MAH MBA CET Sample Paper 2025

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Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a straight row. All of them are facing north. A is third to the left of H and second to the right of C. G and D are sitting adjacent to each and there are more people to the right of G than to his left. Neither F nor H are sitting at the end positions and E is sitting to the left of A but he is not sitting at an end position.

Four of the following five are similar in some way. Identify the one which is not same as the other four and mark it as your answer.

Eight persons A, B, C, D, E , F, G and H are sitting around a circular table. 4 of them are facing towards the centre and 4 of them are facing away from the centre. Further, the following information is known:

B is sitting second to the left of both A and E. H is sitting to the immediate left of both A and B. A is facing the centre. D is sitting third to the right of E. G and E are not sitting adjacent to each other. H, D and G face the same direction (I.e, towards the centre or away from the centre). C is not sitting adjacent to G.

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Pawan, Rohit, Sanjay, Tushar, Umesh and Vivek are 6 friends who belong to 6 different cities among Allahabad, Hyderabad, Delhi, Lucknow, Guwahati and Bhopal, not necessarily in the same order. During their summer break they decided to visit some other city. Each one of them went to one of the cities from the above list. No two friends visited the same city. Further, the following information is also known

1. Tushar is from Guwahati and Pawan visited Allahabad.

2. Umesh is from Delhi and Sanjay visited Lucknow.

3. Rohit is not from Allahabad and Vivek is not from Hyderabad.

4. Rohit visited Tushar’s hometown and Vivek visited Umesh’s hometown.

5. The person who is from Hyderabad visited Lucknow.

Four of the following five pairs are similar in some way. Choose the pair which is not similar to the other four.

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Six friends Anish, Bhavya, Chatur, Dani, Eknath and Farhan are from six different states among Telangana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Karnataka and Bihar in no particular order. Further each of the friends is pursuing a different specialization among Marketing, Finance, Operations, Strategy, HR and IT. Additionally it is known that:
1) Anish is pursuing HR
2) Eknath is from West Bengal
3) Person from Telangana is pursuing Strategy
4) Chatur is from Rajasthan and is pursuing Operations
5) Person from Maharashtra is pursuing Finance
6) Bhavya is not pursuing Finance
7) Dani is not from Maharashtra or Bihar
8) Eknath and Bhavya are not pursuing Marketing

The following table shows the percentage break up of various cars sold by 5 companies in the year 2016. Further, it is known that all the cars sold by each of the companies belong to one of these 4 types. Some data is intentionally left blank.

Values in the table indicate the number of cars of a particular type sold by a company as a percentage of the total number of cars sold by the company. (Eg: 23% of the total cars sold by Koyota are hatchbacks).

Further, the following information is known.

Total number of cars sold by Koyota, Gyundai and Donda is the same.
Folksvagen sold twice as many cars as BM.
BM sold twice as many cars as Donda.
The total number of hatchback cars sold by the 5 companies put together in the given year is 925.

Digvijay, Gayatri, Falguni, Mahima, Tanya, Sachin, Lalit and Abhinav are lawyers who attend an interview. One interview is held on each day of the week from Monday to Saturday and two interviews are held on Sunday. The interviewer asks questions on any one of the subjects among company law, the Indian penal code, the Indian bankruptcy code, administrative law, constitutional law, jurisprudence, land laws and family law. Also, among the candidates’ two wear blazers, two wear ties, two carry files and two wear moccasins, each candidate has at least one of the above.
Additional information which has been given:
1. Digvijay who is interviewed on a Wednesday does not wear a blazer. Administrative law is asked on a Saturday.
2. The interviewer tries to schedule interviews such that the first letter of the day is the same as the candidates' initials.
3. The ones who carry files are either asked questions on land laws or on company law and are interviewed before Thursday.
4. The ones who wear blazers are interviewed on consecutive days which is not over the weekend.
5. If Mahima is asked questions on land laws then Abhinav will be asked on family law and vice-versa. There must be at least one day in between Mahima and Gayatri’s interview.
6. Gayatri does not know about the Indian bankruptcy code so she fails the interview.
7. Sachin and Abhinav wear moccasins while Lalit’s interview is the last and he is asked about Jurisprudence.
8. The one interviewed on Wednesday wears the same attire as what one of the candidates wears on Sunday.

