Test: MAT Mock Test - 2 - CAT MCQ

In the following questions four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase italicised and underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase. 

Q. I did not mind what he was saying, he was only through his hat.  

Direction: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. Indeed, Indian policy-planners find themselves in a predicament thanks to the continued monetary easing by some nations and the shrinkage in world trade.

B. In this context, a fund-starved country like India will do well to focus on foreign direct investment rather than get unduly worried about foreign institutional investment, which will have its ebb and flow depending on the environment outside..

C. With everyone waiting for the other to act first, the onus is definitely on the political bosses to devise quick solutions to accelerate the economy.

D. Given this ‘new normal’ kind of an environment, they will have to look at ways to protect the Indian economy from external vicissitudes.

Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions which follow.

Eight friends — Nirvi, Rashi, Diya, Priya, Priti, Reena, Nisha and Isha — are sitting around a
circular table but not facing the centre. Each of them has her birthday in different months, viz
January, February, March, April, May, June, July and August, but not necessarily in the same
order.
Isha, whose birthday is in the month of April, sits third to the right of Priti. The one whose birthday is in the month of June sits second to the left of Nisha, whose birthday is in the month of January.  Diya, whose birthday is in the month of July, sits between the persons whose birthday, are in the months of February and June. Nisha sits second to the left of Rashi,who cannot  sit adjacent to Priti. Reena’s birthday is in the month of August and sits second to the right of Nirvi, whose birthday is in the month of March.

Q. What is the position of Nisha with respect to the person whose birthday is in the month of July?

Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions which follow.

Eight friends — Nirvi, Rashi, Diya, Priya, Priti, Reena, Nisha and Isha — are sitting around a
circular table but not facing the centre. Each of them has her birthday in different months, viz
January, February, March, April, May, June, July and August, but not necessarily in the same
order.
Isha, whose birthday is in the month of April, sits third to the right of Priti. The one whose birthday is in the month of June sits second to the left of Nisha, whose birthday is in the month of January.  Diya, whose birthday is in the month of July, sits between the persons whose birthday, are in the months of February and June. Nisha sits second to the left of Rashi,who cannot  sit adjacent to Priti. Reena’s birthday is in the month of August and sits second to the right of Nirvi, whose birthday is in the month of March.

Q. Which of the following combinations is definitely true?

In this type of questions, a statement is given followed by two courses of action numbered I and II. The candidate is required to grasp the statement, analyse the problem or policy it mentions and then decide which of the courses of action logically follows.

Statement: The cinema halls are incurring heavy losses these days as people prefer to watch movies in home on TV than to visit cinema halls.

Courses of action: 
I. The cinema halls should be demolished and residential multi storey buildings should be constructed there.
II. The cinema halls should be converted into the shopping malls.

Look at this series: 2, 1, (1/2), (1/4),...so on. What number should come next?

Look at this series: 7, 10, 8, 11, 9, 12,...so on. What number should come next?

Directions: A passage is given below followed by several possible inferences, which can be drawn from the facts stated in the passage. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.
Mark answer (A) if the inference is "DEFINITELY TRUE", i.e. it properly follows from the statement or facts given.
Mark answer (B) if the inference is "PROBABLY TRUE" though not "definitely true" in the light of the facts given.
Mark answer (C) if the "DATA ARE INADEQUATE", i.e. from the facts given, you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true or false.
Mark answer (D) if the inference is "PROBABLY FALSE" though not "definitely false" in the light of the facts given.
Mark answer (E) if the inference is "DEFINITELY FALSE", i.e. it cannot possibly be drawn from the facts given or it contradicts the given facts.
The success of a surveillance device is contingent not only on its minuscule nature so as to be overlooked or neglected but also on the way the device is deployed or installed. CCTV cameras perched atop buildings or public places proclaiming the rubric "You are under continual surveillance" challenge the very ability of the cameras deployed to catch and record any spontaneous and damaging response in the purview of the camera. Alerting people by installing a camera at a visible vantage point defeats its very purpose.
Those up to some mischief, in the know of the camera would commit the act in its carefully identified blind spots.
The same holds true for bugged devices. If one knows that one's phone is bugged, why would anyone use it; and if he uses it then why wouldn't he stage a conversation to circumvent the intentions of the alleged snooper.

People behave instinctively when they know they are under surveillance.

If 28th August 1946 was a Wednesday, what day of the week was 31 August 1961?

Directions: Study the following graph carefully and answer the questions given below:

Production (in Lakhs) of  Widgets  & Percentage defect over the years in five factories A, B, C, D, E.

Q. The average number of widgets that were produced in the year 2002 formed what percent of the widgets that were produced in the year 2006?

Directions: Study the following graph carefully and answer the questions given below:

Production (in Lakhs) of  Widgets  & Percentage defect over the years in five factories A, B, C, D, E.

Q. What was the difference in the number of widgets of factory C which were free from any defect in the years 2004 and 2006?

Instructions: On the basis of the information given below, answer the questions that follow.

