D2
8 x12 = 16 days 6
4 . If M 1 persons can do `W 1' works in D 1 days for T 1 hours and M2 persons can do `W2' works in D 2 days for T 2 hours then M1 D1 T 1 W2 = M2 D2 T 2W1.
2 . A can do a piece of work in 12 days and B alone can do it in 15 days. How much time will both take to finish the work?
5 . If A can finish a work in ` x' days and B can finish the same work in `y' days, then
Ans: A's 1 day's work = 112
time taken by both to finish the work is
xy x y
days
(A+B)'s 1 day's work =
6 . If A and B together can do a piece of work in x days and A alone can do it in y days xy
then B alone can do it in y x days 7 . If A, B and C can do a work in x,y, and z days respectively, then all of them working xyz together can finish the work in xy yz xz days
8 . If two taps A and B take a and b hours resepectively to fill a tank, then the two taps together fill
B's 1 day's work = 115
1 1 part of the tank in an hour a b
1 1 3 12 15 20
Both together can finish the work in 20 2 or 6 days 3 3
Using formula : Time taken to finish the work =
xy 12 x15 x y 12 15
=
12 x15 20 2 or 6 days 27 3 3
3 . A and B together can do a piece of work in 12 days. B alone can finish it in 30 days. In
how many days can A alone finish the work? Ans: (A+B)'s 1 day's work = B's 1 day's work =
how many days will 10 women finish it? Ans: Considering one day's work,
1 12
1 30
1 1 1 A's 1 day's work = 12 30 20 A alone can finish the work in 20 days Using formula : xy yx
12 x30 12 x 30 20 days 30 12 18
4 . 16 men can do a piece of work in 10 days. How many men are needed to complete the work in 40 days?
3M + 7W =
1 ...... (2) 10
(1) x 3 - (2)x 4 gives 1 1 or 10W = 10 40
10 Women can do the work in 40 days 7 . A certain number of men complete a piece of work in 60 days. If there were 8 men more, the work could be finished in 10 days less. How many men were there originally? Ans: Let the original number of men be x. M1 = x, D1 = 60, M 2 = x +8, D2 = 50,
Ans: Using formula. M1 D1 = M2 D2 M 1 = 16, D 1 = 10,
1 ....... (1) 8
18W - 28W =
Time taken by A to finish the work = =
4M + 6W =
M1 D1 = M2 D2 x x 60 = ( x+8) x 50
D 2 = 40
60 x - 50 x = 400
16x10 = M 2 x 40
10 x = 400 x = 40
16 x10 = 4 men 40 5 . A and B can do a piece of work in 18 days, B and C in 24 days, A and C in 36 days. In what time can they do it all working together?
8 . A cistern can be filled separately by two pipes in 12 and 16 minutes respectively. If both pipes are opened together, when will the cistern be filled?
Ans: [(A+B)+(B+C)+(A+C)]'s 1 day's work
Ans: Work done by Ist pipe in 1 minute =
1 12
Work done by 2nd pipe in 1 minute =
1 16
M2 =
=
1 1 1 1 18 24 36 8
or 2 (A+B+C)'s 1 day's work =
or (A+B+C)'s 1 day's work =
1 8
1 16
So they all can finish the work in 16 days 6 . 4 men and 6 women finish a job in 8 days, while 3 men and 7 women finish in 10 days. In
Work done by both in 1 minute=
=
1 1 12 16
4 3 7 48 48
Both the pipes together will fill the cistern 48 6 in minutes ie, 6 minutes. 7 7
Using formula :
PRACTICE TEST
Time taken to fill the cistern by both the pipes
ab 12 x16 6 6 minutes a b 12 16 7
9. Two inlet pipes of filling rate 10 minutes per cistern and 6 minutes per cistern and one outlet pipe of emptying rate 15 minutes per cistern are all fitted to a cistern and are opened together. Find when the cistern will be full? Part of the cistern filled by working the three pipes in one minute. =
1 1 1 1 10 6 15 5
Time needed to fill the full cistern = 5 minutes
1 0 . A cistern can be filled separately by two pipes A and B in 36 minutes and 45 minutes respectively. A tap C at the bottom can empty the full cistern in 30 minutes. If the tap C is opened 7 minutes after the pipes A and B are opened, find when the cistern becomes full. Ans: Part of the tank filled by A and B in 7 minutes
1 7 1 = 7 x 36 45 20
7 13 1 of the tank should be 20 20 filled. Part filled by A, B and C in 1 minutes =
1 1 1 1 36 45 30 60
Time needed to fill
13 x 60 39 20
13 part of the tank 20
minutes
Total time taken to fill the tank
= 39 + 7 = 46 minutes
1 . Ramesh alone does a piece of work in 4 days and Suresh does it in 12 days. In how many days will the two do it together? 1 days 2 c) 4 days d) 8 days 2 . Pranesh and Sumesh can finish a work in 16 days while Pranesh can do the same work in 24 days. In how many days can Sumesh alone finish the same work? a) 40 days b) 25 days c) 48 days d) 20 days 3 . Vinod can do a work in 15 days, Vijay in 25 days and Vinay in 30 days. How long will they take to do the work if they work together?
a)
3 days
b) 1
1 days 7 c) 70 days d) 20 days 4 . If A, B and C together can finish a piece of work in 4 days, A alone in 12 days and B in 18 days, then C alone can do it in a) 21 days b) 15 days c) 12 days d) 9 days 5 . 3 men or 6 women can do a piece of work in 20 days. In how many days will 12 men and 8 women do the same work?
a)
12 days
b) 7
7 15 b) 2 4 c) 5 d) 4 6 . Some persons can do a piece of work in 12 days. Two times the number of those persons will do half of that work in a) 3 days b) 4 days c) 6 days d) 12 days 7 . 3 men can do a work in 6 days. After 2 days 3 more men ed them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work? a) 5 days b) 4 days c) 3 days d) 2 days 8 . A is twice as good a workman as B and they took 7 days together to do the work. B alone can do it in: a) 12 days b) 18 days c) 21 days d) 16 days
a)
9 . A can do a piece of work in 25 days and B can do the same work in 30 days. They work together for 5 days and then A leaves. B will finish the remaining work in a) 21 days b) 11 days c) 20 days d) 19 days 1 0 . An army of 2000 men had enough food to last for 30 days. After 10 days 500 more men ed them. How long did the food last then? a) 20 days b) 15 days c) 12 days d) 16 days 1 1 . Amar can do a piece of work in 15 days. When he had worked for 3 days, Sameer ed him and the remaining work was finished in 8 days. In how many days can Sameer alone finish the whole work? a) 30 days b) 27 days c) 20 days d) 24 days 1 2 . A, B and C can do a piece of work in 18 days, 27 days and 36 days respectively. They start working together. After working for 4 days, A goes away and B leaves 7 days before the work is finished. Only C remains at work from beginning to end. In how many days was the whole work done? a) 17 days b) 18 days c) 16 days d) 15 days 1 3 . A and B can do a piece of work in 6 days. B and C in 4 days and A and C in 5 days. How long will they take to complete the work if they work together? a)
3
9 days 37
b) 15 days
23 9 days d) 6 days 37 37 1 4 . A man, a woman or a boy can do a piece of work in 3,4 and 12 days respectively. How many boys must assist 1 man and 1 women to do the work in 1 day?
c)
1
a) 5 boys b) 6 boys c) 2 boys d) 20 boys 1 5 . Two pipes can fill a tank in 9 hours and 12 hous respectively. In how much time will they fill the tank when opened together? a)
3
1 hours 2
b) 5
1 hours 7
2 hours 3 1 6 . A tap can fill a tank in 8 hours and another can empty it in 16 hours. If both the taps are opened simultaneously, the time (in hours) to fill the tank is: a) 8 b) 1 0 c) 1 6 d) 2 4 1 7 . A cistern can be filled by a pipe in 15 hours. But due to a leak in the bottom the cistern is just full in 20 hours. When the cistern is full, the leak can empty it in: a) 60 hours b) 40 hours c) 45 hours d) 30 hours 1 8 . A cistern can be filled by pipes A and B in 20 hours and 30 hours respectively. When full, the tank can be emptied by pipe C in 60 hours. If all the taps be turned on at the same time the cistern will be full in a) 10 hours b) 15 hours c) 16 hours d) 30 hours 1 9 . Two pipes A and B can separately fill a tank in 12 minutes and 15 minutes respectively. Both the pipes are opend together but 4 minutes after the start, pipe A is turned off. How much time will it take to fill the tank? a) 11 min b) 12 min c) 6 min d) 8 min 2 0 . Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 24 minutes and 32 minutes respectively. If both the pipes are opened together, then after how many minutes B should be closed so that the tank is full in 18 minutes? a) 6 b) 8 c) 1 0 d) 1 2 c)
5 hours
d) 3
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE TEST 1 . (a) 9 . (d) 1 7 . (a)
2 . (c) 1 0 . (d) 1 8 . (b)
3 . (b) 1 1 . (a) 1 9 . (c)
4 . (d) 1 2 . (c) 2 0 . (b)
5 . (b) 13. (a)
6 . (a) 1 4 . (a)
7 . (d) 1 5 . (b)
8.(c) 16.(c)
Simple & Compound Interest Interest is the money paid by the borrower to the lender for the use of money lent. Interest is of two kinds, simple and compound. Money borrowed or deposited is called the principal. The sum of principal and interest is called the amount. i)
The simple interest (I) for a principal (P) for (N) years at (R) rate percent per annum is PNR I = 100 Ix100 Ix100 Ix100 ; R ; N P = NxR PxN PxR
Money is said to be lent at Compound Interest if the interest is not paid as soon as it falls due, but is added to the principal after a fixed period, so that the amount at the end of the period, becomes the principal for the next period. a)
When interest is compounded annu-
ally: R Amount = P 1 100
b) yearly:
c)
N
When interest is compounded half
R Amount = P 1 200 terly
d)
=
N R P 1 100 1
(or)
1 . Calculate the amount on Rs. 4480 at 8% per annum for 3 years. Ans: S.I. =
PxNxR 100
Amount
4480 x 3 x 8 Rs.1075.20 100
= Rs. (4480 + 1075.20) = Rs. 5555.20
2 . S.I. on Rs. 1500 at 7% per annum for a certain time is Rs. 210. Find the time Ans: Time, N =
210 x100 = 2 years 1500 x7
3 . A certain sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs. 1260 in 2 years and to Rs. 1350 in 5 years. The rate percent per annum is ------Ans: S.I. for 3 years = Rs. (1350 - 1260)= Rs. 90
2N
When interest is compounded quar-
P
Solved Examples:
= Rs.
Compound Interest:
4N
N
R C.I.=P 1 100
Simple Interest:
If the interest on a certain sum borrowed for a certain period is reckoned uniformly, it is called Simple Interest.
ii)
R Amount = P 1 400
S.I. for 2 years = Rs.
90 x 2 = Rs. 60 3
Principal = Rs. (1260 - 60) = Rs. 1200
Rate, R = 4.
100 x 60 % 2.5% 1200 x2
A man invested 13 of his capital at 7%,
Then,
x x (R 1) x 2 x x Rx 2 24 100 100
2 xR 2 x 2 xR 24 100 100 100
1
4 at 8% and the remainder at 10%. If his annual income is Rs. 561, the capital is -----Let the capital be Rs. x. Then, x 7 x 8 5 x 10 x x1 x x 1 x x 1 561 3 100 4 100 12 100
7x 8x 5 0x x x1 561 300 400 1200
102 x 561 1200
x =
5.
x=
24 x100 Rs.1200 , 2
7 . Find compound interest on Rs. 5,000 at 10% per annum for 3 years
R Ans: Amount = P 1 100 10 = 5000 1 100
561x1200 Rs. 6,600 102
Find the sum of money which increases
1 10 of itself every year and amounts to Rs. 450 in 5 years at S.I. Ans: Let P = Rs. 100 S.I. = Rs. 100 x 110 = Rs. 10 S.I. for 5 years = Rs. 50 Amount after 5 years=100+50 =Rs. 150
P
100 x 450 Rs.300 150
6 . A sum was put at simple interest at a certain rate for 2 years. Had it been put at 1% higher rate, it would have fetched Rs. 24 more. Find the sum. Ans: Let the sum be Rs. x and rate be R% and (R+ 1)%
3
= Rs. 6,655
Compound Interest = Rs. (6,655 -5,000) = Rs. 1,655 8 . If the compound interest on a certain sum for 3 years at 20% per annum is Rs. 728, find the simple interest.
20 Ans: Given that P 1 100
3
- P = Rs. 728
or 1.728 P - P = Rs. 728
P Rs.1000 , Now, S.I. = Rs.
If the amount is Rs. 150, P = Rs. 100
If the amount is Rs. 450,
N
1000 x3 x20 Rs. 600 100
9 . The difference between the compound interest and the simple interest on a certain sum at 10% per annum for two years is Rs. 60. Find the sum. Ans: Let the sum be Rs. x So, S.I. =Rs.
x x 10 x2 x Rs. 100 5 2
10 21x x Rs. C.I.=Rs. x 1 100 100
C. I. S. I.
21x x x Rs.60 100 5 100
x = Rs. 6,000
PRACTICE TEST 1 . At what rate percent per annum will a sum of Rs. 3,600 become Rs. 4,500 in 10 years at simple interest? a) 5 % b) 2 . 5 % c) 1 0 % d) 6 . 7 5 % 2 . A sum of Rs. 1600 lent at simple interest at 12.5% per annum will become double in a)
b) 7 12 years
6 years
d) 9 14 years 3 . The difference in simple interest at 13% and 12% p.a. of a sum in one year is Rs. 110. Then the sum is a) Rs. 13,000 b) Rs. 15,000 c) Rs. 10,000 d) Rs. 11,000 4 . The difference in the interests received from two different banks on Rs. 1000 for 2 years is Rs. 20. Thus, the difference in their rates is a) 2 % b) 1 % c) 1 . 5 % d) 0 . 5 % 5 . Find out the capital required to earn a monthly interest of Rs. 600 at 6% simple interest. a) Rs. 1 lakhs b) Rs. 1.2 lakhs c) Rs. 1.1 lakhs d) Rs. 1.3 lakhs 6 . A man invested 1/3 rd of the sum at 7%, 1/4th at 8% and the remaining at 10% for one year. If the annual interest is Rs. 408, then the investment is a) Rs. 8,400 b) Rs. 4,800 c) Rs. 5,000 d) Rs. 7,200 c)
8 years
7 . The difference in simple interest on a certain sum of money for 3 years and 5 years at 18% per annum is Rs. 2,160. Then the sum is a) Rs. 6,500 b) Rs. 4,500 c) Rs. 6,000 d) Rs. 7,500 8 . At what rate percent per annum simple interest will a sum of money triple itself in 25 year s? a)
8
c)
9
b) 8 1 11
1 3
d) 1 0
9 . What sum of money lent out at compound interest will amount to Rs. 968 in 2 years at 10% per annum, interest being charged annually? a) Rs. 900 b) Rs. 825 c) Rs. 780 d) Rs. 800 1 0 . The difference between compound interest and simple interest on certain sum of money in 2 years at 4% per annum is Rs. 50. Find the sum a) Rs. 30,550 b) Rs. 31,250 c) Rs. 25,670 d) Rs. 35,400 1 1 . A sum of money lent at compound interest amounts to Rs. 1210 in two years and to Rs. 1464.10 in 4 years. Find the rate of interest . a) 1 2 % b) 1 0 % c) 8 % d) 1 5 % 1 2 . A man borrows Rs. 4,000 at 8% per annum on compound interest. At the end of every year he pays Rs. 1,500 as part payment of loan and interest. How much does he still owe to the bank after 3 such annual payments? a) Rs. 1,799 b) Rs. 169.25 c) Rs. 2,000 d) Rs. 234
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE TEST 1.
(b)
2.
(c)
9.
(d)
1 0 . (b)
3.
(d)
1 1 . (b)
4.
(b)
1 2 . (b)
5 . (b)
6.
(b)
7.
(c)
8.(a)
Problems on Age Solved Examples
(1) + (2) y = 30
1 . A father was 4 times as old as his son 8 years ago. Eight years hence, father will be twice as old as his son. Find their present ages. Ans: Let son's age 8 years ago be x years.
Substituting y = 30 in equation (1) we get x = 70 Ratio of their ages = 70 : 30 or 7:3
After 8 years, son's age
4 . Ratio of Ashok's age to Pradeep's age is equal to 4:3. Ashok will be 26 years old after 6 years. How old is Pradeep now?
= ( x+8) +8 = ( x+16) years
Ans: Ashok's present age = (26-6)
Thus, father's age at that time = 4 x years
After 8 years, father's age
= 20 years
= (4 x+8)+8 = (4 x+16) years 2( x+16) = 4 x + 16 or x=8
Pradeep's present age = 20x
The present age of the son = x+8 = 16 yea rs The present age of the father
=
4 x+8 = 32+8= 40 years
2 . A is twice as old as B was two years ago. If the difference in their ages be 2 years, find A's age.
= 15 years 5 . The ratio of the ages of father and son at present is 6:1. After 5 years the ratio will become 7:2. The present age of the son is: Ans: Let their present ages be 6x and x years respectively.
Ans: Let B's age 2 years ago be x years
A's present age = 2 x years Also 2 x - ( x+2) = 2 or x=4
3 4
Then
6x 5 7 x5 2
= 2 ( 6x+5) = 7 ( x+5)
x=5
A's age = 2x4 = 8 years 3 . The age of a father 10 years ago was thrice the age of his son. Ten years hence, the father's age will be twice that of his son. The ratio of their present ages is:
6 . Three years ago the average age of A and B was 18 years. With C ing them now, the average becomes 22 years. How old is C n ow?
Ans: Let the present ages of father and son be x and y years respectively.
Ans: (A+B)'s total present age
Then (x-10) = 3 (y-10) or 3y-x = 20 ------ (1) and ( x+10) = 2 (y+10) or x-2y = 10 ----- (2)
Present age of the son = 5 years.
