IPM Indore 2022 Question Paper

Each of the paragraphs given below has a sentence missing which is indicated by a blank. From the choices given below each paragraph, choose the sentence that seems most logically appropriate to complete the paragraph.

Nowadays, many teenagers and young adults around the world have to spend most of their time studying in order to get top grades, a university place, and a good job. ___________. There are several causes for this situation, one of the main ones being exams. These are stressful experiences, and most students take a huge number of them during their school career.

Each of the paragraphs given below has a sentence missing which is indicated by a blank. From the choices given below each paragraph, choose the sentence that seems most logically appropriate to complete the paragraph.

This winter, I wish to go to the beaches for a holiday. I think I will go to Goa, India's most well-known beach holiday destination. It is about 600 km away from Mumbai, so reaching there is not a major problem. ___________. The major Goan beaches are tourist attractions and have some good beach-view hotels and plenty of shops selling touristy things such as beach robes, hats, jewellery, bags, and more.

Each of the paragraphs given below has a sentence missing which is indicated by a blank. From the choices given below each paragraph, choose the sentence that seems most logically appropriate to complete the paragraph.

The people of the Indus Valley civilization wrote with a script. So far scholars have been unable to decipher that script. Archaeologists who have been excavating newly discovered sites in Mesopotamia hope to find a text that has scripts from both the Indus valley and Mesopotamia, the second of which has already been deciphered._______

The sentences below have words that are missing. Choose the best option from those given below to complete the sentence.
Visually strong, ________films of the 1920s are __________ preserved and suffer from censorship cuts, leading to the _________that they were primitive and barely watchable.

The sentences below have words that are missing. Choose the best option from those given below to complete the sentence.
The beauty of __________ is that it poses thought-provoking questions and inspires us to think deeply about ________ and life in general. Further, ________ about the ideas and perspectives outlined by different thinkers can help us to gain a better________ of the world we live in.

The sentences below have words that are missing. Choose the best option from those given below to complete the sentence.
In an anthropocentric ________, animals are no more than property to human beings. Therefore, the concepts of ‘humane' treatment and ‘necessary‘________ are economic in nature. The idea that killing animals is not a serious issue as long as animals are not made to suffer rests __________ on the widely accepted idea that animals do not have a right to life.

The sentences below have words that are missing. Choose the best option from those given below to complete the sentence.
Everyday more than 1 billion promotional messages are sent that are commercial and __________. Although __________ have used more technology to stop this, _______ find ways around it.

The sentences below have words that are missing. Choose the best option from those given below to complete the sentence.
The investigators have ________that he had leaked confidential __________information about the acquisition, thereby allowing associates to profit from the ________deal.

The sentences below have words that are missing. Choose the best option from those given below to complete the sentence.
Achieving spaceflight enabled humans to begin to explore the solar system and the rest of the _________, to understand the many objects and____________ that are better observed from a space perspective, and to use for human benefit the resources and attributes of the space environment. All of these activities - discovery, scientific understanding, and the __________ of that understanding to serve human purposes - are elements of space __________.

One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.