List of practice Questions

Choose the best option to fill in the blank in the given sentence:
The accountant and cashier of our bank ............. resigned.

Which option does not reflect the relationship implicit in ‘Emendation : Editor’?

Choose the option that would fill in the blanks meaningfully in the sentence(s) below:
______ the importance of ‘horizontal stratification’ ______ higher education is widely acknowledged, ______ attention has been applied to horizontal stratification ______ compulsory schooling.

Please study the paragraph given below:
In 1942, the French writer Albert Camus composed an essay, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’. It draws on the Greek fable of a man condemned to roll a rock up a mountain only to have it roll back down under its own weight, a ______ that lasts for eternity. Camus argues that this image ______ the human condition in a world where we can no longer make sense of events; but instead of committing suicide, we should ______ ourselves to this ‘elusive feeling of absurdity’ and bear it as best we can. In this sense, Sisyphus is the ideal hero.
Consider the following words:
1. surrender
2. choice
3. symbolises
4. quandary
5. attune
6. option
7. reconcile
8. depicts
Which of the following options is the most appropriate sequence that best fits the blanks in the above paragraph?

Carefully read the following paragraph:
Who could resist the idea of remembering everything they wanted to, without trying? Learning would be made easy, exams a ______ and you would never forget where you left your keys. And memory-related disorders like Alzheimer’s would have met their match. So, it is of little surprise that scientists have turned their attention to ways of ______ human memory using techniques that ______, supplement or even mimic parts of the brain. The immediate goal is to treat memory disorders, but the idea of a memory ______ for everyday life is gaining ground.
Fill in the blanks in the above paragraph, with the best option from among the following:

Which of the following can replace the word given in bold in the passage?

Which of the following words can fill in the blank to make it meaningful?

Which of the following words can fill in the blank to make it meaningful?

Choose the word NOT having a prefix:

Study the first sentence and then identify from among the options given the closest antonym of the highlighted word in the second sentence:
It’s conventional wisdom that procreation between first cousins is unhealthy. But what are the actual genetic risks?

Read the following statements and answer the question that follows:
1. They subjected the residues from sherds of the rhyta- vessels to radiocarbon dating to determine their ages and chromatography - mass spectrometry (GC-MS) - to identify their structure and isotopic composition and found that the vessels were used to store cheese.
2. In many Neolithic sites near the Adriatic Sea, researchers unearthed cone-shaped clay vessels, known as rhyta, with four legs on the bottom and a round opening on the side.
3. Fresh milk couldn’t be kept for long without going bad; cheese, on the other hand, could be stored for months at a time, providing much-needed calories to early farmers between harvests.
4. Archaeologists who used to assume animals such as cows and goats were mainly used for meat early in their domestication history are thus forced to admit that humans might have been using animals for dairy quite early in their domestication history.
5. “If you kill one cow, you eat meat for about a week until it goes off; but by milking the animals, the farmer would be spreading the food gain from that animal over several months rather than just one week”
Rank the above five statements so as to make it a logical sequence:

Read the following statements and answer the question that follows:
1. An in-depth exploration of the Indian case and case studies of early adopters of mobile technology will provide spectrum managers a pragmatic and modern approach whereby they could utilize their resources efficiently and optimally.
2. Even as spectrum management regimes are moving from a command and control regime to a flexible use regime, new technological developments are suggesting that there are significant opportunities in managing large swathes of spectrum as a common property resource, in addition to flexible use.
3. Political legacies and market realities in different regimes pose unique challenges for spectrum managers who must negotiate a tricky path to the land promised by technological possibility.
4. On the other hand, supply of spectrum is restricted due to competing nature of uses and vested interests of incumbent holders.
5. The demand for spectrum has never been so acute as today's communication services extend beyond simple voice to complex data and video, augmented by evolving technologies such as peer-to-peer sharing, social networking, Fourth and Fifth Generation networks, Big Data, and cloud computing.
Rank the above five statements so as to make it a logical sequence:

Which of the statements below is least fallacious?

In a 100 meters race, A beats B by 20 meters B beats C by 5 meters. In the same race, A beats C by:

If escape velocity one earth surface is 11.1 km/hr then find the escape velocity on the moon surface if mass of moon is \(\frac{1}{81}\) times of the mass of the earth and radius is \(\frac{1}{4}\) times radius of earth

Two trains of length 150 m each pass each other in 20 s when moving in opposite directions. When they move in the same direction, they take 40 s to pass each other completely. Find the speed of the faster train.

The number of common terms in the two sequences: 15, 19, 23, 27, . . . . , 415 and 14, 19, 24, 29, . . . , 464 is

The number of 4 digit numbers without repetition that can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 in which each number has two odd digits and two even digits is

In how many ways can the letters of the word POTICA be arranged such that the vowels occupy odd positions?

A robot is 4 m long and placed at a corner of a \(16\text{ m}\times 30\text{ m}\) rectangular field. It faces the diagonally opposite corner and reaches that corner in \(15\) s. What is its speed?

Robot A, B and C make \(25\%\), \(35\%\) and \(40\%\) of circuit boards, with defect rates \(5\%\), \(4\%\) and \(2\%\) respectively. If one board is picked at random, what is the probability it is defective?

Valve A fills a bathtub in 10 hours and valve B fills it in 15 hours. A and B are opened together; later B is closed. The tub is filled in 8 hours in total. For how long was B open?