OA for Set 155:-

1. (1)
2. (2)
3. (2)
4. (1)
5. (3)

Takes on Set 155:-

1. 1. BEDAC
2. 2. DBAEC
3. 3. BDECA
4. 1. CEDBA
5. 3. EDCBA

Takes on Set 156:-

1. e BADC
2. d DCAB
3. b DCBA
4. e BADC
5. a BDAC

Takes on Set 157:-

3) BCDEA

Takes on Set 158:-

1. (2) DCBA
2. (4) DBAC
3. (1) CBEAD

SET 158 :biggrin:(eu21)
1.3

2.2

3.3

SET 158 :biggrin:(eu21)
1. (2) DCBA
2. (4) DBAC
3. (1) CBEAD

set 158 :biggrin:(eu21)

1. (2) dcba
2. (4) dbac
3. (1) cbead

Set# 157:

3) BCDEA :grin:

SET 157

option 3

Set 155

1. 1

2. 4

3. 2

4. 1

5. 2

set 158:
2
3
3

Set 157

3) BCDEA

Set 156
1)b
2)d
3)b
4)e
5)a

Set 158

1. 2

2. 4

3. 1

SET 155:
My Take-
1
4
3
1
2

SET 156

1. e

2. d

3. b

4. e

5. a

SET 158 :


My Answers :

1) B
2) D
3) A

my take on set 158
4
2
3

SET 158 (eu21)
1. A
2. B
3. C

Set 158
1)CDBA
2)DBAC(though not sure of this one)
3)CBEAD

set 158 :biggrin:(eu21)

my take
1)(2) dcba
2)(4) dbac
3)(1) cbead

Set 158 : 2, 4, 3

SET 158 :biggrin:(eu21)
1. 1. The inheritors of an ocean-removed bicultural legacy, the Generation Next of the diaspora finally appears to be coming to terms with its jumbled self.
(A) And it's time to repay where India is concerned.
(B) As confidence levels of NRIs soar, so have their incomes.
(C) It is like a pleasant hand-me-down, to be assumed or to be extolled, and India is like a comfortable notion, a homeland that once was but will never be again.
(D) Indianness is no longer a burden or badge they have to carry, nostalgically saluting every time they go out into the adopted world, like their parents had to.
6. This year, as exports took a beating, remittances from global Indians catapulted the forex reserves past $50 billion.
(1) ADCB (2) DCBA (3) DACB (4) CDBA

2. (A) Several NRIs have made India proud by their remarkable achievements as doctors, physicists, academicians,entrepreneurs, lawyers and leaders of global organisations.
(B) about 3,00,000 Indian Americans work in technology firms in California is Silicon Valley.
(C) I started by talking about Indian Americans because I am one of them, but I am not discounting the large numbers of Indians in Canada, Europe, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries, who are equally successful,talented and influential.
(D) More than 5000 Indian Americans are faculty members in leading academic institutions in the US.
(1) DCBA (2) ADCB (3) ACBD (4) DBAC

3. (A) And then the controversy over Deepa Mehta's film 'Fire' erupted.
(B) Anand Kurian, 44, has a ready answer.
(C) Why would an ad filmmaker who has tasted the bounty of such multinationals as Coke and Frito Lay give up all that and spend two years writing a book ?
(D) Apprehensive that his dream project might meet the same fate, Kurian moulded his script to a novel about love in the time of communal riots.
(E) But the film script he began writing "took on a life of its own, becoming more and more political."
(1) CBEAD (2) ADCBE (3) CBADE (4) CEBAD

set# 157:

my take
3) bcdea

Set 155:

1) 1
2) 2
3) 2
4) 1
5) 3

Set 157

3) BCDEA

Set# 157:

My Take:
3) BCDEA

Set 156

Q.1

e BADC

Q.2
d DCAB

Q.3
b DCBA

Q.4
e BADC

Q.5
a BDAC

Set# 157:

A. After doing so, the heart of your cash flow will be strong and healthy.
B. Cash is your businesss lifeblood.
C. If managed poorly, then your company could go into cardiac arrest.
D. To prevent your business from suffering heart attacks, you should learn to manage cash flow in a well thought-out manner.
E. Several ways to do this is by generating a project rate of returns as well as determining possible problems with liquidity.

Options:

1) ABECD

2) CBADE

3) BCDEA

4) ABDEC

Set 155:-

1.
1. BEDAC

2.
2. DBAEC

3.
2. BEDAC

4
1. CEDBA

5.
3. EDCBA

Set 155:-

Hi puys,

was this set a bit tough than others? it was a bit tough for me atleast!! :sneaky:

Can some one post the solutions to these?

Set 156

1. b.
2. a.
3. b.
4. e.
5. a.

