Answers msli Of. to SD 1. 2 2. 4 3. 5; Gwalior 4. 1 5. 2 6. 1 7. 3 8. 1 9. 4 10. 4 II. 2.2.4.3. 3.4. : IS. 1 16. 1 17. 4 18. 3 19. 2 20. 3 21. 1 22. 1 23. 2 24. 1 25. 2 26. 1 27. 5: Aamir Khan 28. 3 29. 4 30. 1 31. 3 32. 3 33. 1 34. 1 35. 1 36. 2 37. 1 38. 3 39. 4 40. 3 41. 3 42. 4 43. 1 44. 4 45. 1 46. 2 47. 4 48. 3 49. 2 50. I 51. 3. The "subcontinent" refers to India and its neighbouring countries. 52. 2: The author is talking about the 13/12 incident 53. 4: Note "the sacrifice of valiant security personnel' in the second paragraph,,. 55. v Set thd^^bt paragraph 56. 2: "More Wa fortnight passed" alter W M - Dec i3 before the passive was written 57. 3; That which is gruesome is repelling because of its ugliness 58. 5; Here dispassionate means '"unbiased". 59. 3; Beware of inappropriate synonyms! 60. 4 61. 4; See fledgling on p. 294. English Is Easy (EE). 62. 1; If something is frightfully bad, it is very bad..»: ;; T 63. 5; See above board on p. 382. EE 64. 2; If you take umbrage at something, you are offended or upset by it. 65. 3; If X slams into Y. it crashes into Y with great force. 66. I; Legal tender is m$ney, especially a particular coin or note, wjfticjh is officially part of a country's currency at a particular time. 67. 3 68. 5 69. 3 70. 5. Annus hornbi/isjtfefers, to a ver> bad year. 71.1. Note the word stflj before the blank. 72. 4; Winter in England can only serve in heightening the gloomy scenario further 73. 3; Miasma refers to something bad or confused that is in the air all around you 74. 2 75. 5 76. 2; See ubiquitous on p. 370. EE 77. 1; If people huddle together, they stand, sit or lie close to each other, usually because they all feel cold or frightened. 78. 4; See angst on p. 446. EE. 79. 1 80. 5 81-85: (C). (D) and (G) are the only independent sentences. Hence only these qualify as the first sentence. Now, let us look for sequences. Obviously, they are CO and DA. Again. AFE is also a sequence. Combining, we get CG and DAFE So we have the following possibilities: CGBDAFE CGDAFEB DAFEBCG DAFECGB But a close inspection makes us reject the first three as they do not make sense. Hence DAFECGB. 81. 5 82. 1 83. 4 84.5 85.4 86. 1; If people are talking shop, they are talking about their work. This is boring for the people who do not do the same work 87. 2; See grease the palm on p. 300, EE. 88. 5; If you are chomping at the bit. you are very impatient to do something, but you are prevented from doing it. usually by circumstances that you have no control over. 89. 2 90. 3 91.3; Replace affect by effect. 92. 2; Men are not rubbish; they are being rubbished. So replace rubbish by rubbishing. 93. 1; Whether this... 94. 4; It should be "the hardest" because hardest is in the superlative degree See p 98, English Is Easy (EE). 95. 1; It should be "Caffeine drinkers not. only" because the subject is common to both "not also" and "but" parts. 96. 5 97. 4; Replace it by one. Here the pronoun refers to "an implanted device", not "the implanted device". 98. 5; The sentence is in tune with "had... would have..." structure. 99. I; Replace they by //. 100. 3; Whose consumers? The consumer of steel or the consumer of steel makers? Obviously, the former. So replace their by its.
