Practice Test


Q1) Which of the following statements is best supported by this passage ? Show Answer


Q2) Which of the following most probably was the subject of the paragraph preceding the passage ? Show Answer


Q3) The relationship between the cleavage and translucence of a diamond most similar in relationship between the style of a car and its : Show Answer


Q4) The word 'genuine' (underlined) could best be replaced by which of the following ? Show Answer


Q5) Which of the following statements best describes the organisation of this passage ? Show Answer


Q6) The cars that are most likely to sell would be : Show Answer


Q7) Which of the following can be inferred from the passage ? Show Answer


Q8) Suppose VX 1000 is a new car that is taking away customers from Japanese cars. Our closest hypothesis would be VX 1000 : Show Answer


Q9) Which of the following statements is false ? Show Answer


Q10) Which of the following statements is true ? Show Answer


Q11) The primary purpose of the passage is to : Show Answer


Q12) It can be inferred from this passage that the author views he information contained within it as : Show Answer


Q13) With which of the following words can you replace the word uniform as given in this passage ? Show Answer


Q14) What does the underlined word 'it' stand for in the passage ? Show Answer


Q15) The author provides information that answers which of following question ?
(I) What causes the disturbance that changes the cloud from its original static condition ?
(II) How does this small region's increasing density affect its gravitational field ?
(III) What is the end result of the gradually increasing concentration of the small region of gas ? Show Answer


Q16) As per passage, organisational behaviour is : Show Answer


Q17) Ethics is to an administration, what character is for : Show Answer


Q18) Government Servants' Conduct Rules are meant for : Show Answer


Q19) The underlined word 'manual' in the context of the given passage means : Show Answer


Q20) What is he passage about ? Show Answer


Q21) According to the passage which one of the following statements is true about broad general knowledge ? Show Answer


Q22) Supporters of the first theory would not agree with : Show Answer


Q23) "School of thought" can best be explained as : Show Answer


Q24) According to the second school of thought education will not be very effective, if students : Show Answer


Q25) What does the passage mainly discuss ? Show Answer


Q26) The underlined word 'potential' could best be replaced by which of the following ? Show Answer


Q27) According to the passage which of the following is not a possible because of many heart attacks ? Show Answer


Q28) As used in the passage, which of the following could best replace the underlined word 'reveal'? Show Answer


Q29) Which of the following does the passage infer ? Show Answer


Q30) What is the central idea of the passage ? Show Answer


Q31) What is the author's attitude to modern development in science and communications ? Show Answer


Q32) Rationality, according to the passage, means mainly : Show Answer


Q33) The author feels that it is impractical to appeal to altruism because : Show Answer


Q34) 'The King Demos' refers to : Show Answer


Q35) Which is the most appropriate title for the passage based on its content ? Show Answer


Q36) The author provides information that would answer which of the following questions :
(I) What factors cause changing in organism ?
(II) What is the theory of evolution ?
(III) Could structurally different organs be similar in evolution ? Show Answer


Q37) The author organises the passage by : Show Answer


Q38) Which of the following words could best be substituted to 'homologous' without substantially changing the author's meaning ? Show Answer


Q39) The author's style can best be described as : Show Answer


Q40) What point is the writer trying to make when he says "She may lie at a man's feet stroking his new socks" ? Show Answer


Q41) The 'gynolatry' of one civilisation would suggest all the following except that : Show Answer


Q42) By saying that women depicted in an advertisement is "not a women" the author implies that : Show Answer


Q43) The author's primary purpose in this passage is : Show Answer


Q44) In the last sentence of the paragraph, the word 'doll' is meant to express : Show Answer


Q45) The author uses the word 'improvisation' to suggest : Show Answer


Q46) According to the author high at cannot be democratised because : Show Answer


Q47) They tried to introduce bits of jazz in serious music so that : Show Answer


Q48) Which of the following words can best replace the word raucous in the paragraph ? Show Answer


