PREVIOUS QUESTION

IBPS BANK PO/MT CWE

HELD ON : 18.09.2011
REASONING
1. An office bus driver starts from
t) re office, drives 2 km towards
North, takes a left turn and
drives for 5 km, He then takes
a left turn and drives for 8 km
before taking a left turn again
and driving for 5 km. The driver
finally takes a left turn and
drives 1 km before stopping.
How far and towards which direction should the driver drive
to reach the office again?
(1) 3 km towards North
(2) 7 km towards East
(3) 6 km towards South
(4) 6 km towards West
(5) 5 km towards North
Directions (2 - 3) : Read the
following information carefully and
answer the questions which follow :
A, B, G, D, E and F live on different floors in the same building having six floors numbered one to six (the
ground floor is numbered 1, the floor
above i t , number 2 and so on and the
topmost floor is numbered 6).
A lives on an even numbered
floor. There are two floors between the
floors on which D and F live. F lives
on a floor above D's floor. D does not
live on floor number 2. B does not live
on an odd numbered floor. C does not
live on any of the floors below F's floor.
E does not live on a floor immediately above or immediately below the
floor on which B lives.
2. Who amongst the following live
on the floors exactly between D
and F ?
(1)E,B
(2) C, B
(3)E,C
(4)A,E
(5)B,A
3. On which of the following floors
does B live ?
(l)6th
(2) 4th
(3) 2nd
(4) 5th
(5) Cannot be determined

Directions (4-5) : Study the

following information to answer the
given questions :
in a five letter English word
(which may or may not be a meaningful English word), there are two letters between L and P. S is not placed
immediately next to L. There is only
one letter between S and A. S is towards the right of A. S is not placed
immediately next to E.
4, Which of the following is correct
with respect to the word thus
formed?
(1)E is at one of the extreme
ends of the word
(2) F is not placed immediately
next to A
(3) There are two letters between A and E in the word
thus formed
(4) P is placed second to the right
ofE
(5) None is correct
5, Whick of ihe following words will
be formed based on the given
conditions?
(1.) SPAEL
(2) PEALS
(3) LEAPS
(4) SEPAL
(5) LAPSE
Directions (6 -10) : In each
question below are two/three statements followed by two conclusions
numbered I and II. You have to take
the two/three given statements to be
true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts and
then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given
statements disregarding commonly
known facts.
Give answer (1) if only conclusion I follows
Give answer (2) if only conclusion II follows.
Give answer (3) if either conclusion I or conclusion II follows.
Give answer (4) if neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows.
Give answer (5) if both conclusion I and conclusion II follow.

(6 - 7 ) : Statements :
All gliders are parachutes.
No parachute is an airplane.
All airplanes are helicopters.
6. Conclusions:
I. No helicopter is a glider.
II. All parachutes being helicopters is a possibility.
7. Conclusions:
I. No glider is an airplane.
II. All gliders being helicopters
is a possibility.
8. Statements:
Some mails are chats.
All updates are chats.
Conclusions:
I. All mails being updates is a
possibility.
II. No update is a mail.
(9 - 1 0 ) : Statements :
No stone is a metal.
Some metals are papers.
All papers are glass.
9. Conclusions:
I. No glass is a metal.
II. Atleast some glass is metal.
10. Conclusions:
I. All stones being glass is a
possibility.
II. No stone is a paper.
Directions ( 1 1 - 1 5 ) : Study the
following information to answer the
given questions:
A word and number arrangement machine when given an input
line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule.
The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.
Input : 52 peak 91 snow freeze 46
cold 15 high 31 73 trek
Step I : 15 52 peak snow freeze 46
cold high 31 73 trek 91
Step II : 15 31 52 peak snow freeze
46 cold high trek 73 91
Step III: 15 31 46 peak snow freeze
cold high trek 52 73 91

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Step IV: 15 31 46 cold peak snow

freeze high trek 52 73 91
Step V : 15 31 46 cold freese peak
snow high trek 52 73 91
Step VI: 15 31 46 cold freeze high
peak snow trek 52 73 91
Step VI is the last step of the
rearrangement. As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in
each of the following questions the
appropriate steps for the given input.
Input for the questions.
I n p u t : 67 hot sun 19 best 83
ire 49 ace 77 cut 37
11. How many steps would be needed to complete the arrangement ?
(1)X
(2) VIII
(3) IX
(4) VII
(5) None of these
12. Which Step number would be
the following output?
19 37 49 ace best hot. sun ice cut
67 77 83
(1)11
(2) VI
(3)V
(4) IV
(5) None of these
13. Which of the following would be
the Step I? ,
(1) 19 37 49 hot sun best ice ace
cut 67 77 83
(2) 83 67 hot sun best ice 49 ace
77 cut 37 19
(3) 19 67 ace best hot sun ice 49
77 cut 37 83
(4) 19 67 hot sun best ice 49 ace
77 cut 37 83
(5) None of these
14. Which of the following would be
the final arrangement?
(1) 67 77 83 ace best cut hot ice
sun 19 37 49
(2) 19 37 49 ace best cut hot ice
sun 67 77 83
(3) 19 37 49 67 77 83. ace best
cut hot ice sun
(4) 19 37 49 ace ice best cut hot
sun 67 77 83
(5) None of these
15. In Step IV, which of the following word/number would be on
7th position (from the right) ?
(1) sun
(2) best
(3) 67
(4) cut
(5) None of these

