©TIME. Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt, Lic (Test Ref.: MC101101) INSTRUCTIONS 1. Read the instructions given at the beginning/end of a section or group of questions very carefilly. 2. The total time for the test is 138 minutes. You may apportion this time among various sections as you wish, However you are expected to show your competence in all the thr test Pattern of the test and marking scheme sod ss Number of Negative Section Questions questions , ata Quantitative Ability 1-20 20 3 1 Logie & 2 > Data Interpretation 2-40 * ; Verbal Ability 41-60 20 3 1 Total 60. - - 4, Bach wrong answer will attract a penalty of one mark, 5. There are no negative marks for unattempted questions. 6. You can navigate to any question of your choice. During the test, you can mark questions for review and return to them at a convenient time, 8. An answer once marked can be changed any number of times before submitting the test However the last marked answer will be considered as the final answer. 9. Do not carry calculators, slide rules or any other calculating devices. Do not carry any other papers with you except your HALL TICKET. Rough papers for calculations will be provided Share your views on this AIMCAT with thousands of other test takers on “talktime” www.time4education.comytalktimeSECTION -1 Number of Questions: Directions for questions 1 to 6: Answer the question independently of the other questions. 1. What is the minimum value of the sum of the squares of the roots of the equation x? ~ (a— 2)x + (a5) = 0, where ais a positive number? (yo @2 @) 5 (4) Cannot be determined 2. When $52 divides a number, the remainder left is 124. Find the remainder left if 68 divides the same number. 0) 4 @ 2% 40) 58 3. Hix=2+2°+2" then which ofthe following is rue? (1) 2046-28 +3=0 2) 6 4x-12+ @) exes x2 (8) = 12e +x-4=0 4. The function (x) = jk — 4] + [28 — x] + [x 3], where. xis a real number, can attain a minimum value of M1 @2 @3 28 5. Atank can be fled by two taps ~ Tap I and Tap I ‘The volume of the tank is 5000 tres. Tap 1 fils the tank at a rate of 1 litre/second. Tap Il fils the tank at a rate of 3 lies in 2 seconds. On a particular day, Tap Il is opened 33"ls minutes after the time at which Tap Lis opened. If after 45 minutes from the time when Tap 1 was opened, the tank develops 2 hole which empties. the tank at the rato of 255 lires/second, how ful is the tank in 2 hours from the time when Tap Topened? 1 3 4218 oF om ot w Se 6. The name of Modern Food Stores'is displayed on 2 board at a junction using neon lights. When the board is switched on, the lights in each word follow @ yale pattern of tuning on and off. Te frst wore remains lighted for 1°, seconds and then remains ‘witches off for 2 seconds. The second wore remains switched on for 3%. seconds and then Temains switched off for 2 seconds, The third wore remains switched on for 7'/2 seconds and then remains switched off for 2 seconds. If the board is ‘wiched on, what isthe smallest interval, afer which the entre display wil agein turn on simultaneously? (1) 815 seconds (2) 97.5 seconds (3) 807.5 seconds: (4) 4845 seconds Directions for questions 7 and 8: Answer the question Con the basis of the information given below. Triplets consisting of three different numbers are formed ‘rom numbers 1 10 10. 7. How many of these triplets are such that the sum of the numbers is divisible by 3? () 372) 42) 364) 48 8. How many of the triplets formed are such that the ‘sum of the numbers is divisible by 9 and they do not have a 9 in them? M7 2s Be wt Directions for questions 9 to 12: Answer the question independently of the other questions. 8. What isthe value of the expression given below? i . 4 : 7 7 * ae yt et 5 (138 2) 125 4 (3) None of these 410. The graph below gives a function f(x), represented by thickened line segments. From’ among the choices given, choose the function that best describes f(x), (1) 9) =») 2) f= 1») @) =H) +2 (4) 0) = 1-H) 11. A square PORS Is constructed in an equilateral triangle ABC, such that P and S lie on the sides AB and AC respectively, while @ and R lie on side BC. Hf Z8PC= 6, then (1) @> 105° @) 0 = 90" (2) 90°<@< 105° (8) 75°<6 <90° 412. Twonty persons went on a picnic, Three out of every five in the group do not like pulav but two out of ‘every four carried pulav with them. Then, we can conclude that (1) at least two persons who do not ike pulav carried pulay with them. (2) at least eight persons who do not ike pulav carried pulav with them. (3) at the most eight persons who do not like pulav carried pulav with them. (4) at the most two persons who do not like pulav carried pulav with them, Directions for questions 13 and 14: Answer the {question on the basis ofthe information given below, Lot Ep= 2-4 46-8 + 10 — (-1)™. (2n) and Fy = 441224 1243-6496+9-18—niterms, 18. Whats the value of E13? (1) -220 (2) -202 (3) 440 (4) None of these 414, If2F) +3 = 818 then whats the value of n? () 17) 23) BDA) 42 ‘D Triumphant instute of Management Education Pvt Ltd, (TAME, 95 ‘Siddamlty Complex, Fark Lane, Seeunderabad 00 005, Alright reserved. No part ofthis material may be reproduced. in any form or by any means, without permission in wing ‘This course material is only for the use of Bonafide students of Triumphant Insitute of Management Education Put Lid. and its Tigenseeranchsees and snot forsale. 