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Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) is one of the section of CAT exam along with Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning. Practice tests help aspirants to prepare for the exams.
Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension determines the candidates ability to read, understand and answer questions of a language.
Maximum Time for this section: 40 : 00 (Minutes : Seconds)
Total number of Questions: 66
Total number of MCQ's Questions: 45
Total Number of Non-MCQ's (TITA) Questions: 21
Total number Quantitative Ability (QA) Questions: 22
Total number Quantitative Ability (QA) MCQ's Questions: 14
Total number Quantitative Ability (QA) non-MCQ's (TITA) Questions: 08
Total number Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) Questions: 20
Total number Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) MCQ's Questions: 15
Total number Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) non-MCQ's (TITA) Questions: 05
Total number Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) Questions: 24
Total number Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) MCQ's Questions: 16
Total number Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) non-MCQ's (TITA) Questions: 08
Maximum Time: 40 : 00 (Minutes : Seconds) per section
Note-1: Use of simple calculator is allowed.
Note-2: Not allowed to change section once selected.
Directions (for questions 1 to 4): Read the passage below and answer the questions based on it.
Weber's model of bureaucracy was found inappropriate to effect the social transformation in many developing countries. In India, it received a good amount of criticism for its failure to meet the growing demands of social legislation. After two decades of independence, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, advocated the concept of committed bureaucracy. Not only did she express her dissatisfaction with the performance of bureaucracy, she expressed doubt about the relevance of the basic assumptions underlying the Indian bureaucracy that of neutrality, impartiality, anonymity etc. and she alleged that the bureaucrats lacked commitment. She disgustingly referred to the administrative machinery as 'the stumbling block in the country's progress' and reiterated the necessity of creating an administrative cadre committed to national objectives and responsive to Indian social needs. She found in 'committed bureaucracy' the answer to the ills of neutrality that crippled the development process in India. She had an earnest belief that only a committed bureaucracy can bring about the desired change.
The concept of 'committed bureaucracy' was much contested in the political and administrative circles. It was alleged that it would permanently damage the fabric of the services. It would create a breed of pliable civil
servants who would always say "Yes Minister" and would be ready to crawl when asked to bend by their political masters. It was also alleged that in the name of commitment the ruling party was seeking bureaucracy's
alignment with the party's ideology in order to perpetuate its rule. However, it was later clarified by the government that commitment did not mean attachment to the ideology of the party in power, but a commitment to the development of the country and personal involvement of bureaucracy in the tasks as opposed to ostrich like withdrawal and isolation from politics.
Thus, if committed bureaucracy stands for a non-partisan, socially sensitive civil service, which can empathize with the politician who is genuinely, interested in progress and development of the country, then a committed civil service is more appropriate for a developing nation than having an insensitive neutral one.
1. In the statement "the stumbling block in the country's progress" What did Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister refer to?
Options:
Option (a): Committed Bureaucracy.
Option (b): Opposition Leaders.
Option (c): Collogues and Subordinates in her political party.
Option (d): 'Max Weber' was a German sociologist.
Option (a): Committed Bureaucracy.
Directions (for questions 1 to 4): Read the passage below and answer the questions based on it.
Weber's model of bureaucracy was found inappropriate to effect the social transformation in many developing countries. In India, it received a good amount of criticism for its failure to meet the growing demands of social legislation. After two decades of independence, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, advocated the concept of committed bureaucracy. Not only did she express her dissatisfaction with the performance of bureaucracy, she expressed doubt about the relevance of the basic assumptions underlying the Indian bureaucracy that of neutrality, impartiality, anonymity etc. and she alleged that the bureaucrats lacked commitment. She disgustingly referred to the administrative machinery as 'the stumbling block in the country's progress' and reiterated the necessity of creating an administrative cadre committed to national objectives and responsive to Indian social needs. She found in 'committed bureaucracy' the answer to the ills of neutrality that crippled the development process in India. She had an earnest belief that only a committed bureaucracy can bring about the desired change.
