Directions (1-3): Study the information given below to
answer these questions:
(i) A certain city is served by six subway lines, designated
by the letters A, B and C, and the numbers 1,2 and 3.
(ii) When it snows, morning service on the B line is
delayed.
(iii) When it rains or snows, service on the A, 2 and 3
lines is delayed both in the morning as well as in the afternoon.
(iv) When the temperature drops below 30o F, afternoon
service if cancelled on either the A line or the 3 line, but not both.
(v) When the temperature rises above 90o F, afternoon
service is cancelled on either the C line or the 3 line, but not both.
(vi) When service on the A line is cancelled, service on the
C line, which connects the A line, is delayed
(vii) When service on the 3 line is cancelled, service on
the B line which connects the 3 line, is delayed.
Ans:- 2
1. On January 10, with the temperature at 15o F, it snows
all day. On how many lines will the service be affected, both in the morning as
well as in the afternoon?
1) 3
2) 2
3) 4
4) 5
Ans:- 4
2. On August 15, with the temperature at 97o F, it begins to
rain at 1 p.m. What is the minimum number of lines on which the service will be
affected?
1) 3
2) 2
3) 4
4) 5
Ans:- 1
3. On which of the following occasions would service on the
least number of lines be disrupted?
1) A snowy morning with temperature 45o F
2) A snowy afternoon with temperature 45o F
3) A rainy morning with temperature 45o F
4) A snowy afternoon with temperature 20o F
Ans:-4
Directions (4-5): Six products U,V,W, X,Y, and Z are to be
placed in display windows of a shop. There are six display windows 1,2,3,4,5,6,
and one product is to be displayed in one window. Moreover, U cannot be
displayed immediately to the left or immediately to the right of V. W must be
displayed immediately to the left of X. Z cannot be displayed in window
number 6.
4. Which of the following products cannot be displayed in
window number 1?
1) V
2) U
3) W
4) X
Ans:- 4
5. If X is displayed in window number 3, then W must be
displayed in which window?
1) 2
2) 1
3) 4
4) 5
Ans:- 1
Directions (6-9): Study the following information carefully
and answer the question given below them:
After months of talent searching for an Administrative
Assistant to the President of the college, the field of applicants has been
narrowed down to five (A, B, C, D, and E,). It was announced that the finalist
would be chosen after holding a series of all day group personal interviews.
The examining committee agreed upon the following procedure:
(I) The interviews will be held once a week.
(II) Not more then three candidates will appear at any
all-day interview session.
(III) Each candidate will appear at least once.
(IV) If it becomes necessary to call applicants for
additional interview, then not more than one such applicant should be asked to
appear the next week.
(V) Because of a detail in the written application, it was
agreed that whenever Candidate B appears, A should also present.
(VI) Because of the travel difficulties, it was agreed that
C will appear for only one interview.
6. At the first interview, the following candidates appear:
A,B and D. Which of the following combinations can be called for the interview
to be held the next week?
1) CDE
2) BCD
3) ABE
4) ABC
Ans:- 1
7. Which of the following is a possible sequence of
combinations for interviews in two successive weeks?
1) ABC:ABE
2) ABC:BDE
3) ADE:ABC
4) BDE:ACD
Ans:- 3
8. If A, B and D appear at the interviews and D is called
for an additional interview the following week, then which two candidates may
be asked to appear with D?
I. A
II.B
III. C
IV. E
1) I and III only
2) I and II only
3) II and III only
4) III and IV only
Ans:- 4
9. Which of the following correctly states the procedure
followed by the search committee?
I. After the second interview, all the applicants have
appeared at least once.
II. The committee sees at least one applicant a second time.
III. If a third session is held, then it is possible for all
the applicants to appear at least twice.
1) II only
2) I only
3) I and II only
4) III only
Ans:- 3
Directions (10-12): Read the following information to answer
these questions:
For getting selected as a Marketing Manager in a company,
the candidate must:
I. Be a graduate with at least 50% marks.
II. Have secured at least 40% marks in the Written Test.
III. Not be less than 24 years and more then 29 years as on
October 10, 1997.
