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According to the passage, the steel industry in India has grown by ................. in the past two years and India ranks ................. among steel-producing countries.
............. per cent is the projected global demand for steel to grow in the medium term up to 20 10.
According to the International Iron and Steel Institute, India will lead the consumption growth with an annual demand of .............. per cent, followed by China with percent.
Which one of the following statements is incorrect?
Which one ofthe following statements is incorrect?
Which one ofthe following statements is/are true?
Experts Question n the success of the bharat Nirman project touted as the cornerstone of the UPA government’s policies to
In the case of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes, it is estimated by the now-defunct National Advisory Council (NAC) that at least around ................crore would be required for the fair implementation of the NREG Act in the country’s 200 poorest districts.
What is the relationship between sensation and memory?
What is the difference between art and experience?
Why, according to the author, were the mathematical arts founded in Egypt?
Which of the following can be considered to be the central idea of the passage?
Which of the following is the author most likely to agree with?
Which of these incidents discourages the government to formulate any kind of concrete plans?
Which of these statements cannot be inferred from the passage?
The discussion on the present condition of forestdiseases proves that
The percolation theory of unmixing is bout illustrated by which of the following examples?
In saying that the percolation and convection current theories may both be right, the industrial engineer means that.
Which of the following appears to be the best solution for combating the ‘unmixing’ problem faced by pharmaceutical manufacturers that must prepare large quantities of powders?
The passage implies that if the top bulb of an hourglass were filled with water instead of sand the pressure pushing the water through the opening would
Pipes are not a safer ............ to cigarettes because, though pipe smokers do not inhale, they are still .......... higher rates of lung and mouth cancers than non-smokers.
because of its tendency to ............... most Indian art is.............. Japanese art, where symbols have been minimized and meaning has been conveyed by using the method of the merest suggestion.
In the absence of native predators, to stop the spread of their population, the imported goats............to such an inordinate degree that they over-grazed the countryside and ............. the native vegetation.
The analysis of anything but ........ the coach’s report was but those of us who have learned to discount such dismal ................ are optimistic.
(A) It marks off the beginning mathematics from what went before.(B) Ever since this discovery, abstraction has been a major theme in the development of mathematics, as those interested in the field have come up with ideas further and further divorced from their basis in the real world, and then sought ways to bring them back to tell us things about the real world which we might otherwise not have known.(C) The discoverer of abstraction was the person who first realized that numbers are independent of the objects being counted, that two oranges and two apples (for instance) share a property, ‘twoness’, which is independent of what kinds of fruit they are.(D) Abstraction, the action of divorcing properties of physical objects from the objects themselves, is a fundamental concept, perhaps the most fundamental concept, in mathematics.
(A) The accomodation theory, in linguistics, starts from the premise that speech accommodation takes place when people modify their speech so that it conforms more with the way their conversational partners speaks.(B) For example, the speed at which people talks, the length of both pauses and utterances, the kind of vocabulary and syntax used, as well as intonation, voice pitch and pronunciation are all subject to the accommodation process.(C) A wide range of subtle adaptations have been observed, which tend to occur more or less unconsciously.(D) This kind of convergence is by no means an automatic feature of all conversations, and we can discern certain social contexts in which accommodation can be predicted.
(A) fossil evidence suggests that the mammals underwent adaptive radiation to produce the range of mammal types extant today.(B) Adaptive radiation, in the life sciences, refers to the differentiation (or anagenesis) of one or a few species into many to fill a large number of related ecological niches by adaptation.(C) Thus the first bird species may have given rise to many more bird species by adaptive radiation.(D) Typically, a species adapts to colonize a new habitat and, this adaptation opening up a new range of niches, adapts again to fill the new niches which are presented.
(A) When the future date arrives, the hear expects to buy in at a lower price deliver the stock that had been sold under the future contract at a higher price.(B) A market in which prices are falling or are expected to fall is called by economists a bear market.(C) Likewise, the term bear can be applied to a person who expects stock prices to fall and sells stock that he or she does not have for delivery at a future date.(D) It is a designation commonly used in securities markets and commodity markets and is the opposite of a bull market.
