SSC GRADUATE LEVEL TIER – I EXAM, 19-10-2014 ( FIRST SITTING) – PREVIOUS YEAR PAPER
GENERAL AWARENESS
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(2) Gandhi
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(2) Rock Edict XIII
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(3) Ibadat Khana
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(1) Guru Angad
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(3) Sapta Sindhu
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(1) R. Hess
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(2) Muir
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(1) Morely
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(I) Mixed farming
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(1) Running water
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(3) Cretaceous
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(2) shrub
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(4) Amoeba
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(3) J.C. Bose
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(4) Skull
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(3) Mir Jaffar
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(3) Sea weed rich in iodine content
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(1) Basalt
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(1) 8 min
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(3) detect and locate distant objects.
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(4) total internal reflection
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(3) Microsoft Power Point
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(2) HTML
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(3) Ethology
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(3) Female somatic cells
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(1) temperature
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(1) Marine sources
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(4) CFC
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(4) Recycling
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(3) Worms
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(2) Typhoid
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(1) Bangladesh
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(4) Caffeine Solution : 4
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(3) Nickel
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(1) Vulcanization
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(3) Madhya Pradesh
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(4) Maharashtra
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(1) Hydrogen
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(1) Indian Ocean
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(2) Coal
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(4) R.K. Narayan
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(2) 1858
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(2) Pulmonary Vein
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(3) Annie Besant
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(4) Aggregate consumption :- Aggregate income
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(1) stop production.
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(3) It secures a stable majority in the legislature.
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(2) Income = Consumption + Saving
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(3) aggregate consumption and aggregate income
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(2) falls
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ENGLISH COMPREHENSION
Directions (1-5) : In the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.
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(2) away
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(2) out of his way
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(4) losing
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(4) suppliant
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(2) opening
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Directions (6-8) : In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
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(3) Impenetrable
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(2) Examine
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(I) Friendly
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Directions (9-11) Directions (9-11)
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(3) Veneration
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(4) Resist
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(2) Generally
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Directions (12-16) : In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
12. Indians are going places in the field of software technology.
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(3) talented and successful
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13. She is a person who pulls no punches.
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(1) speaks politely
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14. For any group work to be successful, it is important that everyone ison the same page.
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(4) thinks in a similar way
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15. Our plan to go to London is in the air.
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(2) certain
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16. My efforts at pest control went in vain, I have to go back to the drawing board.
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(1) plan it all over again
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Directions (17-26) : In the following questions, a sentence/ part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold sentence/part of the sentence at (1), (2) and (3) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is (4).
17. This crime makes a man liable This crime makes a man liable
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(2) for transportation for life
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18. I don’t think many people will be able to attend the meeting tomorrow. I, but for one, have to be in Chennai.
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(3) for one
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19. My visits to my family are a few and far between.
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(2) few and far between
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20. Their friendship will not last through long time.
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(3) last long
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21. All these articles are kept in a tin box to prevent from spoiling of damp in rainy season.
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(1) prevent them from spoiling by damp
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22. Your previous project was only failed because you did not persevere yourself in it.
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(2) failed only because you did not persevere for it.
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23. I had more sympathywith you. my friend
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(2) have much sympathy
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24. The bank manager was given a holiday and so he resolved to go for hitchhiking.
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(4) No improvement
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25. Our big iron gate jingles on its hinges as it is opened.
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(2) grates
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26. Although other parts the world 20 per cent of the farm area is owned by women, in India women own less than 7 per cent.
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(3) While in other parts of
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Directions (27-33) : In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences.
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(4) Obsolescent Solution :
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(1) Cocktail
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(2) Bovine
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(1) Contingency
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(3) Penchant
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(1) Patrilineal
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(3) Syllable
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Directions (34-35) : In the following questions, four words are given in each question, out of which only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.
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(1) Accessible
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(1) Camouflage
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Directions (36-45) : In the following questions, you have two brief passages with 5 questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE – I
(Question Nos. 36 to 40) The Critical Faculty is the most potent one in the human make-up. Its pervasiveness and force have not properly been recognized because like breathing, it is so much a part and parcel of human activity. The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass. The critical sense is essential for keeping social transactions in a warm state. Otherwise life would become very dull and goody-goody. The critical faculty is responsible for a lot of give and take in life. It increases our awareness of our surroundings; it sounds dignified no doubt, but is seems also to mean that we can watch someone else’s back better than our own! We never know our own defects till they are pointed out to us, and even then we need not accept them. We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts. On the surface it is all very well to say, ‘I want an honest criticism; that will help me, not blind compliments.’ I wish people would mean it.