9 pages) aeca/aecb) MCLo1101/,Directions for questions 15 to 20: Answer the question independently ofthe other questions. 15, There are two concentric circles. The radius of the outer circle is 6.5 cm and the length of the longest chord of the outer circle that doesn't cut through the inner citcle is 8 cm. What fraction ofthe bigger circle ' ot overs byte mar cio? 8 225 os; oF o Be a 7 zo) a9 i 16. Three numbers in geometric progression are such that if 64 is decreased from the largest, then the three numbers thus obtained would be in arithmetic progression. Further ifthe middle number of the new set of numbers is reduced by 8, the numbers thus obiained would be in geometric progression. Find the middle term of the original sequence. as (2) 20 @ 2 (4) Cannot be determined a SECTION Number of Questions Directions for questions 21 to 24: Answer the question Cn the basis of the information given below. A company has six production units, seven godowns and nine sales distributors. The production units are PA, PB, PC, PD, PE and PF. The godowns are GA, GB, GC, GD, GE, GF and GG. The sales dsiributors are SAA, SAB, SAC, SAD, SAE, SAF, SAG, SAH and SAl, Table I gives the cost (in Rs.) of transporting one unit from different production units to the godowns. Table Il gives the cost (in Rs) of transporting one unit from different godowns to the sales distibutors. Table-1 [ce [cc | co [ ce [ cr [cc ] (SAA [421.4] 731.5] 231.4] 761.4 fea5.2 477.4] SAB [436-5 | 71 [aoe mab ora sata [aoe [SAC] 391.5] 703.4] 291.3[331.4| 191.2|543.4|363.4| [SAD | 176.6] 256.3] 273.4| 201.6] 431.5|481.3|521.3| [SAE |237.4[201.4| 0 [161.5] 361.7] 406.4] 193.4] SAF [323.1] 456.5]431.6] 253.8 761.8] 306 1 (281.5 saG|479.6|231.7[543.4[ 171.8] 639.4] 0 |234.3| [Sal '581.4|250,7]941,5|273.4|367.2 Ai [547.0] 192.0 [361.5] 107.5]641.3] 196.3] 121.5 17, Find prt: su, given that p: r= 2:3, q:8=4:3, rf=B8:9,s:u=3:2andt:g=3:4 4 8 16 32 OF @F OF OF 18, Find the number of five-digit multiples of 4, which can be formed using the digits from 1 to 7, using each digt at most once. (1) 720 (2) 84 (3) 840 (4) 800 19, Ina company, the number of married employees is 2 prime number. Which of the following cannot be the ratio of the total number of employees and the ‘number of unmarried employees? (1) 173: 90 (2) 193: 60 (3) 181: 92 (8) 201232 20. The speeds of Aniket, Brihat and Chatur are in the ratio of 4: 3: 2. f Chatur takes half an hour more than Brihat to travel from P to Q, whatis the total ime taken by Aniket to travel from P to Q and then back from Qto P? (1), 120 minutes (3) 60 minutes 2) 90 minutes (8) 45 minutes 1 0 21. What is the least cost (in Rs.) of transporting one Lnit from any production unit to any sales distibutor? () 876 -@) 1213 0) 478 22. What is the least cost (in Rs.) of transporting one Unit from the production unit PD to the sales distributor SAR? (1) 9214 (@ 7237 (2) 962.7 (4) None of these 23, How many possible ways are there for transporting the goods from any production unit to any sales distributor? () 42 @) 63) 105) 978 24, What is the maximum cost (in RS.) of transporting fone unit from any production unit to any sales distributor? (1) 1873.4 (3) 1961.4 (2) 1876.4 (8) None of these Directions for question 25: The question has a set of four statements, Each statement has three segments Choose the atermatve where tne third segment can be logicaly deduced using both the preceding two, but not just one of them 25, 1. No crackers sparkle. Some which sparkle are slecire bombs. Some electic bombs are not crackers 11, All yolcances are twisters. Some volcanoes do not burst. Some twisters donot burst. 1 All gamblers play cricket. Those who play cricket are players. Some gamblers are not players Iv. Seme lunatic people are mentally handicapped ‘Al lunatic people are lucky. Some. mentally handicapped are lucky (1) 1, Honky (2) IIL, V only (Kim Veny (11, only ‘Tumpantisttute of Management Education Pvt Lia. (REE) HO: SSB, 2° Foor, Siam Complex, Scundernad~SO0005 Tel: 040-27898194)95 Fax: 080-27847334_ email: infowatimededucation.com website : www.imededvcation.com MCIOIOI2Directions for questions 26 and 27: The question given below is followed by two statements, I and Il Study the information given in the two statements ‘Assess whether the statements are sufficient to answer the question and choose the appropriate option among the given choices. Mark A The question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered by using the other statement alone Mark B The question can be answered by using either statement alone. ‘Mark The question can be answered by using both statements together, but cannot be answered by using either statement alone. Mark D The question cannot be answored even by Using both the statements together. 26, Isa>b? 1. 8-(a—b)°is a positive number. IL 4~(@—bPis a negative number. 21. a, b, and c are three distinct integers. Is b the realest of the three? 