In a certain code language 'how many goals scored' is written as '5 3 9 7'; 'many more matches' is written as '9 8 2' and 'he scored five' is written as '1 6 3'. How is 'goals' written in that code language?
SBI PO 2010 Question Paper
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In a certain code TEMPORAL is written as OLDSMBSP. How is CONSIDER written in that code?
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How many meaningful English words can be made with the letters DLEI using each letter only once in each word?
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Among A, B, C, D and E each having different weight, D is heavier than only A and C is lighter than B and E. Who among them is the heaviest?
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Each odd digit in the number 5263187 is substituted by the next higher digit and each even digit is substituted by the previous lower digit and the digits so obtained are rearranged in ascending order, which of the following will be the, third digit from the left end after the rearrangement ?
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Pratap corrrectly remembers that his mother's birthday is before twenty third April but after Nineteenth April, where as his sister correctly remembers that their mother's birthday is not on or after twenty second April. On which day in April is definitely their mother's birthday ?
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Ashok started walking towards South. After walking 50 meters he took a right turn and walked 30 meters. He then took a right turn and walked 100 meters. He again took a right turn and walked 30 meters and stopped. How far and in which direction was he from the starting point?
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If '-' means '+'; '-' means 'x';'x' means '÷' and '+' means '-'; then 15 - 8 x 6 ÷ 12 + 4 = ?
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Town D is towards East of town F. Town B is towards North of town D. Town H is towards South of town B. Towards which direction is town H from town F?
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How many such pairs of letters are there in the word SEARCHES each of which has as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet ?
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Direction: In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III & IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
Statements:
All cups are bottles.
Some bottles are jugs.
No jug is plate.
Some plates are tables.
Conclusions:
I. Some tables are bottles.
II. Some plates are cups.
III. No table is bottle.
IV. Some jugs are cups.
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Statements:
Some chairs are handles.
All handles are pots.
All pots are mats.
Some mats are buses.
Conclusions:
I. Some buses are handles.
II. Some mats are chairs.
III. No bus is handle.
IV. Some mats are handles.
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Statements:
All birds are horses.
All horses are tigers.
Some tigers are lions.
Some lions are monkeys.
Conclusions:
I. Some tigers are horses.
II. Some monkeys are birds.
III. Some tigers are birds.
IV. Some monkeys are horses.
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Statements:
Some benches are walls.
All walls are houses.
Some houses are jungles.
All jungles are roads.
Conclusions:
I. Some roads are benches.
II. Some jungles are walls.
III. Some houses are benches.
IV. Some roads are houses.
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Statements:
Some sticks are lamps.
Some flowers are lamps.
Some lamps are dresses.
All dresses are shirts.
Conclusions:
I. Some shirts are sticks.
II. Some shirts are flowers.
III. Some flowers are sticks.
IV. Some dresses are sticks.
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A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of an organization working in three departments viz. Personnel, Administration and Marketing with not more than three of them in any department. Each of them has a different choice of sports from football, cricket, volleyball, badminton, lawn tennis, basketball, hockey and table tennis not necessarily in the same order. D works in Administration and does not like either football or cricket. F works in Personnel with only A who likes table tennis. Eand H do not work in the same department as D. C likes hockey and does not work in marketing. G does not work in administration and does not like either cricket or badminton. One of those who work in administration likes football. The one who likes volleyball works in personnel. None of those who work in administration likes either badminton or lawn tennis. H does not like cricket.
Which of the following groups of employees work in Administration department ?
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In which department does E work ?
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Which of the following combinations of employee-department-favourite sport is correct?
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What is E's favourite sport?
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What is G's favourite sport ?
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Direction: In the following questions, the symbols $,@,#,^ and * are used with the following meaning as illustrated below.
'P $ Q' means 'P is not smaller than Q'.
'P @ Q' means 'P is neither smaller than nor equal to 'Q
'P # Q' means 'P is neither greater than nor equal to Q'.
'P ^ Q' means 'P is neither greater than nor smaller than Q'.
'P * Q' means 'P is not greater than Q'.
Now in each of the following questions assuming the given statements to be true, find which of the four conclusions I, II, III and IV given below them is/are definitely true and give your answer accordingly.
