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Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 1

Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:

Mythology remains important in Western culture. Take, for instance, the role model of the hero, of contemporary revolutionaries, martyrs and dictators. These ideal figures exemplify models of human achievement. Similarly, notions of salvation, progress and ethics are so constitutive of our notions of reality that they’re often communicated through the format of mythology. There’s a surfeit of cultural products that fulfil the function of myth whereby characters and stories give us the means to understand the world we live in. Through superhero comic books, to the obscure immanence of modern art, from visions of paradisiacal vacations, to computer games and the self-mythologising of social media production, we seek a higher ground beyond the banal and the profane. We’ve even replaced the effervescent experience of sacred rites...in our engagement with art, drugs, cinema, rock music and all-night dance parties. Lastly, individuals have developed their own ways to create self-narratives that include mythical transitions in pilgrimages or personal quests to their ancestral lands. Likewise, some seek inner spaces wherein faith and meaning can be transformed into experience.

To prepare for our exploration of contemporary mythology, we can look back at civilisations and consider the function of the stories they told. The story of the flood, for example, recurs in early urban societies, marking a crisis in human-divine relations and man’s experience of gradual self-reliance and separation from nature. Whereas during the Axial Age (800-200 BCE), faith developed in an environment of early trade economies, at which time we observe a concern with individual conscience, morality, compassion and a tendency to look within. According to Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth (2005), these Axial myths of interiority indicate that people felt they no longer shared the same nature as the gods, and that the supreme reality had become impossibly difficult to access. These myths were a response to the loss of previous notions of social order, cosmology and human good, and represented ways to portray these social transformations in macrocosmic stories, and were reflections of how people tried to make sense of their rapidly changing world.

What constitutes a mythology? It’s an organised canon of beliefs that explains the state of the world. It also delivers an origin story - such as the Hindu Laws of Manu or the Biblical creation story - that creates a setting for how we experience the world. In fact, for Eliade, all myths provided an explanation of the world by virtue of giving an account of where things came from. If all mythologies are origin stories in this sense, what are the origin stories suggested by psychology? Two original elements of human nature are explained in its lore: the story of personhood - that is, what it means to be an individual and have an identity - and, secondly, the story of our physical constitution in the brain. 

Contemporary psychology is a form of mythology insofar as it is an attempt to succor our need to believe in stories that provide a sense of value and signification in the context of secular modernity. The ways in which psychology is used - for example in experiments or self-help literature or personality tests or brain scans - are means of providing rituals to enact the myths of personhood and materialism.

 

Q. Why does the author refer to contemporary psychology as a form of mythology?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 1

In the last paragraph, the author states the following- {Contemporary psychology is a form of mythology insofar as it is an attempt to succor our need to believe in stories that provide a sense of value and signification in the context of secular modernity.} Also, in the penultimate paragraph, the author remarks that mythology provided origin stories that create a setting for how we experience the worldAnd these stories were associated with various religions- like the Hindu Laws of Manu and the Biblical creation story.

Contemporary psychology, which uses tools like personality tests and self-help literature, enables us to continue believing in stories that provide value and signification without associating themselves with any religion, i.e., it stays true to the context of secular modernity.

Comparing the options, only option B conveys the above inference. Hence, option B is the answer.

Options A and C have not been implied in the passage and can be eliminated. Option D does not convey the inference elucidated above, and furthermore, the author does not discuss anything about secular principles. 

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 2

Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:

Mythology remains important in Western culture. Take, for instance, the role model of the hero, of contemporary revolutionaries, martyrs and dictators. These ideal figures exemplify models of human achievement. Similarly, notions of salvation, progress and ethics are so constitutive of our notions of reality that they’re often communicated through the format of mythology. There’s a surfeit of cultural products that fulfil the function of myth whereby characters and stories give us the means to understand the world we live in. Through superhero comic books, to the obscure immanence of modern art, from visions of paradisiacal vacations, to computer games and the self-mythologising of social media production, we seek a higher ground beyond the banal and the profane. We’ve even replaced the effervescent experience of sacred rites...in our engagement with art, drugs, cinema, rock music and all-night dance parties. Lastly, individuals have developed their own ways to create self-narratives that include mythical transitions in pilgrimages or personal quests to their ancestral lands. Likewise, some seek inner spaces wherein faith and meaning can be transformed into experience.

To prepare for our exploration of contemporary mythology, we can look back at civilisations and consider the function of the stories they told. The story of the flood, for example, recurs in early urban societies, marking a crisis in human-divine relations and man’s experience of gradual self-reliance and separation from nature. Whereas during the Axial Age (800-200 BCE), faith developed in an environment of early trade economies, at which time we observe a concern with individual conscience, morality, compassion and a tendency to look within. According to Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth (2005), these Axial myths of interiority indicate that people felt they no longer shared the same nature as the gods, and that the supreme reality had become impossibly difficult to access. These myths were a response to the loss of previous notions of social order, cosmology and human good, and represented ways to portray these social transformations in macrocosmic stories, and were reflections of how people tried to make sense of their rapidly changing world.

What constitutes a mythology? It’s an organised canon of beliefs that explains the state of the world. It also delivers an origin story - such as the Hindu Laws of Manu or the Biblical creation story - that creates a setting for how we experience the world. In fact, for Eliade, all myths provided an explanation of the world by virtue of giving an account of where things came from. If all mythologies are origin stories in this sense, what are the origin stories suggested by psychology? Two original elements of human nature are explained in its lore: the story of personhood - that is, what it means to be an individual and have an identity - and, secondly, the story of our physical constitution in the brain. 

Contemporary psychology is a form of mythology insofar as it is an attempt to succor our need to believe in stories that provide a sense of value and signification in the context of secular modernity. The ways in which psychology is used - for example in experiments or self-help literature or personality tests or brain scans - are means of providing rituals to enact the myths of personhood and materialism.

 

Q. Which of the following statements about mythology cannot be inferred from the passage?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 2

In the penultimate paragraph, the author presents the following about mythology-

{What constitutes a mythology? It’s an organised canon of beliefs that explains the state of the world. It also delivers an origin story - such as the Hindu Laws of Manu or the Biblical creation story - that creates a setting for how we experience the world.}

Additionally, in the first paragraph, the author makes the following observation-

{ Notions of salvation, progress and ethics are so constitutive of our notions of reality that they’re often communicated through the format of mythology.}

From the above, options A, B and D can be clearly inferred. The author does not assert anywhere in the passage that the origin stories and legends which formulate the myths are uncorroborated. Hence, option C cannot be conclusively inferred. Option C is the answer.

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Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 3

DIRECTIONS for the question: The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence as your answer:

  1. And, to say that someone is or is not intelligent has never been merely a comment on their mental faculties.
  2. But the notion that intelligence could determine one’s station in life was already much older.
  3. The idea that intelligence could be quantified, like blood pressure or shoe size, was barely a century old when I took the test that would decide my place in the world.
  4. It is always also a judgment on what they are permitted to do. 


Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 3

Statement 3 appears to be the starting sentence since it introduces the subject: the quantification of intelligence. The author mentions that the attempt to measure intelligence "was barely a century old" at the time he took an unknown test. However, he adds that the very notion that intelligence could be used to determine one's place in the world in life precedes this aforementioned time stamp. Hence, arrangement 3 - 2 forms a logical block. The author further adds to the discussion by highlighting the outcome of such an enterprise (of determining intelligence): it is not just a "comment" on our mental capabilities but also a "judgement" on what we will be allowed to do. Thus, 1- 4 forms a coherent follow-up to 3 - 2. The use of the phrase "has never been merely" in Statement 1 and "always also" in Statment 4 helps us determine their positions. Hence, the correct sequence would be 3214.

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 4

Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:

Charles Darwin thought the mental capacities of animals and people differed only in degree, not kind—a natural conclusion to reach when armed with the radical new belief that the one evolved from the other. His last great book, “The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals”, examined joy, love and grief in birds, domestic animals and primates as well as in various human races. But Darwin’s attitude to animals—easily shared by people in everyday contact with dogs, horses, even mice—ran contrary to a long tradition in European thought which held that animals had no minds at all. This way of thinking stemmed from the argument of René Descartes, a great 17th-century philosopher, that people were creatures of reason, linked to the mind of God, while animals were merely machines made of flesh—living robots which, in the words of Nicolas Malebranche, one of his followers, “eat without pleasure, cry without pain, grow without knowing it: they desire nothing, fear nothing, know nothing.”

For much of the 20th century biology cleaved closer to Descartes than to Darwin. Students of animal behaviour did not rule out the possibility that animals had minds but thought the question almost irrelevant since it was impossible to answer. One could study an organism’s inputs (such as food or the environment) or outputs (its behaviour). But the organism itself remained a black box: unobservable things such as emotions or thoughts were beyond the scope of objective inquiry.

In the past 40 years, however, a wide range of work both in the field and the lab has pushed the consensus away from strict behaviourism and towards that Darwin-friendly view. Progress has not been easy or quick; as the behaviourists warned, both sorts of evidence can be misleading. Laboratory tests can be rigorous, but are inevitably based on animals which may not behave as they do in the wild. Field observations can be dismissed as anecdotal. Running them for years or decades and on a large scale goes some way to guarding against that problem, but such studies are rare.

Nevertheless, most scientists...say with confidence that some animals process information and express emotions in ways that are accompanied by conscious mental experience. They agree that animals...have complex mental capacities; that a few species have attributes once thought to be unique to people, such as the ability to give objects names and use tools; and that a handful of animals—primates, corvids (the crow family) and cetaceans (whales and dolphins)— have something close to what in humans is seen as culture, in that they develop distinctive ways of doing things which are passed down by imitation and example. Dolphins have been found to imitate the behaviour of other dolphins, in their group. No animals have all the attributes of human minds; but almost all the attributes of human minds are found in some animal or other.

 Brain mapping reveals that the neurological processes underlying what look like emotions in rats are similar to those behind what clearly are emotions in humans. As a group of neuroscientists seeking to sum the field up put it in 2012, “Humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures...also possess these neurological substrates.”

 

Q. For much of the 20th century, students of animal behaviour opined that

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 4

{For much} of the 20th century biology cleaved closer to Descartes than to Darwin. Students of animal behaviour did not rule out the possibility that animals had minds but thought the question almost irrelevant since it was impossible to answer.}

Option C can be inferred from the above line.

All the other options are unrelated to the discussion.

Options A and D have not been implied in the passage.

Option B is incorrect. The subsequent discussion in the passage proves that animals are capable of emotions.

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Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 5

DIRECTIONS for the question: 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.

  1. The band consists of vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith, and guitarist John Frusciante.
  2. Their music incorporates elements of alternative rock, funk, punk rock and psychedelic rock.
  3. Alternative rock is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s.
  4. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983, and with over 80 million records sold worldwide, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are one of the best-selling bands of all time.
  5. They have won six Grammy Awards, and in 2012 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 5

Sentence 3 will be the odd one because it talks about alternative rock in general, but the rest of the sentences talk about the alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Pepper. The rest of the sentences, when arranged in sequence 4125, make a coherent paragraph.

4 will be the starting sentence since it introduces the topic, i.e. the band called Red Hot Chili Peppers. 1 will follow 4 because it introduces the band members. 2 will follow 1 because it talks about the kind of music the band makes. Finally, 2 will be followed by 5 as 5 highlights their awards and achievements.

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 6

The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author’s position.

Auctions use the principle of scarcity, whereby we overvalue things that we think might run out. Auction items are scarce in that they are unique (only one person can have them), and scarce in time (after the bids are finished, you’ve lost your chance). Think how many shop sales successfully rely on scarcity heuristics such as “Last day of sale!”, or “Only 2 left in stock!”, and you’ll get a feel for how powerful this persuasion principle can be. The other principle used by auctions is that of “social proof”. We all tend to take the lead from other people; if everybody does something, or says something, most of us join in before we think about what we really should do. Auctions put you in intimate contact with other people who are all providing social proof that the sale item is important and valuable.

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 6

In the passage, the author talks about psychological manipulation that takes place during auctions, which often leads to people overpaying for the auctioned items. 

Options A and C are close, but both are categorical. In the passage, the author majorly discusses the role of psychological persuasion techniques in driving up the prices of items that are scarce in number or quantity. So, it is not possible to generalise the inference. 

Also, option C is extreme when it says that rational bidding is impossible.

Option D is beyond the scope of the passage and can be safely eliminated.

This leaves us with option B, which comes closest to the inference elucidated above. Hence, option B is the answer. 

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 7

Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:

Charles Darwin thought the mental capacities of animals and people differed only in degree, not kind—a natural conclusion to reach when armed with the radical new belief that the one evolved from the other. His last great book, “The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals”, examined joy, love and grief in birds, domestic animals and primates as well as in various human races. But Darwin’s attitude to animals—easily shared by people in everyday contact with dogs, horses, even mice—ran contrary to a long tradition in European thought which held that animals had no minds at all. This way of thinking stemmed from the argument of René Descartes, a great 17th-century philosopher, that people were creatures of reason, linked to the mind of God, while animals were merely machines made of flesh—living robots which, in the words of Nicolas Malebranche, one of his followers, “eat without pleasure, cry without pain, grow without knowing it: they desire nothing, fear nothing, know nothing.”

For much of the 20th century biology cleaved closer to Descartes than to Darwin. Students of animal behaviour did not rule out the possibility that animals had minds but thought the question almost irrelevant since it was impossible to answer. One could study an organism’s inputs (such as food or the environment) or outputs (its behaviour). But the organism itself remained a black box: unobservable things such as emotions or thoughts were beyond the scope of objective inquiry.

In the past 40 years, however, a wide range of work both in the field and the lab has pushed the consensus away from strict behaviourism and towards that Darwin-friendly view. Progress has not been easy or quick; as the behaviourists warned, both sorts of evidence can be misleading. Laboratory tests can be rigorous, but are inevitably based on animals which may not behave as they do in the wild. Field observations can be dismissed as anecdotal. Running them for years or decades and on a large scale goes some way to guarding against that problem, but such studies are rare.

