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1. 2. This Test contains 20 pages and 75 questions. This test has three sections that examine various abilities. Section-I has 40 questions, Section-II has 15 questions and Section-III has 20 questions. You will be given 150 minutes to complete the test. In distributing the time over the sections, please bear in mind that you need to demonstrate your competence in all three sections. All questions carry 4 marks each. Each wrong answer will attract a penalty of 1 mark.

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SECTION I
VERBAL ABILITY
DIRECTIONS for Questions 1 to 13: The four passages given below are followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

PASSAGE I
THE highly acclaimed film Pretty Baby provokes disturbing questions, but are mostly left unexplored, and the film fails, we think, as a serious visual statement of important moral issues. Critics have lavished extravagant praise on Pretty Baby, declaring that the film is a perfectly beautiful movie (Judith Christ), a labor of love and art (Liz Smith), elegant, ironic, and poignant (Jack Kroll), penetrating and beautiful (Norma McLain Stoop), the most extraordinary film so far this year (Walter Spencer), the most imaginative, most intelligent, and most original film of the year (Vincent Canby). The names behind the screening certainly promise something special: the well-known French director, Louis Malle; the former Bergman photographer, Sven Nyvist; the talented actors and especially the twelve-year old Brooke Shields. And the story, set in the red-light district of New Orleans, seems a natural for our sexually insatiable age. There is ample historical and illustrative documentation for this unique social experiment, the only legalized area of prostitution in America that flourished (if that is the word) from 1898 to 1917 nearly twenty years. Much of the chronicle, in official papers, interviews, and pictures, is available in Al Roses authentic account (curiously unacknowledged in the films initial credits). The story has to do with the inhabitants and habitus of a gaudy sporting house, Nell, the madam (Frances Faye), a dozen girls, a deaf senator, a tottering old man in full evening dress, various paying customers, a jazz piano player (Antonio Fargas), a photographer (Keith Carradine), a retinue of servants (mostly black), and several illegitimate children wandering around, including Violet (Brooke Shields), the daughter of a hardened professional (Susan Sarandon) who sometimes calls herself Hattie and at other times Hildegarde and who refers to her daughter as her sister. Everything tends to focus on Violet who grows up within this unusual household with equanimity, composure, and eager expectation of the time when she, too, can become a professional. Since sex is the subject, it may seem prudish these days to raise objections to the film. But we are not disturbed so much by the visual story, which incidentally is remarkably free of explicit scenes or language, as by the failure of the film to deal realistically, subtly, or even incidentally with the very issues implied.

Pretty Baby poses a dozen perplexing moral ambiguities but deals with them only superficially, if at all. What, for example, do we make of commercial sex, the (sexual) exploitation of women and children, pornography, bestiality, venereal disease, illegitimacy, voodoo magic spells, homosexuality, rape, racial (sexual) segregation, and political corruption that feeds on community vice of all kinds?
We think these and related questions should be dealt with in a film that presumably undertakes to provoke the issues in the first place, and we find irresponsible and misleading those critics and reviewers who call the picture beautiful, poetic, and intelligent. We cant claim to know much about pornography, but it seems to us that in many ways it could be more honest than a film such as Pretty Baby. Pornography may be vulgar and vile, but it doesnt pretend to be artistic.

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But, how does Pretty Baby rate as an authentic history? Rather well-with one or two significant exceptions. The basis for the film, as already mentioned, is Al Roses documented and illustrated Storyville, New Orleans (1974), which apparently few of the reviewers bothered to read and, curiously, the book goes unannounced either in the screen version or in the Bantam text edition by William Harrison. Polly Platt, who is credited with the story and screenplay, seems to have lifted most of her material from Roses book. (In academic and literary circles, that is known, bluntly, as plagiarism.) 1. The authors mention Al Roses book Storyville, New Orleans in order to show that: (1) The screenplay writer has committed plagiarism by lifting most of the material for the movie directly from the book. (2) Most movies that are adapted from books are unable to do justice to the story. (3) Most movie critics conveniently ignore to read the book which is the basis for the film. (4) The movie deals with the main theme of the story remarkably well than the book itself. (5) The movie fails to deal with the issues presented in the story; however, it genuinely depicts the historical realities given in the book. Which of the following best summarizes the passage? (1) Pretty Baby treats serious issues on a superficial level and hence deserves the plaudits. (2) Pretty Baby makes a mockery of the serious issues prevailing in society. (3) Pretty Baby justifies the treatment given to the moral ambiguities present in the story. (4) Pretty Baby seems flawless to some critics; however, it genuinely falls short of giving proper treatment to the subject. (5) Pretty Baby does not portray a realistic picture of prostitution but makes up for the loss due to dramatic performances in the film. Which of the following statements is most similar to the tone of the authors of the above passage? (1) The film is just another version of a melodramatic soap opera that glorifies the evils of society. (2) An utter waste of time, the film expects the audience to take the story seriously. (3) An unconvincing tale, the film could have been more sensible and realistic. (4) When dealing with the subject of pornography one should carefully understand the society and its evils. (5) However, the shortcomings of the movie do not overshadow the fact that it was a stirring portrayal of prostitution. Which of the following statements are the authors most likely to agree with? (1) It is highly improbable for a film to be an honest and true version of the book that forms the basis of the movie in the first place. (2) Film projects undertaken by famous directors and artists are promising ventures that raise the expectations of film critics and the audience. (3) Giving due credit and acknowledgement to certain texts that form the basis of a movie can raise certain doubts in the mind of a film critic. (4) Proper research of the background of a movie is as important as watching the movie and reviewing it. (5) A subject like pornography raises many issues that cannot be properly dealt with in a movie.

