Verbal For XAT 2016 - CAT MCQ

In A there is no mention of input. There is only a mention of outcome and promotion of the same.

B is wrong as it talks about how two related events occur together.

D talks about how input determines output. So the logic is exactly opposite of the statement.

E talks about how outcome is the ultimate proof of input and is hence the correct answer.

Vivisection is a surgical operation on live animals for the purpose of research. Hence, the meaning of vivisection can be extended to sharp and detailed analysis.

The relationship between inspect and vivisect is the same as between checking/examining/finding and detailed analysis.

One has to check/examine before one conducts a detailed analysis i.e. vivisect. Vivisection shall therefore come after inspection. Inspection is more superficial/less intense than vivisection.

From the options available, to inquire is to seek information and ask a question while to explore is to go further and engage in deeper inquiry/ deeper experience. Therefore option B is the right answer.

In Option C, both investigate and interrogate are nearly similar, though good interrogation (preliminary) leads to good investigation (detailed) and not the other way round.

Investigation can also be defined as carrying out a research or study which is deeper than interrogation and which is closer to vivisect than inspection.

The country’s survival is in “autopilot mode”, according to the author.

Except option D, the others say nothing about this “auto pilot mode” Option B can be a possible option to strengthen the author’s view but it can be only one of the ways the country can be on “auto pilot”.

Because P is generic and therefore difficult to refute while Q can be refuted easily. Q is an attempt to specify P. R is a statement that refutes Q and not P. Therefore SPQR is the most logical order making A the correct answer.

C is incorrect since Indian football teams and Indian football clubs are different and cannot be compared. D is false as we do not have any data on coaches for Indian national team. E is erroneous because the popularity of a sport in a country need not definitely imply success and therefore may not generate a successful player or for that matter a coach.

Therefore the correct answer is Option E.

B also can be interpreted (Shortly before the final overthrow of the earth).

C can be definitely interpreted from Oinos’ statement.

E (from the last line of the passage) can be interpreted.

Only D cannot be definitely interpreted, since the passage does not suggest that natural laws are the creations of philosophers.

A : It cannot be right as nowhere is it mentioned that marginalised sections are incapable of saving.

B: Statement 2 would make sense only when all sections of society are equally exposed to all opportunities. Else, Statement 2 would be less relevant as giving equal opportunities would be of no use if people are not exposed to equal opportunities. Hence B is the right answer.

C: Statement 2 assumes that everyone should be given equal opportunity but it does not say everyone is equal. This is consistent with “merit” and not against “merit”.

D: Statement 2 assumes that the only differentiator is the diligence of the citizens.

E: Statement 1 assumes that the marginal sections are laid back and rely on their entitlements.

There is an underlying belief in the statement 2 that contradicts statement 1.The two statements (1 and II) contradict each other especially when talking about “marginalised sections”.

Statement 1 can hold true if statement 2 is not applicable to the “marginalised sections”.

Refer to the last line of the first paragraph of passage viz. “Today, most academic economists agree that markets, by themselves, do not lead to efficiency; the question is whether the government can improve matters.” Option A therefore is the correct answer.

Option A can be interpreted as it is clearly mentioned in the last line of the passage.

Option B can be interpreted from the first paragraph of the passage.

Option C can be interpreted from the middle portion of the second paragraph of the passage.

Option D can be interpreted from the first paragraph of the passage (second last line of the first paragraph).

Option E cannot be interpreted since there is no mention in the passage that state intervention and imperfect information can never go hand in hand.

Option E therefore is the correct answer.

First paragraph explains why markets fail. Paragraph II discusses a natural experiment wherein market driven economic theories fail to explain success of Asian economies.

Option C is the right answer based on the above rationale.

Option A is hence wrong since both the paragraphs are related.

Option B is wrong since Para I does not describe markets in general but market failure in particular.

Option D is factually correct but raising and answering a question cannot be the essence of the passage. Moreover while the first paragraph raises a question “can government improve matters”, the second paragraph goes beyond answering the question to discuss the failure of market based economic theories in explaining success of Asian economies.

Option E is wrong since para I discusses the failure of an economic theory rather than stating it, and paragraph II does not disprove/prove any theory but shows some support for government intervention.

Here “interchangeable” is used in the context of listeners, who can be swapped as per the metaphor.

Complementary is used when two or more entities together complete or improve the picture (for e.g. razor and blade, where both together make a shave), contiguous is used in a ‘spatial’ sense to denote close entities, conforming means compliant, compatible is closer to complementary and conforming; comparable means “similar”…If something is comparable, it is interchangeable, hence E is the correct answer.

According to the passage the minimum necessary condition for successful communication is the overlap of images between the interlocutors (“Communication between us begins when there is some overlap between two images”).

Therefore Option A is the correct answer.

Simultaneous exchange is a result of threshold overlap of shared images. Simultaneous exchange (option B) may not imply communication if there is no overlap of images and without overlap the necessary condition is not met. The same argument applies to Options C, D and E.

In option A both statements record the positives of Ping-Pong as a metaphor.

In option B the first statement is a limitation and the second statement is incorrect.

In option C the first statement is a limitation and the second statement is a limitation of all three metaphors.

In option D, the first statement is correct but the second statement is incorrect as Ping-Pong is interactive.

In option E, both statements are unrelated to Ping-Pong as a metaphor.

Therefore C is the correct answer.

A, I, T

A, A, I

A, A, I

A, I, A

I, A, A

A = Action, I = Interaction and T = Transaction. Hence the best option is A.

A, B, C and E can be known with some errors. i.e., in each of the four options there is an approximation. In option D there is no way somebody can know what he/she doesn’t know.

This is an impossible situation.

Example: Somebody says “I do not know quantum mechanics.” But he/she cannot say what quantum mechanics is and what in quantum mechanics he/she does not know.

Hence option D is the correct answer.

Option A can be concluded as TRUE.

In Option B, Statements I can be concluded as FALSE.

In Option C, Statement II can be concluded as FALSE.

Option D can be concluded TRUE because we all can be philosophically wrong and experimental physicists are amongst “us”.

Option E cannot be concluded as nowhere it is mentioned that theoretical physicist can pinpoint shortcoming of experimental physicists. In other words, this conclusion on Statement II cannot be definitely arrived at. Hence option E is the correct answer.

Experimental physicists could not have experimented with the Big Bang as they were not present at the time of the event. It could have only been first imagined or deduced.

Then only there is a possibility of direct experiments. Hence, MOST LIKELY, big bang theory was proposed by theoretical physicists for the first time. Option D is an irrelevant option as passage never talks about “philosophers”. Option E cannot be the right answer if we refer to the following in the first Para: “Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it.” Hence option B is the correct answer.

A is wrong as perception helps to capture existence and all existence may not be perceived.

B is wrong since there are entities that exist which may not be perceived.

C is wrong because all that exist can have consciousness.

D is the right answer (“consciousness being the faculty of perceiving that which exists”).

E is wrong since “something to be known” and “someone to know” are two presuppositions of knowledge and not of existence.

Law of causality means that change is possible (third para, last line “thing’s actions are determined not by chance but by its nature) but only after knowing its nature and hence E is the right answer.

Identification is the process by which one identifies, ie. Identity is perceived.

Option B is correct as perception of Twitter is the process by which one identifies that Twitter exists. All others are indirect ways of identification with the identity given in the first part of the options. For e.g. perception of children results in identifying parenthood and not marriage. Similarly, perception of taxation of citizens results in the identification of taxation and not government.

Option E is the correct answer. This is the law of causality, which states that change can take place only after understanding nature.