Nevertheless, most scientists...say with confidence that some animals process information and express emotions in ways that are accompanied by conscious mental experience. They agree that animals...have complex mental capacities; that a few species have attributes once thought to be unique to people, such as the ability to give objects names and use tools; and that a handful of animals—primates, corvids (the crow family) and cetaceans (whales and dolphins)— have something close to what in humans is seen as culture, in that they develop distinctive ways of doing things which are passed down by imitation and example. Dolphins have been found to imitate the behaviour of other dolphins, in their group. No animals have all the attributes of human minds; but almost all the attributes of human minds are found in some animal or other.

 Brain mapping reveals that the neurological processes underlying what look like emotions in rats are similar to those behind what clearly are emotions in humans. As a group of neuroscientists seeking to sum the field up put it in 2012, “Humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures...also possess these neurological substrates.”

 

Q. Which of the following views of Descartes and/or his followers cannot be inferred from the passage?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 7

{But Darwin’s attitude to animals—easily shared by people in everyday contact with dogs, horses, even mice—ran contrary to a long tradition in European thought which held that animals had no minds at all. This way of thinking stemmed from the argument of René Descartes, a great 17th-century philosopher, that people were creatures of reason, linked to the mind of God, while animals were merely machines made of flesh—living robots which, in the words of Nicolas Malebranche, one of his followers, “eat without pleasure, cry without pain, grow without knowing it: they desire nothing, fear nothing, know nothing.”}

Options B and D can be inferred from the last line. Also, Descartes asserts that animals do not have minds. And additionally, humans are creatures of reason. Hence, the mind is essential to be able to reason. Option A can be inferred as well.

Hence, option C is the answer. The author does not present either Descartes or his followers' views on the role animals play in human existence.

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 8

Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:

Mythology remains important in Western culture. Take, for instance, the role model of the hero, of contemporary revolutionaries, martyrs and dictators. These ideal figures exemplify models of human achievement. Similarly, notions of salvation, progress and ethics are so constitutive of our notions of reality that they’re often communicated through the format of mythology. There’s a surfeit of cultural products that fulfil the function of myth whereby characters and stories give us the means to understand the world we live in. Through superhero comic books, to the obscure immanence of modern art, from visions of paradisiacal vacations, to computer games and the self-mythologising of social media production, we seek a higher ground beyond the banal and the profane. We’ve even replaced the effervescent experience of sacred rites...in our engagement with art, drugs, cinema, rock music and all-night dance parties. Lastly, individuals have developed their own ways to create self-narratives that include mythical transitions in pilgrimages or personal quests to their ancestral lands. Likewise, some seek inner spaces wherein faith and meaning can be transformed into experience.

To prepare for our exploration of contemporary mythology, we can look back at civilisations and consider the function of the stories they told. The story of the flood, for example, recurs in early urban societies, marking a crisis in human-divine relations and man’s experience of gradual self-reliance and separation from nature. Whereas during the Axial Age (800-200 BCE), faith developed in an environment of early trade economies, at which time we observe a concern with individual conscience, morality, compassion and a tendency to look within. According to Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth (2005), these Axial myths of interiority indicate that people felt they no longer shared the same nature as the gods, and that the supreme reality had become impossibly difficult to access. These myths were a response to the loss of previous notions of social order, cosmology and human good, and represented ways to portray these social transformations in macrocosmic stories, and were reflections of how people tried to make sense of their rapidly changing world.

What constitutes a mythology? It’s an organised canon of beliefs that explains the state of the world. It also delivers an origin story - such as the Hindu Laws of Manu or the Biblical creation story - that creates a setting for how we experience the world. In fact, for Eliade, all myths provided an explanation of the world by virtue of giving an account of where things came from. If all mythologies are origin stories in this sense, what are the origin stories suggested by psychology? Two original elements of human nature are explained in its lore: the story of personhood - that is, what it means to be an individual and have an identity - and, secondly, the story of our physical constitution in the brain. 

Contemporary psychology is a form of mythology insofar as it is an attempt to succor our need to believe in stories that provide a sense of value and signification in the context of secular modernity. The ways in which psychology is used - for example in experiments or self-help literature or personality tests or brain scans - are means of providing rituals to enact the myths of personhood and materialism.

 

Q. Which of the following statements about human behaviour cannot be inferred from the first paragraph?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 8

The author states the following in the opening paragraph-

{ Through superhero comic books, to the obscure immanence of modern art, from visions of paradisiacal vacations to computer games and the self-mythologising of social media production, we seek a higher ground beyond the banal and the profane.}  Art, media, books all of which are cultural tools, aid an individual who seeks to cross over to a higher ground, separated from the crudity and triteness of the usual reality. Option A can be inferred.

Option B is a distortion. {some seek inner spaces wherein faith and meaning can be transformed into experience.} The author does not assert that an individual tries to form a relationship between faith and meaning. Option B cannot be inferred.

{Lastly, individuals have developed their own ways to create self-narratives that include mythical transitions in pilgrimages or personal quests to their ancestral lands.} Option C can be inferred from this line. 

{We’ve even replaced the effervescent experience of sacred rites, not in blood sacrifice or vision quests, but in our engagement with art, drugs, cinema, rock music and all-night dance parties.} Option D can be inferred from this line.

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Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 9

DIRECTIONS for the question: The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence as your answer:

  1. Now, tech giants like Facebook and Twitter are actively copying Clubhouse.
  2. Its growth is undeniable thanks to figures as disparate as Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk and, Trump consigliere Roger Stone — not to mention regular people craving conversation after nearly a year of lockdown.
  3. Now, with more than two million users and the app on the precipice of the mainstream, Clubhouse has become a flashpoint in the broader culture wars around censorship, online harassment, and the far-reaching powers of Big Tech.
  4. They are doling out the new talking features for their billions of users, giving a preview of what the future of online life is likely to look like.

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 9

1 and 3 both can be the starting sentences, but on reading all four sentences, we find that these lines talk about an app called Clubhouse.

3 will start the para because it tells us what is Clubhouse all about, and 2 will follow it as it further elaborates on how it gained popularity. 4 will definitely follow 1 because 4 elaborates on how the tech giants are trying to copy Clubhouse. Finally, the pair 14 will follow 3-2.

Hence, the sequence will be 3214.

Alternate explanation:

On a preliminary read, we notice that all sentences incorporate transition words (like "now", "they", "its") at the beginning. These could serve as potential markers for us to zero in on the correct sequence quickly. The discussion revolves around Clubhouse, which is first introduced to us in Statement 3. The term "its" in 2 points towards the subject ("Its growth..." = "Clubhouse's growth..."); while we notice that Statement 4 begins with "they" (plural ) - thus, points towards multiple entities. It is evident that these entities are Facebook and Twitter mentioned in 1. Hence, 3214 is the correct sequence. 