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PASSAGE II
Aung Sans aim for loka nibbana carries a double sense, namely national independence and freedom. Since 1962 the generals have placed primary emphasis on the loka national independence element, while Aung San Suu Ki insists, following her father Aung San and following the democratization of enlightenment after national independence, that this is no excuse for denying the freedom nibbana element. The ideology of freedom serves to overcome constraints placed upon some person or agency, to do what it would like to do in the way it would like to do it. A call for freedom is a call for an ideal state of unconstraint, and it is usually phrased relationally. Attention is always attracted to the agencies that prevent it from being realised for example, the anti-colonial uprisings in Burma held lut-lak-ye to be freedom from confinement by the British, and this has historically resonated particularly well with the Buddhist movements that sought freedom in the ultimate sense, namely the goal of nibbana as freedom from samsara. Hence Aung San chose to describe the struggle he and his army fought as loka nibbana: this expresses lut-lak-ye fully in terms of this double meaning and resonates with the numerous struggles of the past. This is how in Burmese politics mental culture could become the chief instrument not only for personal liberation, but for the liberation of the nation. However, national independence is a much more tangible and earthly concept than freedom; it does not mean freedom as an absolute, but the freedom to determine within certain boundaries. It typically relies not on a call for personal freedom of movement, but the right to take over agency to control movements within certain boundaries and to defend these boundaries from the threat of encroachment by outside agencies. In sum, national independence is about a lower level of freedom that concerns itself with the freedom to control substantive territorial boundaries associated with loka. During Aung Sans political ascendance, right up until his conversion to civilian status, an indigenous army was widely perceived as a desirable instrument for attainment of both, national independence and freedom. However, since 1962 remilitarisation has meant that the concept of freedom (nibbana) has become subsidiary to national independence (loka). The generals proclaim that granting freedom in any other way but theirs would necessarily lead to loss of national independence all over again. Saw Maung stated that I shall do my duty so that my country and my people do not become enslaved. It is in the name of containing the threat to national independence posed by encroaching foreign interests that Aung San Suu Kyi and the democracy movement are confined. Their quest, the regime feels, should not contaminate the sentiments of the masses and should remain at best a mental event spiritually realised by the opposition leaders in their enforced privacy, but never implemented for the collective. Paradoxically then, it is by postulating and living lut-lak-ye as national independence, that the regime, supposedly for the sake of national independence, has ended up depriving the people of Burma of their freedom. The regimes partial interpretation of the lut-lak-ye concept, suggests limits or boundaries that Aung San Suu Kis interpretation does not. These limits arise from the country versus person-centred discourse that national independence and freedom address respectively. Tied up with the struggle for national independence is the idea of substantiating the nature of the collective, and the concern to substantiate the nature of purity and domain, i.e. setting limits to keep some people in and others out. However, freedom challenges these and transcends the limits. This paradox of how the army is turning lut-lak-ye into a bounded and framed concept based on loka, then, is the subject of this and the subsequent four chapter. 5. Why does the author say that the call for freedom is relationally phrased ? (1) This is because the call for freedom is synonymous with the call for removal of some form of constraint. (2) Because personal freedom is undeniably tied with the concept of political freedom or national independence. (3) Because freedom is a more absolute thing while independence is more tangible as a concept. (4) Because a call for freedom invariably highlights the force that stands in the way of attaining freedom. (5) The reason cannot be gathered from the passage.

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Why did Aung San choose to describe his struggle as loka nibbana? (1) As this term implies the double meaning of both national independence and freedom, and best sums up his historic struggle. (2) As this term covers both the concepts of national independence and freedom,and also finds resonance with Burmese culture, religion and history. (3) As this term ,being in the Burmese tongue, best represents the indigenous nature of his struggle against the British. (4) As this term would appeal to the masses in Burma, where almost everybody takes equal interest in politics and religion. (5) This term has no connotations of violence, which most Burmese (who are Buddhist) would shun. Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage? I. Aung San Suu Kis interpretation of freedom is, after all partial, as she concentrates only on the personal aspect of liberation. II. The military regime manipulates the interpretation of independence in their own interest to justify their being in power. III. Aung Sans conceptualisation of freedom and independence seeks to appeal to both the personal and the political perspectives. IV. The author would be sympathetic to Aung San Suu Kis cause rather than the militarys cause. (1) I & IV (2) II only (3) I only (4) IV only (5) II & III

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PASSAGE III
THE economic meltdown has popularized a new term: deglobalisation. Some critics of capitalism seem happy about itlike Walden Bello, a Philippine economist, who can perhaps claim to have coined the word with his book, Deglobalisation, Ideas for a New World Economy. Britains Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is among those who fear the results will be bad. But is globalization really ending? The worlds economies are certainly slowing fast. And the speed and scale of this recession are raising doubts about the assumptions that had underpinned the drive to integrate world markets. At the end of 2008 the IMF said the world economy would grow 2.2% in 2009, less than half the rate in 2007. Now it thinks growth will be just 0.5% this year, the lowest for 60 years. Even that may be optimistic; in the last quarter of 2008, some economies shrank at annualized rates of over 10%. Nobody ever said globalization had ended economic ups and downs, but this feels different: prima facie evidence of big problems at least, and possibly of the failure of globalization to deliver many of its advertised benefits, especially to the poor. True, economic slowdown is not the same as deglobalisation. And the slowdown has yet to affect one thing. For years, poor countries have been growing faster than rich ones; so far, they still are. The gap between real GDP growth in emerging markets and in rich countries widened from nothing in 1991 to about five points in 2007and, says the IMF, it will stay at 5.3 points in 2008 and 2009. Helping poorer countries catch up has long been among the benefits touted for globalization. And yet the process is going into reverse. Globalization means the global integration of the movement of goods, capital and jobs. Each of these processes is now in trouble. World trade has plunged. As recently as the first half of 2008, boosted by rising commodity prices and a falling dollar, trade was growing at an annualized 20% in dollar terms. In the second half of 2008, as commodities sagged and the dollar rose, growth slowed fast; by September, says the IMF, it was in reverse. In December, says the International Air Transport Association, air-cargo traffic (responsible for over a third of the value of the worlds traded goods) was down 23% on December 2007almost double the fall in the year up to the end of September 2001, a result affected by the 9/11 terror attacks.
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The downturn has been sharpest in countries that opened up most to world trade, especially East Asias tigers. Singapores exports are 186% of GDP; its economy shrank at an annualized rate of 17% in the last three months of 2008. Taiwans exports are over 60% of GDP; and its economy may fall as much as 11% this year. The downturn has also hurt rich countries that specialize in staid old-fashioned manufacturingsupposedly a safer activity than the reckless delusions of finance. On average, says the IMF, rich countries will contract 2% this year. But Germany and Japan, big exporters of capital goods, cars and electronics, will do worse, their economies shrinking by 2.5% and 2.6% respectively. In the last quarter their economies contracted alarmingly, falling at an annualized rate of 8% in Germany and by 13%the worst since 1974in Japan. 8. Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage? 1. Poor countries are still growing faster than rich countries. 2. Deglobalization is all set to become a reality because of the economic slowdown. 3. Germany and Japan are rich countries which are also big exporters. (1) 1 and 2 (2) 2 and 3 (3) 1 and 3 (4) Only 1 (5) Only 2 Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? (1) World trade plunged in the second half of 2008 as a result of fluctuating commodity prices. (2) Rising commodity prices lead to a fall in the value of the dollar. (3) The economies of Singapore and Taiwan have shrunk in 2008 primarily due to their opening up to world trade. (4) Air Cargo traffic fell by more than 12% in the year upto the end of September 2001, due to the 9/11 attacks . (5) None of the above. The closest meanings of the words prima facie and staid are? (1) Foreboding and Steady. (2) Sound and Archaic. (3) At first sight and Sedate. (4) At first sight and Tempestuous. (5) Sound and Sedate.

