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Test Code
FULL LENGTH TEST (FLT)–1
TS21E1048
CSAT
PAPER–II
Time Allowed: Two Hours Maximum Marks: 200

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1. You start from your home in North (a) Conclusion –I
direction and walk for 3 km. Then you turn (b) Conclusion – II
right and walk 4 km. Now you turn right (c) Neither Conclusion – I nor Conclusion –
and walk 5 km. Now turning left, you walk II
2 km. Again, you turn left and move 2 km. (d) Both Conclusion – I and Conclusion – II
Finally turning left, you again walk 2 km.
In which direction and how far are you
4. In the following number series only one
from your starting position?
number is wrong. Find out the wrong
(a) 1.5 km East number.
(b) 4 km East 3, 12, 8, 19, 13, 32, 18, 42, 23, 52
(c) 1.5 km West (a) 12
(d) 4.5 km West (b) 19
(c) 42
2. Two statements are given followed by two (d) 32
conclusions:
Statements: 5. Students of a class are standing in a line
All numbers are divisible by 5. facing north. Ram’s position is 21st from
All numbers are divisible by 14. left and Seeta’s position is 11th from right.
If Ram interchanges his position with
Conclusion – I
Seeta, then Ram’s position is 39th. What is
All numbers are divisible by 70. the number of students in the line?
Conclusion – II (a) 49
All numbers are divisible by 10. (b) 50
Which of the above conclusions logically (c) 51
follows/follow from the two statements (d) 60
given above?
(a) Conclusion –I
6. There statements S1, S2 and S3 are given
(b) Conclusion – II below followed by a question:
(c) Neither Conclusion – I nor Conclusion – S1: Chaitali has scored less marks than
II Deven, but more marks than Anuj
(d) Both Conclusion – I and Conclusion – II and Bina.
S2: Deven has scored the maximum
3. Two statements are given followed by two marks.
conclusions: S3: Anuj has scored more marks than
Bina.
Statements:
Who among the above four has scored the
Some tables are not chairs.
least marks?
Some chairs are not pencils.
Which of the above statements is/are not
Conclusion – I
required to identify who is has scored the
Some chairs are tables. least marks?
Conclusion – II
(a) S1 is not required.
Some tables are pencils. (b) S2 is not required.
Which of the above conclusions logically (c) S3 is not required.
follows/follow from the two statements
(d) S1 and S2 are not required.
disregarding commonly known facts?

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7. Between 1 to 100 (both included) how may Because tribal peoples are considered primitive,
numbers are there in which the digit 1 is vestiges of the past incapable of contributing
used? anything significant to the present and the
(a) 18 future, they have not been listened to seriously
(b) 19 in matters concerning the affairs and state of
our world.
(c) 20
(d) 11
11. With reference to the above passage, the
following assumptions have been made:
8. A shopkeeper has one spherical laddoo of
1. The definition of tribal as is commonly
radius 5 cm. With the same amount of
accepted in general public is archaic in
material, how many laddoos of radius 2.5
nature.
cm can be made?
2. Tribal people live in harmony with
(a) 2
nature and we need to learn this from
(b) 4
them.
(c) 8
3. The knowledge and perspective of tribal
(d) Cannot be determined.
people can be a significant contribution
for all of us.
9. The present ages of three persons is in Which of the above assumptions is/are not
proportions 4 : 7 : 9. Eight years ago, the valid?
sum of their ages was 56. Find their (a) 1 and 3 only
present ages (in years).
(b) 2 only
(a) 8, 20, 28
(c) 3 only
(b) 16, 28, 36
(d) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 20, 35, 45
(d) None of these.
Passage – 2
Presently the need for more and more
10. By selling 45 lemons for Rs. 40, a man surveillance and official, rather than citizen,
loses 20%. How many lemons should he convenience dominate acquisition. Inevitably the
sell for Rs. 24 to gain 20% in the citizen is being digitized into so many bytes and
transaction? algorithms that we must fear being atomized
(a) 16 from individuals into mere numbers that can be
(b) 18 configured to control our every move, predict our
(c) 20 thoughts and perhaps even manipulate them to
(d) 22 the purposes of the powerful. This is not fantasy.
Even as we race forward, protection is feeble.
Judges are not trained to understand
Passage – 1
sophisticated science in order to draw legal lines
The ‘Tribal Question’, or the social, political,
in protection of individual freedoms that must
economic and cultural alienation of those called
never be crossed. It will require much more skill
‘tribal’, is one of modern South Asia’s most long-
and spine before the people can rely on the
standing and vexing problems. An important and
formal system to mediate power and deliver
in fact the first cause of this problem has been
effective even-handed justice to all.
the mythification of these communities as
‘tribal’, and therefore as backward and primitive.

