cl unprocmock 4 2011

Unproctored Mock-4 2011

1. If A is the sum of the squares of the first n natural numbers (where n < 100), then for how manyvalues of n will A be divisible by 5?(a) 40 (b) 60 (c) 59 (d) 39

2. In the figure given below, AB is the diameter of the larger circle while three smaller circles are drawninside this circle such that their diameters are along AB. The radius of each of these three circles is1 cm and the length of AB is 6 cm. Another circle with center at R is drawn which touches the twosmaller circles and the larger circle. What is the length of the radius (in cm) of this circle?

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(a) 3

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2(c) 1 (d) None of these

3. From the first 20 natural numbers how many Arithmetic Progressions of five terms can be formedsuch that the common difference is a factor of the fifth term?(a) 16 (b) 22 (c) 25 (d) 26

4. ( )4x 55f(x) 4f 9 2x 1 , where x R and x 4.

x 4+ + = + ∈ ≠ −

What is the value of f(7)?

(a) – 17 (b) – 8 (c) – 7 (d) None of these

5. There were 4 parcels all of whose weights were integers (in kg). The weights of all the possible pairsof parcels were noted down and amongst these the distinct values observed were 94 kg, 97 kg,101 kg and 104 kg. Which of the following can be the weight of one of the parcels?(a) 40 kg (b) 45 kg (c) 48 kg (d) 53 kg

6. In the figure given below, P is a point inside the triangle ABC. Line segments DE, FG and HI aredrawn through P, parallel to the sides AB, BC and CA respectively. The areas of the three trianglesDPG, FPI and EPH are 1, 9, and 25 respectively. What is the area of the triangle ABC? (All the areasare in sq cm).

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B E(a) 81 (b) 144 (c) 16 (d) 64



7. Guppy has a watch that shows the date without the month and the year. By default, the watchdisplays 31 days in each month. Therefore, at the end of all the months with less than 31 days thedate on the watch needs to be readjusted. On 10th March 2001 it showed the right date as ‘10’.What date would it show on 15th May 2002, if it is known that Guppy never readjusted his watchduring this period?(a) 23 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 22

8. Let P be a point on the side AB of a triangle ABC. Lines drawn parallel to PC, through the pointsA and B, meet BC and AC extended at X and Y respectively. The lengths of AX, BY and PC are‘a’ units, ‘b’ units and ‘c’ units respectively. Then c will be equal to the half of(a) Arithmetic Mean of a and b (b) Geometric Mean of a and b(c) Harmonic Mean of a and b (d) None of these

9. A game consisting of 50 rounds is played among P, Q and R as follows:Two players play in each round and the player who loses in that round is replaced by the third playerin the next round. If the only rounds in which P played against Q are the 3rd, 14th, 25th and 36th, thenwhat can be the maximum number of games won by R?(a) 40 (b) 42 (c) 41 (d) 36

10. A is the set of the first 100 natural numbers. What is the minimum number of elements that shouldbe picked from A to ensure that atleast one pair of numbers whose difference is 10 is picked?(a) 51 (b) 55 (c) 20 (d) 11

11. (X + 3) (X + 8) (X + 15) (X + 24) (X + 80), , , ...... is a sequence where X 1.

3 4 5 6 10≠

What is the least value of X for which HCF (Numerator, Denominator) = 1 for each term of the givensequence?(a) 17 (b) 13 (c) 11 (d) None of these

12. What is the number of non-negative integer solutions for the equation x2 – xy + y2 = x + y?(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 1 (d) None of these

13. A sequence of non-negative integers is given such that t1 = 150 and n n - 2 n - 1t = t – t for n > 2. For

what value of t2 would the sequence have the maximum possible number of terms? (a) 90 (b) 97 (c) 93 (d) 75

14. Anshul and Nitish run between point A and point B which are 6 km apart. Anshul starts at 10 a.m.from A, reaches B, and returns to A. Nitish starts at 10:30 a.m. from B, reaches A, and comes backto B. Their speeds are constant with Nitish’s speed being twice that of Anshul’s. While returning totheir starting points they meet at a point which is exactly midway between A and B. When do theymeet for the first time?

(a) 110 : 33 a.m.

3(b) 2

10 : 37 a.m.3

(c) 10 : 33 a.m. (d) 2

10 : 33 a.m.3


15. The graph of y = ax2 + bx + c is shown below. If it is given that | | | |α < β , then which of the following

is true?