1. ais less than at least one of the two integers bande cis less than at least one of the two integers aandb, Directions for questions 28 to 31: Answer the question on the basis of the information given below. ‘The sector wise percentage distribution of jobs created in each of five different cities during the month of January Percentage Dathi Mumbai Chennai Hyderabad Bangalore DIT &IT-Enabled Engineering Finance Marketing Others Note: The total number of jobs created during the month of January in all the five cities together is 10,000, The following two pie-charts give furtier information regarding the total jobs mentioned in the above bar graph. Pie chart — I gives the city wise percentage distisution of the total number of jobs created in the month of January. Pie chart — II gives the sector wise percentage distribution of the total number of obs created In the "Others" category in the month of January across all the five cities together. PIE CHART—1 Chennai 20% Hyderabad 10% Mumbai 40% Bangalore 10% Dei 20% 28. Considering the five cities, the total number of jobs created in the Pharma sector is what percentage of the total number of jobs created in the Engineering sector? (1) 3.84% (3) 0.384% Q) 38.4% (4) None of these PIE CHART — II Medical 20% 25% Academics Media, am 18% Hospitality Pharma. 5% 12% 29, The number of HR jobs created in Mumbai is what percentage more than the number of Media jobs created in Bangalore? (1) 10% (3) 20% (2) 25% (4) Cannot be determined ‘Trumphant Inaitte of Management Education Pvt Id. (FAME) HO: 9SE, 2 Flour, Sidamsety Complex, Secunderabad 00 05 ‘Tel: 040-2789819495 Fax 040-27887334 em info@rimededucation.com website: www.timededucation com cHo101330. The difference between the total number of Finance Jobs and Marketing jobs created in all the five cities together is (1) 1200 (2) 1000 (@) 2500 (4) 2000 34. The total number of Hospitality jobs created in all the five cities together ie what percentage of the tolal ‘number of jobs created in Hyderabad? (1) 4% (2) 0.25% (@) 40% (4) 25% Directions for questions 32 and 33: Answer the {question independently ofthe other questions. 32. A dealer purchased a total of 60 pairs of coloured ‘and white shoes, all either Reebok shoes or Adidas shoes. The dealer atranged these pairs of shoes by different categories and found the folowing. The umber of pairs of white casual Adidas shoes is a two-digit positive number. The number of pairs of white casual Adidas shoes equals the number of pairs of white casual Reebok shoes. All non-white ‘Adidas shoes were formals and there are four times ‘as many of them as there are white formal Adidas shoes. There are no casual Reebok shoes that are ‘ot white. There are exactly 10 pairs of white formal Reabok shoes. There are exactly 20 pairs of Reebok shoes that are neither casuals nor white coloured, Find the number of white formal Adidas shoes. “2 @ 4 — @) 10) 20 33. Four officers, designated as CEO, COO, CFO, and CO, read a Certain number of newspapers early in tho moming, One of them reads four newspapers, another reads three newspapers, the third reads two newspapers while the fourth one reads one newspaper. Below are some addtional facts regarding the names of these officers. i) Michael isnt the CFO. i) Johnis the CIO. ii) Michael isnt the CEO and he reads more ‘number of newspapers than Patterson. iy) The one who is the CEO reads more number of newspapers than Patterson. The person who is the COO reads the maximum number of newspapers. vi) Anderson doesn't read two newspapers. Which of the following statements is necessarily tue? (1) Join is the CIO and reads 2 newspapers. (2) Patterson is the CFO and reads 1 newspaper. @) Anderson is the CEO and reads 3 newspapers, (@) Michaelis the CFO and reads 4 newspapers. Directions for questions 34 and 35: The question given below is followed by two statements, 1 and II Study the information given in the two. statements. ‘Assess whether the statements ere sufficient to answer the question and choose the appropriate option among the given choices. Mark A The question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot be enswered by using the other statement alone. MarkB The question can be answered by using either statement alone. Mark The question can be answered by using both statements together, Dut cannot be answered by using either statement alone. MarkD The question cannot be answered even by sing both the statements together. 34, The centre ofthe circle is at © (0, 0}. Points A and B. lie on the circle and also on the y-axis. P is @ point ‘on the positive x-axis. Radius of the circle is ¥8 Is ZOAP > 45°? 1. OPa3 ML OP<5 36. Each of the four boys named M, N, O and U has a diferent fruits among guava, apple, orange and ‘apricot. Between M and N, one person had apple land the other one had apricot. Which boy has which fruit? 1. Mhas the apple. 1M. Onas the guava. Directions for question 36: Answer the question independently ofthe other questions. 36. Eight persons ~ A, B, C, D, E, F, Gand H~ sit in a row facing the same direction, not necessarily in the same order, These eight persons belong to two ferent families. Each family comprises a father, 2 mother, a son and a daughter. The persons sit such that no two members of the same family are next to ‘each other and the two fathers sit at either ends of the row. Further, the folowing information is avaliable: (Ais the father of C, whose mother is G. (i) H and € belong to different families and are of different genders. (il) Bis the brother of. (iv) Gand F are of the same gender. () Asits atthe lett end of the row. (i) Each chid is siting next to atleast one mother and ‘each mothers siting next to atleast one chil. (vi) F and B belong to the same fernly In how many diferent ways can these eight people sit? (1) Two @) Four (3) Sx (4) Eight Directions for questions 37 to 40: Answer the question Con the basis of the information given below. In an examination there are five questions — Q.1, @.2, Q.3, 4 and Q.5~ each with five choices (a), (0) (0) () and (e). Five students ~ A, B, C, D and E ~ wrote the ‘exam. The choices opted by the students for the ‘questions 1, 2, 3, 4 and § are shown in the table below. ‘One mark is awarded for a right answer and no mark is, ‘warded for a wrong answer. No two students got the ‘same total marks in these five questions, Name ‘Choice opted for Qi [a2 | a3 | as | as a 6 [ec [a] de B «| o| ale |» c © | o | a |) |e D- oe E o> [>ela«lela It is observed that no two questions have the same choice as the right answer. 