Statements: H @ T, T # F, F ^ E, E * V
Conclusions:
I. V $ F
II. E @ T
III. H @ V
IV. T # V
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Statements: D#R, R*K, K@F, F$J
Conclusions:
I. J # R
II. J # K
III. R # F
IV. K @ D
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Statements: N ^ B, B $ W, W # H, H * M
Conclusions :
I. M @ W
II. H @ N
III. W ^ N
IV. W# N
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Statements: R * D, D $ J, J # M, M @ K
Conclusions:
I. K # J
II. D @ M
III. R # M
IV. D @ K
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Statements: M $ K, K @ N, N * R, R # W
Conclusions:
I. W @ K
II. M $ R
III. K @ W
IV. M @ N
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Following are the conditions for selecting Senior Manager-Credit in a bank. The candidate must:
(i) be a graduate in any discipline with atleast 60 percent marks.
(ii) have post qualification work experience of at least ten years in the Advances Section of a bank.
(iii) be at least 30 years and not more than 40 years as on 1.4.2010.
(iv) have secured at least 40 percent marks in the group discussion.
(v) have secured at least 50 percent marks in interview.
In the case of a candidate who satisfies all the conditions EXCEPT:
(A) at (i) above but has secured at least 50 percent marks in graduation and at least 60 percent marks in post graduation in any discipline the case is to be referred to the General Manager Advances.
(B) at (ii) above but has total post qualification work experience of at least seven years out of which at least three years as Manager-Credit in a bank, the case is to be referred to Executive Director.
In each question below details of one candidate is given. You have to take one of the following courses of action based on the information provided and the conditions and sub-conditions given above and mark the number of that course of action as your answer. You are not to assume anything other than the information provided in each question. All these cases are given to you as on 01.04.2010.
Shobha Gupta has secured 50 percent marks in the Interview and 40 percent marks in the Group Discussion. She has been working for the past eight years out of which four years as Manager-Credit in a bank after completing her B. A. degree with 60 percent marks. She was born on 12th September 1978.
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Rohan Maskare was born on 8th March 1974. He has been working in a bank for the past twelve years after completing his B.Com. degree with 70 percent marks. He has secured 50 percent marks in both the Group Discussion and the Interview.
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Prakash Gokhale was born on 4th August 1977. He has secured 65 percent marks in. post graduation and 58 percent marks in graduation. He has been working for the past ten years in the Advances Department of a bank after completing his post graduation. He has secured 45 percent marks in the Group Discussion and 50 percent marks in the Interview.
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Sudha Mehrotra has been working in the Advances department of a bank for the past twelve years after completing her B.Com. degree with 60 percent marks. She has secured 50 percent marks in the Group Discussion and 40 percent marks in the Interview. She was born on 15th February 1972.
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Amit Narayan was born on 28th May 1974. He has been working in the Advances department of a bank for the past eleven years after completing his B.Sc. degree with 65 percent marks. He has secured 55 percent marks in the Group discussion and 50 percent marks in the interview.
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Direction: In each question below is given a statement followed by three courses of action numbered (A), (B) and (C). A course of action is a step or administrative decision to be taken for. improvement, follow-up or further action in regard to the problem, policy, etc. On the basis of the information given in the statement, you have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide which of the suggested courses of action logically follow(s) for pursuing.
Statement : A heavy unseasonal downpour during tho last two days has paralysed the, normal life in the state in which five persons were killed but this has provided a huge relief to the problem of acute water crisis in the state.
Courses of action:
(A) The state government should set up a committee to review the alarming situation.
(B) The state government should immediately remove all the restrictions, on use of potable water in all the major cities in the state.
(C) The state government should send relief supplies to all the affected areas in the state.
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Statement: A large private bank has decided to retrench one-third of its employees in view of the huge losses incurred by it during the past three quarters.
Courses of action:
(A) The Govt. should issue a notification to general public to immediately: stop all transactions with the bank.
(B) The Govt. should direct the bank to refrain from retrenching its employees.
(C) The Govt. should ask the central bank of the country to initiate an enquiry into the bank's activities and submit its report.
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Statement: Many political activists have decided to stage demonstrations and block traffic movement in the city during peak hours to protest against the steep rise in prices of essential commodities.
Courses of action:
(A) The Govt. should immediately ban all forms of agitations in the country.
(B) The police authority of the city should deploy additional forces all over the city to help traffic movement in the city.
(C) The state administration should carry out preventive arrests of the known criminals staying in the city.
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Statement: The school dropout rate in many districts in the state has increased sharply during the last few years as the parents of these children make them work in the fields owned by others to earn enough for them to get at least one meal a day.
Courses of action:
(A) The Govt. should put up a mechanism to provide foodgrains to the poor people in these districts through public distribution system to encourage the parents to send their wards to school.
(B) The Govt. should close down some of these schools in the district and deploy the teachers of these schools to nearby schools and also ask remaining students to join these schools.
(C) Govt. should issue arrest warrants for all the parents who force their children to work in fields instead of attending classes.
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Statement: One aspirant was killed due to stampede while participating in a recruitment drive of police constables.
Courses of action:
(A) The officials incharge of the recruitment process should immediately be suspended.
(B) A team of officials should be asked to find out the circumstances which led to the death of the aspirant and submit its report within a week.
(C) The Govt. should ask the home department to stagger the number of aspirants over more number of days to avoid such incidents in future.
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Effect: Majority of the employees of the ailing organization opted for voluntary retirement scheme and left the organization with all their retirement benefits within a fortnight of launching the scheme. Which of the following can be a probable cause of the above effect ?
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Statement: Most of the companies in IT and ITES sectors in India have started hiring from engineering college campuses this year and are likely to recruit much more than yearly recruitment of the earlier years. Which of the following substantiates the facts stated in the above statement ?
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Cause: The Govt. has recently increased its taxes on petrol and diesel production by about 10 percent. Which of the following can be a possible effect of the above cause ?
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Statement : The Govt. has decided to instruct the banks to open new branches in such a way that there is one branch of any of the banks in every village of population 1000 and above or a cluster of villages with population less than 1000 to provide banking services to all the citizens. Which of the following will weaken the step taken by the Govt. ?
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The centre reportedly wants to continue providing subsidy to consumers for cooking gas and kerosene for five more years. This is not good news from the point of view of reining in the fiscal deficit. Mounting subventions for subsidies means diversion of savings by the government from investment to consumption, raising the cost of capital in the process. The government must cut expenditure on subsidies to create more fiscal space for investments in both physical and social infrastructure. It should outline a plan for comprehensive reform in major subsidies including petroleum, food and fertilizers and set goal posts.
Which of the following is an inference which can be made from the facts stated in the above paragraph ?
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Which of the following is an assumption which is implicit in the facts stated in the above paragraph ?
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Poverty me asurement is an un settled issue, both conceptuall y and methodologicall y. Since poverty is a process as well as an outcome; ma ny come out of it while others ma y be falling into it. The net effect of these two parallel processes is a proportion commonly identified as the ‘head count ratio’, but these ratios hide the fundamental dynamism that characterizes poverty in practice. The most recent poverty reestimates by an expert group has also missed thecrucial dynamism. In a study conducted on 13,000 households which represented the crucial dynamism. In a study conducted on 13,000 households whichrepresented the entire country in1993-94 and again on 2004-05, it was found that in the ten-year period 18.2% rural population moved out of poverty whereas another 22.1 % fell into it over this period. This netincrease of about four percentage points was seen to have a considerable variation across states and regions.
Which of the following is a conclusion which can be drawn from the facts stated in the above paragraph ?
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Which of the following is an assumption which is implicit in the facts stated in the above paragraph ?
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Which of the following is an inference which can be made from the facts stated in the above paragraph ?
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Number (n) of candidates (in lakhs) appearing for an entrance examination from six different states and the percentage (p) of candidates clearing the same over the years
What is the respective ratio of total number of candidates clearing the entrance exam from State B in the year 2004 to those clearing the entrance exam from State C in the same year
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In which year did the highest number of candidates clear the entrance exam from State D ?
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What is the number of candidates not clearing the entrance exam from State A in the year 2007?
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What is the total numberof candidates clearing the entrance exam from States E and F together in the year 2006 ?
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What is the average number of candidates appearing for the entrance exam from State D in the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 together ?
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An urn contains 6 red, 4 blue, 2 green and 3 yellow marbles.
If four marbles are picked at random, what is the probability that at least one is blue ?
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If two marbles are picked at random, what is the probability that both are red ?
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If three marbles are picked at random, what is the probability that two are blue and one is yellow?
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If four marbles are picked at random, what is the probability that one is green, two are blue and one is red ?
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If two marbles are picked at random, what is the probability that either both are green or both are yellow ?
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Direction: Study the given pie-charts carefully to answer the questions that follow.
Given below are three charts showing break ups of
a) Number of employees working in different departments of an organization
b) Number of males in the organization and
c) Number of employees who recently got promoted in each department
If half of the number of employees who got promoted from the IT department were males, what was the approximate percentage of males who got promoted from the IT department ?
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What is the total number of females working in the Production and Marketing departments together?
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How many females work in the Accounts department?
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The total number of employees who got promoted from all the departments together was what percent of the total number of employees working in all the departments together? (Rounded off to the nearest integer)
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The number of employees who got promoted from the HR department was what percent of the total number of employees working in that department ? (rounded off to two digits after decimal)
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Direction: The graph below gives the percentage rise in profits of two companies over the years. Study the graph carefully to answer the questions that follow.
If the profit earned by Company L in the year 2005 was Rs. 1.84 lakhs, what was the profit earned by the company in the year 2006 ?
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If the profit earned by Company M in the year 2008 was Rs. 3.63 lakhs, what was he amount of profit earned by it in the year 2006 ?
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What is the average percent rise in profit of Company L over all the years together?
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Which of the following statements is TRUE with respect to the above graph ?
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What is the percentage increase in percent rise in profit of Company M in the year 2009 from the previour year ?
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A school consisting of a total of 1560 students has boys and girls in the ratio of 7:5 respectively. All the students are enrolled in different types of hobby classes, viz: Singing, Dancing and Painting.
One-fifth of the boys are enrolled in only Dancing classes.
Twenty percent of the girls are enrolled in only Painting classes.
Ten percent of the boys are enrolled in only Singing classes.
Twenty four percent of the girls are enrolled in both Singing and Dancing classes together.
The number of girls enrolled in only Singing classes is two hundred percent of the boys enrolled in the same.
One-thirteenth of the boys are enrolled in all the three classes together.
The respective ratio of boys enrolled in Dancing and Painting classes together to the girls enrolled in the same is 2 :1 respectively.
Ten percent of the girls are enrolled in only Dancing classes whereas eight percent of the girls are enrolled in both Dancing and Painting classes together.
The remaining girls are enrolled in all the three classes together.
The number of boys enrolled in Singing and Dancing classes together is fifty percent of the number of girls enrolled in the same.
The remaining boys are enrolled in only Painting classes.
What is the total number of boys who are enrolled in Dancing ?
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Total number of girls enrolled in Singing is approximately what percent of the total number of students in the school ?
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What is the total number of students enrolled in all the three classes together ?
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Number of girls enrolled in only Dancing classes is what percent of the boys enrolled in the same? (rounded off to two digits after decimal)
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What is the respective ratio of the number of girls enrolled in only Painting classes to the number of boys enrolled in the same ?
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What is the respective ratio between the profit earned by shopkeeper U in the months February 2010 and March - 2010 together to that earned by shopkeeper Q in the same months ?
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What is the percent increase in profit of shopkeeper S in the month of December - 2009 over the previous month ? (rounded off to two digits after decimal)
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Which shopkeeper's profit kept increasing continuously over the given months ?
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What is the difference in profit earned by shopkeeper T in January - 2010 from the previous month ?
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What was the average profit earned by shopkeeper R in the months of October 2009 and November 2009 together ?
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Direction: Study the given graph carefully to answer the questions that follow:
Number of days taken by three carpenters to finish making one piece each of four different items of furniture
If Carpenter X and Carpenter Y were to make a chair together how many days would they take?
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If Carpenters X, Y and Z were to make a table together how many days would they take ?
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What is the total number of days that Carpenter Z will take to make one piece each of all the four items together ?
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The radius of a circular field is equal to the side of a square field whose perimeter is 784 feet. What is the area of the circular field ?
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In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'STRESS' be arranged
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Direction: Study the given graph carefully to answer the questions that follow Number of days taken by three carpenters to finish making one piece each of four different items of furniture
If Carpenters X, Y and Z were to make a table together how many days would they take ?
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Number of people staying in five different localities and the percentage breakup of men, women and children in them
LOCALITY TOTAL NO. PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE MEN WOMEN CHILDREN
Total number of people staying in locality J forms approximately what percent of the total number of people staying in locality F ?
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What is the total number of children staying in localities H and I together ?
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The number of women staying in which locality is the highest ?