( 0)β, (α, 0)O x-axis

y-axis

(a) a < 0, b < 0, c < 0 (b) a < 0, b > 0, c > 0(c) a < 0, b < 0, c > 0 (d) a < b, b > 0, c < 0

16. A and B are moving along the circumference of a circle with speeds that are in the ratio 1 : K. Theystart simultaneously from a point P in the clockwise direction. They meet for the first time at a pointQ which is at a distance of one-third the circumference from P, in the clockwise direction. K cannotbe equal to

(a) 14

(b) 47

(c) 4 (d) None of these

17. In triangle PQR, PQ = PR = 10 cm. Points S, T and U lie on PQ, QR and PR respectively such thatST is parallel to PR and UT is parallel to PQ. What is the perimeter (in cm) of the quadrilateralPSTU?(a) 18 (b) 20 (c) 24 (d) Data Insufficient

18. If ‘x’ is a real number then what is the number of solutions for the equation ( )4 2x 16 x 4+ = − ?

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3

19. N! is completely divisible by 1352. What is sum of the digits of the smallest such number N?(a) 11 (b) 15 (c) 16 (d) 19

20. The lengths of the three edges of a cuboid are increased by a%, b% and c%. The volume increasesby V%, where V is an integer. How many values can V take if a, b, c are real numbers and10 ≤ a, b, c ≤ 20?(a) 11 (b) 39 (c) 41 (d) Cannot be determined


21. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logicalorder to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriateoption.

A. The species, which are most numerous in individuals, will have the best chance of producingvariations within any given period.B. Hence any rare species will be less quickly modified or improved within any given period, andthey will be consequently beaten in the race for life by the modified descendants of the commonerspecies.C. From these considerations I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of timeare formed others will become rare and finally extinct.D. We have evidence of this in the fact that it is the more common species that afford the greatestnumber of varieties, or incipient species.E. Extinction or survival, therefore, is a function of a parameter that is totally beyond the control ofthe species.(a) ABCDE (b) ADBCE (c) BCAED (d) EDABC

22. There are two gaps in the sentence/paragraph given below. From the pairs of words given, choosethe one that fills the gaps most appropriately.

An intelligence community ___________, as the Post shows, by a toxic mixture of secrecy,compartmentalization, turf rivalry, and tremendous duplication of effort is further ________ by aproblem familiar to every computer addict: too much information.(a) hobbled, bedevilled (b) aggravated, emancipated(c) paralysed, scuttled (d) beleaguered, persecuted

Directions for questions 23 to 26: The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choosethe most appropriate answer to each question.

Thomas Harris’ latest novel is being hailed as the long awaited sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, but Ihave never thought that novel actually needed one. It stood on its own, finished and complete. After I putthat book down I did not think to ask what Hannibal was going to do next. In my opinion he had doneenough. I’ve always preferred a novel that concludes with a few loose ends because, in life, not all problemsget tied up nice and neat. There was something so frightening, so giddily uncomfortable about knowing thatHannibal “The Cannibal” was loose on an unsuspecting world. Author Harris did readers a favor by letting usall keep a little of that fear in our hearts and minds for the past 11 years.

But we became so intrigued by Hannibal, didn’t we? And we wanted to see more of him. When we first methim in Harris’s second novel Red Dragon, he was a small but important player, giving reluctant but brilliantinsights into the mind of a serial killer to FBI agent Will Graham. In The Silence of the Lambs it was FBIcadet Clarice Starling looking for a multiple murderer and Lecter became a major and integral part of thestory. And when we saw Hannibal brought to life by Anthony Hopkins in the 1991 film, we became hooked.Rarely before had we been drawn to such an evil character — one who charmed and hypnotized us with hiscombination of verbal gymnastics, Old World manners and awesome intellectual abilities.

But now there is Hannibal, Harris’s latest novel, and this time Dr. Hannibal Lecter is the player. And like TheSilence of the Lambs, Hannibal is finished and complete and stands on its own. Quite well in fact.


In Hannibal, Harris plumbs the shadowy depths of Lecter’s mind and throws us into the stinking oublietteof his psyche, taking us through past — and possibly significant — remembrances. When we re-ascend,it is with a startling array of knowledge about the man. We find him fascinating, sympathetic and — despitehis dietary habits and penchant for killing (and consuming) only the “rude” — a likable character. I like thewell rounded character that Harris has created, even if he’s somewhat outlandish, flamboyant and deeplydisturbed. Hannibal loves the finer things in life: classical music, ancient literature, fine art, a tidy evisceration...