Read the below information carefully and answer the following questions.
Rahul moves 12 m in North direction from a point O to reach point A. He turns right and moves 15 m to reach point B. Then he turns left and moves 10 m to reach a point C. She turns right and moves 6 m to reach a point D. He again turns right and moves 1m to reach point E. He further turns right and moves 1m to reach point F

If Rahul stops after reaching at point E, in which direction he should look to clearly see his initial position?

Ram starts from his home in the morning and moves towards south. He walks straight for 5 km to reach point A. He takes a right turn at A and travels for another 3 km to reach point B. He takes another left turn and walks for 4 km to reach point C. At C, Amit takes a right turn and walks for 3 more km to reach point D. At D, he takes a right turn and travels for 4 km to reach point E.

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Neeraj starts from his home and heads west. He travels 5 km and then takes a right turn and travels for 4 km. He takes a right turn and travels another 6 km. After this he takes a left turn and travels for another 4 km. What is shortest distance of his current position from the starting point?

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Instead of giving the tribals the community right as requested by them, the forest department officials came up with a proposal of sanctioning individual rights of two to three cents each, which the tribal turned down.

Which of the following assumption behind the tribals’ decision to turn down the proposal?

Cause: A severe cyclonic storm swept away most of the state during the last two days.
Which of the following cannot be a possible effect of the above cause?

In each question below is given a statement followed by two conclusion numbered I and II. You have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then consider the two conclusions together and decide which of them logically follows beyond a reasonable doubt from the information given in the statements.

Statement: The population increase coupled with depleting resources is going to be the scenario of many developing countries in days to come.
Conclusion:
I. The population of developing countries will not continue to increase in fucture.
II. It will be very difficult for the governments of developing countries to provide its people decent quality of life.

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A + B means A is the father of B ;
A - B means A is the sister of B ;
A x B means A is the son of B ;
A ÷ B means A is the daughter-in-law of B.
If T ÷ K + N - P x L, which of the following statements is true?

Arun says, “Radha’s father Suresh is the only son of my father-in-law Ramesh”. How is Priya, who is the sister of Radha, related to Ramesh?

Some statements are given below and these are followed by some conclusions. Assume the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with the commonly observed facts. Decide which conclusions logically follow from the given statements and then choose the answer accordingly.

Statements:
I: Some apples are mangoes
II: All mangoes are guavas
III: All guavas are grapes
IV: Some grapes are sour

Conclusions:
I All mangoes are grapes
II Some apples are sour

Statements:
All cats are dogs.
All dogs are tigers.
No tiger is a lion.

Conclusions:
1. No dog is a lion.
2. Some cats being lions is a possibility.

In a certain code language, BANKING is coded as: DCPMKPI, then what is the original word for TGIKVTCVKQP

In a code language, the code for SACHIN is ACHINS and the code for RAHUL is AHLRU. What is the code for ‘SAURAV’ in that language?

If CADAVER is coded as BBCBUFQ, then which of the following words can be decoded from their respective codes?

In certain code language “BOARD” is written as “DMCPF”. Then what is the code for the word “VIDEO”?

If in a coded language "SPEED" is represented as 1916554 and "BAT" is represented as "2120", then how will "BLUE" be represented in a language.

Study the following series carefully and answer the questions.
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Instructions: The following question presents a statement and three courses of action. Considering the statement to be true, decide which of the given courses of action is logical.

The weather bureau has forecast heavy rainfall over the next week, which may cause waterlogging in several parts of the city.

Course of action:

I. The bulletin should be given wide publicity through the mass media.

II. The civic authority should prepare in advance the pumping system for the removal of water from these parts.

III. The people should be advised to stay indoors during the period.

Argument: We must follow the policy of peace and non-violence because Gandhiji used to practice it. 

Statements:
I. Our culture and religious beliefs require us to follow and practise the principle of non-violence.
II. The practices and ideologies of our political leaders need not necessarily reflect the best course of action for us. 
III. Non-violence is our constitutional obligation.

Which of the following best reflects the relationship between the given statements and the argument?

Read the following information carefully and answer the question that follows.

The search and rescue operation for landslide survivors is abandoned after two days of effort as the houses are buried under meters of mud.

Which of the following is a possible reason for such a decision?

Many soap manufacturing companies advertise by saying that using one particular brand of soap for a long time leaves a residue on one’s skin, which is not good for health.

