XAT 2023: Past Year Question Paper with Solutions | Mock Test Series for XAT - CAT PDF Download

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Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning
1. Read the following statements.
The leave policy is bound to be unpopular either with the management or among workers. If the leave policy
is unpopular with the management, it should be modied.
We should adopt a new policy if it is unpopular with workers.
If the above statements are true, which one of the following MUST also be true?
A    We should attempt to popularize the leave policy among either the management or workers.
B    We should modify the leave policy only if this will not reduce its popularity among workers
C    If the leave policy is popular with the management, then we should adopt a new policy
D    
We should modify the leave policy if modication will not r educe its popularity with the
management.
E    If the leave policy is popular among workers, then we should adopt a new policy
2. Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1. I’m not sure when I rst became awar e of the Singularity.
2. In the almost half century that I've immersed myself in computer and related
technologies, I've sought to understand the meaning and purpose of the continual upheaval that I have
witnessed at many levels.
3. Gradually, I've become aware of a transforming event looming in the rst half of the twenty rst centur y.
4. I'd have to say it was a progressive awakening.
5. Just as a black hole in space dramatically alters the patterns of matter and energy accelerating toward its
event horizon, this impending Singularity in our future is increasingly transforming every institution and
aspect of human life, from sexuality
to spirituality.
A    3,1,2,4,5
B    1,3,4,5,2
C    4,3,1,5,2
D    1,2,3,4,5
E    4,1,2,3,5
3. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
More people signed up for Harvard’s online courses in a year, for example, than have attended the university
in its 377 years of existence. In the same spirit, there are more unique visits each month to the WebMD
network, a collection of health websites, than to all the doctors working in the United States. In the legal
world, three times as many disagreements each year amongst eBay traders are resolved using ‘online
dispute resolution’ than there are lawsuits led in the entir e US court system. On its sixth birthday, the
Hungton Post had more unique monthly visitors than the website of the New York Times, which is almost
164 years of age. The British tax authorities use a fraud-detection system that holds more data than the
British Library (which has copies of every book ever published in the UK). In 2014, the US tax authorities
received electronic tax returns from almost 48 million people who had used online tax preparation software
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Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning
1. Read the following statements.
The leave policy is bound to be unpopular either with the management or among workers. If the leave policy
is unpopular with the management, it should be modied.
We should adopt a new policy if it is unpopular with workers.
If the above statements are true, which one of the following MUST also be true?
A    We should attempt to popularize the leave policy among either the management or workers.
B    We should modify the leave policy only if this will not reduce its popularity among workers
C    If the leave policy is popular with the management, then we should adopt a new policy
D    
We should modify the leave policy if modication will not r educe its popularity with the
management.
E    If the leave policy is popular among workers, then we should adopt a new policy
2. Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1. I’m not sure when I rst became awar e of the Singularity.
2. In the almost half century that I've immersed myself in computer and related
technologies, I've sought to understand the meaning and purpose of the continual upheaval that I have
witnessed at many levels.
3. Gradually, I've become aware of a transforming event looming in the rst half of the twenty rst centur y.
4. I'd have to say it was a progressive awakening.
5. Just as a black hole in space dramatically alters the patterns of matter and energy accelerating toward its
event horizon, this impending Singularity in our future is increasingly transforming every institution and
aspect of human life, from sexuality
to spirituality.