Post the OA..

SET 156:

My Take
1e
2d
3b
4a
5a

In 4th question , how do you puys eliminate A?

Set 156 : E,D,B,E,A

Set 155 :

3, 3, 2, 2, 3

Set 156

1.e
2.d
3.b
4.e
5.a

Set 156

1. e BADC
   
2. d DCAB
   
3. b DCBA
   
4. e BADC
   
5. a BDAC
   

:)

Set 154
OA

1.3
2.2

Set 156
1)e
2)d
3)b
4)e
5)c

Set 156



Q.1 e


Q.2 d


Q.3 b


Q.4 e (felt BC was the link but couldn't find in the options)



Q.5 a

Set 156

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

Q.1
A. Further, Irigaray believes that all women have historically been associated with the role of "mother" such that, her identity is always defined according to that role.
B. Luce Irigaray argues that, since ancient times, mothers have been associated with nature and unthinking matter.
C. While excluded from culture and subjectivity, women serve as their unacknowledged support.
D. This is in contrast to men who are associated with culture and subjectivity.
Add to my
a DCBA
b CDBA
c ABCD
d ACDB
e BADC



Q.2
A. It has been suggested that bored shepherds tending flocks of sheep near St. Andrews became adept at hitting rounded stones into rabbit's holes with their wooden crooks.
B. And so a legend that persists to this day was born!
C. We know that golf has existed for at least 500 years because James II of Scotland had golf and football banned because archery practice was being neglected.
D. There is general agreement that the Scots were the earliest of golf addicts but who actually invented the game is open to debate.

a BCDA
b BCAD
c ABCD
d DCAB
e CADB

Q.3
A. In average winds, sailors typically "fly" one of its two hulls, reduce drag and make it possible to attain speeds of 30-knots on a reach and 18 knots upwind.
B. The boat is for advanced sailors who relish speed and competitive one-design racing.
C. Featuring a crew of two, the Tornado first raced in the Olympics in 1976.
D. The Tornado is a one-design racing catamaran which was designed in 1967 for the specific purpose of becoming the Olympic catamaran.

a ACBD
b DCBA
c BCDA
d CBDA
e BDCA



Q.4
A. Renunciation was the catchword, poverty the goal and austerity the norm of the day.
B. Wealth, claimed the pundits of yore, was a sin if it was not accumulated for a 'godly' purpose.
C. There was, however, an easy way out, just keep donating money to religious institutions and God would turn a blind eye to how you earn your wealth.
D. If you did not practice these, you were a sinner, decreed to being either reborn as a lower animal if a Hindu, or to be barbecued in the fires of hell, if a Christian.

a ADCB
b DBAC
c CABD
d DACB
e BADC



Q.5
A. The correct sequence of events comes up in the case of typhoid, where the bacilli actually show up in tests as late as 15 days after the patient reports the symptoms.
B. Nature cure says that bacteria or viruses do not cause the disease; instead they appear when the disease-causing toxins and impurities have accumulated in the body.
C. Worse, for as long as two months after the patient has recovered the typhoid bacilli stay in the blood, if they had caused the disease, they can strike again.
D. They are scavengers, just like flies and mosquitoes which hover over a pile of garbage.

a BDAC
b DCBA
c CBDA
d ADCB
e BCDA

Set 155:-

1>1. BEDAC
2>4. ECDBA
3>2. BEDAC
4>2. CEBDA
5>2. ECDAB

:grin:

Set 155
1)1(DAC is the link)
2)4
3)2
4)1
5)2

Set 155

1.1
2.2 (Nice one :))
3.3
4.1
5.3

SET 155:
My Take-
1
1
2
1
3
..........

Set 155:-

1.3

2.4

3.3

4.1

5.2

Set 155:-

1. A. The two neighbours never fought each other.
B. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown.
C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally.
E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.
1. BEDAC 2. DEBAC 3. BDCAE 4. BCEDA

2. A. He felt justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves.
B. At times he was fighting the entire Congress.
C. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
D. Bush was not fighting just the democrats.
E. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.
1. CAEDB 2. DBAEC 3. CEADB 4. ECDBA

3. A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome.
B. In June 1944 Germanys military position in World War Two appeared hopeless.
C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed.
D. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.
1. EDACB 2. BEDAC 3. BDECA 4. CEDAB

4. A. Experts such as Larry Burns, head of research at GM, reckon that only such a full hearted leap will allow the world to cope with the mass motorisation that will one day come to China or India.
B. But once hydrogen is being produced from biomass or extracted from underground coal or made from water, using nuclear or renewable electricity, the way will be open for a huge reduction in carbon emissions from the whole system.
C. In theory, once all the bugs have been sorted out, fuel cells should deliver better total fuel economy than any existing engines.
D. That is twice as good as the internal combustion engine, but only five percentage points better than a diesel hybrid.
E. Allowing for the resources needed to extract hydrogen from hydrocarbon, oil, coal or gas, the fuel cell has an efficiency of 30 %.
1. CEDBA 2. CEBDA 3. AEDBC 4. ACEBD

