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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: 68
Total number of MCQ's Questions: 52
Total Number of Non-MCQ's (TITA) Questions: 18
Total number Quantitative Ability (QA) Questions: 23
Total number Quantitative Ability (QA) MCQ's Questions: 15
Total number Quantitative Ability (QA) non-MCQ's (TITA) Questions: 08
Total number Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) Questions: 21
Total number Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) MCQ's Questions: 16
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: 19
Total number Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) non-MCQ's (TITA) Questions: 05
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 5): Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.
During 1960s and 1970s the movement by the women to seek equality with men gained ground all over the world. With this movement called feminism, the educated women in particular and poor rural women in general realised the need to break the old shackles to breathe in the open space.
Still the experience shows that man's tyrannical hegemony is overwhelmingly strong and deep rooted to allow for any change in the short run. In India a crime is committed against a women every seven minutes. Every 26 minutes a molestation take place and every 54 minute somewhere a woman is raped. The burning of brides for dowry continue unabetted in the various parts of the country.
The condition of rural women is still more deplorable. The various women's movements are led and organised by white collared middle class women and social workers from upper and upper middle class non-working women who are unaware about the ground realities existing in the rural structure of Indian society
and are not concerned to the rural women's miserable conditions.
Women's organisation have lobbied heavily for the introduction of Women Reservation Bill for 33 per cent reservation in Lok Sabha and in state assembly seats. In the Panchayats and municipalities the reservation has already been provided. They have said that the reservations would give them political platform to work for the rest of women for their emancipation.
The government has also taken various measures like committee on statues of women in 1974, followed by National Plan of Action for women and the National Perspective Plan for women in 1988. However despite of these measures, the challenges before the women for their emancipation has remained still an uphill task and their conditions still remained the same. What is required is the seriousness of the various government agencies to work for the women's empowerment by spreading awareness through various educative programmes.
However, one can conclusion that inspite of the constitutional and legal guarantees aiming to eradicate
the inequality and discrimination in any form, the plight of women still remained far from improved. Even today the evils like child marriage, evesteasing, sexual assaults, wife beating, female infanticide and gender discrimination are widely prevalent in the society.
1) According to passage what is feminism.
Options:
Option (a): Women seeking equal rights with men.
Option (b): Women seeking superior rights than men.
Option (c): Women seeking inferior rights than men.
Option (d): Women seeking beauty and good looks.
Option (a): Women seeking equal rights with men.
Directions (for questions 1 to 5): Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.
During 1960s and 1970s the movement by the women to seek equality with men gained ground all over the world. With this movement called feminism, the educated women in particular and poor rural women in general realised the need to break the old shackles to breathe in the open space.
Still the experience shows that man's tyrannical hegemony is overwhelmingly strong and deep rooted to allow for any change in the short run. In India a crime is committed against a women every seven minutes. Every 26 minutes a molestation take place and every 54 minute somewhere a woman is raped. The burning of brides for dowry continue unabetted in the various parts of the country.
The condition of rural women is still more deplorable. The various women's movements are led and organised by white collared middle class women and social workers from upper and upper middle class non-working women who are unaware about the ground realities existing in the rural structure of Indian society
and are not concerned to the rural women's miserable conditions.
Women's organisation have lobbied heavily for the introduction of Women Reservation Bill for 33 per cent reservation in Lok Sabha and in state assembly seats. In the Panchayats and municipalities the reservation has already been provided. They have said that the reservations would give them political platform to work for the rest of women for their emancipation.
The government has also taken various measures like committee on statues of women in 1974, followed by National Plan of Action for women and the National Perspective Plan for women in 1988. However despite of these measures, the challenges before the women for their emancipation has remained still an uphill task and their conditions still remained the same. What is required is the seriousness of the various government agencies to work for the women's empowerment by spreading awareness through various educative programmes.
However, one can conclusion that inspite of the constitutional and legal guarantees aiming to eradicate
the inequality and discrimination in any form, the plight of women still remained far from improved. Even today the evils like child marriage, evesteasing, sexual assaults, wife beating, female infanticide and gender discrimination are widely prevalent in the society.
2) In paragraph , the word 'tyrannical' means.
Options:
Option (a): feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others.
Option (b): exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way and be severe or unfair toward the people that they have authority over.
Option (c): relating to or supporting democracy or its principles.
