SSC GRADUATE LEVEL TIER-I EXAM (EVENING SHIFT) , 21-04-2013 – PREVIOUS YEAR PAPER

GENERAL AWARENESS



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(3) semi-conductor


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(3) neutron


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(1) frequency of transmitted signal


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(1) Douglas Engelbart


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(3) Speed of processing the data


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(2) 4°C


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(3) solar energy into chemical energy


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(2) emulsion


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(2) Enloroxylenol


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(4) GI (Geographical Indicator)


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(1) Lathyrus (Khesari)


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(2) Antarctica


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(3) Baba Amte


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(4) China


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(4) Pakistan


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(3) Venezuela


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(4) Sunil Gavaskar


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(4) Old Men and Women


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(2) Chief Justice of India


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(4) Cooking


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(4) Kanpur


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(1) Lord Chelmsford


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(1) Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan


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(1) Stockholm


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(3) International market


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(4) one seller and one buyer


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(3) J.B.Say


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(4) Cabinet Mission


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(4) All these


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(2) Right to Property


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(1) 44th


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(3) M.K.Gandhi


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(1) Uraon


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(3) Sardar Bagat Singh


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(3) Duke of Cannaught


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(1) Triratna


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(1) Chandragupta I


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(1) Pachmarhi


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(2) \( NH_{2} \)


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(2) Israel


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(2) Blue sheep


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(3) Arson


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(2) Thyroid


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(2) cerebellum


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(3) Five litres


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(3) 100


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(2) Insects


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(3) life in the outer space


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(3) ionosphere


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ENGLISH COMPREHENSION

Directions (1-2) : 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 as your answer.



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(1) humorous


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(2) narcissism


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Directions (3-12) :In the following questions, you have two passages with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

PASSAGE I
(Question Nos. : 3 to 7)

Pidgins are languages that are not, acquired as mother tongues and that are used for a restricted set of communicative functions. They are formed from a mixture of languages and have a limited vocabulary and a simplified grammar. Pidgins serve as a means of communication between speakers of mutually unintelligible languages and may become essential, in multilingual areas. A Creole develops from a pidgin when the pidgin becomes the mother tongue of the community. To cope with the consequent expansion of communicative functions the vocabulary is increased and the grammar becomes more complex. Where a Creole and the standard variety of English coexist, as in the Car – ribbean, there is a continuum from the most extreme form of Creole to the form that is closest to the standard language. Linguists mark off the relative positions on the Creole continuum as the ‘basilect’ (the furthest from the standard language), the ‘mesolect’, and the ‘acrolet’. In such situations, most Creole speakers can vary their speech along the continuum and many are also competent in the standard English of their country.



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(1) Different and mutually unintelligible languages exist side by side


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(2) It becomes the mother tongue for a new generation of speakers


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(3) A scale in which the proximity of the Creole to the standard language is measured


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(2) A form of Creole which is furthest from the standard language


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(1) Complex


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PASSAGE II
(Question Nos. : 8 to 12)

There were four of us – George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking and talking about “how bad we were bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all. It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.



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(3) they thought they were ill


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(2) he felt sure that he had a liver disorder


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(4) an unnecessarily dark, gloomy and pessimistic attitude to life


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(1) symptom of vertigo


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(4) hostile


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Directions (163-167) : 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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(2)


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(2)


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(3)


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(2)


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Directions (18-22) : In thefollowing questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.



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(1) utilized


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(2) dilly-dally


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(3) adept, adopt


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(4) termination


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(1) sagacious


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Directions (23-25) : 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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(1) talkative


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(2) decoration


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(1) meandering


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Directions (26-28) : In the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.



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(4) hostile


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(2) rational


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(3) unpardonable


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Directions (29-33) : 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.


29. Hard work pays in the long run.



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(2) over a period of time


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30. I felt a fish out of water among the lawyers.



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(3) uncomfortable


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31. The Cauvery water issue led to apple of discord between the two Governments.



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(4) cause of animosity


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32. The construction remains unfinished and the workers have let the grass grow under their feet.



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(3) delay doing the work


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33. The police smelt the rat behind the death of the girl.



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(3) suspected that something is fishy


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Directions (34-43) : 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 ( I), (2) and (3) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is (4).