The concept of 'committed bureaucracy' was much contested in the political and administrative circles. It was alleged that it would permanently damage the fabric of the services. It would create a breed of pliable civil
servants who would always say "Yes Minister" and would be ready to crawl when asked to bend by their political masters. It was also alleged that in the name of commitment the ruling party was seeking bureaucracy's
alignment with the party's ideology in order to perpetuate its rule. However, it was later clarified by the government that commitment did not mean attachment to the ideology of the party in power, but a commitment to the development of the country and personal involvement of bureaucracy in the tasks as opposed to ostrich like withdrawal and isolation from politics.
Thus, if committed bureaucracy stands for a non-partisan, socially sensitive civil service, which can empathize with the politician who is genuinely, interested in progress and development of the country, then a committed civil service is more appropriate for a developing nation than having an insensitive neutral one.
2. Most suitable Antonym in the context of the above passage for the term 'pliable' is
Options:
Option (a): obedient
Option (b): flexible
Option (c): stubborn
Option (d): rigid
Option (c): stubborn
Directions (for questions 1 to 4): Read the passage below and answer the questions based on it.
Weber's model of bureaucracy was found inappropriate to effect the social transformation in many developing countries. In India, it received a good amount of criticism for its failure to meet the growing demands of social legislation. After two decades of independence, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, advocated the concept of committed bureaucracy. Not only did she express her dissatisfaction with the performance of bureaucracy, she expressed doubt about the relevance of the basic assumptions underlying the Indian bureaucracy that of neutrality, impartiality, anonymity etc. and she alleged that the bureaucrats lacked commitment. She disgustingly referred to the administrative machinery as 'the stumbling block in the country's progress' and reiterated the necessity of creating an administrative cadre committed to national objectives and responsive to Indian social needs. She found in 'committed bureaucracy' the answer to the ills of neutrality that crippled the development process in India. She had an earnest belief that only a committed bureaucracy can bring about the desired change.
The concept of 'committed bureaucracy' was much contested in the political and administrative circles. It was alleged that it would permanently damage the fabric of the services. It would create a breed of pliable civil
servants who would always say "Yes Minister" and would be ready to crawl when asked to bend by their political masters. It was also alleged that in the name of commitment the ruling party was seeking bureaucracy's
alignment with the party's ideology in order to perpetuate its rule. However, it was later clarified by the government that commitment did not mean attachment to the ideology of the party in power, but a commitment to the development of the country and personal involvement of bureaucracy in the tasks as opposed to ostrich like withdrawal and isolation from politics.
Thus, if committed bureaucracy stands for a non-partisan, socially sensitive civil service, which can empathize with the politician who is genuinely, interested in progress and development of the country, then a committed civil service is more appropriate for a developing nation than having an insensitive neutral one.
3. When is Committed Bureaucracy more appropriate for a developing nation?
Options:
Option (a): Committed Bureaucracy more appropriate if 'Max Weber' had not proposed it.
Option (b): Committed Bureaucracy would be more appropriate if civil servants were not pliable.
Option (c): If Committed Bureaucracy stands for a non-partisan, socially sensitive civil service, which can empathize with the politician who is genuinely, interested in progress and development of the country.
Option (d): Committed Bureaucracy was never a good option for a developing nation.
Option (c): If Committed Bureaucracy stands for a non-partisan, socially sensitive civil service, which can empathize with the politician who is genuinely, interested in progress and development of the country.
Directions (for questions 1 to 4): Read the passage below and answer the questions based on it.
Weber's model of bureaucracy was found inappropriate to effect the social transformation in many developing countries. In India, it received a good amount of criticism for its failure to meet the growing demands of social legislation. After two decades of independence, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, advocated the concept of committed bureaucracy. Not only did she express her dissatisfaction with the performance of bureaucracy, she expressed doubt about the relevance of the basic assumptions underlying the Indian bureaucracy that of neutrality, impartiality, anonymity etc. and she alleged that the bureaucrats lacked commitment. She disgustingly referred to the administrative machinery as 'the stumbling block in the country's progress' and reiterated the necessity of creating an administrative cadre committed to national objectives and responsive to Indian social needs. She found in 'committed bureaucracy' the answer to the ills of neutrality that crippled the development process in India. She had an earnest belief that only a committed bureaucracy can bring about the desired change.