To prepare himself, he subjected himself to two weeks of total abstinence and intensive training in the open fields of Panipat, climbing the hills nearby 30 times, spend nights in the open and to test to see how long he could hold out without food.
In rural India, many mango trees are planted at the end of a village or at the border of a district, for providing excellent shade during summer, and shelter during winter.
Mental intelligence and common sense are essential for outstanding achievement because they involve your natural ability to comprehend difficult concepts quicker and to analyse them clearly and incisively.
Panchayati Raj institutions are now entrusted upon the execution of all rural upliftment schemes and programs in India.
Having bowed our heads, the priest in the temple led us in prayer.
Anyone interested in flying planes can learn much if you have access to a flight simulation machine.
The moral of the entire story is how money doesn’t make you happy.
Ever since the sting operation, there has been much opposition from they who maintain that it was an unauthorised act.
Identify incorrect sentence.
The angles of elevation of the top of a tower, from the top and the foot of a pole of height 10 m, are 30° and 60° respectively. The height of the tower is
A person standing on the bank of a river finds that the angle of elevation of the top of a tower on the opposite bank is 45°. Then which of the following statements is correct?
A person standing on the bank of a river observes that the angle of elevation of the top of a tree on the opposite bank of the river is 60° and when he walks 40 metres away from the tree the angle of elevation becomes 30°. The breadth of the river is
A class consists of 100 students; 25 of them are girls and 75 boys; 20 of them are rich and the remaining poor; 40 of them are fair-complexioned. The probability of selecting a faircomplexioned rich girl is
A box contains 5 brown and 4 white socks. A man takes out two socks. The probability that they are of the same colour is
India plays two matches each with West Indies and Australia.In any match the probabilities of India getting points 0, 1 and 2 are 0.45, 0.05 and 0.50 respectively. Assuming that the outcomes are independent, the probability of India getting at least 7 points is
Out of 13 applications for a job, there are 5 women and 8 men. It is desired to select 2 persons for the job. The probability that at least one of the selected persons will be a woman is
At a college entrance examination each candidate is admitted or rejected according to whether he has passed or failed the tests. Of the candidates who are really capable, 80% pass the tests and of the incapable, 25% pass the tests. Given that 40% of the candidates are really capable, then the proportion of capable college students who passed is about
In an examination, there were 2000 candidates, out of which 900 candidates were boys and the rest were girls. 1f 32% of the boys and 38% of the girls passed, then the total percentage of failed candidates is
From the salary of an officer, 10% is deducted as house rent, 15% of the rest he spends on children’s education and 10% of the balance he spends on clothes. After this expenditure he is left with Rs 1377. His salary is
If the price of gold increases by 30%, find by how much the quantity of ornaments must be reduced so that the expenditure may remain the same as before.
A monthly return railway ticket costs 25 per cent more than a single ticket. A week’s extension can be had for the former by paying 5 per cent of the monthly ticket’s cost. If the money paid for the monthly ticket (with extension) is Rs 84, the price of the single ticket is
A papaya tree was planted 2 years ago. It increases at the rate of 20% every year. If at present, the height of the tree is 540 cm, what was its height when the tree was planted?
A mixture of 40 litres of milk and water contains 10% water. How much water should be added to this so that water may be 20% in the new mixture?
The amount of water (in ml) that should be added to reduce 9 ml lotion, containing 50% alcohol, to a lotion containing 30% alcohol, is
The average of marks obtained by 120 candidates was 35. If the average of the passed candidates was 39 and that of the failed candidates was 15, then the number of those candidates who passed the examination, was
Angad was conducting an experiment in which the average of 11 observations came to be 90, while the average of first five observations was 87, and that of the last five was 84. What is the measure of the 6th observation?
