Test of the Day for IDBI Executive Exam 2018: 20th March 2018

Dear Aspirants,

Q1. A boat which has a speed of 5 km/hr in still water cover 1km upstream path in 15 minutes. How much distance it could cover in 1 hour 45 minutes in downstream:

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Q2. A jar full of whisky contains 40% alcohol. A part of this whisky is replaced by another containing 19% alcohol and now the percentage of alcohol was found to be 26%. The part of whisky replaced is:

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Q3. A trader marked his goods at 20% above the cost price. He sold half the stock at the marked price, one quarter at a discount of 20% on the marked price and the rest at a discount of 40% on the marked price. His total gain is

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Q4. A can complete 1/4 of a work in 10 days, B can complete 40% of the work in 15 days, C completes 1/3 of the work in 13 days and D 1/6 of work in 7 days. Who will be able to complete work fastest?

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Q5. Annually income of Sameer is 8.4 lakh Rs. he spend of remaining on Food and 11/20 of remaining spend on Cloth and travel together monthly. then find the difference between total saving and amount spend on travel annually, if given ratio between amount spend on Cloth to travel is 17 : 8?

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Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below. 
G, H, I, J and K are five persons who are working in different IT companies in Bangalore. Two of them are working in Infosys, while the other three are working in different occupations, viz TCS, Cognizant and Tech Mahindra but not necessarily in the same order. They are living in different colonies of Bangalore viz; P, Q, R and S but not necessarily in the same order.
One of the person who is working in Infosys and the person working in Tech Mahindra stay in the same locality S. The other three stay in three different localities P, Q and R. Two of these five persons are Hindus, while the remaining three come from three different communities, viz Muslim, Christian and Sikh but not necessarily in the same order. The person who is working in Tech Mahindra is the oldest in age while the female person who is working in Infosys is the youngest. The other person who is working in Infosys is a male and lies between the employees of TCS and the Tech Mahindra age wise. J is a male and working in Infosys and stays in locality S while K is a Muslim and stays in locality R. The employee of TCS is a Christian and stays in locality P. H is a Sikh while, G is a Hindu and is a female and working in Infosys.

Q6. In which company H is working?

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Q7. In which company K is working?

Q8. In which company I is working?

Q9. Age wise, who among the following lies between G and I?

Q10. Which of the following statement(s) is/are true on the basis of the given information?

Directions (11-15): In each of the questions given below. Some sentences are given which may or may not be in sequence. Rearrange these sentences so that they make a coherent paragraph and choose the correct sequence as your choice. In question(s) where the first and the last sentence is numbered it means they are fixed and are not needed to be jumbled. 

Q11. A. The Director walked into the room and took a look around the class
 B. Mitch wanted to scream-the illogicality of the entire scene struck him dumb 
 C. The managers stared at him with the look of fear that no democratic country should tolerate in its people 
 D. Mitch walked out of the room – it was his irrevocable protest against an insensible and insensitive situation.

Q12. A. An essay which appeals chiefly to the intellect is Francis Bacon’s ‘Of Studies’.
 B. His careful tripartite division of studies expressed succinctly in aphoristic prose, demands the complete attention of the mind of the reader 
 C. He considers studies as they should be, for pleasure, for self-improvement, for business 
 D. He considers the evils of excess study: laziness affectation, and precocity.

Q13. A. By reasoning we mean the mental process of drawing an inference front two or more statements or going from the inference to the statements which yield that inference. 
 B. So logical reasoning covers those types of questions which imply drawing an inference from the problems. 
 C. Logic means, if we take its original meaning, the science of valid reasoning 
 D. Clearly, for understanding arguments and for drawing the inference correctly it is necessary that we should understand the statements first.

Q14. A. In rejecting the functionalism in positivist organization theory, either wholly or partially, there is often a move towards a political model of organization theory.
 B. Thus, the analysis would shift to the power resources possessed by different groups in the organization and the way they use these resources in actual power plays to shape the organizational structure. 
 C. At the extreme, in one set of writings, the growth of administrators in the organization is held to be completely unrelated to the work to be done and to be caused totally by the political pursuit of self-interest. 
 D. The political model holds that individual interests are pursued in organizational life through the exercise of power and influence.

Q15. (i) Making people laugh is tricky. 
 A. At times, the intended humour may simply not come off. B. Making people laugh while trying to sell them something is a tougher challenge, since the commercial can fall flat on two grounds. 
 C. There are many advertisements which do amuse but do no even begin to set the cash tills ringing. 
 D. Again, it is rarely sufficient for an advertiser simply to amuse the target audience in order to reap the sales benefit. 
 (vi) There are indications that in substituting the hard sell for a more entertaining approach, some agencies have rather thrown out the baby with the bath water.

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