The concept of 'committed bureaucracy' was much contested in the political and administrative circles. It was alleged that it would permanently damage the fabric of the services. It would create a breed of pliable civil
servants who would always say "Yes Minister" and would be ready to crawl when asked to bend by their political masters. It was also alleged that in the name of commitment the ruling party was seeking bureaucracy's
alignment with the party's ideology in order to perpetuate its rule. However, it was later clarified by the government that commitment did not mean attachment to the ideology of the party in power, but a commitment to the development of the country and personal involvement of bureaucracy in the tasks as opposed to ostrich like withdrawal and isolation from politics.
Thus, if committed bureaucracy stands for a non-partisan, socially sensitive civil service, which can empathize with the politician who is genuinely, interested in progress and development of the country, then a committed civil service is more appropriate for a developing nation than having an insensitive neutral one.
4. According Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, "the ills of neutrality that crippled the development process in India" was due to.
Options:
Option (a): Opposition Leaders
Option (b): Stubborn Civil Servants
Option (c): Max Weber
Option (d): Committed Bureaucracy
Option (d): Committed Bureaucracy
Directions for Questions 05 and 06: Arrange the other four lines in a logical sequence.
A. This had been possible only at the price of moving far from the ordinary acceptation of the word.
B. Between sense experience and knowing, common experience establishes a difference which is not that between the quality and the concept.
C. "Sense experience" has become once more a question for us.
D. Empiricism had emptied it of all mystery by bringing it down to the possession of a quality.
5. The Sequence is _______.
CDAB
Directions for Questions 05 and 06: Arrange the other four lines in a logical sequence.
A. So, 'sensation' and 'judgement' have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the prejudice in flavor of the world was maintained.
B. By dint of making these difficulties more explicit, we were drawn implicitly into a new kind of analysis, into a new dimension in which they were destined to disappear.
C. As soon as one grew tired of them, to picture consciousness in the process of perceiving to revive the forgotten perceptual experience, and to relate them to it, they were found to be inconceivable.
D. The criticism of the constancy hypothesis and more generally, the reduction of the idea of 'the world' opened up a phenomenal field which now has to be more accurately circumscribed, and suggested and assigned its place in relation to scientific knowledge, and to psychological and philosophical reflection.
6. The Sequence is _______.
ACBD
Directions (for questions 07 to 09): For each of the following questions find the sentence/s that are correct.
A. The TAJ hotel in Mumbai is much great.
B. He just don't live in the genuine world.
C. This briefcase is make of Authentic leather.
D. He is a genuine person
Options:
Option (a): A, B and C.
Option (b): Only C.
Option (c): A and C.
Option (d): Only D.
Option (d): Only D.
Directions (for questions 07 to 09): For each of the following questions find the sentence/s that are correct.
A. You lift your hand to answer a question.
B. She can raise a family.
C. You can go to a website on the world wide web.
D. After his death, she went to the hospital to collect his personal affairs.
Options:
Option (a): B and C.
Option (b): Only C.
Option (c): A and B.
Option (d): Only B.
Option (a): B and C.
Directions (for questions 07 to 09): For each of the following questions find the sentence/s that are correct.
A. I think the restaurant charge too much.
B. The whether can't be predictable.
C. Poisonous snake can be identified quick.
D. I had to postpone my trip to Kanpur.
Options:
Option (a): A, B and C.
Option (b): Only C.
Option (c): A and D.
Option (d): Only D.
Option (c): A and D.
Directions (for questions 10 to 13): Read the passage below and answer the questions based on it.
