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 Directions for the following 6 (six) items:

Read the following five passages and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.

Passage—1

In India, over the last decade or so, labour has been departing agriculture, but is only going to construction and unregistered manufacturing which are not markedly better jobs. Services, where labour tends to be most productive, are not generating the additional jobs the country needs. India will need 24 million or so jobs over the next decade. The new sector, e-commerce, can at best close only half the jobs gap. Only those sectors that drive domestic demand such as health and education can comfortably fill the other half.

1. Which one of the following is best Implied in the passage?

(a) Strong measures need to be taken to reduce the rural to urban migration of labour.

(b) The working condition in construction and unregistered manufacturing needs to be improved.

(c) service sector has been reducing the problem of unemployment.

(d) Increased social sector spending is imperative for large-scale job creation.

Answer: (d)

Passage-2

In India, the current focus on the right to privacy is based on some new realities of the digital age. A right is a substantive right only if it works in all situations, and for everyone. A right to free expression for an individual about her exploitation, for instance, is meaningless without actual availability of security that guarantees that private force cannot be used to thwart this right. The role of the State, therefore, is not just to abstain from preventing rightful free expression, but also to actively ensure that private parties are not able to block it.

1. On the basis of the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:

2. State should have some institutions to ensure its appropriate role in a digital society.

3. State should ensure that private parties do not violate the citizens' right to privacy.

4. Digital economy is not compatible with the idea of not violating the citizens’ privacy.

2. Which of the above assumptions is/are valid?

(a) 1 and 2

(b) 3 Only

(c) 1 and 3

(d) 2 only

Answer:

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1.Let A denotes the set of quadrilaterals having two diagonals equal and bisecting each other. Let B denotes the set of quadrilaterals having diagonals bisecting each other at 90. Then,  A ∩ B denotes

 (a) the set of parallelograms

 (b) the set of rhombuses

 (c) the set of squares

 (d) the set of rectangles

Ans: c

A= diagonal equal and bisecting each other.

A is square or rectangle. And B diagonal bisecting each other at 90°.

So, A ∪  B = the set of square

2. Out of 105 students taking an examination English and Mathematics, 80 students pass in English, 75 students fail students in both the subjects. How many students pass in only one subject?

 (a) 26

 (b) 30

 (c) 35

 (d) 45

Ans: d

Number of students failing in Mathematics= 105-75=30

Number of students tailing in English= 105-80=25

Number of students failing in 1 subject= (25+30) – 10= 45

3.If A and B are any two non-empty subsets of a set E, then what is A ∪ (A ∩ B) equal to?

 (a) A ∩ B

 (b) A ∪ B

 (c) A

 (d) B

Ans: C

Since, A and B are non-empty subsets of E.

∴A∪(A ∩ B) = A ∪( Shaded portion)= A

4. If A is a non- empty subset of a set E, then what is E∪(A ∩ Ø) – (A – Ø) equal to? E ∪(A∩Ø) equal to?

 (a) A

 (b) Complement of A

 (c) Ø

 (d) E

Ans: c

E ∪[(A ∩Ø) – ( A -Ø)]⇒E ∪[ Ø- A ]      [Because (A  ∩ Ø ) = fand (A – Ø)= A]

Here, A cannot be subtracted from f

5. Consider the following statements

Set of points of a given line is a finite set.

Intelligent students in a class is a set.

Good books in a school library is a set.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are not correct?

 (a) Only I

 (b) Both ll and III

 (c) Both I and II

 (d) I, II and III

Ans: d

The set of points of a given line is not a finite set

Here, we cannot decide, which students are intelligent

Here, we cannot decide, which books are good a school library

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Study the paragraph and answer the questions that follow:-