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 10

Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:

Charles Darwin thought the mental capacities of animals and people differed only in degree, not kind—a natural conclusion to reach when armed with the radical new belief that the one evolved from the other. His last great book, “The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals”, examined joy, love and grief in birds, domestic animals and primates as well as in various human races. But Darwin’s attitude to animals—easily shared by people in everyday contact with dogs, horses, even mice—ran contrary to a long tradition in European thought which held that animals had no minds at all. This way of thinking stemmed from the argument of René Descartes, a great 17th-century philosopher, that people were creatures of reason, linked to the mind of God, while animals were merely machines made of flesh—living robots which, in the words of Nicolas Malebranche, one of his followers, “eat without pleasure, cry without pain, grow without knowing it: they desire nothing, fear nothing, know nothing.”

For much of the 20th century biology cleaved closer to Descartes than to Darwin. Students of animal behaviour did not rule out the possibility that animals had minds but thought the question almost irrelevant since it was impossible to answer. One could study an organism’s inputs (such as food or the environment) or outputs (its behaviour). But the organism itself remained a black box: unobservable things such as emotions or thoughts were beyond the scope of objective inquiry.

In the past 40 years, however, a wide range of work both in the field and the lab has pushed the consensus away from strict behaviourism and towards that Darwin-friendly view. Progress has not been easy or quick; as the behaviourists warned, both sorts of evidence can be misleading. Laboratory tests can be rigorous, but are inevitably based on animals which may not behave as they do in the wild. Field observations can be dismissed as anecdotal. Running them for years or decades and on a large scale goes some way to guarding against that problem, but such studies are rare.

Nevertheless, most scientists...say with confidence that some animals process information and express emotions in ways that are accompanied by conscious mental experience. They agree that animals...have complex mental capacities; that a few species have attributes once thought to be unique to people, such as the ability to give objects names and use tools; and that a handful of animals—primates, corvids (the crow family) and cetaceans (whales and dolphins)— have something close to what in humans is seen as culture, in that they develop distinctive ways of doing things which are passed down by imitation and example. Dolphins have been found to imitate the behaviour of other dolphins, in their group. No animals have all the attributes of human minds; but almost all the attributes of human minds are found in some animal or other.

 Brain mapping reveals that the neurological processes underlying what look like emotions in rats are similar to those behind what clearly are emotions in humans. As a group of neuroscientists seeking to sum the field up put it in 2012, “Humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures...also possess these neurological substrates.”

 

Q. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

I. There is now a consensus among most scientists that some animals exhibit most of the attributes characteristic of human minds.

II. Some animals are self-aware and are also conscious of their social milieu.

III. Some animal minds are capable of imitative behaviour.

IV. People who rarely came in contact with animals disregarded Darwin's views on animal minds. 

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 10

Statement I is a distortion. The author states that "No animals have all the attributes of human minds; but almost all the attributes of human minds are found in some animal or other." The author attempts to convey the point most of the attributes of human minds, say, X,Y, Z etc., are found in animals too. For example, attribute X and Y in animal A, only Y in animal B, only Z in animal C and so on.

{ "Nevertheless, most scientists now feel they can say with confidence that some animals process information and express emotions in ways that are accompanied by conscious mental experience.}  But the inference drawn from this line is not sufficient to conclude that the animals are self-aware. Statement II can be eliminated.

{ They agree that animals...have complex mental capacities; that a few species have attributes once thought to be unique to people, such as the ability to give objects names and use tools; and that a handful of animals—primates, corvids (the crow family) and cetaceans (whales and dolphins)— have something close to what in humans is seen as culture, in that they develop distinctive ways of doing things which are passed down by imitation and example. Dolphins have been found to imitate the behaviour of other dolphins, in their group.} Statement III can be inferred from these lines. 

In the first paragraph, the author makes the observation that Darwin's attitude to animals was easily shared by people in everyday contact with dogs, horses, even mice. This, however, does not lead to the conclusion mentioned in statement IV. People who seldom came in contact with animals could still have backed Darwin's views.

Only statement III can be inferred. Hence, Option B is the answer.

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 11

Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:

Mythology remains important in Western culture. Take, for instance, the role model of the hero, of contemporary revolutionaries, martyrs and dictators. These ideal figures exemplify models of human achievement. Similarly, notions of salvation, progress and ethics are so constitutive of our notions of reality that they’re often communicated through the format of mythology. There’s a surfeit of cultural products that fulfil the function of myth whereby characters and stories give us the means to understand the world we live in. Through superhero comic books, to the obscure immanence of modern art, from visions of paradisiacal vacations, to computer games and the self-mythologising of social media production, we seek a higher ground beyond the banal and the profane. We’ve even replaced the effervescent experience of sacred rites...in our engagement with art, drugs, cinema, rock music and all-night dance parties. Lastly, individuals have developed their own ways to create self-narratives that include mythical transitions in pilgrimages or personal quests to their ancestral lands. Likewise, some seek inner spaces wherein faith and meaning can be transformed into experience.

To prepare for our exploration of contemporary mythology, we can look back at civilisations and consider the function of the stories they told. The story of the flood, for example, recurs in early urban societies, marking a crisis in human-divine relations and man’s experience of gradual self-reliance and separation from nature. Whereas during the Axial Age (800-200 BCE), faith developed in an environment of early trade economies, at which time we observe a concern with individual conscience, morality, compassion and a tendency to look within. According to Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth (2005), these Axial myths of interiority indicate that people felt they no longer shared the same nature as the gods, and that the supreme reality had become impossibly difficult to access. These myths were a response to the loss of previous notions of social order, cosmology and human good, and represented ways to portray these social transformations in macrocosmic stories, and were reflections of how people tried to make sense of their rapidly changing world.

What constitutes a mythology? It’s an organised canon of beliefs that explains the state of the world. It also delivers an origin story - such as the Hindu Laws of Manu or the Biblical creation story - that creates a setting for how we experience the world. In fact, for Eliade, all myths provided an explanation of the world by virtue of giving an account of where things came from. If all mythologies are origin stories in this sense, what are the origin stories suggested by psychology? Two original elements of human nature are explained in its lore: the story of personhood - that is, what it means to be an individual and have an identity - and, secondly, the story of our physical constitution in the brain. 

Contemporary psychology is a form of mythology insofar as it is an attempt to succor our need to believe in stories that provide a sense of value and signification in the context of secular modernity. The ways in which psychology is used - for example in experiments or self-help literature or personality tests or brain scans - are means of providing rituals to enact the myths of personhood and materialism.

 

Q. The author cites the examples of the story of the flood and myth of interiority to drive home the point that

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 11

In the second paragraph, the author states the following about the myths-

{These myths were a response to the loss of previous notions of social order, cosmology and human good and represented ways to portray these social transformations in macrocosmic stories, and were reflections of how people tried to make sense of their rapidly changing world}

In the story of the flood example, the author cites the growing divide between human and divine and man's perception of nature due to the flooding of urban societies. During the Axial age, individuals engaged in introspective exercise and the divide between man and the supreme grew. According to the author, the myths try to make sense of these related but separated social transformations through macrocosmic stories, i.e., stories that universally represent these changes and capture the larger context. 