Directions (16 - 20): Study the

following information carefully and
answer the given questions.
Representatives from eight different Banks viz. A, B, C, D, E, P, G
and H are sitting around a circular
table facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Each one of
them is from a different Bank viz.
UCO Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce. Bank of Maharashtra, Canara
Bank, Syndicate Bank, Punjab National Bank, Bank of India and Dena
Bank.
F sits second to right of the representative from Canara Bank. Representative from Bank of India is an
immediate neighbour of the representative from Canara Bank. Two people sit between the representative of
Bank of India and B. C and E are
immediate neighbours of each other.
Neither C nor E is an immediate
neighbour of either B or the representative from Canara Bank. Representative from Bank of Maharashtra sits
second to right of D, D is neither the
representative of Canara Bank nor
Bank of India. G and the representative from UCO Bank are immediate
neighbours of each other. B is not the
representative of UCO Bank. Only one
person sits between C and the representative from Oriental Bank of
Commerce.
H sits third to left of the representative from Dena Bank. Representative from Punjab National Bank
sits second to left of the representative from Syndicate Bank.
16. Four of the following five are
alike in a certain way based on
the given arrangement and thus
form a group. Which is the one
that does not belong to that
group?
(1) H - UCO Bank
(2) A - Canara Bank
(3) D - Bank of Maharashtra
(4) E - Syndicate Bank
(5) F - Punjab National Bank
17. Which of the following is true
with respect to the given seating arrangement?
(1) B is the representative from
Bank of Maharashtra
(2) C sits second to right of H

(3) The representative from

Dena Bank sits to the immediate left of the representative from UCO Bank
(4) A sits second to right of the
representative from Rank of
India
(5) The representatives from
Bank of Maharashtra and
Syndicate Bank are immediate neighbours of each other
18. Who amongst the following sit
exactly between B and the representative from Bank of India?
(1)A and the representative
from UCO Bank
(2)F and G
(3)H and the representative
from Bank of Maharashtra
(4) H and G
(5) Representatives from Syndicate Bank and Oriental
Bank of Commerce
19. Who amongst the following is
the representative from Oriental Bank of Commerce?
(DA
(2)C
(3) H
(4) G
(5)D
20. Who amongst the following sits
second to left of B ?
(1) C
(2) H
(3) The representative from Canara Bank
(4) The representative from
Punjab National Bank
(5)G
Directions (21-25): Each of the
questions below consists of a question and three statements numbered
I, II and III given below it. You have
to decide whether the data provided
in the statements are sufficient to
answer the question.
21. How many daughters does P
have?
/
I. B and D are sisters of M.
If. M's father T is husband of
P.
III. Out of the three children
which T has, only one is a
boy.
(1) Only I and III
(2) All I, II and III are required
to answer the question.
(3) Only II and III

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(4) Question cannot be answered even with all I, II and

III
(5) Only I and II
22. Who among A, B, C, D, E and F
each having a different height,
is the tallest?
I. B is taller than A but shorter than E.
II. Only two of them are shorter than C.
III. D is taller than only F
(1) Only I and II
(2) Only I and III
(3) Only II and III
(4) All I, II and III are required
to answer the question
(5) All I, II and III are not sufficient to answer the question
23. Towards which direction is village J from village W ?
I. Village R is to the west of
Village W and to the north
of Village T.
II. Village Z is to the east of
Village J and to the south
of Village T.
III. Village M is to the north
east of Village J and north
of Village Z.
(1) Only III
(2) Only II and III
(3) All I, II and III are required
to answer the question
(4) Ouestion cannot be answered even with all I, II and
III
(5) None of these
24. On which day of the week starting from Monday did Manoj visit Chennai ?
I. Manoj took leave on
Wednesday.
II. Manoj visited Chennai the
day after his mother's visit
to his house
III. Manoj's mother visited
Manoj's house neither on
Monday nor on Thursday
(1) Only II and III
(2) Only I and II
(3) Only I and III
(4) All 1, II and III are required
to answer the question
(5) Ouestion cannot be answered even with all I, II and
III

25. How is 'go' written in a code language?

I. 'now or never again' is wri tten as 'torn ka na sa' in that
code language.
II you come again now' is written as 'ja ka ta sa' in that
code language
III. 'again go now or never' is
written as 'na ho ka sa torn'
in that code language
(1) Only I and III
(2) Only II and III
(3) Only I and II
(4) All I, II and III are required
to answer the question
(5) None of these
Directions (26-30): Study the
following information carefully and
answer the questions given below :
P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Z are travelling to three destinations Delhi,
Chennai and Hyderabad in three different vehicles
Honda City, Swift
D'Zire and Ford Ikon. There are three
females among them one in each car.
There are at least two persons in each
car.
R is not travelling with Q and
W. T, a male, is travelling with only Z
and they are not travelling to Chennai. P is travelling in Honda City to
Hyderabad. S is sister of P and travels by Ford Ikon. V and R travel together. W does not travel to Chennai.
26. Members in which car are travelling to Chennai ?
(1) Honda City
(2) Swift D' Zire
(3) Ford Ikon
(4) Either Swift D' Zire or Ford
Ikon
(5) None of these
27. In which car are four members
travelling ?
(I) None
(2) Honda City
(3) Swift D'zire (4) Ford Ikon
(o) Honda City or Ford Ikon
28. Which of the following combinations represents the three female members?
(1) QSZ
(2) WSZ
(3) PSZ
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