A    3,1,2,4,5
B    1,3,4,5,2
C    4,3,1,5,2
D    1,2,3,4,5
E    4,1,2,3,5
3. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
More people signed up for Harvard’s online courses in a year, for example, than have attended the university
in its 377 years of existence. In the same spirit, there are more unique visits each month to the WebMD
network, a collection of health websites, than to all the doctors working in the United States. In the legal
world, three times as many disagreements each year amongst eBay traders are resolved using ‘online
dispute resolution’ than there are lawsuits led in the entir e US court system. On its sixth birthday, the
Hungton Post had more unique monthly visitors than the website of the New York Times, which is almost
164 years of age. The British tax authorities use a fraud-detection system that holds more data than the
British Library (which has copies of every book ever published in the UK). In 2014, the US tax authorities
received electronic tax returns from almost 48 million people who had used online tax preparation software
rather than a tax professional to help them. The architectural rm Gr amazio & Kohler used a group of
autonomous ying r obots to assemble a structure out of 1500 bricks. The consulting rm Accentur e has 750
hospital nurses on its staff, while Deloitte, founded as an audit practice 170 years ago, now has over 200,000
professionals and its own full-scale corporate university set in a 700,000-square-foot campus in Texas.
The author of the above paragraph is trying to conclude something by citing different pieces of evidence.
What could the author be trying to prove?
A    How new organizational forms are emerging
B    How automation is taking away jobs traditionally done by humans.
C    How professionals are getting replaced by technology
D    How old rms ar e dying.
E    What old rms can do t o survive.
4. When facing various challenges, people in today’s digital world heavily rely on private, online information-
seeking behaviour. Individuals who experience depression will often attempt to understand their predicament
and seek remedy by searching the Internet for depression-related information and treatment. A recent report
says that there exists evidence of many searches comprising the word depression, during and just after the
elections, in country Y. So, it can be concluded that the election is experienced by many people in country Y
as a truly psychologically traumatizing event—and as such as being potentially depressionogenic.
Which of the following statements MOST seriously weakens the conclusion drawn in the passage?
A    Election is a festival in some countries, people happily choose their leader by casting votes.
B    
A survey in country Y shows that an election can cause a signicant incr ease in the average level of
depression.
C    Depression-related advertisements are on the rise during and just after the election in country Y.
D    Many people do not use the Internet in country X.
E    Per day sale of anti-depression drugs is constant across the years in country Y.
5. Read the following sentences carefully.
1. The boss accused her employee for stealing information.
2. The boss had better discuss the issue with the employee concerned.
3. The India of 2022 is very different from the India of 1947.
4. The government is committed to providing people with food.
5. He is good in playing the piano.
From the following, identify the option with INCORRECT sentences.
A    1, 2
B    4, 5
C    1, 5
D    2, 3
E    3, 4
6. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
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Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning
1. Read the following statements.
The leave policy is bound to be unpopular either with the management or among workers. If the leave policy
is unpopular with the management, it should be modied.
We should adopt a new policy if it is unpopular with workers.
If the above statements are true, which one of the following MUST also be true?
A    We should attempt to popularize the leave policy among either the management or workers.
B    We should modify the leave policy only if this will not reduce its popularity among workers
C    If the leave policy is popular with the management, then we should adopt a new policy
D    
We should modify the leave policy if modication will not r educe its popularity with the
management.
E    If the leave policy is popular among workers, then we should adopt a new policy
2. Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1. I’m not sure when I rst became awar e of the Singularity.
2. In the almost half century that I've immersed myself in computer and related
technologies, I've sought to understand the meaning and purpose of the continual upheaval that I have
witnessed at many levels.
3. Gradually, I've become aware of a transforming event looming in the rst half of the twenty rst centur y.
4. I'd have to say it was a progressive awakening.
5. Just as a black hole in space dramatically alters the patterns of matter and energy accelerating toward its
event horizon, this impending Singularity in our future is increasingly transforming every institution and
aspect of human life, from sexuality
to spirituality.