From the argument, it can be inferred that the advertisers hope that customers will respond to the advertisements and do which of the following?

Mohit’s birthday lies on 28th of April and Sumit’s birthday is on 13th of July. If in 2018, Mohit celebrated his birthday on a Friday then on which day will Sumit celebrate his birthday?

Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the English alphabetical series and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the English alphabetical series and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

In a housing society of 100 members, 64 people read the Hindu newspaper and 80 read the Times of India. If 6 members do not read any paper, how many members read the Hindu but not the Times of India?

Modi, Trump and Abe are involved in in a project manufacturing nuclear bombs to attack China. They are manufacturing some bombs individually and some in groups of two and all the three together are manufacturing some bombs. The total bombs being manufactured is sixteen time the number of bombs being prepared by all the three together. The number of bombs that Modi and Trump are manufacturing together without Abe is 6. Trump is manufacturing 11 bombs all by himself. Abe is manufacturing 8 bombs by himself. Modi is manufacturing 7 bombs by himself. 22 bombs are being manufactured by atleast two of them together. Modi is involved in the manufacturing of 20 bombs. How many bombs are Abe and Trump manufacturing together without involving Modi?

In a locality, the number of people who read The Hindu is 28 and the number of people who read The Times of India is 32. What is the maximum number of people in the locality who read the Times of India but not the Hindu?

In a school examination, 60% of the students failed in English, while 70% passed in Hindi. If 20% of the students failed in both subjects, what percentage of students passed in both English and Hindi?

Arrange the following words as per order in the dictionary.
1: mild
2: militant
3: milieu
4: mindless
5: military

Which option represents the correct order of the given words as they would appear in an English dictionary?

1. Enthusiastic
2. Enthusiasm
3. Enthuse
4. Enthrall
5. Enthralled

Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.

Six friends A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting around a circular table facing towards the centre. C and F are sitting opposite to each other. Who is sitting to the immediate right of F?

Statement 1: D and E are neighbours
Statement 2: E is sitting to the immediate left of C

Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.

A, B, C, D, and E are standing in a row facing north. Who is standing to the right of E?

Statement I: C is standing in between E and A.

Statement II: A is standing on one of the extremes.

Each of the questions given below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II are given below. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements is sufficient to answer the question.

How many storeys are there in the building?
Statement 1:The building cannot have more than 6 storeys.
Statement 2:There are 3 families in the building.No two families live immediately above or below each other.

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A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following shows the illustration of input and rearrangement of the same.
Input: 75 12 trunk 68 timber 37 without place
Step 1 : 12 75 trunk 68 timber 37 without place
Step 2 : 12 75 trunk 68 timber 37 place without
Step 3 : 12 37 75 trunk 68 timber place without
Step 4 : 12 37 75 68 timber place trunk without
Step 5 : 12 37 68 75 timber place trunk without
Step 6 : 12 37 68 75 place timber trunk without

What would the 3rd step for the given input.
Input: visitor 24 75 bravery 39 boldly cleverly 14

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Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A, and the other one is labelled as Reason R.

Assertion A: Electric vehicles (EVs) are being increasingly promoted as a sustainable alternative to traditional gasoline-powered cars.

Reason R: The widespread use of EVs helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels, contributing to environmental protection.

In the question given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R)

Assertion (A): A balanced diet is very important for maintaining overall health and well-being.

Reason (R): A balanced diet provides essential nutrients like carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals to the body.

A piece of paper is folded and punched as shown in the figure below. From the below answer figures, indicate how it will appear when opened

In each of the following questions, there are five problem figures and five answer figures. Problem figures have a pattern. A series is established if one of the answer figures is placed in the question marked space. You have to determine which answer figure best suits the question marked space.

In the next five questions five problem figures which are in a sequence are provided. If the sequence is to be continued which of the answer figures will come next in the sequence.

In each of the questions given below which one of the five answer figures on the right should come after the problem figures on the left, if the sequence were continued.

In each of the questions given below which one of the five answer figures should come after the problem figures if the sequence were continued ?

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Read the following character sequence properly and then answer the question given below it.
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How many pairs of letters are there in the word “SEMBLANCE” each of which has as many letters between them in the word as they have between them in the English alphabetical series?

How many words can be formed from the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th letters of the word " ALPENSTOCK " by using each letter at most once in the word?