Option (d): feeling or showing concern about someone who is in a bad situation.
Option (b): exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way and be severe or unfair toward the people that they have authority over.
Directions (for questions 1 to 5): Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.
During 1960s and 1970s the movement by the women to seek equality with men gained ground all over the world. With this movement called feminism, the educated women in particular and poor rural women in general realised the need to break the old shackles to breathe in the open space.
Still the experience shows that man's tyrannical hegemony is overwhelmingly strong and deep rooted to allow for any change in the short run. In India a crime is committed against a women every seven minutes. Every 26 minutes a molestation take place and every 54 minute somewhere a woman is raped. The burning of brides for dowry continue unabetted in the various parts of the country.
The condition of rural women is still more deplorable. The various women's movements are led and organised by white collared middle class women and social workers from upper and upper middle class non-working women who are unaware about the ground realities existing in the rural structure of Indian society
and are not concerned to the rural women's miserable conditions.
Women's organisation have lobbied heavily for the introduction of Women Reservation Bill for 33 per cent reservation in Lok Sabha and in state assembly seats. In the Panchayats and municipalities the reservation has already been provided. They have said that the reservations would give them political platform to work for the rest of women for their emancipation.
The government has also taken various measures like committee on statues of women in 1974, followed by National Plan of Action for women and the National Perspective Plan for women in 1988. However despite of these measures, the challenges before the women for their emancipation has remained still an uphill task and their conditions still remained the same. What is required is the seriousness of the various government agencies to work for the women's empowerment by spreading awareness through various educative programmes.
However, one can conclusion that inspite of the constitutional and legal guarantees aiming to eradicate
the inequality and discrimination in any form, the plight of women still remained far from improved. Even today the evils like child marriage, evesteasing, sexual assaults, wife beating, female infanticide and gender discrimination are widely prevalent in the society.
3) According to the passage, Which of the following is not a step taken by the Indian government regarding women's rights?
Options:
Option (a): National Plan of Action for women.
Option (b): Women's Reservation Bill.
Option (c): National Perspective Plan for women.
Option (d): Promoting child marriage, evesteasing, sexual assaults, wife beating, female infanticide and gender discrimination.
Option (d): Promoting child marriage, evesteasing, sexual assaults, wife beating, female infanticide and gender discrimination.
Directions (for questions 1 to 5): Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.
During 1960s and 1970s the movement by the women to seek equality with men gained ground all over the world. With this movement called feminism, the educated women in particular and poor rural women in general realised the need to break the old shackles to breathe in the open space.
Still the experience shows that man's tyrannical hegemony is overwhelmingly strong and deep rooted to allow for any change in the short run. In India a crime is committed against a women every seven minutes. Every 26 minutes a molestation take place and every 54 minute somewhere a woman is raped. The burning of brides for dowry continue unabetted in the various parts of the country.
The condition of rural women is still more deplorable. The various women's movements are led and organised by white collared middle class women and social workers from upper and upper middle class non-working women who are unaware about the ground realities existing in the rural structure of Indian society
and are not concerned to the rural women's miserable conditions.
Women's organisation have lobbied heavily for the introduction of Women Reservation Bill for 33 per cent reservation in Lok Sabha and in state assembly seats. In the Panchayats and municipalities the reservation has already been provided. They have said that the reservations would give them political platform to work for the rest of women for their emancipation.
The government has also taken various measures like committee on statues of women in 1974, followed by National Plan of Action for women and the National Perspective Plan for women in 1988. However despite of these measures, the challenges before the women for their emancipation has remained still an uphill task and their conditions still remained the same. What is required is the seriousness of the various government agencies to work for the women's empowerment by spreading awareness through various educative programmes.
However, one can conclusion that inspite of the constitutional and legal guarantees aiming to eradicate
the inequality and discrimination in any form, the plight of women still remained far from improved. Even today the evils like child marriage, evesteasing, sexual assaults, wife beating, female infanticide and gender discrimination are widely prevalent in the society.
4) According to the passage, which of these is the best antonym of emancipation?
Options:
Option (a): liberation.
Option (b): manumission.
Option (c): enslavement.
Option (d): sovereignty.
Option (c): enslavement.
Directions (for questions 1 to 5): Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.
During 1960s and 1970s the movement by the women to seek equality with men gained ground all over the world. With this movement called feminism, the educated women in particular and poor rural women in general realised the need to break the old shackles to breathe in the open space.