The average age of an adult class is 40 years. 12 new students with an average age of 32 years join the class, thereby decreasing the average by 4 years. The original strength of the class was
The average age of 8 persons in a committee is increased by 2 years when two men aged 35 years and 45 years are substituted by two women. The average age of these two women is
At Narmada Sarovar bachao (NSB) demonstration, supporters of Ms Patkar outnumbered the police by 9 : 1. The police arrested 135 NSB supporters averaging 5 for every 3 policemen. How many supporters of NSB were there in the demonstration?
The ratio between the number of passengers travelling by I and II class between the two railway stations is 1 : 50, whereas the ratio of I and II class fares between the same stations is 3 : 1. If on a particular day, Rs 1325 revenue collected from the passengers travelling between these stations, then what was the amount collected from the II class passengers?
A and b enter into a partnership with Rs. 50,000 and Rs.60,000 respectively. C joins them after x months contributing Rs 70,000 and b leaves x months before the end of the year. If they share the profit in the ratio of 20 : 18: 21, then find the value of x.
Rahul started a business with a capital of Rs 8,000. After six months, Sanjay joined him with an investment of some capital. If at the end of the year each of them gets equal amount as profit, how much did Sanjay invest in the business?
A manufacturer of a certain item can sell all he can produce at the selling price of Rs 60 each. It costs him Rs 40 in materials and labour to produce each item and he has overhead expenses of Rs 3000 per week in order to operate that plant. The number of units he should produce and sell in order to make a profit of at least Rs 1000 per week is
If the selling price of a product is increased by Rs 162, then the business would make a profit of 17% instead of a loss of 19%. What is the cost price of the product?
Two men undertake to do a piece of work for Rs. 1,400. First man alone can do this work in 7 days while the second man alone can do this work in 8 days. If they working together complete this work in 3 days with the help of a boy, how should money be divided?
Two men undertake to do a piece of work for Rs 600. One alone could do it in 6 days and the other in 8 days. With the assistance of a boy they finish it in 3 days. boy’s share should be
15 men can complete a work in 210 days. They started the work but at the end of 10 days, 15 additional men, with double efficiency, were inducted. How many days, in whole, did they take to finish the work?
There are two taps to fill a tank while a third to empty it. When the third tap is closed, they can fill the tank in 10 minutes and 12 minutes, respectively. If all the three taps be opened, the tank is filled in 15 minutes. If the first two taps are closed, in what time can the third tap empty the tank when it is full?
A cistern has two taps which fill it in 12 minutes and 15 minutes respectively. There is also a waste pipe in the cistern. When all the pipes are opened, the empty cistern is full in 20 minutes. How long will the waste pipe take to empty a full cistern?
Two taps can fill a tank in 20 minutes and 30 minutes respectively. There is an outlet tap at exactly half level of that rectangular tank which can pump out 50 litres of water per minute. If the outlet tap is open, then it takes 24 minutes to fill an empty tank. What is the volume of the tank?
Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 km/hr and including stoppages, it is 45 km/hr. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
Rampur is 100 km from Sitapur. At 3 pm bharat Express leaves Rampur for Sitapur and travels at a constant speed of 30 km/h. One hour later, Laxman Mail leaves Sitapur for Rampur and travels at a constant speed of 40 kmph’. Each train makes one stop only at a station 10 km from its starting point and remains there for 15 min.Which train is nearer to Rampur when they meet?
A car starts running with the initial speed of 40 kmph, with its speed increasing every hour by 5 kmph. How many hours will it take to cover a distance of 385 km?
How many kg of tea worth Rs 25 per kg must be blended with 30 kg of tea worth Rs 30 per kg so that by selling the blended variety at Rs 30 per kg there should be a gain of 10%?
How many kg of sugar costing Rs 5.75 per kg should be mixed with 75 kg of cheaper sugar costing Rs 4.50 per kg so that the mixture is worth Rs 5.50 per kg ?
The average monthly salary of employees, consisting of officers and workers of an organisation is Rs 3000. The average salary of an officer is Rs 10,000 while that of a worker is Rs 2,000 per month. If there are total 400 employees in the organisation, find the number of officers and workers separately.