The letters of the word " RECOGNITION " are arranged from left to right in alphabetical order and the letters after arranging are provided with an index number starting from 1 to the letter on the right end and the index value keeps increasing towards the left. Find the number of alphabets that are present in the alphabet series between the alphabet with index value 4 and index value 7?

How many pairs of letters are there in the word “ MODULAR ” each of which has as many letters between them in the word as they have between them in the English alphabetical series?

How many meaningful words can be formed using the  1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 7th letters of the word " TURBULENCE " such that each letter can be used atmost once?

Two pipes can fill up a tank respectively in 3 hours and 6 hours and a third pipe can empty a tank in 9 hours. If three of them are working together then how long will it take to fill up the tank?

Two taps A and B can fill a tank individually in 6 hours and 8 hours respectively and tap C can empty the same tank in 12 hours. If all the taps are kept open, how many hours would it take to fill the tank?

Two persons A and B can complete a piece of work in 10 days and 20 days respectively. Together, they start working on the project, but A left after 4 days. How long more will B take to complete the project?

A car covers a distance from town A to town B at the speed of 58 kmph and covers the distance from town B to town A at the speed of 52 kmph What is the approximate average speed of the car?

A person travels the first 100km of his journey at 25km/hr and the next 200km at 40km/hr. Find the average speed of a person during his entire journey.

Two trains A and B are going in the same direction with the speeds of 20 km/h and 15 km/h respectively. If the starting point of B is 200 km ahead from the starting point of A, how long will it take A to meet with the train B?

A 400 m long train can cross a pole in 10 seconds. Find the time that this train will take to overtake a train of length 300m which is running at the speed of 72 km/hr in the same direction as that of the first train?

The average of four consecutive odd numbers is 24. What is the average of the squares of the largest and the smallest of the four numbers?

The average weights of students in two sections of a class are 40 kg and 42 kg respectively. If the number of students in the two sections are in the ratio 3 : 4, find the average weight of the class.

Ram and Shyam started a business by investing Rs. 60000 and Rs. 40000 respectively at the start of the year. Ram withdrew Rs. 40000 after 6 months. They agreed to split the profit in the ratio of the average monthly investment basis. If they received Rs. 6000 as the profit at the end of the year, then find out Ram’s share in the profit?

A solution containing alcohol and water in the ratio 7 : 2 is mixed with twice the amount of another solution containing alcohol and water in the ratio 5 : 1. What is the percentage of alcohol in the final mixture?

A milk and water solution has milk and water in the ratio 4:1. After adding 40 ml of water the ratio of milk and water becomes 2:1. What is the total volume of the solution now?

A fruit seller bumps up the cost price of apples per kg by 50% and then gives a discount of 20%, to sell apples at the rate of 72 per kg. What is the cost price of the apples per kg?

A vendor buys a book at Rs 120 and marks it at Rs 145. When a regular customer visits the shop, the vendor gives him a discount of 25%. What is the price at which the customer gets the book?

The shopkeeper marked an article 30% above the cost price and sold it a discount of 20%. If he made a profit of Rs. 60. Find the cost price of the article.

If a sum of 36 rupees amounts to 48.24 rupees after two years under simple interest, then what will 63 rupees amount to in three years at the same S.I?

Kiran deposited Rs 50000 in a bank at a simple interest rate of 20% for 3 years. How much more interest would she have accrued if she were to deposit the same amount at the same interest rate for the same period at compound interest?

If the difference in compound interest and simple interest for a principal amount of 5000 with a rate of 10% is 50. Find the duration for which interests were calculated?

Arjun borrowed some money at the rate of 9% per annum for the first 3 years, at the rate of 6% per annum for the next 2 years and at the rate of 14% for next 4 years. If he pays a total simple interest 2280, how much did he borrow?

Solutions A and B have concentrations of Sulphuric acid as 20% and 50% respectively. In what ratio must A and B be mixed to get a solution of concentration 40%?

A certain number of chocolates were distributed in a classroom containing 15 boys and 25 girls. The number of chocolates each boy gets is equal to 20% of the number of girls and the number of chocolates each girl gets is equal to 15% of the total number of students in the class. Find the total number of chocolates.

In an examination, a student is required to get 360 marks to pass in the exam. A student scores 32% of the maximum marks and is declared fail by 88 marks. Find the maximum marks a student can score.