IV. Should have work experience of at least two years as an
officer.
However, if a candidate:
V. Fulfills all other criteria except at (IV) above but has
a diploma in Marketing Management, his/her case is to be referred to the
General Manager, Marketing.
VI. Fulfills all other criteria except at (III) above but
has worked as Marketing Officer at least for three years, his/her case is to be
referred to the Director, Marketing.
Based on the above criteria and the information given each
of the questions 16 to18, you have to take the decision with regard to each
case. You are not to assume anything. These cases are given to you as on
October 10, 1997.
Mark your answer as
(1) If the candidate is not to be appointed
(2) If the candidate is to be referred to the Director,
Marketing.
(3) If the data given are not sufficient to take the
decision
(4) If the candidate is be referred to the General Manager,
Marketing
10. Amit Khanna, born on June 5, 1973, has done his
post-graduation in Marketing Management with first class. He has secured 50%
marks in the written Test. He has been working in an organisation as a
Marketing Officer for the last four years.
Ans:- 3
11. Rohit verma has been working in as organisation as
Officer for the least ten years. His date of birth is February 17, 1964, He has
secured 60% marks in the Degree Examination And 40% marks in the Written Test.
Ans:- 2
12. Manju Sharma is a first class graduate and has done a
diploma in Marketing Management. She has secured 50% marks in the written Test.
She was 23 years old as on September 5, 1996.
Ans:- 4
Directions (13-14): Find the set which is most similar to
the given set:
13. Given Set : (6, 15, 28)
1) (46, 56, 66)
2) (50, 59, 71)
3) (60, 69, 72)
4) (60, 69, 82)
Ans:- 4
14. Given Set : (81, 77, 69)
1) (64, 61, 53)
2) (56, 52, 44)
3) (92, 88, 79)
4) (75, 71, 60)
Ans:- 4
Directions (15-16): Study the following in formation
carefully and answer the question given below them:
I. There is a family of five persons A,B,C,D and E.
II. They are working as a doctor a teacher, a trader, a
lawyer and a farmer.
III. B, an unmarried teacher, is the daughter of A.
IV. E, a lawyer, is the brother of C.
V. C is the husband of the only married couple in the
family.
VI. A, a farmer, is a farther of two sons and an unmarried
daughter.
VII. Daughter-in-law of A is a doctor.
15. Which of the following is a group of female members in
the family?
1) D and E
2) B and D
3) A,C and E
4) B and C
Ans:- 2
16. which of the following is the married couple?
1) C and D
2) A and B
3) A and D
4) B and D
Ans:- 1
17. Which of the following is a group of male members in the
family?
1) B and D
2) A, B and C
3) A, C and E
4) A, C and D
Ans:-3
Directions (18-25): Each of the following questions is based
on a set of facts. Choose the correct answer in each case.
18. The workers union of Grain Corp, a grain-processing
plant, is attempting to obtain a pay raise from Grian Corp management. To
pressurize the Graincorp management into accepting the union's proposal, the
president of the union has proposed a boycott against Square Mart food stores,
which are owned by Mega Food, the parent company of the GrainCorp.
The answer to which of the following is LEAST directly
relevant to the union president's consideration of whether a boycott of Square
Mart will lead to acceptance of their pay rate proposal?
(18) Are the staple food products purchased by the consumers
at Square Mart stores readily available at other stores not owned by Mega Food?
(2) Would the loss of business at Square Mart stores
materially affect Mega Food?
(3) How many Square Marts are within the region of the
GrainCorp plant?
(4) Is Mega Food the only corporation that operates both
grain-processing plants and Stores?
Ans:- 3
19. The owner of a four-story commercial building discovered
termites in the building's first and second floors and called an exterminator.
The exterminator pumped gar into the walls on both the first and second floors.
Due to the exterminator's work the termites on those floors were killed
quickly.
Which of the following if true, most seriously undermines
the validity of the explanation for the speed with which the termites were
killed?
(1) Even though the exterminator did not pump gas into the
walls of the fourth storey, the termites there died as quickly as they did on
the first and second storeys.
(2) The third floor had on termite infestation.