The novel’s title works, not only because it is about Hannibal; it is Hannibal. And though the narration is inthe third person, it speaks with his voice. It’s a voice of culture and intelligence; of terror and menace. Inhushed conspiratorial tones, it politely invites us to witness acts of inhuman horror and suffering. Almost —almost — making them palatable. And if not palatable, then so fascinating we find it hard to turn away.Harris does not write of these atrocities from the moral standpoint of someone who thinks the thingsHannibal does are wrong; we all know what he does is wrong. Even Hannibal knows very well what he doesis wrong. He also believes he has the intellectual and moral superiority to justify his actions, and this isHarris’s triumph in the narration. We are shown things in the way Hannibal would see them through hisintellectually superior and amoral eyes, and it is up to us to decide the right or wrongness of things. Wealso see things with an almost clinically unprejudiced and sometimes uncomfortably uncensored eye;unwavering, unblinking. Harris’s prose is elegant and economic.

23. Why does the writer think that the title of the novel Hannibal works?(a) The title aptly captures the most important aspect of the book.(b) The author’s writing style embodies characteristics of Hannibal’s personality.(c) The author’s narrative is through the eyes of the protagonist himself and leaves moralistic judgementto the reader.(d) The novel is as if it were though a narration by Hannibal himself which enables the reader tounderstand that Hannibal only attacks the rude.

24. Which of the following is admitted by the author in the passage?(a) Hannibal’s actions are morally wrong.(b) Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of Hannibal increased the popularity of the series and compelled theauthor to write another book.(c) A character with intellectual superiority and old world manners can be fascinating even if evil.(d) Peeping into the mind of Hannibal makes the novel ‘Hannibal’ a much more interesting read than‘Silence of the lambs’.

25. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?(a) The fact that readers find a dangerous character like Hannibal fascinating reveals that morality isno longer popular with people.(b) Harris had revealed enough fascinating details about Hannibal’s past in the earlier novels prior towarrant a third book on the same character.(c) Hannibal’s love for the finer things in life makes him a fascinating character.(d) Hannibal evokes sympathy from the readers due to his turbulent past, which has made himengage in horrific deeds.


26. Why, according to the author, did ‘Silence of the Lambs’ not require a sequel?(a) The character of Hannibal Lecter had been explored completely in the book.(b) The book had a few loose ends and a sequel could effectively tie these up.(c) The author preferred the ambiguity at the end of the story about Hannibal’s actions andwhereabouts.(d) The story in the book was complete and finished.

27. Given below is a sentence, part or all of which, is underlined. Beneath the sentence are four ways ofphrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other three are different.

Choose the option that produces the most effective sentence; this answer should be clear andexact, without awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, or grammatical error. The question testscorrectness and effectiveness of expression.

Such lapses of integrity are not unique to China, but poor peer-review mechanisms, misguidedincentives and a lack of checks on academic behaviour all allow fraud to be more common.

(a) but poor peer-review mechanisms, misguided incentives and a lack of checks on academicbehaviour all allow fraud to be more common.(b) but poor peer-review mechanisms, misguiding incentives and a lack of checks on academicbehaviour all allow fraud to be more common.(c) but poor peer-review mechanisms, misguided incentives and a lack of checks on academicbehaviour all allows fraud to be more common.(d) but poor peer-review mechanisms, misguided incentives and lacking checks on academic behaviourall allow fraud to be more common.

28. A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

The recent decision of the government of India to impose a moratorium on the release of Bt-Brinjalhas been hailed by civil society and scientists alike as a victory for transparency and has demonstratedthat the government is responsive to societal demands. This decision is also important since itcould set a precedent within environmental regulation with reference to technologies with significantenvironmental risks.

(a) This establishes a clear case for ensuring legal certainty in environmental regulations especiallyin the case of technologies with significant risks attached to it.(b) The process of arriving at this decision had also attracted a fair share of media attention, given its‘sensational’ nature.(c) However, the decision also reflects a clear departure from procedure and its legal basis istenuous and therefore the risk of it being reversed remains.(d) The world is waiting, with fingers crossed (or pointed?), as to what this decision would mean forfarmers across the world.


29. Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures theessence of the text.

Some parts of America have long taken a tough, frontier attitude to justice. That tendency sharpenedaround four decades ago as rising crime became an emotive political issue and voters took tobacking politicians who promised to stamp on it. This created a ratchet effect: lawmakers who wishto sound tough must propose laws tougher than the ones that the last chap who wanted to soundtough proposed. When the crime rate falls, tough sentences are hailed as the cause, even whendemography or other factors may matter more; when the rate rises tough sentences are demandedto solve the problem. As a result, America’s incarceration rate has quadrupled since 1970.