= (2x18+3+3) = 42 years (A+B+C)'s total present age = 22 x 3 = 66 years C's age = 66-42 = 24 years
PRACTICE TEST 1 . A father is twice as old as his son. 20 years ago, the age of the father was 12 times the age of the son. The present age of the son is a) 44 years b) 22 years c) 40 years d) 20 years 2 . The respective ages of a father and his son are 41 and 16 years. In how many years will the father be twice as old as his son? a) 19 years b) 9 years c) 15 years d) 10 years 3 . The ratio of ages of Mohan and Sohan is 4:3. The sum of their ages is 42 years. The age of Mohan is a) 24 years b) 18 years c) 32 years d) 30 years. 4 . The ratio of ages of Rani and Vinita is 3:5. The difference in their ages is 12 years. Then the age of Vinita is a) 20 years b) 15 years c) 18 years d) 30 years 5 . Two years ago, Vinod was four times as old as Indhu. 8 years hence, Vinod's age will exceed Indhu's age by 12 years. The ratio of the present ages of Vinod and Indhu a) 5: 1 b) 4: 1 c) 3: 1 d) 2: 1 6 . The ages of A and B are in the ratio 3:5. After 9 years the ratio of their ages will be 3:4. The present age of B is a) 9 years b) 15 years c) 20 years d) 16 years 7 . A's mother was four times as old as A ten years ago. After 10 years she will be twice as old as A. Then, A's present age is a) 30 years b) 25 years c) 20 years d) 15 years
8 . Afather's age is three times the sum of the ages of his two children, but 20 years hence his age will be equal to sum of their ages. Then the fathers age is a) 30 years b) 40 years c) 35 years d) 45 years 9 . The ratio of the father's age to the son's age is 4:1. The product of their ages is 196. The ratio of their ages after 5 years will be: a) 3: 1 b) 10 : 3 c) 11 : 4 d) 14 : 5 1 0 . In 10 years, A will be twice as old as B was 10 years ago. If A is now 9 years older than B, find the present age of B. a) 3 9 b) 2 7 c) 4 5 d) 2 6 1 1 . A is as much younger than B as he is older than C. If the sum of B's and C's ages is 40 years, find the age of A. a) 40 years b) 10 years c) 25 years d) 20 years 1 2 . The ages of Ram and Mohan differs by 16 years. Six years ago, Mohan's age was thrice as that of Ram's. Then Ram's present age is a) 15 years b) 20 years c) 14 years d) 30 years 1 3 . A father is 4 times as old as his son; in 20 years he will be only twice as old as his son. Then the respective ages of father and son are a) 40, 10 years b) 80, 20 years c) 60, 15 years d) 48, 12 years 1 4 . The difference between the ages of two persons is 8 years. 15 years ago, the elder one was twice as old as the younger one. Then the present age of the elder person is a) 23 years b) 31 years c) 34 years d) 40 years
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE TEST 1.
(b)
2.
(b)
9.
(c)
1 0 . (a)
3.
(a)
1 1 . (d)
4.
(d)
5 . (c)
6.
(b)
1 2 . (c)
13. (a)
1 4 . (b)
7.
(c)
8.(a)
TEST OF REASONING
CLASSIFICATION (ODDMAN OUT) Classification means ‘to assort the items of a given group on the basis of certain common qualities or characteristics they possess and to spot the stranger.’ These types of questions are based on similar relationship that exists between the things, objects, words or letters. In this test, generally, you will be given a group of five items, out of which four are similar to one another in some way and the fifth is different. The candidate is required to choose the item which does not fit into the given group.
Types of Classification (1)
(2)
(3)
Word classification: In this type similar groups are found among the names, places, things, nouns, verbs, different sexes, races or any other matter out of which four things are similar and one is not. Alphabet classification: Here some groups of letters are formed according to a pattern and one of them is different. Number classification: Here out of a given group of numbers four will be similar one will be strange.
HINTS FOR CLASSIFICATION Verbal classification aims to test your power of observation and ability to notice differences and similarities among various objects. So search for the relationship among the given items. Relationship may be based on meaning, interrelationship, consistency relationship etc. Search for the similarities among alphabet groups. Particularly vowel-consonant relationship, capital-small letter relationship, repetition and frequency of letters skipping pattern in alphabet groups. that in classification you are not searching for a stranger but you are classifying different items into a group and one item which refuses to be a part of the group is the stranger. If you straight away search for a stranger, you may land in trouble because every item in the given group will be a stranger in some way or another. So think of the possible group in which you can group different items and find the stranger.
Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (1) Ladder (4) Escalator 2. (1) Nephrology (4) Mycology 3. (1) Swimming (4) Dancing 4. (1) Arrow (4) Bullet 5. (1) Biscuit (4) Bread 6. (1) Tortoise (4) Spider 7. (1) Virgo (4) Sagittarius 8. (1) Japan (4) New Zealand 9. (1) Producer (4) Financier
(2) Staircase (5) Lift (2) Entomology (5) Pathology (2) Breathing (5) Playing (2) Missile (5) Spear (2) Chocolate (5) Pastry (2) Snail (5) Oyster (2) Pisces (5) Orion (2) India (5) Malagasy (2) Director (5) Entrepreneur
(3) Bridge (3) Astrology (3) Walking (3) Sword (3) Cake (3) Turtle (3) Libra (3) Sri Lanka (3) Investor
10. (1) Chariot (4) Wagon 11. (1) Crow (4) Butterfly 12. (1) Hepatitis (4) Conjunctivitis 13. (1) Fox (4) Deer 14. (1) Nitrogen (4) Phosphorus 15. (1) Man (4) Father 16. (1) EWZQ (4) VSPM 17. (1) 26Z (4) 20S 18. (1) BTR (4) ETR
No. 1 (2) Car (3) Bus (5) Sledge (2) Pigeon (3) Parrot (5) Peacock (2) Tetanus (3) Cancer (5) Measles (2) Wolf (3) Jackal (5) Panther (2) Oxygen (3) Hydrogen (2) Carbondioxide (2) Mother (3) Sister (5) Brother (2) OSLS (3) GFKD (5) QBTV (2) 24X (3) 22V (5) 18R (2) CTR (3) DTR (5) FTR
19. (1) NOOP (4) UVVX 20. (1) TYN (4) LPN 21. (1) BCD (4) TUV 22. (1) MNO (4) PQR
(2) HIIJ (5) XYYZ (2) BFD (5) QUS (2) HIJ (5) WXY (2) CDE (5) STU
(3) PQQR (3) MQO (3) MNP (3) GHI
23. (1) BEH (4) GHK 24. (1) TAN (4) AWS 25. (1) 135 (4) 591
(2) ILO (5) RUX (2) RAE (5) YSX (2) 286 (5) 719
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (3) 12. (2) 23. (4)
2. (3) 13. (4) 24. (5)
3. (2) 14. (4) 25. (2)
4. (3) 15. (1)
5. (2) 16. (2)
6. (4) 17. (4)
7. (5) 18. (4)
8. (2) 19. (4)
Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (3) All except bridge are used for up and down movement. 2. (3) All except Astrology are connected with biology. 3. (2) Breathing is the only natural action. 4. (3) All except sword strike the target at a distance. 5. (2) All except chocolate are baked items. 6. (4) All except spider have hard protective shells. 7. (5) All except orion are zodiac signs, while orion is a constellation. 8. (2) All except India are islands, while India is a peninsula. 9. (2) All except director spend money. 10. (5) All except sledge have wheels. 11. (4) All except butterfly are birds, whereas butterfly is an insect. 12. (2) All except tetanus are diseases caused by virus, while tetanus is caused by bacteria. 13. (4) All except deer are flesh eating animals.
14. 15. 16. 17.
(4) (1) (2) (4)
18. (4) 19. (4) 20. (1) 21. (3) 22. (4) 23. (4)
24. (5) 25. (2)
2. 3. 4.
(1) (4) (1) (4) (1) (4) (1) (4)
Painting Drawing Mountain Peak Dynamics Optics Consumer Purchaser
(2) Art (5) Music (2) Plateau (5) Hill (2) Mechanics (5) Physics (2) Customer (5) Retailer
(3) Sculpture
5.
(3) Valley
6.
(3) Electronics
7.
(3) Buyer
8.
(3) UCT (3) 371
No. 1 10. (5) 21. (3)
11. (4) 22. (4)
No. 1
All others are gases. All other words define some relationship. No letter is repeated in any other group. In all other options, the number denotes the position of the letter in the English alphabet. No other group has a vowel. All other groups contain three consecutive letters with second letter repeated twice. In all other options there are three alternate letters. In all others the letters are consecutive. All except 4 are consecutive letters which end with a vowel. In all other groups there are 2 letters in the alphabet in between the 1st and the 2nd letter and the 2nd and the 3rd letter. In all others a meaningful word can be formed by the letters. In all others the numbers are odd numbers
Speed Developing Practice Test 1.
9. (2) 20. (1)
(3) NQT
(1) Jasmine (4) Lily (1) Moth (4) Cockroach (1) Kiwi (4) Penguin (1) Swimming (4) Sailing
No. 2 (2) Corriander (5) Rose (2) Bee (5) Aphid (2) Eagle (5) Ostrich (2) Diving (5) Fishing
(3) Lotus (3) Lizard (3) Emu (3) Driving
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
(1) Pupil (4) Medulla (1) Sahara (4) Sunderbans (1) Skull (4) Appendix (1) Cap (4) Veil (1) Snore (4) Doze (1) Epicentre (4) Crater (1) Curious (4) Angry (1) Flat (4) Temple (1) Sweet (4) Bitter
(2) Iris (3) Cornea (5) Retina (2) Thar (3) Gobi (5) Kalahari (2) Pelvis (3) Fibula (5) Vertebra (2) Turban (3) Helmet (5) Hat (2) Slumber (3) Yawn (5) Dream (2) Seismology (3) Focus (5) Ritcher scale (2) Humour (3) Wise (5) Mighty (2) Bunglow (3) House (5) Palace (2) Cold (3) Sour (5) Salty
18. (1) Paper (4) Ink 19. (1) Cotton (4) Gram 20. (1) Cricket (4) Billiards 21. (1) 17 (4) 66 22. (1) DFI (4) RTW 23. (1) 341 (4) 495 24. (1) 250 (4) 116 25. (1) BdE (4) MkV
(2) Pencil (5) Sharpener (2) Rice (5) Barley. (2) Baseball (5) Bton (2) 44 (5) 19 (2) MOQ (5) IKN (2) 679 (5) 561 (2) 150 (5) 105 (2) XpD (5) PtZ
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (5) 12. (4) 23. (2)
2. (3) 13. (3) 24. (4)
3. (5) 14. (4) 25. (3)
4. (5) 15. (5)
5. (2) 16. (4)
6. (3) 17. (2)
7. (2) 18. (4)
8. (3) 19. (1)
Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (5) Except music all others can be seen where as music is to listen. 2. (3) All except valley are elevated features. 3. (5) All others are branches of physics. 4. (5) All other refer to someone who buys something. 5. (2) All except corriander are flowers. 6. (3) All except lizard are insects. 7. (2) All except eagle are flightless birds. 8. (3) All except driving are activities performed in water. 9. (4) All except medulla are parts of the eye, while medulla is a part of the brain. 10. (4) All except Sunderbans are deserts while Sunderbans is a delta. 11. (4) All except appendix are bones, while appendix is an organ. 12. (4) All except veil cover the head while veil covers the face.
9. (4) 20. (4)
(3) Eraser (3) Wheat (3) Football (3) 21 (3) BDG (3) 385 (3) 125 (3) HQu
No. 2 10. (4) 21. (3)
11. (4) 22. (2)
No. 2
13. (3) All except yawn are actions in sleep. 14. (4) All except crater are associated with earthquakes. 15. (5) All others are related to state of mind or sense. 16. (4) Except temple, all are places for living 17. (2) Except cold all others refer to taste. 18. (4) Except ink all others are solids. 19. (1) Except (1) all are edible. 20. (4) All except billiards are outdoor games. 21. (3) In all other numbers we find the sum of the two digits to be an even number. 22. (2) In all other groups the difference between the positions of the 2nd and the 3rd letters in the alphabet is 3. 23. (2) In all other numbers the last digit is the difference between the 1st and the 2nd digits. 24. (4) Except 116 all other numbers are divisible by 5. 25. (3) In all other groups the middle letter is small.
ANALOGY Analogy means ‘correspondence’. In the questions based on analogy, a particular relationship is given and another similar relationship has to be identified from the alternatives provided. Analogy tools are therefore meant to test one’s ability to reason how far you are able to compare and comprehend the relationship that exists between two objects, things or figures. Verbal analogy measures the ability to understand the relationship between two given words or group of letters, presented in abbreviated form. See the following example. Moon : Satellite : : Earth : Planet This abbreviated form conveys the idea that moon is related to satellite in the same way as the earth is related to planet.
Look for the Kinds of Relationship There are many possibilities in establishing a relationship. Here are some useful points on the basic knowledge required for the test.
Tool and Action
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Worker and Working Place Eg: Farmer : Field : : Doctor : Hospital A Farmer works on a Field while a Doctor works in a Hospital. 1. Artist : Theatre 8. Pilot : Cockpit 2. Actor : Stage 9. Sailor : Ship 3. Clerk : Office 10. Scientist : Laboratory 4. Driver : Cabin 11. Teacher : School 5. Engineer : Site 12. Umpire : Pitch 6. Lawyer : Court 13. Worker : Factory 7. Mechanic : Garage 14. Warrior : Battlefield
Product and Raw Material
Worker and Product
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Eg: Carpenter : Furniture : : Mason : Wall Carpenter makes Furniture and Mason builds a Wall. Author : Book 7. Editor : Newspaper Architect : Design 8. Farmer : Crop Butcher : Meat 9. Judge : Justice Chef : Food 10. Poet : Poem Choreographer : Ballet 11. Teacher : Education Cobbler : Shoes 12. Tailor : Clothes
Worker and Tool Relationship Eg: Woodcutter : Axe : : Soldier : Gun Axe is the tool used by a Woodcutter, likewise a Soldier uses a Gun to shoot. 1. Author : Pen 9. Doctor : Stethoscope 2. Astronomer : Telescope 10. Farmer : Plough 3. Barber : Scissors11. Gardener : Harrow 4. Butcher : Chopper12. Painter : Brush 5. Blacksmith : Anvil 13. Sculptor : Chisel 6. Bricklayer : Trowel 14. Surgeon : Scalpel 7. Carpenter : Saw 15. Tailor : Needle 8. Cobbler : Awl
Eg: Pen : Write : : Knife : Cut Pen is used for Writing and Knife is used for Cutting Axe : Grind 8. Spade : Dig Auger : Bore 9. Shovel : Scoop Chisel : Carve 10. Spoon : Feed Gun : Shoot 11. Spanner : Grip Loudspeaker : Amplify 12. Steering : Drive Microscope : Magnify 13. Sword : Slaughter Oar : Row
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Eg: Cloth : Fibre : : Petrol : Crude Oil Cloth is made of Fibre and Petrol is extracted from Crude oil. Book : Paper 8. Omlette : Egg Butter : Milk 9. Paper : Pulp Furniture : Wood 10. Road : Asphalt Fabric : Yarn 11. Rubber : Latex Jaggery : Sugarcane 12. Shoes : Leather Metal : Ore 13. Sack : Jute Oil : Seed
Quantity and Unit
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Eg: Length : Metre : : Distance : Light Year Metre is the unit of Length and Light year is the unit of Distance. Angle : Radians 7. Power : Watt Current : Ampere 8. Pressure : Pascal Energy : Joule 9. Resistance : Ohm Force : Newton 10. Time : Seconds Mass : Kilogram 11. Volume : Litre Potential : Volt 12. Work : Joule
Instrument and Measurement
1. 2. 3. 4. 9.
Eg: Barometer : Pressure : : Speedometer : Speed Barometer is used to measure Pressure. Speedometer is used to measure Speed. Ammeter : Current 5. Rain Gauge : Rain Anemometer : Wind Velocity 6. ScrewGauge :Thickness Balance : Mass 7. Seismograph: Earth-quakes Hygrometer : Humidity 8. Sphygmomanometer : Blood Pressure Thermometer: Temperature
Study and Topic Eg: Botany : Plants : : Ornithology : Birds Botany is the study of Plants, Ornithology is the study of Birds. 1. Anthropology: Man 9. Orography : Mountains 2. Astrology : Future 10.Palaeontology : Fossils 3. Conchology : Shells 11.Pedology :Soil 4. Cardiology : Heart 12.Pathology :Diseases 5. Entomology : Insects 13.Semantics :Language 6. Haematology: Blood 14.Seismology :Earth-quakes 7. Nephrology : Kidney 15. Taxonomy :Classification 8. Oology : Eggs 16.Zoology : Animals
Animal and Young Ones
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Eg: Cat : Kitten : : Dog : Puppy Kitten is the young one of a Cat and Puppy is the young one of a Dog. Butterfly: Catterpillar 7. Lion : Cub Cow : Calf 8. Man : Child Duck : Duckling 9. Pig : Piglet Frog : Tadpole 10. Stallion : Colt Hen : Chicken 11. Sheep : Lamb Horse : Pony 12. Swan : Cygnet
Male and Female 1. 2. 3. 4.
Eg: Son : Daughter : : Nephew : Niece Drone : Bee 5. Lion : Lioness Dog : Bitch 6. Stag : Doe Gentleman : Lady 7. Tiger : Tigress Horse : Mare 8. Uncle : Aunt
Word and Synonym 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Eg: Mend : Repair : : House : Home Abode : Dwelling 7. Fierce : Violent Abduct : Kidnap 8. Happy : Glad Ban : Prohibition 9. Presage : Predict Blend : Mix 10. Solicit : Request Brim : Edge 11. Substitute : Replace Dissipate :Squander 12. Aborigine : Native
Word and Antonym 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Eg: Ignore : Notice : : Friend : Foe Advance : Retreat 8. Gentle Best : Worst 9. Gradual Cruel : Kind 10. Initial Chaos : Peace 11. Kindle Create : Destroy 12. Lend Cordial : Hostile 13. Robust Deep : Shallow 14. Sink
13. Word and Intensity
1. 2. 3. 4.
Eg: Anger : Rage : : Joy : Ecstasy Rage is greater degree of Anger and Ecstasy is greater degree of Joy. Crime : Sin 5. Refuse : Deny Error : Blunder 6. Sink : Drown Famous : Renowned 7. Unhappy : Sad Quarrel : War 8. Wish : Desire
Speed Developing Practice Test Directions: In each of the following questions there is a certain relation between the two given words on one side of : : and one word is given on the other side of : : while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair. Choose the correct alternative. 1. Girl : Beautiful : : Boy : ? (1) Smart (2) Heroic (3) Courageous (4) Handsome (5) None of these 2. Anatomy : Zoology : : Paediatrics : ? (1) Chemistry (2) Medicine (3) Palaeontology (4) Mechanics (5) None of these
: Harsh : Abrupt : Final : Extinguish : Borrow : Weak : Float
No. 3
3. Matricide : Mother : : Homicide : ? (1) Human being (2) Children (3) Father (4) Apes (5) None of these 4. Microphone : Loud : : Microscope : ? (1) Increase (2) Investigate (3) Examine (4) Magnify (5) None of these 5. Line : Square : : Arc : ? (1) Ring (2) Sphere (3) Circle (4) Ball (5) None of these 6. Meat : Vegetarian : : Liquor : ? (1) Insane (2) Introvert (3) Teetotaller (4) Foolish (5) None of these
7. Tuberculosis : Lungs : : Cataract : ? (1) Ear (2) Throat (3) Skin (4) Eye (5) None of these 8. Professor : Lecture : : Doctor : ? (1) Hospital (2) Disease (3) Medicine (4) Patient (5) None of these 9. Victory : Encouragement : : Failure : ? (1) Sadness (2) Defeat (3) Anger (4) Frustration (5) None of these 10.Doctor : Diagnosis : : Judge : ? (1) Court (2) Punishment (3) Lawyer (4) Judgement (5) None of these Directions: The following questions consist of two words that have a certain relationship between each other, followed by four lettered pairs of words. Select the lettered pair that has the same relationship as the original pair of words. 11. Restaurant : Menu (1) Library : Catalogue (2) Journal : Newspaper (3) Book : Encyclopaedia(4) College : . (5) None of these. 12. Heart : Cardiology (1) Brain : Psychology (2) History : Histology (3) Civics : Polity (4)Fossils : Palaeontology (5) None of these. 13. Soldier : Regiment (1) Flower : Bunch (2) Drop : Ocean (3) Sailor : Crew (4) Deer : Jungle (5) None of these. 14. Acoustic : Sound (1) Mathematics: Geometry (2) Radio : Song (3) Pathology : Disease (4) Communication :Phone (5) None of these. 15. Yen : Currency (1) Brass : Metal (2) Hen : Poultry (3) Paper : Book (4) Karnataka : State (5) None of these. 16. Bird : Wings (1) Whale : Water (2) Dog : Lungs (3) Car : Wheels (4) Pen : Paper (5) None of these.