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PASSAGE IV
Why are women paid less than men? Why were there riots in some northwestern English cities in 2000 but not in London? What is the significance of bloggers, or of the World Social Forum? One of the strange features of our times is that well-educated people can get by with very little idea of how to answer questions like these. Over the last few decades, we have witnessed great progress in the publics level of scientific understanding, thanks to many brilliant expositors. In history, too, some of the most original minds are also first rate communicators. Much of economics has permeated into common sense, particularly of decision-makers around the world. But sociology has faded from view. Its heyday a generation ago feels like another era. As a result, many people rely on very simple interpretive frameworks to make sense of what they see around them or on the evening news. So conflicts between Muslims and Christians are attributed to culture or history. Gender pay gaps are seen as the result of misogyny. The internet is ascribed with magical powers to turn the tables on multinational corporations or governments. Some of the reasons for sociologys retreat from public awareness lie in the discipline itself, which took a turn towards abstract theory in the 1970s and away from observation, description and detailed historical analysis.
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Some of the reasons lie in the shape of professional careers which enabled sociologists to progress without having to do primary observation. Within sociology very good work is continuing to be done, and sense is being made of complex issues. But little of it is penetrating the public consciousness. Charles Tilly is probably the outstanding contemporary exponent of an engaged but theoretically rigorous sociology. It is a symptom of sociologys relative detachment that he remains largely unknown outside academic circles in Britain, even though he is by some margin the most fertile thinker in the American social sciences, covering topics as diverse as the rise of the state in 18th-century Europe to racial inequality, political violence to the conditions for democracy in central Asia. In some ways he is old fashionedhe offers explanations and shows how some things cause other things to happen. His accounts contain real people, history and drama, and have lessons for how change might be achieved more successfully. Like all the best sociologists, his work starts with close observation. A good example is pay inequality, which Tilly investigated along with many other kinds of inequality in his book Durable Inequality. Economists have found it hard to explain why gender pay gaps are so persistent, since in a properly functioning labour market, employers should have incentives to reward women as much as men for their skills. Tilly points out that close observation of how pay and jobs work in the real world soon shows that the most important determinant of pay is the jobs that people take. Pay differences between the sexes within the same jobs are now small (although a combination of mens greater pushiness and some lingering discrimination means they have not entirely disappeared). Since compensation varies systematically by job more than it varies by gender within jobs, the big question we have to ask is not, How come individual bosses discriminate against women? but, What is the process by which women stream into some occupations and men into others? he says. 11. What does the author mean by sociology has faded from view? (1) That there is no reasoning in our actions. (2) That religious conflicts are on the rise. (3) That there is breakdown in the human society. (4) That there is unwarranted faith on the internet. (5) That women are subject to gender bias. The author cites the turn towards abstract theory to imply: (1) a shift in core sociology. (2) a drift away from historical analysis. (3) the superficiality of modern day careers. (4) the change in the professional objectives. (5) a transformation in peoples perception. What does the author imply by stating that Tillys accounts have real elements and they contain lessons for achieving change successfully? (1) That Tilly is an advocate of theory based sociology. (2) That Tilly is one of the most fertile thinkers. (3) That offering explanations is considered old fashioned. (4) That learning by models is pass. (5) That sociology has attained a level passiveness.