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(1) it makes us critical of others.
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(2) honest criticism
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(4) All of the above
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(2) Both are exercised by human beings
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(1) his obvious divergence from the simpleton.
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PASSAGE – II
(Question Nos. 41 to 45) International trade represents a significant share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While international trade has been present throughout much of history, its economic, social and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries. Industrialization, advances in tecnology, transportation, globalization, multinational corporations, and outsourcing are all having a major impact on the international trade system. Increasing international trade is crucial to the continuance of globalization. International trade is, in principle, not different from domestic as the motivation and the behaviour of parties is across a border or not. The main difference is that international trade. Another difference between domestic and international trade is that factors of production such as capital and labour are typically more mobile within a country than across countries.
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(1) Capital
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(2) Moveable
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(2) Industrialization
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(3) is crucial to the continuance of globalization
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(2) One is more costly than the other
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Directions (46-50) : In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If there is no error, your answer is (4) i.e., No error.
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(3)
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(3)
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(2)
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(3)
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(3)
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QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE
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(3) 8,000
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(3) 60%
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(1) 12 : 9 = 16 : 12
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(1) 3
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(2)C > S > T
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(1) 10%
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(4) 12
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(4) 33 1/3%
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(3) 9.00 a.m.
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(3) 28 : 25
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(3) 41
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(2) 68 4/7%
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(2) 2
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(1) 12098
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(1) 4
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(3) 21
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(4) 10 km/hr
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(1) 400
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(1) (a b)
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(2) 12 cm
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(1) ∟A = 60°. ∟B= 90°, ∟C = 30°
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(4) 140°
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(4) right-angled
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(2) 11/96
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(3) 38
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(1) 198
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(1) 3 7/24
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(1) 1/3
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(3) 5/6
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(4) Isosceles
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(3) acute angled
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(2) 5 cm
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(3) 6000 l
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(4) 4320
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(3) 1/4 x area of AABC
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(1) 12,24, 36
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(2) -3
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(4) (\( \frac{mn}{m+n} \)) days
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(4) 7.32 m
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(1) 0
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(4) 37/60
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(2) a² + b² = p²+ q²
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(3) 90°
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(2) 60°
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Directions (45-50) : Study the graph and answer the questions.
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(4) None of the above
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(1) Pep-up only
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(2) 14
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(1) 100
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(2) 1992
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(4) Dew-drop and Cool-sip
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REASONING
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(3) +, ×, 6 and 8
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(1) 50 × 5 ÷ 30 + 25 = 25
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Directions (3-4) : In each of the following questions, some equations are solved on the basis of certain system. Find out the correct answer for the unsolved equation on that basis.
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(1) 10
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(1) 33
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Directions (5-7) : In each of the following questions, select the missing number from the given responses:
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(2) 144
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(4) 30
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(2) 5
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Directions (8-13) : In each of the following questions, select the related word/letters/numbers from the given alternatives.
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(3) RIVEND
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(1) 128
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(3) 197
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(1) Terrified
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(1) Unharmful
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(3) PERFECT
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Directions (14-19) : In each of following questions, find the odd word/number/letters/number pair from the given alternatives :
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(1) Square
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(2) Submarine
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(2) Malayalam
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(1) MIGE
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(1) 42 : 4
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(1) Year 2012
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Year 2012 is a Leap Year
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(3) IV, II, III, V, I
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(4) III, II, I, IV
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Directions (22-25) : In each of the following questions, a series is given, with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series.
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(4) 1
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(4) HPT
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(2) MQT
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(4) 625, 3125, 15625
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(3) x/(x + y)
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(4) 8
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(2) 15m
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Directions (29-30) : In each of the following questions, from the given alternative words, select the word which cannot be formed using the letters of the given word :
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(1) NUTRITION
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(4) MOUTH
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(1) CHRONRD
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(2) 2nd
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(2) LEPEAHTN
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(2) 34256
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(1) Only inference I follows
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(2) 5 kms South
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(2) 6 kms
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(1) The inference is true
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Directions (39-40) : In each of the following questions, among four answer figures whose cut pieces can form the given question figure?
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Directions (42-43) : In each of the following questions, which of the following Venn diagrams best represents relation between given classes ?
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(3) S
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Directions (45-46) : In each of the following questions, which answer figure will complete the pattern in the question figure ?