A person travels 285 km in 6 hrs in two stages. In the first part of the journey, he travels by bus at the speed of 40 km per hr. In the second part of the journey, he travels by train at the speed of 55 km per hr. How much distance did he travel by train?
How many kg of pure salt must be added to 30 kg of a 2% solution of salt and water to increase it to a 10% solution?
Two persons are walking in the same direction at rates 3 km/hr and 6 km/hr. A train comes running from behind and passes them in 9 and 10 seconds. The speed of the train is
How much did the salesman earn from the sale of 3 cars?(A) Each car sold for Rs 3,40,000(B) He received a 2% commission on each sale.
What does WXY equal?(A) W=X+Y(B) WXYZ = 6Z
Which number is greatest C, D or E?(A) 2D > 2E > 2C(B) C + 2 = D > E
If Sanjay can paint a house in 15 hours working alone, how long will it take to paint the house if Mohit helps him?(A) Mohit can paint the house in 20 hours working alone.(B) Working together with Sanjay, Mohit does 3/7 of the total work.
Given Information x = -2
Column A$$3x^2 + 2x - 1$$
Column B $$x^3 + 2x^2 + 1$$
Given Information$$\frac{a}{a + b} = \frac{c}{c + d}$$
Column Acb
Column Bad
Given InformationAn audio cassette priced at Rs 47.25 includes a 5% mark-up mark-up
Column ARs.44.89 price before mark-up
Column BThe original
Given Information25% of the 300 girls in our school wear spectacles do not
Column AThe ratio of girls wearing to those who do not.
Column B1 : 3
Column A The ratio of rainfall between the months February and July
Column B 2 : 3
Column A The average monthly rainfall recorded for the 7 months
Column B 1.9 inches
Column A 12½% of all the rain that fell during the 7 month period
Column B The amount of rainfall during Rainfall during the month of February.
Column A The ratio between average rainfall in average rainfall in May and January
Column B The ratio between the average rainfall in April and February
What is the population of AD on the basis of the reported cases of cancer in 2006 (in thousands)?
Which country has reported the second highest number of cancer cases to WHO during 2006?
The countries which have reported less than 2000 cases both the 2006 and early 2007 are
Which of the following are true from the table? I. The reported cancer cases of M, Wand AJ as compare to their population are negligible. II. The 2006 rate is highest for P though the reported cases are only 4700. III. The population of R is 664,000 in 2006. IV. P reported more than 20,000 cases of cancer in early 2007
The ratio of the number of organic chemicals for which the production has fallen to the number of inorganic chemicals for which production has fallen is
Of all chemicals shown, the highest percentage increase in production has been exhibited for
The chemical, whose production in 2003 - 04 as a proportion of its total production for the two-year period was the lowest, is
If productive volatility is defined as the percentage change in production, and it is known that any chemical whose productive volatility is greater than 5% is classified as highly volatile, then how many chemicals are not highly volatile (amongst organic chemicals)
Which product had the largest percentage increase in price per cubic meter over the 7-year period?
The maximum increase in price per cubic metre for any product over any two successive years was
In 2003, the total sales of the company measured in cubic metres was made up of 40% plywood, 30% sawn timber and 30% logs. The average realisation per cubic metre in 2003 was closest to
In 2004, the prices of plywood, sawn timber and logs went up by 5%, 1% and 10%, respectively, and the total sales were made up of 40% plywood, 30% sawn timber and 30% logs. The average realisation per cubic metre in 2004 was closest to
According to these graphs, approximately, how much money from the investment portfolio was invested in high-risk stocks?
Approximately how much money belonging to the investment portfolio was invested in State-issued bonds?
Which of the following earned the least amount of money for the investment portfolio?
Which of the following was the greatest?
Which of the five states has the highest percentage of readers of Hindi newspapers?
From the data provided above we can infer that
If UP has 25,00,000 newspaper readers and Rajasthan has 15,00,000, how many more readers buy English newspapers in UP than in Rajasthan (approximately)?
About what percentage of readers in Rajasthan read Urdu newspapers?