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12. With reference to the above passage which 3. It is difficult to find a solution of
of the following could be the most rational malnutrition in India in near future.
and practical implications? 4. Availability of food alone is not going to
1. Stop the process of digitization and first solve the problem of malnutrition.
develop the tools to ensure freedom and
Which of the above assumptions is/are
liberty for people.
valid?
2. Judges are trained to help them
(a) 1 and 2 only
understand the true nature and scope
digitization. (b) 3 and 4 only
3. People may raise voice against the (c) 2, 3 and 4 only
government for controlling their lives (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
through surveillance.
4. Inform people about the dangers of
Passage-4
digitization and what they can do to
For a sovereign nation to build effective cyber
avoid their manipulation.
defences, evolution of the applicable domestic
Select the correct answer using the code
and international law is essential to complement
given below:
efforts to upgrade the technological capacity of
(a) 1 and 2 only
the state and bolster avenues to strengthen
(b) 2, 3 and 4 only
international cooperation. Domestically, recent
(c) 1, 3 and 4 only
policy trends have been focused on ‘digital
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
sovereignty’, manifested in policies like data
localization, which was watered down under the
Passage-3 2019 Personal Data Protection Bill. Owing to the
India’s battle against malnutrition has been long inherent nature of cyberspace as a borderless
and arduous. Despite some recent realm, such policies cannot be implemented
improvements, India is amongst countries with
without sovereign control over cyberspace,
the highest proportion of stunted and wasted
including its physical layer (DNS route servers,
children. In addition, we now face a triple
routers, fibre optic cables, hardware etc.) as well
burden of malnutrition – undernutrition,
micronutrient malnutrition and low but as logical layer (code, such as the Transmission
increasing levels of overweight and obesity. As is Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or ‘TCP/IP’),
well known, malnutrition is a multidimensional or cooperation of the private sector, especially
problem, affected by a number of factors, Big Tech corporations. Such a scenario poses
proximate as well as underlying. While the serious hurdles for domestic law enforcement –
immediate causes of malnutrition are lack of an inherently sovereign function – and
adequate and appropriate diets and poor health, consequently, manifests as a government
there are also several underlying structural restriction on freedom of expression exercised
factors such as poverty and gender disparities. through censorship, or ‘moderation’ of the
content layer (e.g. Websites, social media, e-
13. With reference to the above passage, which marketplaces etc.), that remains the most visible
of the following assumptions can be made? and accessible component of cyberspace. In
1. India is not expected to face extreme cases, cutting off access to this layer
malnutrition and obesity at the same
altogether by way of internet shutdowns tends to
time.
be the preferred mode of ‘preventive policing’ of
2. Our understanding of malnutrition as a
cyberspace.
concept is very limited.

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14. Which of the following is the most logical 16. With reference to the above passage, the
and crucial message given in the passage? following assumptions have been made:
(a) Maintaining sovereignty of a nation has 1. Many gaps in Indian health care centre
become more difficult since the advent are due to structural weaknesses that
information technology revolution. have plagued ICDS for so long.
(b) Governments have to completely control 2. There is a need to engage private
various tools of information technology players in the ICDS to ensure better
to maintain sovereignty. services through this mechanism.
(c) Maintaining digital sovereignty is more 3. ICDS plays an active role in defining the
difficult in democratic countries in
wellbeing of the human resource of
comparison to other political systems.
India.
(d) Big tech companies are the biggest
Which of the above assumptions is/are
threat to a nation’s sovereignty.
valid?
(a) 1 and 2 only
15. With reference to the above passage the
(b) 2 and 3 only
following assumptions have been made
(c) 3 only
1. Developed countries can easily maintain
their digital sovereignty. (d) 1 and 3 only
2. Countries having strong research and
development in technology will fare 17. Which of the following statements best
better in comparison to other countries. reflects the critical message of the passage?
Which of the above assumptions is/are (a) India should remove the structural gaps
valid? in the ICDS to provide holistic health
(a) 1 only coverage to her children.
(b) 2 only (b) Focus on health will ensure that India
(c) Both 1 and 2 becomes a developed nation soon.
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 (c) Funding is key to the success of any
government programme.
Passage-5 (d) Government programmes ensure
The Integrated Child Development Scheme inclusiveness of people and this in long
(ICDS) in India, which has been the central run ensures growth and development.
platform for all responses to malnutrition,
provides essential services such as 18. Book of which subject is at the sixth
supplementary nutrition, growth monitoring and position from the top?
nutrition education for children under the age of
(a) Cartography
three through anganwadis, but these centres are
(b) Poetry
not equipped to play the role of full-fledged
childcare centres. Enhancing the capacities of (c) Psychology
anganwadis in terms of human resources, space (d) Philosophy
and additional funding could go a long way in
reaching out to the young child. Additionally, 19. Two statements S1 and S2 are given below
maternity entitlements, which include antenatal followed by a question:
care and nutrition as well as wage
S1: The total age of Kajol and Tanmay
compensation, can contribute to healthier
together is more than that of Suman.
pregnancies and enable exclusive breastfeeding,
both of which are critical for better nutrition S2: The total age of Rohit and Kajol
outcomes for children. together is less than that of Suman.

