List of top Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) Questions

What did the scientists at JCVI do?

A recently initiated technology, which is ethically acceptable, is

According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true?

According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

In the present days, what is the most terrifying actuality regarding a girl child?

The author highlights the fact that

What according to the author is a sign of women empowerment?

Presently, what is the 'New Woman' engaged in?

What is the central theme of the present passage?

How did Pinter describe The Birthday Party?

What did he capture in his most celebrated works?

Which of the following words, used in the passage, is a one word substitute for the phrase, 'a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity'?

Choose the meaning of 'resilience' as used in the passage.

The 'New Woman' emerged by

Select the synonym of the word 'mordantly' as used in the passage.

Pinter was the most imitated dramatist of his times because

What was the most burlesqued aspect of Pinter's writing?

What is the most significant aspect noticed in his plays?

What was the tone of his plays?

Directions for Summary: A paragraph is followed by four options which have summarized the passage in their own way. Pick the option that best summarizes the passage:
Biologists who publish their research directly to the Web have been labelled as “rogue”, but physicists have been routinely publishing research digitally (“preprints”), prior to submitting in a peer-reviewed journal. Advocates of preprints argue that quick and open dissemination of research speeds up scientific progress and allows for wider access to knowledge. But some journals still don’t accept research previously published as a preprint. Even if the idea of preprints is gaining ground, one of the biggest barriers for biologists is how they would be viewed by members of their conservative research community.

Directions for Summary:A paragraph is followed by four options which have summarized the passage in their own way.Pick the option that best summarizes the passage:
Creativity is now viewed as the engine of economic progress. Various organizations are devoted to its study and promotion; there are encyclopedias and handbooks surveying creativity research. But this proliferating success has tended to erode creativity’s stable identity: it has become so invested with value that it has become impossible to police its meaning and the practices that supposedly identify and encourage it. Many people and organizations committed to producing original thoughts now feel that undue obsession with the idea of creativity gets in the way of real creativity.

Directions for Summary: A paragraph is followed by four options which have summarized the passage in their own way. Pick the option that best summarizes the passage:
The unlikely alliance of the incumbent industrialist and the distressed unemployed worker is especially powerful amid the debris of corporate bankruptcies and layoffs. In an economic downturn, the capitalist is more likely to focus on costs of the competition emanating from free markets than on the opportunities they create. And the unemployed worker will find many others in a similar condition and with anxieties similar to his, which will make it easier for them to organize together. Using the cover and the political organization provided by the distressed, the capitalist captures the political agenda.

Directions for sentence exclusion: Five sentences are given below; out of these, four come together to form a coherent paragraph, but one sentence does not fit into the sequence. Choose the sentence that does not fit into the sequence.

Directions for sentence exclusion: Five sentences are given below; out of these, four come together to form a coherent paragraph, but one sentence does not fit into the sequence. Choose the sentence that does not fit into the sequence.

This book review argues that, according to Rappaport, tea is unlike other “morality” products because it: