CAT Practice Test: August 11 - CAT MCQ

The sum of 3rd and 15th terms of an arithmetic progression is equal to the sum of 6th, 11th and 13th terms of the same progression. Which term of the given progression should necessarily be equal to zero?

Find the sum of all even numbers from 10 to 200 (inclusive), excluding those, which are multiples of 6.  

The average speed of a cyclist who covers first, second and third km at speeds of 20 km/hr, 16 km/hr and 12 km/hr, respectively, is

The average marks of students A, B and C are 48. Another student (D) joins the group and the new average becomes 44 marks. If again, another student (E), who has three marks more than D, joins the group, the average of students B, C, D and E becomes 43 marks. How many marks did A get in the exam?

Average of three numbers is x. Instead of the first number if we take only half of that number, the average will be x - 1. If twice the first number is taken in place of the first number, what will be the average?

Total expenses of a boarding house are partly fixed and partly varying linearly with the number of boarders. The average expense per boarder is Rs. 700 when there are 25 boarders, and Rs. 600 when there are 50 boarders. What will be the average expense per boarder when there are 100 boarders?

Directions: Find the missing number in the following series.

210, 21, 189, ?, 170.1, 17.01

Directions: Find the wrong term in the following number series.

22, 21, 41, 128, 513, 2564

Directions: Find the wrong term in the following series.

8, 15, 41, 169, 841, 5041, 35281

What should come in place of the question mark in the following number series?

4, 8, 6, 18, 10, 50, ?, 98

Directions: Study the diagram given below carefully and answer the following question.
I – Males
II – Indians
III – Sportsperson
IV – Educated

Which of the following sections represents non-Indian females who are educated table tennis players?

Directions: Study the diagram given below and answer the following question.
Here, the letters represent people.

Who likes to watch Game of Thrones only?

Directions: The question below contains four elements. These four elements may or may not have some linkage. The group of elements may fit into one of the diagrams given in the options. You have to indicate the diagram for the given group of elements.

Males, Athletes, Musicians, Lawyers

Directions: From the alternatives, choose the diagram that best represents the relationship among the given classes.
Dances, Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Pongal

Directions: Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Directions: Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Directions: Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Directions: Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Directions: Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Directions: Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Directions: Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Directions: In the following question a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

Once we take the numbers present at the protests out of the equation what distinguishes a fringe group from a civil society protest would usually be that civil society movements have a more rational and morally justified case to make. ___________ The dependence on rationality in trying to change urban public opinion is not what it was, anywhere in the world. The Indian politicians have, over a much longer period, treated some issues as being matters of faith, and hence not subject to the rules of rational discourse. With rational argument no longer the sole determinant of the direction public discourse will take, the debates in our cities are increasingly between those who would like to take a somewhat old world liberal view, and those who insist their beliefs do not require rational confirmation.

Directions: In the following passage, the opening statement has been deleted. From among the statements given below, choose the statement that should precede the passage.

To begin with, banks and NBFCs will no longer need to report each credit exposure to different systems in different formats. Instead, the Public Credit Registry (PCR) will function as a single-point data repository, and different players in the financial system (banks, NBFCs, credit bureaus, regulators, etc.) will draw data from it adhering to strictly-defined access rules. Secondly, the report proposes an enabling legal framework, which will regulate the collection and sharing of this data. Thirdly, information on each default will be shared on a realtime basis, alerting lenders and triggering corrective actions.

Directions: In the following question a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

The Almighty once decided that he would bestow on the human being every possible virtue that the Almighty could conjure up. ____________ The Almighty called together a conclave of angels and asked for suggestions on what to do. Some angels suggested that the Almighty take away the virtues and stash them in the sky, for Man may never look there. The Almighty reminded them that Man had already traveled to the moon and therefore one day he might discover the virtues hidden in the sky. A few other angels recommended that the almighty bury the virtues under the ocean. The Almighty once again sought the indulgence of the angels and told them that Man would one day send a submarine and discover the virtues. Not having got satisfactory suggestions the Almighty decided that he would consign all the virtues in Man's heart for he would rarely look within.

Directions: The last sentence in the following passage has been deleted. Select the sentence, out of the available options, that best suits the end of the passage.

In the past, customers knew that the computers they bought were not going to run the company. Today - despite wishes to the contrary - they`re realizing that the software they buy is not going to create applications. In the end, customers want results - not just applications that run on computers. How are these results delivered? Through the provision of services.

Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the question that follows.
Every one has heard people quarrelling. Sometimes it sounds funny and sometimes it sounds merely unpleasant; but however it sounds, I believe we can learn something very important from listening to the kind of things they say.
Now what interests me about all these remarks is that the man who makes them is not merely saying that the other man's behaviour does not happen to please him. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behaviour which he expects the other man to know about. And the other man very seldom replies: To hell with your standards. Nearly always he tries to make out that what he has been doing does not really go against the standard, or that if it does there is some special excuse. He pretends there is some special reason in this particular case why the person who took the seat first should not keep it, or that things were quite different when he was given the bit of orange. It looks, in fact, very much as if both parties had in mind some kind of Law or Rule of fair play or decent behaviour about which they really agreed. If they had not, they might, of course, fight like animals, but they could not quarrel in the human sense of the word. Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do what unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are; just as there would be no sense in saying that a footballer had committed a foul unless there was some agreement about the rules of football.

Directions: Read the given context and answer the question that follows.
Cyril Connolly once wrote: 'The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.' This is tosh, of course, for if every book were a masterpiece, no book would be a masterpiece and we could not know a masterpiece when we read it. They also serve who only sit and write trash. To know the good, we have to know the bad and ________________ .

Which sentence best suits the end of the passage?