(a) America’s incarceration rate has been a key factor in controlling crime and is therefore supportedby both the voters and politicians.(b) A tough attitude towards rising crime is the only long-term solution to the problem and someparts of America have implemented it successfully.(c) In America, increasingly tougher laws are perceived as the only effective factor in lowering thecrime rate despite other factors being important.(d) As the crime rate rose, voters started supporting tougher laws and this has led to the governmentmaking ever more stringent regulations in certain parts of America.

30. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logicalorder to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriateoption.

A. The good news is that a major deficiency in rainfall, as had happened last year, is an extremelyremote possibility.B. Two crucial indicators, the El Nino, caused by difference in sea surface temperatures in theIndian Ocean, and the Indian Ocean Dipole, are both moving in a direction that is positive for a goodmonsoon.C. The first long-range forecast for the rainfall during the four-month period of July- Septemberindicates rain around the end of this month.D. It is still very early days for a monsoon forecast for this season but at least the available signs asof now are all pointing in the right direction.E. Even the persistent & sustained heat is the past few days over most of central and Northern Indiais likely to help in good rainfall.(a) ADBCE (b) DABCE (c) BCDEA (d) DCBEA


Today’s campaigners against action on climate change are in many cases backed by the same lobbies,individuals, and organisations that sided with the tobacco industry to discredit the science linking smokingand lung cancer. Later, they fought the scientific evidence that sulphur oxides from coal-fired power plantswere causing “acid rain.” Then, when it was discovered that certain chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs) were causing the depletion of ozone in the atmosphere, the same groups launched a nasty campaignto discredit that science, too.


Later still, the group defended the tobacco giants against charges that second-hand smoke causes cancerand other diseases. And then, starting mainly in the 1980s, this same group took on the battle againstclimate change.

What is amazing is that, although these attacks on science have been wrong for 30 years, they still sowdoubts about established facts. The truth is that there is big money backing the climate-change deniers,whether it is companies that don’t want to pay the extra costs of regulation, or free-market ideologuesopposed to any government controls.

The latest round of attacks involves two episodes. The first was the hacking of a climate-change researchcentre in England. The emails that were stolen suggested a lack of forthrightness in the presentation ofsome climate data. Whatever the details of this specific case, the studies in question represent a tinyfraction of the overwhelming scientific evidence that points to the reality and urgency of man-made climatechange.

The second issue was a blatant error concerning glaciers that appeared in a major IPCC report. Here itshould be understood that the IPCC issues thousands of pages of text. There are, no doubt, errors in thosepages. But errors in the midst of a vast and complex report by the IPCC point to the inevitability of humanshortcomings, not to any fundamental flaws in climate science.

When the emails and the IPCC error were brought to light, editorial writers at The Wall Street Journallaunched a vicious campaign describing climate science as a hoax and a conspiracy. They claimed thatscientists were fabricating evidence in order to obtain government research grants — a ludicrous accusation,I thought at the time, given that the scientists under attack have devoted their lives to finding the truth, andhave certainly not become rich relative to their peers in finance and business.

But then I recalled that this line of attack — charging a scientific conspiracy to drum up “business” forscience — was almost identical to that used by The Wall Street Journal and others in the past, when theyfought controls on tobacco, acid rain, ozone depletion, second-hand smoke, and other dangerous pollutants.In other words, their arguments were systematic and contrived, not at all original to the circumstances.

We are witnessing a predictable process by ideologues and right-wing think tanks and publications todiscredit the scientific process. Their arguments have been repeatedly disproved for 30 years — time aftertime — but their aggressive methods of public propaganda succeed in causing delay and confusion.

31. Which of the following best reflects the author’s primary intent in the passage?(a) To show that the same group of people has consistently tried to confuse the public and discreditthe scientists whose insights are helping to save the world from environmental harm.(b) To show that the same group of people has consistently tried to confuse the public by drawingsupport from people with big money and people in big publications.(c) To show that the effort by the same group of people to confuse the public and discredit thescientists is not unjustified and deserves some attention.(d) To show that the process adopted by the same group of people to confuse the public anddiscredit the scientists whose insights are helping to save the world from environmental harm, hasbecome predictable and needs an overhaul.


32. Which of the following is not among the criticisms leveled by the author at the group that opposesaction on climate change?(a) They are supported by groups or lobbies that have vested interests.(b) Their arguments on various issues tend to be similar.(c) Their methods are successful in causing confusion.(d) None of the above.