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 Question: into smaller groups of equal number of
Rohit, Kajol, Tanmay and Suman are four soldiers?
friends. Who is the oldest among them? (a) 5 soldiers
(a) S1 alone is sufficient to answer the (b) 25 soldiers
question. (c) 100 soldiers
(b) S2 alone is sufficient to answer the (d) 325 soldiers
question.
(c) S1 and S2 together are sufficient to 23. A simple mathematical operation in each
answer the question, but neither S1 number of the sequence 5, 10, 26, 50, 121,
alone nor S2 alone is sufficient to 170, … results in a sequence with respect
answer the question. to prime numbers. Which one of the
(d) S1 and S2 together are not sufficient to following is the next numbers in the
answer the question. sequence?
(a) 289
(b) 290
20. Two statements S1 and S2 are given below
followed by a question: (c) 361
S1: X + Y is a two-digit number greater (d) 362
than 50.
S2: Y is a two-digit number. 24. Abhishek is carrying a newspaper from
which a page has fallen off. The pages of
the paper are numbered in a series starting
Question: from 1 and each page of the newspaper is
What is the value of prime number X? separate. If the sum of the number on the
(a) S1 alone is sufficient to answer the newspaper left is 125. The torn page
question. contains which of the following numbers.
(b) S2 alone is sufficient to answer the (a) 5, 6
question. (b) 11, 12
(c) S1 and S2 together are sufficient to (c) 8, 9
answer the question, but neither S1 (d) 10, 11
alone nor S2 alone is sufficient to
answer the question. 25. Two statements S1 and S2 are given below
(d) S1 and S2 together are not sufficient to followed by a question:
answer the question. S1: The lowest quotation is Rs.90
S2: One of the quotations is Rs.125.
21. In order to weigh wheat from 1 kg to 100
kgs on a normal balance, what is the Question:
minimum number of individual weights The average of three quotations for a
that are required to measure them perfectly particular item is Rs.120. Is the highest
(all weighs to be done in natural numbers)? quotation less than or equal to Rs.139?
(a) 100 (a) The question can be answered with the
(b) 50 help of S1 alone.
(c) 5 (b) The question can be answered with the
(d) 25 help of S2 alone.
(c) The question can be answered with the
help of both S1 and S2, but not with
22. There are two group of soldiers one of 750
the help of either statement alone.
soldiers and other 325 soldiers. What is the
(d) The question cannot be answered even
size of the largest group of soldiers which
with the help of both S1 and S2.
can divide all soldiers of both the group

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26. Two statements S1 and S2 are given below 28. How many students learn only Karate?
followed by a question: (a) 20
S1: The engine trouble developed after (b) 30
traveling 40 kms from Bus Stop P and (c) 0
the speed reduced to 1/4th of the
(d) 40
original speed.
S2: The engine trouble developed after
29. How many students learn only Judo?
traveling 40 kms from Bus Stop P in
two hours and the speed reduced (a) 20
1/4th of the original speed. (b) 40
(c) 0
Question: (d) 14
A bus started from Bus Stop P, developed
engine trouble and reached Bus Stop Q, 40 30. How many students learn both Karate and
minutes late. What is the distance between Judo?
Bus Stops P and Q? (a) 0
(a) S1 alone is sufficient to answer the (b) 10
question. (c) 60
(b) S2 alone is sufficient to answer the (d) 20
question.
(c) S1 and S2 together are sufficient to
31. If the students who learn both Judo and
answer the question, but neither S1 Karate stop learning Judo, then what
alone nor S2 alone is sufficient to percentage of the total number of students
answer the question.
learns Judo?
(d) S1 and S2 together are not sufficient to (a) 50%
answer the question.
(b) 33 1/3%
(c) 40%
27. Two statements S1 and S2 are given below
(d) 55%
followed by a question:
S1: (x + 1)(y + 1) is even
32. If 50% of those learning only Karate stop
S2: x(y + 2) is odd
learning Karate and start learning Judo,
then what is the ratio of the number of
Question: students learning Judo to those learning
Are x and y odd, when both are integers? Karate?
(a) S1 alone is sufficient to answer the (a) 3 : 1
question. (b) 2 : 1
(b) S2 alone is sufficient to answer the (c) 4 : 1
question. (d) Cannot be determined.
(c) S1 and S2 together are sufficient to
answer the question, but neither S1
Directions for following 3 (three) items: Read
alone nor S2 alone is sufficient to
the information and answer the items that
answer the question.
follow.
(d) S1 and S2 together are not sufficient to
At the end of a Football match series, when five
answer the question.
players were arranged in the ascending order of
goals scored by them, O was fourth while N was
first. When they were arranged in descending