17. Aspirin : Headache (1) Amoeba : Dysentry (2) Acid : Burns (3) Quinine : Malaria (4) Iron : Aneamia (5) None of these. 18. Sprain : Fracture (1) Cool : Cold (2) Accident : Death (3) Pneumonia : Fever (4) Fall : Slip (5) None of these. 19. Ampere : Current (1) Sound : Wave (2) Speed : Time (3) Distance : Kilometre (4) Ohm : Resistance (5) None of these. 20. Muslims : Quran (1) Hindus : Temple (2) Sikhs : Avesta (3) Christians : Christ (4) Jews : Torah (5) None of these. Directions: In each of the following questions the first two words have a definite relationship. Choose one word out of the given four alternatives which will fill in the blank space and show the same relationship with the third word as between the first two. 21. Soap is related to Wash in the same way as Broom is related to ———— (1) Clean (2) Dust (3) Sweep (4) Floor (5) None of these 22. Happiness in related to Sorrow in the same way as Comfort is related to ———— (1) Hardship (2) Rest (3) Poverty (4) Difficulty (5) None of these 23. Bicycle is to Pedal as Boat is to ———— (1) Steering (2) Water (3) Oar (4) Sail (5) None of these 24. Hygrometer is to Humidity as Sphygmomanometer is to ———— (1) Pressure (2) Blood Pressure (3) Precipitation (4) Heartbeat (5) None of these 25. Drama is related to Scene in the same way as Book is related to ———— (1) Story (2) Page (3) Chapter (4) Author (5) None of these
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (4) 12. (4) 23. (3)
2. (2) 13. (3) 24. (2)
3. (1) 14. (3) 25. (3)
4. (4) 15. (4)
5. (3) 16. (3)
6. (3) 17. (3)
7. (4) 18. (1)
8. (3) 19. (4)
9. (4) 20. (4)
No. 3 10. (4) 21. (3)
11. (1) 22. (1)
Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (4) “Beautiful’ describes the quality of prettiness in girls while ‘Handsome’ describes the quality of prettiness in boys. 2. (2) Anatomy is a branch of Zoology. Likewise, Paediatrics is a branch of medicine. 3. (1) Matricide is killing of mother, in the same way Homicide is killing of human beings. 4. (4) A microphone makes sound louder and a microscope magnifies an object. 5. (3) First is a part of the second. 6. (3) A vegetarian never eats meat. Similarly, a teetotaller never drinks liquor. 7. (4) Tuberculosis is a disease of the lungs. Similarly, cataract is a disease of the eye. 8. (3) Professor delivers lecture to his students. Similarly, doctor gives medicine to his patients. 9. (4) Victory leads to encouragement whereas failure brings frustration. 10. (4) The function of a doctor is to diagnose a disease and that of a judge is to give judgement. 11. (1) Menu gives a list of the items presented in a restaurant. Calalogue gives the list of books in a library.
12. (4) The study of heart is called cardiology. Similarly, the study of fossils is called palaeontology. 13. (3) A group of soldiers is called a regiment. Similarly, a group of sailors is called a crew. 14. (3) Acoustic is the science of sounds. Similarly, pathology is the study of diseases. 15. (4) Yen is a currency. Similarly, Karnataka is a state. 16. (3) Wings help a bird to move car moves with the help of wheels. 17. (3) Aspirin is used to cure headache. Quinine cures Malaria 18. (1) Second is a more intensive form of the first. 19. (4) Ampere is the unit of current. Similarly, ohm is the unit of resistance. 20. (4) Quran is the holy book of Muslims. Similarly, Torah is the holy book of Jews. 21. (3) Second denotes the function of the first. 22. (1) The given words are opposite to each other. 23. (3) The second is the tool which is used to move the first. 24. (2) Hydrometer is an instrument to measure Humidity. Sphygmo manometer measures Blood Pressure. 25. (3) Second is a unit of the first.
Speed Developing Practice Test Directions: In each of the following questions there is a certain relation between two given words on one side of : : and one word is given on the other side of : : while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair. Choose the correct alternative. 1. Arm : Elbow : : Leg : ? (1) Toe (2) Knee (3) Thigh (4) Ankle (5) None of these 2. Shoes : Cobbler : : Spectacles : ? (1) Optician (2) Eye (3) Read (4) See (5) None of these
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Doctor : Patient : : Lawyer : ? (1) Customer (2) Accused (3) Client (4) Magistrate (5) None of these Video : Cassette : : Computer : ? (1) Reels (2) Recordings (3) Files (4) Floppy (5) None of these Rupee : India : : Yen : ? (1) Pakistan (2) Japan (3) Bangladesh (4) Turkey (5) None of these Jews : Synagogue : : Buddist : ? (1) Temple (2) Vedas (3) Pagoda (4) Fire-temple (5) None of these
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Major : Battalion : : Colonel : ? (1) Company (2) Regiment (3) Army (4) Soldiers (5) None of these 8. Dog : Rabies : : Mosquito : ? (1) Plague (2) Death (3) Malaria (4) Sting (5) None of these 9. Pesticide : Crop : : Antiseptic : ? (1) Wound (2) Clotting (3) Bandage (4) Bleeding (5) None of these 10. Igloos : Canada : : Rondavels : ? (1) Africa (2) Rangoon (3) Russia (4) Indonesia (5) None of these Directions: The following questions consist of two words that have a certain relationship between each other, followed by four numbered pairs of words. Select the numbered pair that has the same relationship as the original pair of words. 11. Dove : Peace (1) Crow : Scavenge (3) Lull : Storm (5) None of these 12. Horse : Mare (1) Duck : Geese (3) Donkey : Pony (5) None of these 13. Cricket : Pitch (1) Ship : Dock (3) Wrestling : Track (5) None of these 14. Preamble : Constitution (1) Word : Dictionary (3) Explanation : Poetry (5) None of these 15. Rocket : Fuel (1) Man : Energy (3) Current : Electricity (5) None of these 16. Large : Enormous (1) Big : Small (3) Less : Greater (5) None of these
(2) Knife : Cut (4) Pearl : Purity
(2) Dog : Puppy (4) Fox : Vixen
(2) Boat : Harbour (4) Boxing : Ring
(2) Contents:Magazine (4) Preface : Book
(2) Machine : Oil (4) River : Water
(2) Plump : Fat (4) Pain : Ecstasy
17. Inn : Traveller (1) Lodging : Man (2) Country : Citizen (3) Dormitory : Students (4) Ashram : Gurus (5) None of these 18. Optimistic : Pessimistic (1) Difficult : Impossible (2) Study : Play (3) Tolerating : Disgusting (4) Export : Import (5) None of these 19. Acquire : Inherit (1) Profit : Loss (2) Learn : Discover (3) Instinct : Habit (4) Hierarchial: Succession (5) None of these 20. Balance : Weigh (1) Aeoroplane : Height (2) Radar : Detection (3) Satellite : Revolution (4) Television : Picture (5) None of these Directions: In each of the following questions the first two words have definite relationship. Choose one word out of the given four alternatives which will fill in the blank space and show the same relationship with the third word as between the first two. 21. Taj Mahal is related to Love in the same way as Jallianwalabagh is related to ——— ? (1) Amritsar (2) Martyrdom (3) War (4) Punjab (5) None of these 22. Poison is related to Socrates in the same way as Crucification is related to ——— ? (1) Jesus (2) Christians (3) Aristotle (4) Church (5) None of these 23. Tempest is to Storm as Slim is to ——— ? (1) Fat (2) Plump (3) Slender (4) Beautiful (5) None of these 24. Ladies is to Purse as Gents is to ——— ? (1) Bag (2) Pocket (3) Wallet (4) Case (5) None of these 25. Article is to Magazine as Slokas is to ——— ? (1) Ascetic (2) Veda (3) Recite (4) Book (5) None of these
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (2) 11. (4) 21. (2)
2. (1) 12. (4) 22. (1)
3. (3) 13. (4) 23. (3)
4. (4) 14. (4) 24. (3)
5. (2) 15. (1) 25. (2)
6. (3) 16. (2)
7. (2) 17. (3)
Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (4) Knee is related to leg in the same way as elbow is to arm. 2. (1) Shoes are made by a cobbler. Similarly spectacles are designed by an optician. 3. (3) First works for the second. 4. (4) Here the recording of the second are visualised on the first. 5. (2) Rupee is the currency of India and Yen is the currency of Japan. 6. (3) Jews worship in a Synagogue likewise Buddhists worship in a Pagoda. 7. (2) As Major heads a battalion, the Colonel commands a regiment. 8. (3) Dog bite causes rabies, similarly the bite of a mosquito causes malaria. 9. (1) Pesticide protects crops from insects and antiseptic protects wounds from germs. 10. (1) Igloos is the type of houses most commonly found in Canada and Rondavals in Africa. 11. (4) Dove is a symbol of peace similarly, pearl is a symbol of purity. 12. (4) Second is the feminine gender of the first. 13. (4) The game of cricket is played on a pitch similarly, the game of boxing is performed in a ring.
8. (3) 18. (4)
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14. (4) Preamble is the introduction to the Constitution and mentions its main ideals and objectives. Similarly, preface is the introduction to a book. 15. (1) A rocket needs fuel for its working. Similarly a man needs energy to work. 16. (2) Enormous is the extreme of large. Similarly, fat is the extreme of plump. 17. (3) First is the place of night stay for the second. 18. (4) The given words are opposite to each other. 19. (4) First is acquired whereas the second is got by birth. 20. (2) A balance is used to weigh. Similarly a rader is used for detection. 21. (2) Taj Mahal reminds us of love. Similarly, Jallianwala bagh reminds us of martyrdom. 22. (1) First became the cause of death of the second. 23. (3) The first is of higher intensity than the second. 24. (3) Ladies and gents keep their money in purses and wallets respectively. 25. (2) A magazine consists of articles. Likewise, Veda consists of slokas
ALPHABET ANALOGY There is another kind of analogy that can be asked in this section. In this type of question, two groups of letters related to each other in some way are given. The candidate is required to find this relationship and choose a group of letters which is related in the same way to a third group provided in the question.
Eg. 1. NFK : PHM : : AXH : ? (1) BYI (2) ZWG (3) CZJ (4) DAK(5) YVF Sol. (3) Each letter of the first group is moved two steps forward to obtain the corresponding letter of the second group. A similar relationship will exist between the third and the fourth groups.
Speed Developing Practice Test 1.
EGI : JLO : : PRT : ? (1) AYW (2) WYA (4) VXA (5) VXZ
2. (3) YWA
No. 5
NOP : UVW : : PON : ? (1) VUW (2) WVU (4) UVW (5) UWV
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GIKM : HKNQ : : HJLN : ? (1) LIOR (2) LIRO (4) ILOR (5) IOLR REYN : TGZO : : WJPA : ? (1) QBRN (2) MQXB (4) YLQB (5) VWYA PSXM : QRYL : : BFTV : ? (1) AESU (2) CEUU (4) CGUV (5) AGSW SADL : XFZH : : LIOE ? (1) QNKA (2) POLB (4) QNKB (5) PMSI
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PRLN : XZTV : : JLFH : ? (1) RTNP (2) NPRT (4) NTRP (5) RPNT 8. KWMT : MXOU : : PSAQ : ? (1) RCRT (2) QRTC (4) RQTC (5) RTCR 9. JNQS : OIVN : : EHMQ : ? (1) IBQM (2) FINR (4) JCRL (5) IRLQ 10. NOPQ : PMRO : : ABCD : ? (1) CZEB (2) CDEF (4) CDAB (5) YZEF
(3) ILRO
(3) ROMB
(3) DHVW
(3) PMJA
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (4)
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(3) QTRC
(3) JBRL
(3) YZAB
No. 5 10. (1)
Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (4) EGI forms a sequence of alternate letters, while in JLO, the first two letters are consecutive and there is a gap of two letters between second and third letters. Similarly PRT forms a sequence of alternate letters. The group having properties similar to JLO is VXA. 2. (2) PON is the reverse of NOP. Similarly, the reverse of UVW is WVU 3. (4) The first, second, third and fourth letters of the first group are moved one, two, three and four steps forward respectively to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group. A similar relationship will exist between the third and the fourth groups. 4. (4) The first and the second letters of the first group are each moved two steps forward to obtain the first and the second letters of the second group respectively. The third and the fourth letters of the first group each are moved one step forward to obtain the third and the fourth letters of the second group respectively. 5. (2) The first and the third letters of the first group are each moved one step forward to obtain the first and the third letters of the second group respectively. The second and the fourth letters of the first group are each moved one step backward to obtain the second and the fourth letters of the second group respectively.
No. 5
6. (1) The first and the second letters of the first group are moved five steps forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group. The third and the fourth letters are moved four steps backward. A similar relationship will exist between the third and the fourth groups. 7. (1) Each letter of the first group is moved eight steps forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group. A similar relationship will exist between the third and the fourth group. 8. (5) The first and the third letters of the first group are each moved two steps forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group. The second and the fourth letters of the first group are each moved one step forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group. 9. (4) The first and the third letters of the first group are moved five steps forward and the second and the fourth letters are moved five steps backward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group. The third and the fourth groups will also be related in the same way. 10. (1) The first and the third letters of the first groups are each moved two steps forward to obtain the first and the third letters of the second group. The second and the fourth letters are moved two steps backward.
SERIES COMPLETION 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 A B C D E F G H I J K L M 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14
This section deals with questions in which series of numbers or letters are given. The term follows a certain pattern throughout. The candidate is required to recognise this pattern either to complete the given series with the most suitable alternative or to find the wrong term in the series.
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NUMBER SERIES Eg. 1 Which number would replace the question mark (?) in the series 2, 7, 14, 23, ?, 47 (1) 28 (2) 34 (3) 31 (4) 38 (5) None Ans: The given sequence is +5, +7, +9, —— ie. 2+ 5 = 7, 7 + 7 = 14, 14 + 9 = 23 Missing Number = 23 + 11 = 34. 2. Which is the number that should come next in the following series? 4, 6, 12, 14, 28, 30, —— (1) 32 (2) 64 (3) 62 (4) 60 (5) None Ans: The given sequence is a combination of two series 4, 12, 28, .... and 6, 14, 30, .... Clearly the number to be found belongs to the first series. Now the pattern followed is +8, +16, +32. So, missing number = (28 + 32) = 60 Hence the answer is (4) 3. Find the wrong number in the series. 7, 28, 63, 124, 215, 342 (1) 7 (2) 28 (3) 124 (4) 215 (5) None Ans:The correct sequence is 23 - 1, 33 - 1, 43 - 1, ...etc. Here 28 is wrong; so the answer is (2)
ALPHABET SERIES Alphabet series consists of letters of the alphabet placed in a specific pattern. If you keep in your mind the order of the letters with their respective numbers it will help you answer the questions quickly.
Eg: 4
What will be the next term in BKS, DJT, FIU, HHV, ? (1) IJX (2) IGX (3) JGW (4) IGU(5) JGU Ans: (3). In each term, the first letter is moved two steps forward, the second letter one step backward and the third letter one step forward to obtain the corresponding letter of the next term. So, the missing term is JGW.
LETTER SERIES This type of question usually consists of a series of small letters which follow a certain pattern. However some letters are missing from the series. These missing letters are then given in a proper sequence as one of the alternatives. The candidate is required to choose this alternative as the answer. Eg: 5. aab - aaa - bba (1) baa (2) abb (3) bab (4) aab(5) bbb 1. The first blank space should be filled in by ‘b’ so that we have two a’s followed by two bs. 2. The second blank space should be fiiled in either by ‘a’. So that we have four as followed by two bs or by ‘b’. So that we have three as followed by three bs. 3. The last space must be filled in by ‘a’. 4. Thus we have two possible answers - ‘baa’ and ‘bba’. But only ‘baa’ appears in the alternatives. So the answer is (1). 5. In case we had both the possible answers in the alternatives, we should choose the one that forms a more prominent pattern, which is aabb/aaabbb/ aa. and our answer would have been ‘bba’.
Speed Developing Practice Test Directions: In each of the following questions a number series is given with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative that will continue the same pattern and fill in the blank spaces.