5 pm to 6 pm: 8 5 7 I 2 4 3 6 Hence the same passcode. 155. 1. 5 pm to 6 pm: use a laptop computer best suitable tor you 8 5 7 1 2 4 3 6 I pm to 2 pm: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 computer best tor suitable a you laptop use 156. 5; Passcode for 8 pm to 9 pm is in scheme of abroad voluntarily start bank retirement'. 157. 5; Some passcodes are for two different batches. Passcode of second batch is repeated again for the sixth batch Hence we need more information to come to a conclusion. 158. 2; Deepak's friend had visited the exhibition during 2 pm to 3 pm. Trend of the passcode proves that the passcode on the ticket of Deepak's friend was the same for three other batches, le 10 am to 11 am. 5 pm to 6 pm. and 9 pm to 10 pm. Two of these batches are indicating the period in which Deepak was in his class. Obviously. Deepak then visited the exhibition during 10 am to II am. 159. 4; roof off jai = I am doctor... (i) kroll krel kel = she was ill oof keljai = 1 was doctor breg kroll preg = who is ill From (i) and (ii). roof = am... (v) and kel = was... (vi).. (ii)... (Hi)... (iv) Using (vi). (ii) and (iv). kroll = ill... (vii) and krel she... (viii) Still, we don't have the codes for 'is' and doctor' 160. 4; In each group, letters at the left of each group follow a trend +2, +3. +4. +5 and so on: the number follows the trend <2. digitsum, square, *2. digit-sum and so on. The last element of each group depicts the position of the first element in the English alphabet + the digit-sum of the middle number. Hence correct answer is U5Z because U(21) + 5 = Z(26) 161. 5; Punam is the daughter-in-law of Sadanand. 162. 3; From I: The faces bearing the numbers 1,3, 4 and 6 are adjacent surfaces of the surface bearing the number 5 Hence 2 is opposite 5. From II: Since Tulika is unable to see the only three faces bearing the numbers 1, 3 and 5, she finds herself able to see the surfaces bearing the numbers 2, 4 and 6. While Shivendra can see 6, 4 and 5. From this we can conclude 2 is opposite 5. 163. 5; II is necessary to know Suman's sex, namely male. 164. 1; In II both the equations are identical. 165. 4; Data not clear. 166-170: From the definite informations,
we get the following table (say Table 1): Arrange the informations given in clues III and II first. Now, arrange clue V. You get table I. Now look carefully at table I. What do you conclude? Avinash is posted in Haryana while home state of Ashok is Gujarat Now. from clue IV, since Avinash and Gobind are not associated with UP then certainly Pramod is not posted in UP but his home state is UP. From clue V, Ashok is posted in UP. From clue II, Pramod is posted in Tamil Nadu and he likes Jhora. From clue V, Gobind's home state is Tamil Nadu. Obviously, home state of Avinash is Maharashtra where Gobind is posted. Now from clue I, Ashok likes Tippani while Avinash likes Dahikala. Obviously, Amit likes Gagor. 166. 2 167. 3 168. 1 169. 5 170. 5 171. 3 172. 1; From the first and third sentences it can be inferred. 173. 3: Maharashtra is one of the states where HIV prevalence in the population is more than 1%. But there is no such clue to infer that percentage of HIV-infected persons is the highest in Maharashtra. 174. 5; 'Only' makes the statement definitely false. 175. 1; The magnitude of the problem and the tllenges that lie in the way make it a ilerculean task. 176. 5; Assuming II, the leader of the Opposition has made such a statement. 1 is also implicit because the root cause of disruption in the house is lack of consensus. 177. 1; I is implicit but II is not. Happening of new things might be good or bad in nature 178. 5; Whenever a plan is aimed at for a particular locality, the planner assumes that the locality needs that plan. Hence I is implicit. II is also implicit. If an institution makes a plan to provide facilities to the people, clearly those facilities are missing and are required. 179. 2; I is not implicit. II is implicit. Because if any country warns another not to interfere with the happenings in its country, then it must have been assumed that the happening in its own country is its internal affair 180. 5; The statement is made by assuming II That is why such measures have been aimed at The talk of the requirement of the combination makes I implicit. 181. 2; I is simplistic. 182. 2; Argument I does not follow because it does not tell anything about the quantity of liquor. Argument II is strong because it goes into the reason and points out the negative effect of excess liquor. 