29. Who is travelling with W ?

(l)OnlyQ
(2) Only P
(3) Both P and Q
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
30. Members in which of the following combinations are travelling
in Honda City?
(1) PRS
(2) PQW
(3) PWS
(4) Data inadequate
(5) None of these
31. It has been reported in recent
years that a very large number
of seats in the engineering colleges in the country remain vacant at the end of the admission
session.
Which of the following may be
the probable cause of the above
effect?
(1) There has been a considerable decrease in hiring of
engineering graduates due to
economic slowdown in the
recent years
(2) Students have always preferred to complete graduation in three years time instead of four years for engineering.
(3) The Government has recently decided to provide post
qualification professional
training to all engineering
graduates at its own cost.
' (4) There has always been a very
poor success rate among the
engineering students.
(5) None of these
32.-The condition of the roads in the
city has deteriorated considerably during the first two months
of monsoon and most of the
roads have developed big pot
holes.
Which of the following can be a
possible effect of the above
cause?
(1) The municipal corporation
had repaired all the roads in
the city before onset of monsoon with good quality material
(2) A large number of peopje
have developed spine related injuries after regularly

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commuting long distances by

road within the city.
(3) The municipal corporation
has been careful in choosing
the contractors for repairing
roads in the past.
(4) People always complain
about potholed roads during
the monsoon months.
(5) None of these
33. Majority of the students who
appeared in the final examina-.
tion of post graduate course in
management in the local college
have secured first class which
is comparatively higher than
the performance of students of
other management colleges in
the state.
Which of the following may indicate that the results are not
in line with the general trend?
(1) The students of the local college are qualitatively better
than those of other colleges
(2) The authorities of the other
management colleges in the
state are stricter in their
standard of evaluation for
their students.
(3) The students of other management colleges in the
state performed better than
the students of the local college in all the previous examinations.
(4) The local management college recently retrenched
many of its regular faculty
members.
(5) None of these
34. It has been reported in many
leading newspapers that the
current year's monsoon may be
below the expected level as
many parts of the country are
still not getting adequate rainfall.
Which of the following can be a
possible fallout of the above
situation ?
(1) People from those affected
areas with less rainfall may
migrate to urban areas
(2) Government may announce
ex-gratia payment to all the
farmers affected in these areas

(3) Government may declare

these areas as drought affected areas.
(4) People may blame the Government and agitate for not
getting adequate water for
cultivation
(5) None of these
35. There has been a spate of rail
accidents in India in the recent
months killing large numbers of
passengers and injuring many
more. This has raised serious
. doubts about the railway's capability of providing safety to
travellers.
Which of the following statements substantiates the views
expressed in the above statement?
(1) Indian Railways has come to
be known to provide best
passenger comfort in the recent years
(2) People have no option other
than travelling by rail over
long distances.
(3) The railway tracks at many
places have been found to be
stressed due to wear and
tear in the recent times.
(4) Local residents are always
the first to provide a helping
hand to the passengers in the
event of such disasters.
(5) None of these
36. A few travellers were severely
beaten up by villagers recently
in a remote rural part of the
state as the villagers found the
movement of the travellers suspicions. The district authority
has sent a police team to nab
the culprits.
Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the
above statement?
(An inference is something
which is not directly stated but
can be inferred from the given
facts)
(l)The villagers dislike presence of strangers in their vicinity.
(2) Villagers are generally suspicious in nature.
(3) Travellers prefer to visit
countryside.

(4) The Government generally

provides protection to travellers across the country.
(5) None of these
37. There has been a considerable
drop in sales of four wheelers
during the past six months when
compared to the number of four
wheelers sold during this period last year.
Which of the following can be the
probable cause of the above
phenomenon?
(A)The Government has imposed higher excise duty on
four wheelers at the beginning of this year.
(B)The petrol prices have risen
considerably during the past
eight months.
(C)The rate of interest on home
and car loans have been rising for the past seven
months.
(l)All(A), (B) and (C)
(2) (A) and (C) Only
(3) (B) and (C) Only
(4) (B) Only
(5) (A) Only
38. There is an alarming trend of
skewed sex ratio against women in India during the past decade and situation may get out
of hand if adequate steps are not
taken to stop female foeticide.
Which of the following can be an
effective step to reverse the
trend ?
(A) The Government should immediately completely ban
use of scanners/ sonography
on expectant mothers at all
health centres
(B) The Government should announce a substantial incentive scheme for couples who
have at least one girl child.
(C) The Government should
launch a nationwide campaign to create awareness
against female foeticide.
(1) (A) only
(2) (A) and (B) Only
(3) (B) and (C) Only
(4) All (A), (B) and (C)
(5) None of these