33. The tone of the passage is:(a) Factual (b) Descriptive (c) Critical (d) Opinionated

34. What is common in the author’s defence of both the IPCC report and the case of the stolen emails?(a) The author blames human error in both cases.(b) The author accepts the errors and shortcomings of climate science.(c) The author rejects the criticism as unwarranted and vicious in both cases.(d) The author says that these are a small part of a larger effort and the criticism does not reflect onthe subject as a whole.

35. Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures theessence of the text.

There is no doubt that anonymity leads people to act out in ways they normally wouldn’t. For many,this means increased anti-social behaviour and, in comments sections, an uncharacteristic tendencyto insult and attack. Diane Mapes wrote a good column on this two years ago, in which she notedthat faceless communication leads to disinhibition, whether its online, in a car or on the phone witha customer-service representative. “Between out-of-control customers, vituperative online postersand road-raging drivers, it’s hard to find an individual who hasn’t succumbed to the siren song offaceless, consequence-free communication,” she wrote. Psychologists even have a name for theonline phenomenon: “online disinhibition effect”.

(a) The roots of the online disinhibition effect lie in the anti-social behaviour of people.(b) Anonymity encourages people to display their natural instincts of anti-social behaviour.(c) When communication is anonymous people frequently display anti-social behaviour.(d) Online disinhibition effect leads to out-of-control customers, vituperative online posters and road-raging drivers.


36. Given below is a sentence, part or all of which, is underlined. Beneath the sentence are four ways ofphrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other three are different.

Choose the option that produces the most effective sentence; this answer should be clear andexact, without awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, or grammatical error. The question testscorrectness and effectiveness of expression.

In leading newspapers and magazines, young girls and women were continually confronted by falseimages of incredibly thin women, which could create lifelong psychological damage.

(a) In leading newspapers and magazines, young girls and women were continually confronted byfalse images of incredibly thin women, which could create lifelong psychological damage.(b) In leading newspapers and magazines, young girls and women were continually confronted withfalse images of incredibly thin women, which could create lifelong psychological damage.(c) In leading newspapers and magazines, which could create lifelong psychological damage, younggirls and women were continually confronted with false images of incredibly thin women.(d) In leading newspapers and magazines, young girls and women were continually confronted withfalse images of incredibly thin women, who could create lifelong psychological damage.

37. Four sentences are given below, labelled A, B, C and D. They need to be arranged in a logical orderto form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.

A. It is against this background and in this context that we must begin our understanding of politicaltheory.B. Students of anthropology and of animal behavior are making it increasingly clear that in man,most of the other primates, and in many other animal species as well, social life and organizationare primary biological survival devices.C. What we call political and social organization— the customs, practices, and procedures thatwith varying degrees of firmness hold men together in interrelated groups— is perhaps the mostimportant form of human adaptation to environment, both external and internal.D. Man has no leathery armor like a turtle or spines like a porcupine, but he does have social lifeand the capacity to organize it effectively for survival purposes.(a) BCAD (b) CBDA (c) BCDA (d) DCBA.


Britain’s international development department – has occasionally been ________in the kind ofeconomic growth that strangulates the poor while making the richest even richer. However, with allits flaws, it is still more ____________than most of its western peers – especially US aid agencies,which blatantly funnel large portions of “aid” money to American “consultants”.(a) persuasive, scrupulous (b) complicit, conscientious(c) involved, judicious (d) prudent, fastidious


39. A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way

Many insulters perform small actions which make them appear pompous or ‘superior’ the mostobvious example is the tilting back of the head, combined with half-closed eyes, which has givenrise to the popular expressions ‘look down upon’, ‘turn one’s nose up’ and ‘look down one’s nose’.This is an exaggerated version of one of the basic high-status signals. In ordinary status displaysthe more dominant carry their heads high, the more submissive hang their heads low.

(a) The high/low difference is usually rather slight- so slight that we are rarely aware of it consciously.(b) Unconsciously, however, we are highly responsive even to minute difference in ‘uprightness’.(c) This behaviour is usually a symptom of some hidden insecurity in the insulter.(d) Displays such as these have also been observed in certain animal species, which have a moredeveloped social structure.


“I began moving out of realism and into stylized, surreal works towards the end of my Canadian academictraining. It was about the same time that I began working with mixed media, my strong preference at thisstage of my development.” Coming to Oaxaca was perhaps the catalyst she required in order to beginmore experimental work, within the context of an extremely encouraging environment.