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 14 and 15: Five alternative summaries are given below each paragraph. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the paragraph. 14. Quines influential paper Two Dogmas of Empiricism challenges the foundations of logical positivism by raising significant doubts about its project of constructing reliable knowledge out of the data of human experience. The traditional distinction between analytic and synthetic statements, on Quines view, depends more nearly on a conventional decision than on any bright line between distinct types of judgment. The content of our experiences counts for or against the entire body of beliefs we hold, and our efforts to reconcile them may require the modification or abandonment of any of those beliefs, no matter what their status. No statement (or, perhaps, none but the pure tautologies of logic) is forever secure from revision in the face of future evidence, and any statement can be retained if suitable changes are made in the rest of the system. (1) The ideas of Logical Positivism are open to revision based on the content of our experiences which is something different from the tautologies of logic. (2) Quine challenges the basis of Logical Positivism, especially its belief in traditional distinctions of statements and questions the basis by arguing that beliefs are open to revision in face of the content of our experiences. (3) Quine raises questions about the apparently sound traditional basis of Logical Positivism by showing that any statement, except the tautologies of logic, is open to revision. (4) Quine questions the traditional distinction between analytic and synthetic statements which weakens the basis of Logical Positivism. (5) Quine is in opposition to Logical Positivism as he shows that its basis-the data of human experience, is changing and hence any statement is open to revision. Magical realism is not speculative and does not conduct thought experiments. Instead, it tells its stories from the perspective of people who live in our world and experience a different reality from the one we call objective. If there is a ghost in a story of magical realism, the ghost is not a fantasy element but a manifestation of the reality of people who believe in and have real experiences of ghosts. Magical realist fiction depicts the real world of people whose reality is different from ours. Its not a thought experiment. Its not speculation. Magical realism endeavors to show us the world through other eyes. When it works, as I think it does very well in, say, Leslie Marmon Silkos novel Ceremony, some readers will inhabit this other reality so thoroughly that the unreal elements of the story, such as witches, will seem frighteningly real long after the book is finished. A fantasy about southwestern Indian witches allows you to put down the book with perhaps a little shiver but reassurance that what you just read is made up. Magical realism leaves you with the understanding that this world of witches is one that people really live in and the feeling that maybe this view is correct. (1) Magical realism is a view of real people who experience ghosts and witches. (2) Magical realism leaves the reader with the feeling that the world of ghosts and witches is real. (3) Magical realism is not speculative as the people who experience this reality are real. (4) Magical realism is not speculative but is the view of real people who experience a reality different from our normal objective reality. (5) Magical realism gives the readers an experience of a different objective world through the eyes of others.

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 16 to 19: In each question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/ paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.. 16. A. B. C. D. This is possible because all, including the mind, are aspects of the same reality which is consciousness. Therefore knowing anything external is also a kind of self-knowledge. Sensing through the sense organs is indirect knowledge (Paroksha Jnana). However, when we see a cat, we are not seeing nervous changes in the Occipital area of the brain, but we are seeing a cat which is a reality in the mental plane of consciousness. E. Therefore, even though sensory in form, the essential content of sensation is extra-sensory. (1) EDBC (2) CDEB (3) BCDE (4) ECBD (5) CBED A. Though Darwin himself was not an avowed atheist, today more than ever his theory represents the embattled front line in the confrontation between religion and atheism, as espoused by neo-Darwinists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and others. B. However, many in India and not just those belonging to the Christian faith find themselves uncomfortable with the either/or position of the radical neo-Darwinists: choose between a Creator and Darwin; C. In India, Darwin is not the bogey man as he is in the West. D. You cant have your God and believe in evolution too. E. The Indic tradition which accommodates both atheism as well as a well-stocked pantheon of 33 million gods (including a monkey god) should have little problem playing host to evolution. (1) BEDC (2) EDCB (3) CEDB (4) CEBD (5) EDBC A. The seeds of fascism, however, were planted in Italy. Fascism is reaction, said Mussolini, but reaction to what? B. The progeny of these theories are sometimes called Modernism or Modernity because they challenged social theories generally accepted since the days of Machiavelli. C. It was Rousseau who is best known for crystallizing these modern social theories in. D. The response to the French Revolution and Rousseau, by Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and others, poured into an intellectual stew which served up Marxism, socialism, national socialism, fascism, modern liberalism, modern conservatism, communism, and a variety of forms of capitalist participatory democracy. E. The reactionary movement following World War I was based on a rejection of the social theories that formed the basis of the 1789 French Revolution, and whose early formulations in this country had a major influence on our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights (1) BCED (2)EDBC (3) EDCB (4) ECBD (5) DECB A. To begin, what do feminist critics mean by the term patriarchy? B She herself admits that nowadays the average woman dismisses the term as an outdated bugbear. C. Bennett is distressed at Brockess reply and insists that patriarchy is essential to the future of feminism. D. She recounts how Jane Fonda once remarked that patriarchy is very much alive and well, and we have to do something about it, and her interviewer Emma Brockes replied that patriarchy is an anachronism and that lots of women would bridle at the suggestion they are victims of a patriarchal system. E. According to Judith Bennett, in her recent work History Matters, patriarchy is the central problem of womens history, and even one of the greatest general problems of all history. (1) EBDC (2) ECDB (3) DCBE (4) BCDE (5) CDBE

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 20 and 21: Each of the following questions has a paragraph with one italicized word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below paragraph. 20. Her work was criticised for epitomizing the narrow world of the upper-middle class English intelligentsia. Some critics judged it to be lacking in universality and depth, without the power to communicate anything of emotional or ethical relevance to the fhised common reader, weary of the 1920s aesthetes. (1) sly (2) seasoned (3) flummoxed (4) disillusioned (5) vexed As the world reacts to Chinas crackdown in Tibet, one country is aphisd by both its centrality to the drama and its reticence. India, the land of asylum for the Dalai Lama and the angry young hotheads of the Tibetan youth congress, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma. (1) conspicuous (2) obscure (3) glorious (4) obnubilating (5) splendiferous

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 22 to 27: In each of the following questions there are sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. 22. A. B. C. D. E. (1) A. B. C. D. E. (1) A. B. C. D. E. (1) A. B. C. D. E. Bell-bottoms come and went, came back and then left again. Top hats had their era. Platform shoes had an intense, yet short, life. Polyester made brief appearance. At one time, sailor suits could be seen everywhere; not anymore. Hot pants come and go. Yet jeans seem to have survived. B only (2) B and C (3) A and B (4) A only Athletes competing for this summers Olympics are fighting for a trip to the medal stand. For Nike and Adidas, the Beijing games is a brawl for 21st century dominance of a sneaker world. While every Olympics is a dogfight for the longtime rivals, this years games are a bigger deal. A only (2) C and D (3) A and B (4) D only

