List of practice Questions

The number of integers $n$ satisfying $-n + 2 \ge 0$ and $2n \ge 4$ is:

If $y = f(x)$ and $f(x) = \dfrac{1 - x}{1 + x}$, which of the following is true?

How many schools had none of the three viz., laboratory, library or play-ground?

How many 3-digit even numbers can you form such that if one of the digits is $5$ then the following digit must be $7$?

Mr. Murthy takes the morning train to his office from station A to station B, and his colleague Mr. Rahman joins him on the way. There are three stations C, D and E on the way not necessarily in that sequence. What is the sequence of stations?
I. Mr. Rahman boards the train at D.
II. Mr. Thomas, who travels between C \& D has two segments of journey in common with Mr. Murthy but none with Mr. Rahman.

A function can sometimes reflect on itself, i.e. if $y = f(x)$, then $x = f(y)$. Both of them retain the same structure and form. Which of the following functions has this property?

A train started from Station A, developed engine trouble, and reached Station B, 40 minutes late. What is the distance between Stations A and B? Statements: I. The engine trouble developed after travelling 40 km from Station A and the speed reduced to $\dfrac{1}{4}^{\text{th}}$ of the original speed.
II. The engine trouble developed after travelling 40 km from Station A in two hours and the speed reduced to $\dfrac{1}{4}^{\text{th}}$ of the original speed.

X says to Y, “I am 3 times as old as you were 3 years ago”. How old is X?
I. Y’s age 17 years from now will be same as X’s present age.
II. X’s age nine years from now is 3 times Y’s present age.

A. All leaves are green.
B. All leaves have chlorophyll.
C. Chlorophyll is green.
D. All plants have leaves.
E. All plants have chlorophyll.
F. Only leaves have chlorophyll.

A. No barbarian is gentleman.
B. Some gentlemen are barbarians.
C. Some gentlemen are rude.
D. No gentlemen are rude.
E. Some barbarians are not rude.
F. All barbarians are rude.

A. Metal is good material for desks.
B. Desks are made of metal.
C. This object is not a desk.
D. This object is a desk.
E. This object is not made of metal.
F. This is made of metal.

A. Different hues are obtained from primary colours.
B. A rainbow consists of several hues.
C. Blue and red can give different hues.
D. Red is a primary color.
E. Blue can give different hues.
F. Red can give different hues.

A. All roses are fragrant.
B. All roses are majestic.
C. All roses are plants.
D. All plants need air.
E. All roses need air.
F. All plants need water.

A. Laxman is a man.
B. Meera is Laxman's wife.
C. Some women are islands.
D. No man is an island.
E. Meera is not an island.
F. Laxman is not an island.

A. College students are intelligent.
B. Intelligence is a collegian's attribute.
C. Ram's sister is a college student.
D. Ram is a college student.
E. All intelligent persons go to college.
F. Ram is an intelligent person.

A. Smoking causes cancer.
B. All cigarettes are hazardous to health.
C. Smoking doesn't cause cancer sometimes.
D. One brand of cigarettes is cham–cham.
E. Brand X causes cancer.
F. Cham–cham is bad for health.

A. All good bridge players play good chess.
B. Many good chess players are not bridge players.
C. Goren is a good bridge player.
D. Goren plays chess well.
E. Spassky plays chess well.
F. Spassky plays bridge badly.

A. All snakes are reptiles.
B. All reptiles are not snakes.
C. All reptiles are cold blooded.
D. All snakes lay eggs.
E. All reptiles lay eggs.
F. Snakes are cold blooded.

A. Mary is John’s wife.
B. Mary and John danced together.
C. Mary wears John’s ring.
D. Husband and wives danced the last waltz.
E. John loves Mary.
F. John danced last with Mary.

A. The age of pragmatism is here, whether we like it or not.
B. The staple rhetoric that was for so long dished out also belongs to the bipolar world of yesterday.
C. The old equations, based on the cold war and on non-alignment no longer holds good.
D. But contrary to much of what is being said and written, it is a multipolar rather than unipolar world that appears to be emerging out of recent events.

A. Past research has uncovered the fact that cognitive age is inversely related to life satisfaction among the elderly.
B. A person may feel young or old irrespective of chronological age.
C. That is, the 'younger' an elderly person feels, the more likely she or he is to be satisfied with life in general.
D. Cognitive age is a psychological construct that refers to one’s subjective assessment of one’s age.

A. It was a fascinating tempting green, like the hue of the great green grasshopper.
B. Her teeth were very white and her voice had a cruel and at the same time a coaxing sound.
C. While she was uncorking the bottle I noticed how green her eyeballs were.
D. I saw, too, how small her hands were, which showed that she did not use them much.

A. In formal speech, syllables are likely to be more deliberately sounded than in informal speech.
B. Yet dictionary editors have no choice but to deal with each word as an individual entity.
C. The pronunciation of words is influenced by the situation.
D. Further, the pronunciation of a word is affected by its position in the sentence and by the meaning it carries.

Each sentence below has been broken up into four parts sequentially (a, b, c, d). Choose the part which contains a mistake.