A    3,1,2,4,5
B    1,3,4,5,2
C    4,3,1,5,2
D    1,2,3,4,5
E    4,1,2,3,5
3. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
More people signed up for Harvard’s online courses in a year, for example, than have attended the university
in its 377 years of existence. In the same spirit, there are more unique visits each month to the WebMD
network, a collection of health websites, than to all the doctors working in the United States. In the legal
world, three times as many disagreements each year amongst eBay traders are resolved using ‘online
dispute resolution’ than there are lawsuits led in the entir e US court system. On its sixth birthday, the
Hungton Post had more unique monthly visitors than the website of the New York Times, which is almost
164 years of age. The British tax authorities use a fraud-detection system that holds more data than the
British Library (which has copies of every book ever published in the UK). In 2014, the US tax authorities
received electronic tax returns from almost 48 million people who had used online tax preparation software
rather than a tax professional to help them. The architectural rm Gr amazio & Kohler used a group of
autonomous ying r obots to assemble a structure out of 1500 bricks. The consulting rm Accentur e has 750
hospital nurses on its staff, while Deloitte, founded as an audit practice 170 years ago, now has over 200,000
professionals and its own full-scale corporate university set in a 700,000-square-foot campus in Texas.
The author of the above paragraph is trying to conclude something by citing different pieces of evidence.
What could the author be trying to prove?
A    How new organizational forms are emerging
B    How automation is taking away jobs traditionally done by humans.
C    How professionals are getting replaced by technology
D    How old rms ar e dying.
E    What old rms can do t o survive.
4. When facing various challenges, people in today’s digital world heavily rely on private, online information-
seeking behaviour. Individuals who experience depression will often attempt to understand their predicament
and seek remedy by searching the Internet for depression-related information and treatment. A recent report
says that there exists evidence of many searches comprising the word depression, during and just after the
elections, in country Y. So, it can be concluded that the election is experienced by many people in country Y
as a truly psychologically traumatizing event—and as such as being potentially depressionogenic.
Which of the following statements MOST seriously weakens the conclusion drawn in the passage?
A    Election is a festival in some countries, people happily choose their leader by casting votes.
B    
A survey in country Y shows that an election can cause a signicant incr ease in the average level of
depression.
C    Depression-related advertisements are on the rise during and just after the election in country Y.
D    Many people do not use the Internet in country X.
E    Per day sale of anti-depression drugs is constant across the years in country Y.
5. Read the following sentences carefully.
1. The boss accused her employee for stealing information.
2. The boss had better discuss the issue with the employee concerned.
3. The India of 2022 is very different from the India of 1947.
4. The government is committed to providing people with food.
5. He is good in playing the piano.
From the following, identify the option with INCORRECT sentences.
A    1, 2
B    4, 5
C    1, 5
D    2, 3
E    3, 4
6. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
As a generation, we are rethinking what we are to others. Our technological prowess has become a wireless
lifeline for others. Some of us apply ourselves to innovation: hackathons and other forms of technological
creativity. Our families look to us to know how to use technology both to waste time and to make meaning.
Some of us set up Facetime for those denied face-to-face time. We show them it will be OK, that digital
relationships are real relationships - though in fact we are not always sure.
Which of the following will be the most MEANINGFUL conclusion of the passage?
A    Technological advancement helps society derive meaning from work
B    The Pandemic has increased societal dependence on technology
C    Technology is destroying families and communities
D    Technology usage has changed social relations for this generation
E    Change is the only constant in life, so people must embrace technology
7. Read the following sentences carefully.
1. The exam will begin from 2:00 p.m. on January 8th.
2. While entering into the college building, he saw the statue of Mahatma Gandhi.
3. The government has entered into a discussion with the local bodies for keeping
the streets clean.
4. I will start my world tour from Sri Lanka.
5. Amitabh Bacchan is married with Jaya Bacchan
6. I have been working on this project for three weeks.
From the following, choose the option having all the CORRECT sentences.
A    4, 5, 6
B    3, 4, 6
C    1, 2, 5
D    2, 3, 5
E    1, 3, 4
8. Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1. Our knowledge about life developed over the centuries thanks to the many philosophers, physicists,
chemists and biologists, who examined such complex matters according to their different points of view.