Still the experience shows that man's tyrannical hegemony is overwhelmingly strong and deep rooted to allow for any change in the short run. In India a crime is committed against a women every seven minutes. Every 26 minutes a molestation take place and every 54 minute somewhere a woman is raped. The burning of brides for dowry continue unabetted in the various parts of the country.
The condition of rural women is still more deplorable. The various women's movements are led and organised by white collared middle class women and social workers from upper and upper middle class non-working women who are unaware about the ground realities existing in the rural structure of Indian society and are not concerned to the rural women's miserable conditions.
Women's organisation have lobbied heavily for the introduction of Women Reservation Bill for 33 per cent reservation in Lok Sabha and in state assembly seats. In the Panchayats and municipalities the reservation has already been provided. They have said that the reservations would give them political platform to work for the rest of women for their emancipation.
The government has also taken various measures like committee on statues of women in 1974, followed by National Plan of Action for women and the National Perspective Plan for women in 1988. However despite of these measures, the challenges before the women for their emancipation has remained still an uphill task and their conditions still remained the same. What is required is the seriousness of the various government agencies to work for the women's empowerment by spreading awareness through various educative programmes.
However, one can conclusion that inspite of the constitutional and legal guarantees aiming to eradicate
the inequality and discrimination in any form, the plight of women still remained far from improved. Even today the evils like child marriage, evesteasing, sexual assaults, wife beating, female infanticide and gender discrimination are widely prevalent in the society.
5) According to the passage, who were the main contributors to feminism?
Options:
Option (a): Educated women and poor rural women.
Option (b): Government of India.
Option (c): Male social workers from upper and upper middle class non-working men were offering equality.
Option (d): Government officials.
Option (a): Educated women and poor rural women.
Directions (for questions 06 and 07): Read the paragraph and choose the right option to complete the paragraph.
A very common argument from natural law - favorite argument all through the eighteenth century, especially under the influence of Sir Isaac Newton and his cosmogony. People observed the planets going around the sun according to the law of gravitation, and they thought that God had given a behest to these planets to move in that particular fashion, and that was why they did so. ___________________
Options:
Option (a): That was, of course, a convenient and simple explanation that saved them the trouble of looking any further for explanations of the law of gravitation.
Option (b): Nowadays we explain the law of gravitation in a somewhat complicated fashion that Einstein has introduced.
Option (c): Modern science has failed to explain this incongruity.
Option (d): You no longer have the sort of natural law that you had in the Newtonian system.
Option (b): Nowadays we explain the law of gravitation in a somewhat complicated fashion that Einstein has introduced.
Directions (for questions 06 and 07): Read the paragraph and choose the right option to complete the paragraph.
Though there is a higher and wider significance to life, of what value is our education if we never discover it? We may be highly educated, but if we are without deep integration of thought and feeling, our lives are incomplete, contradictory and torn which many fear and say ______________
Options:
Option (a): "the 'well-educated' are spiritual evolved."
Option (b): "the 'well-educated' are ignoramus louts."
Option (c): "the 'well-educated' are gentle and understandings".
Option (d): "as education has nothing to do with integration of thought and feeling".
Option (c): "the 'well-educated' are gentle and understandings".
Directions (for questions 08 to 11): Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.
Like all other sciences, prediction is also one of the major goals of psychological studies. Prediction involves knowledge about the possible happenings in future. This is a natural curiosity of man. Throughout the history of mankind, people have been found curious enough to know the future and prepare oneself in advance for the predicted events. Owing to this natural curiosity of humans, the oracles and soothsayers in ancient times hold significantly honorable positions. However, in recent times, people rely more on scientific bases of such predictions. Scientific predictions are done on empirical basis of cause and effect relationship on similar lines, psychologists discover the cause (that initiates a particular mode of response) and the effect (the particular mode of response that occur under specific conditions) relationship of behaviour events and thus make predictions about the occurrence of a particular behavioral phenomenon in future. That is what has led to what today is predicted what will lead to what in feature. Such predictions are based on empirical facts of observed behavioral events which is distinct from the predictions of the soothsayers or oracles, It has a scientific base and verifiable in nature
With respect to the passage, what is the synonym of "soothsayers"?
Options:
Option (a): Diviner.
