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MCA: Sections

Section 1 – Language Comprehension

Directions for Questions 1:

Identify the CORRECT sentence.

1)

A) He said that he could neither speak for the senior management nor the employees.
B) He said that neither could he speak for the senior management nor for the employees.
C) He said that he could speak neither for the senior management nor for the employees.
D) He said that neither could he speak for the senior management nor the employees.

Directions for Questions 2:

Fill in the blanks with the CORRECT options.

2) Each member ___________ which, the Management says, ___________________.

A) Are expected to contribute their thoughts; are being compiled as feedback

B) Is expected to contribute their thoughts; are being compiled as feedback
C) Are expected to contribute their thoughts; is being compiled as feedback
D) Is expected to contribute their thoughts; is being compiled as feedback

Directions for Questions 3:

Rearrange the fragments in each question as a meaningful sentence and choose the CORRECT sequence

3)

a. One major reason for this is the nature of interventions.

b. There is great skepticism about all attempts at educational reforms.
c. With the kind of shortage of resources we face, even the well-thought out reform agenda fails to take off.
d. These are centrally conceived, designed, developed and handed over for implementation to educational institutions.

A) bdca B) badc C) acdb D) cbda

Directions for Questions 4:

Identify the CORRECT form of the underlined phrases in the following questions

4) My music system is new, but unlike yours, I don’t keep it dirty.

A) But unlike your, it’s not dirty B) But unlike your, I don’t keep it dirty
C) But unlike yours, it’s not dirty D) But unlike yours, I don’t keep it dirty

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Directions for Questions 5:

Read the passage & answer the questions that follow

Being Brown in America

By Shashi Tharoor
Newsweek International
October 29, 2001

Last Saturday I delivered the keynote speech at a benefit concert of Indian music, held to raise funds from New York’s Indian
community for the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. “We’d be thrilled if you’d wear Indian clothes,” said one
of the organizers of the event. “But we wouldn’t want you to try to hail a cab in the street dressed like that. We’ll send a car.”

Perhaps caution is wise. In the wake of the unspeakable horrors of Sept. 11, signs have emerged of a lesser casualty: multiculturalism.
Americans had grown used to sharing their streets with men in flowing beards and turbans and women covered from head to toe;
mosques and temples sprouted like organic plants across the land. It was all part of the new multiethnic mosaic called America.

No more. Public hostility to the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks—brown-skinned Muslims—has transformed difference into
diffidence. The killing of a Sikh in Arizona because his turban reminded an ignoramus with a gun of Osama bin Laden’s headgear
sent a chilling signal to anyone who could be seen as Arab. Manly Sikhs, proud of their unshorn hair sheepishly hang their locks in
drooping ponytails. Observant Muslims, bearded as the Prophet, take razors to their chins. Police patrols have doubled outside
mosques and Muslim community centers.

Despite calls for tolerance from President George W. Bush, the American public appears to have developed a sudden taste for racial
profiling. Ask the Pakistani-American who missed his brother’s wedding when he was pulled off a plane because the pilot felt
“uncomfortable” having him onboard. Or the Muslim passenger who was taken off a flight, intensively grilled and then put back
onboard, only to find some of his fellow passengers bursting into tears at the prospect of sharing a plane with him. Or the number of
otherwise liberal, white Americans who tell me in all seriousness that they would never take a flight with an Arab on the passenger list.

My 17-year-old son, walking home from school, was cursed at in the street as a “terrorist” and “Arab scum.” Nor need I mention the
reports of Arab stores being vandalized, or shoppers being coolly advised to “go back” to their own country.

Such incidents are still relatively rare, thankfully, and to a degree they are understandable in a nation gripped by a sense of peril from
people who look Middle Eastern. But while Americans are taking a newfound interest in the rest of the world, so far fear and
ignorance seem to be fueling prejudices. A Louisiana politician’s diatribe about the need to crack down on “people wearing diapers
around their heads” saw his popularity polls shoot up. It’s not a great time to be brown in America.

5) The organizers of the music concert did not want the author to hail a cab because:

A) It would be disrespectful to make their main speaker arrive in a taxi.

B) They did not want his elegant Indian clothes to get dirty.
C) They did not want him mistaken for a Muslim and be attacked.
D) They had already made arrangements to pick him up in a private car.

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Section 2 – Mathematical Skills

6) There is a square field with side 500 m. You are given a 100 m of fencing material to construct a smaller triangular field in this area
with the fence as one border and the sides of the outer square field as the other borders. What is the maximum possible area of such a
field?

A) 2,500 m2 B) 10,000 m2 C) 5,000 m2 D) 20,000 m2

7) What is the greatest number of three digits which when divided by 12, 15, 24 and 40 leaves 9, 12, 21 and 37 respectively as
remainders?

A) 757 B) 657 C) 857 D) 957

8) R and T are points on a straight line PQ on which PR = RT = TQ. What percent of PT is PQ?

A) 1 1/2 % B) 50% C) 66 2/3% D) 150%

9) In a company, 15% of the employees are secretaries and 60% are sales people. If there are 45 other employees in the company, what
is the total number of employees in the company?

A) 160 B) 180 C) 190 D) 200

10) A and B start jogging from the same point, simultaneously and in the same direction on a circular path of circumference 1 km at 3
km/hr and 9 km/hr respectively. At how many points on the circle will they meet?

A) 6 B) 3 C) 2 D) 4

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Section 3 – Logical Reasoning

11) If in a certain language, ENTRY is coded as 12345 and STEADY is coded as 931785, then SEDATE is coded as:

A) 918731 B) 914185 C) 814195 D) 614731

12) If I talk to my professors, then I do not need a pill for headache.

A. I talked to my professors.
B. I did not take a pill for headache.
C. I needed to take a pill for headache.
D. I did not talk to my professor.

Which pairs of conclusions is/are CORRECT?

A) AB only B) DC only C) CD only D) AB and CD

Directions for Question 13:

The candidates for the post of an officer in a bank must fulfill the following criteria:
i) He/She must secure a minimum of 60% in Class X and XII exams.
ii) He/She must have had Finance as a compulsory subject in graduation.
iii) He/She must be less than 27 years of age as on 25th July 2007.
iv) He/She should pass the aptitude test as prescribed in the norms.
1. In case he/she satisfies all other criteria EXCEPT (i), he/she is required to pass a written test in finance.
2. In case he/she satisfies all other criteria EXCEPT (iii), he/she shall be interviewed by the HR.
13) Varsha has passed both class X and XII in first division(more than 60%). She passed the aptitude test of the bank. She was born on
04th July 1977. Finance was one of her compulsory subjects in graduation. She is:

A) Directly considered for the post of the officer.

B) Required to pass the finance test for being considered for the post
C) To be interviewed by the HR
D) Rejected

14) Raghav is ranked 9th from the first and 38th from the last in a class. How many students are there in the class?

A) 45 B) 46 C) 47 D) 48

Directions for Question 15:

In each of the following questions are given set of statements followed by conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be
true even if they seem at variance from the commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and then decide which of the given
conclusions logically follows from the given statements.

15) Statements: All Planets are moons.

All moons are stars.

Conclusions: (i) All moons are planets.

(ii) All planets are stars.

A) Only (i) follows B) Only (ii) follows

C) Neither (i) nor (ii) follows D) Both (i) and (ii) follow

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