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What is the total number of men and children staying in locality I together
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What is the respective ratio of number of men staying in locality F to the number of men staying in locality H ?
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The compound interest earned by Suresh on a certain amount at the end of two years at the rate of 8 p.c.p.a was Rs. 1,414.4. What was the total amount that Suresh got back at the end of two years in the form of principal plus interest earned?
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The respective ratio of the present ages of a mother and daughter is 7 : 1. Four years ago the respective ratio of their ages was 19:1. What will be the mother's age four years from now ?
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Three friends J, K and L jog around a circular stadium and complete one round in 12, 18 and 20 seconds respectively. In how many minutes will all the three meet again at the starting point
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4 men can complete a piece of work in 2 days. 4 women can complete the same piece of work in 4 days whereas 5 children can complete the same piece of work in 4 days. If, 2 men, 4 women and 10 children work together, in how many days can the work be completed ?
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The speed of a boat when travelling downstream is 32 Kms. / Hr. , whereas when travelling upstream it is 28 kms/hr. What is the speed of the boat in still water ?
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Number of Candidates appeared in a Competitive Examination from five centres over the years
In which of the following years was the difference in number of candidates appeared from Mumbai over the previous year the maximum ?
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In which of the following years was the number of candidates qualified from Chennai, the maximum among the given years ?
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Approximately what was the total number of candidates qualified from Delhi in 2002 and 2006 together ?
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Approximately how many candidates appearing from Kolkata in 2004 qualified in the competitive examination ?
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Approximately what was the difference between the number of candidates qualified from Hyderabad in 2001 and 2002 ?
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What is the full form of "NBFC" as used in the Financial Sector ?
100% concession has been given for travelling in the Indian Railways for patients of ____
Many a times, we read about Special Drawing Right (SDR) in newspapers. As per its definition, SDR is a monetary unit of the reserve assets of which of the following organizations / agencies?
Which of the following is/are the highlights of the Union Budget 2010-11 ?
(A) Number of new steps taken to simplify the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regime.
(B) Rs. 16,500 crore provided to ensure that the Public Sector Banks are able to attain a minimum 8% capital (Tier I) by March 2011.
(C) More than Rs. 1,74,000 crore provided for the development of the infrastructure in the country.
In how many Routes special tourist trains called "Bharat Tirth" is to start?
As per the newspaper reports, the Govt. of India made an auction of the Third Generation Spectrum (3G) recently. Which of the following ministries was actively involved in the process?
As per the recent announcement, the Govt. of India will provide an amount of Rs.48,000 crore to develop Rural Infrastructure in the country. This planned development is being undertaken under which of the following schemes ?
Ladies special trains to be renamed with the Name of ____
How much funds has been allocated to the Unique Identification Authority of India?
What is the rate of Income Tax for incomes above Rs 1.6 lakh upto Rs 5 lakh?
Recently, India took part in "Nuclear New Build 2010 Conference" organized in ____
What is the reduction in Service Charges on e-tickets?
As we know, with the launch of Nano by Tatas, India has become favourite Small Car Destination of the world. Other than India, which of the following countries is also a popular destination of small cars ?
Imports from China in the Year of 2008-09 in Rs ____
How many new teams have been added in IPL 2010?
Which countries have recently faced Tsunami Waves?
North Korea and USA decided to resume their peace talks after a gap of several months. Both the countries have a dispute over which of the following issues ?
Who amongst the following was the Chairperson of the 3th Finance Commission which submitted its report to the President of India recently ?
As per the news published in various newspapers, the RBI is considering the grant of licence to some new companies, particularly NBFCs to act as full-fledged banks. Which of the following will be considered NBFC ?
Who has scored the highest individual ODI Score?
What is an "intranet" ?
Which of the following groups of cricket teams was declared joint winner of the Col. C K Naidu Trophy for 2009 ?
Kaiane Aldorino who was crowned Miss World 2009 is from which of the following countries?
Which of the following teams won the Davis Cup Tennis Finals 2009 ?
Who amongst the following is the recipient of the "CNN-IBN Indian of the Year" Award for 2009?
The deficit reduction plan of which of the following countries was reviewed recently in the meeting of the Finance Ministers of the European Union ?
The database administrator's function in an organization is?
Every device on the Internet has a unique ____ address (also called an 'Internet address') that identifies it in the same way that a street address identifies the location of a house.