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39. A very large number of technically qualified young Indians

are coming out of colleges every
year though there are not enough
opportunities for them to get
gainful employment.
Which of the following contradicts the views expressed in the
above statement?
(1) Technically qualified persons are far superior to those
with standard degrees like
BA/B.Sc/B.Com. etc.
(2) The Government has not
done effective perspective
planning for engaging technically qualified personnel
while authorising the settingup of technical colleges.
(3) A huge gap exists between
the level of competence of
technically qualified graduates and requirement of the
industry.
(4) Majority of the technically
qualified persons are migrating from India to developed countries for better opportunities.
(5) None of these
40. The Government has appealed
to all citizens to use potable
Water judiciously as there is an
acute shortage in supply. Excessive use may lead to huge scarcity in future months.
Which of the assumptions is
implicit in the above statement?
(An assumption is something
supposed or taken for granted)
(1) People may ignore the appeal
and continue using water as
per their consideration.
(2) Government may be able to
tap those who do not respond to the appeal
(3) Government may be able to
put in place alternate sources of water in the event of a
crisis situation.
(4) Large number of people may
positively respond to the
Government's appeal and
help tide over the crisis.
(5) Only poor are going to suffer
from this shortage of water
supply

Directions (41-45) : The first figure in the first unit of the problem
figures bears a certain relationship to the second figure. Similarly one of the
figures in the answer figures bears the same relationship to the second figure
in the second unit of the problem figures. You are therefore to locate the figure
which would fit in the question mark.
Problem Figures
Answer Figures

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Directions (51-55): In each of
the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in
the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of
the five answer choices given, to make
the passage complete and coherent.
51. Poverty is the state for the majority of the world's people and
nations. Why is this ? - Have
they been lazy, made poor decisions, and been solely responsible for their own plight? What
about their governments? Have
they pursued policies that actually harm successful development? Such causes of poverty
and inequality are no doubt
real. But deeper and more global causes of poverty are often
less discussed. Behind the increasing interconnectedness
promised by globalization are
global decisions, policies, and
practices. These are typically
influenced, driven, or formulated by the rich and powerful.
These can be leaders of rich
countries or other global actors
such as multinational corporations, institutions, and influential people. In the face of such
enormous external influence, the
governments of poor nations and
their people are often powerless.
As a result, in the global context, a few get wealthy while the
majority struggles.
(l)Is it enough to blame poor
people for their own predicament?
(2) What is the government doing about it ?
(3) Are the wealthy ones in the
nation even aware of this?
(4) The government has already
taken measures to eradicate
the same.
(5) The huge gap between the
rich and the poor in the nation is now narrowing.
52. Women's rights around the
world are an important indicator to understand global wellbeing. A major global women's
rights treaty was ratified by the
majority of the world's nations

a few decades ago.

These
range from the cultural, political to the economic, For example, women often work more
than men, yet are paid less; gender discrimination affects girls
and women throughout their
lifetime; and women and girls
are often the ones that suffer
the most poverty. Many may
think that women's rights are
only an issue in countries where
religion is law. Or even worse,
some may think this is no longer an issue at all. But reading
the report about the United
Nation's Women's Treaty and
how an increasing number of
. countries are lodging reservations will show otherwise. Gender equality furthers the cause
of child survival and development for all of society, so the
importance of women's rights
and gender equality should not
be underestimated.
(l)This treaty tackled and
solved a number of issues
related to women.
(2) Why is it then, that women
still face a number of problems on the domestic front?
(3) Thus, the woman today is
ten times more empowered
as compared to a woman say
about a decade ago.
(4) Women's activists across nations have implored the respective governments to
take this seriously,
(5) Yet, despite many successes
in empowering women, numerous issues still exist in
all areas of life.
53. Research has shown that air
pollutants from fossil fuel use
make clouds reflect more of the
sun's ra^ys back into space. This
leads to an effect known as global dimming whereby less heat
and energy reaches the earth.
.However, it is believed that
global dimming caused the
droughts in certain parts of the
world where millions died, because the northern hemisphere
oceans were not warm enough
to allow rain formation. Global
dimming is also hiding the true

power of global warming. By

cleaning up global dimmingcausing pollutants without tackling greenhouse gas emissions,
rapid warming has been observed, and various human
health and ecological disasters
have resulted, as witnessed during the European heat wave in
2003, which saw thousands of
people die.
(1) This though, does not bring
any relief in the problems
associated with climate
change.
(2) This phenomenon thus is
part of the climate change
problem.
(3) Scientists thus believe that
this phenomenon goes hand
in hand with global warming.
(4) At first, it sounds like an
ironic saviour to climate
change problems.
(5) The answer to all our problems with respect to climate
change is definitely here.
54. Next to China, India is the most
populated country in the world.
Particularly, rush to technical and higher education has
increased as the scope for arts
and science has become lesser
and lesser due to lack of reforms
and upgradation in the course
structure and materials according to the developments of the
world. Also, qualification in
higher education gives added
advantage to face successfully
competition in the job market.
(1) Keeping this in mind, the
government has provided
concessions in the admission
fees for the arts and science
streams in the country.
(2) Naturally there is too much
rush and competition in every field.
(3) Despite this the rush to higher education is lesser.
(4) This population increase,
though, has not kept pace
with the knowledge expansion around the world.
(5) In the next decade it will become the most populous.

