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1. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EXAMINATION, YOU SHOULD CHECK THAT THIS TEST BOOKLET DOES NOT HAVE ANY UNPRINTED OR TORN OR MISSING PAGES OR ITEMS, ETC. IF SO, GET IT REPLACED BY A COMPLETE TEST BOOKLET. 3. You have to enter your Hall ID on the Test Booklet in the Box provided alongside. DO NOT write anything else on the Test Booklet. 4. This Test Booklet contains 40 items (questions). Each item comprises four responses (answers). You will select the response which you want to mark on the Answer Sheet. In case, you feel that there is more than one correct response, mark the response which you consider the best. In any case, choose ONLY ONE response for each item. 5. You have to mark all your responses ONLY on the separate Answer Sheet provided. See directions in the Answer Sheet. 6. All items carry equal marks. 7. Before you proceed to mark in the Answer Sheet the response to various items in the Test Booklet, you have to fill in some particulars in the Answer Sheet as per instructions sent to you with your Admission Certificate. 8. After you have completed filling in all your responses on the Answer Sheet and the examination has concluded, you should hand over to the Invigilator only the Answer Sheet. You are permitted to take away with you the Test Booklet. 9. Sheets for rough work are appended in the Test Booklet at the end. 10. Penalty for wrong answers: THERE WILL BE PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS MARKED BY THE CANDIDATE EXCEPT FOR QUESTIONS FROM 38 TO 40, WHICH DO NOT CARRY ANY PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWER. (i) There are four alternatives for the answer to every question. For each question which has a penalty for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one-third of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty. (ii) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be same penalty as above to that question, if it has a penalty. (iii) If a question is left blank, i.e., no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question. ____________________________________________________________________________________ DO NOT OPEN THIS TEST BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE ASKED TO DO SO ____________________________________________________________________________________

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 CSAT & GS-2013 Directions for questions 1-3: Read the passage & answer the questions that follow PASSAGE 1 Many readers assume that, as a neoclassical literary critic, Samuel Johnson would normally prefer the abstract, the formal, and the regulated to the concrete, the natural, and the spontaneous in a work of literature. Yet any close reading of Johnsons criticism shows that Johnson is not blind to the importance of the immediate, vivid, specific detail in literature; rather, he would underscore the need for the telling rather than the merely accidental detail. In other ways, too, Johnsons critical method had much in common with that of the Romantics, with whom Johnson and, indeed, the entire neoclassical tradition are generally supposed to be in conflict. Johnson was well aware, for example, of the sterility of literary criticism that is legalistic or pedantic, as was the case with the worst products of the neoclassical school. His famous argument against the slavish following of the three unities of classical drama is a good example, as is his defense of the supposedly illegitimate tragicomic mode of Shakespeares latest plays. Note, in particular, the basis of that defense: That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism, Johnson wrote, will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal from criticism to nature. The sentiment thus expressed could easily be endorsed by any of the Romantics; the empiricism it exemplifies is a vital quality of Johnsons criticism, as is the willingness to jettison laws of criticism when to do so makes possible a more direct appeal to the emotions of the reader. Addisons Cato, highly praised in Johnsons day for its correctness, is damned with faint praise by Johnson: Cato affords a splendid exhibition of artificial and fictitious manners, and delivers just and noble sentiments, in diction easy, elevated, and harmonious, but its hopes and fears communicate no vibration to the heart. Wordsworth could hardly demur. Even on the question of poetic diction, which, according to the usual interpretation of Wordsworths 1800 preface to the Lyrical Ballads, was the central area of conflict between Romantic and Augustan, Johnsons views are surprisingly modern. In his Life of Dryden, he defends the use of a special diction in poetry, it is true; but his reasons are all-important. For Johnson, poetic diction should serve the ends of direct emotional impact and ease of comprehension, not those of false profundity or grandiosity. Words too familiar, he wrote, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to