There are several different types of dementia, each with complicated genetics that involve various mutations. frontotemporal dementia (FTD), characterized by a loss of cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, accounts for 5 to 10 percent of dementia cases. Often diagnosed in patients between 45 and 65 years old, the genetic forms tend to cluster in families. Around 15 percent of the time, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is linked to a specific mutation in the GRN gene, which causes brain cells to stop making a protein called progranulin.
Previous studies have linked progranulin to parts of the cell called lysosomes, which are responsible for cleanup and other metabolic activities in cells. However, “the function of the protein, including its role in the lysosome, has remained sort of a black box,” said co-senior author Wade Harper, the Bert and Natalie Vallee Professor of Molecular Pathology in the Department of Cell Biology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS.
Harper collaborated on the study with co-senior authors Tobias Walther and Robert Farese Jr., who were professors of cell biology at HMS and professors of molecular metabolism at Harvard Chan School when they conducted the research, as well as lead authors Sebastian Boland, a former research fellow in the Farese & Walther Lab, and Sharan Swarup, a former research fellow in the Harper lab.
The researchers initially found that progranulin-deficient human cell lines and mouse brains, as well as brain cells from patients with FTD, had an accumulation of gangliosides — lipids commonly found throughout the nervous system.
Next, the team used recently developed technology for purifying lysosomes to analyze the types and amounts of proteins and lipids present inside them. Using this technique, the scientists found that lysosomes in these cells and tissues from brains with FTD had reduced levels of progranulin, as well as lower-than-normal levels of a lipid called BMP, which is required to break down gangliosides, the lipids commonly found in the central nervous system. However, when researchers added BMP to cells, they observed that these cells accumulated far lower levels of gangliosides.
Together, the findings suggest that progranulin in lysosomes helps maintain the BMP levels needed to prevent gangliosides from accumulating in brain cells — buildup that may contribute to FTD.
The researchers also think that a similar lysosome-based mechanism could be relevant for neurodegenerative diseases beyond FTD
(Extracts from SciTechDaily)
(courtesy SciTechDaily)
10. According to the passage, specific mutation in the GRN gene is related to
Options:
Option (a): the development of cures for a variety of diseases.
Option (b): brain cells to stop making a protein called lysosomes.
Option (c): arresting the growth of cancer in a human being.
Option (d): brain cells to stop making a protein called progranulin.
Option (d): brain cells to stop making a protein called progranulin.
Directions (for questions 10 to 13): Read the passage below and answer the questions based on it.
There are several different types of dementia, each with complicated genetics that involve various mutations. frontotemporal dementia (FTD), characterized by a loss of cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, accounts for 5 to 10 percent of dementia cases. Often diagnosed in patients between 45 and 65 years old, the genetic forms tend to cluster in families. Around 15 percent of the time, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is linked to a specific mutation in the GRN (Granulin Precursor) gene, which causes brain cells to stop making a protein called progranulin.
Previous studies have linked progranulin to parts of the cell called lysosomes, which are responsible for cleanup and other metabolic activities in cells. However, “the function of the protein, including its role in the lysosome, has remained sort of a black box,” said co-senior author Wade Harper, the Bert and Natalie Vallee Professor of Molecular Pathology in the Department of Cell Biology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS (Harvard Medical School).
Harper collaborated on the study with co-senior authors Tobias Walther and Robert Farese Jr., who were professors of cell biology at HMS and professors of molecular metabolism at Harvard Chan School when they conducted the research, as well as lead authors Sebastian Boland, a former research fellow in the Farese & Walther Lab, and Sharan Swarup, a former research fellow in the Harper lab.
The researchers initially found that progranulin-deficient human cell lines and mouse brains, as well as brain cells from patients with FTD, had an accumulation of gangliosides — lipids commonly found throughout the nervous system.