2. Out of this long history, I wish to quote here only one date, the year 1953.
3. In that year, Miller and Urey carried out their famous experiment about the primordial universal soup,
whose foundations had already been expounded by the Russian chemist Alexandre Oparin in 1924.
4. From a mixture of v e gases, methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and water vapor, and an
electric discharge as the source of energy, complex molecules were produced, including amino acids.
A    1,4,2,3
B    1,3,4,2
C    2,3,1,4
D    3,1,2,4
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Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning
1. Read the following statements.
The leave policy is bound to be unpopular either with the management or among workers. If the leave policy
is unpopular with the management, it should be modied.
We should adopt a new policy if it is unpopular with workers.
If the above statements are true, which one of the following MUST also be true?
A    We should attempt to popularize the leave policy among either the management or workers.
B    We should modify the leave policy only if this will not reduce its popularity among workers
C    If the leave policy is popular with the management, then we should adopt a new policy
D    
We should modify the leave policy if modication will not r educe its popularity with the
management.
E    If the leave policy is popular among workers, then we should adopt a new policy
2. Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1. I’m not sure when I rst became awar e of the Singularity.
2. In the almost half century that I've immersed myself in computer and related
technologies, I've sought to understand the meaning and purpose of the continual upheaval that I have
witnessed at many levels.
3. Gradually, I've become aware of a transforming event looming in the rst half of the twenty rst centur y.
4. I'd have to say it was a progressive awakening.
5. Just as a black hole in space dramatically alters the patterns of matter and energy accelerating toward its
event horizon, this impending Singularity in our future is increasingly transforming every institution and
aspect of human life, from sexuality
to spirituality.
A    3,1,2,4,5
B    1,3,4,5,2
C    4,3,1,5,2
D    1,2,3,4,5
E    4,1,2,3,5
3. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
More people signed up for Harvard’s online courses in a year, for example, than have attended the university
in its 377 years of existence. In the same spirit, there are more unique visits each month to the WebMD
network, a collection of health websites, than to all the doctors working in the United States. In the legal
world, three times as many disagreements each year amongst eBay traders are resolved using ‘online
dispute resolution’ than there are lawsuits led in the entir e US court system. On its sixth birthday, the
Hungton Post had more unique monthly visitors than the website of the New York Times, which is almost
164 years of age. The British tax authorities use a fraud-detection system that holds more data than the
British Library (which has copies of every book ever published in the UK). In 2014, the US tax authorities
received electronic tax returns from almost 48 million people who had used online tax preparation software
rather than a tax professional to help them. The architectural rm Gr amazio & Kohler used a group of
autonomous ying r obots to assemble a structure out of 1500 bricks. The consulting rm Accentur e has 750
hospital nurses on its staff, while Deloitte, founded as an audit practice 170 years ago, now has over 200,000
professionals and its own full-scale corporate university set in a 700,000-square-foot campus in Texas.
The author of the above paragraph is trying to conclude something by citing different pieces of evidence.
What could the author be trying to prove?
A    How new organizational forms are emerging
B    How automation is taking away jobs traditionally done by humans.
C    How professionals are getting replaced by technology
D    How old rms ar e dying.
E    What old rms can do t o survive.
4. When facing various challenges, people in today’s digital world heavily rely on private, online information-
seeking behaviour. Individuals who experience depression will often attempt to understand their predicament
and seek remedy by searching the Internet for depression-related information and treatment. A recent report
says that there exists evidence of many searches comprising the word depression, during and just after the
elections, in country Y. So, it can be concluded that the election is experienced by many people in country Y
as a truly psychologically traumatizing event—and as such as being potentially depressionogenic.
Which of the following statements MOST seriously weakens the conclusion drawn in the passage?
A    Election is a festival in some countries, people happily choose their leader by casting votes.
B    
A survey in country Y shows that an election can cause a signicant incr ease in the average level of
depression.
C    Depression-related advertisements are on the rise during and just after the election in country Y.
D    Many people do not use the Internet in country X.