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which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things. If the poetic diction of the neoclassical poets, at its worst, erects needless barriers between reader and meaning, that envisioned by Johnson would do just the opposite: it would put the reader in closer contact with the things that are the poems subject. 1. The author of the passage develops her points about Johnson primarily by a) contrasting Johnsons critical methods with those of his contemporaries b) citing specific illustrations drawn from Johnsons work c) alluding to contemporary comments about Johnsons theories d) quoting Johnsons remarks about the critical approaches prevalent in his own day 2. The passage implies that the judging of literary works according to preconceived rules a) characterizes examples of the worst neoclassical criticism b) is the primary distinguishing mark of the neoclassical critic c) was the primary neoclassical technique against which the Romantics rebelled d) is the underlying basis of much of Johnsons critical work 3. It can be inferred from the passage that in addition to being a literary critic, Johnson was also a a) surprisingly modern poet b) poet in the Augustan mode c) dramatist d) biographer 4. A man travels from his home to office at 4km/hr and reaches his office 20 min late. If the speed had been 6 km/hr he would have reached 10 min early. Find the distance from his home to office? a) 4 km b) 6 km c) 8 km d) 9 km 5. Consider the series 2,3,4,52n+1, where n is a positive integer larger than 2007. Define X as the average of odd integers in the series and Y as the average of the even integers in the series. What is the value of X-Y? ! a) 1 b) ! c) 2008 d) 0 ! 6. Numbers 1,2,3,n are written in sequence. Numbers at odd places are struck off and a new sequence is formed. The same process is repeated until only a single number remains. What is the final number left if n= 143? a) 32 b) 72 c) 64 d) 128

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 CSAT & GS-2013 7. In a 1000m race on a circular track 50 meters long, X overtakes Y at the middle of the 4th round. If they continue running at the same rate, by how much distance will X win the race? a) 1/7 b) 2/7 c) 3/7 d) 4/7 Directions for Questions 8 to 10: Answer the questions based on the following information: Eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table, not necessarily in the same order, in the following manner. I. G is sitting to the immediate left to D, who is sitting opposite H. II. B is to the immediate left of E. III. A is sitting opposite C, who is not adjacent to F. 8. If C and E interchange their positions, who is adjacent to B? a) D and E b) C and D c) C and H d) C and E 9. Who is sitting to the immediate left of A? a) D b) H c) F d) E 10. Who is sitting opposite F? a) B b) E c) G d) Either option (a) or (b) Directions for questions 11-13: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow PASSAGE 2 There is a common refrain - if there is a big controversy and there is a lot of heat on the government, there is bound to be another major controversy to take the heat off the current one. If not that, there would be a brilliant spin to the whole issue to divert attention and the real issue will be scarcely discussed. One scam follows the other, taking the heat off the earlier scam. This arrangement works beautifully for the perpetrators of scams. The person who has already been exposed knows once a new scam is unearthed, the focus would now be on others for quite a while. Different scams, different times and different key dramatis personae. It almost seems that one was done to extricate the earlier one from a spot of bother. Almost every scam is documented and available on open sources for anyone who wants to look into it. In fact, there are year-wise lists available all over. And that is not all. Just when one feels a particular scam is now destined for oblivion, someone points it out and it again becomes a talking point. However, it is due to that alone that most of these scams may escape the prying media but not the vigilant citizen journalist. They serve as a constant reminder to all crooks that people are now more aware than ever and will not only not forget

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their misdeeds, but have the platforms available to propagate their wrongdoings more than ever before. So all those who thought milking the nation and getting away with it was a breeze, THINK AGAIN! 11. What does the author imply by the phrase Different scams, different times and different key dramatis personae? a) Different scams are dramatically happening at different times with different personalities involved b) Different scams dramatically personify the difficult times our nation is going through c) Different scams happening at different times, each with a different essence, resemble the various characters participating in a play or in a series of events d) None of the above 12. What does milking the nation refer to in the passage? a) Making a mockery of the nation b) Importing milk for the country c) Exploiting the nation d) Both a and c 13.Which of the following assumptions are true? a) People are more than aware of every wrongdoing and will take all possible measures to undo it b) Scams are committed in order to take the heat off one another c) Both (a) and (b) d) Neither (a) nor (b) 14. In the adjoining figure, the lines represent on- way roads allowing travel only northwards or only westwards. Along how many distinct routes can a car reach point B from point A?

a) 15 b) 56 c) 120 d) 336 15. All the page numbers in a book are added, beginning from page 1. However, one page number was mistakenly added twice. The sum obtained was 220. Which page number was added twice ? a) 44 b) 45 c) 10 d) 12 16. In the nth row of a triangle , sum of the terms in the nth row is 1 2 3 4 5 6 .