Next, the team used recently developed technology for purifying lysosomes to analyze the types and amounts of proteins and lipids present inside them. Using this technique, the scientists found that lysosomes in these cells and tissues from brains with FTD had reduced levels of progranulin, as well as lower-than-normal levels of a lipid called BMP, which is required to break down gangliosides, the lipids commonly found in the central nervous system. However, when researchers added Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) to cells, they observed that these cells accumulated far lower levels of gangliosides.
Together, the findings suggest that progranulin in lysosomes helps maintain the BMP levels needed to prevent gangliosides from accumulating in brain cells — buildup that may contribute to FTD.
The researchers also think that a similar lysosome-based mechanism could be relevant for neurodegenerative diseases beyond FTD
(Extracts from SciTechDaily)
(courtesy SciTechDaily)
11. According to the passage, what helps maintain the BMP levels needed to prevent gangliosides from accumulating in brain cells — buildup that may contribute to FTD?
Options:
Option (a): progranulin in lysosomes.
Option (b): adding gangliosides Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) to cells.
Option (c): degrading lysosomes
Option (d): None of the above
Option (a): progranulin in lysosomes.
Directions (for questions 10 to 13): Read the passage below and answer the questions based on it.
There are several different types of dementia, each with complicated genetics that involve various mutations. frontotemporal dementia (FTD), characterized by a loss of cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, accounts for 5 to 10 percent of dementia cases. Often diagnosed in patients between 45 and 65 years old, the genetic forms tend to cluster in families. Around 15 percent of the time, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is linked to a specific mutation in the GRN gene, which causes brain cells to stop making a protein called progranulin.
Previous studies have linked progranulin to parts of the cell called lysosomes, which are responsible for cleanup and other metabolic activities in cells. However, “the function of the protein, including its role in the lysosome, has remained sort of a black box,” said co-senior author Wade Harper, the Bert and Natalie Vallee Professor of Molecular Pathology in the Department of Cell Biology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS.
Harper collaborated on the study with co-senior authors Tobias Walther and Robert Farese Jr., who were professors of cell biology at HMS and professors of molecular metabolism at Harvard Chan School when they conducted the research, as well as lead authors Sebastian Boland, a former research fellow in the Farese & Walther Lab, and Sharan Swarup, a former research fellow in the Harper lab.
The researchers initially found that progranulin-deficient human cell lines and mouse brains, as well as brain cells from patients with FTD, had an accumulation of gangliosides — lipids commonly found throughout the nervous system.
Next, the team used recently developed technology for purifying lysosomes to analyze the types and amounts of proteins and lipids present inside them. Using this technique, the scientists found that lysosomes in these cells and tissues from brains with FTD had reduced levels of progranulin, as well as lower-than-normal levels of a lipid called BMP, which is required to break down gangliosides, the lipids commonly found in the central nervous system. However, when researchers added BMP to cells, they observed that these cells accumulated far lower levels of gangliosides.
Together, the findings
suggest that progranulin in lysosomes helps maintain the BMP levels needed to prevent gangliosides from accumulating in brain cells — buildup that may contribute to FTD.
The researchers also think that a similar lysosome-based mechanism could be relevant for neurodegenerative diseases beyond FTD
(Extracts from SciTechDaily)
(courtesy SciTechDaily)
12. "the function of the protein, including its role in the lysosome, has remained sort of a black box" What does it mean
Options:
Option (a): means don't have proper understanding of the function of the protein and its role in the lysosome.
Option (b): means the function of the protein, including its role in the lysosome produces a particular result stored in electronic device in an aircraft which records information.
Option (c): means the function of the protein, including its role in the lysosome produces a particular result stored brain cells.
Option (d): None of the above.
Option (a): means the function of the protein, including its role in the lysosome produces a particular result but don't have understanding of how it works.
Directions (for questions 10 to 13): Read the passage below and answer the questions based on it.
There are several different types of dementia, each with complicated genetics that involve various mutations. frontotemporal dementia (FTD), characterized by a loss of cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, accounts for 5 to 10 percent of dementia cases. Often diagnosed in patients between 45 and 65 years old, the genetic forms tend to cluster in families. Around 15 percent of the time, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is linked to a specific mutation in the GRN gene, which causes brain cells to stop making a protein called progranulin.