183. 5; Both the perspectives can be taken 184. 5; Both 1 and II are strong. Infringement of constitutionally and internationally accepted human rights standards can't be ignored. Hence I is strong. Argument II is also strong because insufficiency of existing laws gives rise to the need to bring new laws. 185. 4; Our policies should not be an imitation of the super-power of the world but it should be according to our necessity. Hence I is weak. Argument II is also weak. It is simply a speculation. 186. 1: Statement (a) (A-type) + (b) (E-type) = No eraser is a pen > on conversion > No pen is an eraser. Hence! follows. Conversion of statement (b) gives conclusion III. No eraser is a pen + All pens are pencils = E + A
198. 5 199. 5 200. 2; 1) is rejected because (-) sign makes A female. 3) is rejected because there is a change of only one generation between A and D because '+' and cancel out. 4) is rejected because there is no information about D. Check 2). It gives the required relation. (i) + (ii) + (iii) + (iv) = Option 1 (a) + (ii) + (iii) + (iv) = Option 2 (i) + (c) + (iii) + (iv) = Option 3 (l) + (ii) + (b) + (iv) = Option 4 Any other combination or anything missing = Option 5 201. 4 202. 3 203. 2 204. 1 205. 5 206. 1 207. 4 208. 2; I is an assumption. Second is the direct consequence of the given statement. 209. 1; I may be inferred from the aim of bringing about "a major growth in commercial transactions." II does not follow because it goes into an irrelevant generalisation 210. 4; Both go beyond the scope. 211. 5; Course of Action I is desirable on humanitarian grounds. II many go a long way in preventing such collapses in the future 212. 2; Course of Action 1 may prove to be counter-productive. There is a risk that the increase may be at the cost of quality. Hence it does not follow. II follows because not getting a college of one's choice is not the end of the road. Students from lesser colleges have also gone on to make a mark in the world. 213. 5; While the first course of action helps in prevention of diseases, the second helps in cure. 214. 2; Course of Action I does not make sense as any kind of imposition at this level may lead to negative effects. II is likely to help things improve as this would reduce the college-goers' obsession with clothes and accessories. 215. 5; Both the courses of action will help subsidies to be put to proper use. 216. 5; The lower part and the upper part interchange their positions while the upper part gets inverted vertically in one step In the next step the whole figure gets laterally inverted. 217. 4; Of the two identical elements, the shaded one moves half a side vertically while the unshaded one moves one step diagonally. The triangle rotates by 90 CW in each step and alternate^ moves a side CW and gets shaded. 218. 1; The LHS element follows if 1 = 5 then 2 = 6 rule. The RHS element rotates by 180 in each step and its head changes shape alternately 219. 3; The inner two elements rotate by 45 CW and shift to the outside of square on LHS and RHS respectively. The elements on the RHS and LHS rotate by 90 CW and replace upper and lower elements. Two new elements appear inside the square in each step. 220. 2; In alternate steps the middle element rotates by 90 and 180 ACW and the pin moves by 180 and reverses its direction while the arrow reverses its direction in each step. 221. 1; From fig II to I: The upper-left and middle-left elements rotate by 90 ACW. The upper left shifts to lower left and middle left shifts to middle right. The lower left rotates by 135 CW and shifts to middle left. The middle right rotates by 90 CW and its arc gets inverted 222. 4; From fig II to I: Four additional petals on the CW side get shaded. The ACW end of the shaded petal gets unshaded and the shading of the half-shaded petal is changed. 223. 5; From fig II to I: The outer element gets inverted, reduced in size and becomes inner. The inner element rotates by 90 ACW and becomes middle. The middle element becomes outer and the number of its sides reduces by one. 224. 3; From fig II to I: The unshaded petal rotates by 90 CW while the shaded petal and the petal with dot rotate by 90 ACW 225. 2; From fig II to I: The upper element gets vertically inverted while the lower element rotates by 90 ACW, gets inverted laterally and shifts one side ACW. The LHS remains as it is