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55. Analysts and industry pundits

forecast that the notebook market, which has been growing faster than the desktop market for
the past three years, is expected to overtake the desktop market by the year 2011-12. A fall
in prices, large deals from governments and institutions, and
demand from consumers and
sectors such as education are
expected to help the notebook
numbers. According to research
agencies, the year 2010-11 saw
notebook volumes rise, and for
the first time a million plus
notebooks were sold in India in
a single quarter. The market has
grown nearly four times for notebooks. The demand is driven by
all sectors and a very buoyant
consumer market, which prefers
mobile computers. Entry-level
notebook prices have dropped
below the ?25,000 mark; this
has helped break the ice with
new customers: This drop in
notebook prices has been helped
by
the
drop
in the prices of the building
blocks that make a notebook.
It's simple. With notebook volumes growing, the prices of the
components are also bound to
come down.
(1) All this has resulted in a noticeable change in a number
of large government tenders
for notebooks; which were
traditionally for desktops.
(2) Because of this the government still prefers desktops
to notebooks and has passed
tenders for the same.
(3) Thereby making them more
expensive.
(4) Thus the forecast for the coming year states that desktops will be the preferred
technology choice only for consumers who cannot afford the
exorbitantly priced notebooks.
(5) Thus notebooks will become
obsolete after a decade or so.
Directions (56 - 60) : Rearrange the following five sentences (A),
(B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.

(A) A small wooden nest box is all

it has taken to rekindle all the
romance of bringing sparrows
and other birds back into our
cities and halt them from fading into the past like a forgotten folktale.
(B) There is something wrong with
a city that remains unperturbed even as its birds desert
it.
(C) Thankfully, the situation is not
as hopeless as it seems.
(D) Much as we try to defend the
seemingly irreversible modern
life of these cities, we can't stop
our hearts from crying when we
realize that our rapidly degenerating urban eco-system isn't
generous enough to let these
delicate winged creatures build
tiny little nests in its nooks and
crannies, sit in solitude, and
rear offspring.
(E) And this desertion seems to be
true with most metros in India where house sparrows have
almost become a thing of the
past.
56. Which of the following should be
the FER.ST sentence after rearangement ?
(1)A
(2)B
' (3)C
(4)D
(5)E
57. Which of the following should be
the SECOND sentence after rearrangement ?
(1)E
(2)D
(3) C
(4)B
(5) A
58. Which of the following should be
the THIRD sentence after rearrangement ?
(DA
. (2)B
(3)C
(4)D
(5)E
59. Which of the following should be
the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement ?
(1) E
(2)D
(3) C
(4) B
(5) A
60. Which of the following should be
the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement ?

(DA
. (2).B
(3)C
(4)D
(5)E
Directions (61-65) : The following questions consist of a single
sentence with one blank only. You are
given six words as answer choices and
from the six choices you have to pick
up two correct answers, either of which
will make the sentence meaningfully
complete.
61. Drugs worth ?3 lakhs were
from the apartment by the police.
(A) manufactured
(B) ruptured
(C) seized
(D) confiscated
(E) bought
(F) compared
(1) (A) and (D) (2) (B) nd (C)
(3) (C) and (E) (4) (E) and (F)
(5) (C) and (D)
62. A man reportedly
two passports with the same photograph,
but under different names was
arrested by the commissioner's
Task Force.
(A) possessing
(B) examining
(C) surrendering
(D) mastering
(E) holding
(F) fixating
(1) (B) and (C) (2) (C) and (F)
(3) (A) and (E) (4) (A) and (D)
(5) (D) and (E)
63. The Hollywood star and the Bollywood heroine are being
as
the next big onscreen couple.
(A) labeled
(B) explained
(C) worshiped
(D) touted
(E) exclaimed
(F) shouted
(1) (B) and (D)
(2) (A) and (C)
(3) (B) and (F)
(4) (A) and (D)
(5) (C) and (D)
64. An organisation
to the
mission of road safety has prepared an action plan for reducing accidents and related injuries and fatalities.

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(B) inaugurated
(C) committed
(D) kicked off
(E) succumbed
(F) dedicated
(D(C)and(F) (2) (A) and (E)
(3) (C) and (E) (4) (D) and (F)
(5) (A) and (0)
65. The ability of a woman to do
well does not
on whether
it is a mart's world or not, because everyone has his/her own
opportunities.
(A) trust
(B) depend
(C) reckon
(D) live
(E)rest
(F) believe
(1) (D) and (E) (2) (B) and (C)
(3) (A) and (F) (4) (B) and (E)
(5) (C) and (D)
Directions (66-70) : Below is
given a single word with options to
its meaning in different contexts. You
have to select all those options which
are synonyms of the word when the
context is changed. Select the correct
alternative from (1), (2), (3), (4)and
(5) which represents all those synonyms.
66. LABOUR
(A) expedite
(B) to move faster
(C) controlled
. (D) toil
(l)Only(D)
(2) Both (A) and (C)
(3) Only (B), (C) and(D)
(4) Only (A), (C)and(D)
(5) All (A), (B), (C) and(D)
67. MEAN
(A) imply
(B) understand
(C)average
(D) characterized by malice
(l)Only(C)
(2) Both (A) and (D)
(3) Only (A), (C) and (D)
(4) Only (A), (B)and(D)
(5) All (A), (B), (C) and (D)
68. REGULAR
(A) present
(B) common
(C) indiscriminate
(D) uniform