Previous studies have linked progranulin to parts of the cell called lysosomes, which are responsible for cleanup and other metabolic activities in cells. However, “the function of the protein, including its role in the lysosome, has remained sort of a black box,” said co-senior author Wade Harper, the Bert and Natalie Vallee Professor of Molecular Pathology in the Department of Cell Biology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS.
Harper collaborated on the study with co-senior authors Tobias Walther and Robert Farese Jr., who were professors of cell biology at HMS and professors of molecular metabolism at Harvard Chan School when they conducted the research, as well as lead authors Sebastian Boland, a former research fellow in the Farese & Walther Lab, and Sharan Swarup, a former research fellow in the Harper lab.
The researchers initially found that progranulin-deficient human cell lines and mouse brains, as well as brain cells from patients with FTD, had an accumulation of gangliosides — lipids commonly found throughout the nervous system.
Next, the team used recently developed technology for purifying lysosomes to analyze the types and amounts of proteins and lipids present inside them. Using this technique, the scientists found that lysosomes in these cells and tissues from brains with FTD had reduced levels of progranulin, as well as lower-than-normal levels of a lipid called BMP, which is required to break down gangliosides, the lipids commonly found in the central nervous system. However, when researchers added BMP to cells, they observed that these cells accumulated far lower levels of gangliosides.
Together, the findings suggest that progranulin in lysosomes helps maintain the BMP levels needed to prevent gangliosides from accumulating in brain cells — buildup that may contribute to FTD.
The researchers also think that a similar lysosome-based mechanism could be relevant for neurodegenerative diseases beyond FTD
(Extracts from SciTechDaily)
(courtesy SciTechDaily)
13. How did the scientists find that lysosomes in these cells and tissues from brains with FTD had reduced levels of progranulin?
A: Initially found that progranulin-deficient human cell lines and mouse brains, as well as brain cells from patients with FTD, had an accumulation of gangliosides — lipids commonly found throughout the nervous system.
B: By purifying lysosomes to analyze the types and amounts of proteins and lipids present inside them.
C: Initially found that progranulin-deficient human tissue and mouse kidney, as well as bone cells from patients with FTD, had an accumulation of gangliosides — lipids commonly found throughout the veins.
D: By purifying bone cells to analyze the types and amounts of proteins and lipids present inside kidney.
Options:
Option (a): A and B.
Option (b): A and C but not D.
Option (c): B and D but not C.
Option (d): A and D but not C.
Option (a): A and B.
Pick the odd man out from the options:
Option (a): Antediluvian
Option (b): Superannuated.
Option (c): Venerable.
Option (d): Beatific.
Option (d): Beatific.
Pick the odd man out from the options:
Options:
Option (a): Anarchy
Option (b): Bedlam
Option (c): Anatomize
Option (d): Insurrection
Option (c): Anatomize
Directions for Questions 16 to 18: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the options given below. Don't use the same words twice.
Options: capacious, abridged, abolished, bared, barter
Confucius possessed a _________ mind.
capacious
Directions for Questions 16 to 18: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the options given below. Don't use the same words twice.
Options: capacious, abridged, abolished, bared, barter
____________ versions of classics are easier to read than the original version.
abridged
Directions for Questions 16 to 18: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the options given below. Don't use the same words twice.
Options: capacious, abridged, abolished, bared, barter
The patient _________ his chest when the doctor examined him
bared
Directions for Questions 19 to 21: In each question, the word at he top is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.
OPT
Options:
Option (a): I opted for an endowment mortgage and lost a lot of money.
Option (b): I opted to become a doctor because I didn't like maths.
Option (c): If you don't want them to notify you of updates, you have to opt out.
Option (d): If you are wanted them to notify you of updates, you have to opt out.
Option (d): If you are wanted them to notify you of updates, you have to opt out.