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a) b) c) d) ! ! ! ! Directions for questions 17-20 :Read the passage and answer the questions that follow PASSAGE 3 Most Indian parents push their children to do well in mathematics. That push is now paying an unexpected dividend. India is becoming one of the big global hubs of analytics, a field that has math and statistics at its core. And everybody from MNCs to Indian startups is tapping into this capability. Analytics is becoming important globally thanks to the explosion of data. Corporates have their internal data, but increasingly, they now have to deal with related external data, coming from social media, blogs, image and video sites, sensors and more. Companies have to find all that is being said about them in these spaces, organize this data deluge, generate insights, make predictions, and finally produce recommendations for action. Analytics solutions involve technology, as also human intervention to further refine the results that technology provides. IBM, which has a major analytics centre of excellence in India that services the globe, recently announced that its analytics is enabling Jet Airways to accurately calculate, track and report aircraft emissions, and optimize its fuel usage by detailed analysis of each flight. The growth in analytics in India is thanks to the IT sector. Though Eastern Europe and China are attractive locations for analytics talent, companies are familiar with Indias IT prowess, and hence look up to it to deliver analytics solutions. Organizations that apply analytics to data for competitive advantage are 2.2 times more likely to substantially outperform their industry peers and enjoy 1.6 times more revenue growth. 17. Reasons behind the boom in the analytics industry in India are: (i)Indian children do well in mathematics and analytics involves math and statistics (ii) Companies need to know all thats being discussed about them in social spaces so as to serve their customers better (iii) Expertise of the Indian IT sector (iv) Organizations that apply analytics to data outperform their industry peers Choose the correct answer from amongst the following: a) i and iii b) ii and iii c) ii and iv d) i, ii and iii 18. What does the IBM example, mentioned about in the passage, imply?

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a) Jet Airways has been able to perform more efficiently after deploying IBMs services b) IBM is a trusted brand in the field of analytics c) Applying analytics to data can greatly improve a companys performance d) Signifies the growth of the analytics industry in India 19. What do you infer from the passage? a) Indian IT sector has done a great job of attracting the global analytics industry b) Analytics industry has expanded profoundly in the past few years c) Rise in analytics has led to an increase in the number of MNCs and startups d) Explosion of data has led to a boom in the analytics industry and more and more organizations are taking up analytics 20)Read the paragraph below and answer the question that follows Anthropologist: Violence is an extreme form of aggression, and is distinct from the self-expression sufficient for survival under normal conditions. Human beings in certain situations react to unpleasant stimuli with violencebut only because they are conditioned by their culture to react in this manner. Each of the following can be logically inferred from the anthropologists statements EXCEPT: a) The self-expression required for survival is generally non aggressive. b) Some behaviors are influenced by the cultures in which human beings live. c) In normal circumstance, human beings can survive by responding nonviolently. d) Violent behavior is a product of ones cultural environment. Directions (Qs.21-23) : Answer the following questions based on the pie charts 21. The operating profit in 1991-92 increased over that in 1990-91 by a) 23% b) 22% c) 25% d) 24% 22. The interest burden in 1991-92 was higher than that in 1990-91 by a) 50% b) Rs 25 lakh c) 90% d)Rs 41 lakh 23. The retained profit in 1991-92, as compared to that in 1990-91 was a) higher by 2.5% b) higher by 1.5% c) lower by 2.5% d) lower by 1.5% Data for the year 1991-92