37. Who scored the least total marks? MB QA BD WE 38, Whatis corect answer choice for 0.32 Oa (2) 6 (3) ¢ (4) Cannot be determined ‘Triumphant isttute of Nanagerient Edacabon PY Lid. (FAME) HO: OSB, 2" Foor, Sidamseiy Complex Secunderabad S00 05 ‘Tel: 040-27898196)95 Fax : O40-27847334 email: infadimededucation com website: www timeseducaton.com Mcion101/s39. If A's score is more than E's score, then what is the score of 8? 3 2) 2 @)4 (4) Cannot be determined 40. If C’s score is less than B's score, then what is the ‘score of £? a2 Mt @o Be SECTION — III Number of Questions = 20 Directions for questions 41 and 42: The following {question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted, From the given options, choose the fone that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. 41. The problem of unwarranted increase inthe healthcare costs has arisen because the state has completely abdicated its responsbbililes. If the goverment could get a functioning state-owned healthcare system going, competition would force the private sector to put its house in order. And the strength of the government network could be leveraged to procure drugs at negotiated price, obviaing the need for any price controls. AS a second line of defence, the state must invest in ‘capacity-bullding to empower the consumer, which should include a framework for making the entico health care industry, including doctors and drug ‘companies, more accountable. It could also reduce the information asymmetry by providing a list of alternatives to various branded drugs. And lastly, it must strive to make health insurance more pervasive, — (1) This would put af end fo the unethical industry- doctor nexus which may further lower the cost. (2) This would make healthcare affordable and also bring upon healthcare providers pressure from insurance companies to lower costs. (3) This woule lead the big pharmaceutical ‘companies to respond to price control (4) This would force the pharma companies to pressurize the insurance companies to reduce the premium on healthcare insurance. 42, We are obsessed with prices. We are particularly ‘paranoid about rising prices. A charming exception 's the stock price. We wish the price to go up and up, perpetually. Governments may fall if this price plunges sharply. It is a barometer, of the whole economy, prasent and future, nat just of the stock market. It eclipses other developments in the stock market. - (1) No “diagnostic study or analysis of the stock market is complete without the use of this barometer. (2) The stock index is a better barometer today in ‘comparison to what it was a decade ago. (9) A stock price index reveals the health of ‘companies and the economy. (8) stock price index hides more than it reveals. Directions for questions 43 and 44: In each of the following questions, the word at the top is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4, Choose the option in Which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE: 43, REACH (1) Home toans have brought houses within the reach of the common man (2) ‘The boat reached the island under the cover of darkness. (3) The union and the management failed to reach ‘an agreement. (4) Modem psychology seeks to explore the deep ‘each of the human mind 44, FILTER (1), Most ofthe vehicles fitered tothe left. (2) The preliminary test fiters out those students who are not good at mathematics (9) The new policies adopted by the management hhave not yet fitared down to the staf (4) AS soon as the doors of the muscum were ‘pened the people started fitering through. Directions for questions 45 and 46: Each question has sentence with two blanks followed by four pais of words 2s choices. From the choices, select the pair of ‘words that can best complete the given sentence. 48, Sate is a marvelous reflection of the spirit of an age; the subtle __ of Swifts epistles mirrored the eighteenth century's delight in elegant _ (1) profundity... ditties (2) vitiol.. disparagement (3) contempt... anachronisms (4) provinciaity ..rustcity 46, The fundamental ____ between dogs and cats is for the most par a myth; members of these species often coexist ___ (1) antipathy ... amicabiy (2) cigharmony... easily (3) animosity... amiably (4) relationship ... peacefully Directions for questions 47 to 49: Each question consists of a few sentences on a topic. Some sentences. ‘are grammatically incorrect or inaporopriate. Select the ‘option that indicates the grammatically CORRECT and APPROPRIATE sentence (s) T.S. Eliot was a versatile weiter. b. In his long creative career, he wrote poetry, prose, drama and critical essays. ©, He worked also 2s a joumalist and editor. 