MAH MBA CET Sample Paper 2025

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

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.

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.

For the following questions answer them individually