E    Per day sale of anti-depression drugs is constant across the years in country Y.
5. Read the following sentences carefully.
1. The boss accused her employee for stealing information.
2. The boss had better discuss the issue with the employee concerned.
3. The India of 2022 is very different from the India of 1947.
4. The government is committed to providing people with food.
5. He is good in playing the piano.
From the following, identify the option with INCORRECT sentences.
A    1, 2
B    4, 5
C    1, 5
D    2, 3
E    3, 4
6. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
As a generation, we are rethinking what we are to others. Our technological prowess has become a wireless
lifeline for others. Some of us apply ourselves to innovation: hackathons and other forms of technological
creativity. Our families look to us to know how to use technology both to waste time and to make meaning.
Some of us set up Facetime for those denied face-to-face time. We show them it will be OK, that digital
relationships are real relationships - though in fact we are not always sure.
Which of the following will be the most MEANINGFUL conclusion of the passage?
A    Technological advancement helps society derive meaning from work
B    The Pandemic has increased societal dependence on technology
C    Technology is destroying families and communities
D    Technology usage has changed social relations for this generation
E    Change is the only constant in life, so people must embrace technology
7. Read the following sentences carefully.
1. The exam will begin from 2:00 p.m. on January 8th.
2. While entering into the college building, he saw the statue of Mahatma Gandhi.
3. The government has entered into a discussion with the local bodies for keeping
the streets clean.
4. I will start my world tour from Sri Lanka.
5. Amitabh Bacchan is married with Jaya Bacchan
6. I have been working on this project for three weeks.
From the following, choose the option having all the CORRECT sentences.
A    4, 5, 6
B    3, 4, 6
C    1, 2, 5
D    2, 3, 5
E    1, 3, 4
8. Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1. Our knowledge about life developed over the centuries thanks to the many philosophers, physicists,
chemists and biologists, who examined such complex matters according to their different points of view.
2. Out of this long history, I wish to quote here only one date, the year 1953.
3. In that year, Miller and Urey carried out their famous experiment about the primordial universal soup,
whose foundations had already been expounded by the Russian chemist Alexandre Oparin in 1924.
4. From a mixture of v e gases, methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and water vapor, and an
electric discharge as the source of energy, complex molecules were produced, including amino acids.
A    1,4,2,3
B    1,3,4,2
C    2,3,1,4
D    3,1,2,4
E    1,2,3,4
9. Fill up the blanks with appropriate words.
Oil painting did to appearance what capital did to social____________. It reduced everything to the __________of
objects. Everything became __________because everything became a commodity. All reality was
mechanically__________ by its materiality
A    Construction, minuteness, commercial, evaluated
B    Relations, equality, exchangeable, measured
C    Setup, understanding, useless, identied
D    Reality, randomness, saleable, located
E    Justice, level, expensive, understood
10. Read the following excerpt carefully.
In the future, hydrogen may form a signicant par t of our energy systems. Today it is mostly used in oil
reneries and f ertiliser but in the future hydrogen could power our cars, heat our homes, and fuel industry. A
recent McKinsey study suggested that in less than 25 years, hydrogen could account for 18% of global
energy consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from current levels by some 6 gigatons….
Which of the following sentences will MOST logically complete the above excerpt?
A    
The impact of such a change in the energy system would be huge, potentially generating $2,500 billion in
revenue globally and creating more than 30 million jobs.
B    Germany unsuccessfully experimented with trains fuelled by hydrogen.
C    
Hydrogen can be made through reformation, electrolysis, or pyrolysis, comes labelled in different colours
from simple green to more complicated turquoise, can be stored as a gas, cryogenic liquid, converted to
ammonia or even borane and then nally made useful thr ough a fuel cell, engine, or burner.
D    Despite the potential, 90% of the general population knew nothing about hydrogen technology.