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order for fouls committed by them, K replaces O 36. Which one of the following is the best
while O replaces L. M's position remains implied in the passage?
unchanged. K has scored more goals than M. L (a) Cinema shapes the thoughts and
is having first rank in the ranking and fifth in
sensibilities of Indians in a significant
another.
manner.
(b) Cinema has impacted the Indian society
33. Who has scored the highest goals in the
in a positive as well as negative fashion.
series?
(c) Indian cinema has showcased the
(a) K
culture of India to the world.
(b) L
(d) Indian movie stars are appreciated in
(c) M
India as well as abroad.
(d) None of these.

34. Who has committed the lowest number of Passage-2

fouls? In its first major political iteration as the South
(a) O Indian Liberal Federation or ‘Justice Party’ as it
(b) M is popularly known, it sought to counter what is
(c) P known as Brahmin/casteist hegemony. It
(d) None of these. extended through its second major political
iteration as the Self-Respect Movement against

35. Who has second highest goal score and the orthodoxy of ‘Vedic Hinduism’, in an alleged
fouls, respectively? continuation of the so-called heterodox religions
(a) O, K and sects of India. The Self-Respect Movement
led by Periyar E.V. Ramasamy laid the popular
(b) O, M
base of the movement throughout the state,
(c) K, M
subsequently going on to espouse the cause of
(d) M, M
Tamil language and identity in opposition to
Hindi. This was later consolidated by the third
Directions for following 5 (five) items: Read
major iteration as the Dravida Munnetra
the following five passages and answer the items
Kazhagam, the DMK.
that follow. Your answers to these items should
be based on the passages only.
37. On the basis of the above passage, the
Passage-1 following assumptions have been made:
Salman Rushdie called Hindi cinema a love song 1. In South India, casteism is an
to India’s mongrel self. Regardless of where one important theme and it has impacted
comes from, and away from the feverish hype of polity as well.
nationalist politics, Indians are Indians through 2. The politics in South India focussed on
the way in which Hindi film is part of their being.
narrow regional issues.
Snatches of dialogue; fashions; dance moves;
Which of the above assumptions is/are
ways of expressing love and hatred, and of being
valid?
in the world – there is an enormous
encyclopaedia and archive that exists as a (a) 1 only
supplement. One may turn to one’s parents, (b) 2 only
teachers, or gods, but when it comes to the (c) Both 1 and 2
crunch, the answer is clear. Nothing happens
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
that has not happened before in cinema.

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 Passage-3 more apt. Irrespective of what we call it, this
The Supreme Court as an institution has, like a strip of land surface has had a much longer
strange incandescent moon, waxed and waned geological history and stronger influence on the
in the public mind in spectacular ways. In the evolutionary unfolding of life forms and human
last year, hosannas have been sung to its cultures in peninsular India than any other
progressive decisions on gender and human feature. In recent times, the Western Ghats has
rights, creating a literal poetics for Indian
been in the news repeatedly. A few years ago, it
democracy. At the same time, the court has
was regarding a couple of controversial expert
become a source of suspicion and doubt as
committee reports. More recently, it was in the
judges battle it out among themselves. Chief
news due to natural disasters.
Justice Dipak Misra and his colleagues played
the quarrelsome household, washing the court’s
linen in public as the self-styled battle over the 39. Which one of the following statements best
integrity of the court raged in public. Not to be summarizes the idea given by the author
outdone, Chief Justice Gogoi created the seeds of the passage?
of scandal in the way he faced charges of sexual
(a) People have started to take the note of
harassment from his office colleague. What
the Western Ghats because the
stunned people was not the charge but the
ecological importance attached to this
manner in which the judge handled it. The
gossip and the debate about the court raged, landform.
moving from the pedantic to the puerile, (b) Recent ecological disasters in the
exposing strangely the human face of the court. Western Ghats have shown the
importance that is due to the Western
38. Which of the following is the most logical Ghats.
and rational inference that can be made (c) The Himalayas have hogged all the
from the above passage? limelight and that has led to lack of
(a) The image of the Supreme Court of importance to the Western Ghats.
India needs a makeover due to recent
(d) None of the above.
behaviour of some judges.
(b) The Supreme Court has to remove those
judges whose behaviour is questionable. Passage-5