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No. 6
4, 9, 13, 22, 35, —— (1) 57 (2) 70 (3) 63 (4) 75 (5) None of these
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11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, —— (1) 43 (2) 47 (3) (4) 53 (5) None of these 15, 31, 63, 127, 255, —— (1) 513 (2) 511 (3) (4) 523 (5) None of these 5, 11, 17, 25, 33, 43, —— (1) 49 (2) 51 (3) (4) 53 (5) None of these 9, 12, 11, 14, 13, ——, 15 (1) 12 (2) 16 (3) (4) 17 (5) None of these
14. BXJ ETL HPN KLP —— (1) NHR (2) MHQ (3) MIP (4) NIR (5) None of these 3. 15. QPO, SRQ, UTS, WVU, —— 517 (1) XVZ (2) ZYA (3) YXW (4) VWX (5) AZY 4. 16. P3C, R5F, T8I, V12L, —— 52 (1) Y17O (2) X17M (3) X17O (4) X16O (5) None of these 5. 17. D-4, F-6, H-8, J-10, ——, —— 10 (1) K-12, M-13 (2) L-12, M-14 (3) L-12, N-14 (4) K-12, M-14 (5) K-12, N-14 Directions: In each of the following questions, one 18. G, H, J, M, ——, V term in the number series is wrong. Find the wrong (1) T (2) S (3) R term. (4) U (5) Q 6. 125, 126, 124, 127, 123, 129 19. OTE PUF QVG RWH —— (1) 123 (2) 124 (3) 126 (1) SYJ (2) TXI (3) SXJ (4) 127 (5) 129 (4) SXI (5) QWD 7. 10, 26, 74, 218, 654, 1946, 5834 20. BD GI LN QS —— (1) 26 (2) 74 (3) 218 (4) 654 (5) 1946 (1) TV (2) VW (3) WX 8. 1, 2, 6, 15, 31, 56, 91 (4) WY (5) VX (1) 31 (2) 15 (3) 56 Directions: In each of the following letter series, some (4) 91 (5) 2 of the letters are missing which are given in that order 9. 3, 7, 15, 39, 63, 127, 255, 511 as one of the alternatives below it. Choose the cor(1) 39 (2) 15 (3) 7 (4) 63 (5) 127 rect alternative. 10. 56, 72, 90, 110, 132, 150 21. ba-ba - bac - acb - cbac (1) 72 (2) 90 (3) 110 (1) aacb (2) bbca (3) ccba (4) 132 (5) 150 (4) cbac (5) None of these Directions: In each of the following questions, vari- 22. adb - ac - da - cddcb - dbc - cbda ous of a letter series are given with one term (1) bccba (2) cbbaa (3) ccbba missing. Choose the missing term out of the given (4) bbcad (5) None of these alternatives. 23. a - ba - cbaac - aa - ba 11. cmw, hrb, ——, rbl, wgq, blv (1) ccbb (2) cabc (3) cbcb (1) mwg (2) lvf (3) lwg (4) bbcc (5) None of these (4) mxg (5) wmx 24. - bc - - bb - aabc 12. DKY FJW HIU JHS —— (1) acac (2) babc (3) abab (1) KGR (2) LFQ (3) KFR (4) aacc (5) None of these (4) LGQ (5) None of these 25. b - b - bb - - bbb - bb - b 13. —— siy oeu kaq gwm csi (1) bbbbba (2) bbaaab (3) ababab (1) wne (2) wnb (3) vne (4) aabaab (4) vme (5) None of these 51
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (1) 11. (1) 21. (3)
2. (1) 12. (4) 22. (2)
3. (2) 13. (5) 23. (2)
4. (4) 14. (1) 24. (1)
5. (2) 15. (3) 25. (3)
6. (5) 16. (3)
7. (4) 17. (3)
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No. 6 9. (1) 19. (4)
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(1) Sum of two consecutive numbers of the series gives the next number. (1) The series consists of prime numbers. . . . The missing number is the next prime number, which is 43. (2) Each number is double the preceding one plus 1. So, the next number is (255 × 2) +1 = 511 (4) The sequence is +6, +6, +8, +8, +10, --------So the missing number = 43 + 10 = 53 (2) Alternatively we add 3 and subtract 1. Thus 9 + 3 = 12, 12 - 1 = 11, 11 + 3 =14 and so on. ... the missing number = 13 + 3 = 16 (5) The sequence is +1, -2, +3, -4, +5. So 129 is wrong. The correct term should be 128. (4) Each term is four less than the preceding number multiplied by 3. Thus 654 is wrong, the correct term being 650. (4) The sequence is +12, +22, +32, +42, +52, +62. The correct term being 92 instead of 91. (1) Each number in the series is multiplied 2 and the result is increased by 1 to obtain the next number ... 39 is wrong. The correct term being 31. (5) The numbers are 7 × 8, 8 × 9, 9 × 10, 10 × 11, 11×12, 12 × 13 so 150 is wrong. (1) All the letters of each term are moved five steps forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the next term. (4) The first letters of all the are alternate. The second letter of each term is moved one step backward to obtain the second letter of the successive term. The third letter of each term is moved two steps backward to obtain the third letter of the subsequent term. (5) The letters in each term are moved four steps backward to obtain the letters of the next term. (1) The first, second and third letters of each
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No. 6
term are moved three steps forward, four steps backward and two steps forward respectively to obtain the corresponding letters of the successive term. Each term in the series consists of three consecutive letters in reverse order. The first letter of each term and the last letter of the term are the same. The first letters of the are alternate. The sequence followed by the numbers is +2, +3, +4, ------The last letter of each term is three steps ahead of the last letter of the preceding term. The letters in the series are alternate and the numbers indicate their position in the alphabet from the beginning. The first, second, third, fourth and fifth are moved one, two, three, four and five steps respectively forward to obtain the successive . The first letters of the are in alphabetical order, and so are the second and the third letter. Each term of the series consists of two alternate letters and there is a gap of two letters between the last letter of each term and the first letter of the next term. The series is bac/bac/bac/bac/bac/bac. Thus the pattern bac is repeated. The series is adbc/acbd/abcd/dcba/dbca/ cbda. Here the letters equidistant from the beginning and the end of the series are the same. The series is acba/acba/acba/acba. Thus, the pattern acba is repeated. The series is abc/cab/bca/abc. Thus the letters are in cyclic order. The series is b/a/bbbb/a/bbbb/a/bbbb. Thus, in each sequence, ‘a’ moves one step forward and ‘b’ takes its place and finally in the fourth sequence, it is eliminated.
CODING - DECODING A code is a system of signals. Therefore, coding is a method of transmitting messages between the sender and receiver without a third person understanding it. The Coding and Decoding test is set up to judge the candidate’s ability to decipher the law that codes a particular message and break the code to reveal the message.
LETTER CODING A particular letter stands for another letter in letter coding. Eg: If COURSE is coded as FRXUVH, how is RACE coded in that code? (1) HFDU (2) UCFH (3) UDFH (4) UDHF (5) UDFG In the given code, each letter is moved three steps forward than the corresponding letter in the word. So R is coded as U, A as D, C as F, E as H. Hence (3) is the answer.
NUMBER CODING In these questions, either numerical code values are assigned to a word or alphabetical code values are assigned to numbers. The candidate is required to analyse the code as per directions. Case I: When numerical values are assigned to words. Eg: If in a certain code ROPE is coded as 6821, CHAIR is coded as 73456 what will be the code for CRAPE? (1) 73456 (2) 76421 (3) 77246 (4) 77123 (5) None of these Clearly, in the given code, the alphabets are coded as follows. R O P E C H A I 6 8 2 1 7 3 4 5 So CRAPE is coded as 76421 So the answer is (2) Case II: When alphabetical code values are assigned to the numbers. Eg: In a certain code 3456 is coded as ROPE. 15546 is coded as APPLE. Then how is 54613 coded? (1) RPPEO (2) ROPEA (3) POEAR (4) PAREO (5) None of these
Clearly in the given figures, the numbers are coded as follows. 3 4 5 6 1 4 R O P E A L So 54613 is coded as POEAR. The answer is (3)
MIXED CODING In this type of question, three or four complete messages are given in the coded language and the code for a particular word is asked. To analyse such codes, any two messages bearing the common word are picked up. The common code word will mean that word. Proceeding similarly by picking up all possible combinations of two messages the entire message can be analysed. Eg: If tee see pee means drink fruit juice, see kee lee means juice is sweet, and lee ree mee means he is intelligent, which word in that language means sweet? (1) see (2) kee (3) lee (4) pee (5) tee In the first and the second statements the common word is juice and the common code word is see. So see means juice. In the second and the third statements, the common word is ‘is’ and the common code is lee. So lee means is. Thus in the second statement, the remaining word sweet is coded as kee. Hence the answer is (2).
MIXED NUMBER CODING In this type of questions, three or four complete messages are given in the coded language and the code number for a particular word is asked. Eg: If in a certain code language, 851 means good sweet fruit; 783 means good red rose and 341 means rose and fruit which of the following digits stands for sweet in that language? (1) 8 (2) 5 (3) 1 (4) 3 (5) None of these In the first and the second statements, the common code digit is 8 and the common word is good. So 8 stands for good. In the first and the third statements, the common code digit is 1 and the common word is fruit. So 1 stands for fruit. Therefore in the first statement, 5 stands for sweet. Hence the answer is (2).
DECODING
NEW TYPE OF CODING
In these questions, artificial or code values are assigned to a word or a group of words and the candidate is required to find out the original words. Eg: If in a certain language FLOWER is written as EKNVDQ, what will be written as GNTRD? (1) HEOUS (2) HOUES (3) HUOSE (4) HOUSE (5) None of these Each letter of the word is one step ahead of the corresponding letter of the code. E K NV DQ G N T R D F L O W E R HO U S E Thus HOUSE is written as GNTRD, So the answer is (4)
This is a kind of coding recently included in the Reasoning section. In this type of questions either alphabetical code values are assigned to symbols or symbols are assigned to alphabets. The candidate is required to analyse the code as per direction. Eg: 1. In a certain code ‘TOME’ is written as @ $ * ? and ARE is written as ‘ • £ ? ’ How can ‘REMOTE’ be written in that code? (1) £ ? • $ @ ? (2) @ ? * $ @ ? (3)£ ? * $ @ ? (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these Sol: From the data we have T @ O $ M * E ? and A • R £ E ? Hence REMOTE is coded as £ ? * $ @ ? So (3) is the answer.
Speed Developing Practice Test 1. If in a certain language CHAMPION is coded as HCMAIPNO, how can NEGATIVE be coded in that code? (1) ENAGITEV (2) NEAGVEIT(3) MGAETVIE (4) EGAITEVN (5) NEGATIEV 2. In a certain language KINDLE is coded as ELDNIK, how can EXOTIC be coded in that code? (1) EXOTLC (2) CXOTIE (3) COXITE (4) CITOXE (5) EOXITC 3. If in a certain language GAMBLE is coded as FBLCKF, how can FLOWER be coded in that language? (1) GKPVFQ (2) EMNXDS (3) GMPVDS (4) HNQYGT (5) EKNVDQ 4. If in a certain language FASHION is coded as FOIHSAN, how can PROBLEM be coded in that code? (1) ROBLEMP (2) PLEBRUM (3)PRBOELM (4) RPBOELM (5) PELBORM 5. If FRIEND is coded as HUMJTK, how can CANDLE be written in that code? (1) EDRIRL (2) DCQHQK (3) ESJFME (4) FYOBOC (5) DEQJQM 6. If in a certain code, TWENTY is written as 863985 and ELEVEN is written as 323039, how can TWELVE be written in that code? (1) 863203 (2) 863584 (3) 863903 (4) 863063 (5) None of these
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7. If PALE is coded as 2134, EARTH is coded as 41590, how can is PEARL be coded in that language? (1) 29530 (2) 24153 (3) 25413 (4) 25430 (5) None of these 8. If ROSE is coded as 6821, CHAIR is coded as 73456 and PREACH is coded as 961473, what will be the code for SEARCH? (1) 246173 (2) 214673 (3) 214763 (4) 216473 (5) None of these 9. In a certain codenee tim see means how are you ; ble nee see means where are you. What will be the code for where? (1) nee (2) tim (3) see (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these 10. In a certain code language pit nae tom means apple is green ; nae ho tap means green and white and ho tom ka means shirt is white. Which of the following represents apple in that language? (1) nae (2) tom (3) pit (4) ho (5) ka 11. If nitco sco tingo stands for softer than flower ; tingo rho mst stands for sweet flower fragrance and mst sco tmp stands for sweet than smile what would fragrance stand for? (1) rho (2) mst (3) tmp (4) sco (5) None of these 12. In a certain code language, 743 means Mangoes are good ; 657 means Eat good food ; and 934 means Mangoes are ripe. Which digit means ripe in that language? (1) 5 (2) 4 (3) 9 (4) 7 (5) Cannot be determined
13. In a certain code, 247 means spread red carpet ; 256 means dust one carpet and 264 means one red carpet which digit in that code means dust? (1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 5 (4) 6 (5) Cannot say 14. In a certain code language, 134 means good and tasty, 478 means see good pictures ; and 729 means pictures are faint. Which of the following digits stands for see? (1) 4 (2) 7 (3) 9 (4) 8 (5) None of these 15. In a certain code 253 means books are old ; 546 means man is old and 378 means buy good books. What stands for ‘are’ in that code? (1) 2 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 6 (5) 9 16. In a certain code language TSSNOFFQ is written as STRONGER then GQFDENN will be written as (1) DOMEERF (2) FEEDORM (3)FREEDOM (4) FREEDMO (5) None of these 17. If FULFNHW is the code for CRICKET, EULGH will be coded as (1) PRIDE (2) BRIDE (3) BLADE (4) BLIND (5) None of these 18. If in a certain language REMOTE is coded as ROTEME, which word would be coded as PNIICC? (1) NPIICC (2) PICCIN (3) PINCIC (4) PICNIC (5) PICINC
19. 163542 (1) XTJCNZ
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20. 925873 (1) ZQCFOJ
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21. 741568 (1) ONCXTF
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(5) None of these
22. In a certain code ORANGE is written as ‘ ? ÷ @ • + * ’ and EAT is written as ‘ * @ $’. How can ROTATE be written in that code? (1) ÷ ? $ @ * $
(2) ÷ ? $ @ • *
(3)÷ ? $ @ $ *
(4) ÷ ? $ * • @
(5) None of these
23. In a certain code ‘PALM’ is written as ‘ £ @ ? $ ’ and ‘ARM’ is written as ‘ @ * $ ’. How can ‘ALARM’ be written in that code? (1) @ £ @ ? $
(2) @ $ ? £ @
(3) ? @ @ £ $
(4) @ ? @ £ $
(5) None of these
24. In a certain code ‘HEAT’ is written as ‘ ? * $ @ ’ and ‘FINGER’ is written as ‘ £ • & *@’. How can ‘FATHER’ be written in that code? (1) $ @ ? *@
(2) $ @ ? @* (3) @ ?@ $*
(4) $ @ ? @*
(5) None of these
25. In a certain code ‘BODE’ is written as ‘ @ $ * ? ’ Directions (19-21): The number in each question below is to be codified in the following code. Digit: 5 3 7 1 4 9 6 2 8 Letter: C J O X N Q T Z F
and ‘EAT’ is written as ‘ ? • £ ’ How can ‘DEBATE’ be written in that code? (1) ? * @ * £ •
(2) * ? @ • £ ? (3)* ? @ * £ ?
(4) Cannot be determined
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (1) 11. (1) 21. (4)
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Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. (1) In the code each of the two letters are reversed in arrangement. 2. (4) In the code the arrangement of the letters in the word is wholly reversed. 3. (2) The letters preceding the first, third and fifth letters of the given word and those succeeding the second, fourth and last letters of the word in the alphabet form the code. 4. (5) The 1st and the last letters of the word are kept as such in the code and all other letters in between them are wholly reversed. 5. (1) In the code, the first letter is the second alphabet, the second letter is the third alphabet, the third letter is the fourth alphabet and so on after the corresponding letter in the word. 6. (1) The letters are coded accordingly T as 8, W as 6, E as 3, L as 2, and V as 0. So TWELVE is coded as 863203. 7. (2) The letters are coded accordingly P as 2, E as 4, A as 1, R as 5 and L as 3. So PEARL is coded as 24153. 8. (2) The letters are coded accordingly S as 2, E as 1, A as 4, R as 6, C as 7 and H as 3. i.e., 214673 9. (5) In the first and the second statements the common words are ‘ are’ and ‘you’ and the common code words are nee and see. So nee and see means are and you. In the second statement the remaining code ble means where. 10. (3) In the first and the second statements, the common code word is nae and the common word is green. So nae means green. In the first and the third statements, the common code word is tom and the common word is is so tom means is. Therfore in the first statement pit means apple. 11. (1) In the first and the second statements the common code is tingo and the common word is flower. So tingo means flower. In the second and the third statements, the common code is mst and the common word is sweet. So mst means sweet. Therefore in the second statement, rho means fragranee. 12. (3) In the first and the third statements, the common code digits are 4 and 3 ; and the common words are mangoes and are. So 4 and 3 are the codes for mangoes and are. Thus in the third statement 9 means ripe. 13. (3) In the first and the second statements, the
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common code digit is 2 and the common word is carpet. So 2 means carpet. In the second and the third statements, the common code digit is 6 and the common word is one. So 6 means one. Therefore in the second statement, 5 means dust. (4) In the first and the second statements, the common code digit is 4 and the common word is good. So 4 stands for good. In the second and the third statements, the common code digit is 7 and the common word is pictures. So 7 stands for pictures. Thus in the second statement 8 stands for see. (1) In the first and the second statements, the common code digit is 5 and the common word is old, so 5 stands for old. In the first and third statements, the common code digit is 3 and the common word is books so 3 stands for books. Thus in the first statement, 2 stands for are. (3) The first letter is moved one step backward and second is moved one step forward the third letter is moved one step backward, the fourth letter one step forward and so on. So the answer is (3) (2) Each letter of the word is three steps ahead of the corresponding letter of the code. (4) The groups of second and third letters and fourth and fifth letters in the word interchange places in the code. (1) As given 1 is coded as X, 6 is coded as T, 3 is coded as J, 5 is coded as C, 4 is coded as N and 2 is coded as Z. So 163542 is coded as XTJCNZ. (2) As given 9 is coded as Q, 2 as Z, 5 as C, 8 as F, 7 as O and 3 as J. So 925873 is coded as QZCFOJ. (4) 7 is coded as O, 4 as N, 1 as X, 5 as C, 6 as T and 8 as F. So 741568 is coded as ONXCTF. (3) O R A N G E E A T ? ÷ @ • + * * @ $ So we can code ROTATE as ÷ ? $ @ $ * (5) P £ A @ L ? M $ R * M $ ALARM @ ? @ $ £ * (1) H ? A $ T @ F I £ N •G & E * R FATHER $ @ ? * (2) B @ O $ D * E ? A •T £ DEBATE * ? @ • £ ?
DIRECTION SENSE TEST In this test, the questions consist of a sort of direction puzzle. A successive follow-up of direction is formulated and the candidate is required to ascertain the final direction or the distance between two points. The test is meant to judge the candidate’s ability to trace, follow and sense the direction correctly.
The figure shows the four main directions (North N, South S, East E, West W) and the four cardinals (North east NE, North west NW, South east SE, South west SW) to help the candidates know the directions.
Speed Developing Practice Test 1.
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Deepak starts walking straight towards east. After walking 75 m he turns to the left and walks 25 m straight. Again he turns to the left and walks a distance of 40m straight, again he turns to the left and walks a distance of 25 m. How far is he from the starting point? (1) 140 m (2) 35 m (3) 115 m (4) 25 m (5) None of these Arun started walking towards North. After walking 30 m, he turned left and walked 40 m. He then turned left and walked 30 m. He again turned left and walked 50 m. How far is he from his original position? (1) 50 m (2) 40 m (3) 30 m (4) 20 m (5) None of these Ramu went 15 km. to the west from his house, then he turned left and walked 20 km. He then turned east and walked 25 km. and finally turning left covered 20 km. How far is he from his house? (1) 5 km. (2) 10 km. (3) 40 km. (4) 80 km. (5) None of these Rekha who is facing south turns to her left and walks 15 m, then she turns to her left and walks 7 metres, then facing west she walks 15m. How far is she from her original position? (1) 22 m (2) 37 m (3) 44 m (4) 7 m (5) None of these Going 50 m to the south of her house, Radhika turns left and goes another 20 m. Then, turning to the north, she goes 30 m and then starts walking to her house. In which direction is she walking now? (1) North-west (2) North (3)South-east (4) East (5) None of these
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Shailesh and Mohan start from a fixed point. Shailesh moves 3 km. northward, turns right and then covers 4 km. Mohan moves 5 km westwards, turns right and walks 3 km. The distance between Shailesh and Mohan now is (1) 10 km (2) 9 km (3) 8 km (4) 6 km (5) 4 km A man walks 30 metres towards south. Then, turning to his right, he walks 30 metres. Then turning to his left, he walks 20 metres. Again, he turns to his left and walks 30 metres. How far is he from his initial position? (1) 30 metres (2) 20 metres (3)80 metres (4) 60 metres (5) None of these Suresh starts from his house towards west. After walking a distance of 30 m, he turned towards right and walked 20 metres. He then turned left and moving a distance of 10 metres, turned to his left again and walked 40 metres. He now turns to the left and walks 5 metres. Finally he turns to his left. In which direction is he walking now? (1) North (2) South (3) East (4) South-West (5) West Raj travelled from a point X straight to Y at a distance of 80 m. He turned right and walked 50 m, then again turned right and walked 70 metres. Finally he turned right and walked 50 m. How far is he from the starting point? (1) 20 metres (2) 50 metres (3)70 metres (4) 10 metres (5) None of these
13. Five students A, B, C, D and E are sitting in a row, D is on the right of E. B is on the left of E but is on the right of A. D is on the left of C. Who is sitting on the extreme left? (1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E 14. Five persons were playing card game sitting in a circle all facing the centre. Ashish was to the left of Milan Nitin was to the right of Anupam and between Anupam and Mukesh. Who was to the right of Mukesh? (1) Nitin (2) Milan (3) Mukesh (4) Ashish (5) Cannot be determined 15. Facing the east, Rajesh turned left and walked 10 metres, then he turned to his left again and walked 10 m. He then turned 45o towards his right and went straight to cover 25 metres. In which direction from his starting point is he? (1) South-west (2) South-east(3)North-west (4) North-east (5) East
10. A man walks 10 km towards north. From there he walks 6 km towards south. Then he walks 3 km towards east. How far and in which direction is he with reference to his starting point? (1) 7 km east (2) 5 km west(3)5 km north-east (4) 7 km west (5) None of these 11. One morning after sunrise, Sumesh and Ratheesh were standing on a lawn with their backs towards each other. Sumesh’s shadow fell exactly towards his left hand side. Which direction was Ratheesh facing? (1) East (2) West (3) North (4) South (5) North-east 12. A watch reads 4.30 if the minute hand points east, in what direction does the hour hand point? (1) North (2) North-west (3)South-east (4) North-east (5) None of these
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test
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Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1.