Two quadratic equations are given below. Solve these equations and select the appropriate option

$$x^{2} - 15x +26 = 0$$
$$y^{2} + 9y - 22= 0$$

The length of a rectangle is twice its breadth. If the length of the rectangle is increased by 20% and its breath is decreased by 40% then what will be the percentage change in the area of the rectangle?

A metallic sphere of radius 6 cm is melted down and re casted into three metallic spheres of equal radii. Find the radius of the spheres formed.

A circular area is carved out of the square sheet of side 10 cm as shown in the figure. What is the area of the sheet that remains after the circle has been carved out?

The sum till infinity of a Geometric Progression, with first term 16 and common ratio $$r$$, is 48. Find the sum till infinity of another GP with first term 76 and a common ratio of $$\left(r-\dfrac{1}{6}\right)$$.

A bag contains 7 blue balls and 5 yellow balls. If two balls are selected at random, one by one without replacement. What is the probability that none of the selected ball is yellow?

If it is known that x, y and z are distinct natural numbers then what is the value of 16x+4y+8z?
Statement I: 3x+y+2z = 22
Statement II: 14x+3y+6z = 96

Is x divisible by 91?
Statement 1:x is divisible by 13.
Statement 2:x is divisible by 42.

A sample of 100 people were tested for protein and vitamin deficieny every year for five years. The number of patients with protein and vitamin deficiency is as shown in the table below. Note that no patient has both vitamin and protein deficiency.

Study the table carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Use the information below to answer the questions below.
The following Pie-charts provides the information regarding the Market share of four courier companies in the year 2015 and 2016.​   

Total revenue of all the companies together is 100Cr and 120Cr in 2015 and 2016 respectively.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the question given below it. Certain words or groups of each word are given bold type to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

It is said there is a dismal fall of standards everywhere. The leaders who are not equal to the task misguide their followers. The remedy of the malady that affects our political economic and social practices lies in the human individual. What is needed is a change in his nature. For that we should read great classics. Literature brings about the change for the better. It improves the quality of human beings. Great books give great thoughts, broaden our outlook and awaken our souls. They also provide a moral base as the lack of discipline and ideals is inimical to civilizes value.

There are various kinds of books. Some arouse or instruct while others elevate our nature. The first kind of books destroy our ego and give us joy. Now joy is different from pleasure. The books which give joy contain emotions and thoughts recollected in tranquility. Only a seer can produce such books. They deserve not only to read but also to be digested. Through them we establish contract with the mastermind of the past. They hand on to us our tradition. But maintaining a tradition does not mean peaking or doing as our forefathers did following the tradition blindly will render dead and useless. We must make adaptations and bring modifications. However, the individual contribution is largely determined by the pressure brought to bear up on him by the new problems of the new age.

There are three clearly marked feature of the age in which we live. They are the scientific and technological revolution, the liberation of dependent countries in Asia and Africa and the growing unity of the world: We should read books which trace the history of the above mentioned three moments. The intellectual wealth of all mankind is at our disposal, we should break the barriers of language. Books build bridge between cultures, that is they bring them together. They promote understanding and love and remove suspicion, fear and hatred.

Great books come to our help when our values are at the discount many of us are mere shadows of human beings. We are the victims of contradictory impulses, we are a bundle of fear suspicion, greed, jealousy as well as kindliness and goodwill. For creating normal harmonious human society the former instincts should be curbed and the latter kindled, we must guard against corrupting the minds of our people with trivialities. A general spiritual awakening is essential.

What are the qualities of great classics according to the passage ?
(a) They are impersonal and source of the joy
(b) They contain emotions and thoughts recollected in tranquility
(c) They are written by prophets and are best interpreters of our past.

What does the author consider essential for creating a normal harmonious human society ?
(a) We should control our emotions of fear, greed, suspicious and jealousy
(b) We should encourage kindliness
(c) We should not engage our mind in pretty and mean things
(d) There should be a general spiritual awaking among us.

Which of the following statements (a), (b) and/or (c ) is/are NOT TRUE in the context of the passage ?
(a) Only those books which entertain us can elevate our nature
(b) Men suffer from conflicting attitudes
(c )All the evils of the word arise from the fact that men are unable to sit still in a place

Which of the following statements (a), (b) and/or (c ) is/are TRUE in the context of the passage ?
(a) Books bridge cultures and promote outstanding and goodwill
(b) The author denies silent meditation and approves only books to get spiritual joy
(c ) Most of men are not men but mere shadow of men.