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Knowledge is Important. It is considered to be the most important as it is the grease that enables work, and thus knowledge is what makes companys work. Consider that it is physically impossible for all the organization to employ the best people all the time; leaders within organizations have to make ordinary people do extraordinary things. B and C (2) A, B and E (3) B only (4) D and C (5) E only

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I learn the first leadership lesson in the jungles of Bangalore, at an elephant camp. When you visit such a camp you see these gigantic elephants tethered with a small stake. I asked the trainer, Why do they stay tethered when they could so easily pull up the stake? The elephant as a small calf; tries to pull up the stake, but cant do it, so it never tries again, replied the trainer. (1) B only (2) B and C (3) A and B (4) A only (5) B, C and E

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A tarot is one of the most wonderful of human inventions. Despite all the outcry of philosophers, this pack of pictures, in whom destiny is reflected as in a mirror with multiple facets, remains so vital and exercises so irresistible an attraction on imaginative minds that it is hardly possible that it could ever be abolished. A only (2) A and B (3) D and E (4) D only (5) A and D Venus travels around the Sun like all planets do. Since its orbit is smaller than the Earths, Venus can go through dramatic phases just like Moon does. When Venus is on the far side of the Sun, we see the entire near side lit by the Sun. A, D and E (2) D only (3) A and E (4) A and D

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 28 to 30: In each question, there are three to five sentences. Each sentence has pair/s of words/phrases that are highlighted. From the highlighted words / phrase(s) select the most appropriate word(s) / phrases to form correct sentences. Then from the options given choose the right sequence 28. Kirtin and Swami was born(A)/ borne(B) in the year 1916. The example of Einstein is cited (A)/ sighted(B) to encourage school dropouts who have lost hope. The dual(A) / duel(B) role of Anup Kapoor in the film The poets dilemma has been well received. You should have a clause (A) / claws (B) in your will stating that unless your sons take care of their mother, they will not receive their share in the property. The cession(A)/ session(B) started an hour late due to a power cut. (1) BBBAA (2) BABAB (3) AABAB (4) AAAAB (5) AABBA Sarah was fired as she had committed a gaff(A) / gaffe(B) in the office party. One can see the new Sukhoi aircraft in the hangar(A) / hanger(B). There were new varieties of hats for young women in the millinery(A) / millenary(B). Kavitas face turned mordant(A)/ mordent(B) as she faced the monster. Members of a certain family in Africa suffer from genetically induced intestinal problems which generally affect the ileum(A) / ilium(B). (1)ABABA (2) AAAAB (3) BAAAB (4) BABAB (5) BAAAA The police arrested him for driving in the wrong lane(A) / lain(B). The flea(A) / flee(B) caused considerable nuisance to the people sitting inside the car. The hoard(A) / horde(B) of animals running together caused the whole place to get covered in dust. The feint(A) / faint(B) of his opponent caught the boxer from Russia by surprise. The lama(A) / llama(B) found himself surrounded by thieves who wanted his holy beads. (1) AAABB (2) AABAA (3) AAAAA (4) ABBAB (5) AABAB

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 31 to 35: Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. 31. Adaptation, the process by which one thing develops into another thing, by which one shape or form changes into a different form, is a commonplace artistic activity. Books are turned into plays and films all the time, plays are turned into movies and also sometimes into musicals, movies are turned into Broadway shows and even, by the ugly method known as novelisation, into books as well. We live in a world of such transformations and metamorphoses. ________________________ (1) Ricky Gervais turns into Steve Carell, just as, long ago, the British working-class racist Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part turned into the American blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker in All In the Family. (2) British TV comedy series are turned into American TV comedy series, so that The Office becomes a different The Office. (3) British reality programmes are adapted to suit American audiences as well; Pop Idol becomes American Idol when it crosses the Atlantic. (4) Strictly, Come Dancing becomes Dancing With the Stars - a programme which, it may interest you to know, invited me to appear on it last season, an invitation I declined. (5) Good movies - Lolita, The Pink Panther - are remade as bad movies; bad movies - The Incredible Hulk, Deep Throat - are remade as even worse movies. The Booker is a prize awarded by the British literary establishment according to its value system; yet the book that receives it becomes, in our country, the most important book of its time. The question is: why do we have to wholeheartedly accept their valuation and dismiss the response of readers in this country? Even Salman Rushdie, that most international of writers, says that the readers you write for are the people you are writing about. But the Booker undoubtedly an important literary prize has become so important to us that while we ignore the prizes given in our country, discussions about the Booker longlist, and then about the shortlist go on for months. ________________________ (1) In our country the obsession with labels is what helps us to metaphorically spell out our latent desire for recognition from the so-called white- elite. (2) To talk of subversion makes it seem that Indian Writing in English (IWE) still thinks of Europe or America as its centre. (3) The fault lies with the readers as they prefer reading the books that receive an international prize over the ones that receive domestic honours. (4) The Booker should not be held as a benchmark for deciding the greatness of a book especially by the people of a culture richer than that of the British. (5) This makes it hard to accept the argument that winning the Booker is an act of subversion. It might not sound like a recipe for success but this is the most important piece of theatre happening anywhere in the country. Some 40 years ago, director Augusto Boal began experimenting with invisible theatre rehearsing and performing semi-improvised pieces in public spaces to the unsuspecting public. Meanwhile in the bohemian lofts of New York City, a new generation of visionaries were embedding their art ever further into the everyday. Lurking in the corner of a diner, Vito Acconci sat quietly rubbing his arm to produce a sore, while Allan Kaprow created instructions for almost unseen activities to be carried out on the streets of the city. ____________________________________ (1) Such theatre is not as successful as that which happens in an auditorium. (2) Even audiences were transformed, no longer limited to those who knew they were an audience. (3) In this way, theatre broke free of the auditorium, art tore itself from the gallery and the museum (4) Theatre veterans are least bothered about praise or criticism. (5) Experimental theatre has been doing the rounds for quite some time now.