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PUZZLE TEST This section comprises of questions put in the form of puzzles involving a certain number of items, be it persons or things. The candidate is required to analyse the given information, condense it in a suitable form and answer the questions asked.
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There are five friends - Shailendra, Keshav, Madhav, Ashish and Rakesh. Shailendra is shorter than Keshav but taller than Rakesh. Madhav is the tallest. Ashish is a little shorter than Keshav and a little taller than Shailendra. 1.
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If they stand in the order of increasing heights, who will be the second? (1) Ashish (2) Shailendra (3) Rakesh (4) Keshav (5) None of these Who is the second tallest? (1) Shailendra (2) Keshav (3) Ashish (4) Rakesh (5) None of these Who is taller than Ashish but shorter than Madhav? (1) Rakesh (2) Keshav (3) Shailendra (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these Ans:Let us denote the friends by the first letter of each name, namely S, K, M, A and R. It is given that Shailendra is shorter than Keshav but taller than Rakesh. Therefore R < S < K. Ashish is a little shorter than Keshav and a little taller than Shailendra ie S < A < K. Madhav is the tallest. From this we get R < S < A < K < M. (1) Rakesh is the shortest. (4) Ashish is in the middle. (2) In the order of increasing heights, Shailendra is the second. (2) Keshav is the second tallest. (2) Keshav is taller than Ashish but shorter than Madhav.
Speed Developing Practice Test Directions (Qs. 1-5): In a group of 5 persons A, B, C, D and E. B and C are intelligent in Mathematics and Geography. A and C are intelligent in Mathematics and History. B and D are intelligent in Political Science and Geography. D and E are intelligent in Political Science and Biology. E is intelligent in Biology, History and Political Science. 1. Who is intelligent in Political Science, Geography and Biology? (1) E (2) D (3) C (4) B (5) A 2. Who is intelligent in Mathematics, Political Science and Geography? (1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E 3. Who is intelligent in Mathematics and History but not in Geography? (1) C (2) E (3) A (4) B (5) D
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Who is intelligent in Mathematics, Geography and History? (1) E (2) A (3) D (4) C (5) B 5. Who is intelligent in Political Science, History and Biology? (1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E Directions (Qs. 6-10): Five friends A, B, C, D and E are sitting on a bench. A is sitting next to B, C is sitting next to D, D is not sitting near E, E is on the left end of the bench,. C is on second position from the right. A is on the right side of B and to the right side of E. A and C are sitting together. 6. Where is A sitting? (1) Between B and D (2) Between D and C (3) Between E and D (4) Between C and E (5) Between B and C
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Who is sitting in the centre? (1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E 8. C is sitting between (1) B and D (2) A and E (3) D and E (4) A and D (5) A and B 9. What is the position of D? (1) Extreme left (2) Extreme right (3) Third from left (4) Second from left (5) None of these 10. What is the position of B? (1) Second from right (2) Centre (3) Extreme left (4) Second from left (5) None of these Directions (Qs. 11-15): Read the following information and answer questions 11 to 15 (i) Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, & H are sitting in a circle facing the centre (ii) A, who is sitting immediately between G and C, is just opposite to F. (iii) E, who is sitting immediately between ‘H’ and ‘C’ is second to the right of A and second to the left of F. (iv) D is sitting second to the left of G. 11. Who are the three friends sitting immediately to the right of B? (1) DFH (2) GAC (3) ACE (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these 12. Who is sitting between D and G? (1) A (2) F (3) B (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these 13. Who are the immediate neighbours of D? (1) B and F (2) F and H (3) B and G (4) B and H (5) None of these 14. Who is sitting directly opposite to G? (1) E (2) F (3) H (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these 15. Who is sitting directly opposite to C? (1) D (2) F (3) B (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these Directions (Qs. 16-20): P, Q, R, S, T and X are of a family. There are two married couples. Q is an engineer and is father of T. X is grandfather of R and is a lawyer. S is grandmother of T and is a housewife. There is one engineer, one lawyer, one teacher one housewife and two students in the family.
16. Who is the husband of P? (1) R (2) X (3) Q (4) S (5) T 17. Which of the following are the two married couples? (1) XS, QP (2) XS, QT (3) XS, RP (4) TS, RX (5) None of these 18. Which of the following is definitely a group of male ? (1) Q, X, T (2) X, T (3) Q, X, P (4) Q, X (5) None of these 19. Who is the sister of T? (1) R (2) S (3) P (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these 20. Which of the following can be P’s profession? (1) Housewife (2) Engineer (3) Teacher (4) Engineer or Teacher (5)Housewife or Teacher V Directions (Qs. 21-25): Six plays A, B, C, D, E and F are to be staged one on each day from Monday to Saturday. The schedule of the plays is to be in accordance with the following:
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A must be staged a day before E. C must not be staged on Tuesday. B must be staged on the day following the day on which F is staged. D must be staged on Friday only and should not be immediately preceded by B. E must not be staged on the last day of the schedule. Which of the following plays immediately follows B? (1) A (2) C (3) D (4) E (5) F Which of the following plays is on Monday? (1) E (2) F (3) C (4) B (5) A Play D is between which of the following pairs of plays? (1) B and E (2) E and F (3) A and E (4) C and E (5) C and F Which of the following is the schedule of plays, with the order of their staging from Monday? (1) E, A, B, F, D, C (2) A, F, B, E, D, C (3)A,F,B,C,D,E (4) F, A, B, E, D, C (5) None of these Play C cannot definitely be staged on which of the following days in addition to Tuesday? (1) Monday (2) Wednesday (3) Friday (4) Thursday (5) Saturday
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test No. 9 1. (2) 11. (2) 21. (1)
2. (2) 12. (3) 22. (2)
3. (3) 13. (1) 23. (4)
4. (4) 14. (3) 24. (5)
5. (5) 15. (1) 25. (3)
6. (5) 16. (3)
7. (1) 17. (1)
Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test We can prepare a table from the given data as below: Maths Geography History
Political Science
Biology
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1. (2) Clearly from the table D is intelligent in Political Science, Geography and Biology. 2. (2) B is intelligent in Mathematics, Political Science and Geography. 3. (3) A is intelligent in Mathematics and History but not in Geography. 4. (4) C is intelligent in Mathematics, History and Geography. 5. (5) E is intelligent in Political Science, History and Biology. II C is sitting on the second position from right and A is sitting both with C and next to B. So A will be in the third position from right and B the on fourth position from right. E is on the left end of the bench. So D, who remains and who is sitting next to C will be on the right end. Thus the arrangement will be as shown.
12. 13. 14. 15.
(5) Clearly A is sitting between B and C. (1) A is sitting in the centre. (4) C is sitting between A and D. (2) D is on the extreme right. (4) B is second from the left. The seating arrangement is a shown in the fig. (2) GAC are the three friends sitting immediate right of B.
9. (2) 19. (4)
10. (4) 20. (3)
No. 9
B is sitting between D and G. B and F are the immediate neighbours of D. H is sitting directly opposite to G. D is sitting directly opposite to C.
IV S is the grandmother of T and is a housewife. So X who is a lawyer and grandfather of R must be married to S. Thus R and T must be brother or sister and be the two students. Q who is an engineer and father of T will be father of T and R and must be married to P who shall be the only teacher in the family. Thus the questions can be answered as follows. 16. (3) Q is the husband of P. 17. (1) XS and QP are the two married couples. 18. (4) X and Q are definitely male as they are grandfather and father. 19. (4) Nothing is mentioned about the sex of T and R. So, we cannot say if R is sister of T. 20. (3) Clearly P can be a teacher. V Clearly, D must be staged on Friday. A must be staged before E i.e. order AE must be followed. But E cannot be staged on last day. Also, B must be staged immediately after F. i.e. order FB must be followed. But B cannot precede D. So F and B can be staged on Monday and Tuesday and A and E on Wednesday and Thursday. C, which cannot be staged on Tuesday shall be staged on Saturday. Thus the order followed will be
E — B — A — C — D
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. III 11.
(3) (1) (3) (1)
8. (4) 18. (4)
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. F B A E D C (1) Clearly, A immediately follows B. (2) F will be staged on Monday. (4) Play D is between E and C. (5) Clearly, if the order of staging is as given above, none from amongst the choices. (3) C cannot be staged on Friday as well because D has to be staged on that day.
Mathematical Operations This section deals with questions on simple mathematical operations. Here, the four fundamental operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and also statements such as ‘less than’, ‘greater than’, ‘equal to’, ‘not equal to’ etc. are represented by symbols different from the usual ones. The questions involving these operations are set using artificial symbols. The candidate has to substitute the real signs and solve the questions accordingly, to get the answer.
Eg. 1.If + means ÷, - means ×, ÷ means +, and × means then 48 + 12 ÷ 15 × 2 - 5 = ? (1) 8 (2) 18 (3) 9 (4) 3 (5) None of these Ans: Putting the proper signs in the given expression, we get 48 ÷ 12 + 15 - 2 × 5 = 4 + 15 - 10 = 9 Hence the answer is (3)
Speed Developing Practice Test 1. 2. 3.
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If - means ×, × means +, + means ÷ and ÷ means -, what will be the value of 40 × 12 + 3 - 6 ÷ 60 = ? (1) 44 (2) 7.95(3) 16 (4) 8 (5) None of these If + means ÷, ÷ means -, - means × and × means + 36 × 12 + 3 ÷ 5 - 2 is (1) 85 (2) 22 (3) 30 (4) 9 (5) None of these If + means ÷ , ÷ means -, - means × and × means +, what will be the value of the following expression? 75 + 5 × 3 - 4 ÷ 6 (1) 20 (2) 21 (3) 25 (4) 12.5(5) None of these ÷ means +, × means -, + means × and - means ÷ then 15 - 5 + 2 × 3 ÷ 2 = ? (1) 36 (2) 13 (3) 5 (4) 4 (5) None of these + means ÷, × means -, ÷ means × and - means +. Then 5 - 12 + 2 × 3 ÷ 3 = ? (1) 22 (2) 32 (3) 15.9(4) 2 (5) None of these If P denotes +, Q denotes -, M denotes × and L denotes ÷, which of the following statements is true? (1) 32P8 L16Q4 = 3 (2)6M18Q26L13P7 = 173 2 13 38 (3) 11 M34L17Q8L3 = 3 (4) 9P9 L9Q9M9 = - 71
No. 10
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a denotes ×, b denotes ÷, c denotes + and d denotes - then 8a3c24b12d19 = ? (1) 70 (2) 7 (3) 14 (4) 31 (5) None of these 8. If + stands for divison, - stands for equal to, × stands for addition, ÷ stands for greater than, = stands for less than, > stands for multiplication and < stands for subtraction, which of the following alternatives is correct? (1) 5 + 2 × 1 = 3 + 4 >1 (2) 5 > 2 × 1 - 3 > 4 < 1 (3) 5 × 2 < 1 - 3 < 4 × 1 (4) 5 < 2 × 1+ 3 > 4 × 1 9. $ means -, * means +, @ means ÷, # means ×, then 3 # 5 * 63 @ 7 $ 12 = ? (1) 52 (2) 22 (3) 12 (4) 1 (5) None of these 10. M denotes ×, D denotes ÷, A denotes + , S denotes - Then 25S72D12A1M6 is (1) 25 (2) 20 (3) 35 (4) 2 (5) None of these
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test No. 10 1. (5)
2. (3)
3. (2)
4. (3)
5. (4)
6. (4)
7. (2)
Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
(5) From the given expression 40 + 12 ÷ 3 × 6 - 60 = 40 + 4 × 6 - 60 = 40 + 24 - 60 = 4 (3) From the given expression36 +12 ÷ 3-5×2 = 30 (2) From the given expression 75 ÷ 5 + 3 × 4 - 6 = 15 + 12 - 6 = 21 (3) From the given expression 15÷5×2-3+2=3×2-3+2 =6-3+2=5 (4) From the given expression5+12÷2-3×3=5+6-9=2
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No. 10
(4) Using proper notations in (4) we get the statement as 9 + 9 ÷ 9 - 9 × 9 = 9 + 1 - 81 = -71 7. (2) From the given expression 8 × 3 + 24 ÷ 12 - 19 = 24 + 2 - 19 = 7 8. (2) Using proper notations in (2), we get the statement as 5 × 2 + 1=3×4-1 or 11=11which is true. 9. (3) From the given expression 3 × 5 + 63 ÷ 7 - 12 = 15 + 9 - 12 = 12 10. (1) From the given expression25-72 ÷12+1×6= 25
ALPHABET TEST In this type of questions, certain words will be given. The candidate is required to put them in the order in which they would be arranged in a dictionary and then state the word which is placed in the desired place. For such questions, the candidate requires a basic knowledge of the ‘Dictionary Usage’. In a dictionary, the words are put in alphabetical order. The words beginning with a particular letter are again arranged in alphabetical order with respect to the second letter of the word and so on.
Eg. 1. Arrange the given words in alphabetical order and pick the one that comes first. (1) Cloud (2) Middle (3) Grunt (4) Mob (5) Chain These words can be properly arranged as Chain, Cloud, Grunt, Middle, Mob. Clearly the first word is Chain. Hence the answer is (5) Eg. 2. In the word ‘PARADISE’, how many pairs of letters are there which have as many letters between them in the word as in the alphabet. (1) One (2) Three (3) Four (4) Two (5) None Such pairs are PRAE and AD. So the answer is (2).
Speed Developing Practice Test 1.
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Arrange the given words in alphabetical order and pick the one that comes last (1) Abandon (2) Actuate (3) Accumulate (4) Acquit (5) Achieve Arrange the words in alphabetical order and pick the one that comes second. (1) Explosion (2) Emergency(3) Ecstasy (4) Eager (5) Entomology Arrange the words in the alphabetical order and pick the one that comes second last (1) Brook (2) Bandit (3) Boisterous (4) Baffle (5) Bright Directions (Qs. 4 - 7): Arrange the given words in alphabetical order and choose the one that comes first. (1) Nature (2) Native (3) Narrate (4) Nascent (5) Naughty (1) Guarantee (2) Group (3) Grotesque (4) Guard (5) Groan (1) Science (2) Scrutiny (3) Scripture (4) Scramble (5) Script (1) Slander (2) Skeleton (3) Stimulate (4) Similar (5) Summary
Directions (Qs. 8 -11): Arrange the given words in the alphabetical order and pick the one that comes in the middle. 8. (1) Radical (2) Radiate (3) Racket (4) Radius (5) Radar 9. (1) Alive (2) Afforest (3) Anticipate (4) Appreciate (5) Achieve 10. (1) Parasite (2) Party (3) Petal (4) Paste (5) Prick
No. 11
11. (1) Signature (2) Significance (3) Sight (4) Sigh (5) Sieve 12. How many pairs of letters are there in the word ‘HORIZON’ which have as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet? (1) One (2) Two (3) Three (4) More than 3 (5) None of these 13. If the first and the third letters in the word NECESSARY were interchanged, also the fourth and the sixth letters, and the seventh and the ninth letters, which of the following would be the 7th letter from the left? (1) A (2) Y (3) R (4) E (5) S 14. If it is possible to make a meaningful word with the second, the sixth, the ninth and the twelfth letters of the word ‘CONTRIBUTION’, which of the following will be the last letter of that word? If more than one such words can be made give M as the answer and if no such word is there, give X as the answer. (1) T (2) O (3) N (4) M (5) X Directions (Qs. 15-20): Each of the following questions is based on the following alphabet series A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 15. Which letter is sixteenth to the right of the letter which is fourth to the left of I? (1) S (2) T (3) U (4) V (5) None of these 16. Which letter is the seventh to the right of the thirteenth letter from your left? (1) S (2) T (3) U (4) V (5) None of these
17. If the first half of the alphabet was written in the reverse order, which letter would be the nineteenth from your right? (1) H (2) F (3) D (4) E (5) None of these 18. Which letter will be sixth to the right of the eleventh letter from the right end of the alphabet? (1) K (2) V (3) J (4) U (5) None of these
19. If the above letters were in the reverse order, which will be the fifth letter to the left of the ninth letter from the right? (1) P (2) N (3) D (4) W(5) None of these 20. Which letter will be midway between the fifteenth letter from the left and eighteenth letter from the right end? (1) H (2) K (3) G (4) L (5)None of these
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test No. 11 1. (2) 11. (3)
2. (3) 12. (4)
3. (5) 13. (2)
4. (3) 14. (2)
5. (5) 15. (3)
6. (1) 16. (2)
7. (4) 17. (2)
8. (2) 18. (2)
9. (1) 19. (5)
10. (4) 20. (4)
Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test No. 11 12. (4) Such letter pairs are RO, ON, RN and HN 13. (2) The new letter sequence is CENSSEYRA. So from the left 7th letter is Y. 14. (2) The second, sixth, ninth and twelfth letters in the word contribution are O, I, T, N. The word formed is INTO. 15. (3) The fourth letter to the left of I is E. Then the sixteenth letter to the right of E is U. 16. (2) The thirteenth letter from the left is M. The seventh letter to the right of M is T. 17. (2) The new alphabet series is
M LK J I H G F E D C B A NOPQRST UVWXYZ Counting from the right i.e. Z, the nineteenth letter is F. 18. (2) Counting from the right in the given alphabet series i.e. Z, the eleventh letter is P. The sixth letter to the right of P is V. 19. (2) The fifth letter to the ninth letter from the left means 14th letter from the right, i.e. N. 20. (4) The fifteenth letter from the left is O. The eighteenth letter from the right is I. The letter midway between I and O is L.
NUMBER, RANKING TEST Number Test In this catagory of questions, generally a long series of numbers is given. The candidate is required to find out how many times a number satisfying the condition specified in the question will occur. E.g. 1. How many 9’s are there in the following number sequence which are immediately preceded by 5 but not immediately followed by 3 ? 39594593798599879 5196594395938 (1) One (2) Two (3) Three (4) Four (5) More than four The numbers satisfying the given conditions can be shown as follows. 3 9 5 9 4 5 9 3 7 9 8 5 9 9 8 7 9 5 1 9 6 5 9 4 3 9 5 9 3 8. So, the answer is (3)
Ranking Test: In this, generally the ranks of a person both from the top and from the bottom will be mentioned and the total number of persons is to be found. E.g. 2. Radha ranks twentyfirst from the top and twentieth from the bottom in a certain examination. How many students are there in her class? (1) 40 (2) 41 (3) 42 (4) 45 (5) None of these Clearly the whole class consists of (i) 20 students who have a rank higher than Radha (ii) Radha (iii) 19 students who have rank lower than Radha i.e. (20 + 1 + 19) = 40. So, the answer is (1)
Speed Developing Practice Test 1.