Now, comparing the options, option D conveys this inference and is the answer.

All other options are either distorted or do not convey the main point elucidated above. 

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 12

The software development team of Cracku has come up with a new spreadsheet viewing and editing application. The rows are denoted by alphabet(s) starting with A, B, C,..., Z, followed by AA, AB,..., AZ, BA,..., ZZ, followed by AAA, AAB,..... and so on. The columns are denoted in the same way. A cell, which is an intersection of a row and column is denoted by the alphabet(s) representing the row followed by '#' followed by the alphabet(s) representing the column.

For example, the cell at the intersection of the 27th row and 8th column is denoted by AA#H.

Based on the information given above, answer the questions that follow.

If there is a total of 65536 cells in a spreadsheet, such that the sum of the number of rows and the number of columns is the least possible, what is the sequence of characters denoting the last cell of the sheet? The last cell is the cell at the intersection of the last row and the last column.

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 12

65536 = 256 x 256

Hence, the sum of rows and columns will be minimum when the number of rows, as well as the number of columns, is 256.

Hence the last cell should be in the form of (256,256)

256 = 260 - 4 = 26 X 10 - 4

A - Z → 26

AA - AZ → 26

BA - BZ → 26

CA - CZ → 26

DA - DZ → 26

EA - EZ → 26

FA - FZ → 26

GA - GZ → 26

HA - HZ → 26

IA - IZ → 26

IZ is the 260th term, hence the 256th term should be IV

Hence the cell should be represented as IV#IV.

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 13

There are 4 properties available for rent in the city of Hyderabad. They are in 4 different locations among Kondapur, Madhapur, Whitefield and Gachibowli. The rents of the 4 properties are 20000 Rs/month, 24000 Rs/month, 28000 Rs/month and 30000 Rs/month in no particular order. The security deposits of the 4 properties are 1 month equivalent of rent, 2 months equivalent of rent, 3 months equivalent of rent and 4 months equivalent of rent, in no particular order. Also, there are 4 different brokers A, B, C, D who have the responsibility to rent these 4 properties. Brokers belong to 3 categories, truth-tellers, who always tell the truth, liars who always lie and alternators, who alternate between truth and a lie. It is also known that at least one of the brokers is a truth-teller. Also, each of them says 3 statements each, recorded as follows:

A: 

1. The highest amount of rent is for the Gachibowli property.

2. The lowest amount of rent is not for the Kondapur property.

3. The broker, D sometimes lies.

B:

1. The Kondapur property has a deposit equivalent to 4 months of rent.

2. The broker, C never speaks the truth.

3. The rent of Whitefield is 24000 Rs/month.

C:

1. The rent of the Whitefield property(in Rs) when divided by 1000 has 8 distinct factors. 

2. The broker, A never speaks the truth. 

3. The monthly rent of the Whitefield property is neither the highest nor the lowest.

D:

1. The average of all rents is 25500 Rs/month.

2. The broker, A is not an alternator.

3. The Madhapur property has a deposit equivalent to 3 months of rent.

Based on the information given above, answer the questions that follow.

 

Q. Which of the following is a correct match?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 13

It has been given that at least one of them is a truth-teller. So, we can assume each one of them to be a truth-teller separately, are deduce other information based on the statements they say.

Case 1: Let A be the truth-teller.

The first statement of A is that the highest amount of rent is for the Gachibowli property.

The second statement of A is that the lowest amount of rent is not for the Kondapur property.

The third statement of A is that D sometimes lies.

Hence,

Gachibowli - 30000 Rs/month

Kondapur - ~20000 Rs/month

D - Alternator

Let us now consider D's statements since we now know that D is an alternator.

D's first statement is true since the average is correct.

D's second statement is that A is not an alternator. We know that in this case, A is a truth-teller, hence, this statement of D is true. 2 consecutive statements of D are true, this implies he is a truth-teller, if A is a truth-teller, hence this case is invalidated.

Case 2: Let B be the truth-teller.

The first statement of B is that the Kondapur property has a deposit equivalent to 4 months of rent.

The second statement of B is that C never speaks the truth.

The third statement of B is that the rent of Whitefield is 24000 Rs/month.

Kondapur - 4 months deposit

C - Liar

Whitefield - 24000 Rs/month

Let us now consider C's statements, since we already know that C is a liar.

C's first statement is that the rent of the Whitefield property(in Rs), when divided by 1000, has 8 distinct factors.

24000/1000 = 24

24 = 23 × 3

Hence, it has 8 factors. So, it is a true sentence.

Hence, this case is invalidated as well.

Case 3: Let C be the truth-teller.

The first statement of C is that the rent of the Whitefield property(in Rs), when divided by 1000, has 8 distinct factors.

Among the 4 rents, if we calculate the number of factors, only 24000 and 30000 have 8 distinct factors post division by 1000.

So, the rent of the Whitefield property is either 24000 Rs/month or 30000 Rs/month.

The second statement of C is that A never speaks the truth.

The third statement of C is that the monthly rent of the Whitefield property is neither the highest nor the lowest.

Thus, we can safely conclude that the rent of the Whitefield property is 24000 Rs/month.

Hence, 

Whitefield - 24000 Rs/month

A - Liar.

Let us analyze A's statements.

The highest amount of rent is for the Gachibowli property. - This is false.

The lowest amount of rent is not for the Kondapur property. - This is false.

Kondapur - 20,000 Rs/month.

Since the Gachibowli property can't take the highest value, it takes 28,000 Rs/month.

Hence, Madhapur takes 30000 Rs/month.

Also, A's third statement is a lie which implies that D is either a truth-teller or a liar.

Let us analyze D's statements. Since we have already concluded that the first statement of D is true, we can safely say that he always speaks the truth.

Hence,

Madhapur - 3 months deposit

Also,

Hence, B - Alternator is the right choice.

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 14

A well known FMCG company mainly deals in manufacturing and selling its product in 4 different sectors which are namely, Packaged Foods, Electronics, Garments and Home Appliances. The percentage contribution to the sales they had to the year 2018, 2019 and 2020 are given as follows

Sales

Furthermore, the profit % obtained by selling the items of a particular sector year on year is given as follows

Based on the above data, answer the following questions

 

Q. If it is known that the total cost incurred for producing Goods was the same for the year 2019 and 2020. Then what is the approximate percentage change in sales of the company from the year 2019 to 2020?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 14

Let the sales of the company for the year 2019 be 100P and the sales of the company for the year 2020 be 100 Q.

The sales of the company's individual department can be written as follows:

Furthermore, we are given profit % for a department for a given year. 