(3) The speed at which termites are killed increase as the
concentration of an exterminator's gas increases.
(4) The speed with which the exterminator's gas kills
termites drops off sharply as the gas dissipates throughout the building's
walls.
Ans:- 1
20. A chemical company recently introduced a new type of
foam spray that it claims will reduce the rate of erosion from walls of road
cuts. A study by the company showed that the rate of erosion was low on a road
cut where the from was applied.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken
the company's conclusion?
(1) Because the foam itself weathers, the foam would have to
be reapplied every four years in order to maintain protection against erosion.
(2) Road cuts similar to the one studied typically show low
rates of erosion without the foam.
(3) Studies by the company that produces the material are
sometimes unreliable because of conflicts of interest.
(4) The rate of erosion from the road cut in the study was
greater then expected based on computer simulation models.
Ans:- 2
21. The Laysan Rail, an insectivore bird once present on
several of the Hawaiian Islands, can no longer be found and is thought to be
extinct. Scientist originally thought that a decrease in the amount of ground
vegetation available for nesting was responsible for the decline of the bird.
However, for the decline that increased competition for food was ultimately
responsible for the Latsan Rail's inability to survive.
When of the following would best help to account for the
change in the accepted explanation for the Laysan Rail's extinctions?
(1) When attempts were made to relocate the Laysan Rail to
other islands, the birds lost the geographical cues that they relied on for
finding mating sites.
(2) The vegetation on the Laysan Rail's home island was
decimated when rabbits were introduced to the island in the 1910s.
(3) The Laysan Rail builds nests under dense ground cover to
protect the eggs.
(4) An increase in the use of pesticide resulted in a
decrease in the numbers of flies and moths present in the Laysan Rail's
territory.
Ans:- 4
22. Retail clothing stores hold “one day only” sales to
clear merchandise that has been returned because it is defective in some way.
The stores should sell this merchandise for up to 70 percent less then the
original retail price. Stores will find these sales to be an effective way of
getting rid of defective merchandise as long as they inform customers that the
discounted merchandise is non-returnable.
The author assumes which of the following about the “one-day
only” sale merchandise in predicting the effectiveness
of these sale?
(1) The rate of returns when merchandise is new makes this
“one day only” sale key to a store profitably.
(2) The defects in the merchandise are not so significant
that customers will be unwilling to pay even the sale price.
(3) Too few shoppers purchase merchandise at full retail
price.
(4) If these sales become popular, then stores will have to
have them more after.
Ans:- 4
23. “Some me are certainly intelligent, others are certainly
not intelligent, but of intermediate men, we should say, 'intelligent'? Yes. I
think so, or no, I shouldn't be inclined to call him intelligent.”
Which of the following most accurately reflects the
intention of writer of the above?
(1) Every empirical concept has a degree of vagueness.
(2) To call men intelligent who are not strikingly so much
be to use the concept with undue imprecision.
(3) Calling someone intelligent or not depends upon one's
whim.
(4) There is no need to be as indecisive as the writer of
the above.
Ans:- 2
24. A highly cohesive work group is a prerequisite for high
team performance. Sociologists point that the association between groups
cohesion and success is owing to the support individual team members give to
one another and their acceptance of the group’s goals and activities.
Each of the following, if true, either providers support for
or cannot weaken the sociologists' assumption about the relationship between
cohesion and success EXCEPT
(1) University researchers found that there was a
significant correlation between team productivity and the extent to which team
members understood and complied with the group's objectives.
(2) A group of Japanese researchers found that successful
work teams were headed by dominant leaders.
(3) American researchers found that successful team member
tended to rate their fellow members more favorable.
(4) Industrial Psychologists in the UK found that work
groups who tended to participate in after hours social activities were more
productive.
Ans:- 4
25. Many business offices are located in buildings having
two to eight floors. If a building has more than three floors, then it has a
lift if the statements above are true, then which of following must also be
true?
(1) Seventh floors have lifts.
(2) Second floors do not have lifts.
(3) Only floors above the third floors have lifts.
(4) All floors may be reached by lifts.
Ans:- 1