4. His writing can be divided into five periods. (1) aanda (2) candd (3) Onlya (4) bande 48, a. There is an ugly side of the noble gesture of ‘organ donation. b. Organ thetts of poor patients who come to the hospital for other teatments are frequently reported, c. However, the success rate of such cases is very low. 4. This is due to the mismatch between the tissues Cf the donor and the recipient. (1) sand (2) Only d (3) benda (4) candd “Tramphant Insure of Managernant Education PUT LG. AME) HO: 95H, 2 Hoe, Samay Comple, Secunderabad S00 OS ‘Tel: 040-27898194095 Fax :O40-27847334 email: infoatimededucationsom website : www:timeteducationcom —MCIOLIONS49. 2. A child's baby teeth may be worth lols in 2. No one is obliged to read all the books, yet we ‘medical research. can talk and argue about them, '. American scientists discovered that pulp inside {We can even have passionate teary exchanges baby teeth contains fast-growing stem cells. ‘on books we have not read at all. Thess trigger bone and neural coll formation. (1) edefab (2) cofdba (3) ofdcba (4) caotbd . They also have potential to develop into different body cell types. 51. a There are additional benefits in the form of (1) aanda 2) canda reduced travel ime, fuel use end pollution. @) Onlyc (@) bandd b. This is not surprising given the unsustainable levels of peak hour vehicle use particularly in Directions for questions 0 and $1: The sentences big cities, and the rise in the price of fue. given in each of the following questions, wen properly ©. But witn'the suppor of the local government sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence and the public sector it can become a part of 's labelled with a letter. From among the four choices public transport given below each question, choose the most logical Informal car-sharing has always been popular order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph, with the middle class but a more organized and formal system of sharing vehicles is taking 50. 2. Itis humanly impossible to read the hundreds of shape. bbaoks which come out every month. ©. What it can do is improve the efficiency of b. By going through book covers, reviews and unavoidable car use by distributing the cost of gossips about authors anyone can take part in travel and easing congestion. any literary discussion f. Yet, according to many, car-sharing cannot © All of us like to be, o pretend to be well read, totaly replace the reliable, comfortable, safe, take part in literary proceedings and pepper our ‘and affordable public transport Conversations with quotes. (1) detbac (2) dleabe (3) dbfeac (4) adcbet d. The trick is to understand that even a slight familiarity with books and authors is enough to put on a show of enlightenment. Directions for questions 52 to 54: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow i The sociological imagination is a special way to engage the word. To think sociologicaly isto realize that what we experiance a8 personel problems are often widely shared by other ike ourselves. Thus, many personal problems are actually socal sues. For Mis, one of sociology’s most outspoken activsts, the sociological Imagination encouraged Collective acton to change the violin some vay Nowadays men often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within their everyday worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles and in this feeling they are often quite correct: what ordinary men are directly aware of ‘and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighbourhood: in other mileu, they move vicariously and remain spectators. And the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the ‘more trapped they seem to feel Underlying this. sense of being trapped are seemingly impersonal changes in the very structure of continent.wide societies. The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and the failure of individual men and women. When a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman. When classes rise or fall, a man is employed or unemployed: when the rate of investment goes up or down, a man takes new heart or goes broke. When wars happen. an insurance salesman becomes a rocket launcher: @ store clerk, a radar man; a wife lives alone: a child grows up without a father. Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both, Yet men do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction. The wollteing they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups and downs of the sacities in which they live. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of thelr own lives and the course of world history, ordinary men do ‘ot usually know what this connection means for the kinds of men they are becoming and forthe kinds of history-making in ‘which they might take part. They do not possess the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of man and society, of biography and history, of self and world. They cannot cope with their personal troubles in such ways as to control the structural transformations that usually lia behind them, Surely tis no wonder. In what period have so many men been so totally exposed at so fast a pace to such earthquakes of change? That Americans have nat known such catastrophic changes as have the men and women of other societies is due to historical facts that are now quickly becoming “merely history." The history