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Most people know what communism is at its most basic level. Simply put, communism is the idea that everyone in a given society receives equal shares of the benefits derived from labor. Communism is designed to allow the poor to rise up and attain financial and social status equal to that of the middleclass landowners. In order for everyone to achieve equality, wealth is redistributed so that the members of the upper class are brought down to the same financial and social level as the middle class. Communism also requires that all means of production be controlled by the state. ______________________ (1) In other words, private business owners are very few and have to share profits with the state. (2) In other words, the state redistributes wealth and creates equality among the people. (3) In other words, no one can own his or her own business or produce his or her own goods because the state owns everything. (4) In other words, communism is against capitalism. (5) In other words, communism reeks of corruption and is next to dictatorship in suppressing the wealthy. There is much to commend in this novel, a witty parable of Indias changing society, yet there is much to ponder. The scales have fallen from the eyes of some Indian writers, many either living abroad, or educated there like Adiga. The home country is invariably presented as a place of brutal injustice and sordid corruption, one in which the poor are always dispossessed and victimised by their age-old enemies, the rich. Characters at the colourful extremities of society are Dickensian grotesques, Phiz sketches, adrift in a country that is lurching rapidly towards bland middle-class normality. __________________________ (1) My hunch is this is fundamentally an outsiders view and a superficial one. (2) There are so many alternative Indias, uncontacted and unheard which Adiga can never hope to explore. (3) Adiga is a genius of this age who has written a pathbreaking book. (4) Presenting the home country as a poverty-stricken place has become a means of getting cheap popularity. (5) We are talking about a country which for ages has served as a spiritual guide for the world .

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 36 to 40: Read the arguments and answer the questions that follow. 36. In a supermarket survey the company found out that all those customers who spent more than half an hour in making purchases in the daily needs section also spent some time in the lifestyle products section. As a result, the company executives decided to put a fifteen percent discount sale in the lifestyle products section. Which of the following statements can be concluded from the argument? (1) All those consumers who purchase items from the daily needs section will also buy items from the lifestyle products section during the discount sale. (2) Purchasing lifestyle products and items of daily need is based on the spending power of the consumer. (3) Keeping a discount on lifestyle products will affect the buyers purchases made in the childrens section. (4) The company hopes that consumers shopping in the daily needs section will make some purchases from the lifestyle products section during discount sale. (5) During the discount sale, consumers will purchase more items from the lifestyle products section than from the daily needs section.

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The current economic downturn is forcing employees to constantly improve their performance levels. A number of lousy workers are now becoming dangerous competitors for those employees who were always performing better than the others in their department. This is causing a great deal of tension among the employees. The flip side is that a number of companies are eventually compelled to dismiss those employees who were earlier one of the best performers, but now, are unable to consistently cope well with the increasing levels of competition. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above argument? (1) The overall performance levels of employees have, generally, increased due to the economic condition. (2) Performance levels that were considered as the benchmark are still unachievable by most employees. (3) Most lousy workers are underdogs who usually outperform their colleagues in crises situations. (4) Employees, whose performance is usually outstanding, get easily tensed when they are challenged by their colleagues. (5) The economic downturn is forcing companies to hire only those candidates who can cope with fierce competition.

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The number of farmers committing suicide is on the rise. Burdened with debt, these farmers are unable to sow and maintain their crops. Even when the yield is good, these farmers are never far away from the clutches of the brokers who take away more than half of the profits. While the government fails to control these factors, farmers are unable to get out of this vicious circle and are forced to end their lives. Which of the following statements considerably strengthens the above argument? (1) The government has waived some of the farmers loans in specific parts of the country. (2) Under the rural development programme, farmers are getting education and training in how to sell their crops without the aid of brokers. (3) Designing a foolproof plan for the betterment of the farmers and the agricultural sector is the biggest challenge for the government. (4) Even though the government has set strict rules that clearly define the share of the brokers, most brokers easily evade the law and demand higher commission. (5) The number of farmers committing suicides this year is fifteen percent less than last years figures.

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Any attempt to ban schools from teaching and using the English language as the primary medium of instruction will only steer the nation backwards. Forbidding people from learning English is equivalent to isolating them from the rest of the world, where the primary language of commerce, trade, industry and communication is English. At a time when more and more Non-English speaking countries are aggressively providing English language training in order to accelerate business and development, unfortunately some Indians are thinking the opposite. Which of the following statements considerably weakens the above argument? (1) A number of Non-English speaking professionals agree that not knowing the English language hinders their chances of career growth. (2) Most Non-English speaking nations are introducing English language training in schools as it is easier to get a grip of the language when one is at an early stage in life. (3) Only those who belong to affluent families really need to learn English as most of them eventually go to International universities for higher education. (4) It is only at a superficial level that English seems to be the preferred language of communication as most people in India would rather converse in Hindi. (5) Some nations are training people to converse in multiple languages as most Indian traders are multilingual and fluently converse in the national or regional languages.

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While treating patients suffering from Downs syndrome, doctors realized that an overdose of medicine given to a patient who also had high blood sugar levels made him/her resilient. Seeing the drastic recovery in such patients the doctors believe that patients with high blood sugar levels along with other genetic birth defects can also be treated successfully when they are given overdoses of the prescribed medicines. Which of the following statements shows a flaw in the reasoning of the doctors? (1) Treating patients, who are suffering from genetic birth defects and have high blood sugar levels, through an overdose has no permanent impact on their physical condition. (2) Successfully treating patients suffering from both, high blood sugar levels and Downs syndrome, suggests that those suffering only with Downs syndrome have little hope of recovery. (3) High blood sugar levels could be specifically conducive in the treatment of patients with Downs syndrome. (4) Treatments of diseases related to genetics are usually similar in most cases and have very little variation which is only in terms of the dosage of prescribed medicines. (5) Overdoses of medicines prescribed intentionally by the doctors may be fatal for those suffering solely with Downs syndrome.