Maruti Suzuki has tie-ups with five dealers in Allahabad to sell their cars. The first pie chart given below gives the dealer-wise break-up of the number of cars sold by Maruti Suzuki in Allahabad in 2015. The second pie chart shows the model-wise breakup of the total cars sold by Maruti Suzuki in 2015 in Allahabad.

Q. If the dealers R and S sold only Zen, Baleno and swift then at least what percentage of the Swifts sold, were sold by these two dealers alone? (Enter only the integer value rounded off to nearest integer. Don’t put % sign)

Directions: Re ad the following case let and choose the best alternative.

Mr. Rajiv Singhal, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Loha India Ltd., (a steel manufacturing company) had just been visited by several other directors of the company.
The directors were upset with recent actions of the company president, Mr. Ganesh Thakur. They demanded that the board consider firing the president.
Mr. Thakur, recently appointed as president, had undertaken to solve some of the management-employees problems by dealing directly with the individuals, as often as possible. The company did not have a history of strikes or any other form of collective action and was considered to have a good work culture. However, Mr. Thakur felt that by dealing directly with individuals, he could portray the management’s concern for the employees. An important initiative of Mr. Thakur was to negotiate wages of the supervisors with each supervisor. In these negotiation meetings he would not involve anyone else, including the Personnel Department which reported to him, so as to take an unbiased decision. After negotiation, a wage contract would be drawn up for each supervisor. This, he felt, would recognise and reward the better performers. Mr. Thakur successfully implemented the process for most of the supervisors, except those working in the night shift. For them he had drawn up the contracts unilaterally benchmarking the wages of supervisors of night shift with that of supervisors of the day shift.
For several days Ram Lal a night shift supervisor, had been trying to seek an appointment with Mr. Thakur about his wages. He was disgruntled, not only over his failure to see the president, but also over the lack of discussions about his wage contract prior to its being effected. As a family man with six dependents, he felt his weekly wage should be higher than that granted to him.
Last Thursday afternoon Ram Lal stopped by the president’s office and tried to see him.
Mr. Thakur ’s secretary refused his request on the grounds that Mr. Thakur was busy.
Infuriated, Ram Lal stormed into the president’s office and confronted the startled Mr.
Thakur, with his demands for a better wage. Mr. Thakur stood up and told Ram Lal to get out of his office and express his grievance through official channel. Ram Lal took a swing at the president who in turn punched Ram Lal on the jaw and knocked him unconscious.

Q. The situation with Mr. Lal could have been avoided if Mr. Thakur had 1. Delegated the task of negotiation of wage contracts for night shift employees to the Personnel department. 2. Created a process for supervisors working in the night shift so that they could have an opportunity to interact with him. 3. Created an open door policy that would have allowed employees to see him without any appointment. 4. Postponed the decision of wage revision for supervisors in the night shift for two months, since supervisors were rotated on different shifts after every two months.

The option that best arranges the above managerial interventions in decreasing order of organisational impact is:

Directions: The question below contains four elements. These four elements may or may not have some linkage. The group of elements may fit into one of the diagrams (1), (2), (3) and (4). You have to indicate the diagram for the given group of elements.

Painters, Married, Students, Players

Directions: The following question contains four elements. These four elements may or may not have some linkage. The group of elements may fit into one of the diagrams given as alternatives (1), (2), (3), and (4). Choose the diagram that correctly represents the relationship between the given elements.

Odd numbers, Multiples of three, Multiples of five, Multiples of seven

Directions: The following problem contains a question and statements numbered I, II and III. Read the statements carefully and determine which of them is/are sufficient/required to answer the question.
Q. Persons X, Y and Z are sitting in a row facing the same direction. What is the position of X with respect to Y?
I. X is sitting at an extreme end of the row.
II. Z is sitting to the left of X.
III. Y is sitting in the middle of the row.

Directions: The following problem consists of a question followed by statements I, II and III. Read all the statements carefully and find out which of them is/are sufficient to answer the given question.
Q. What was the standing of team A in the tournament consisting of 5 teams, where each team had a different standing?

I. Team A finished above team B, but below team C.
II. Team A did not finish either at the extreme or in the exact middle.
III. There were exactly two teams between team A and team B.

A sum fetched a total simple interest of Rs. 929.20 at the rate of 8 p.c.p.a. in 5 years. What is the sum?

The integers 34041 and 32506 when divided by a three-digit integer n leave the same remainder. What is n?

If Cos x – Sin x = √2 Sin x, find the value of Cos x + Sin x:

In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'JUDGE' be arranged such that the vowels always come together?

How many words can be formed by using all letters of the word 'BIHAR'? 

The sum of the first 16 terms of an AP whose first term and third term are 5 and 15 respectively is

In the figure, AB is parallel to CD and RD || SL || TM || AN, and BR : RS : ST : TA = 3 : 5 : 2 : 7. If it is known that CN = 1.333 BR. Find the ratio of BF : FG : GH : HI : IC

Which of the following sets are null sets ?

Number of subsets of a set of order three is

Find the ratio in which rice at Rs. 7.20 a kg be mixed with rice at Rs. 5.70 a kg to produce a mixture worth Rs. 6.30 a kg.