that now affects every man is world history. Within this scene and this period, in the course of a single generation, one-sixth of mankind is transformed from all that is feudal and backward into al that is modern, advanced, and fearful, Political colonies are freed; new and less visible forms of imperialism installed. Revolutions occur, men feei the intimate grip of new kinds of authority. Totalitarian societies rise, and are smashed to bits — or succeed fabulously. After two centuries of ascendancy, capitalism is shown Up as only one way to make sociely into an industrial apparatus. AMter two centuries of hope, even formal democracy is restricted to a quite small portion of mankind. Everywhere in the underdeveloped word, ancient ways of life are broken “Triumphant isttute of Nanagernent Edacabion PY Lid. (FAME) HO: 95D, 2" Foor, Sdamseiy Complex SecandsTabad S000 Tel: 040-27898196i95 Fax :080-27847334 ema: infodtimededucatoncom website: www.simesedueationcom — MCHOLOUSLp and vague expectations become urgent demands. Everywhere in the overdeveloped world, the means of authority and of violence became total in scope and bureaucratic in form. Humanity itself now lies before us, the super-nation at either pole concentrating its most coordinated and massive efforts upon the preparation of World War IIL ‘The very shaping of history now outpaces the abiity of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. ‘And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis. Is it any wonder that ordinary men feel they cannot cope with the larger worlds with which they are so suddenly confronted? That they cannot understand the ‘meaning of their epoch for their own lives? That ~ in defense of selfhood ~ they become morally insensible, trying to remain altogether private men? Itis not only information that they need — inthis Age of Fact, information often dominates their attention and overwhelms their capacities to assimilate it. I is not only the skils of reason that they need ~ although their struggles to acquire these often exhaust thair limited moral energy. What they need, and what they feel they need, is a quality of mind that \will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the Worid and of what may be happening within themselves. Iti this quality, | am going to contend, that journalists and scholars, artists and publics, scientists and editors are coming to expect of what may be called the sociological imagination, ‘52. ‘Men fee! that their private lives are a series of traps’ (2) Man caught between the roles of a bread 53, because (1) they tend to compare their own goals, achievements etc. with those of men occupying different strata of society (2) they fal to connect the dots of society, self and history. (3) they have no control over the structural changes that take place in their society, (4) the values they have nurtured since childhood ‘are-no longer able to help thom cope with their personal worlds, Which of the following can qualify as an examplefexamples of the tension between private ‘options and pubic issues, where changes in society winner and an active participant in child rearing, (3) The increasing trend of grandparents being forced to play the role of parents to their {grandchildren (4) Allthe above three qualify as examples. 54, The benefit of sociological imagination, according to a wel-knoun sociologist, is that it can, (1) help us empathise more with the personal problems of others. (2) force us to look at the larger picture thereby Identifying the roots of a problem. (3) pave way for a cooperative effort to tackle societal problems. (4) help man come to terms with the pace of play an important role? (1) Women trying to play the roles of cultural stereotype and satisfying their own career goals. ‘changes in his society and his personal ite. Directions for questions 55 to 87: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow i A person's religion need nat be his or her all-encompassing and exclusive identity. In particular, Islam, as a religion, does not obliterate responsible choice for Muslims in many spheres of life, Indeed, itis possible for one Muslim to take a confrontational view and another to be thoroughly tolerant of heterodaxy without either of them ceasing to be @ Muslim for that reason alone. ‘The response to Islamic fundamentalism and to the terrorism linked with it also becomes particularly confused when there is 2 general failure to distinguish between Islamic history and the history of Muslim people. Muslims, lke all other ppoople in the world, have many different pursuits, and not all of their priorties and values need be placed within their singular identity of being Istamic. It is, of course, not surprising at all that the champions of Islamic fundamentalism \would lke to suppress all other identities of Muslims in favour of being only Islamic. But itis extremely odd that those Who want to overcome the tensions and conflcs linked with Islamic fundamentalism also seem unable to see Muslim people in any form other than their being just Islamic, which is combined with attempts to redefine Islam, rather than seeing the many-dimensional nature of diverse human beings who happen to be Muslim, People see themselves - and have reason to see themselves - in many different ways. For example, a Bangladeshi Muslim is not oniy a Muslim but also a Bengali and