(l)Only(D)
(2) Both (B) and (D)
(3) Both (A) and (C)
(4) Only (B), (C) and(D)
(5) All (A), (B), (C)and(D)
69. MASK
(A) cover
(B) hide
(C) conceal
(B) disguise
(1) Only (A)
(2) Both (B) and (D)
(3)Only(B),(C)and(D)
(4) Only (A), (B) and (C)
(5) All (A), (B), (C) and(D)
70. ALONE
(A) exclusively
(B) morose
(C) solitary
(D) human being
(1) Only (A)
(2) Both (A) and (C)
(3) Both (B) and (C)
(4) Only (A), (C) and(D)
(5) All (A), (B),(C)and(D)
Directions (71- 85): 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 are
suggested, one of which fits the blank
appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
As the country embarks on planning 7J1 the 12th Plan (2012-17) period, a key question mark (72) hangs
over the process is on the energy requirements.
Growth is energy hungry, and
the aspirations of growing at 9-10%
wil! (73) huge demands on the energy
resources of the country. In this energy jigsaw, f enewable energy will (74)
like never before in the 12th Plan and

ilfii.
By the rule of the thumb, India
will (76) about 100 gigawatts (Gw)100,000 megawatts-of capacity addition in the next five years. Encouraging trends on energy efficiency and
sustained (77) by some parts of the
government-the Bureau of Energy Efficiency in particular needs to be complimented for this-have led to substantially lesser energy intensity of
economic growth. However, even the
tempered demand numbers are (78)
to be below 80 Gw. As against this
need the coal supply from domestic

sources is unlikely to support more

than 25 Gw equivalent capacity. Imported coal can add some more, but
at a much (79) cost. Gas-based electricity generation is unlikely to contribute anything substantial in view
of the unprecedented gas supply challenges. Nuclear will be (80) in the foreseeable future. Between imported
coal, gas, large hydro and nuclear, no
more than 15-20Gw equivalent can
be (81) to be added in the five-year
time block.
(82) (83) this, capacity addition
in the renewable energy based power
generation has touched about 3Gw a
year. In the coming five years, the overall capacity addition in the electricity grid (84) renewable energy is likely to range between 20Gw and 25Gw.
Additionally, over and above the gridbased capacity, off-grid electricity
applications are reaching remote
places and (85) lives where grid-baseci
electricity supply has miserably
failed.
71. [1) against
(2) for
[3) onwards
(4) at
[5) on
72. (l)that
(2) inside
(3) always
(4) who
(5) where
73. [1) forward
(2) subject
(3) place
(4) demand
(5) replace
74. (l)pass
(2) publish
(3) feature
(4) find
(5) light
75. (1) likewise
(2) publicity
[3) next
(4) after
(5) earlier
76. (1) waste
(2) require
(3) highlight
(4) generate
(5) consumed
77. (1) structures
(2) efforts
(3) projections (4) practices
(5) developmental
78. (1) sure
(2) unsure
(3) unexpected (4) unlikely
(5) likely
79. (1) nominal
(2) excelled
(3) higher
(4) lower
(5) expected
80. (1) failure
(2) success
(4) maximum
(3) dangerous
(5) marginal

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(2) linked
(4) expected
(3) remarked
(5)sure
(2) Bui
82.. (l)When
(31 However
CO if
(5) As
(2) with
83. (1) for
(4) ever
(3)is .
(5) against
84. (3) through
(2) project
(3) versus
(4) against
(5) capacity
85. (1) lightening
(2) making
(3) touching
(4) saving
(5) generating
Directions (86-92) : Read the
following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words are printed in bold to
help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
In a reversal of the norm elsewhere, in ;dia policymakers and
economists have become optimists
while bosses do the worrying. The
country's Centra! Bank has predicted that the country's economy is likely to grow at a double digit rate during the next 20-30 years. India has
the capability with its vast labour
and lauded entrepreneurial spirit.
But the private sector which is supposed to do the heavy lifting that
turns India from the world's tenth
largest economy to its third largest
by 2030 has become fed up. Business
people often carp about India's problems but their irritation this time has
a nervous edge. In the first quarter of
2011, GDP grew at an annual rate of
7.8 percent; in 2005-07 it managed 910 percent. The economy may be slowing naturally as the low interest rates
and public spending that got India
through the global crisis are belatedly withdrawn. At the same time the
surge in inflation caused by exorbitant food prices has spread more
widely, casting doubt over whether
India can grow at 8-10 percent in the
medium term without overhearing.
In India, as in many fast growing nations, the confidence to invest
depends on the conviction that the
long term trajectory is intact and it is
that which is in doubt. Big Indian
firms too sometimes seem happier to
!

invest abroad than at home, in deals

that are often hailed BE symbols of
the country's growing clout but sometimes speak to its weaknesses - purvr .fe ss i* natural resources that India has in abundance but struggles
to get out of the ground. In fact a further dip in investment could be selffulfilling: if fewer roads, ports and
factories are built, this will hurt both
short term growth figures and reduce
the economy's long term capacity.
There is a view that because a
fair amount of growth is assured the
government need not try very hard.
The liberalisation reforms that began
in 1991 freed markets for products
and gave rise to vibrant competition,
at the same time what economists
call factor markets, those for basic
inputs like land, power, labour etc remain unreformed and largely under
state control, which creates difficulties. Clearances today can take three
to four years and many employers are
keen to replace workers with machines despite an abundance of labour
force. This can be attributed to labour
laws which are inimical to employee
creation and an education system
that means finding quality manpower a major problem. In fact the Planning Commission, concluded that
even achieving 9 percent growth will
need marked policy action in unreformed sectors. Twenty years ago it
was said that the yardstick against
which India should be measured was
its potential and it is clear that there
remains much to do.
86. Why are employers reluctant to
hire Indian labour force?
(A) India's labour force is overqualified for the employment
opportunities available
(B) High attrition rate among
employees stemming from
their entrepreneurial spirit.
(C) Labour laws are not conducive to generating employment.
(1) Only (C)
(2) All (A), (B) and (C)
(3) Only (A) and (C)
14) Only (A) and (B)
(5) None of these
87. What is the state of India's basic input sectors at present?