For a product sold at SP with a profit %p, the cost price = SP​/(1+p%)

Thus for 2019, the cost to manufacture goods in Packaged foods will be = 20P/1.1

2019, the cost to manufacture goods in Garments will be = 25P/1.1​ and so on

Thus the cost to manufacture good for all 4 departments for 2019 and 2020 can be tabulated as

Given that total cost of manufacturing was same for both the years,

% change in sales = 

% change in sales = 

% change in sales = 

% change in sales = (1.0288−1) × 100%
% change in sales = 2.88%

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 15

A market surveyor was tasked to get basic information on 5 panellists who were sitting in a row. The leftmost position was numbered 1 and the rightmost was numbered 5. The details required were name, native city, current city and the car they owned. To capture the details she made a table. There were 4 interns under her and she wanted the interns to get first-hand experience of market survey, hence she sent them to the sitting area to get the details required. The first intern only got the names of the panellist. The second intern got the native city and so on. After getting the information they were to come back and fill the table accordingly. After the table was filled, it looked as follows:

After the panellists left, the surveyor figured out that each of her interns messed up the information. Exactly 1 out of 5 pieces of information provided by them is correct and the rest are wrong.

Furthermore, the following things were known:

  1. Ram sits at an extreme end and owns Elantra
  2. Nobody lives in the same city as their native city.
  3. The interns got either Shyam or his car's position correct.
  4. Parul's native city is Chennai. Qureshi has only one neighbour and he is Shyam.
  5. The native city of the person who owns an Audi is not Delhi.
  6. Person who drives Charger is one place to the right of the person whose native is Goa.
  7. Person who lives in Goa and the person whose native is Goa are sitting at the maximum possible distance.
  8. Shyam is sitting at the 2^{nd}2nd place from the right.
  9. Person who drives Charger is 1 place left of the person who lives in Hyderabad.

 

Q. Who lives in Hyderabad?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 15

Let us make a table to show the sitting arrangements and then fill up the details as mentioned

> Shyam is sitting at 2^{nd}2nd place from right

> Qureshi has only one neighbour Shyam

> Person who lives in Goa and the person whose native is Goa is sitting at the maximum possible distance. It implies that these must be sitting at the extremes. We don't know which end

>Person who drives Charger is one place right of the person whose native is Goa. The person of Native Goa is at the leftmost place

> EIther Shyam or his car was mentioned at the correct place. Since Shyam place was incorrect. His car has to be placed correctly. Since Shyam is at position 4. Dodge which is on position 4 is placed incorrectly.  Audi can not be placed at 5. Thus Audi has to be at 3 and BMW at 5

> Also we observe that postion of Ram, Shyam and Qureshi were incorrect. So either Parul position is correct or Tiyasha position is correct. Since Tiyasha's position is already occupied. Parul is correctly placed at 2. Tiyasha correct place is 3.

>Parul native city is Chennai.

> Person who owns an Audi is not from Delhi. Thus Native Delhi is at a position 4 or 5.

Case I: If Native Delhi is at position 4. Then in the list of native cities. Position 3 or 5 has to be correctly occupied in the initial table. Position 3 is Chennai which is already taken. Position 5 is Delhi but as per this case Delhi is on 4. So this case is not possible.

Case II: Native Delhi is at position 5 which is the same as the current position. Thus position 3 and position 4 information has to be wrong. It is only possible when Bangalore is not at position 4. Thus Bangalore is at position 3. Hyderabad will be at position 4.

Now we need to fill the "Lives in" correctly.

> Person who drives Charger is 1 place left of the person who lives in Hyderabad

Thus Hyderabad is correctly placed. The rest of the 3 positions were incorrectly placed.

Position 1 cannot be Delhi or Goa or Hyderabad. It has to be Chennai or Bangalore.

Case I: Position 1 is Chennai. 

Position 2 cannot be Chennai/Hyderabad or Goa. Position 2 can be Delhi or Bangalore.

Position 4 cannot be Hyderabad/Chennai/Goa. Position 4 can be Delhi or Goa

Thus 2 possibilities are there which can be shown as 

Case 2: Position 1 is Bangalore

Then Chennai can only be at position 4 which leaves, position 2 for Delhi

Total 3 cases are possible from above-given information. Which can be as follows:

In all 3 cases Tiyasha lives in Hyderabad.

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 16

The software development team of Cracku has come up with a new spreadsheet viewing and editing application. The rows are denoted by alphabet(s) starting with A, B, C,..., Z, followed by AA, AB,..., AZ, BA,..., ZZ, followed by AAA, AAB,..... and so on. The columns are denoted in the same way. A cell, which is an intersection of a row and column is denoted by the alphabet(s) representing the row followed by '#' followed by the alphabet(s) representing the column.

For example, the cell at the intersection of the 27th row and 8th column is denoted by AA#H.

Based on the information given above, answer the questions that follow.

 

Q. The distance between 2 cells is calculated as follows:

In the new notation, suppose all the rows and columns were numbered starting from 1, 2, 3,.... and so on instead of A, B, C,... AA,... such that A corresponds to 1, AA corresponds to 27 and so on.

The distance between 2 cells = 

where r1​, r2​ are the row numbers of the first and second cells respectively and c1​, c2​ are the column numbers of the first and second cells respectively.

Below mentioned are a few pair of points in the old notation. Which of them are farthest from each other?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 16

A#A - M#F

Difference between A and M = 12

Difference between A and F = 5

Hence,  distance = 

ZU#AAD - AAA#ZX

Difference between ZU and AAA = 6

Difference between AAD and ZX = 6

Hence, distance =  

CDE#XXA - CCX#XWT

Difference between CDE and CCX = 7

Difference between XXA and XWT = 7

Hence, distance = 

UV#AB - VA#W

Difference between UV and VA = 5

Difference between AB and W = 5

Hence, distance = 

Hence, Option (A) is the right choice.

*Answer can only contain numeric values
Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 17

In the above multiplication, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are the different digits of number such that none of them is divisible by 5. 

If it is known that D is twice that of F, answer the following questions

 

Q. Which digit corresponds to the alphabet "G"?

Enter -1 if the answer can't be determined.


Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 17

Since none of the digits is divisible by 5, Digits can be 1,2,3,4,6,7,8 and 9 only.

From the above we see that C + 0 = 6. Thus C = 6.

Looking at the second digit of the product. Unit place of C +  C = B. Thus unit digit of 6+6(12) is 2. Thus B = 2.

The product simplifies into 

We observe that unit places of D × G = 6 The pair of digits which gives 6 at unit digits on their product are (1,6), (2,3), (2,8), (4,4), (4,9) (6,6) and (7,8). Since we already know that C = 6, B = 2  and  D ≠ G only remaining possible pairs are (4,9) and (7,8). 

Thus (D,G) can be (4,9) or (9,4) or (7,8) or (8,7)

Upon further observation, we see that FGAD × 2 = HFG6 which is a 4-digit number. Thus the maximum possible value of F = 4 (if F≥5 then the product will be at least 5- digit. Thus F = 1 or 3 or 4

We are given that D=2×F Thus F = 4, D= 8 which leaves G =7

The remaining alphabets are A, E and H. The remaining digits to be allocated are 1,3 and 9. 