To send another station a message, the main thing a user has to know is
In a client/ server model, a client program ____
Control in design of an information system is used to?
Each of the following is a true statement except?
A set of interrelated components that collect, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization best defines -
A ____ is a computer connected to two networks.
When you save a presentation, ____
In a customer database, a customer's surname would be keyed into a ?
Who is the new Prime Minister of Hungry ?
Storing same data in many places is called
What is the first step in the "transaction processing cycle", which captures business data through various modes such as optical scanning or at an electronic commerce website ?
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is?
Who is the new Prime Minister of Denmark ?
Who is the Author of the book "My China Diary" ?
One of the following is not involved in the Growth Strategies of a Company ____
A successful "Blue Ocean Strategy" requires ____
Programs from the same developer , sold bundled together, that provide better integration and share common features, toolbars and menus are known as ____
A data warehouse is which of the following ?
____ servers store and manages files for network users.
One of the following is not included in the 7 P's of Marketing. Find the same
The target group for SME loans is ____
Home Loans can be best canvassed among ____
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Governments have traditionally equated economic progress with steel mills and cement factories. While urban centers thrive and city dwellers get rich, hundreds of millions of farmers remain mired in poverty. However, fears of food shortages, a rethinking of antipoverty priorities and the crushing recession in 2008 are causing a dramatic shift in world economic policy in favour of greater support for agriculture.
The last time when the world's farmers felt such love was in the 470s. At that time, as food prices spiked, there was real concern that the world was facing a crisis in which the planet was simply unable to produce enough grain and meat for an expanding population. Governments across the developing world and international aid organisations plowed investment into agriculture in the early 470s, while technological breakthroughs, like high-yield strains of important food crops, boosted production. The result was the Green Revolution and food production exploded.
But the Green Revolution became a victim of its own success. Food prices plunged by some 60% by the late 480s from their peak in the mid- 470s. Policymakers and aid workers turned their attention to the poor's other pressing needs, such as health care and education. Farming got starved of resources and investment. By 2004, aid directed at agriculture sank to 3.5% and 'Agriculture lost its glitter'. Also, as consumers in high-growth giants such as China and India became wealthier, they began eating more meat, so grain once used for human consumption got diverted to beef up livestock. By early 2008, panicked buying by importing countries and restrictions slapped on grain exports by some big producers helped drive prices upto heights not seen for three decades. Making matters worse, land and resources got reallocated to produce cash crops such as biofuels and the result was that voluminous reserves of grain evaporated. Protests broke out across the emerging world and fierce food riots toppled governments.
This spurred global leaders into action. This made them aware that food security is one of the fundamental issues in the world that has to be dealt with in order to maintain administrative and political stability. This also spurred the U.S. which traditionally provisioned food aid from American grain surpluses to help needy nations, to move towards investing in farm sectors around the globe to boost productivity. This move helped countries become more productive for themselves and be in a better position to feed their own people.
Africa, which missed out on the first Green Revolution due to poor policy and limited resources, also witnessed a 'change'. Swayed by the success of East Asia, the primary poverty?fighting method favoured by many policymakers in Africa was to get farmers off their farms and into modern jobs in factories and urban centers. But that strategy proved to be highly insufficient. Income levels in the countryside badly trailed those in cities while the FAO estimated that the number of poor going hungry in 2009 reached an all time high at more than one billion.
In India on the other hand, with only 40% of its farmland irrigated, entire economic boom currently underway is held hostage by the unpredictable monsoon. With much of India's farming areas suffering from drought this year, the government will have a tough time meeting its economic growth targets. In a report, Goldman Sachs predicted that if this year too receives weak rains, it could cause agriculture to contract by 2% this fiscal year, making the government's 7% GDP-growth target look 'a bit rich'. Another green revolution is the need of the hour and to make it a reality, the global community still has much backbreaking farm work to do.
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Which of the following is an adverse impact of the Green Revolution ?
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What is the author trying to convey through the phrase making the government's 7% GDP growth target look 'a bit rich' ?
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Which of the following factors was/were responsible for the neglect of the farming sector after the green revolution ?
(A) Steel and cement sectors generated more revenue for the government as compared to agriculture.
(B) Large scale protests against favouring agriculture at the cost of other important sectors such as education and healthcare.
(C) Attention of policy makers and aid organizations was diverted from agriculture to other sectors.
