Q1. Name the person who has been appointed as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Offices in Geneva, Switzerland.
Q2. The Madhya Pradesh government has launched an app named ____________ to provide various municipal services online.
Q3. Which of the following Indian Universities has topped the list of country's official higher education rankings, recently announced by the HRD Ministry?
Q4. Bandipur National Park, an 874-sq.-km forested reserve in the southern Indian state of-
Q5. Hillary Rodham Clinton is famous of which of the following field?
Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Eight persons P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. They belong to the different States of India, viz Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, but not necessarily in the same order. They also read three different magazines — Competition power, Banking Chronicle and Banking & you. At least two persons read one magazine and not more than three persons read one magazine.
Only S and T read Competition power and S sits third to the right of T. P is from Rajasthan and reads Banking Chronicle and sits on the immediate right of T. U is from West Bengal and reads Banking & you. W reads the same magazine as V. V is third to the left of U. Q sits opposite the person who is from Uttar Pradesh. R sits exactly opposite to the person who belongs to Maharashtra. The persons who belong to Haryana and Madhya Pradesh read Banking Chronicle. V is from Uttar Pradesh. Q is from Madhya Pradesh. The persons who read Banking Chronicle do not sits adjacent to each other. The one who is from Punjab does not read Banking Chronicle or Competition power. W is not from Haryana.
Q6. Who among the following is from Chhattisgarh?
Q7. Which of the following groups read Banking & you magazine?
Q8. T belongs to which of the following States?
Q9. Which of the following combinations is true?
Q10. Which of the following statements is/are true?
Directions (11- 15): Study the bar graph given below and answer the following questions:
The bar graph below shows the percentage break-up of number of students who visited various tourist spots on New Year Evening.
Q11. If the ratio of girls and boys, who went to Manali from class X, was 7 : 8, then what percent of the total number of students from class X who went to a tourist spot is the number of girls who went to Manali ? (approximate)
Q12. What is the difference between the number of students who did not got to any tourist spot from class XI and that from class XII ?
Q13. If all the students from class XII who did not go to any tourist spot, later changed their mind and went to Nainital, then calculate the % mark-up in the number of students who visited Nainital ?
Q14. The number of students from class XI and XII together who visited Manali is what percent of the number of students from class X who visited Shimla, Ooti and Nainitaltogether ? (approximate)
Q15. Find the total number of students who didn’t visit any tourist spot?
Directions (16-20): For each of the following questions, a part or the whole of the original sentence has been highlighted in bold. You have to find the best way of writing the bold part of the sentence. Option A repeats the bold part, if the bold part is grammatically correct then choose option A.
Q16. Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, excepting for the domains of administration and teaching, the English language was never really spoken on the island.
This two-clause sentence describes an apparent incompatibility: as a British colony, Mauritius might be expected to be English-speaking, but in fact it was not. To describe this apparent contradiction and to avoid a comma splice, the clauses should be joined by the conjunction but. Domains describes places in which English is spoken; for is the incorrect preposition. Excepting is not idiomatic English in this case.
(c) Correct. The two independent clauses are separated by but, and except in is an appropriate idiom.
Q17. George Sand (Aurore Lucile Dupin) was one of the first European writers to consider the rural poor to be legitimate subjects for literature and portray these with sympathy and respect in her novels.
When consider means think of or believe after careful deliberation, it does not require as or any other expression before the object. The most concise phrase is to consider the rural poor legitimate subject for literature. This phrase should have a parallel in to portray them with sympathy and respect. While it is not essential to repeat to, the repetition elegantly reinforces the parallelism. The correct pronoun must follow portray: Sand portrayed them. The pronoun them refers to the rural poor and is the direct object. These (pl. of this) is a demonstrative pronoun, and here it is unclear what it is pointing to as its antecedent: Subject is the nearest plural noun antecedent, but these could also point to something not in the sentence, an unknown noun. Only the objective form of the pronoun (them) clearly points back to its antecedent the rural poor.
(e) Correct. In this sentence, the correct idiom is used with the verb consider, the correct pronoun, them, replaces the incorrect these; to consider and to portray are parallel.
Q18. The World Wildlife Fund has declared that global warming, a phenomenon most scientists agree to be caused by human beings in burning fossil fuels, will create havoc among migratory birds by altering the environment in ways harmful to their habitats.
The underlined portion of the sentence is an appositive defining global warming as a phenomenon caused by the burning of fossil fuels by humans. Because this appositive intervenes between the subject (global warming) and verb (will create) of a clause, it should be expressed as clearly and economically as possible so as not to confuse the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
(c) Correct. The phrase human beings’ burning is more economical than constructions with prepositional phrases or relative clause.
Q19. New theories propose that catastrophic impacts of asteroids and comets may have caused reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, the onset of ice ages, splitting apart continents 80 million years ago, and great volcanic eruptions.
This sentence lists four effects of catastrophic impacts; each effect, except the one included in the underlined portion, is given in noun form: reversals, the onset, eruptions. Splitting is a verb and thus not parallel to the other nouns in the series; in the second option splitting is a noun. Splitting may be transformed into a noun by adding the article the
(b) Correct. The splitting is a gerund, or noun form, and is properly used in this sentence; it is parallel to the other nouns.
Q20. A firm specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than 300 personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
The meaning of this sentence becomes lost in an awkward and ungrammatical construction. The verb claims may be followed by one of two correct constructions: claims that + a subordinate clause, or claims + the infinitive. When the prepositional phrase from a one-page writing sample is placed between claims and that, the result confuses and distorts the meaning by suggesting that the claim is contained in the writing sample. Instead, the firm claims to be able … to assess. The prepositional phrase should be placed between a pair of commas to show clearly that it is additional information not crucial to understanding the sentence.
(d) Correct. The correct idiomatic construction (claims to be able to assess) is used in this sentence, and the prepositional phrase is set off in a pair of commas to prevent misreading.
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