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How many 9s are there in the following number sequence which are immediately preceded by 7 and also immediately followed by 8 ? 79 7237 9865 7982 8897 4978 88 (1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4 (5) None of these How many 6s are there in the following number series which are immediately either preceded by 4 or followed by 7 ? 31 2964 7646 72976446 7 (1) One (2) Two (3) Three (4) Four (5) Five In the following series of numbers how many times have the numbers 9, 1 and 8 appeared together, 1 in the middle and 9 and 8 being on either side of 1? 219 8198 37197812 9198 18 2 12 (1) One (2) Six (3) Three (4) Four (5) None of these How many 1s are there in the following sequence which are immediately preceded by 9 but not immediately followed by 7 ? 71 9117 1891 7121 3145 7139 17 (1) One (2) Two (3) Three (4) Four (5) None of these
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No. 12
How many 7s immediately preceded by 6 but not immediately followed by 4 are there in the following series? 7427643 6753 5784 3767 2406743 (1) One (2) Two (3) Four (4) Six (5) None of these In the given series how many instances are there in which an even number is followed by two odd numbers? 185 7298 4362 7518 9436 59 (1) Nil (2) One (3) Two (4) Three (5) None of these Ajay’s position in a row is thirteenth from the front side and sixth from the back side. How many persons are standing in that row? (1) 17 (2) 18 (3) 19 (4) 20 (5) 21 Ratan ranked 8th from the top and 37th from the bottom in a class. How many students are there in the class? (1) 44 (2) 46 (3) 45 (4) 48 (5) None of these
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In a row of boys Ganesh is twelfth from left and Rajan is fifteenth from right. When they interchange their positions, Rajan becomes twentieth from right. How many boys are there in the row? (1) 29 (2) 31 (3) 32 (4) 30 (5) None of these 10. In a row of 16 boys when Ram was shifted by two places towards left, he became 7th from the left end. What was his earlier position from the right end of the row? (1) 7th (2) 8th (3) 9th (4) 10th (5) None of these 11. Hari ranks sixteenth in a class of thirty. What is his rank from the last? (1) 13 (2) 15 (3) 16 (4) 17 (5) None of these 12. The Managing Director entered the conference room ten minutes before 12.30 hrs for interviewing. He came 20 minutes before the Chairman who was 30 minutes late. At what time, were the interviews scheduled? (1) 12.50 (2) 12.40 (3) 12.20 (4) 12.10 (5) 12.50
13. A bus for Bangalore leaves every thirty minutes from a bustand. An enquiry clerk told a anger that a bus had already left ten minutes ago and the next bus will leave at 9.35 am. At what time did the enquiry clerk give this information to the enger? (1) 9.10 am (2) 8.55 am (3) 9.08 am (4) 9.05 am (5) 9.15 am 14. How many days will there be from 26th January, 1988 to 15th May 1988 ? (both days included) (1) 110 (2) 111 (3) 112 (4) 113 (5) None of these 15. Raji re that Latha’s birthday is after 19th but before 22nd November, whereas Deepthi re that Latha’s birthday is after 20th but before 24th November. On which day is Latha’s birthday? (1) 20thNovember (2) 21st November (3) 22nd November (4) 23rd November (5) None of these
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test No. 12 1. (2) 11. (2)
2. (2) 12. (4)
3. (1) 13. (5)
4. (1) 14. (2)
5. (2) 15. (2)
6. (4)
7. (2)
8. (1)
9. (2)
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Explanatory Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test No. 12 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
(2) (4) (1) (1) (2) (4) (2) (1) (2)
79 7237 9865 7982 8897 4978 88 31 2964 7646 7297644 7 21 9819 8371 9781 2919 8182 12 71 9117 1891 7121 3145 7139 17 742764367553578437672406743 185 7298 4362 7518 9436 59 Number of persons in that row = 12 + 1+5 = 18 Number of students in the class =7+1+36 = 44 After interchanging Rajan becomes twentieth from right i.e. earlier Ganesh was twentieth from right and twelfth from left. So the number of boys in the row = 11 + 1 + 19 = 31 10. (2) After shifting Ram becomes 7th from left means his earlier position was 9th from left i.e. 16 - 9 + 1 = 8th from right. 11. (2) Hari’s rank from the last = 30 - 16 + 1 = 15
12. (4) Clearly the Managing Director came at 12.20. Thus the Chairman came at 12.40. Since the Chairman was late by 30 minutes, the interviews were scheduled to be held at 12.10. 13. (5) The bus will leave 20 minutes after the clerk gives the information to the anger and at 9.35 a.m. He gave the information 20 minutes before 9.35 a.m. i.e. at 9.15 a.m. 14. (2) Number of days = (6 + 29 + 31 + 30 + 15) = 111. Since 1988 is a leap years, the number of days in February = 29. 15. (2) According to Raji, Latha’s birthday is on one of the days among 20th and 21st November. According to Deepti, Latha’s birthday is on one of the days among 21st, 22nd and 23rd November. The day common to both the groups is 21st November. ... Latha’s birthday is on 21st November.
Number Locating Test
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Here, a group of digits are given the candidates are asked to arrange the order of numbers according to descending/ ascending order and find out how many numbers are there in the arrangement that satisfy the condition specified in the question.
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Solved Example 1.
If the digits of the number 597841 are arranged in descending order, how many digits will be as far away from the beginning of the number as they are in the number ? (1) None (2) One (3) Two (4) Three (5) More than three Ans : (4)
ANSWERS 1.
597841 987541
In some cases, more than one group of numbers are given which is followed by 4 or 5 questions.
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Solved Example
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Ans : (1) 479 974;
637 736
854 458;
285 582
769 967
Number Sequance Test
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If 1 is added to the middle digit of each number and then the numbers are arranged in descending order, what will be the sum of the digits of fourth newly formed number ? (1) 22 (2) 21 (3) 23 (4) 20 (5) None of these If in each number first digit is replaced by the third digit, the third digit is replaced by the second digit and second digit is replaced by the first digit then which number will be the smallest ? (1) 285 (2) 479 (3) 769 (4) 637 (5) 854
These questions are based on the following 5 numbers. 479 637 854 285 769 If in each number the first and the third digits are interchanged, then which number will be the largest ? (1) 479 (2) 637 (3) 854 (4) 285 (5) 769 If all the numbers are arranged in ascending order what will be the difference between the first digit of first number and third digit of third number ? (1) 4 (2) 8 (3) 5 (4) 2 (5) None of these If in each number the first and second digits are interchanged then which number will be the largest? (1) 479 (2) 637 (3) 854 (4) 285 (5) 769
Largest number = 974 479 Ans : (3) 285 < 479 < 637 < 769 < 854 7-2=5 Ans : (4) 479 749;
637 367
854 584;
285 825
769 679 Largest number = 825 285 4.
Ans : (2) 479 489;
637 647
854 864;
285 295
769 779 864 > 779 > 647 > 489 > 295 4 + 8 + 9 21 5.
Ans : (5) 479 947;
637 763
854 485;
285 528
769 976 Smallest number = 485 854
Exercise 1.
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How many such digits are there in the number 5 2 3 6 1 9 8 4 each of which is as far away from the beginning of the numbers as when the digits are rearranged ascending order within the number ? (1) None (2) One (3) Two (4) Three (5) More than three The positions of how many digits in the number will remain same after the digits within the number 8 2 6 1 4 7 9 are rearranged in ascending order? (1) None (2) One (3) Two (4) Three (5) More than three How many such digits are there in the number 7 6 4 5 2 8 each of which is as far away from the beginning of the number as when the digits are arranged in descending order within the number? (1) None (2) One (3) Two (4) Three (5) More than three How many such pair of digits are there in the number 4 2 1 5 7 9 3 6 8 each of which has as many digits between them in the number as when they are arranged in ascending order ? (1) None (2) One (3) Two (4) Three (5) More than three In the case of how many digits in the number 2 13 8 5 7 4, their positions in the number and the positions when the digits of the number are arranged in the ascending order are identical ? (1) Nil (2) Four (3) Three (4) Two
Ans : (4)
52361984 12345689 2.
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8261479 1246789 3.
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764528 876542
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Ans. (3) 2138574 1234578
PRACTICE TEST I.
Direction (1-4) : Following questions are based on the five three digit numbers given below : 472 487 348 728 845
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If the positions of the first and the third digits in each number are interchanged, which of the following will be middle digit of the highest number? (1) 4
(2) 8
(4) 2
(5) 3
(3) 7
Which of the following will be the sum total of the three digits of the third lowest number among them ? (1) 13
(2) 19
(4) 17
(5) 14
(3) 15
Which of the following will be the middle digit of the highest number ? (1) 7
(2) 3
(4) 8
(5) 4
(3) 2
If the positions of the first and the last digits within each number are interchanged, which of the following will be second digit of the second largest number ? (1) 8
(2) 4
(4) 5
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II. Directions (5-9) : Study the sets of numbers given below and answer the qustions ; which follow : 972 682 189 298 751 5. If one is added to the lowest number and two is added to the highest number, what will be the difference between the second digit of the
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If in each number, all the three digits are arranged in descending order, which of the following will be the third highest number ? (1) 972
(2) 682
(4) 298
(5) 751
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If in each number, second and the third digits are interchanged, what will be the sum of first digit of the smallest number and last digit of highest number ? (1) 7
(2) 6
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If one is added to the smaller odd number and one is subtracted from the higher odd number, which of the following will be obtained if the second digit of the higher number is subtracted from the second digit of the lower number so formed? (1) 6
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III. Direction (10 -14) : Study the sets of numbers given below and answer the questions, which follow. 489 541 654 953 783 10. If in each number, all the three digits are arranged in ascending order, which of the following will be the lowest number ? (1) 489 (2) 541 (3) 654 (4) 953 (5) 783 11. If five is subtracted from each of the numbers, which of the following numbers will be difference between the second digit of second highest number and the second digit of the highest number? (1) Zero (2) 3 (3) 1 (4) 4 (5) 2
12. If in each number the first and second digits are interchanged, which will be the third highest number ? (1) 489 (2) 541 (3) 654 (4) 953 (5) 783 13. Which of the following number will be obtained if the first digit of lowest number is subtracted from the second digit of highest number after adding one to each of the numbers ? (1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4 (5) 5 14. If in each number, the first and the last digits are interchanged, which of the following will be the second highest number ? (1) 489 (2) 541 (3) 654 (4) 953 (5) 783 IV. Direction (15-19) : These questions are based on following set of numbers 319 869 742 593 268 15. If in each number the first and third digits are interchanged then which number will be the highest ? (1) 319 (2) 869 (3) 742 (4) 593 (5) 268 16. If one is subtracted from the first and third digits of each of the numbers, what will be the difference between the first digit of the highest number and the first digit of the lowest number ? (1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5 (5) None of these 17. If in each number all the digits are arranged in ascending order, which number will be second lowest ? (1) 319 (2) 869 (3) 742 (4) 593 (5) 268 18. If in each number first digit is replaced by the third digit, second digit is replaced by the first digit and third digit is replaced by the second digit, then which number will be the second highest ? (1) 319 (2) 869 (3) 742 (4) 593 (5) 268 19. If all the numbers are arranged in descending order, what will be the difference between the second
digit of third number and third digit of second number ? (1) 5 (2) 9 (3) 6 (4) 7 (5) None of these V. Directions (20-25) : These questions are based on the following six numbers. 20.
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382 473 568 728 847 629 If the second and the third digits of each number are interchanged, which number will be third lowest ? (1) 629 (2) 382 (3) 473 (4) 568 (5) None of these If the first and the third digits of each number are interchanged, which number will be the third highest ? (1) 473 (2) 728 (3) 847 (4) 629 (5) None of these If the first and second digits of each number are interchanged, which number will be second highest ? (1) 568 (2) 473 (3) 847 (4) 382 (5) None of these If 382 is written as 238, 473 as 347 and so on, then which of the following number will have least difference between them ? (1) 473 & 382 (2) 629 & 728 (3) 629 & 568 (4) 728 & 847 (5) 629 & 847 If the first and the third digits of each number are interchanged and one is added to the second digit of each number then which of the following pairs of numbers will have highest total of their numerical value ? (1) 847 & 629 (2) 568 & 728 (3) 728 & 847 (3) 568 & 847 (5) 629 & 473 If the first digit of each number replaces the third digit of that number, third digit replaces the second digit and the second digit replaces the first digit, and then the numbers thus formed are arranged in the descending order, then which number will be the third ? (1) 568 (2) 382 (3) 473 (4) 847 (5) None of these
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Ans : (2) Third lowest number 487 4 + 8 + 7 = 19 Ans : (5) Highest number 845 Ans : (5) 472 274 348 843 845 548
487 784 728 827
Second largest number 8 2 7 Ans : (1) 189 + 1 = 190 972 + 2 = 974 9-4=5 Ans : (2) 972 279; 682 286 189 981; 298 892 751 157 Third highest number = 286 682 Ans : (1) 972 972; 189 981; 751 751 Ans : (4) 972 927; 189 198; 751 715
682 862 298 982
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11. Ans : (2) 489 - 5 484 ; 541 - 5 536 654 - 5 649 ; 953 - 5 948 783 - 5 778 Second highest number = 778 Highest number = 948 7-4=3 12. Ans : (4) 489 849 ; 541 451; 654 564; 953 593 ; 783 873 Third highest number = 593 953 13. Ans : (1) 489 + 1 490; 541+1 = 542 654 +1 655; 953 + 1= 954; 783 + 1 784 5-4=1 14. Ans : (3) 489 984; 541 145 654 456; 953 359 783 387 Second highest number = 456 654 15. Ans : (2) 319 913; 869 968; 742 247; 593 395; 268 862 16. Ans : (5) 319 218; 869 768; 593 492; 268 167 7-1=6 Highest Number 7 6 8 Lowest Number 1 6 7
742 641;
17. Ans : (3) 319 139; 869 689; 742 247; 593 359; 268 268 Second lowest number 247 742 18. Ans : (1)
319 931; 869 986; 742 274 593 359; 268 826 Second highest number 931 319 19. Ans : (4) 869 > 742 > 593 > 319 > 268 9-2=7 20. Ans : (4) 382 328; 473 437; 568 586; 728 782; 847 874; 629 692; Third lowest number 586 568 21. Ans : (2) 382 283; 473 374; 568 865; 728 827; 847 748; 629 926 Third highest number 827 728 22. Ans : (2) 382 832; 473 743; 568 658; 728 278; 847 487; 629 269 Second highest number 743 473 23. Ans : (4) 382 238; 473 347; 568 856; 728 872; 847 784; 629 962 (1) 473 & 382 347 - 238 = 109 (2) 629 & 728 962 - 872 = 90 (3) 629 & 568 962 - 856 = 106 (4) 728 & 847 872 - 784 = 88 (5) 629 & 847 962 - 784 = 178 24. Ans : (2) (1) 847 & 629 758 + 936 = 1694 (2) 568 & 728 875 + 837 = 1712 (3) 728 & 847 837 + 758 = 1595 (4) 568 & 847 875 + 758 = 1633 (5) 629 & 473 936 + 384 = 1320 25. Ans : (1) 382 823; 728 287;
473 734; 847 478;
823 > 734 > 685 > 478 > 296 > 287
568 685 629 296
BLOOD RELATIONSHIP In this test, the success of a candidate depends upon the knowledge of the blood relations, some of which are summarised below to help you solve these tests Mother’s or father’s son Mother’s or father’s daughter Mother’s or father’s brother Mother’s or father’s sister Mother’s or father’s mother Mother’s or father’s father Son’s wife Daughter’s husband Husband’s or wife’s brother Sister’s or brother’s son
- Brother - Sister - Uncle - Aunt - Grandmother - Grandfather - Daughter-in-law - Son-in-law - Brother-in-law - Nephew
Brother’s or Sister’sdaughter - Niece Uncle’s or aunt’s son or daughter - Cousin Sister’s husband - Brother-in-law Brother’s wife - Sister-in-law Eg. Pointing to a man in a photograph, a woman said “His brother’s father is the only son of my grandfather”. How is the woman related to the man in the photograph? (1) Mother (2) Aunt (3) Sister (4) Daughter (5) Grandmother The relation may be seen as follows. The only son of the woman’s grandfatherwoman’s father. Man’s brother’s father-Man’s father. So the woman is the Man’s sister.
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Introducing a girl, Santhosh said, “Her mother is the only daughter of my mother-in-law”. How is Santhosh related to the girl? (1) Uncle (2) Husband (3) Brother (4) Father (5) None of these Pointing to a lady a man said, “the son of her only brother is the brother of my wife”. How is the lady related to the man? (1) Mother’s sister (2) Grandmother (3) Mother-in-law (4) Sister of the Man’s father-in-law (5) None of these Pointing to an old man, Kailas said, “his son is my son’s uncle”. How is the old man related to Kailas? (1) Brother (2) Uncle (3) Father (4) Grandfather (5) None of these When Manoj saw Ashok, he recalled, he is the son of the father of the mother of his daughter. What is Ashok to Manoj? (1) Brother-in-law (2) Brother (3) Cousin (4) Uncle (5) Nephew Pointing to a lady on the platform Geetha said, “she is the sister of the father of my mother’s son”. What is the lady to Geetha? (1) Mother (2) Sister (3) Aunt (4) Niece (5) None of these Pointing to a lady a girl said, “she is the only daughter- in-law of the grandmother of my father’s son”. How is the lady related to the girl?