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What prompted leaders throughout the world to take action to boost the agriculture sector in 2008?
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What motivated the U.S. to focus on investing in agriculture across the globe ?
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What impact did the economic recession of 2008 have on agriculture ?
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What encouraged African policymakers to focus on urban jobs ?
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Which of the following had contributed to exorbitant food prices in 2008 ?
(A) Hoarding of food stocks by local wholesalers which inadvertently created a food shortage.
(B) Export of foodgrains was reduced by large producers.
(C) Diverting resources from cultivation of foodgrains to that of more profitable crops.
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Which of the following is true about the state of agriculture in India at present ?
(A) Of all the sectors, agriculture needs the highest allocation of funds.
(B) Contribution of agriculture to India's GDP this year would depend greatly upon the monsoon rains.
(C) As India is one of the high-growth countries, it has surplus food reserves to export to other nations.
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Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Governments have traditionally equated economic progress with steel mills and cement factories. While urban centers thrive and city dwellers get rich, hundreds of millions of farmers remain mired in poverty. However, fears of food shortages, a rethinking of antipoverty priorities and the crushing recession in 2008 are causing a dramatic shift in world economic policy in favour of greater support for agriculture. The last time when the world's farmers felt such love was in the '70s. At that time, as food prices spiked, there was real concern that the world was facing a crisis in which the planet was simply unable to produce enough grain and meat for an expanding population. Governments across the developing world and international aid organisations plowed investment into agriculture in the early '70s, while technological breakthroughs, like high-yield strains of important food crops, boosted production. The result was the Green Revolution and food production exploded. But the Green Revolution became a victim of its own success. Food prices plunged by some 60% by the late '80s from their peak in the mid- '70s. Policymakers and aid workers turned their attention to the poor's other pressing needs, such as health care and education. Farming got starved of resources and investment. By 2004, aid directed at agriculture sank to 3.5% and 'Agriculture lost its glitter'. Also, as consumers in high-growth giants such as China and India became wealthier, they began eating more meat, so grain once used for human consumption got diverted to beef up livestock. By early 2008, panicked buying by importing countries and restrictions slapped on grain exports by some big producers helped drive prices upto heights not seen for three decades. Making matters worse, land and resources got reallocated to produce cash crops such as biofuels and the result was that voluminous reserves of grain evaporated. Protests broke out across the emerging world and fierce food riots toppled governments. This spurred global leaders into action. This made them aware that food security is one of the fundamental issues in the world that has to be dealt with in order to maintain administrative and political stability. This also spurred the U.S. which traditionally provisioned food aid from American grain surpluses to help needy nations, to move towards investing in farm sectors around the globe to boost productivity. This move helped countries become more productive for themselves and be in a better position to feed their own people. Africa, which missed out on the first Green Revolution due to poor policy and limited resources, also witnessed a 'change'. Swayed by the success of East Asia, the primary poverty?fighting method favoured by many policymakers in Africa was to get farmers off their farms and into modern jobs in factories and urban centers. But that strategy proved to be highly insufficient. Income levels in the countryside badly trailed those in cities while the FAO estimated that the number of poor going hungry in 2009 reached an all time high at more than one billion. In India on the other hand, with only 40% of its farmland irrigated, entire economic boom currently underway is held hostage by the unpredictable monsoon. With much of India's farming areas suffering from drought this year, the government will have a tough time meeting its economic growth targets. In a report, Goldman Sachs predicted that if this year too receives weak rains, it could cause agriculture to contract by 2% this fiscal year, making the government's 7% GDP-growth target look 'a bit rich'. Another green revolution is the need of the hour and to make it a reality, the global community still has much backbreaking farm work to do.
Direction: Choose the word/group of words which is most similar it meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
STARVED
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SLAPPED
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PLOWED
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Direction: Choose the word/group of words which is most opposite it meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
PRESSING
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EVAPORATED
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Direction: Which of the phrases a), b),c) and d) given below each statement should be placed in the blank space provided so as to make a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence?
If none of the sentences is appropriate, mark e) i.e. 'None of these' as the answer.
Refuting the rationale behind frequent agitations for formation of separate States, a recent report ____
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Overlooking the fact that water scarcity intensifies during summer, ____
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He has lost most of his life's earning in the stock market but ____
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Achieving equality for women is not only a laudable goal, ____
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____ or else they would not keep electing him year after year.