(l)'These sectors attract Foreign Direct Investment because of their vast potential.
(2) These sectors are lagging as
projects are usually awarded to foreign companies.
(3) These sectors are stagnating
and badly in need of reforms.
(4) These sectors are well regulated as these are governed
by the State
(5) None of these
88. Which of the following can be
said about the Indian economy
at present?
(1) It can comfortably achieve
double digit growth rate at
present.
(2) High food prices have led to
overheating of the economy.
(3) Citizens are affluent owing
to laxity in regulation.
(4) Private sector confidence in
India's growth, potential is
high
(5) Unreformed sectors are a
drag on economic growth.
89. What impact has the GDP
growth of 7,8 percent had?
(A) Indian Industry is anxious
about India's economic
growth.
(B)India has achieved status as
the world's third largest
economy at present.
(C) Foreign investment in India
has drastically increased.
(1) Only (A)
(2) All (A), (B)&.(C)
(3)Qnly(A)&(C)
(4) Only (A) & (B)
(5) None of these
90. Which of the following is most
opposite in meaning to the word
MARKED given in bold as used
in the passage?
(1) Decreased
(2) Ignored
(3) Clear
(4) Assessed
(5) Imperceptible
91. What is the author's main objective in writing the passage ?
(1) Showcasing the potential of
India's growth potential-to
entice foreign investors
(2) Exhorting India to implement measures to live up to
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(3) Recommending India's model of development to other
developing countries
(4) Berating the private sector
for not bidding for infrastructure development projects
(5) Criticising the measures
taken by India during the
global economic crisis
92. What measures do experts suggest be taken to ensure targeted economic growth?
(1) Lowering of interest rates to
help industries hit by recession
(2) Prolonged financial support
for basic input industries
(3) Incentives to Indian companies to invest in infrastucture
(4) Formulation of policies and
their implementation in factor markets
(5) Stringent-implementation
of licensing system
Directions (93 - 100) : 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.
In February 2010 the Medical
Council of India announced a major
change in the regulation governing the
establishment of medicaj.collpges.
With this change, corporate, entities
were permitted to open metrical colleges. The new regulation also earned
the following warning:."permission
shall be withdrawn if the colleges resort to commercialization". Since the
regulation does n o t elaborate on what
constitutes "resorting to commercialisation", this will presumably be a
matter left to the discretion of the
Government.
A basic requirement for a new
medical college is a pre-existing hospital that will serve as a teaching hospital. Corporate entities have hospitals in the major metros and that is
where they will have to locate medical colleges. The earlier mandated
land requirement for a medical college campus, minimum of 25 acres of
contiguous land, cannot be fulfilled in
the metros. Not surprisingly, yet another tweak has been made in the reg-

ulation, prescribing 10 acres as the

new minimum campus size for 9 cities including the main metros. With
this, the stage is set for corporate entities to enter the medical education
market.
Until now, medical education in
India has been projected as a not-forprofit activity to be organised for the
public good. While private bodies can
run medical colleges, these can only
be societies or trusts, legally non-profit organizations. In opening the door
to corporate colleges, thus, a major
policy change has been effected without changing the law or even a discussion in Parliament, but by simply getting a compliant MCI to change the
regulation on establishment of medical .colleges. This and other changes
have been justified in the name of addressing the shortage of doctors. At
the same time, over 50, existing medical colleges, including 15 run by the
government, have been prohibited
from' admitting students in 2010 for
having failed to meet the basic standards prescribed. Ninety per cent of
these colleges have come up in the last
5 years. Particularly shocking is the
phenomenon of government colleges
falling short of standards approved
by the Government. Why are state
government institutions not able to
meet the requirements that have been
approved by the central government?
A severe problem faced by government-run institutions is attracting
and retaining teaching faculty, and
this is likely to be among the major
reasons for these colleges failing to
satisfy the MCI norms. The crisis

building up on the faculty front has

been flagged by various commissions
looking Into problems of medical education over the years.
An indicator of the crisis is the
attempt to conjure up faculty when
MCI carries out inspections of new
colleges, one of its regulatory functions. Judging by news reports, the.
practice of presenting fake facultystudents or private medical practitioners hired for the day -during MCI inspections in private colleges is common. What is interesting is that even
government colleges are adopting unscrupulous methods. Another indicator is the extraordinary scheme,