No. 13
(1) Sister-in-law (2) Mother (3) Niece (4) Mother-in-law (5) Cousin 7. Showing a lady in the park, Balu said, “she is the daughter of my grandmother’s only son”. How is Balu related to that lady? (1) Brother (2) Cousin (3) Father (4) Uncle (5) None of these 8. Lakshmi and Girija are Gopal’s wives. Shalini is Girija’s step-daughter. How is Lakshmi related to Shalini? (1) Sister (2) Mother-in-law(3) Mother (4) Step-mother (5) None of these 9. Showing the man receiving the prize Seema said, “he is the brother of my uncle’s daughter”. What is the man to Seema? (1) Son (2) Brother-in-law (3) Nephew (4) Uncle (5) Cousin 10. Introducing a man a woman said, “he is the only son of my mother’s mother”. How is the woman related to the man? (1) Mother (2) Aunt (3) Sister (4) Niece (5) None of these Directions (Qs. 11-13): Read the following information and answer the questions given below: A + B means A is the daughter of B A × B means A is the son of B A - B means A is the wife of B
11. If P × Q - S, which of the following is true? (1) S is the wife of Q (2) S is father of P (3) P is daughter of Q (4) Q is father of P (5) None of these 12. If T - S × B -M, which of the following is not true? (1) B is mother of S (2) M is husband of B (3) S is daughter of B (4) T is wife of S (5) None of these 13. If Z × T - S × U + P, what is U to Z? (1) Mother (2) Grandmother (3) Father (4) Can’t be determined (5) None of these 14. If AB means A is the sister of B, A B means A is the father of B, A B means A is the brother of B, which of the following means X is the aunt of Y? (1) XD Y (2) A D Y (3)X DY (4) X D Y (5) None of these 15. If A + B means A is the sister of B, A - B means A is the brother of B, A × B means A is the daughter of B, which of the following shows the relation that E is the maternal uncle of D? (1) D + F × C (2) D - F × E (3) D× F+ E+C (4) D × F × E (5) None of these Directions (Qs. 16-20): Read the following information and answer the questions that follows:
A family consists of six P, Q, R, S, T and U. There are two married couples. Q is a doctor and the father of T. U is the grandfather of R and is a contractor S is grandmother of T and is a housewife. There is one doctor, one contractor, one nurse, one housewife and two students in the family. 16. Who is the husband of P? (1) R (2) U (3) Q (4) S (5) T 17. Who is the sister of T? (1) R (2) U (3) T (4) Data inadequate(5) None of these 18. What is the profession of P? (1) Doctor (2) Nurse (3) Doctor-or nurse (4) House wife (5) None of these 19. Which of the following are two married couples? (1) US, QT (2) US, QP (3) TS,RU (4) US, RP (5) None of these 20. Which of the following is definitely a group of male ? (1) QU (2) QUT (3) QUP (4) UT (5) None of these
Answers: Speed Developing Practice Test No. 13 1. (4) 11. (2)
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(4) Only daughter of mother-in-law wife i.e. girl’s mother is Santhosh’s wife. Santhosh is the father of the girl. (4) Brother of wife brother-in-law. Son of lady’s brother is his brother-in-law. So the lady’s brother is man’s father-in-law i.e. the lady is the sister of man’s father-in-law. (3) Old man’s son is Kailas brother. So old man is Kailas father. (1) Mother of my daughter my wife. Son of father of wife brother of wife i.e. brotherin-law. i.e. Ashok is the brother-in-law of Manoj. (3) Mother’s son brother My brother’s father my father My father’s sister my aunt So the lady is Geetha’s aunt.
(2) My father’s son my brother Grandmother of my brother my grandmother Only daughter-in-law of my grandmother means my mother. So the lady is the girl’s mother. 7. (1) Grandfather’s only son father Daughter of father sister So Balu is lady’s brother 8. (3) Girija’s step-daughter means Lakshmi’s daughter. So Lakshmi is the mother of Shalini. 9. (5) Brother of uncle’s daughter uncle’s son cousin i.e. Man is Seema’s cousin. 10. (4) My mother’s mother my grandmother; my grandmother’s only son my maternal uncle. So the woman is the Man’s niece. 6.
RBI (ASSISTANT) EXAM Based on memory Held on: 29-4-2012 Test-I: Reasoning 1. How many meaningful English words can be formed with the letters PCYO using all the letters, but each letter only once in each word? 1) None 2) One 3) Two 4) Three 5) More than three 2. The positions of the first and fifth letter of the word SUITABLE are interchanged. Similarly, the positions of second and sixth letter, third and seventh letter, and fourth and eighth letter are interchanged. In the New arrangement, how many letters are there in the English alphabetical series between the alphabet which is third from the left end and the alphabet which is second from the right end? 1) None 2) One 3) Two 4) Four 5) More than four Directions (Q.3-4): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions which follow. Among A,B,C,D and E, each scored different marks in an examination. only one person scored more than C. E scored more than A but less than D. D did not score the highest marks. The one who scored the second lowest scored 71% marks. C scored 92% marks. 3. Who among the following is most likely to have scored 87% marks? 1) A 2) B 3) D 4) E 5) Either A or D 4. Which of the following percentages is most likely to be B's percentage in the exam? 1) 68% 2) 71% 3) 84% 4) 76% 5) 97% Directions (Q.5-7): The following questions are based on the alphabetical series given below. MJLITQSRKUFHCBDEAVPOGN 5. What will come in place of question(?) mark in the following series based on the above alphabetical series? N PO BDE 1) UKR 2) SRKU 3) RKUF 4) QSRK 5) FUK 6. If in a certain code, 'BIND' is coded as 'CLGB' and 'HELD' is coded as 'FDJB'
based on the series given above How will 'FORK' be coded in the same code language? 1) HGKU 2) UPKR 3) KPSR 4) UPSR 5) UGSR 7. 'HC' is related to 'KQ' in a certain way. Similarly, 'OG' is related to 'AB' in the same way. To which of the following is 'RK' related following the same pattern? 1) TJ 2) SI 3) TI 4) HD 5) IM 8. Each vowel of the word SAVOURY is changed to the next letter in the English alphabetical series and each consonant is changed to the previous letter in the English alphabetical series. If the new alphabets thus formed are arranged in alphabetical order (from left to right), which of the following will be fifth from the right? 1) U 2) R 3) Q 4) P 5) X 9. How many such pairs of letter are there in the word PACKETS, each of which has as many letters between them in the word (in both forward and backward directions) as they have between them in the English alphabetical series? 1) One 2) Two 3) Three 4) Four 5) More than four 10. Point P is 10m to the West of Point A. Point B is 2m to the South of Point P. Point Q is 6m to the East of Point B. Point C is 2m to the North of Point Q. Which of the following three points fall in a straight line? 1) A,C,P 2) B, C,P 3) Q,C,A 4) A,B,Q 5) A,B,C Directions (Q. 11-15): In these questions, relationship between different elements is shown in the statement. The statements are following by two conclusions. Give answer 1) if only conclusion I is true 2) if only conclusion II is true 3) if either conclusion I or II is true 4) if neither conclusion I nor II is true 5) if both conclusions I and II are true 11. Statements: H I = J. K L Conclusions: I. K < H II. L > I 12. Statements: S > C O; P < C Conclusions: I. O < P II. S > p 13. Statements: A = B C; A > R Conclusions: I. B > R II. R < C
14. Statements: D > E F; J < F Conclusions: I. D > J II. E < J 15. Statements: P < Q > T; R Q Conclusions: I. R > P II. T < R Directions (Q. 16-20): Study the following information to answer the given questions. Eight People are sitting in two parallel rows containing four people each in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, A,B C and D are sitting (but not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing North. In row 2, P, Q, R and S are sitting (but not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing South. Therefore, in the given section arrangement, each member sitting in a row faces another member of the other row. S sits second to left of Q. A faces the immediate neighbour of S. Only one person sits between A and C. P does not face A. B is not an immediate neighbour of A. 16. Which of the following is true regarding D? 1) D sits an one of the extreme ends of the line. 2) A sits on the immediate left D. 3) Q faces D. 4) C is an immediate neighbour of D. 5) No immediate neighbour of D faces R. 17. Who among the following faces C? 1) P 2) Q 3) R 4) S 5) Cannot be determined 18. Who among the following sits on the immediate right of the person who faces C? 1) P 2) Q 3) R 4) S 5) Cannot be determined 19. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given seating arrangement and thus form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group? 1) A 2) Q 3) R 4) B 5) S 20. Who among the following faces R? 1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D 5) Cannot be determined Directions (Q. 21-26): Study the following information to answer the given questions: In a certain code, 'time and money', is written as 'ma jo ki',
'manage time well' is written as 'pa ru jo', 'earn more money' is written as 'zi ha ma' and 'earn well enough' is written as 'si ru ha'. 21. What is the code for 'earn'? 1) si 2) ru 3) ha 4) ma 5) Cannot be determined 22. Which of the following represents 'more time'? 1) Pa jo 2) zi ki 3) ma ki 4) si jo 5) jo zi 23. What is the code for 'manage'? 1) ru 2) pa 3) jo 4) ha 5) Either 'jo' or 'ru' 24. Which of the following may represent' 'money matters'? 1) ki to 2) ma pa 3) fi ma 4) ha ma 5) ma jo 25. What does 'ru' stand for? 1) well 2) manage 3) time 4) enough 5) Either 'time' or 'enough' 26. Which of the following may represent 'good enough'? 1) ru si 2) da ha 3) si pa 4) si da 5) ki ru Directions (Q. 27-33): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions. Eight friends - A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H - are sitting around a circle facing the centre, but not necessarily in the same order. D sits third to left of A. A is an immediate neighbour of the both F and H. Only one person sits between C and F. B is not an immediate neighbour of D. Only one person sits between B and G. 27. A is related to G in a certain way. Similarly, C is related to H, according to the given seating arrangement. Who among the following is related to F, following the same pattern? 1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D 5) E 28. Who among the following sits second to the right of C? 1) F 2) A 3) D 4) G 5) H 29. What is the position of C with respect to the position of E? 1) Third to the left 2) Second to the left 3) Immediate right 4) Third to the right 5) Second to the right 30. Which of the following is true with respect to the given seating arrangement?
1) A sits on the immediate left of H. 2) B sits exactly between C and G. 3) F sits second to the right of C. 4) E is an immediate neighbour of C. 5) None is true 31. Which of the following pairs represents the immediate neighbours of G? 1) A, C 2) C, D 3) D, H 4) D, E 5) C,F 32. Who among the following sits exactly between C and F? 1) A 2) D 3) G 4) H 5) B 33. Starting from A, if all the friends are made to sit in alphabetical order in clockwise direction, the positions of how many (excluding A) will remain unchanged? 1) None 2) One 3) Two 4) Three 5) Four Directions (Q. 34-37): In each question below are two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the two given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer. 1) if only conclusion I follows. 2) if only conclusion II follows. 3) if either conclusion I or II follows. 4) if neither conclusion I nor II follows. 5) if both conclusions I and II follow. 34. Statements: All exams are tests. No test is a question. Conclusions: I. At least some exams are questions. II. No exam is a question. 35. Statements: No bangle is an earring. Some earrings are rings. Conclusions: I. No ring is a bangle. II. Some rings are definitely not earnings. 36. Statements: Some banks are colleges. All colleges are schools. Conclusions: I. At least some banks are schools. II. All schools are colleges. 37. Statements: All rivers are lakes. All lakes are oceans. Conclusions: I. All rivers are oceans. II. At least some oceans are lakes.
Directions (Q. 38-40): Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and give answer 1) if the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question. 2) if the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question. 3) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question. 4) if the data neither in statement I nor in statement II are sufficient to answer the question statement 5) if the data in both the statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question. 38. On which date of the month was Parul born? I. Her mother correctly re that she was born after 15th but before 21st of April. II. Her father correctly re that she was born after 18th but before 24th of April. 39. How many brothers does Meghna have? Meghna is a girl. I. Kishore, the father of Meghna, is the only child of Kamal. Kamal has only two grandchildren. II. Jyoti, the daughter-in-law of Kamal, has son and a daughter. 40. Among P, Q, R, S and T, sitting in a straight line, facing North, who sits exactly in the middle of the line? I. S sits third to the left of Q. S is an immediate neighbour of both P and T. II. Two people sit between T and R. R does not sit at either of the extreme ends. P sits second to the right of T.
Test - II: English Directions (Q. 41-45): Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete. 41. The government is planning to set ..... family welfare centres for slums in cities. 1) another 2) with 3) for 4) in 5) up 42. Economic independence and education have women more assertive. 1) prepared 2) made 3) marked 4) resulted 5) adjusted
43. In the modern world, the ......... of change and scientific innovation is unusually rapid. 1) supplies 2) context 3) pace 4) fantasy 5) requirement 44. The unprecedented economic growth of china has ......... world wide attention. 1) perceived 2) proposed 3) neither 4) astonished 5) attracted 45. Each business activity ........... employment to people who would otherwise be unemployed. 1) taking 2) finds 3) creates 4) provides 5) given Directions (Q. 46-55): Read the following age carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate while answering some of the questions. The importance of communication skills cannot be underestimated, especially so, in the teaching - learning process. Teaching is generally considered as only fifty percent knowledge and fifty percent interpersonal or communication skills. For a teacher, it is not just important to give a lecture rich in content that provides abundant information about the subject or topic in question, but a successful teacher develops an affinity with, an understanding of, and a harmonious interrelationship with her pupils. Building rapport becomes her primary task in the classroom. But what exactly is rapport? Rapport is a sympathetic relationship or understanding that allows you to look at the world from someone else's perspective. Making other people feel that you understand them creates a strong bond. Building rapport is the first step to better communication - the primary goal of all true educators. Communication skills for teachers are thus as important as their in-depth knowledge of the particular subject which they teach. To a surprising degree, how one communicates determines one's effectiveness as a teacher. A study on communication styles suggests that 7% of communication takes place through words, 38% through voice intonation and 55% through body language. Much of teaching is about sending and receiving messages. The process of communication is composed of three elements : the source (sender, speaker, transmitter or instructor), the symbol used in composing and transmitting of the message (words or signs), and the receiver (listener, reader or student). The three elements are dynamically interrelated since each element is dependent on the others for effective communication to take place. Effective communication is all about conveying your message to the other people clearly and unambiguously. It's also about receiving information the others are sending to you, with as little distortion as possible. Doing this involves effort from both the sender and the receiver. And it's a process that can be fraught with error, with messages
muddled by the sender, or misinterpreted by the reciepent. When this isn't detected it can cause tremendous confusion, wasted effort and missed opportunity. Good communication skills are a prerequisite for those in the teaching profession. Carefully planned and skillfully delivered messages can issue invitations to students that school is a place to share ideas, investigate and collaborate with others. Effective communication is essential for a wellrun classroom. A teacher who is able to communicate well with students can inspire them to learn and participate in class and encourage them to come forth with their views, thus creating a proper rapport. Although this sounds simple and obvious, it requires much more than a teacher saying something out loud to a student. They must also realise that all students have different levels of strengths and weaknesses. Directions (Q. 46-47): Choose the word which is most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in bold as used in the age. 46. Abundant 1) Small 2) Little 3) False 4) Sufficient 5) Rare 47. Muddled 1) Skillfully organised 2) Strongly controlled 3) Clearly conveyed 4) Isolated 5) Complicated Directions (Q. 48-50): Choose the word which is most SIMILAR in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the age. 48. Sounds 1) Seems 2) Corrects 3) Noises 4) Takes 5) Silences. 49. Affinity 1) Partnership 2) Partiality 3) Weakness 4) Compatibility 5) Discord 50. Degree 1) Extent 2) Goal 3) Affect 4) Situation 5) Direction 51. Which of the following is/are essential for effective communication? (A) Conveying the message clearly (B) Not to waste effort and opportunity (C) Receiving the information with as little distortion as possible. 1) Only (A) and (C) 2) Only (B) 3) Only (A) 4) Only (C) 5) Only (B) and (C) 52. Which of the following is true about 'rapport' as per the age? (A) It is a sympathetic relationship. (B) It is based on understanding of other people's frame of reference. (C) It helps in creating a strong bond.