Since one of the numbers for the product is 27. Thus the final product E27H26 should be divisible by 27. Thus it should be divisible by 9 also. For a number to be divisible by 9, the sum of its digits has to be a multiple of 9

Thus  E+2+7+H+2+6 = 9k or E + H = 9k−17 or E + H = 9k′ + 1 where k =  k′+2

Thus E + H = 1 or 10

E + H = 1 is not possible as both are positive digts. Thus E + H = 10 and it happens when (E,H) = (1,9) or (9,1). Thus it will mean that A = 3 is the only possible scenario. Now we know that the 2 numbers whose product is taken is  4738 and 27. We can input the values and get the following

Thus we obtain the following allocation

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 18

A well known FMCG company mainly deals in manufacturing and selling its product in 4 different sectors which are namely, Packaged Foods, Electronics, Garments and Home Appliances. The percentage contribution to the sales they had to the year 2018, 2019 and 2020 are given as follows

Sales

Furthermore, the profit % obtained by selling the items of a particular sector year on year is given as follows

Based on the above data, answer the following questions

 

Q. If it is known that the total cost incurred for producing Goods was the same for the year 2019 and 2020. Then which among the following is the highest?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 18

Let the sales of the company for the year 2019 be 100P and the sales of the company for the year 2020 be 100 Q.

The sales of the company's individual department can be written as follows:

Furthermore, we are given profit % for a department for a given year. 

For a product sold at SP with a profit %p, the cost price = SP​/(1+p%)

Thus for 2019, the cost to manufacture goods in Packaged foods will be = 20P/1.1

2019, the cost to manufacture goods in Garments will be = 25P/1.1​ and so on

Thus the cost to manufacture good for all 4 departments for 2019 and 2020 can be tabulated as

Given that total cost of manufacturing was same for both the years,

a) Cost of manufacturing Packaged food in 2019 = 20P/1.1 ​∼ 18.18P

b) Cost of manufacturing Home Appliances in 2020 = 25Q/1.2 ​∼ 20.83Q ∼ 21.4333P

c) Cost of manufacturing Home Appliances in 2019 = 15P/1.2 ​= 12.5P

d) Cost of Manufacturing Garments in 2020 = 20Q/1.1 ​= 18.18Q ∼ 18.705P

Clearly option B is greatest among them

*Answer can only contain numeric values
Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 19

A committee of 3 is to be selected out of a group of 8 persons, 3 CAs, 4 MBAs and 1 CA-cum-MBA. In how many ways can the committee selection takes place, such that there is at least one CA degree and one MBA degree held, by the committee members.


Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 19

To find the total number of ways in which a committee of 3 can be selected from a group of 8 persons, we use the combination formula:

C(8,3) = 8! / (3! * 5!) = 56

This means that there are 56 different possible committees that can be formed.

Now, we need to find the number of committees that have at least one CA degree and one MBA degree held by the committee members. We can do this by subtracting the number of committees that have only CA degrees or only MBA degrees from the total number of committees.

Number of committees with only CA degrees: C(3,3) = 1 (select all 3 CAs)

Number of committees with only MBA degrees: C(4,3) = 4 (select all 3 MBAs or the CA-cum-MBA and any 2 MBAs)

Number of committees with at least one CA degree and one MBA degree: 56 - 1 - 4 = 51

Therefore, there are 51 ways to select a committee of 3 such that there is at least one CA degree and one MBA degree held by the committee members.

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 20

A market surveyor was tasked to get basic information on 5 panellists who were sitting in a row. The leftmost position was numbered 1 and the rightmost was numbered 5. The details required were name, native city, current city and the car they owned. To capture the details she made a table. There were 4 interns under her and she wanted the interns to get first-hand experience of market survey, hence she sent them to the sitting area to get the details required. The first intern only got the names of the panellist. The second intern got the native city and so on. After getting the information they were to come back and fill the table accordingly. After the table was filled, it looked as follows:

After the panellists left, the surveyor figured out that each of her interns messed up the information. Exactly 1 out of 5 pieces of information provided by them is correct and the rest are wrong.

Furthermore, the following things were known:

  1. Ram sits at an extreme end and owns Elantra
  2. Nobody lives in the same city as their native city.
  3. The interns got either Shyam or his car's position correct.
  4. Parul's native city is Chennai. Qureshi has only one neighbour and he is Shyam.
  5. The native city of the person who owns an Audi is not Delhi.
  6. Person who drives Charger is one place to the right of the person whose native is Goa.
  7. Person who lives in Goa and the person whose native is Goa are sitting at the maximum possible distance.
  8. Shyam is sitting at the 2^{nd}2nd place from the right.
  9. Person who drives Charger is 1 place left of the person who lives in Hyderabad.

 

Q. Who drives Dodge?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 20

Let us make a table to show the sitting arrangements and then fill up the details as mentioned

> Shyam is sitting at 2^{nd}2nd place from right

> Qureshi has only one neighbour Shyam

> Person who lives in Goa and the person whose native is Goa is sitting at the maximum possible distance. It implies that these must be sitting at the extremes. We don't know which end

>Person who drives Charger is one place right of the person whose native is Goa. The person of Native Goa is at the leftmost place

> EIther Shyam or his car was mentioned at the correct place. Since Shyam place was incorrect. His car has to be placed correctly. Since Shyam is at position 4. Dodge which is on position 4 is placed incorrectly.  Audi can not be placed at 5. Thus Audi has to be at 3 and BMW at 5

> Also we observe that postion of Ram, Shyam and Qureshi were incorrect. So either Parul position is correct or Tiyasha position is correct. Since Tiyasha's position is already occupied. Parul is correctly placed at 2. Tiyasha correct place is 3.

>Parul native city is Chennai.

> Person who owns an Audi is not from Delhi. Thus Native Delhi is at a position 4 or 5.

Case I: If Native Delhi is at position 4. Then in the list of native cities. Position 3 or 5 has to be correctly occupied in the initial table. Position 3 is Chennai which is already taken. Position 5 is Delhi but as per this case Delhi is on 4. So this case is not possible.

Case II: Native Delhi is at position 5 which is the same as the current position. Thus position 3 and position 4 information has to be wrong. It is only possible when Bangalore is not at position 4. Thus Bangalore is at position 3. Hyderabad will be at position 4.

Now we need to fill the "Lives in" correctly.

> Person who drives Charger is 1 place left of the person who lives in Hyderabad

Thus Hyderabad is correctly placed. The rest of the 3 positions were incorrectly placed.

Position 1 cannot be Delhi or Goa or Hyderabad. It has to be Chennai or Bangalore.

Case I: Position 1 is Chennai. 

Position 2 cannot be Chennai/Hyderabad or Goa. Position 2 can be Delhi or Bangalore.