Directions for Questions 19 to 21: In each question, the word at he top is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.
ZIP
Options:
Option (a): We zipped around the supermarket to get the shopping done.
Option (b): He was being stupid in the meeting, so we told him to zip around.
Option (c): The motorbike zipped by the cars struck in the traffic jam.
Option (d): He told me to zip it, so I said nothing.
Option (b): He was being stupid in the meeting, so we told him to zip around.
Directions for Questions 19 to 21: In each question, the word at he top is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.
RAKE
Options:
Option (a): She's raking in thousands a day.
Option (b): Tim keep raking off the rows we had last year.
Option (c): It's the only shop in the area and they're raking it in.
Option (d): The rake is coming in any moment.
Option (b): Tim keep raking off the rows we had last year.
Directions for Questions 22 to 24: Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:
- Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
- Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
- Judgements, which are opinions that imply or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').
Choose the answer that best describes the set of four statements. Example: 'JIJF' for
Statement A: as Judgements,
Statement B: as Inferences,
Statement C: as Judgements and
Statement D: as Fact.
Statement A: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget announcement that the Government proposes to conduct the “required spectrum auctions” in this year to facilitate the rollout of 5G mobile phone services in fiscal has understandably triggered speculation including about the feasibility of the timeline.
Statement B: . Commenting on the Budget announcement, Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said TRAI was expected to submit its recommendations on the spectrum to be set aside for 5G within a couple of months, adding that the auction for the airwaves would be held soon after.
Statement C: . With the financially stressed private telecom service provider industry now reduced to a near duopoly, as Vodafone Idea continues to bleed losses and subscribers and even plans to convert some of its outstanding interest dues to the DoT into an equity stake that will make the Union government the largest shareholder, the sector’s appetite for the highly capital intensive 5G technology is unlikely to be substantial at the moment.
Statement D: The existing mobile networks’ inadequacies in terms of reach, especially in enabling the delivery of education to remote and rural students, it may make the most sense to delay the introduction of 5G until policymakers are sure its economic payoff will outweigh the high cost.
JFFJ
Directions for Questions 22 to 24: Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:
- Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
- Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
- Judgements, which are opinions that imply or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').
Choose the answer that best describes the set of four statements. Example: 'JIJF' for
Statement A: as Judgements,
Statement B: as Inferences,
Statement C: as Judgements and
Statement D: as Fact.
Statement A: The elevation of Charanjit Singh Channi as Chief Minister next month was an accidental outcome of internal rivalries in the Congress, the party’s announcement that he would continue in the post if it
wins the Assembly election is a bold gamble.
Statement B: The announcement of a CM candidate, though not unprecedented, is rare for the Congress, and in this instance necessitated by the uniquely volatile social dynamic in Punjab at the moment.
Statement C: Punjab has close to 32% population of the Scheduled Caste community, while the Jat Sikh population is over 20%.
Statement D: Giani Zail Singh was the last non-Jat Sikh Chief Minister of Punjab between 1972-77.
JIFF
Directions for Questions 22 to 24: Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:
- Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
- Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
- Judgements, which are opinions that imply or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').
Choose the answer that best describes the set of four statements. Example: 'JIJF' for
Statement A: as Judgements,
Statement B: as Inferences,
Statement C: as Judgements and
Statement D: as Fact.
Statement A: The DMK regime has thrown down the gauntlet as the Constitution is clear as far as the Governor’s course of action is concerned.
Statement B: The original intent of the Constitution makers was that the Governor, under Article 200, ought to have no discretion, save in the case of a law that undermines the position of the High Court, which he is bound to reserve for the President’s consideration.
Statement C: Governor’s communication to the Legislative Assembly Speaker seem to suggest that Mr. Ravi disagrees with the basis for the Bill, even though he is not wrong in highlighting a Supreme Court decision in favour of NEET.
Statement D: There is no doubt that the mandatory nature of NEET on a pan-India basis undermines the role of State governments in medical education.
IIJI
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