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Q1. The Idukki Dam is a double curvature arch dam constructed across the Periyar River in a narrow gorge between two granite hills Kuravan and Kurathi in which of the following state?
Karnataka
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Uttarakhand
Gujarat
Solution:
The Idukki Dam is located in Kerala.
Q2. NABARD has hailed the increased focus on irrigation and dairy sectors in the Budget which has hiked the corpus of long-term irrigation fund by another Rs 20,000 crore, taking the total fund size to how much amount?
Rs 60,000 crore
Rs 50,000 crore
Rs 30,000 crore
Rs 40,000 crore
None of the given options is true
Solution:
NABARD has hailed the increased focus on irrigation and dairy sectors in the Budget which has hiked the corpus of long term irrigation fund by another Rs 20,000 crore, taking the total fund size to Rs 40,000 crore. “The Budget focuses a lot on the rural and agriculture sector. Though the thrust on digital continues, reforms announced in the Budget will generate employment and help in doubling farmers income,” chairman, NABARD Harsh Kumar Bhanwala told PTI.
Q3. Name the Operation, which has been launched by Income Tax Department to verify the cash deposited in the banks during November 09th to December 30th 2016?
Operation Clean India
Operation Clean Commerce
Operation Clean Economy
Operation Clean Cash
Operation Clean Money
Solution:
Income Tax Department (ITD) has initiated Operation Clean Money. Initial phase of the operation involves e-verification of large cash deposits made during 09th November to 30th December 2016. Data analytics has been used for comparing the demonetisation data with information in ITD databases. In the first batch, around 18 lakh persons have been identified in whose case, cash transactions do not appear to be in line with the tax payer’s profile.
Q4. Name the organisation, which mission is Promote sustainable and equitable agriculture and rural prosperity through effective credit support, related services, institution development and other innovative initiatives?
SEBI
RBI
SIDBI
NABARD
FICCI
Solution:
NABARD is Promote sustainable and equitable agriculture and rural prosperity through effective credit support, related services, institution development and other innovative initiatives.
Q5. At the instance of Government of India Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was constituted a committee to review the arrangements for institutional credit for agriculture and rural development (CRAFICARD) on 30 March 1979, under the Chairmanship of-
V K Malhotra
C Rangarajan
B Sivaraman
Hilton Young
None of the given options is true
Solution:
The importance of institutional credit in boosting rural economy has been clear to the Government of India right from its early stages of planning. Therefore, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) at the insistence of the Government of India, constituted a Committee to Review the Arrangements For Institutional Credit for Agriculture and Rural Development (CRAFICARD) to look into these very critical aspects. The Committee was formed on 30 March 1979, under the Chairmanship of Shri B. Sivaraman, former member of Planning Commission, Government of India.
Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.
A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.
Input: technology 58 causing 29 problems 31 62 80 society erosion 17 relations
Step I: erosion technology 58 causing 29 problems 31 62 society 17 relations 80
Step II: erosion relations technology 58 causing 29 problems 62 society 17 80 31
Step III: erosion relations causing technology 58 29 problems society 17 80 31 62
Step IV: erosion relations causing society technology 58 problems 17 80 31 62 29
Step V: erosion relations causing society technology problems 17 80 31 62 29 58
Step VI: erosion relations causing society technology problems 80 31 62 29 58 17
As per the rules followed in the steps given above, find out in each of the following questions the appropriate step for the given input.
Input: fast 29 pain 19 32 strong 78 makes 64 emotion victory 23
Q6. What will be the position of ‘victory’ with respect to ‘fast’ in the step III of the input?
Immediate left
Fourth to the right
None of these
Second to the right
Fourth to the left
Solution:
(6-10)
The machine rearranges the words and numbers in such a way that the words are arranged in descending order based on the number of vowels in the given word. If two words contain the same number of vowels, then they are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right in each step.
Numbers are arranged in decreasing order from left to right alternatively, even number first, followed by prime number alternatively.