Option (b): Forecaster.
Option (c): Prophet.
Option (d): Psychic.
Option (b): Forecaster.
Directions (for questions 08 to 11): Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.
Like all other sciences, prediction is also one of the major goals of psychological studies. Prediction involves knowledge about the possible happenings in future. This is a natural curiosity of man. Throughout the history of mankind, people have been found curious enough to know the future and prepare oneself in advance for the predicted events. Owing to this natural curiosity of humans, the oracles and soothsayers in ancient times hold significantly honourable positions. However, in recent times, people rely more on scientific bases of such predictions. Scientific predictions are done on empirical basis of cause and effect relationship on similar lines, psychologists discover the cause (that initiates a particular mode of response) and the effect (the particular mode of response that ocu under specific conditions) relationship of behaviour events and thus make predictions about the occurrence of a particular behavioural phenomenon in future. That is what has led to what today is predicted what will lead to what in feature. Such predictions are based on empirical facts of observed behavioural events which is distinct from the predictions of the soothsayers or oracles, It has a scientific base and verifiable in nature
According to the passage how are 'Scientific Predictions' made?
Options:
Option (a): It's not possible to predict the future.
Option (b): By understanding soothsayers or oracles of ancient times.
Option (c): On empirical basis of cause and effect relationship on similar lines.
Option (d): None of the above.
Option (c): On empirical basis of cause and effect relationship on similar lines.
Directions (for questions 08 to 11): Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.
Like all other sciences, prediction is also one of the major goals of psychological studies. Prediction involves knowledge about the possible happenings in future. This is a natural curiosity of man. Throughout the history of mankind, people have been found curious enough to know the future and prepare oneself in advance for the predicted events. Owing to this natural curiosity of humans, the oracles and soothsayers in ancient times hold significantly honourable positions. However, in recent times, people rely more on scientific bases of such predictions. Scientific predictions are done on empirical basis of cause and effect relationship on similar lines, psychologists discover the cause (that initiates a particular mode of response) and the effect (the particular mode of response that occurs under specific conditions) relationship of behaviour events and thus make predictions about the occurrence of a particular behavioural phenomenon in future. That is what has led to what today is predicted what will lead to what in feature. Such predictions are based on empirical facts of observed behavioural events which is distinct from the predictions of the soothsayers or oracles, It has a scientific base and verifiable in nature.
According to the passage what is 'cause and effect'?
Options:
Option (a): cause is concerned to "what causes the occurrence of a particular behavioural phenomenon in future?" and effect is concerned to "how it effects a particular behavioural phenomenon in future?".
Option (b): the cause and effect is concerned to "How to alter the occurrence of a particular behavioural phenomenon in future?"
Option (c): the cause - that initiates a particular mode of response and the effect - the particular mode of response that occurs under specific conditions.
Option (d): None of the above.
Psychologists discover the cause (that initiates a particular mode of response) and the effect (the particular mode of response that occurs under specific conditions) relationship of behaviour events and thus make predictions about the occurrence of a particular behavioural phenomenon in future.
Option (c).
Directions (for questions 08 to 11): Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.
Like all other sciences, prediction is also one of the major goals of psychological studies. Prediction involves knowledge about the possible happenings in future. This is a natural curiosity of man. Throughout the history of mankind, people have been found curious enough to know the future and prepare oneself in advance for the predicted events. Owing to this natural curiosity of humans, the oracles and soothsayers in ancient times hold significantly honourable positions. However, in recent times, people rely more on scientific bases of such predictions. Scientific predictions are done on empirical basis of cause and effect relationship on similar lines, psychologists discover the cause (that initiates a particular mode of response) and the effect (the particular mode of response that occurs under specific conditions) relationship of behaviour events and thus make predictions about the occurrence of a particular behavioural phenomenon in future. That is what has led to what today is predicted what will lead to what in feature. Such predictions are based on empirical facts of observed behavioural events which is distinct from the predictions of the soothsayers or oracles, It has a scientific base and verifiable in nature.
What is the subject of interest in the passage?
Options:
Option (a): Prediction in psychological studies.
Option (b): Comparison between scientific bases predictions and oracles & soothsayers.
Option (c): The cause and effect of a particular event.
Option (d): None of these.
Option (a): Prediction in psychological studies.