Directions: The questions in this group are based on the content of a passage. After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following the passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

As the job market softens somewhat, workers may be losing some of the leverage they gained when the market was tighter. The rate at which workers voluntarily quit their jobs has fallen sharply in recent months—though it edged up in May—and is only modestly above where it was before the pandemic disrupted the U.S. labor market. When workers quit jobs, it reflects their confidence that they can find another, better job. A report indicated that hourly earnings for hotel and restaurant workers rose 28 percent from the end of 2020 to the end of 2022, which was faster than the rates of both inflation and overall wage growth. But now, after surging in late 2021 and early 2022, growth for low-wage workers has slowed, and fewer workers in the hospitality industry are separating from their jobs now compared with the same period last year.

This slowing wage growth could be seen as a sign that workers are losing ground. But another possible reason that wage growth has slowed is that many workers’ base pay has gone up compared with a couple of years ago. Employers are giving raises off a wage rate that has risen a lot since the spring of 2021. The Fed will be happy to see the job market cooling off, so we might see fewer interest-rate hikes in the months to come: Reduced competition for workers is going to reduce wage growth, which is—in the Fed’s view—going to put less pressure on employers to raise prices, so that should bring inflation down.

The primary purpose of the passage is to

In the context of the passage, which of the following actions would be consistent with the Federal Reserve’s objective?

Which of the following best describes the function of the boldfaced sentence in the passage?

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After a bitter referendum campaign, the United Kingdom has voted for Brexit, making the decision to leave the European Union. This is the first time that the E.U. has lost a member and will have dramatic consequences for European politics. Although the United Kingdom has sometimes been an uncomfortable member of the E.U., it has played a crucial role, for example in helping to create a shared market across Europe and in pushing for the enlargement of the E.U. to include Eastern European countries after the end of the Cold War. Now, the U.K. has decided to leave.

The first loser from Brexit is the man who decided to hold a referendum in the first place: British Prime Minister David Cameron. After winning moderate concessions from the E.U., he pressed for a “yes” vote. His failure to secure one has forced him to resign. Cameron’s Conservative Party has been badly split on E.U. questions for the last two decades, and one of his major rivals, former London mayor Boris Johnson, belatedly started to advocate Brexit, in what was widely perceived as an effort to challenge Cameron and his chosen successor. The Conservative Party is about to be plunged into a bitter leadership fight.

However, the Conservatives’ main political rival, the Labour Party, is unlikely to do much better. Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Labour, was an ineffective and not especially enthusiastic campaigner for the “remain” side. Labour’s traditional strongholds in the north of England voted heavily in favor of leaving. Corbyn too has many enemies in his own party, some of whom will very likely use this to try to unseat him.
The U.K. consists of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. England and Wales voted decisively in favor of leaving the European Union. Scotland, and to a lesser extent Northern Ireland, wanted to stay. This split may exacerbate existing fault lines in British politics. Scotland held a failed referendum on independence a couple of years ago; some voices in the Scottish independence movement are already pushing for a new referendum that might allow Scotland to leave the U.K. and remain part of the E.U. Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein party has already said that it wants to renew its push to reunite Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland.

Author: Henry Farrell

According to the passage, why did David Cameron have to resign?

According to the passage, why did Boris Johnson campaign for Brexit?

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Marco Polo, had he confined himself to a sober narration of his travels, would have left to posterity a valuable record of the political institutions and national customs of the peoples of his day in the Far East. He was not satisfied with doing this, but added to his narrative a number of on-dit more or less marvellous in character, which he collected from credulous or inventive persons with whom he came into contact, principally from mariners and from other travellers.

Of these addenda to his story not one is more incredible than that of the rukh, and yet that addendum may be regarded as indicating the transition from the utterly incredible to the admixture of truth with fiction in bird-lore. For, whilst the rukh possessed some characteristics which are utterly fabulous, others are credible enough. We are told, for example, that it resembled an eagle, that it was carnivorous, that it possessed remarkable powers of flight, and that it visited islands which lay to the south of Zanzibar, within the influence of an ocean current which rendered difficult or impossible a voyage from these regions to India, and which therefore must have tended in a southerly direction. In this current we have no difficulty in recognising that of Mozambique. On the other hand, that the rukh had an expanse of wing of thirty paces, and that it could lift an elephant in its talons, are of course utterly incredible assertions.