(c) There will always be some judges who Once asked by an American missionary about
will do unconventional things and they what he most despaired of in India, Gandhiji
will get noticed for that. replied: ‘The hard-heartedness of the educated
(d) The Supreme Court, as an institution, Indian’. It hasn’t become any better since. A
is run by individuals who are rising new consumerist urban middle class has
susceptible to commit mistakes. legitimated a model of development that
increases the divide between the ‘haves’ and the
Passage-4 ‘have-nots’, to the point that the underlying
In the bland terminology of geographical tensions and stress in the democratic system is
sciences, the Western Ghats is just a prominent turning into a perversely majoritarian
landform in peninsular India. Few in India would authoritarian state. There’s little if any concern
have heard of it. Far less would know of its for Gandhiji’s least and last Indian as the
present reality and only an insignificant few talisman of our freedom struggle. Against this
would feel concerned and would want to be more hard-heartedness Gandhiji urged compassion,
involved. Even its hybrid name does not strike a not merely as a personal virtue but as a political
chord in us. Sahyadris perhaps would have been necessity.

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40. Which of the following statements best 44. 5 litres of water is added to a certain
presents the crux of the passage? quantity of pure milk costing Rs. 3 per litre.
(a) Indian’s, at large, are not sympathetic If, by selling the mixture at the same price
to the needs of the people. as before a profit of 20% is made, what is
(b) Political values can play an important the amount of pure milk in the mixture?
role in making Indian more (a) 25 litres
compassionate. (b) 20 litres
(c) Lack of compassion is triggered by the (c) 18 litres
consumerist attitude of the Indian (d) 22 litres
middle class.
(d) Struggle between haves and have-nots 45. Nine litres are drawn from a cask full of
will convert the democratic society into wine and it is then filled with water. Nine
authoritarian one. litres of the mixture is drawn and the cask
is again filled with water. The quantity of
41. How many zeros are there at the end of the wine now left in the cask is to that of the
product of 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 …. x 19 x 20? water in it as 16:9. How much does the
(a) 10 cask hold?
(b) 8 (a) 36 litres
(c) 6 (b) 27 litres
(d) 4 (c) 45 litres
(d) 63 litres
42. The average of k numbers is 20 and the
average of 10 of these numbers is 10. In 46. Some mice live in house A. A cat attacks
terms of k, what is the average of the and kills 24 mice. The remaining mice run
remaining numbers? to the next house B where their number
(a) (20k + 100)/k gets doubled because there are an equal
(b) (k – 5)/ (k – 10) number of mice already there. The cat
follows the mice and kills again 24 mice.
(c) (20k – 100)/10
The remaining mice run to the next house
(d) 20(k – 5)/ (k – 10)
C where again their number gets doubled
because there are some mice too. The cat
43. Two equal sums of money are lent at the attacks the mice and again kills another 24
same time at 8% and 7% per annum simple of them in the house C. Finally, when the
interest. The former is recovered 6 months remaining mice go to the house D and
earlier than the later and the amount in double their number the cat kills all the 24
each case is Rs. 2,560. The sum and the mice present there. How many mice were
time for which the sums of money are lent there to start with?
out are:
(a) 32 mice
(a) Rs. 1,500, 3.5 years and 4 years
(b) 49 mice
(b) Rs. 2,000, 3.5 years and 4 years
(c) 45 mice
(c) Rs. 2,000, 4 years and 5.5 years
(d) 37 mice
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47. On nth day, n persons work, (where n = 1, the number satisfy the inequality 3x + 4 ≥
2, 3, …..) means, on first day, only one 229, is
person works; on second day 2 persons (a) 37/50
work, and so on like this. If the work is (b) 38/50
completed in 25 days, how many days it
(c) 1/4
takes to complete the same work by a team
(d) 1/3
of 25 people, if they work regularly?
(a) 9
52. Out of the total of 200 musicians in
(b) 13
Rehman Music Club, 10% can play all the
(c) 12
three instruments- guitar, violin and flute.
(d) 15 The number of musicians who can play
only two of the above instruments is 70.
48. 4-digit numbers are formed using the digits The number of musicians who can play the
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 in all possible ways guitar alone is 80. What is the total
without repetition. How many of them are number of those who can play violin alone
exactly divisible by 2? or flute alone?
(a) 540 (a) 20
(b) 360 (b) 30
(c) 420 (c) 40
(d) 840 (d) 50

49. 256 players participate in a chess Read the following paragraph and answer the
tournament. Two players play a match. question that follows: A marketing head of a
Matches are played on a knock-out basis, company ran a set of advertisements in a
wherein loser in a match is eliminated from reputed travel magazine and on its website. Now
the tournament. All the matches produce a he has identified that ad campaigns in magazine
winner. How many matches have to be could not get any direct information about
played to determine the winner of the consumer response to the ads published in the
tournament? magazines. At the same time, the consumer
(a) 257 response to the ads on the website was much
(b) 255 more limited than is typical for website ads.
Based on above, they concluded that consumer
(c) 256
response to the magazine was probably below
(d) 512
par as well.