Q49) Speaking of the techniques of some composers Paul Hindesmith said that they evoked image of emotions : Show Answer


Q50) The passage is primarily concerned with : Show Answer


Q51) Lichens survive in the extreme cold conditions of Antarctica on earth for all the following reasons, except : Show Answer


Q52) Which of the following statements is not true ? Show Answer


Q53) The most primitive forms of life likely to exist on Mars are all the following, except : Show Answer


Q54) Exobiologists might find on Mars algae similar to stromatolites on earth because : Show Answer


Q55) The main subject of the passage is : Show Answer


Q56) The word "era" in line 1 could be replaced by which of the following words ? Show Answer


Q57) According to the author which of the following is not popular now ? Show Answer


Q58) According to the author, why would red be a good colour for a lawn mower ? Show Answer


Q59) In this passage which of the following are not used as names for colours ? Show Answer


Q60) The main purpose of the passage is to : Show Answer


Q61) The rhetorical purpose of the fourth para of the passage is to :
(I) Anticipate objection to what the GNP fails to take into account.
(II) Cite example of "Products", the GNP ought to include.
(III) Develop the definition of the GNP with special details. Show Answer


Q62) We can infer from the passage that of the following, the factor that does not influence the growth of GNP is : Show Answer


Q63) The critic of the limitations of the measurement of GNP might cite its failure to consider all of the following except : Show Answer


Q64) According to the passage, which one of the following organisation is not associated in evolving and Indian MNC Index ? Show Answer


Q65) Which one of the following sectors of economy is now announced for overseas investment for the first time ? Show Answer


Q66) Which of the following is not implied as per the reported statement of the Chairman of the Samtel Group ? Show Answer


Q67) What is the main topic of the passage ? Show Answer


Q68) Why did companies and universities develop programmes to prepare managers in large numbers ? Show Answer


Q69) Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage ? Show Answer


Q70) Management education was emphasized in the management programmes because : Show Answer


Q71) What is the historical reason for many organisations not having leadership ? Show Answer


Q72) Which of the following is similar in meaning to the underlined word 'nurtured' as used in the passage ? Show Answer


Q73) What according to the author is leadership ? Show Answer


Q74) Which of the following characteristics help organisations in their transformations efforts ? Show Answer


Q75) Why were people taught little about leadership in management programmes ? Show Answer


Q76) Which of the following statements is false according to the passage ? Show Answer


Q77) The basic issue(s) requiring greater discussion and participative decision making regarding the dis-investment programme is/are : Show Answer


Q78) "The public sector is inefficient and resources waster whereas private enterprise is resource-efficient". This opinion is due to : Show Answer


Q79) The reform programme in India, started with the policy of restrucuring of PSUs, has got shifted to : Show Answer


Q80) What were made with great dedication earlier, but now derided ? Show Answer


Q81) According to the author, non-performers exist in : Show Answer


Q82) An appropriate title to the passage will be : Show Answer


Q83) When the author writes "globalising our social inequities" the reference is to : Show Answer


Q84) According to the author, 'inverted' representations as balm for the forsaken Show Answer


Q85) Based on the passage, which broad areas unambiguously fall under the purview of the UN conference being discussed ?
A. Racial prejudice
B. Racial pride
C. Disclimination, racial or otherwise
D. Caste related discrimination
E. Race related discrimination Show Answer


Q86) According to the author, the sociologist who argued that race is a 'biological' category and caste is a 'social' one : Show Answer


Q87) As important message in the passage, of one accepts a dialectic between nature and culture, is that : Show Answer


Q88) According to the passage, which of the following is the best set of reasons for which one needs to "look hard" at an economist's language ?
A. Economists accomplish a great deal through their language
B. Economics is an opinion-based subject
C. Economics has a great impact on other's lives
D. Economics is damaging. Show Answer


Q89) In the light of the definition of rhetoric given in the passage, which of the following will have the least element of rhetoric ? Show Answer