E    Earlier, experts thought that hydrogen fuel would be too expensive
11. Which of the following sentences have the CORRECT usage of punctuation?
A    
Italy is famous for its composers and musicians. France, for its chefs and philosophers. Poland for its
mathematicians and logicians.
B    
Italy is famous for its composers and musicians, France, for its chefs and philosophers, Poland for its
mathematicians and logicians.
C    
Italy is famous for their composers and musicians; France, for their chefs and philosophers; Poland for
their mathematicians and logicians
D    
Italy is famous for their composers and musicians; France, for their chefs and philosophers; Poland for
their mathematicians and logicians.
E    
Italy is famous for its composers and musicians, France, for its chefs and philosophers, and Poland, for
its mathematicians and logicians.
12. Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.
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Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning
1. Read the following statements.
The leave policy is bound to be unpopular either with the management or among workers. If the leave policy
is unpopular with the management, it should be modied.
We should adopt a new policy if it is unpopular with workers.
If the above statements are true, which one of the following MUST also be true?
A    We should attempt to popularize the leave policy among either the management or workers.
B    We should modify the leave policy only if this will not reduce its popularity among workers
C    If the leave policy is popular with the management, then we should adopt a new policy
D    
We should modify the leave policy if modication will not r educe its popularity with the
management.
E    If the leave policy is popular among workers, then we should adopt a new policy
2. Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1. I’m not sure when I rst became awar e of the Singularity.
2. In the almost half century that I've immersed myself in computer and related
technologies, I've sought to understand the meaning and purpose of the continual upheaval that I have
witnessed at many levels.
3. Gradually, I've become aware of a transforming event looming in the rst half of the twenty rst centur y.
4. I'd have to say it was a progressive awakening.
5. Just as a black hole in space dramatically alters the patterns of matter and energy accelerating toward its
event horizon, this impending Singularity in our future is increasingly transforming every institution and
aspect of human life, from sexuality
to spirituality.
A    3,1,2,4,5
B    1,3,4,5,2
C    4,3,1,5,2
D    1,2,3,4,5
E    4,1,2,3,5
3. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
More people signed up for Harvard’s online courses in a year, for example, than have attended the university
in its 377 years of existence. In the same spirit, there are more unique visits each month to the WebMD
network, a collection of health websites, than to all the doctors working in the United States. In the legal
world, three times as many disagreements each year amongst eBay traders are resolved using ‘online
dispute resolution’ than there are lawsuits led in the entir e US court system. On its sixth birthday, the
Hungton Post had more unique monthly visitors than the website of the New York Times, which is almost
164 years of age. The British tax authorities use a fraud-detection system that holds more data than the
British Library (which has copies of every book ever published in the UK). In 2014, the US tax authorities
received electronic tax returns from almost 48 million people who had used online tax preparation software
rather than a tax professional to help them. The architectural rm Gr amazio & Kohler used a group of
autonomous ying r obots to assemble a structure out of 1500 bricks. The consulting rm Accentur e has 750
hospital nurses on its staff, while Deloitte, founded as an audit practice 170 years ago, now has over 200,000
professionals and its own full-scale corporate university set in a 700,000-square-foot campus in Texas.
The author of the above paragraph is trying to conclude something by citing different pieces of evidence.
What could the author be trying to prove?
A    How new organizational forms are emerging
B    How automation is taking away jobs traditionally done by humans.
C    How professionals are getting replaced by technology
D    How old rms ar e dying.
E    What old rms can do t o survive.
4. When facing various challenges, people in today’s digital world heavily rely on private, online information-
seeking behaviour. Individuals who experience depression will often attempt to understand their predicament
and seek remedy by searching the Internet for depression-related information and treatment. A recent report
says that there exists evidence of many searches comprising the word depression, during and just after the
elections, in country Y. So, it can be concluded that the election is experienced by many people in country Y
as a truly psychologically traumatizing event—and as such as being potentially depressionogenic.