The rukh therefore holds a position in bird-lore intermediate between that of the phoenix and that of the pelican fed upon the blood of its mother whose beak is tipped with red, or that of the barnacle goose, of which the name suggests the mollusc, the barnacle, and which was said to proceed from the mollusc or that of the bird of paradise, the feet of which were cut off by the Malay traders who sold the skins, and which were commonly reported never to have had feet, but to float perpetually in the air.

Thus two streams united into one floated the conception of the rukh—a mythological stream taking its rise from the simourgh of the Persians and a stream of fact taking its rise in the observation of a real bird which visited certain islands off the south-east coast of Africa, and which is said to have resembled an eagle and may have been a sea-eagle. With commendable reticence lexicographers tell us that ‘rukh’ was the name of a bird of mighty wing.

Which of the following does the author find most hard to believe?

Answer the following questions after rearranging the following sentences into a coherent paragraph.

A)As a consequence, despite the economy contracting in 2020-21, at the aggregate level, the Centre’s gross tax revenues touched Rs 20.2 lakh crore in 2020-21, up 0.7 per cent from 2019-20.

B)Total tax collections, in fact, even exceeded the Centre’s own revised estimates presented in the Union budget in February by Rs 1.2 lakh crore.

C)In line with the trends in the broader economy, the fiscal position of the central government saw considerable improvement in the second half of the last financial year.

D)As a consequence of this higher than anticipated collection, the Centre has been able to restrict its fiscal deficit to 9.3 per cent of GDP, lower than its revised estimate of 9.5 per cent presented in the budget.

E)Large segments of households and companies are facing significant stress.

F)The government should utilise whatever fiscal space it has to ramp up support to the economy.

Answer the following questions after rearranging the following sentences into a coherent paragraph.

A)Although there are some eating habits that are considered staples of Indian cuisine, these habits may not be practiced by all the cultures of India.

B)It also varies seasonally, depending on which fruits and vegetables are ripe.

C)India is a diverse nation with many different cultures.

D)Cuisine differs across India’s diverse regions as a result of variation in local culture, geographical location, and economics.

E)Also, Middle Eastern and Central Asian influences have occurred on North Indian cuisine from the years of Mughal rule.

F)Indian cuisine is still evolving, as a result of the nation’s cultural interactions with other societies.

Answer the following questions after rearranging the following sentences into a coherent paragraph.

A)As many work extremely hard to secure admission in it, but then lose motivation and drift towards near-certain graduation.

B)The IIT system prompts a remarkable two-phased response from many ambitious students.

C)IIT admission is a value signal to future employers who do not see much relevance in the actual syllabus.

D)The entry wall is high, the exit wall is low, and the four-year syllabus is an obstacle course between the student and an employer with whom eye contact was made from atop the entry wall itself.

E)They focus on social activities, organise college events, build coding skills, and so on, and seek jobs in the hot area of the day, such as data science.

F)Students of varied subjects thus remain uninterested in their core syllabi.

Five statements labelled A, B, C, 1 and 2 are given below. Among them, A, B, C are in correct order. Identify the position of 1 and 2 so as to make a logically coherent paragraph.

A) I started learning dance at a very young age
B) Ever since I have delved very deeply in contemplation.
C) I always had questions about spirituality, meaning and purpose of dance.
1) Researching on the dance form in the pre-Mughal period brought me to the Kathakaar tradition
2) Understanding the evolving of the mudras, the texts and the spiritual power dance had, opened new vistas in my artistic journey.

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Four words are given below. Three of these are correctly spelt while the fourth one contains an error in its spelling. Choose the word which is incorrectly spelt.

In the given questions, two sentences with one blanks each are given, followed by three words out of which one or more than one can complete the sentences grammatically and contextually. Find the word that can fill both the sentences to make it meaningful and choose the answer accordingly.

I)There are people who really want to get at the medium they are using, and the object of _____________ makes it a better vehicle for personal growth in a skill.

II)Publicly expressing your ____________ has become much more mainstream, some people have an immense impact on fan art.

i)Cheery
ii)Fandom
iii)Melancholy

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From the options, select the word that is applicable in both the sentences.

I want to buy some pens at the _________ shop.
I read this paragraph in the 5th ________ of the series.