Q90) As used in the passage, which of the following is the closest meaning to the statement "The culture of the conversation makes the words arcane "? Show Answer


Q91) As used in the passage, which of the following is the closest alternative to the word 'arcane' ? Show Answer


Q92) Based on your understanding of the passage, which of the following conclusions would you agree with ? Show Answer


Q93) What according to the author should the French do to avoid becoming a producer of merely old-fashioned wines ? Show Answer


Q94) The development which has created fear among winemakers in the wine heartlands of France is the Show Answer


Q95) Which one of the following, if true, would provide most support for Dr. Renaud's findings about the effect of tannins ? Show Answer


Q96) Which one of the following CANNOT be reasonably attributed to the the labelling strategy followed by wine producers in English-speaking countries ? Show Answer


Q97) The tone that the author uses while asking "What French winemakers will ever admit that " is best described as Show Answer


Q98) The good title for this passage might be Show Answer


Q99) Attitude of ants toward strangers of the same species may be categorized as Show Answer


Q100) The author's anecdotes of the inebriated ants would support all the following induction except the statement that Show Answer


Q101) According to the passage chloroform was less successful than alcohol for inhibiting communication because of Show Answer


Q102) Although the author is a scientist, his style of writing also exhibits a quality of Show Answer


Q103) One of the types of radiation that cannot pass through the atmospheric "windows" without distortion is Show Answer


Q104) One of the atmospheric effects that affects earth-based experiments that is not mentioned in the passage is Show Answer


Q105) The purpose of telescope mounting is no neutralize Show Answer


Q106) The precession period of Earth is Show Answer


Q107) Gravitational action of the Sun and the Moon on Earth causes
(I) diurnal spinning
(II) Precession
(III) nutation Show Answer


Q108) The orbital motion of the Earth Show Answer


Q109) The man-made radio signals have wave-lengths of Show Answer


Q110) The author's reaction to the snowstorm may be said to be Show Answer


Q111) How many vehicles does the author mention in the passage ? Show Answer


Q112) Which of the following was not the result of the 'Winter of Blue Snow ' ? Show Answer


Q113) The author compares the weather bulletin channel reportage to Show Answer


Q114) According to the author, one of the greatest attractions of the weather is that Show Answer


Q115) The moral indifference of the weather is simulating in spite of being destructive because Show Answer


Q116) Which of the following is not true of the weather ? Show Answer


Q117) What is most probably the physical position of the author of the passage ? Show Answer


Q118) According to the author, the doctrines of Mr. Darwin .... Show Answer


Q119) What is most probably the author's opinion of the existing moral principles of the people ? Show Answer


Q120) According to the author, the moral code of Christianity ..... Show Answer


Q121) It is implied in the passage that ... Show Answer


Q122) What, according to the passage, is the Chief Good ? Show Answer


Q123) Female polar bears give birth during Show Answer


Q124) Mother bear Show Answer


Q125) With reference to the passage, the following assumptions have been made :
(I) Polar bears fast as long as eight months due to non availability of prey.
(II) Polar bears always give birth to triplets.
Which of the assumptions given above is/are valid ? Show Answer


Q126) What does the expression "pitching the highest camp" imply ? Show Answer


Q127) They took a long time to finish the work because Show Answer


Q128) When they crawled into the tent Show Answer


Q129) The man went into another room because Show Answer


Q130) The man was called a hero because he Show Answer


Q131) When the night fell, he slept Show Answer


Q132) He soon fell asleep because Show Answer


Q133) With reference to the passage, consider the following statements :
I. He was walking through the countryside.
II. The cottages and farmers gave him enough food so that he could sleep at night without feeling hungry.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ? Show Answer


Q134) According to the paragraph, abolishing child labour through legal means is most likely to result into.... Show Answer


Q135) What can be inferred about the policy being followed about child labour in India ?
(I) Giving economic benefits to the families of child labourers.
(II) Reducing / controlling child labour in unhealthy areas of work.
(III) Monitoring and improving working conditions for children. Show Answer


Q136) Which of the following words is most nearly the SAME in meaning to the word AMELIORATE as used in the paragraph ? Show Answer


Q137) The meaning of phrase 'Freedom of Press' in the passage is Show Answer


Q138) In India, real restrictions on the press do not come from : Show Answer


Q139) Which of the following statements sums up the writer's intention ? Show Answer


Q140) According to the passage, a scientist : Show Answer


Q141) In this passage, the phrase 'the heart of the matter' refers to the suggestion that : Show Answer


Q142) The scientist may give up research if he finds that : Show Answer


Q143) The author wants to evaluate the importance of the English language because it is : Show Answer


Q144) The speakers to every language : Show Answer


Q145) The writer's evaluation of the importance of the English language is based on : Show Answer


Q146) The young generation is getting frustrated because : Show Answer


Q147) Enormous responsibility to comprehend the problems of young generation lies with : Show Answer


Q148) The increase in violence in our society is : Show Answer


Q149) According to the author, discussions of drug addiction are generally concerned with Show Answer


Q150) Addicts take to criminal acts because Show Answer


Q151) The author seems to criticize the narcotics laws for Show Answer


Q152) With reference to the passage, consider the following statements
(I) Addiction to drugs is a criminal act.
(II) Drug addicts cannot be rehabilitated.
Which of the statements given above is / are correct ? Show Answer


Q153) Which of the following statements best reflects the underlying tone of the passage ? Show Answer


Q154) The author of the above passage says that in the past the basis of education for all people, irrespective of their intellectual calibre was Show Answer


Q155) The author of the above passage says that the classics and the Bible were read by his ancentors Show Answer


Q156) According to the author the above passage, the old man form of education, based on the study of the classics and of the Bible, has Show Answer


Q157) The author of the above passage fears that the greater part of the vacuum created by lack of interest in the classics and the Bible has been sense filled up by Show Answer


Q158) "It is the root of many other problems" means that Show Answer


Q159) The present satisfactory position in regard to food and cloth is due to : Show Answer


Q160) If the population of India continues to increase at this rate, the situation in regard to food and cloth Show Answer


Q161) The situation in respect of accomodation Show Answer


Q162) At present Indians have Show Answer


Q163) When did Mr Sharma's friend go to see, what was wrong ? Show Answer


Q164) When Mr Sharma saw the tigress, he was Show Answer


Q165) Mr Sharma stayed on to fight the tigress for Show Answer


Q166) The author views Indian Culture as Show Answer


Q167) The author thinks that Show Answer


Q168) The author wants Show Answer


Q169) The author wants Indians to Show Answer


Q170) What does 'nature' in the passage mean ? Show Answer


Q171) Which one of the following is the correct statement ? According to the passage, Show Answer


Q172) What does the writer suggest ? Show Answer


Q173) What does 'struggle' in the passage mean ? Show Answer


Q174) Why a beautiful landscape 'will fill us with infinite satisfaction' ? Show Answer


Q175) Which one of the following is correct ?
The writer believes that India is Show Answer


Q176) Where will the future leaders of the country mainly come from? Show Answer


Q177) What is author's tone in the passage ? Show Answer


Q178) Which one of the following is correct ?
For realizing the India of our dreams, Show Answer


Q179) Which one of the following is correct ? What is deeply encouraging about educated young men and women of India is that Show Answer


Q180) The amount of oxygen available in the atmosphere of Mars is Show Answer


Q181) The reason suggested by the writer for the difference in colour between the rocks on Mars and those on the Moon is that Show Answer


Q182) According to the passage Show Answer


Q183) The presence of colouration in Mars is quite suggestive of the presence of Show Answer


Q184) Which of the following is cited as a possible risk factor ? Show Answer


Q185) The word 'unduloudly' in the context of the passage means Show Answer