50. India and England are playing a cricket

53. The marketing head’s reasoning does which
one-day tournament, which contains 5
one of the following?
matches. Each win gives 2 points, draw
(a) bases a prediction of the intensity of a
gives one point and loss does not give any
phenomenon on information about the
points. The teams who score more points
intensity of that phenomenon’s cause.
win the tournament. If there is one match
was draw exactly. In how many ways India (b) uses information about the typical
can win the tournament? frequency of events of a general kind to
draw a conclusion about the probability
(a) 6
of a particular event of that kind.
(b) 10
(c) infers a statistical generalization from
(c) 25
claims about a large number of specific
(d) 30 instances.
(d) uses a case in which direct evidence is
51. A natural number is selected such that it available to draw a conclusion about an
satisfies 1 ≤x ≤ 100. The probability that analogous case in which direct evidence
is unavailable.

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Directions for following 2 (two) items: Read Passage-2
the following two passages and answer the items State violence is the paradigmatic form of
that follow. Your answers to these items should modern violence. While we do recognize caste,
be based on the passages only. gender and other forms of social violence, in our
conceptualizations of violence today the state
Passage-1 inevitably comes into play. This is because
In 1951, India was still a new nation, still modern politics institutes a foundational
addressing and dressing the deep wounds of equation between the concept of the state and
Partition, still struggling to bring its staggeringly the concept of violence. Liberalism, we know,
disparate peoples under one umbrella. This defines the state as that agency which, by
struggle for coherence was reflected in the era’s absorbing and containing violence within itself,
cinema, which was using the power of makes society possible. The state assumes
storytelling to create an idea of a country, of monopoly of violence and post-facto redeploys it,
compositeness. Entertainment and education in a selective and regulated manner, in order to
were expected to go hand in hand in those days: enforce sociability amongst its subjects
a film needed to be a message in a bottle to go (‘pacification’ as it is tellingly labelled in earlier
mainstream, to spread its wares among the colonial and current geopolitical lingo) and so
masses. India, then and now, has spoken in ensure liberty and security of life, person and
many tongues: popular Hindi cinema became, by property.
default and design, the language everyone
understood. By creating an accessible grammar, 55. Which of the following is the most logical
it allowed people to easily distinguish between inference from the above passage?
good and bad, hero and villain, right and wrong, (a) State uses violence to establish fear of
and familiar characters (and events). As it grew law and peace in the society.
in reach and popularity, the language of cinema (b) Use of state violence shows that the
became the shorthand by which many socio- state is in the hands of autocratic
economic complexities became understandable. leaders.
What is noteworthy is that by and large, the
(c) The philosophy of state violence is
sway it holds on popular imagination remains
relatively new in the annals of political
undiminished.
science.
(d) The idea of state violence derives
54. In the context of the above passage, which strength from the pillar that establish
one of the following best reflects the peace.
critical message of the passage?
(a) Cinema has utilized the tragedy of
56. A bag contains 64 marbles of white, green
partition to connect with people and
and red colors. Probability of selecting red
educate them.
marble is 3/16 and the difference between
(b) Cinema has taken inspiration from the number of green and red marbles is 20.
major events of history and used them How many white marbles are there in the
to make films. bag?
(c) Cinema has played a role in simplify (a) 12
socio-economic complexities prevailing
(b) 14
in India.
(c) 16
(d) Cinema has played a major role uniting
(d) 20
when India emerged out partition.

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57. An anti-aircraft gun can take a maximum Read the following information and answer
of 4 shots at an enemy plane moving away the questions that follow: The following table
from it. The probabilities of hitting the gives the percentage distribution of population of
plane at the first, second, third and fourth five states, P, Q, R, S and T on the basis of
shot are 0.4, 0.3, 0.2 and 0.1, respectively. poverty line and also on the basis of sex.
What is the probability that the gun hits
the plane? Percentage Proportion of Males and
(a) 0.697 of Females
(b) 0.0024 Population Below Above
State
(c) 0.3024 below the Poverty Poverty
(d) 0.586 Poverty Line Line
Line M:F M:F
58. How many different words can be formed P 35 5:6 6:7
from the letters of the word EDUCATION so
that vowels are always together? Q 25 3:5 4:5
(a) 7! R 24 1:2 2:3
(b) 5! * 5! S 19 3:2 4:3
(c) 7! * 4!
T 15 5:3 3:2
(d) 5! *4!