Input: fast 29 pain 19 32 strong 78 makes 64 emotion victory 23
Step I: emotion fast 29 pain 19 32 strong makes 64 victory 23 78
Step II: emotion makes fast pain 19 32 strong 64 victory 23 78 29
Step III: emotion makes pain fast 19 32 strong victory 23 78 29 64
Step IV: emotion makes pain victory fast 19 32 strong 78 29 64 23
Step V: emotion makes pain victory fast strong 19 78 29 64 23 32
Step VI: emotion makes pain victory fast strong 78 29 64 23 32 19
Q7. What will be the position of ‘strong’ in the last but one step?
Seventh from the left
Seventh from the right
Sixth from the left
Fifth from the left
Both (b) and (c)
Q8. Which of the following will be the penultimate step?
Step VI
Step V
Step IV
Step III
None of these
Q9. After how many steps no further rearrangement of words is possible?
Five
Four
Six
Seven
Eight
Q10. What will be the position of ‘fast’ in step IV?
Sixth from right
Seventh from right
Seventh from left
Fifth from left
None of these
Q11. The company A earned 40% more profit in the year 2003 than that in the year 2001. The company A earned a total profit of Rs. 22000 in the year 2001 and 2002 together. While in the year 2003, the company A earned 80% profit of that in 2002. How much profit did the company earn in the year 2002?
12500
14000
10400
12000
14500
Solution:
Q12. What is the area of the hall if the Material cost of flooring per m² is Rs. 250 while Labour cost of flooring the hall is Rs. 3500 and the total cost of flooring the hall is Rs. 14500?
40
48
45
44
50
Solution:
Q13.30% of the graduates in the college can speak French while 560 graduates can speak the language other than French. How many graduates are there in the institution?
780
800
700
820
900
Solution:
Q14. A starts working on a job and continues for 12 days completing 40% of the work. To complete the work, he employs C. Together they work for another 12 days and completed it. How much more efficient is A than C?
75
150
100
50
Both are equally efficient
Solution:
In 12 days A has done 40% of work
∴ In another 12 days A’ll do another 40% of the work which C ‘ll do remaining 20% of the work
Hence A is 100% more efficient than C.
Q15. Navya borrowed a total amount of Rs. 30,000, a part of it on simple interest rate of 12% per annum and remaining on simple interest rate of 10% per annum. If at the end of 2 yr, he paid in all Rs. 36480 to settle the loan amount, then what was the amount borrowed at 12% per annum?
12000
18000
14000
20000
None of the above
Solution:
Directions (16-20): Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Q16. The rise in carbon dioxide emissions is driving fundamental and dangerous changes in the chemistry and ecosystems of the world’s oceans. More than 30% of the carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels, cement production, deforestation and other human activities goes straight into the oceans, turning them gradually more acidic. Ocean conditions are already more extreme than those experienced by marine organisms and ecosystems for millions of years.
Ocean acidification is caused when the CO_2 emitted by human activity, mainly burning fossil fuels, dissolves into the oceans.
Ocean acidification could represent a greater threat to the biology of our planet than global warming.
There is now persuasive evidence that mass extinctions in past Earth history were accompanied by ocean acidification.
This emphasizes the urgent need to adopt policies that drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Ocean acidification can create conditions not seen on Earth for at least 40 million years.
Solution:
Option (d). The paragraph introduced by “the rise in carbon dioxide emissions is driving fundamental and dangerous changes...” is closed smoothly when it is said that “reduce emissions.”
Q17. When people talk about the digital divide, they usually mean the gap between people who are benefiting from the information revolution, and those who through lack of education or money are missing out. But if there is one thing on which almost everybody agrees, it is that criminals are mastering computer technology much faster than most governments are learning to foil them. Rich countries say they are beset by fraudsters, pornographers and hackers operating from poor places where they will never be caught—because their “host” governments can’t or won’t stop them.