Aside from a leaning towards the use of natural colors for backgrounds on her canvasses, one of the majoridentifying features of Dunnett’s work is her use of collage — cut-outs from newspapers, magazines andcomic books. Another is using photographs of her own head and face to provide the stimulus for herportrayal of expressions and poses she seeks to capture for each subject. Almost every head in every workis based on a self-photographic portrait:

“I started doing self-portraits when I began doing photography several years ago. Then when I moved intopainting, I had this corpus of self-photos, so I was able to draw from them for my art. Although I wanted toshoot other people, I never felt at ease doing so. And though my boyfriend and I have been together forclose to four years, I still don’t feel comfortable photographing even him. So it’s all me, perhaps because ofbeing shy when it comes to shooting others. But that red one over there, textured with corn husks fromtamales, it’s an experiment, using a face that’s not my own — I think it’s best if I stick to my own face.”

Each face evokes different emotions, and images of self. “The faces make eye contact; viewers’ eyes movearound each work and then return to the eyes and face,” she explains. It’s undeniable that Dunnett’s ownpleasing facial features, and her comport, once transferred to canvas, play a significant role in directing theviewer. She has masterfully photographed her head and upper body at every angle and with a plethora offacial expressions for use in her work.

But there’s another reason we return to the images of Dunnett’s facial expressions: The torso and limbs ofeach primary subject portrayed is far too troubling — each is a digitalized version of a photograph of aperson who has died a violent death, usually in a traffic collision or as a consequence of domestic conflict,captured by Dunnett from both print and online versions of a Oaxacan daily, Noticias Voz e Imagen deOaxaca. But in the artist herself, there is a sense of calm.


“I started using those photographs because they just began to jump out at me. You never see anything likeit in Canada. In Oaxaca, it’s on the street corners and in the newsstands. Death here seems to be aneveryday thing, and attitudes towards death are so different than from where you and I come from, not sohidden away.”

Dunnett stresses that her intention is not to invoke feelings of horror, nor reveal the gruesome. The facialexpressions she initially captures with a lens, then transposes onto canvas with brush, lead us away. Inthe case of her work with a collaged iguana, it’s curiosity in her face, rather than demonic imagery of death,which draws one in.

The juxtaposition of death against the aesthetics of comic imagery is striking, almost as much as themultiplicity of presentations of Dunnett’s own self. It’s that combination which maintains the viewer’s aweof and transfixation upon her work. Perhaps Fiona Dunnett never should break out of her reticence aboutphotographing the faces of others.

40. The author would agree with which of the following?(a) The primary subject in each work has been digitized so that the gruesome nature of the pictureis moderated.(b) The use of various presentations of Dunnett’s own self does become a limitation in the effect thather work creates on viewers.(c) Dunnet’s pleasing features play a role in drawing the viewer’s attention towards the harshness ofdeath in the subject.(d) It is the contrast in Dunnett’s work resulting from death, comic imagery and the non-gruesomeself images existing simultaneously that engrosses the viewer’s mind.

41. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?(a) Death in Oaxaca is more overt and visible than in other places.(b) Dunnett has used only photographs of herself in all her works.(c) Dunnett does not want to photograph other people as her own facial expressions provide her therequired mood for her works.(d) The environment at Oaxaca though extremely encouraging for experimental works wasdiscouraging for realism.

42. Which of the following is most similar to the works of Dunnett and the effect she creates?(a) A band of musicians blending with each other to absorb listeners.(b) A fusion performance by musicians of different genres absorbing viewers.(c) A ‘jugalbandi ‘ or a musical interaction between an instrumental and a vocal musician absorbingviewers.(d) A dancer dancing to the song of a vocalist sitting on the same stage absorbing viewers.

43. Which one of these is not a characteristic element of Dunnett’s works as described in the passage?(a) Self portraits (b) An element of contrast(c) Whimsical titles (d) Photographs depicting death


44. A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way

It is simply absurd to accuse someone in Indian politics of autocracy and undemocratic behaviourbecause our entire political culture has been undemocratic (leader-centric) and hypocritical. As theveteran politician, the late P V Narasimha Rao candidly wrote in his memoirs, our political culturehas always been feudal at the core, where the leader assumed all powers. Intra-party democracynever existed in any party. This country, proclaiming itself a republic, vesting sovereignty in itspeople, actually practises the worst kind of concentration of power in a supreme leader. Can therebe any greater hypocrisy than this? It began right at the dawn of self-rule: Mahatma Gandhi, thesupreme leader of the Congress chose Nehru to be the king and simply asked other contenders likeSardar Patel and Maulana Azad to endorse his choice.

