List of top Questions asked in CAT- 2013

(A) The trade in iron ore makes it the second-largest commodity market by value after crude oil.

(b) The metal provides the backbone of skyscrapers, bridges and motorways, and the carapace and internal organs of cars, fridges and washing machines.

(c) Given steel’s ubiquity — it makes up 95% of global metal production — iron ore, the raw material from which it is made, attracts strangely little attention.

(d) The development of a process to turn raw earth into steel merits a high spot on a list of mankind’s most ingenious achievements.
If \( g = 7 \), what is the minimum possible number of times for which the weighing machine is to be used?
If \( g = 3 \), what is the minimum possible number of times for which the weighing machine is to be used?
If \( g = 2 \), what is the minimum possible number of times for which the weighing machine is to be used?
If \( g = 9 \), then what is the minimum possible number of times for which the weighing machine is to be used?
In the passage the author is primarily concerned with?
The author quotes an example of Proust’s maxims to highlight his (Proust’s):
The passage implies that Proust subscribes to which of the following views? (a) Reading a good book is like having a conversation with a classical writer.

(b) Reading is a virtuous pastime and it leaves an indelible impression on one’s mind.

(c) Literature imitates life.

(d) A reader can invest in the feelings for characters in a book.

(e) Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” was appreciated by him for the unanticipated turns in the plot.

(f) Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” was known for its aesthetics, its gripping pace and its unlikely element of surprise.
The scientist and the artist are both concerned to change the world — the one the external world of man's objective relations with nature, the other the internal world of his subjective relations with his fellow men. The scientist discovers a contradiction in his consciousness of the external world and resolves it in a scientific hypothesis; the artist discovers a contradiction in his consciousness of the internal world and resolves it in a work of art. Both are creative acts. The scientist extends our knowledge and hence also our control of nature —
The author of the passage mentions the observations of Hall, Zhao and Sharif in order to:
The view mentioned in the last paragraph (“Taking the path… real life”) refers to which of the following?
Which of the following is not a possible combination of number of sports taken up by John, Mike, and Lewis?
Which of the following most accurately represents the author's criticism of 'Homo economicus'?
MELT
If John participated in Paragliding, which of the following statements is definitely true?
(a)Although thoughts are primary, thoughts in themselves have no method of transmission and are therefore dependent on speech.

(b)If we were to summarize the logo-centric approach to meaning, we should state that what emerges is that speech is the original signifier of meaning.

(c)Language, the cornerstone of humanity, emerges as a process to allow our thoughts to travel across space and between people.

(d)Language can then be viewed as a system of verbal signs that signify individual thought.

(e)Language produces speech to transmit thoughts and writing to transmit speech.
(a) Leonardo da Vinci was a self-taught man and began teaching himself Latin at the early age.

(b) He became a great engineer and was the first to discover that blood circulated through the body.

(c) He believed that coarse people of bad habits and shallow judgments did not deserve so beautiful an instrument and such a complex anatomical equipment than the human body.

(d) They should merely have a sack for taking in food and letting it out again, for they are nothing but the alimentary canal.

(e) Very fond of animals, he was himself a vegetarian and had the habit of buying caged birds from the market and setting them free immediately.
There are 4 roads between towns A and B, and 3 roads between towns B and C. How many different ways can a person travel from A to C via B and return to A without using the same road more than once in each direction?
(A) But as access to other texts is enjoyed more widely, some of the dominance textbooks now enjoy will wane.

(b) As indeed will the power of teachers—whose prejudices may often be just as ingrained as those found in textbooks, and rather harder to pin down.

(c) It won’t be long before children, will be able to access, by way of smartphones, the textbooks prescribed for their courses.

(d) As long as textbooks in one form or another are used and as long as they are issued or approved by the state, they will remain a political issue.
What is the number of positive integers less than or equal to 1000 that are divisible by neither 2 nor 5?
In triangle PQR, \( PQ = 12 \) cm, \( PR = 9 \) cm, and \( \angle Q + \angle R = 120^\circ \). Find the length of QR.
Consider the curves: \[ y = 2x^3 + 3x^2 + 4, y = 3x^2 - 2x + 8 \] How many times do they intersect for \( -3 \leq x \leq 2 \)?
Some persons are standing in a circle, all facing the center. Each pair not adjacent sings a 3-minute song, one after another. Total time = 1 hour. How many persons are there?
If each X-Ray occupies 30MB and a new technology reduces space by 60%, what is the total magnetic media memory required to store all the X-Rays in the year 2000? (1MB = \(10^6\) Bytes)