verging on the ridiculous that is being put in place by the MCI to make
inspections 'foolproof. Faculty in all
medical colleges are to he issued an
RFID based smart card by the MCI
with a unique Faculty Number. The
card, it is argued, will eliminate the
possibility of a teacher being shown
on the faculty of more than one college and establish if the qualifications
of a teacher are genuine. In the future
it is projected that biometric RFID
readers will be installed in the colleges that will enable a Faculty Identification, Tracking and Monitoring
System to monitor faculty from within the college and even remotely from
MCI headquarters.
The picture above does not even
start to reveal the true and pathetic
situation of medical care especially
in rural India. Only a fraction of the
doctors and nursing professionals
serve rural areas where 70 per cent of
our population lives. The Health Ministry, with the help of the MCI, has
been active in proposing yet another
'innovative' solution to the problem
of lack of doctors in the rural areas.
The proposal is for a three-and-a-half
year course to obtain the degree of
Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS). Only rural candidates
would be able to join this course. The
study and training would happen at
two different levels -Community
Health Centers for 18 months, and
sub-divisional hospitals for a further
period of 2 years -and be conducted
by retired professors. After completion of training, they would only be
able to serve in their own state in district hospitals, community health
centres, and primary health centres.
The BRMS proposal has invited
sharp criticism from some doctors'
organisations on the grounds that it
is discriminatory to have two different standards of health care -one for
urban and the other for rural areas,
and that the health care provided by
such graduates will be compromised.
At the other end is the opinion expressed by some that "something is
better than nothing", that since doctors do not want to serve in rural areas, the government may as well create a new cadre of medics who will be

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surely pick up after the government
formally lays out its plans. What is
apparent is that neither this proposal nor the various stopgap measures
adopted so far address the root of the
problem of health care. The far larger
issue is government policy, the low
priority attached by the government
to the social sector as a whole and the
health sector in particular, evidenced
in the paltry allocations for maintaining and upgrading medical infrastructure and medical education and for looking after precious human resources.
93. What solution is being offered
by the Health Ministry for the
shortage of doctors in rural areas ?
(1) Increase the number of government run hospitals in the
rural areas thereby increasing the number of doctors
catering to the people in
these regions.
(2) Make it mandatory for doctors serving in the urban areas to serve in the rural areas for a specific number of
years.
(3) Set up increasing number of
community health centres in
rural areas.
(4) Hire retired professors of
medicine to offer medical
help to people living in the
rural areas till the time
more doctors are appointed.
(5) Run a separate medical
course for three and a half
years which can be taken up
only by rural candidtes who
would ultimately serve in
the rural areas.
94. Why have some existing medical colleges been prohibited
from admitting students ?
(l)As these have adopted corrupt practices and have been
taking huge donations from
their students
(2) As all these colleges were illegally set up and were not
approved by the government
in the first place
(3) As the course offered by these
colleges is not in line with
the course offered by the government run colleges

(4) As these have failed to meet

the norms set by the central
government for running the
college.
(5) As there are absolutely no
faculty members left in
these colleges to teach students.
95. Which of the following is/are the
:change/s announced by the MCI
in the regulation governing the
establishment of medical colleges?
(A)Allowing the commercialisation of medical colleges.
(B) Reducing the earlier mandated land requirement for
a medical college campus for
metros.
(C) Allowing corporate bodies to
open medical colleges.
(l)Only(B)
(2) Only (A) and (B)
(3) Only (C)
(4) Only (B) and (C)
(5) All (A), (B) and (C) are true
96. Which of the following are the
different opinions regarding the
BRMS proposal ?
( l ) A t least a small step has
been taken to improve the
healthcare facilities in the
rural areas through this proposal.
(2) There should be uniform
healthcare facilities available for people living in both
rural and urban areas.
(3) The healthcare providers
through this proposal would
not be up to the mark.
(1) Only (A)
(2) Only (A) and (B)
<3) Only (B) and (C)
(4) Only (B)
(5) All (A), (B) and (C)
97. Which of the followinig is most
similar in meaning to the word
SHOCKING given in bold as
used in the passage ?
(1) wicked
(2) pleasing
(3) appalling (4) electrifying
(5) scandalous
98. What is one of the major problems faced by the governmentrun medical institutions ?

(1) Dearth of land required for

the setting up of medical institutions.
(2) Lack of funds for running the
colleges.
(3) Dearth of teaching faculty.
(4) Excessive competition from
colleges run by corporate
bodies.
(5) Dearth of students opting for
these colleges.
99. What is the idea behind the
MCI putting in place the RFID based smart card ?
(A) To monitor and track faculty from MCI headquarters in
the future.
(B)To put a stop to the practice
of colleges of presenting fake
faculty members.
(C)To verify the authenticity of
faculty member qualifications.
(1) Only (A) and (B)
(2) All (A), (B) and (C)
(3) Only(C)
(4) Only (B) and (C)
(5) Only (B)
100. What is the author's main
intention behind writing this
passage?
(1) To make the general public
aware of the healthcare facilities available in India.
(2) To bring to light the problems faced by the health care
sector in India despite
changes suggested and goad
the government into attaching priority to the sector.
(3) To bring to light the problems faced by rural people in
terms of healthcare facilities
and thus exhort urban doctors to serve in the rural areas
(4) To make the general public
aware of the benefits arising
from the changes brought
about by the MCI in the
healthcare sector.
(5) To urge the corporate bodies
to look into the matter of
healthcare facilities in the
rural areas.

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