(D) It is important for teachers to build rapport with students. 1) Only (A) and (B) 2) Only (B) and (D) 3) Only (A), (B) and (D) 4) Only (A), (B) and (C) 5) All are true 53. Which of the following must the teachers keep in mind to facilitate learning in student as per the age? 1) To control the students such that they do not share ideas with others within the lecture hours. 2) To maintain rapport with students and compromise on the course content. 3) To realise hat all students have different levels of strengths and weaknesses. 4) Only to keep the lecture rich in course content. 5) To ensure that students adhere to her views only. 54. Which of the following are the three elements of communication as per the age? 1) Source, Signs and Students 2) Source, Sender and Speaker 3) Signs, Words and Students 4) Instructor, Listener and Reader 5) Transmitter, Students and Receiver 55. Which of the following is the finding of the study on communication styles? 1) The body language and gestures for 38% of communication and outweighs the voice intonation. 2) Only 9% communication is about content whereas the rest is about our tone and body language. 3) The tone of our voice s for 55% of what we communicate and outweighs the body language. 4) More than 90% of our communication is not about content but about our tone and body language. 5) Teaching is fifty percent knowledge and fifty per cent interpersonal for communication skills. Directions (Q. 56-65): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is 'No error', the answer is (5). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.) 56. The economic disparity/ has grown rapid in/ the era of globalisation/ 1) 2) 3) and free market forces/ No error 4) 5) 57. Research shows that people/ is more sensitive to perceiving/ messages that are consistent/ with their opinions and attitudes./ No error
1) 2) 3) 4) 5 ) 58. Many poverty alleviation schemes/ are not applicable of/ slum dwellers in metro cities/ as they are above the poverty line/ No error 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 59. Rather than considering its/ human capital as a drain on/ resources, India needs to/ resource develop its into a huge opportunity./ No error 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)
60. The European nations have / become one of the / favourite destinations of the Indian students/ seek specialised Knowledge and training./ No error 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 61. If a credit card bill/ is paid in full and / on time, none finance/ charges are levied./ No error 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 62. Training have a / positive effect on / development of various/ skills and abilities. / No error 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 63. Lack of ability to / read or write is just one of / the all barriers that keep/ the poor people under developed. / No error 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 64. Science and technology have/ become dominant factors/ affecting our economic, cultural/ and spiritual development./ No error 1) 3)
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65. A social business sells products/ at prices that make it Self- sustaining, pays / no dividends and reinvestment / the profits in the business./ No error 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Directions (Q.66-75): In the following age, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the age and against each five words are suggested one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case. The latest technology (66) put to use or about to arrive in market must be (67) to all entrepreneurs. The reason is that it may have an (68) effect on business. Valve radio's gave way to transistor radios and with micro chips, technology is giving way to digital equipment. Business has (69) the same but the technology has kept changing. A notable feature is that the size of the receivers decreased (70) so did the use of its material and consequently its price. The traditional flour mills are losing business (71) customers now buy flour (72) from the market. As a result of this, the business is (73) Following the same lines as technology, the social trends also go on changing and influence the market. The Indian sarees are being taken (74) by readymade stitched clothes. Every entrepreneur must note such changes in the environment and also the technology and plan in (75) with these to ensure the success of his endeavour. 66. 1) to 2) needed 3) decided 4) besides 5) being 67. 1) hoped 2) welcome 3) released 4) Known 5) aware 68. 1) approximate 2) huge 3) uniform 4) excellence 5) enormous 69. 1) maintained 2) remained 3) often 4) mentioned 5) become 70. 1) mainly 2) and 3) how 4) also 5) some 71. 1) reason 2) due 3) young 4) as 5) old 72. 1) knowingly 2) ease 3) cheap
4) directly 5) forcefully 73. 1) shrinking 2) blooming 3) returned 4) same 5) small 74. 1) against 2) to 3) over 4) up 5) for 75. 1) lines 2) relativity 3) accordance 4) proper 5) toning Directions (Q. 76-80): Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in a proper sequence so as to form a meaningful paragraph, and then answer the questions given below. (A) Understandably, the newly married woman herself wants to spend more time with the family. (B) They also worry that she might not be able to defend herself in case of trouble. (C) Once married, the in-law exert a lot of pressure for similar cause of security. (D) Initially, the family does not want the "decent" girl going all around. (E) Retaining female workers at door-to-door sales jobs is just as hard as ever. 76. Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement? 1) E 2) B 3) D 4) C 5) A 77. Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement? 1) A 2) C 3) D 4) B 5) E 78. Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement? 1) D 2) B 3) C 4) E 5) A 79. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement? 1) C 2) A 3) E 4) D 5) B 80. Which of the following should be the LAST (FIFTH) sentence after rearrangement? 1) B 2) D 3) C 4) A 5) E
TEST- III: QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE Directions (Q. 81-95): What should come in place of question mark (?) in the following questions? 81. ? 0.5 24 = 5652 1) 171.75 2) 117.25 3) 171.25 4) 117.75 5) None of these 82. 5 ? = 4808 8
1) 122.2 2) 112.2 3) 120.2 4) 102.2 5) None of these 83. 65% of 654 - ? % of 860 = 210.1 1) 25 2) 15 3) 20 4) 30 5) None of these 84. 35154 20465 5201 = ? 1) 9488 2) 9844 3) 9484 4) 9848 5) None of these -------------------86. 243 124 25340 = ? 1) 4729 2) 4792 3) 4972 4) 4927 5) None of these 87. 92 8 2 = ? 1) 4.75 2) 5.75 3) 4.25 4) 5.25 5) None of these 88. 3 2 ? (121) 11 (1331) = (11) 1) 3 2) 2 3) 1 4) 0 5) None of these 89. 283.56 + 142.04 + 661.78 = ? 1) 1084.28 2) 1087.28 3) 1080.38 4) 1082.48 5) None of these 90. 7028 25=? 1) 218.12 2) 281.21 3) 218.21 4) 282.12 5) None of these 91. 390.5 ? = 284 22 1) 2
(256) 2) 16 3)√ 16 4) 256 5) None of these
92. 12.5 8.4 7.6 = ? 1) 787 2) 788 3) 799 4) 789 5) None of these
93. 4477 (44 5.5) = ? 1) 24.5 2) 21.5 3) 16.5 4) 18.5 5) None of these 94. 33.5 % of 250 = ? 1) 76.25 2) 82.25 3) 78.75 4) 83.75 5) None of these 96. 12 men alone can complete a piece of work in six days, whereas 10 men and 21 women take three days to complete the same piece of work. In how many days can 12 women alone complete the same piece of work? 1) 10 2) 9 3) 11 4) 8 5) None of these 97. The owner of an electronic store charges his customer 11% more than the cost price. If a customer paid Rs. 1,33,200 for an LED TV, what was the original price of the TV? 1) `1,20,000 2) `1,14,500 3) ` 1,22,500 4) ` 1,18,000 5) None of these 98. The average age of a woman and her daughter is 19 years. The ratio of their ages is 16 : 3. What is the age of the daughter? 1) 9 years 2) 3 years 3) 12 years 4) 6 years 5) None of these 100. A car covers a certain distance in three hours at the speed of 124 Km/hr. What is the average speed of a truck which travels a distance of 120 Km less than the car in the same time? 1) 88 km/hr 2) 84 km/hr 3) 78 km/hr 4) 73 km/hr 5) None of these 101. The cost of four calculators and two stencils is ` 6,200 what is the cost of ten calculators and five stencils? 1) `15,500 2) `14,875 3) ` 16,200 4) Cannot be determined 5) None of these 102. Find the average of the following set of scores: 214, 351, 109, 333, 752, 614, 456, 547 1) 482 2) 428 3) 444 4) 424 5) None of these 103. The average of four consecutive odd numbers A, B, C and D is 54. What is the product of A and C? 1) 2907 2) 2805 3) 2703 4) 2915 5) None of these 104. The sum of 55% of a number and 40% of the same number is 180.5. What is 80% of that number? 1) 134 2) 152 3) 148
4) 166 5) None of these 105. There are 950 employees in an organisation, out of which 28% got promoted. Find the number of employees who got promoted. 1) 226 2) 256 3) 266 4) 216 5) None of these 106. What is the least number to be added to 3000 to make it a perfect square? 1) 191 2) 136 3) 25 4) 84 5) None of these 107. What would be the compound interest obtained on an amount of ` 7,640 at the rate of 15 pa after two years? 1) `2,634.9 2) `2,643.9 3) ` 2,364.9 4) ` 2,463.9 5) None of these 108. In an examination it is required to get 65% of the aggregate marks to . A student gets 874 marks and is declared failed by 10% marks. What is the maximum aggregate marks a student can get? 1) 1450 2) 1640 3) 1500 4) Cannot be determined 5) None of these 109. A juice centre requires 35 dozen guavas for 28 days. How many dozen guavas will it require for 36 days? 1) 50 2) 52 3) 40 4) 45 5) None of these 110. Mohan sold an item for ` 4,510 and incurred a loss of 45%. At what price should he have sold the item to have earned a profit of 45%? 1) `10,900 2) ` 12,620 3) ` 11,890 4) Cannot be determined 5) None of these 112. What would be the circumference of a circle whose area is 745.36 sq cm? 1) 94.4 cm 2) 88.8 cm 3) 96.3 cm 4) 87.4 cm 5) None of these Directions (Q. 113-115): What will come in place of question mark(?) in the following number series? 113. 5 15 35 75 155 (?) 1) 295 2) 315 3) 275 4) 305 5) None of these 114. 3 6 18 72 360 (?) 1) 2160 2) 1800 3) 2520 4) 1440 5) None of these 115. 688 472 347 283 256 (?) 1) 236 2) 229 3) 255
4) 248 5) None of these Directions (Q. 116-120): In each of these questions, an equation is given with a question mark(?) in place of correct figure on the right hand side which satisfies the equality. Based on the values on the left hand side and the symbol of equality given, you have to decide which of the following figures will satisfy the equality and, thus, come in place of question mark. Symbols stand for > greater than = equal to < lesser than either greater than or equal to either lesser than or equal to 116. − [{92 184}1.5] < (?) 1) −0.7 4) −0.75
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Test-IV: General Awareness
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121. USA has asked India to reduce its dependence on crude oil supply from which of the following countries which is also a member of OPEC? 1) Venezuela 2) Iraq 3) Libya 4) Iran 5) Nigeria 122. Which of the following is the most essential financial service which should be provided to the poor people to bring them into the network of financial inclusion? 1) Insurance for life 2) Investment plan for future 3) Pension for old age 4) A bank where he/she can save small amount 5) Health insurance for minor illnesses and hospitalisation in case of need 123. Who among the following is the president of a country at present? 1) Rupert Murdoch 2) Ban ki-moon 3) Yoshihiko Noda 4) Nicolas Sarkozy 5) None of these 124. What does tha letter F denote in 'NBFCs', a term seen very frequently in banking world these days? 1) Formal 2) Fiscal 3) Federal 4) Functional 5) Financial 125. Who among the following is the Deputy Governor of the RBI at present? 1) Sunil Mitra 2) Azim Premji 3) HR Khan 4) Sushma Nath 5) None of these 126. Standard and Poor's is a Credit Rating Agency of international repute. Which of the following is one such agency of Indian origin? 1) IBA 2) BASEL 3) SEBI 4) IRDA 5) CRISIL 127. Who among the following is the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh at present? 1) Akhilesh Yadav 2) Mulayam Singh Yadav 3) Mayawati 4) Amar Singh 5) None of these 128. Coin of which of the following denominations is called Small Coin? 1) `1 2) `2 3) `5 4) 50 paise 5) `10 129. Which of the following is not a highlight of the Union Budget 2012-13? 1) No change in the rate of Corporate Tax. 2) All types of loans upto `35 lakh will be given on 6% interest only. 3) Service Tax raised from 10% to 12%. 4) Fiscal Deficit is targeted at 5.1% of GDP. 5) Substantial increase in Defence Budget. 130. Which of the following services products of banks is specially designed and launched to help students?
1) Personal loan 2) Corporate loan 3) Business loan 4) Medical loan 5) Education loan 131. Which of the following is not directly associated with the functioning of RBI? 1) Open Market Operations 2) Cash Reserve Ratio 3) SENSEX 4) Liquidity Adjustment Facility 5) Public Debt Office 132. Which of the following is one of the major activities of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)? 1) On-site inspection of Cooperative Banks and Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) 2) Helping Govt of India in preparing Union Budget and presenting it in the cabinet meeting. 3) Acting as custodian of the foreign exchange reserves of the country. 4) Deciding rate of interest on Savings Bank s in Public Sector Banks. 5) Representing India in World Bank and other such agencies. 133. Dipika, who won Crocodile Challenge Cup Finals, in December 2011, is a famous 1) Bton player 2) Table Tennis player 3) Lawn Tennis player 4) Chess player 5) Squash player 134. Who among the following is the recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature given in 2011? 1) Bruce A Beutler 2) V S Naipaul 3) Thomas Transtromer 4) Ralph M Steinman 5) Chetan Bhagat 135. The 59th National Film Award for Best Actress was given to 1) Vidya Balan 2) Kareena Kapoor 3) Priyanka Chopra 4) Lara Dutta 5) Roopa Ganguly 136. Which of the following is the abbreviated name of the body/ agency set up to boost foreign investments in India? 1) FORE 2) FCCB 3) FIPB 4) FEMA 5) AITAF 137. Which of the following is not considered infrastructural sector of the economy? 1) Electricity 2) Textile Sector 3) Telecom 4) Cement 5) Road and Railways 138. Sachin Tendulkar made his 100th century in the match played between India and 1) Pakistan 2) England 3) Australia 4) Bangladesh 5) Sri Lanka 139. Who among the following was awarded Pa Vibhushan in 2012? 1) TV Rajeswar 2) Aruna Irani 3) AR Rahman
4) Shabana Azmi 5) Anup Jalota 140. Which of the following countries is a member of BRICs? 1) Bhutan 2) Iran 3) Romania 4) Sudan 5) South Africa 141. Which of the following countries has recently placed its first space lab 'Tiangong-1' into orbit? 1) North Korea 2) Japan 3) India 4) 5) China 142. Who among the following is the Solicitor General of India at present? 1) Jacob Mathew 2) Rohinton Nariman 3) Gopal Subramaniam 4) Ashok Chawla 5) None of these 143. Which of the following schemes has been launched by the Govt of India to motivate school children to attend school regularly? 1) Kutir Jyoti 2) Mid-Day Meal 3) MGNREGA 4) RAY 5) Bharat Nirman 144. As per the news published in various newspapers, govt is planning to set up a regulatory body in educational field especially for 1) Higher Education 2) Medical Education 3) Elementary Education 4) Secondary Education 5) Adult Education 145. Which of the following countries has been selected as the host of Commonwealth Games 2018? 1) India 2) Australia 3) Pakistan 4) South Africa 5) Sri Lanka 146. has agreed to supply 'Rafale' to India. The deal is about the supply of 1) Warships 2) RADAR system 3) Fighter Aircrafts 4) Nuclear Reactors 5) Submarines 147. Seychelles, where China is going to set up its new military base, is a country in the 1) Bay of Bengal 2) China Sea 3) Indian Ocean 4) Red Sea 5) Caspian Sea 148. Which of the following is used in the field of economics? 1) Absolute Zero 2) Molecular Equation 3) Zero Point Energy 4) Balance of Payment 5) Mass Defect 149. ' Kyoto Protocol', an agreement signed by various countries, is associated with the field of 1) International trade 2) Clean environment and climate change. 3) Currency swap. 4) Deep sea mining and oil exploration. 5) Building a common food stock to save mankind in case of any natural calamity. 150. World AIDS Day is observed on which of the following days?
1) 1st December 2) 1st March 3) 1st April 4) 1st May 5) 1st January 151. USA decided to withdraw its army from which of the following countries after a nine-year long stay? 1) Afghanistan 2) Libya 3) Egypt 4) Iraq 5) Iran 152. Which of the following cups/trophies is associated with the game of Lawn Tennis? 1) FIFA Cup 2) Champions Trophy 3) Ranji Trophy 4) Subroto Cup 5) Davis Cup 153. Which award is given to the coaches of sportspersons? 1) Dronacharya Award 2) Arjun Award 3) Kalidas Samman 4) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 5) Saraswati Samman 154. Which of the following is used in the game of Cricket? 1) Heave 2) Silly point 3) Tee 4) Smash 5) Grand Slam 155. Anew nuclear power plant is being set up in which of the following places in India? 1) Amethi 2) Firozabad 3) Jaitapur 4) Joshi Math 5) Satna 156. Which of the following schemes has been launched to make cities of India slumfree? 1) Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission 2) Bharat Nirmal 3) Rajiv Awas Yojana 4) Indira Awas Yojana 5) None of these 157. Who among the following is a famous author of Indian origin? 1) Homi K Bhabha 2) Kiran Desai 3) Swati A Piramal 4) Shabana Azmi 5) Ronen Sen 158. Who among the following has written the famous book Malgudi Days? 1) VS Naipaul 2) Deepak Chopra 3) Rabindranath Tagore 4) Vijay Tendulkar 5) RK Narayan 159. Which of the following is NOT the name of the currency of a country? 1) Rand 2) Pound 3) Dinar 4) Ecuador 5) Dollar 160. Which of the following is the unit of heat? 1) Joule 2) Ohm 3) Ampere 4) Volt 5) Newton
Test-V : Computer Knowledge 161. What is backup?
1) Adding more components to your network. 2) Protecting data by copying it from the original source to a different destination. 3) Filtering old data from the new data. 4) Accessing data on tape 5) Using earlier data. 162. The legal right to use software based on specific restrictions is granted via a 1) software 2) software license 3) software manager 4) software log 5) None of these 163. What is an e-mail attachment? 1) A receipt sent by the recipient. 2) A separate document from another program sent along with an e-mail. 3) A malicious parasite that feeds on your messages and destroys and contents. 4) A list of CC or BCC recipients. 5) A friend to whom e-mail is sent regularly. 164. Which of the following is the type of software that controls the internal operations in the computer and controls how the computer works with all its parts? 1) Shareware 2) Public domain software 3) Application software 4) Operating system software 5) None of these. 165. When data changes in multiple lists and all lists are not updated, this causes. 1) data redundancy 2) information overload 3) duplicate data 4) data consistency 5) data inconsistency 166. What is the main folder on a storage device called? 1) Root directory 2) interface 3) Device driver 4) Platform 5) Main directory 167. To view information on the Web you must have a 1) cable modem 2) Web browser 3) domain name server 4) hypertext viewer 5) None of these 168. A file is often referred to as a 1) Wizard 2) document 3) pane 4) device 5) documentation 169. To protect yourself from computer hacker intrusions you should install a 1) firewall 2) mailer 3) macro 4) script 5) None of these 170. What type of computers are client computers (most of the time) in a clientserver system? 1) Mainframe 2) Mini-computer 3) Microcomputer 4) PDA 5) None of these 171. What happens when you boot up a PC?
1) Portions of the operating system are copied from disk into memory. 2) Portions of the operating system are copied from memory onto disk. 3) Portions of the operating system are compiled. 4) Portions of the operating system are emulated. 5) The PC gets switched off. 172. Linux is an example of 1) freeware 2) open source software 3) shareware 4) complimentary 5) None of these 173. Which of the following software applications would be the most appropriate for performing numerical and statistical calculations? 1) Database 2) Document processor 3) Graphics package 4) Spreadsheet 5) Power Point 174. A .......... is used to read hand written or printed text to make a digital image that is stored in memory. 1) printer 2) laser beam 3) scanner 4) touchpad 5) None of these 175. You organise files by storing them in 1) archives 2) lists 3) indexes 4) folders 5) None of these 176. A................. is pre-designed document that already has coordinating fonts, a layout, and a background. 1) guide 2) model 3) ruler 4) template 5) design-plate 177. What is the default file extension for all Word documents? 1) WRD 2) TXT 3) DOC 4) FIL 5) WD 178. Removing and replacing devices without turning off your computer is referred to as 1) Hot swapping 2) Plug-n-Play 3) Bay swap 4) USB swapping 5) None of these. 179. Specialised programs that assist s in locating information on the Web are called. 1) information engines 2) locator engines 3) web browsers 4) resource locators 5) search engines 180. Compiling creates a(n) 1) error-free program 2) program specification 3) subroutine 4) algorithm 5) executable program 181. Expansion cards are inserted into 1) slots 2) peripheral devices 3) the U 4) the back of the computer 5) None of these
182. A device that connects to a network without the use of cable is said to be 1) distributed 2) non-wired 3) centralised 4) open source 5) wireless 183. Acomplete electronic circuit with transistors and other electronic components on a small silicon chip is called a(n) 1) workstation 2) U 3) magnetic disk 4) integrated circuit 5) complex circuit 184. Junk e-mail is also called 1) crap 2) spoof 3) sniffer script 4) spool 5) spam 185. A program designed to destroy data on your computer which can travel to "infect" other computers is called a 1) disease 2) torpedo 3) hurricane 4) virus 5) infector 186. ............... shows the files, folders, and drives on your computer, making it easy to navigate from one location to another within the file hierarchy. 1) Microsoft Internet Explorer. 2) Windows Explorer 3) My Computer 4) Folders Manager 5) Windows Locator 187. The ...................... manual tells you how to use a software program. 1) Documentation 2) programming 3) 4) Technical 5) designer 188. A collection of interrelated records is called a 1) utility file 2) management information system 3) database 4) spreadsheet 5) datasheet
ANSWERS 1. 2; 2. 3; 3. 3; 4. 5; 5. 2; 6. 4; 7. 1; 8. 3; 9. 2; 10. 1; 11. 1; 12. 2; 13. 5; 14. 4; 15. 5; 16. 4; 17. 1; 18. 2; 19. 5; 20.1; 21. 3; 22. 5; 23. 2; 24. 3; 25. 1; 26. 4; 27. 4; 28. 3; 29. 1; 30. 5; 31. 2; 32. 5; 33. 2; 34. 2; 35. 4; 36. 1; 37. 5; 38. 4; 39. 5; 40. 2; 41. 5; 42. 2; 43. 3; 44. 5; 45. 4; 46. 2; 47. 3; 48. 1; 49. 4; 50. 1; 51. 1; 52. 5; 53. 3; 54. 1; 55. 4; 56. 2; 57. 2; 58. 2; 59. 4; 60. 4; 61. 3; 62. 5; 63. 3; 64. 5; 65. 3; 66. 5; 67. 4; 68. 5; 69. 2; 70. 2; 71. 4; 72. 4; 73. 1; 74. 3; 75. 3; 76. 3; 77. 2; 78. 4. 79. 5; 80. 4; 81. 4; 82. 3; 83. 1; 84. 1; 85. 1; 86. 2; 87. 2; 88. 3; 89. 5; 90. 5. 91. 4; 92. 5; 93. 4; 94. 4; 95. 3; 96. 2; 97. 1; 98. 4; 99. 4; 100. 2; 101. 1; 102. 5; 103. 2; 104. 2; 105. 3; 106. 3; 107. 4; 108.
5; 109. 4; 110. 3; 111. 2; 112. 5; 113. 2; 114. 1; 115. 4; 116. 1; 117. 5; 118. 5; 119. 4; 120. 3; 121. 4; 122. 4; 123. 4; 124. 5; 125. 3; 126. 5; 127. 1; 128. 4; 129. 2; 130. 5; 131. 3; 132. 1; 133. 5; 134. 3; 135. 1; 136. 3; 137. 2; 138. 4; 139. 1; 140. 5; 141.
5; 142. 2; 143. 2 144. 1; 145. 2; 146. 2; 147. 3; 148. 4; 149. 2; 150. 1; 151. 4; 152. 5; 153. 1; 154. 2; 155. 3; 156. 3; 157. 2; 158. 5; 159. 4; 160. 1; 161. 2; 162. 2; 163. 2; 164. 4; 165. 5; 166. 1; 167. 2; 168. 2; 169. 1; 170. 1; 171. 1; 172. 2; 173. 4; 174. 3; 175. 4; 176. 4; 177. 3; 178. 2; 179. 5; 180. 5; 181. 1; 182. 5; 183. 4; 184. 5; 185.4; 186. 2; 187. 3. 188. 3