Consequently, international efforts to police the net remain deadlocked.
Consequently, the only winners are the criminals.
An accord launched at the Council of Europe aims to let authorities in one country give chase, at least electronically, to criminals in another.
Many countries like the idea of policing the net but not enough to push it through.
Policing the net, however, seems contrary to the essential philosophy of the internet.
Solution:
Option (a). The purpose of the paragraph is to state the problems that governments face in cyber crime—this has further led to criminals being the winners. From the point of the main purpose of the paragraph, option (a) scores over option (b) i.e., the one thing that everyone agrees is that criminals are faster because international efforts are deadlocked. Though option (b) comes very close, the point is that criminals are faster and not winners.
Q18. The book focuses on people that came from a place called “Chonglin”, N. Korea’s third–largest city and one of the places that were hardest hit by the terrible famine of the mid- 1990s. It is also almost entirely closed to foreigners. Funnily enough, North Korea hasn’t always been this hopeless. In its early history, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was actually considered a success case in economic development. In the 1960s, the “Korean economic miracle” referred to the steel plants and electrified transport networks of the DPRK, but as South Korea embraced market reforms the chasm between North Korea and its neighbour grew wider.
For the most part North Korea remained a dark, inscrutable place.
South Korea grew richer while its neighbour to the North kept getting poorer.
By 1996, North Korea was in the grip of one of the deadliest famines in modern times.
South Korea became one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world while people in North Korea didn’t even have access to the internet.
One can only hope that one day North Korea will be open and we will be able to judge for ourselves what really happened there.
Solution:
Option (b). The paragraph leads us towards the difference between North and South Koreas. At least in the mid 1990s N. Korea was closed to “foreigners” and “hopeless.” The chasm grew wider—we now need to close the paragraph with a definitive difference between the two. Option (b) does this. Moreover, the last sentence should talk about S. Korea about which very little is said in the paragraph. Option (d) gets eliminated because of the emphasis of “internet”—a general sentence is much better. Hence option (b) scores.
Q19. She had had one of those boots. Ones that were so ugly they made you stand out. She had always hated her boots, but was one of those people who didn’t do much about things they hated. He on the other hand had found those boots unique, strange as they were. They suited her somehow, because just like her boots, she was ugly…
…yes, definitely the boots; they were an ugly colour actually.
… he remembered exactly how she looked like.
… that’s how she usually was weird and emotionally unavailable.
… in a more endearing way though.
… she appeared so intriguing, and of course, she was intriguing.
Solution:
Option (d). “He on the other hand had found those boots unique, strange as they were. They suited her somehow ...’ so, though she was ugly he finds her unique and strange. Paragraph is complete if his feelings are now stated explicitly. “ugliness” option (a), “weird” option (b), and “intrigue” option (e) are already implied and dealt with—his feelings of acceptance is not yet stated. Option (d) clearly states this and completes the paragraph.
Q20. In reality, scientists do not deal in certainty but in probabilities, and the way they calculate these probabilities is complex. For example; when testifying in court, a fingerprint expert may say that there is a 90% chance of obtaining a match if the defendant left the mark and a one in several billion chance of a match if someone else left it. In general DNA provides information of a higher quality or “individualizing potential” than other kinds of evidence, so that experts may be more confident of linking it to a specific individual.
However, jurors hold unrealistic expectations of forensic evidence and investigation techniques.
However, jurors today expect more categorical proof than forensic science is capable of delivering.
However, DNA experts still deal in probabilities and not certainties.
However, an unequivocal match of DNA is indeed generally just fiction.
However, jurors think they have a thorough understanding of science.
Solution:
Option (c). The direction of the paragraph is set by the first sentence. The experts however, have confidence in overriding the probabilities and link evidence (DNA) to a specific individual. However, science behind it is still based on probability. This is why the thirds option best closes the paragraph the purpose of which is set by the first sentence itself.
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