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SECTION II
DATA INTERPRETATION
DIRECTIONS for questions 41 to 44: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. One day, a class of 180 students consumed 342 chocolates from among the varieties A, B, C, D, E and F. No student ate two chocolates of the same variety. The number of students who ate the varieties D, E and F was 73, 93 and 45 respectively. The number of students who did not have any chocolates was equal to the total number of students who either had exactly one of the varieties or all the six varieties. The following bar graph indicates the number of students who consumed exactly 2,3,4 or 5 varieties of chocolates.

Number of Varieties of Chocolates

Five Four Three Two 0 5

8 16 12 10 10 15 20

Number of Students

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The number of students who had exactly one variety of chocolate on that day is (1) 42 (2) 43 (3) 44 (4) 45 (5) Cannot be determined The number of students who did not have any variety of chocolate on that day is (1) 67 (2) 68 (3) 69 (4) 70 (5) Cannot be determined The number of students who had chocolates of only variety D is at least (1) 0 (2) 73 (3) 44 (4) 3

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If the number of students who had chocolates of exactly two varieties D and F is 10 and those who had chocolates of exactly three varieties D, E and F is 12, then the number of students who had chocolates of only variety F is (1) 4 (2) 0 (3) 2 (4) 1 (5) Cannot be determined

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DIRECTIONS for Question 45 to 47: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. Each of the students Zoya, Kate, Frida and Latika appeared in an exam consisting of 4 subjects namely Optics, Life Sciences, Public Service and Finance. The following table indicates the marks obtained by them in the different subjects

Zoya Kate Frida Latika

Optics 7 or 8 3 or 4 6 3 or 4

Life Sciences Public Service Finance 5 or 6 3 or 4 5 or 6 5 or 6 5 or 6 7 or 8 3 or 4 7 or 8 3 or 4 7 or 8 5 or 6 5 or 6

Further, it is known that 1. No student obtained the same marks in any two subjects. 2. No two students obtained the same marks in any subject. 3. The aggregate of the marks in the four subjects, obtained by each student was different. 4. The aggregate of the marks obtained by the four students was different across the four subjects. 45. What is the aggregate of the marks obtained by the four students in Optics ? (1) 21 (2) 19 (3) 20 (4) 22 (5) Cannot be determined In which of the following subjects the aggregate marks obtained by all the four mentioned students can never be the maximum? I. Life Sciences II. Public Services III. Finance (1) I only (2) II only (3) III only (4) II and III (5) I and III The aggregate marks secured by Zoya, when Kate gets 7 marks in finance, is (1) 24 (2) 23 (3) 21 (4) 22 (5) Cannot be determined

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 48 to 51: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U play in a tournament called High Rollers. Every game involved two players. Each of the participants played with every other participant exactly once. In the game both the players rolled an unbiased die each. The player who gets the larger number on the top surface of the die wins the game. Every game resulted in a win/loss. The player who wins, gets as many coins as the number on the top surface of his die. The total number of games won by each person is distinct. Further it is known that: 1. Q won his game against P. 2. R won the maximum number of coins, more than any one else. 3. U lost only two games, one against S and the other against R. 4. T did not lose more than three games. 48. How many games did Q win ? (1) 1 (4) Either (1) or (2)

(2) 2 (5) Cannot be determined

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Which of the following statements is necessarily true? (1) T won 5 games (2) R won 5 games (4) No player was undefeated (5) None of the above

(3) S won 5 games

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R won 11 coins. He lost one game. So, the total number of coins won by the different players in the tournament cannot be less than (1) 32 (2) 33 (3) 34 (4) 35 (5) 17 R won 11 coins. He lost one game. If the total number of coins won by the different players in the tournament is 47, then the number of coins won by T is (1) 11 (2) 4 (3) 10 (4) 5 (5) Cannot be determined

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 52 to 55: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. Table - I gives the percentage composition of six categories of employees in the company Edu - Media as on 1st January of that year. Any employees who quit the company did so on 31st December of that year. Table - I
2007 2008 Engineers 27.5 32 CA/CS 8 6 MBA 18 24 Graduate 37.5 28 PG 4 6 Others 5 4

Table-II gives data on the Revenue contributed by each employee and the Average Salary of each employee category wise for both the years 2007 and 2008. All figures are in Rupees Lakhs. Table - II

Category of employees Revenue contributed per employee Salary per employee

Engineers CA/CS MBA Graduate PG Others 24 6 46 12 42 11 16 5 20 6 40 10

Productivity quotient of a company in a given year is defined as the ratio of the total revenue contributed by the employees to the total salary paid in the given year. 52. If the total number of employees in the year 2008 increases by 10% over the year 2007, then the number of employess who quit Edu-Media in the year 2007 is atleast (1) 87 (2) 0 (3) 150 (4) 100 (5) Cannot be determined The number of employees in each of the six categories increased atleast by 20% in 2008 over 2007. If the growth rate in 2009 is twice of that in 2008, then the number of graduates in Edu-Media in 2009 is atleast (1) 144 (2) 159 (3) 105 (4) 110 (5) 158 What is the productivity quotient of Edu-Media in the year 2007? (1) 3.70 (2) 3.33 (3) 3.35 (4) 3.93

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There were 300 employees in Edu-Media in 2008. In 2008, what would be the difference in the actual salary cost and a projected salary cost with the productivity quotient at 4.5? (Assume that the Revenue is same in both the situations.) (1) 138 (2) 546 (3) 419 (4) 340 (5) 390

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SECTION III
QUANTITATIVE ABILITY
56. How many sets of (m, n, p) satisfy the following two conditions? I. m, n, p are all real numbers. II. mn = p, mp = n and np = m (1) 2 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 6 (5) Infinite number of sets are possible A cola company X has to produce two types of bottled soft drinks Cool Blue : 8100 units and Kiss of Coffee : 9000 units within a stipulated deadline. The production of Cool Blue was achieved, 3 days before the deadline. And the production of Kiss of Coffee was achieved 6 days prior to the deadline. The production was at an uniform rate everyday. If 210 more units of Kiss of Coffee were produced in comparison to the Cool Blue everyday, then the daily production of Cool Blue was (1) 630 (2) 540 (3) 420 (4) 210 (5) None of these ABCD is a quadrilateral in which AM and CN are perpendiculars drawn on to BD such that DM : MB = 1: 2 and BN : ND = 1 : 2. If AD = 4 cm, BC = 5 cm and MN =2 3 cm , find the area of ABCD.