What was the percentage increase in the number of employees of the company from 1995-96 to 1997 -98?
What was the average number of employees who worked in the company over the given years?
What was the difference between the average of the total salaries paid by the company over the given years and the total salary paid by the company in the year 1997 -98?
The total expenditure of the company in 1995-96 was approximately what per cent of the average of the total expenditures of the company over the given years?
The number of girls studying art in college is
For which subject is the number of boy the minimum?
For Political Science, what is the respective ratio of boys and girls?
The number of girls studying art is what per cent more than the number of boys studying art?
In a certain code ROAD is written as URDG. How is SWAN written in that code?
Which of the following will come in place of the Question n mark(?) in the following sequence? 6C7,8F10, 11J14, 15O19,?
Ram walks 10m South from his house, turns left and walks 23m, again turns left and walks 40 m, then turns right and walks 5 m to reach his school. In which direction is the school from his house?
If table is called chair, chair is called cot, cot is called pot and pot is called filter, where does a person sit?
Off-hand is related to PERFUNCTORY, in the same way as above, board is related to
In a class of 35 students, Kiran is placed $$7^{th}$$ from the bottom whereas Mohan is placed $$9^{th}$$ from the top. Sohan is placed exactly in between Kiran and Mohan. What is Kiran’s position from Sohan?
If the second, third, fifth, eighth and ninth letters of the word CONTEMPLATION are combined to form a meaningful word, what will be the middle letter of the word? If more than one such word can be formed, your answer is X and if no such words can be formed your answer is Y.
Pointing to a photograph Arun said, ‘She is the mother of my brother’s son’s wife’s daughter.’ How is Arun related to the lady?
Which one is different from the remaining three?
AbCD is related to OPQR in the same way as WXYZ is related to
The letters skipped between adjacent letters are the order of 1,2,3,4 .............. Which alternative follows this rule?
A boy goes to see a film and finds a man who is his relative. The man is the husband of the sister of his mother. How is the man related to the boy?
I am facing west. I turn 45° in the clockwise direction and then 180° in the same direction and then 270° anticlockwise. Which direction am I facing now?
In a month of 31 days, the third Wednesday falls on the 15th. What will be the last day of that month?
When Ranjeev was born, his father was 32 years older than his brother and his mother was 25 years older than his sister. If Ranjeev’s brother is 6 years older than Ranjeev and his mother is 3 years younger than his father, how old was Ranjeev’s sister when he was born?
In a party everyone gave a gift to everyone else. If the total number of gifts exchanged in the party was 600, how many persons were there in the party?
After a get-together every person present shakes the hand of every other person. If there were 105 handshakes in all, how many persons were present in the party?
Four friends were playing a game of cards sitting in a circle. Shankar was on the right of Ram and Gopal was on the left of Arvind. Which of the following pairs were partners?
Four girls (G1, G2, G3, G4) and three boys (b1, b2, b3) are to sit for a dinner such that no two boys should sit together nor two girls. If they are successively sitting, what is the position of b2 and G3?
There are 30 plants of Chiku, Guava, Sitafal and Mango in a row. There is one pair of Mango plants after Chiku and Guava and Mango plants are followed by one Chiku and one Sitafal plant and so on. If the row begins with a plant of Chiku, then which of the following will be the last in the row?
Which of the following is the lightest in weight?
E is lighter in weight than which of the other two articles?
E is heavier than which of the following two articles?
Which of the following articles is the heaviest in weight?
Event (I): The price of gold has gone up in the local market.Event (II): Indians have won several prizes in designing gold ornaments.
Event (I): Today, the prime ministers of countries P and Q have decided to take steps to improve bilateral relations.Event (II): Next week a committee of foreign ministers and senior officers of country P and Q will work out further steps to improve the relationship.
Event (I): Recently the prices of the personal computers (PCs) have come down.Event (II): Some school-children are showing keen interest in learning computers.
Event (I): This year bank M has celebrated its silver jubilee.Event (II): More customers are getting attracted to the market branch of bank M.
The Speed Swimming Gear company was confident that Roy would win the race.
