Test of the Day for IBPS Clerk Mains 2017

Dear Aspirants,

Q1. The State Bank of India has recently reduced the base rate by ____________, which will benefit customers on the old pricing regime.

Q2. Name the Senior diplomat who has been appointed foreign secretary of India.

Q3. Name the Indian golfer who has recently won the Royal Cup at Pattaya.

Q4. Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi inaugurated an online portal named _____________ in New Delhi for the empowerment of women.

Q5. The “in-principle” approval for setting up ‘small finance banks’ granted by RBI will be valid for-

Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions it 
Eight friends Jensen, Christian, Antonio, Sean, Jim, Wilson, Paul and Orlando, out of whom there is a Pilot, Professor, Businessman, Doctor, Lawyer, Banker, Cricketer or an Architect (but not necessarily in the same order), are sitting around a circular table, facing the centre.
(A) Sean who is a banker sits third to right of Orlando.
(B) The professor and the architect are immediate neighbors of each other, neither the professor nor the architect is an immediate neighbor of either Orlando or Sean.
(C) Cricketer and the pilot are immediate neighbors of each other. Neither Orlando nor Paul is a pilot.
(D)The one who is a professor sits second to the right of Jim who is a lawyer. Wilson who is a cricketer is not an immediate neighbor of the banker.
(E) Only Antonio sits between the professor and the doctor. Jensen sits third to the right of the pilot.

Q6. Which of the following pairs represents the immediate neighbor of the doctor?

Solution:
(6-10)

Q7.What is the position of the businessman with respect to the pilot?

Q8.Who sits third to the right of the professor?

Q9.Which of the following is true regarding Antonio?

Q10.How many people sit between the banker and ‘Paul’ when counted in anticlockwise direction from the banker?

Q11. A retailer purchased radio sets at the rate of Rs. 400 each from a wholesaler. He marked up the price by 30% and allowed a discount of 8% on each set.then find the profit percentage?

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Q12. A person bought some articles at the rate of 5 per rupee and the same number at the rate of 4 per rupee. He mixed both the types and sold at the rate of 9 for 2 rupees. In this business he suffered a loss of Rs. 3. The total number of articles bought by him was

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Q13. Nikita bought 30 kg of wheat at the rate of Rs. 9.50 per kg of wheat and the same amount of another type of wheat at the rate of Rs. 8.50 per kg and mixed them. She sold the mixture at the rate of Rs. 8.90 per kg. Her total profit or loss in the transaction was :

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Q14. A book seller purchased 120 exercise books at the rate of Rs. 3 each and sold 1/3 of them at the rate of Rs. 4 each, ½ of them at the rate of Rs. 5 each and the rest at the cost price. Then find the total profit percent of book seller?

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Q15. A sells an article to B making a profit of 1/5 of his outlay. B sells it to C, gaining 20%. If C sells it for Rs. 600 and incurs a loss of 1/6 of his outlay, the cost price of A is

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Directions (16-20): In each question, there is a pair of words/phrases that highlighted. From the highlighted word(s)/phrase(s), select the most appropriate word(s)/phrase(s) to form correct sentences. Then, from the options given, choose the best one. 

Q16. I. Use the colander(A)/Calendar(B) to drain the noodles. 
II. Lost in the woods, we were happy to find a Cash(A)/cache(B) of food belonging to some hunters 
III.Many people in that country are adherence(A)/adherents(B) of the concept of free speech.

Q17. I. Be sure to have your passport when you cross the boarder(A)/border(B). 
II. The coach was loaded with hundreds of bars of gold bouillon(A)/bullion(B). 
III.The winning team went to the restaurant to exult(A)/exalt(B) in their victory

Q18. I. My next door neighbor is an American immigrate(A)/emigrated(B). 
II. My friend and I will have two pints of ale(A)/ail(B), bartender. 
III.She devoted her life to charity to try to expiate(A)/ expatiate(B) the wrongs of her youth.

Q19. I. The antecedents (A)/antecedence(B)of parents to their own children is a fact of life. 
II. The embezzlers celebrated their delusion(A)/ elusion (B) of the police a little too soon. 
III. I advice(A)/advise(B) you to validate the code on your Web page before you release it to the general public.

Q20. I. The ancient Romans awarded laurel wreathe(A)/wreaths(B) to winners of athletic contests. 
II. Because they neglected to expend(A)/expand(B) any money or time on marketing their business, they soon went bankrupt. 
III.When the flood waters go down, we can excess(A)/assess(B) the damage.