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A N M D
2 (1) 3 39 cm

C
(4) 29.12 cm2 (5) 30.76 cm2

(2) 25 cm2

(3) 20.42 cm2

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Consider a set of first 12 natural numbers. Three numbers a, b and c are selected from this set such that a > 2b > 3c. How many such distinct triplets (a, b, c) can be selected ? (1) 28 (2) 27 (3) 29 (4) 30 (5) 26 Given that f(x) = Ax 2 + Bx + C (A > 0). If f(x) = 0 has integral roots and such that 4 2 and 3 3, then for how many distinct pairs (, ) , f(0) < 0? (1) 18 (2) 12 (3) 21 (4) 56 (5) 49

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A sheet of paper PQRSTU is in the form of a regular hexagon having sides of length 2 cm as shown in the figure given below. What is the length of the side of the largest square sheet ABCD that can be cut out from the given hexagonal sheet of paper? P A B U Q

T D S
(1) 2 + 3 cms (4) 2 62. (2) 2 3 cms (5) 2 3

R C
(3) 2 3 2 3 cms

3 1 cms

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Students of two different sections of a school appeared for a test. Average score of the students of the 1st section is 65 and the average scores of boys and girls of the 1st section are 68 and 64 respectively. For the 2nd section: the average score of the section is 71; and the average score of the boys and girls are also 80 and 65 respectively. It number of girls in 2nd section is half the number of boys in the 1st section then the average score of the students of the two sections together is (1) 67.7 (2) 66.6 (3) 69.2 (4) 70.1 (5) 66 Four men start simultaneously at uniform speeds from a point X for the point Y. Though they move along the same route, they arrive at Y at equal intervals of time. If the speed of the fastest man is 70 km/hr and that of the slowest man is 30 km/hr, then the speeds of the other two men are (1) 39 km/hr, 51 km/hr (2) 33 km/hr, 68 km/hr (3) 36.2 km/hr, 44.8 km/hr (4) 37 km/hr, 48.5 km/hr (5) None of these Find the area of the region bounded by y |x| + 4, y | x | +4 and 4 x 4. (1) 36 sq. units (2) 32 sq. units (3) 69 sq. units (4) 16 sq. units (5) 8 sq. units A group of six persons namely P, Q, R, S, T and U comprise three couples. P is not married to either Q or R. Q is not married to either R or S. R is not married to either S or T. Then P is married to (1) S (2) T (3) U (4) Either (1) or (2) (5) Cannot be determined A is a positive integer such that A is a multiple of 180 and A has 40 factors. If A is less than 3000, then the value of (1) 240

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A is 40
(2) 60 (3) 270 (4) 54 (5) Cannot be determined

DIRECTIONS for Questions 67 and 68: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. Let g be a function defined on the set of positive integers such that g(2, 2) = 2 g(a + 1, b) = g(a, b) + 2a g(a, b + 1) = g(a, b) 2b for all positive integers a and b. 67. g(1007, 1006) equals to (1) 2014 (2) 2012 (3) 2014 (4) 2012 (5) 2
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For g(1, 1), g(1, 2) and g(2, 1), which of the following is true? (1) g(1, 1) < g(2, 1) < g(1, 2) (2) g(1, 1) < g(1, 2) < g(2, 1) (3) g(1, 2) < g(1, 1) < g(2, 1) (4) g(1, 2) < g(2, 1) < g(1, 1) (5) None of these
y If |x|2 + 6|xy| + 9|y|2 = 64, then how many possible values of are there if both x and y are integers? x (1) 6 (2) 4 (3) 2 (4) 3 (5) None of these
The first 100 positive even numbers are written on a white board and the multiples of 10 are erased from the list. What is the units digit of the product of the remaining numbers? (1) 2 (2) 4 (3) 6 (4) 8 (5) None of these

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DIRECTIONS for Questions 71 to 75: Each question is followed by two statements, I and II. Answer each question using the following instructions: Mark (1) if the question can be answered by using the statement I alone but not by using the statement II alone. Mark (2) if the question can be answered by using the statement II alone but not by using the statement I alone. Mark (3) if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone. Mark (4) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together but not by either of the statements alone. Mark (5) if the question cannot be answered on the basis of the two statements. 71. A wire is in the shape of an isosceles triangle LMN such that lengths of the line segments LM and LN are 8 cm and 5 cm respectively. Find the circumradius of the triangle LMN. I: If the wire is bent in the form of a square, then the area of the square formed is less than 28 square cm. II: The circumradius of the triangle LMN is greater than 4 cm. In a cyclic quadrilateral PQRS, two angles of the quadrilateral are in the ratio 2 : 3 and the other two angles are in the ratio 1 : 2. What is the measure of the largest angle of the given cyclic quadrilateral? I: The measure of two angles of the quadrilateral is the same. II: The difference between the smallest and the largest angle of the quadrilateral is greater than 60 degrees. The difference between a three-digit odd number P and the number formed by reversing the digits of P, is a two-digit number. If the tens-digit of P is greater than the units digit of P, then find the value of P. I: P > 890 II: P < 351 The savings of A is equal to the expenditure of R and the expenditure of R is equal to the savings of S. If the savings of S are Rs.20,000 and the incomes of A, R and S are in the ratio 2 : 1 : 5, then is the income of R more than Rs.35,000? I: The expenditure of S is less than thrice the expenditure of A. II: Twice the expenditure of A is more than 5 times the savings of R. What is the remainder when a natural number (m 2n) is divided by 2? I: A natural number (2m2 + 3nm) is divisible by 2. II: A natural number (2n2 3m) is not divisible by 2.

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