Position 4 cannot be Hyderabad/Chennai/Goa. Position 4 can be Delhi or Goa

Thus 2 possibilities are there which can be shown as 

Case 2: Position 1 is Bangalore

Then Chennai can only be at position 4 which leaves, position 2 for Delhi

Total 3 cases are possible from above-given information. Which can be as follows:

In all 3 cases, Shyam drives Dodge

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 21

There is a large plot of land in the form of a trapezium. The owner of the land has planned to convert it into a botanical garden, with a non-uniform walking track along its perimeter as follows (all measurements are in metres):

The portion of the land without the walking track is also in the form of a trapezium and has to be covered with artificial grass. The cost of laying the track is Rs. 35 per square metre and the cost of planting artificial grass is Rs. 400 per square metre. What is the total cost needed to lay the track and plant the artificial grass?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 21

Area of outer trapezium = 1/2 x sum of parallel sides\times x height = 1/2 x (35+45)× 40 =1600
For the inner trapezium, lengths of parallel sides are 35 - 4 - 3 = 28 and 45 - 6 - 5 = 34
Height = 40 - 5 - 4 = 31
Hence, area = 1/2 x (28+34)× 31= 1/2 x  62× 31=31× 31=961
Hence, the area where the artificial grass is to be planted = 961 and the area of the track = 1600 - 961 = 639.
Hence, the total cost = 961 x 400 + 639 x 35 = 384400 + 22365 = 406765 Rs.

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 22

A quadratic equation f(x) = 0 has one positive and one negative root. If the graph of f(x) is shifted left along the x-axis to form f'(x) in such a way that the sum of roots of the quadratic equation f'(x) = 0 is zero, the distance between the minima of f(x) and f'(x) is 5 units. Which of the following is a possible sum of the roots of the equation f(x) = 0?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 22

Let the roots of f'(x) = -a,a

The distance between the minima of f(x) and f'(x) = 5. This implies that f(x) has been shifted 5 units towards the left to get f'(x).

Hence, the roots of f(x) = -a+5 and a+5.

Hence, sum of roots of f(x) = -a+5+a+5 = 10 units.

*Answer can only contain numeric values
Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 23

A cube is painted on five visible faces. Now it is cut in 64 identical smaller cubes by applying three equidistant cuts along each edge. Among 64 identical smaller cubes, how many cubes have no painted face?


Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 23

After cutting, there 64 identical smaller cubes i.e cube’s dimensions are 4 X 4 X 4
One face is not painted. Therefore, there will be 4 cubes on this face which are not painted.
Similarly, there will be 8 more cubes.
Hence, total number of cubes = 12

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 24

A quadratic equation f(x) = 0 exists such that f(x) = 3x2 + 9x + 3. A second quadratic expression g(x) is formed by shifting f(x) towards the right along the x-axis by 5 units. What is the sum of the roots of equation g(x) = 0?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 24

g(x) is formed by shifting f(x) towards the right along the x-axis by 5 units,

g(x) = 3(x−5)+ 9(x−5) + 3

g(x) = 3(x2−10x+25) + 9(x−5) + 3

g(x) = 3x− 30x + 75 + 9x − 45 + 3

g(x) = 3x− 21x + 33

Hence g(x) = 0

3x2 − 21x + 33 = 0

x2 − 7x + 11 = 0

Hence, sum of the roots = (−7)​/1 = 7

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Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 25

A town had a population of 140000. 1/7th of the people were diagnosed with a disease. The municipality had arranged for 2 variants of medicines A and B to treat all of them. A succeeded in healing 1/14th of patients it was given to, and B succeeded in healing 40% of people it was given to. Finally, a total of 3400 people recovered, with the help of these medicines. Find how many people were given Medicine A.


Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 25

Total number of people having the disease = (1/7) x 140000 = 20000
Let number of patients given A be x.
Therefore, the number of patients given B = 20000 - x 
Therefore, 

x = 14000

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Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 26

A and B have notes of Rs.500 and Rs.2000 denomination with them. The ratio of Rs. 500 notes with A and B respectively is 2:3, the ratio of Rs. 2000 notes with A and B respectively is 4:5. If the total amount with A is 24000 and the total amount with B is 32000, find the absolute difference between the number of Rs. 500 notes with A and Rs. 2000 notes with B.


Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 26

Let the number of Rs. 500 notes with A and B be 2x and 3x respectively.
Let the number of Rs. 2000 notes with A and B be 4y and 5y respectively.
Hence, total amount with A = 1000x + 8000y = 24000 or x + 8y = 24...(i)
Total amount with B = 1500x + 10000y = 32000 or 1.5x + 10y = 32...(ii)
Multiplying 1.5 with (i), and then subtracting (ii)
1.5x + 12y = 36
1.5x + 10y = 32
Hence, y = 2.
Solving for x, x = 8.
Hence, difference = 2x - 5y = 16 - 10 = 6

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Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 27

If N is a 26 digit number, and M= log 10.
Let F(x) = logN/M, what will be the integral part of F(x)?


Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 27

The integral part of the logarithm (base 10) of a natural number is always 1 less than the no. of digits in it. So the integral part of f(x) is 25.

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 28

There is a right circular cylinder which has a base diameter of 16 units and a height of 6π units. An ant is at the circumference of the base of the cylinder and wants to reach the sugar cube which is placed at top-most point of diametrically opposite end from the ant. What is the minimum possible distance that ant has to travel?

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 28

It is given that the base has a diameter of 16 units, it implies that the radius is 8 units and hence the circumference is 16π units
If we cut open the cylinder into a 2-D paper then, the ant has to travel a horizontal distance of half the circumference = 8π units. and vertical distance will be 6π. 
In order to minimise the distance, he has to travel along the hypotenuse formed which is of length = 

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Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 29

How many ordered pairs (x,y) exist that satisfy the following inequality?

xy + 5x + 6y < 20

It has been given that x is a whole number and y is a natural number.


Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 29

xy + 5x + 6y < 20

If we add 30 to both sides, we can easily factorize the left side.

xy + 5x + 6y + 30 < 50

x(y+5) + 6(y+5) < 50

(y+5)(x+6) < 50

(x+6)(y+5) < 50

It has been given that x is a whole number and y is a natural number.

Hence, let us assume the above inequality as AB < 50, where A = x+6 and B = y+5

Since, x ≥ 0 and y ≥ 1, the minimum value of A = 6 and the minimum value of B = 6

Hence, possible ordered pairs of A and B satisfying the inequality is,

6 x 6 < 50

6 x 7 < 50

6 x 8 < 50

7 x 6 < 50

7 x 7 < 50

8 x 6 < 50

Hence, (A,B) can be (6,6), (6,7), (6,8), (7,6), (7,7) or (8,6).

Hence, ordered pair (x,y) can be (0,1), (0,2), (0,3), (1,1), (1,2), (2,1).

Hence, count = 6

Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 30

The following figure consists of a square, inside which there is a second square formed by joining the midpoints of the sides of the outer square. Inside the second square is inscribed a circle, and it continues in a similar manner. Find the ratio of the sum of areas of all the squares combined to the sum of the areas of the circles combined.

Detailed Solution for Diagnostic Test: CAT - 1 - Question 30

Let the length of each side of the outermost square be a.
Hence, the length of each side of the second square = 
The radius of circle = length of side of square / 2 = 
Let the side of the square inside the circle be b.

Hence, b =a/2
Similarly, the side of the square inner to this square = 
Similarly radius of the inner circle = 
And it continues.
Hence, the sum of areas of the squares =  ...

Hence, ratio = 

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