Which of the following statements MOST seriously weakens the conclusion drawn in the passage?
A    Election is a festival in some countries, people happily choose their leader by casting votes.
B    
A survey in country Y shows that an election can cause a signicant incr ease in the average level of
depression.
C    Depression-related advertisements are on the rise during and just after the election in country Y.
D    Many people do not use the Internet in country X.
E    Per day sale of anti-depression drugs is constant across the years in country Y.
5. Read the following sentences carefully.
1. The boss accused her employee for stealing information.
2. The boss had better discuss the issue with the employee concerned.
3. The India of 2022 is very different from the India of 1947.
4. The government is committed to providing people with food.
5. He is good in playing the piano.
From the following, identify the option with INCORRECT sentences.
A    1, 2
B    4, 5
C    1, 5
D    2, 3
E    3, 4
6. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
As a generation, we are rethinking what we are to others. Our technological prowess has become a wireless
lifeline for others. Some of us apply ourselves to innovation: hackathons and other forms of technological
creativity. Our families look to us to know how to use technology both to waste time and to make meaning.
Some of us set up Facetime for those denied face-to-face time. We show them it will be OK, that digital
relationships are real relationships - though in fact we are not always sure.
Which of the following will be the most MEANINGFUL conclusion of the passage?
A    Technological advancement helps society derive meaning from work
B    The Pandemic has increased societal dependence on technology
C    Technology is destroying families and communities
D    Technology usage has changed social relations for this generation
E    Change is the only constant in life, so people must embrace technology
7. Read the following sentences carefully.
1. The exam will begin from 2:00 p.m. on January 8th.
2. While entering into the college building, he saw the statue of Mahatma Gandhi.
3. The government has entered into a discussion with the local bodies for keeping
the streets clean.
4. I will start my world tour from Sri Lanka.
5. Amitabh Bacchan is married with Jaya Bacchan
6. I have been working on this project for three weeks.
From the following, choose the option having all the CORRECT sentences.
A    4, 5, 6
B    3, 4, 6
C    1, 2, 5
D    2, 3, 5
E    1, 3, 4
8. Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1. Our knowledge about life developed over the centuries thanks to the many philosophers, physicists,
chemists and biologists, who examined such complex matters according to their different points of view.
2. Out of this long history, I wish to quote here only one date, the year 1953.
3. In that year, Miller and Urey carried out their famous experiment about the primordial universal soup,
whose foundations had already been expounded by the Russian chemist Alexandre Oparin in 1924.
4. From a mixture of v e gases, methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and water vapor, and an
electric discharge as the source of energy, complex molecules were produced, including amino acids.
A    1,4,2,3
B    1,3,4,2
C    2,3,1,4
D    3,1,2,4
E    1,2,3,4
9. Fill up the blanks with appropriate words.
Oil painting did to appearance what capital did to social____________. It reduced everything to the __________of
objects. Everything became __________because everything became a commodity. All reality was
mechanically__________ by its materiality
A    Construction, minuteness, commercial, evaluated
B    Relations, equality, exchangeable, measured
C    Setup, understanding, useless, identied
D    Reality, randomness, saleable, located
E    Justice, level, expensive, understood
10. Read the following excerpt carefully.
In the future, hydrogen may form a signicant par t of our energy systems. Today it is mostly used in oil
reneries and f ertiliser but in the future hydrogen could power our cars, heat our homes, and fuel industry. A
recent McKinsey study suggested that in less than 25 years, hydrogen could account for 18% of global
energy consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from current levels by some 6 gigatons….
Which of the following sentences will MOST logically complete the above excerpt?
A    
The impact of such a change in the energy system would be huge, potentially generating $2,500 billion in
revenue globally and creating more than 30 million jobs.
B    Germany unsuccessfully experimented with trains fuelled by hydrogen.