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Direction: Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Drawing attention to the pitfalls of ____ solely on Uranium as a fuel for nuclear reactors, Indian scientists warned that Uranium will not last for long and thus research on Thorium as its ____ must be revived.
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In an effort to provide ____ for higher education to all, most of the universities have been providing education without adequate infrastructure, thus churning out ____ graduates every year.
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The move to allow dumping of mercury ____ an outcry from residents of the area who ____ that high levels of mercury will affect their health and destroy ecologically sensitive forest area.
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____ has been taken against some wholesale drug dealers for dealing in surgical items without a valid license and maintaining a stock of ____ drugs.
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Even as the ____ else where in the world are struggling to come out of recession, Indian consumers are splurging on consumer goods and to ____ this growth, companies are investing heavily in various sectors.
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Direction : Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) to make a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions which follow
(A) While these disadvantages of bio fuels are serious, they are the only alternate energy source of the future and the sooner we find solutions to these problems the faster we will be able to solve the problems wo are now facing with gasoline.
(B) This fuel can also help to stimulate jobs locally since they are also much safer to handle thaw gasoline and can thus have the potential to turnaround a global economy.
(C) These include dependence on fossil fuels for the machinery required to produce biofuel which ends up polluting as much as the burning of fossil fuels on roads and exorbitant cost of biofuels which makes it very difficult for the common man to switch to this option.
(D) This turnaround can potentially help to bring world peace and end the need to depend on foreign countries for energy requirements.
(E) Biofuels are made from plant sources and since these sources are available in abundance and can be reproduced on a massive scale they form an energy source that is potentially unlimited.
(F) However everything is not as green with the biofuels as it seems as there are numerous disadvantages involved which at times overshadow their positive impact.
Which of the following sentence should be the FIFTH after rearrangement ?
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Which of the following sentence should be the THIRD after rearrangement ?
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Which of the following sentence should be the FIRST after rearrangement ?
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Which of the following sentence should be the SIXTH (LAST) after rearrangement ?
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Which of the following sentence should be the SECOND after rearrangement ?
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Direction: Which of the phrases a), b), c) and d) given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct ?
If the sentence is correct as it is given and 'No correction is required', mark e) as the answer.
Soon after the Tsunami had killed thousands of people along the coasts of southern India, parliament passes a bill that proposed to set up an institutional mechanism to respond promptly to natural disasters.
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Denial of wages forced scientists and teachers at the agriculture universities throughout the country to go on strike, crippling crucial research that could help the state of agriculture in the country.
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In an attempt to boost their profits many edible oil producing companies have been engaging themselves in propaganda against commonly used oils and promoting exotic and expensive varieties of oils as healthier options.
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Thanks to numerous government initiatives, rural masses which was earlier unaware of the luxuries of urban ways of living are now connected to the same lifestyle.
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Over the last few months, while most industries are busy in restructuring operations, cutting costs and firing, the Indian pharmaceutical and healthcare industry was adding manpower and giving salary hikes.
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Direction: In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words/phrases are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.
There is a considerable amount of research about the factors that make a company innovate. So is it possible to create an environment ____ (I) to innovation? This is a particularly pertinent _____ (II) for India today. Massive problems in health, education etc. ____ (III) be solved using a conventional approach but _____ (IV) creative and innovative solutions that can ensure radical change and _____ (V). There are several factors in India's _____ (VI). Few countries have the rich diversity that India or its large, young population _____ (VII). While these _____ (VIII) innovation policy interventions certain additional steps are also required. These include _____ (IX) investment in research and development by _____ (X) the government and the private sector, easy transfer of technology from the academic world etc. To fulfill its promise of beng prosperous and to be at the forefront, India must be innovative.
I
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IV
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V
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VI
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VII
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VIII
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IX
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Direction: In each of the following questions four words are given of which two words are most nearly the same or opposite in meaning. Find the two words which are most nearly the same or opposite in meaning and indicate the number of the correct letter combination, by darkening the appropriate oval in your answer sheet.
(A) consent
(B) nascent
(C) emerging
(D) insecure
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(A) elated
(B) eccentric
(C) explicit
(D) abnormal
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(A) abundance
(B) incomparable
(C) projection
(D) plethora
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(A) purposefully
(B) inaccurately
(C) inadvertently
(D) unchangeably
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(A) germane
(B) generate
(C) reliable
(D) irrelevant
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