(a) Barring a few short preludes, when, for instance, Lal Bahadur Shastri or Narasimha Rao becameprime minister (albeit not for democratic reasons), for a large part of its post-independence period,India has been ruled by the Nehru dynasty.(b) Indian politics is not new to this; for instance in the Mahabharata the entire ‘epic’ unfolds as aresult of unstinted power vested in the hands of a leader.(c) There is practically no accountability of the leaders to anyone except the token concern for theirvoters at the end of five years, which is also at best a momentary surge and not an underlyingprinciple.(d) It is again a corollary of the feudal political culture that makes the leader assume all powers to dowhatever he or she likes and certainly, Mayawati is not the one who set the precedent.


Occasionally, though, in the course of our daily Internet culling, we stumble on some news thatmakes us question our assumptions about the ____________ effects of literature. It saddens us tosay it, but sometimes, books bring out the worst in people, and are made into ____________to allkinds of crimes.(a) mitigating, tools (b) elevating, handicaps(c) ameliorative, accessories (d) transcending, aids


Directions for questions 46 to 48: Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below:The following table shows the marks obtained by four students in three Mock CAT tests. The four studentsAbhishek, Akshay, Amitabh and Aamir are disguised as A, B, C and D in no particular order.

Mock CAT A B C DMock 1 47 51 53Mock 2 62 59 10Mock 3 72 25 28

Total score a b c d

Additional information:

• The maximum possible marks in each Mock CAT were 75.• In each Mock CAT, a correct answer carried +3 marks and an incorrect answer carried -1 mark.• Abhishek scored the lowest marks in Mock 1 and Aamir scored the highest marks in Mock 2 among

the four students.• Abhishek's total score is more than Amitabh's total score.• Akshay's total score is less than Amitabh's total score.• A’s total score is a multiple of 6.

46. How many different total scores are possible for Akshay?(a) 101 (b) 97 (c) 98 (d) 100

47. What is the name of the person disguised as B?(a) Aamir (b) Abhishek (c) Akshay (d) Either (a) or (b)

48. How many different values are possible for ‘a’?(a) 7 (b) 8 (c) 9 (d) 15

49. Each one of the three friends Budha, Lallu and Sharad is either from Earth or from Jupiter. Budhaand Sharad make statements which are given below.

Budha: Both Lallu and Sharad are from Jupiter.Sharad: Lallu says that he is not from Jupiter.

If it is known that the residents of Earth never speak a lie and the residents of Jupiter never speakthe truth, then who is definitely from Jupiter?(a) Budha (b) Sharad(c) Both Budha and Sharad (d) Lallu


50. The question given below is followed by two statements, A and B. Mark the answer using thefollowing instructions:Mark (a) if the question can be answered by using Statement A alone, but cannot be answered byusing Statement B alone.Mark (b) if the question can be answered by using Statement B alone, but cannot be answered byusing Statement A alone.Mark (c) if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together.Mark (d) if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.

Q. Three leading strikers - Torres, Messi and Rooney make some interesting statements on theirrespective international goals at the start of the World Cup.I. Rooney: If I score 7 goals in the World Cup, my total goals would be equal to Torres’ present total.II. Torres: If I score 8 goals in the World Cup, my total goals would be double of Messi’s presenttotal.

What is the total number of goals scored by each of them before the World Cup?A. Rooney and Messi together have 21 goals before the World Cup.B. The absolute difference between the total goals scored by Rooney and Messi before the WorldCup is 3.

Directions for questions 51 to 53: Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below:Four people M1, M2, M3 and M4 own four different brands of bikes B1, B2, B3 and B4 and four different brandsof cars C1, C2, C3 and C4 respectively. Each person likes exactly one of the four bikes and one of the fourcars mentioned. Each bike and each car is liked by exactly one of the four persons. Further it is knownthat:

i. M1 likes the bike of the person who likes C1 and B4.ii. The person who likes B3 is the only person who likes his own car and he is not M3.

51. Which bike is liked by M2?(a) B1 (b) B2 (c) B3 (d) B4

52. Which car is liked by M3?(a) C1 (b) C2 (c) C3 (d) C4

53. Which of the following statements is correct?(a) M1 likes M2’s bike and M4’s car.(b) B4‘s owner likes C1.(c) The person who likes C3 also likes B2.(d) C4 is liked by the owner of B3.