59. A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first 62. If the male population above poverty line
contains 25% water and the rest milk. The for State R is 1.9 million, then the total
second contains 50% water. How much population of State R is?
milk should he mix from each of the (a) 4.5 million
containers so as to get 12 litres of milk
(b) 4.85 million
such that the ratio of water to milk is 3:5?
(c) 5.35 million
(a) 5 litres, 7 litres
(d) 6.25 million
(b) 7 litres, 4 litres
(c) 6 litres, 6 litres
(d) 4 litres, 8 litres 63. What will be the number of females above
the poverty line in the State S if it is known
60. A merchant marks his goods up by 75% that the population of State S is 7 million?
above his cost price. What is the maximum (a) 3 million
% discount that he can offer so that he (b) 2.43 million
ends up selling at no profit or loss? (c) 1.33 million
(a) 75%
(d) 5.7 million
(b) 46.67%
(c) 300%
64. What will be the male population above
(d) 42.85%
poverty line for State P if the female
population below poverty line for State P is
61. The C.P of 21 articles is equal to S.P of 18
2.1 million?
articles. Find the gain or loss percent.
(a) 2.1 million
(a) 16%
(b) 2.3 million
(b) 15%
(c) 14% (c) 2.7 million
(d) None of these. (d) 3.3 million

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65. If the population of males below poverty (a) 6.66%
line for State Q is 2.4 million and that for (b) 10%
State T is 6 million, then the total (c) 12.5%
populations of States Q and T are in the
(d) 20%
ratio?
(a) 1:3
Directions for following 6 (six) items: Read the
(b) 2:5
following two passages and answer the items
(c) 3:7 that follow. Your answers to these items should
(d) 4:9 be based on the passages only.

66. There were 35 students in a hostel. Due to Passage-1

the admission of 7 new students, the Though newspaper reports would have you
expenses of the mess were increased by Rs. believe that this is the worst-ever stock market
42 per day, while the average expenditure crisis India has faced for a long time, stock
per head diminished by Re. 1. What was market regulars will tell you it’s just one of the
the original expenditure of the mess? many that surface from time to time. Prithvi
(a) Rs. 420 Haldea, who runs Prime Database, will tell you
(b) Rs. 400 that India’s stock markets have had close to one
(c) Rs. 520 scam every year in the past decade. Sure, these
(d) Rs. 500 have not followed a neat calendar, in the sense
that some scams have overlapped and there
were a couple of scam-less years. But since there
67. Four years ago, the average age of four
were 10 big scams in the past decade, it’s one
friends was 21 years. Now, with a fifth
and the same thing. In each case, as in the
friend joining the group, their average has
current stock market scandal, the country’s
become 24 years. What is the present age
regulators have been found wanting, even
of the new friend?
squabbling over whose primary responsibility it
(a) 20 years was to check the scam.
(b) 16 years In the case of the ‘vanishing companies’ scandal
(c) 25 years that surfaced between 1992 and 1996, around
(d) 19 years 3,911 companies raised Rs 25,000 crore in the
primary capital markets and then simply
68. A bag contains One rupee, 50p and 25p disappeared. Or just did not set up the projects
coins in the ratio 5 : 3 : 2. If the total for which the money was raised – certainly the
amount is Rs.70, find the total number of funds vanished. So, for instance, Asian
coins. Consolidated raised Rs 115 crore from investors,
(a) 70 promising to set up a project to make 500
million aluminium beverage cans a year, but
(b) 80
never set up the unit. Last heard, the company
(c) 90
was being wound up. The Asian Group, by the
(d) 100 way, also set up a factory to produce beer, and
raised funds separately to make the seals for the
69. In an office, on a particular day, 10% of the top of beverage cans; that firm was called Asian
employees came late and also receive Tops.
punishment. If this represents only 80% of But neither SEBI, the Department of Company
all those who had been late in the past, Affairs (DCA), any of the country’s various stock
what is maximum % of all employees who exchanges, or even the police, bothered to
had been fined at least once?

