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Pattern of test
1. Vocabulary		40 ques		20 marks	20 min.
2. Quantive Apt.	15 ques		30 marks	15 min.
3. Critical Res.	50 ques		50 marks	25 min.
4. Psychometric		150 ques	150 marks	30 min.

CRITICAL REASONING
This section consists passages and statements following them.  Totally this section has 50 questions.  Mark A if the statement is TRUE; B if it is false and C if you can’t decipher anything from the passage.

A . My father had no brothers, but his three sisters are all married and each has two children.  My grandfather has two sons.

1. My father was an only child.
2. Three of my aunts have sons.
3. I have six cousins on my mother’s side.
4. I have only one uncle.

B. Senior managers in a leading company said that new Japanese investment in India was transforming the car industry and warned that jobs were under threat from Japanese competition.  They stated that increasing competition would be coupled with an inevitable downturn in the car market and the recent rise in interest rates which had already hit demand.

5. Some senior managers said that more people will want to buy new cars in the future.
6. Managers told workers that Japanese workers are taking jobs away from Indian workers in the car industry.
7. The managers issued this warning after a rise in interest rates.
8. The increased rate of interest will mean that Japanese firms will cease to operate in this country.

C. Researchers in Mumbai have found that certain types of gallstones can be dissolved by injecting them with a gasoline additive in the form of ether.  the ether is injected through a gube directly into the gallbladder.  The one day treatment works only cholesterol based stones, not those composed largely of calcium.  However, as the cholesterol stones are by far the most common type for millions of gallstones sufferers, the treatment should offer a welcome alternative to surgery, the commonest option in most hospitals.

9. Injecting ether into the gallbladder dissolves most gallstones.
10. Surgery is the only treatment for calcium based gallstones.
11. Only cholesterol people suffer from calcium based gallstones.
12. It doesnot take just one day for ether to dissolve calcium based gallstones.

D. Organising the home can be perceived as coXXXX power; a large number of women are unwilling to let go of chores even when they have careers.  A survey found that out of 65 new marrieages, not one single wife expected her husband to share work equally.  According to the Family Policy Sxxxxx Center, 81% of working woves return home to do all the cooking. The average male has nearly half as much more free time at weekends than his wife and the typical father spends just 37 seconds a day talking to his baby.

13. Most working wives do not expect their husbands to share chores equally.
14. The average wife has half as much free time at weekends as 
her husband.
15. Some women collade in the unequal distribution of household
work because they want to retain control.
16. 39% of all men with working wives do the cooking and all the cleaning.

E. Confucius said that to know the future, we have to understand the past. In his time, transport, communications and scientific knowledge were less developed than they are today.  News took weeks to travel whereas today satellite links connect the continents virtually instantaneously, but our technological advances in the field of communications seem not to have improved our capacity to understand one another.

17. In confucius’ day people were more intelligent.
18, We understand each other better now than at Confucius’ time because we can travel more quickly.
19. We have made gread improvements in transport since Confucius’ day.
20. None of our scientific discoveries has really improved our lives.

F. Words in totalitarian systems have an unhealthy importance, and in such states now attempting to return to a more democratic “normality”, there has been a natural inevitable and healthy devaluation of words.  Whereas previously a single word used in a speech, or even a play or poem, could be a serious political event, now the words come cheaper, almost free.  Politics is politics again and poetry only poetry.

21. Totalitarian states devalue words.
22. Only non-totalitarian regimes produce poetry of political improtance.
23. Wxxx understand xxxxx xx x x xxxx xx more carefully <A>
24. The democratic xxxxx is healthier than any other. <C>

G. Statistics show that millions of vehicles have been carried by the shuttle over the past years through the Alpine tunnels without one ever catching fire.  In the Alpine tunnels, drivers and passengers sit in their vehicles on th shuttle trains.  Only one vehicle has ever caught fire on the busy French motorail equivalent system; this sort of accident is not possible in a closed shuttle.  Assertions that a vehicle fire would lead to a catastrophe have no basis.  SInce the resources exist to detect, control and extinguish a fire, and to remove any persons present safely to an adjoining wagon, leaving any surviving fire facing rapid extinction within a wagan bent to contain fire for 30 minutes, catastrophe seems unlikely.

25. If a car caught fire in a rail shuttle, probably none would be killed.
26. At least one vehicle has caught fire in an Alpine tunnel.
27. If a fire started in a wagon, it would be allowed to burn itself out in 30 minutes.
28. It would theoretically be possible for a car to catch fire in a closed shuttle system.

H. Every form of art is protected by copyright, upon the expiration of which the property passes into the public domain and becomes freely available to anyone whishing to exploit it commercially.  The time has come when all treasures should pass to the control of a trust and by this be made readily available to anyone on payment of a fee or royalty.  This income from the works of Tagore would alone be enormous. Those who now earn financial benefit from his genius should make some contribution to the welfare of the arts in general.

29. Tagore’s plays are not protected by copyright.

Part II 
PSYCHOMETRIC TEST
While answering these 150 questions (all of them are pretty simple), be careful not to contradict yourself in one of the later questions.

Mark Yes if you agree with the statement and No if you do not.
      
104. You can express yourself more easily in speech than in writing.
105. You keep in fairly uniform spirits.
106. You dislike to be XXX in your work.
107. You sometimes find yourself crossing bridges before you come to them.
108. You find it somewhat difficult to say NO to a salesperson who tries to sell you something you do not really want.
109. There are only a few friends with whom you can relax and have a good time.
110. You usually keep cheerful in spite of trouble.
111. People sometimes let you to “slow down” or “take it easy.”
112. You are one of those who drink or smoke more than they know know they should.
113. When you think you recognize people you see in a public place, you ask them whether you have met them before.
114. You prefer to work alone.
115. Disappointments affect you so little that you seldom think about them twice.
116. You are slow and deliberate in movement.
117. You like wild enthusiasm sometimes to a point bordering on rowdyism at a football or baseball game.
118. You feel self conscious in the presence of important people.
119. People think of you as being a very social type of person.
120. You have often lost sleep over your worries.
121. You can turn out a large amount of work in a short time.
122. You keep at a task until it is over, even after nearly everyone else has given up.
123. You can think of a good excuse when you need one.
124. Other people say that it is difficult to get to know you well.
125. Your day dreams are so wild that they can never come true.
126. You often run upstairs taking two steps at a time.
127. You seldom let your responsibility interfere with your having a good time.
128. You like to take on important responsibilities such as organizing a new business.
129. You have hesitated to make or accept dates because of your shyness.
130. Your mood is very easily influenced by people around you.
131. Others are often amazed by the amount of work you turn out.
132. You generally feel as though you haven’t a care in this world.
133. You find it difficult to get rid of a salesperson whom you do not care to listen or give your time.
134. You are a listener rather than a talker in social conversations.
135. You almost always feel that life is very much worth living.
136. It irritates you to have to wait at a crossing for a long freight train to pass.
137. You usually say what you feel like saying .
138. You like to speak in public.
139. You like to be with people.
140. You generally keep cool and think clearly in exciting situations.
141. Other people regard you as a lively individual.
142. When you get angry, if you let yourself go, you feel better.
143. You seek to avoid all trouble with other people.
144. People seem to enjoy being with you.
145. You sometimes feel tired and restless for no good reason.
146. It is hard to understand why many people are so slow and get so little done.
147. You are fond of betting on horse races and games, whether you can afford or not.
148. If someone you know has been spreading untrue and bad stories about you, you see the person as soon as possible and have a talk about it.
149. Shyness keeps you from being as popular as you should be.
150. You are generally free from worry about possible misfortunes.