In each of the following questions, three blanks have been given in which the same word can fit in all the blanks. Choose the best possible word that can fit all the three blanks to make the sentence coherent and correct.

Rainfall activity is very likely to decrease from Thursday with fairly widespread to widespread rainfall over Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand; and ____________ to scattered rainfall over rest parts of northwest India. Heavy to very heavy rainfall at _________ places is also likely over Uttarakhand and heavy rainfall at __________ places over West Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.

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Choose the grammatically correct version of the sentence given below:

The committee has reached their decision.

Choose the grammatically correct version of the sentence given below:

She did not barely have enough time to finish the assignment.

Choose the grammatically correct version of the sentence given below:

The bouquet of flower was placed on the table.

Five sentences are given below. Four of these when arranged in correct order, form a logical and meaningful paragraph. One of the sentences does not belong to this paragraph. Rearrange the 4 sentences that belong to the paragraph and choose the option that contains the order in which the 4 sentences should be put together:


A. Christopher did not care to learn that trade, but wanted to become a sailor.
B. Seeing the boy's strong liking for the sea, his father sent him to a school where he could learn geography, map-drawing, and whatever else might help him to become some day commander of a vessel.
C. Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America, was born at Genoa, a seaport of Italy, more than four hundred and fifty years ago.
D. His father was a wool-comber.
E. Columbus jumped from his blazing ship into the sea, and catching hold of a floating oar, managed, with its help, to swim to the shore, about six miles away.

Four of the given sentences can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

1) We call this race the Indo-European race, because it conquered not only Europe but also made itself the ruling class in the country which is now known as British India.
2) Their doom was sealed when a new and more energetic race appeared upon the horizon.
3) Indeed, with such energy did these Indo-European Persians push their triumphant campaigns in the west that they soon found themselves in serious difficulties with certain other tribes.
4) The world of Egypt and Babylon and Assyria and Phoenicia had existed almost thirty centuries and the venerable races of the Fertile Valley were getting old and tired.
5) These Indo-Europeans were white men like the Semites but they spoke a different language which is regarded as the common ancestor of all European tongues.

Choose the set of words that are synonyms of each other:

1. recalcitrant
2. complaisant
3. fractious
4. furtive

In the following questions one word is given followed by some options. You have to find out the synonym/antonym of the word given.

Choose the option which is nearest to the meaning of given idioms/phrasal verbs.

Bite off more than you can chew

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What is the meaning of the idiom “whole nine yards”?

The sentence given below is divided into five parts. The last part is correct. Of the remaining four parts, three parts contain an error. Select the part of the sentence that is grammatically correct as your answer. If all the parts are correct, select option E as your answer.

Taken together, these findings feed into growing evidence (1)/ that suggest that ageism is a social determinant (2)/ of health and may negatively impact (3)/ health outcomes for (4)/ aging Americans.

Mobile banking can use (1)/ for all aspects of financial managing, (2)/ including direct deposit and online bill payment, (3)/ without the need of (4)/ a traditional bank account.

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Select the option that can be used to improve the part of the sentence written in bold:
The government policies would wreak havoc on the Chinese economy.

The statement given below contains 3 words highlighted in BOLD. Select the option that contains the words that can be used to replace the words highlighted in that order.

Guna felt enervated by the end of the journey and hence, he was desperate to hit the bed as soon as possible.

1. energized, eager, bag
2. tired, desperate, sack
3. effervescent, longing, cot

Which of the following phrases given below the sentence can replace the words /phrase given in bold in the sentence grammatically and meaningfully? if none of the phrases can replace the word/phrase given in bold in the sentence, select ‘None’ as the answer. If the sentence is correct as it is, your answer is an option (E) i.e., No correction required.

Proponents of the mission are expected its data to help reduce the uncertainty in projections of future climate change.
1. is expecting
2. expect
3. are expecting

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In each question, 3 words are highlighted in bold. 3 possible replacements A, B and C for the words are given. Select which of the replacements can be used. If the given sentence is grammatically correct, choose the option no improvement required:

The archaeologists were confounded by the beauty of the city they just invented. They relished each and every moment of their stay in the ancient city.

A : astounded, invented, relinquished
B: astounded, discovered, relished
C: awed, discovered, rejoiced

Select the option that must replace the part of the sentence in bold, so that the sentence is grammatically correct.

The match already began by the time we reached the stadium.

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