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penalise the group for the loss to investors (a) Asian Group should be blamed for the
through their fraudulent behaviour. For many its vanishing companies.
years, in fact, SEBI argued that this was not its (b) Expose the wrongs in the society is not
jurisdiction, as did the DCA. Similarly, when an easy task.
plantation companies raised somewhere in the (c) Misdeeds of prominent people can be
region of Rs 50,000 crore by promising huge exposed but monitoring agency is
returns to investors who put in funds into their lacking.
teak plantation schemes, and then failed to
(d) The stock market’s history of scams is
deliver, there was a dispute over who was to
replete with instances the sleeping
regulate such schemes – SEBI, the DCA, or, hold
regulators,
your breath, the Ministry of Forests! Apart from
the sleeping regulators, one of the most
fascinating aspects of the current stock market Passage-2
scandal is that it is replete with instances of THE most obvious thing about the past is that it
history repeating itself. is past. No remarkable wisdom is required to
notice this, yet it is difficult – especially in
modern, literate societies – to overcome the
70. According to the passage given above:
temptation to live in the past. The construction
1. The Asian Group of companies is a
and institutionalization of a national memory of
fraudulent company.
the past necessarily implies imparting to the
2. India’s stock markets have had only one past a chronic half-life. Modern systems of mass
scam every year in the past. education serve as a prime instrument of this
Which of the above statements is true? process, and it depends on the quality of a
(a) Only 1 system of education what kind of half-life the
(b) Only 2 past will have – leaky or self-contained? A leaky
(c) Both 1 and 2 half-life suggests the availability of the past as a
resource for evoking passions and nostalgia. In
(d) Neither 1 nor 2.
the metaphor of radioactive waste I am using,
‘self-contained’ knowledge of the past would
71. According to the passage given above: mean that it is accompanied by the awareness
1. Between 1992 – 1996, around 911 that the past is past.
companies raised Rs 25,000 crore in My recently published study (Prejudice and
the primary capital markets and then Pride, Penguin Books) of school textbooks used
simply disappeared. for the teaching of history in contemporary India
2. Asian Consolidated raised Rs 500 crore and Pakistan shows that both countries
from investors, promising to set up a transmit the knowledge of the past in a highly
project to make 115 million aluminium ‘leaky’ manner. This finding can hardly surprise
beverage cans a year. anyone, given the backward and inefficient
Which of the statements given above are systems of education both India and Pakistan
false? have, and also in view of the low priority they
(a) only 1 attach to the school-level teaching of social
(b) only 2 sciences in general, and history in particular.

(c) 1 and 2 In both systems of education, the teaching of

history is perceived primarily as a means of
(d) None
citizenship-training for nation-building.
Although this perception is not unique to India
72. Which of the following best represents the and Pakistan, the extent to which it influences
main idea of the passage? the pedagogy of social sciences, especially
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the nation-building role of history leaves no 76. A tap is dripping water at a rate of 20 ml
room whatsoever for pedagogic objectives, such per minute.
as inculcating curiosity about the past and How long will it take, to the nearest minute,
imparting intellectual skills to make sense of it. for 1 litre of water to be leaked from the
The pedagogic poverty of Indian and Pakistani tap?
textbooks becomes all the more influential, given
(a) 38 mins
the dominant role and recall- oriented character
(b) 49 mins
of the examination system and its linkages with
the prescribed textbook. (c) 50 mins
(d) 52 mins

73. Which of the following is an appropriate

title for the passage? 77. On Tuesday the temperature is 1 ºC.
(a) Education system in India. By Wednesday it has dropped to –2 ºC.
(b) Indian and Pakistani textbooks. The temperature drops by twice as much
(c) Teaching History: India & Pakistan from Wednesday to Thursday. What is the
temperature on Thursday?
(d) The Past is Past!
(a) 4 °C
(b) 6 °C
74. Which of the following is true as per the
passage? (c) – 8 °C

1. Living in the past requires remarkable (d) – 5 °C

wisdom.
2. India and Pakistan have a backward 78. What is the nth term of this sequence?
and inefficient system of education. 3 8 13 18 23
3. A low priority is attached to teaching of (a) 6n – 3
social sciences and history in Indian (b) 2n + 1
schools. (c) 4n – 2
Choose your answer from the choices given (d) 5n – 2
below:
(a) Only 3 79. Which of these times is the same as 16:50?
(b) Only 2 (a) Ten to six in the afternoon
(c) 2 and 3 (b) Ten to six in the morning
(d) 1 and 3 (c) Ten to five in the morning
(d) Ten to five in the afternoon
75. What does the author mean by a ‘transmit
the knowledge of the past in a highly ‘leaky’
80. The circumference of the front wheel of a
manner’ as used in the passage?
cart is 30 ft long and that of the back wheel
(a) The availability of the past as a resource is 36 ft long. What is the distance travelled
for evoking passions and nostalgia. by the cart, when the front wheel has done
(b) Imparting intellectual skills. five more revolutions than the rear wheel?
(c) Giving a dominant role and recall- (a) 20 ft
oriented character of the examination (b) 25 ft
system.
(c) 750 ft
(d) Drawing linkages with the prescribed
(d) 900 ft
textbook.

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