The idea of India as a national-state is born out of its later history as a single colony. While Indian nationalism in general was perhaps engendered by the very imposition of a rule that for the first time planted the notion of an integrated identity, the ensuring national-state has been shaped and structured by its intelligentsia. The tradition of writing pan-Indian narratives in the production of nationalist ideology
however, takes off from far older traditions. The shaping of history is not a single truthful act but a number of discloses based on different contextual positions and must, therefore, be looked upon sceptically.
Which of the following can be the best possible conclusion for the above.
Options:
Option (a): To think of nationalism then as a unified movement would necessarily imply a general consent which could be defined only by popular belief.
Option (b): To think of anti-nationalism then as a unified movement would necessarily imply a general consent which could be defined only by popular belief.
Option (c): To think of secularism as a unified movement would necessarily imply a general consent which could be defined only by popular belief.
Option (d): None of the above.
Option (d): Sudoku, on the other hand, is just a logical exercise, each one similar to the last.
Lata and Sandhya are both successful women who are also members of a socially disadvantaged section of the society. Lata has a firm belief in positive discrimination. By positive discrimination she believes that the negative discrimination that society has subjected her section of the society to can only be offset through reverse discrimination. She believes that if positions of economic, social and political eminence, power and honor are offered principally to historically disadvantaged sections of society, then these groups will begin to play a more significant role in society today. Sandhya, on the other hand, feels that she has succeeded in her chosen field of work on her hard work and on her own merits. She thinks that the principle of positive discrimination is flawed since it will result in the lowering of standards and decreases competition between similarly qualified personnel who will expect to achieve positions because of their factors rather than their suitability for the particular position.
Which of the following best sums up Sandhya's argument?
Options:
Option (a): Positive discrimination will encourage more people to apply for jobs, previously unavailable to them.
Option (b): Positive discrimination will give extra opportunities to socially disadvantaged sections of the society.
Option (c): Outcome of positive discrimination will be lowering of standards and decreases competition between similarly qualified personnel who will expect to achieve positions because of their factors rather than their suitability for the particular position.
Option (d): Positive discrimination will remove deep rooted prejudices against the weaker sections of society from the work arena.
Option (c): Outcome of positive discrimination will be lowering of standards and decreases competition between similarly qualified personnel who will expect to achieve positions because of their factors rather than their suitability for the particular position.
In India in 1990, there were, on an average 14 deaths at birth (infant mortality) per 1,000 population. By 2000 there were 11, and by 2001, 8. Today, there are 5 deaths at birth per 1,000 population, and it was anticipated that the downward trend will continue. But to everyone's shock it has climbed to 30 by 2022. Each of the following, if true, would help account for this trend except
Options:
Option (a): Medical care is more widespread and available.
Option (b): More effective birth control methods have been implemented.
Option (c): The number of deaths per 1,000 population has increased.
Option (d): Midwifery has declined in favor of doctors.
Option (c): The number of deaths per 1,000 population has increased.
A famous judge stated that if Death-Sentence is a worse punishment than Life-Imprisonment and Life-Imprisonment is a worse punishment than Solitary-Confinement. Which is a correct analysis of the above argument?
Options:
Option (a): Then Death-Sentence is a much worse crime than Solitary-Confinement.
Option (b): Then Solitary-Confinement is a much worse crime than Death-Sentence.
Option (c): Then judge should never give Death-Sentence as punishment.
Option (d):Then judge should never give Solitary-Confinement as punishment.
Option (a): Then Death-Sentence is a much worse crime than Solitary-Confinement.
Directions for Questions 16 to 19:
From the choices given below, select the pair of words which exhibits the same relationship between each other the given capitalised pair of words:
WRITING : PLAGIARISM :: MONEY :
Options:
Option (a): Misappropriation
Option (b): Theft
Option (c): Deception
Option (d): Misplaced
Option (a): Misappropriation
Directions for Questions 16 to 19:
From the choices given below, select the pair of words which exhibits the same relationship between each other the given capitalised pair of words:
LORRY : TRUCK :: PETROL :
Options:
Option (a): Water
Option (b): Wood
Option (c): Gasoline
Option (d): Coal
Option (c): Gasoline
Directions for Questions 16 to 19:
From the choices given below, select the pair of words which exhibits the same relationship between each other the given capitalised pair of words:
WAITER : TIP :: SALES PERSON :
Options:
Option (a): Bribe
Option (b): Commission
Option (c): Interest
Option (d): Tenure
Option (b): Commission
Directions for Questions 16 to 19:
From the choices given below, select the pair of words which exhibits the same relationship between each other the given capitalised pair of words:
CONDENSATION : REFRIGERATE :: EVAPORATION :
Options:
Option (a): Fry
Option (b): Cook
Option (c): Burn
Option (d): Heat
Option (d): Heat
Directions for Questions 20 to 22:
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').