C    
Hydrogen can be made through reformation, electrolysis, or pyrolysis, comes labelled in different colours
from simple green to more complicated turquoise, can be stored as a gas, cryogenic liquid, converted to
ammonia or even borane and then nally made useful thr ough a fuel cell, engine, or burner.
D    Despite the potential, 90% of the general population knew nothing about hydrogen technology.
E    Earlier, experts thought that hydrogen fuel would be too expensive
11. Which of the following sentences have the CORRECT usage of punctuation?
A    
Italy is famous for its composers and musicians. France, for its chefs and philosophers. Poland for its
mathematicians and logicians.
B    
Italy is famous for its composers and musicians, France, for its chefs and philosophers, Poland for its
mathematicians and logicians.
C    
Italy is famous for their composers and musicians; France, for their chefs and philosophers; Poland for
their mathematicians and logicians
D    
Italy is famous for their composers and musicians; France, for their chefs and philosophers; Poland for
their mathematicians and logicians.
E    
Italy is famous for its composers and musicians, France, for its chefs and philosophers, and Poland, for
its mathematicians and logicians.
12. Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.
The fundamental laws that govern the smallest constituents of matter and energy, when applied to the
Universe over long enough cosmic timescales, can explain everything that will ever emerge. This means
that the formation of literally everything in our Universe, from atomic nuclei to atoms to simple molecules to
complex molecules to life to intelligence to consciousness and beyond, can all be understood as something
that emerges directly from the fundamental laws underpinning reality, with no additional laws and forces.
Which of the following can be BEST inferred from the paragraph above?
A    Everything in the Universe fundamentally occurs randomly.
B    Fundamental laws undergo a change from atom to the Universe.
C    Fundamental laws operating in the Universe and in an atom are the same.
D    All phenomena in the Universe are fundamentally dependent on long cosmic timescales.
E    All phenomena in the Universe fundamentally occur spontaneously
Instructions [13 - 15 ]
Read the following passage and answer the THREE questions that follow.
Interpretation in our own time, however, is even more complex. For the contemporary zeal for the project of
interpretation is often prompted not by piety toward the troublesome text (which may conceal an aggression),
but by an open aggressiveness, an overt contempt for appearances. The old style of interpretation was
insistent, but respectful; it erected another meaning on top of the literal one. The modern style of interpretation
excavates, and as it excavates, destroys; it digs “behind” the text, to nd a sub-text which is the true one. The
most celebrated and inuential modern doctrines, those of Marx and F reud, actually amount to elaborate
systems of hermeneutics, aggressive and impious theories of interpretation. All observable phenomena are
bracketed, in Freud’s phrase, as manifest content. This manifest content must be probed and pushed aside to
nd the true meaning—the latent content beneath. F or Marx, social events like revolutions and wars; for Freud,
the events of individual lives (like neurotic symptoms and slips of the tongue) as well as texts (like a dream or a
work of art)—all are treated as occasions for interpretation. According to Marx and Freud, these events only
seem to be intelligible. Actually, they have no meaning without interpretation. To understand is to interpret. And
to interpret is to restate the phenomenon, in effect to nd an equiv alent for it.
Thus, interpretation is not (as most people assume) an absolute value, a gesture of mind situated in some
timeless realm of capabilities. Interpretation must itself be evaluated, within a historical view of human
consciousness. In some cultural contexts, interpretation is a liberating act. It is a means of revising, of
transvaluing, of escaping the dead past. In other cultural contexts, it is reactionary, impertinent, cowardly and
stiing.
13. What does the author mean by “Thus, interpretation is not…a gesture of
mind situated in some timeless realm of capabilities?”
A    Interpretation is being evaluative of the meaning created by an authority.
B    Interpretation is an act of mind which is situated in a changeless domain.
C    Interpretation is about erecting another meaning on top of the literal one.
D    Interpretation is act of understanding, developed by timeless experts.
E    Interpretation is about revisiting and reinventing meanings.
14. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT an act of interpretation?