Roy’s coach had cautioned him not to expect to do as wel1 as he had in past races.
After the race, several swimmers complained about the high chlorine content of the water in the pool.
It was revealed after the race that the national swimming meet was fixed.
Statement:A good system of education in a country is the flower of economic development; it is also its seed. Assumptions:I: Economic development leads to educational development in a country.II. Educational development leads to economic development in a country.
Statement:There is one thing as important as studying and that is how much is understood.Assumptions:I. Studying and understanding go hand in hand.II. Understanding is as important as studying.
Statement:All birds are dogs and some dogs are cats.Conclusions:I. Some cats are not dogs.II. All dogs are not birds.
Statement:There are many Indians who are honest. Mohan is an Indian.Conclusions:I. Mohan is honest.II. Mohan is not honest.
In order to qualify in an examination having 6 subjects, a student has to get at least 50% and above marks separately in any 4 subjects and 35% and above in each of the 6 subjects. If a total of 25% candidates have qualified in the examination, then which of the following is definitely true?
“Cases of food-poisoning have been reported from village X. After a dinner party arranged for 100 people, 68 were admitted to the hospital, and 36 were reported to be out of danger. The food, which was cooked and stored in an open space for almost 12 hours, was served after reheating. Investigation is going on.” A news report. Which of the following can be hypothesised from the above information?
“If you want a hassle-free holiday package for city M, then join only our tour. Hurry up; only a few seats available” - An advertisement of XYZ Tourist Company. If the above statement is true then which of the following has been assumed while making the statement?
The State Government’s agency ‘Housewell’ has constructed 500 flats for the middle class but inspite of a shortage of houses, it has not even received 100 applications. Which of the following, if true, could explain this?
What is ’Super 301'?
Who finally approves the draft five-year plans?
Which is India’s largest private sector bank?
According to the UNCTAD report, India has acquired the .............. Place in the world, for receiving the largest FDI in 2006:
For attaining 9% growth rate during 11th Plan, investment level has been estimated to be
Central Government has declared 2007 as
‘Aero India 2001’ was organised during February 2007 at
2007 is being celebrated as ‘Friendship year’ between India and
RbI holds .............. equity in National Housing bank
The National Stock Exchange functions from
What is the purpose of the India brand Equity Fund?
On the basis of the size and composition of external debt, World bank has classified India as a
The Planning Commission of India is
What is the percentage of India’s population with respect to the World population?
The novel which is not the work of Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel laureate in Literature, is
The Chairman of the National Development Council (NDC) is the
The three core values of the Commonwealth Games movement are
Internet was developed upon which among the following operating systems?
Which among the following matches is incorrect?
The Secretary General of the United Nations is
A Nuclear-Risk Reduction Treaty was recently signed between
The mascot of the 33rd National Games was
The theme for the $$21^{st}$$ National Science Day 2007 was
Which among the following movies was given the best Picture Award at the $$97^{th}$$ Oscar Awards 2007
Tagline ‘Empowering People’ is linked with which brand ?
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand is
Which among the following satellites was successfully launched in March 2007 by ISRO?
The XIX Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held at Delhi in
The death of the cricket coach of which among the following countries during the 2007 World Cup has created a suspicion?
‘Falcon-I ‘ which was recently in the news is
Japan has signed its first security pact other than US, with which among the following countries?
Devaluation means
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
The tax which is not shared between the Centre and the States is
Which of the following two countries will jointly host the South Asian Football Championship in 2007 ?
The economic growth of how much per cent has the Indian Credit Rating Agency (ICRA) predicted in the current fiscal year?
GNP (Gross National Product) is the money value of
For the purpose of Census 200 I, which one of the following was taken as being literate?
Consider the following statementsA) GATT was succeeded by the World Trade Organization in the year 1995.B) Headquarters of WTO are in Doha.C) World Intellectual Property Organization is a specialized agency of WTO.Which of the statement(s) given above is/are corect?
Which of the following rates is not decided by the Reserve bank of India (RbI)?