34. The disparity of the GDP between the rich and the poor has broadened in the last some decades.



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(2) has widened in the last few decades


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35. How, is beyond my understanding, the boy could fall into the ditch.



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(1) How the bby could fall into the ditch is beyond my understanding


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36. The pioneer spacecraft went beyond Pluto.



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(1) made its way past


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37. The firm buys frozen seafood in bulk, packs it into smaller pouches and then they sell them to the local grocery stores.



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(1) it sells them


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38. The learners are intended to read the sources at home.



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(3) are expected


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39. Fuji’s invention of super computer will be enable to make Japan supercede America in computer technology.



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(2) will enable Japan


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40. I could never repay the debt I owe to my place of study



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(1) Alma Mater


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41. She cries all the time.



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42. For a week last month, the team’s 20 players were stranded because the Government-issued passport is not up to international standards,



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(1) Government-issued passports were not up to international standards


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43. Since July 2008, our customers will be able to use the ATM network of BBY Bank, the bank that was acquired by us during that year.



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(1) have been able to use


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Directions (44-50) : In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.



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(4) Stoic


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(3) venerable


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(2) kleptomania


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(1) contraband


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(2) genocide


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(2) Escort


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(3) numismatist


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QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE



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(2) 120°


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(1) 100°


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(3) 40°


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(2) 7 cm


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(4) 8


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(1) 1


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(4) 400


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(3) 8 hrs. 15 min.


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(3) \( 43\frac{7}{11} \) hours


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(3) 3:4


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(2) 2 sq. unit


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(4) 8 : 9


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(1) 220


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(4) 19.6%


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(1) 20


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(2) 160, 240, 300


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(3) 2200


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(2) 65


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(3) 50


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(1) Loss per cent \( 1\frac{19}{81}% \)


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(2) \( 16\frac{2}{3}% \)


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(2) 6 hrs. 12 min.


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(3) 3.5 km/hr


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(4) 2125


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(3) 15


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(2) 2


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(3) 1


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(1) 3


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(3) 0


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(4) -49/4


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(3) 72


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(1) 35°


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(4) 4√2 cm


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(1) 130°


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(2) 60 cm2


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(1) 70 m


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(2) √13


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(3) a perfect square of an integer


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(1) ± cos α cos β cos γ


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(1) 8√3 cm


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(3) 5 : 4


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(4) 5 : 2


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Directions (45-49) : Study the following Histogram and answer the following questions.



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(1) 33


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(2) 20 – 30


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(4) 0 – 10


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(3) 4 : 5


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(4) 200 crores


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REASONING

Directions (1 – 2) : In each of the following questions, which of the following interchange of signs would make the given equation correct?



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(3) + and ×


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(4) +, ÷, ×


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(1) 32


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Directions (4-9) :In each of the following questions, select the related letter/word/number from the given alternatives.



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(1) Gardener


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(2) Planet


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(4) XCWD


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(4) YZ


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(2) MS


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(4) 160


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Directions (10-15) : In each of the following questions, select the one which is different from the other three responses.



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(4) Agra


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(2) Hen


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(3) VUST


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(4) HGJL


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(2) (2, 3)


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(4) (82, 64)


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(4) 5, 2, 4, 3, 1


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(1) 4, 1, 3, 2


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Directions (18-21) : 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) INS


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(1) LF


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(1) 19


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(1) 2600


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Directions (22-24) : In each of the following questions, select the missing number from the given responses.



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(2) 140


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(4) 7


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(4) 407


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(2) H


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(2) 25 m


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Directions (28-30) : 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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(4) TEASE


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(4) TENDER


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(2) LANCER


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(2) VICOG


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(2) YMPBGP


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(3) 20 < 2 + 10 + 4 – 6 x 100


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(2) 151m


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(4) 2 metres


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Directions (37-38) : In each of the following questions, two/four statements are given followed by two/four conclusions I, II, III and IV. You have to consider the statements to be true even it they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follow from the given statements.



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(4) Both conclusions I and II follow.


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(2) Only conclusion II follows.


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(2)


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(4) 6


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(4)


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(4) 1


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(3) 47


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(2) 3


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Directions (45-46) : In each of the following questions, which answer figure will complete the pattern in the question figure



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(3)


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(2)


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(3)


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(4)


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(3)


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(3) 11, 33, 57, 22


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