Type 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.
A. A court’s jurisdiction to review its own order is limited to correcting any error apparent on the face of the record.
B. However, it appears that the two-Judge Bench has failed to address a significant error in its finding that the decision on remission should be made by the Gujarat government.
C. The case, which arose from one of the many heinous crimes that took place during the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat, had been transferred for trial to Mumbai by the Court.
D. Despite this clear provision, the Bench had taken the view that as the offence had taken place in Gujarat, and the trial in Mumbai, further matters had returned to the jurisdiction of Gujarat on conclusion of trial.
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Directions for Questions 20 to 22:
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').
Type 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.
A. Karnataka is one of India’s fastest growing States, with a GSDP of ₹ 20.50 lakh crore, 38.34 lakh enterprises, 9.2 lakh provident fund payers, and 70.84 lakh workers. The State is also the highest exporter of IT services.
B. However, Karnataka ranked 17th in the 2019 Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP) national rankings, and this presents a significant opportunity for driving institutional reforms with respect to compliance.
C. Karnataka features in the top five States in India in terms of compliance burden. Almost 40% of
compliances can send an entrepreneur to jail. Karnataka’s
employers confront a total of 1,175 Statespecific jail clauses and ranks among the top five in the country.
D. A micro, small and medium enterprise operating in Karnataka currently deals with an average of 778 compliances annually across labour, finance, and taxation, secretarial, environment, health and safety, industry-specific and commercial categories.
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Directions for Questions 20 to 22:
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').
Type 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.
A. The Iran government has defended itself by describing the agitators as terrorists who are using weapons provided by foreign sources.
B. Arms caches have been discovered in the Sistan-Baluchestan province and “terrorist” groups have been apprehended with firearms in other provinces.
C. Some demonstrators have burned official vehicles and attacked security personnel in response to police brutality.
D. In 2009, there were agitations against the manipulation of results in the presidential elections.
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Directions for Questions 23 and 24: The first [A] and last [F] statements of each of questions are fixed. Arrange the other four lines in a logical sequence.
A: The Constitution of India recognize eighteen 'official regional' languages, Hindi as the 'national official' language and English as a link language between Hindi and non Hindi states.
B: One aspect of the language problem in India is that no language is spoken by an absolute majority of the people and even Hindi, the most widely spoken language is used by only about 42% of the total population
India.
C: The problem could not be solved even through the creation of linguistic states.
D: A major confrontation of the language issue, however, is the declaration of Hindi as the National official language which has led to Anti-Hindi agitations in many parts of the country especially in Tamil Nadu in the South.
E: Thus, at the national level, there is no linguistic majority. But in almost each state, there are several linguistic minorities.
F: Even though introduction of the language 'formula sought to solve the language issue to some extent, poor implementation has meant that the problem continues to hang fire.
Options:
Option (a): DBEC
Option (b): BEDC
Option (c): BDEC
Option (d): DCBE
Option (b): BEDC
Directions for Questions 23 and 24: The first [A] and last [F] statements of each of questions are fixed. Arrange the other four lines in a logical sequence.
A: Caste has been the basis of Hindu society since Vedic times.
B: But it provoked strenuous opposition by the upper castes, manifesting itself in horrifying self immolations by scores of young upper caste students.
C: But the anti-Mandal agitation was not so much about Jobs as it was about caste.
D: After independence, the Constitution sought to establish a more egalitarian society by according special privileges to the backward castes so that they could overcome the disabilities suffered due to centuries of discrimination.
E: The recent Mandal report sought to provide the backward classes with reservation in Central Government Jobs.
F: Despite wide ranging legislation and even special machinery for implementation and monitoring casteism has become more entrenched in modern India than ever before endangering the very unity of lndia.
Options:
Option (a): EDBC
Option (b): BDCR
Option (c): BECD
Option (d): BEDC
Option (d): BEDC
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