a Bangladeshi, typically quite proud of the Bengali language, Iterature, and music, not to mention the other identities he or she may have connected with class, gender, occupation, pooliics, aesthetic taste, and so on. Bangladesh's separation from Pakistan was not based on religion at all, since 2 Muslim identity was shared by the bulk of the population in the two wings of undivided Pakistan. The separatist issues related to language, literature, and politics. ‘Similarly, there is no empirical reason at all why champions of the Muslim past, or for that matter of the Arab heritage, hhave to concentrate specifically on religious beliefs only, and not also on science and mathematics, to which Arab and Muslim societies have contributed so much, and which can also be part of a Muslim or an Arab identity. Despite the Jimportance of this heritage, crude classifications have tended to put science and mathematics in the basket of ‘Western science,” leaving other people to mine their pride in religious depths. ifthe disaffected Arab activist today can take pride only in the purity of Islam, rather than in the many-sided richness of Arab history, the unique priotization of religion, shared by warriors on both sides, plays a major part in incarcerating people within the enclosure of a singular identity. ‘Triumphant Insite of Management Education Pvt Lid. (TAME) HO” 9B, 2” Floor, Srddansetty Complex, Sesunderabad 500 O03 ‘Tel: 040-2789819495 Fax: 040-27867334 email: infocrimededucationcom website: ww¥s.simededucaton.com — MCLO1101/7Even the frantic Western search for “the moderate Muslim’ confounds moderation in political beliefs with moderateness of reigious faith. A person can have strong religious faitn — Islamic or any other — along with tolerant politics. Emperor Saladin, who fought valiantly for Islam in the Crusades in the twelfth century, could offer, without any contradiction, an honoured place in his Egyptian royal court to Maimondies as thal distinguished Jewish philosopher fled an intolerant Europe. When, at the turn of the sixteenth century, the heretic Giordano Bruno was burned al the stake in Campo dei Fiori in Rome, the Great Mughal emperor Axbar (who was born a Muslim and died a Muslim) had just finished, in Agra, his large project of legally codifying minority rights, including religious freedom for all The insistence, if only implicit, on a choloeless singularity of human identity not only diminishes us all, it also makes the world much more flammabla. The alternative to the divisiveness of one pre-eminent categorization is not any unreal claim that we are all much the same. That we are not. Rather, the main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies in the plurality of our identities, which cut across each other and work against sharp divisions around one single hardened line ‘of vehement division that allegedly cannot be resisted. Our shared humanity gets savagely challenged when our differences are narrowed into one devised system of uniquely powerful categorization, Perhaps the worst impairment comes form the neglect - and denial - of the role of reasoning and choice, which follows from the recognition of our plural identities. The illusion of unique identity is much more divisive than the universe of plural and viverse classifications that characterize the world In which we actually lve, The descriptive weakness of choiceless singularity has the effect of momentously impoverishing the power and reach of our social and poilical reasoning, The illusion of destiny exacts a remarkably heavy price. 55, A mistake made by the West in relation to the Musiim is (1) ignoring the fact that, historically, some Christians have been as fanatical as some Muslims. (2) the belief that no famous Muslim ruler has given {due recognition to peopie of other faith. (3) the assumption that the strength of political belief and religious faith go hand in hand. (4) the tendency to believe that Islam ordains its followers to persecute non-Muslims. 56. Identify the statements that are true, according to the passage. a. if the Muslims were to focus on their other achievements, tensions and wars involving them would be greatly diminished b. Religious conflicts tend to imprison people within the confines of religion. ©. Education is the only way to overcome religious extremism, d. There are a lot of things, apart from religion, of which the Muslims can rightly be proud of fe. The West i guilly of appropriating to itsetf progress in science and mathematics in other Part of the wort (1) Only a and e (3) Onlyc,dande (2) Only, dande (4) Onlya, bande S57. The author firmly believes that (1) our recognition of our multiple identities will help us to be more reasonable. (2) the West is at least partially responsible for the fanaticism of the Muslims. (3) priostizing any of our other identities will solve the problem of religious terrorism. (4) a deoply religious person is incapable of ‘moderation in political or social ie. Directions for questions 58 to 60: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it. Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dehydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or smell and is so variable in its properties that itis generally benign but at other times swiftly lethal. Depending on its state it can scald you or freeze you. In the presence of certain organic molecules it can form carbonic acids so nasty that they can strip the leaves from trees and eat the faces of statuary. In bulk, when agitated, it can strike witha fury that no human edifice could withstand. Even for those who have learned to live with it itis an often murderous substance. We call it water. Water is everywhere. A potato is 80 per cent water, a cow 74 per cent, a bacterium 75 per cent. A tomato, at 96 per cont, is litle but water. Even humans are 65 por cent water, making us more liquid than solid by a margin of almost two to one. Water is a strange stuf. Is formless and transparent and yet we long to be beside it. Ithas no taste and yet we love the taste of it. We will travel great distances and pay small fortunes to see itn sunshine. And even though we know itis dangerous and drowns tens of thousancs of people every year, we can't wait fo frolic in it Because water is 0 ubiquitous we tend to overlook what an extraordinary substance itis. Almost nothing about it can be used to make reliable predictions about the properties of other liquids, and vice versa. If you knew nothing of water and based your assumptions on the behaviour of compounds most chemically akin to it - hydragen selenide or hydrogen sulphide, notably - you would expect it to boil at minus 93 degree Celsius and to be a gas at room temperature, Most liquids when chilled contract by about 10 per cent. Water does too, but only down to a point. Once itis within ‘whispering distance of freezing, it begins - perversely, beguilingly, extremely improbably ~ to expand. By the time itis solid itis almost a tenth more voluminous than it was before. Because it expands, ice floats on water ~ ‘an ulterly bizarre property’, according to John Gribbin. If it lacked this splendid waywardness, ice would sink, and lakes and ‘oceans would freaze from the botiom up. Without surface ice to hold heat in, the water's warmth would radiate away, leaving it even chilier and creating yet more ice. Soon, even the oceans would freeze and almost certainly stay that way for a very long time, probably forever — hardly the conditions to nurture life. Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics. ‘Triumphant insttute of Management Education PVC Lid. (HEME) HO: 95, 2° Foor, Siac Complex, Secundernad—SO0005 Tel: 040-27898194)95 Fax: 080-27847334_ email: infovatimededucation.com website : www.simededvcation.com — MCIOI017%Everyone know that water's chemical formula in H,O, which means that it consists of one largish oxygen atom with two smaller hydrogen atoms attached to It. The hydrogen atoms cling fiercely to their oxygen host, but also make casual bonds with otter water molecules. The nature of a water molecule means that it engages in a kind of dance with other water molecules, briefly pairing and then moving on, like the ever-changing partners in a quadrile, to use Robert Kunzing's nice phrase. A glass of water may not appear terribly Ively, but every molecule in it is changing partners billions of times a second. That's why water molecules stick together to form bodies like puddles and lakas, but not so tightly that they can't be easily separated as when, for instance, you drive into a pool of them. At any given moment only 45 per cent of them are actually touching Incone sense the bond is very strong — it's why water molecules can flow uphill when siphoned and why water droplets on a car bonnet show such a singular determination to bead with their partners. It is also why water has surface tension. The molecules at the surface are attracted more powerfully to the like moleoules beneath and beside them than to the air ‘moiecules above. Ths creates a sort of membrane strong enough to suppor insects and skipping stones. Is what gives the sting toa bell-fop. | hardly need point out that we would be lost without it. Deprived of water, the human body rapidly falls apart. Within days, the lips vanish ‘as if amputated, the gums blacken, the nase withers to half its length, and the skin so contracts, ‘around the eyes as to prevent blinking’, according to one account. Water is $0 vital to Us that itis easy to overlook that all but the smallest fraction ofthe water on Earth is poisonous to us - deadly poisonous — because of the salts within it 58. The author fs thankful that water is unaware of ‘the (9) attracts people even though itis known to be rules of chemistry or the laws of physics’ because: dangerous, even fatal (1) that is what makes it so interesting (4) Ithas unique properties that benefit life on the (2) that helps in distinguishing it from the other planet, ‘chemicals akin to it (@) had it been otherwise, all aquatic life would 60. How does the author talk about water in the passage? have been threatened. (1) Ina deeply involved and passionate manner (4) it defies all the laws in blissful ignorance. (2) In an analytical and dispassionate manner (3) Through @ series of mutually contradictory 59. How is water an extraordinary substance? phrases and clauses (1) tis found nearly everywhere on planet earth (4) By building up to a climax and then crashing to 2) Itcan be both ite giving and life threatening, an anti-climax. “Tramphant stirs f Management Education PA Lid. (AME) HO: OSB, 2" oar, Sdamseiy CompTen, SecundsTaaT S00 Tel: 040-2789819095 Fax: O49-27847334 email: infocatimededucationcom website: www:timeteducationcom — MCIOLIOUS