54. The question given below is followed by two statements, A and B. Mark the answer using thefollowing instructions:Mark (a) if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot beanswered by using the other statement alone.Mark (b) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot beanswered by using either statement alone.Mark (c) if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.Mark (d) if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together.

Q. Three out of 5 friends A, B, C, D and E secured top 3 ranks in a weekly test. A was not ranked2nd or 3rd. B was not ranked 1st and C was not ranked 2nd. Who were the top 3 rankers?A. D got the 2nd rank.B. E was among the top 3 but was not ranked 1st.

Directions for questions 55 to 57: Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below:Five actresses Careena, Catrina, Carishma, Coena and Cashmira are disguised as U, V, X, Y and Z, notnecessarily in this order. Director Bhakti Kapoor interviewed the actresses in the order Z, Y, X, U and V forhis film “Bhoot Aunty”.

Additional Information:

• Catrina was interviewed after Cashmira.• Careena was interviewed before Carishma.• The fee (in Rs.) demanded by X, U, V were 2397 lakhs, 2379 lakhs and 1213 lakhs respectively.• One of the remaining two actress demanded Rs. 1123 lakhs and the other demanded a sum

(in Rs.) between 1201 lakhs and 2288 lakhs.• The sum of the fees demanded by Careena and Carishma is the same as the sum of the fees

demanded by Cashmira and Catrina.

55. Who is disguised as Y?(a) Coena or Cashmira (b) Coena or Careena(c) Coena or Cashmira or Careena (d) Coena or Cashmira or Catrina

56. What is the fee (in Rs.) demanded by Coena?(a) 2397 or 1213 lakhs (b) 1213 lakhs(c) 1213 or 2379 lakhs (d) 1123 lakhs

57. Who was interviewed last ?(a) Coena or Catrina (b) Coena or Carishma(c) Carishma or Catrina (d) None of these

58. P, Q, R, S and T are statements such that, if P is true then both Q and S are true, and if both R andS are true then T is false. So we can conclude that(a) if T is true then both P and R must be true.(b) if T is true then both P and R must be false.(c) if T is true then atleast one of P and R must be true.(d) if T is true then atleast one of P and R must be false.


Directions for questions 59 to 61: Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below:The graph given below shows the statistics of 12 Cricket players. Each point on the graph indicates theaverage score per match of a player and the number of matches played by that player. Each of the playersplays for one of the four teams - Team 1, Team 2, Team 3 and Team 4.

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59. If only the runs scored by the above mentioned 12 players are considered then which team has gotthe maximum aggregate score?(a) Team 1 (b) Team 2 (c) Team 3 (d) Team 4

60. How many players are there who have played more than 200 matches and have scored less than9,000 runs?(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5

61. What is the overall average score of those players of Team 4, whose averages are better than theaverage of that player who has played the second highest number of matches for Team 3?(a) 41.16 (b) 42.50 (c) 42.07 (d) 43.40


62. A team of three, comprising two boys and one girl, has to be selected from a group of seven peopleA, B, C, D, E, F and G in which there are three girls and four boys. Some of the possible teams areshown below:

Team 1 A C E

Team 2 B D F

Team 3 E F G

Team 4 A B D

Who among the following is/are girl(s)?(a) A (b) C (c) G (d) Both C and G

63. The question given below is followed by two statements, A and B. Mark the answer using thefollowing instructions:Mark (a) if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.Mark (b) if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot beanswered by using the other statement alone.Mark (c) if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together.Mark (d) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot beanswered by using either statement alone.

Q. In a class of 200 students, the highest and the lowest scores in a test are 98 and 18 respectively.Is 50 the average score of the class in the test?A. 100 students score above 50 and the remaining 100 students score below 50 in the test.B. If the highest score and the lowest score in the test are excluded, the sum of the top 99 scoresis exactly double of the sum of the bottom 99 scores.

Directions for questions 64 and 65: Answer the following questions on the basis of information givenbelow:There are six people Akhil, Beena, Chetan, Dheeraj, Ekta and Feroz who are to be seated on six chairsnumbered 1 to 6, each facing North, with 1 being the chair lying on the extreme left and 6 on the extremeright. Some other information is also given regarding their seating plan.• Chetan is sitting to the right of Akhil and Ekta.• Beena is sitting to the left of Dheeraj.• Ekta is sitting immediately to the left of Feroz.• Dheeraj is not sitting in any of the two rightmost positions.

64. How many positions are possible for Akhil?(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5

65. If there are exactly two people between Beena and Feroz, who is sitting second from the left?(a) Beena (b) Dheeraj (c) Either (a) or (b) (d) None of these

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