List of top General Aptitude Questions

He refused to be led by the nose.

Choose the correct spelling:

I have hit upon a good plan to get rid of him.

He is sticking out for better terms.

He broke off in the middle of the story.

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While no one made any _________ the financial scandal while he was in the room, there was a feeling of awe to the _________ created by the broker that had snared many unsuspecting investors under the _________ that everyone would end up rich and the fact that he had been celebrating his _________ of the legal authorities by attending parties. The option that best fills the blanks in the above paragraph would be:

Elephant : Calf :: Tiger : ..............

“So you want me to proscribe Ceecee…” The most suitable inference about Ceecee can be:

He often says how wonderful his school is?

The new cotton mill is mortgaged up to the eye.

“In the election of 2009, the internet emerged as the new communication _________ to be used by political parties to inform the voters about their agenda.” The option that best fills the blank would be:

She said I was the best boss they’d ever had. It was obvious she was praising me sincerely.

In an equilateral triangle ABC, whose length of each side is 3 cm, D is the point on BC such that BD = (1/2) CD. What is the length of AD?

There are two types of employees in Sun Metals, general graduates and engineers. 40% of the employees in Sun Metals are general graduates, and 75% of the engineers earn more than Rs. 5 lakh/year. If 50% of the organisation’s employees earn more than Rs. 5 lakh/year, what proportion of the general graduates employed by the organisation earn Rs. 5 lakh or less?

In a circular field, AOB and COD are two mutually perpendicular diameters having length of 4 meters. X is the mid-point of OA. Y is the point on the circumference such that $\angle YOD = 30^\circ$. Which of the following correctly gives the relation among the three alternate paths from X to Y?

If x and y are real numbers, then the minimum value of $x^2 + 4xy + 6y^2 - 4y + 4$ is

Let X be a four-digit positive integer such that the unit digit of X is prime and the product of all 4 digits of X is also prime. How many such integers are possible?

Two poles of height 2 meters and 3 meters are 5 meters apart. The height of the point of intersection of the lines joining the top of each pole to the foot of the opposite pole is:

Amarendra and Dharmendra are brothers. One day they start at the same time from their home for Tatanagar railway station in their respective cars. Amarendra took 25 minutes to reach the station. After reaching the station Amarendra found that Dharmendra is 2500 m away from the station. The distance of Tatanagar Station from their home is 15 km. Next day Dharmendra decided to start 7 minutes early. If they drive at the same speed as the previous day then Amarendra will reach the station:

Let S₁, S₂, … be the squares such that for each n ≥ 1, the length of the diagonal of S_n is equal to the length of the side of S_n+1. If the length of the side of S₃ is 4 cm, what is the length of the side of S_n?

In a clock having a circular scale of twelve hours, when time changes from 7:45 A.M. to 7:47 A.M., by how many degrees the angle formed by the hour hand and minute hand changes?

A manufacturer has 200 litres of acid solution which has 15% acid content. How many litres of acid solution with 30% acid content may be added so that acid content in the resulting mixture will be more than 20% but less than 25%?

The supervisor of a packaging unit of a milk plant is being pressurised to finish the job closer to the distribution time, thus giving the production staff more leeway to cater to last-minute demand. He has the option of running the unit at normal speed or at 110% of normal – “fast speed”. He estimates that he will be able to run at the higher speed for 60% of the time. The packet is twice as likely to be damaged at the higher speed which would mean temporarily stopping the process. If a packet on a randomly selected packaging run has probability of 0.112 of damage, what is the probability that the packet will not be damaged at normal speed?

The operation $(x)$ is defined by: (i) $(1)=2$
(ii) $(x+y)=(x)\cdot(y)$
for all positive integers $x$ and $y$.
If $\sum_{x=1^{n} (x)=1022$, then $n=$ ?}