The most important reason for this state of affairs, perhaps, is that India was the only country in the world to truly recognise the achievements of the Soviet Union-rather than merely focus on the debilitating faults that Communism brought to its people. The people of India realised that the achievement of one hundred percent literacy in a country much, much larger than its own and with similarly complicated ethnic and religious groupings, the rapid industrialization of a nation that was a primarily agrarian society when the Bolshevik revolution took place in 1917, the attendant revolutionary steps in science and technology, the accessibility of health care (primeval according to Western standards, perhaps, but not according to Indian ones) to the general population, and despite prohibition of the government of the time the vast outpourings in literature, music, art, etc. are momentous and remarkable feats in any country. In contrast, all that the West focused on were the massive human rights violations by the Soviet State on its people, the deliberate uprooting and mass migrations of ethnic peoples from one part of the country to another in the name of industrialization, the end of religion. In short, all the tools of information were employed to condemn the ideology of Communism, so much at variance with capitalist thinking. The difference with the Indian perception, I think here is, that while the Indians reacted as negatively to what the Soviet governments did to its people in the name of good governance (witness the imprisonment of Boris Pasternak and the formation of an international committee to put pressure for his release with Jawaharlal Nehru at its head), they took the pain not to condemn the people of that broad country in black and white terms; they understood that mingled in the shades of grey were grains of uniqueness (The Russians have never failed that characteristic in themselves; they have twice experimented with completely different ideologies, Communism and Capitalism both in the space of a century).

1.Which of the following statements according to the passage is correct?

a. India took heed of the weak faults of Russian policies and systems.

b. The process of industrialisation had already started when the Russian Revolution took place in 1917.

c. India seriously commended the achievements of Russia, i.e., hundred percent literacy and rapid industrialisation.

d. Literature, art and music received a setback during the communist regime in Russia.

2.The Indian perception of the Soviet Union was always

a. Neutral

b. Applauding

c. Counter-reactionary

d. Critical

3.The West did not focus on

a. Massive human rights violation of the Soviet state on its people.

b. Rapid growth of nuclear weapons in Russia.

c. Deliberate uprooting and mass migration of ethnic people in the name of industrialisation.

d. Both (a) and (c)

4.The passage is

a. Descriptive

b. Thought-provoking

c. Paradoxical

d. Analytical

1.Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?

a. 5 min

b. 10 min

c. 4 min

d. 9 min

2. A man wants to reach a window which is 40 feet above the ground. The distance from the foot of the ladder to the wall is 9 feet. How long should the ladder be?

a. 81 feet

b. 40 feet

c. 41 feet

d. 54 feet

3.A, B, C, D, E, F and G are members of a family consisting of four adults and three children, two of whom, F and G are girls. A and D are brothers and A is a doctor. E is an engineer married to one of the brothers and has two children. B is married to D and G is their child. Who is C?

a. E’s daughter

b. G’s brother

c. F’s father

d. A’s son

4.Roy and Kavi are working on an assignment. Roy takes 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer, while Kavi takes 5 hours to type 40 pages. How much time will they take, working together on two different computers to type an assignment of 110 pages?

a. 8 hours 15 minutes

b. 10 hours

c. 7 hours 50 minutes

d. 6 hours 40 minutes

5.A man can cover a distance in 1hr 24min by covering 2/3 of the distance at 4 km/h and the rest at 5km/h. What is the total distance to be covered?

a. 4 km

b. 6 km

c. 10 km

d. 8 km

6.Out of 130 students appearing in an exam, 62 failed in Science, 52 failed in English, whereas 24 failed in both Science and English. The number of students who passed is

a. 50

b. 20

c. 40

d. 30

7. A girl introduced a boy as the son of the daughter of the father of her uncle. The boy is a girl’s

a. Brother

b. Son

c. Nephew

d. Uncle

8. If TRANSFER is coded as RTNAFSRE, then ELEPHANT would be coded as

a. LEPEHATN

b. LEEPAHTN

c. LEPEAHTN

d. LEPEAHNT

9. A number series is given with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative that will continue the same pattern and fill in the blank spaces.

1, 4, 27, 16, ?, 36, 343

a. 121

b. 244

c. 125

d. 81

10. All good athletes want to win and all athletes who want to win eat a well-balanced diet; therefore all athletes who do not cat a well-balanced diet are bad athletes.

The best conclusion from this statement is that

a. No bad athlete wants to win.

b. No athlete who does not eat a well-balanced diet is a good athlete.

c. Every athlete who eats a well-balanced diet is a good athlete.

d. All athletes who want to win are good athletes.