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Directions for questions 28-31: Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow Depreciation 20% PASSAGE 4 How strange time is and how queer we are! Time Interest has really changed and it has changed us too. It 40% Dividend walked one step forward, unveiled its grace, 8% alarmed us and then elated us. Yesterday we complained about time and trembled at its terrors. But today we have learned to love it Retained protit and revere it, for now we understand its intents, its Tax 20% natural disposition, its secrets and its mysteries. 12% Yesterday we were a toy in the hands of Destiny. But today Destiny has awakened from her intoxication Data for the year 1990-91 to play and laugh and walk with us. We do not follow her but she follows us. Operating proUit Rs 130 lakh Depeciation 28) The author tries to say that along with time Interest 28% a) We have become more frightened 30% b) We have changed too c) We also walk with it d) None of the above 29) When the author says that ". she follows us", Dividend Retained Tax he means 8% protit 9% a) Destiny can take walks 25% b) Destiny can play like us Directions for questions 24-26: Answer the c) Destiny can sleep and awake like us questions based on the information given below d) W e h ave c onquered d estiny K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, U and W are the only ten members in a department. There is a proposal to 30) The author throughout the passage sounds form a team from within the members of the a) sad b) pessimistic department, subject to the following conditions: A c ) a ngry d) optimistic team must include exactly one among P, R, and S.A team must include either M or Q, but not both. If a PASSAGE 5 team includes K, then it must also include L, and vice The hotel functions as a cultural centre and we were versa.If a team includes one among S, U, and W, then taken to a horse race in an alpine Khampa village. it must also include the other two.L and N cannot be With us was a Swiss Tibetan who took us to visit a members of the same team.L and U cannot be handsome house of mud, stone and colourful lintels. members of the same team.The size of a team is We entered a courtyard full of full of slush and yak defined as the number of members in the team. manure and climbed the wooden stairs to the 24) Who cannot be a member of a team of size 3? rooms upstairs. Maos visage on the (a) L (b) M (c) N (d) P cavernous obligatory calendar smiled down on us through the 25) What would be the size of the largest possible smoke as we sat sipping yak butter tea around a team? (a) 8 (b) 7 (c) 6 (d) 5 huge stove, but pictures of Dalai Lama are also seen placed discreetly behind other objects. The 26) Who can be a member of a team of size 5? is now being rebuilt and can have up to (a) K (b) L (c) M (d) P Sumetseleng 800 m onks. M any of them have returned from India. Out of nostalgia perhaps they encouraged the jade 27) ABCD is a square and E and shop outside to play loud Hindi music. F are the midpoints of AB and 31. This is probably a piece from a BC respectively. In the figure a) Crime novel b) History book below find the ratio ABCD:DEF? c) T ravelogue d) R omantic n ovel a) 3:1 b) 5:2 c) 8:3 d) 4:1 32. Which of the following is false

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 CSAT & GS-2013 a) The author is alone before meeting the Swiss Tibetan b) The author has tea at a house c) The author went for a race d) None of the above. 33. By "Maos visage, the author is referring to a) A person named Mao b) Maos picture c) Maos age d) None of the above PASSAGE 6 As comprehensive socialism has diminished, an opposing doctrine has emerged. This is privatization. As a broad rule, privatization ranks with socialism in irrelevance. There is a large area of economic activity in which the market is and should be unchallenged. Equally there is a large range of activities that increases with increasing economic activity where the services and functions of the state are either necessary or superior. Privatization is not any better as a controlling guide to public action than is socialism. In both the cases the primary service of the doctrine is in providing escape from thought. In a good society there is in these matters one dominant rule: Decisions must be made on the social and economic merits of the case. This is not the age of doctrine. This is the age of practical judgment. 34. The author is a) anti- socialism b) anti-privatisation c) Calls for a balance between both (a) & (b) d) None of the above 35. The following statement is false a) Socialism has disappeared b) Privatization cannot be used in all areas c) Privatisation and socialism are opposing doctrines d) All of the above 36. A container contains 100 kg of milk, from this 20 kg of milk was taken out and replaced by water. Again 20 kg of this mixture is taken out and replaced by water again. What will be the percentage of milk after repeating the process 3 times? a) 48% b) 51.2% c) 57.2% d) 49.4% 37) Find the total number of triangles in the diagram a) 25 b) 64 c) 45 d) 96

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