5. A. But this does not mean that death was the Egyptians only preoccupation.
B. Even papyri come mainly from pyramid temples.
C. Most of our traditional sources of information about the Old Kingdom are monuments of the rich like pyramids and tombs.
D. Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when most people died they were buried in simple graves.
E. We know infinitely more about the wealthy people of Egypt than we do about the ordinary people, as most monuments were made for the rich.
1. CDBEA 2. ECDAB 3. EDCBA 4. DECAB

Thread is moving too slow. Can we speed things up a bit?
Please give OAs for 153, 154 to start with.

Set 154

1. A. A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like.
B. I would go to sleep in my hotel room around midnight each night, and when I awoke, my mailbox would be full of repliessent at 1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23 a.m.
C. One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke up each morning at seven; she could afford that much rest because she had learned to supplement her full day of work by studying in her sleep.
D. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I sent them emails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups.
E. As she was falling asleep she would recite a math problem or a paper topic to herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke up, the problem might be solved.

DABCE DACEB ADBCE AECBD

1. A. To avoid this, the QWERTY layout put the keys most likely to be hit in rapid succession on opposite sides. This made the keyboard slow, the story goes, but that was the idea.
B. A different layout, which had been patented by August Dvorak in 1936, was shown to be much faster.
C. The QWERTY design (patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868 and sold to Remington in 1873) aimed to solve a mechanical problem of early typewriters.
D. Yet the Dvorak layout has never been widely adopted, even though (with electric typewriters and then PCs) the anti-jamming rationale for QWERTY has been defunct for years.
E. When certain combinations of keys were struck quickly, the type bars often jammed.

BDACE CEABD BCDEA CAEBD

My answer
1->3
2->2

Set 153 :
An easy one :)


(A) It has removed many of the material obstacles to pursuit of the good life from the majority of mankind in those countries at a high level of technical development.
(B) But it had exposed us to new dangers, not the obvious dangers of new weapons of destruction, but the much more serious ones of a purely materialist view of life.
(C) The growth of science and technology has conferred obvious and immense benefits upon the community.
(D) It has also, as we too often forget, made possible new and daring adventures of the mind.


a)CADB
b)ABDC
c)ACBD
d)CDBA
e)ABCD

My answer is a

Set 154

MY Take

1> 3
2> 2

set 154

1. (3)
2. (2)
easy set

Set 154

1. A. A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like.
B. I would go to sleep in my hotel room around midnight each night, and when I awoke, my mailbox would be full of repliessent at 1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23 a.m.
C. One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke up each morning at seven; she could afford that much rest because she had learned to supplement her full day of work by studying in her sleep.
D. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I sent them emails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups.
E. As she was falling asleep she would recite a math problem or a paper topic to herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke up, the problem might be solved.

DABCE DACEB ADBCE AECBD

1. A. To avoid this, the QWERTY layout put the keys most likely to be hit in rapid succession on opposite sides. This made the keyboard slow, the story goes, but that was the idea.
B. A different layout, which had been patented by August Dvorak in 1936, was shown to be much faster.
C. The QWERTY design (patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868 and sold to Remington in 1873) aimed to solve a mechanical problem of early typewriters.
D. Yet the Dvorak layout has never been widely adopted, even though (with electric typewriters and then PCs) the anti-jamming rationale for QWERTY has been defunct for years.
E. When certain combinations of keys were struck quickly, the type bars often jammed.

BDACE CEABD BCDEA CAEBD

My Take
1] 1)
2] 3)

My takes
153

1)4
2)1
3)1

154

1)3
2)2

set 154

1. a. A few months ago i went to princeton university to see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like.
B. I would go to sleep in my hotel room around midnight each night, and when i awoke, my mailbox would be full of repliessent at 1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23 a.m.
C. One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke up each morning at seven; she could afford that much rest because she had learned to supplement her full day of work by studying in her sleep.
D. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and i sent them emails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups.
E. As she was falling asleep she would recite a math problem or a paper topic to herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke up, the problem might be solved.

dabce daceb adbce aecbd

2. a. To avoid this, the qwerty layout put the keys most likely to be hit in rapid succession on opposite sides. This made the keyboard slow, the story goes, but that was the idea.
B. A different layout, which had been patented by august dvorak in 1936, was shown to be much faster.
C. The qwerty design (patented by christopher sholes in 1868 and sold to remington in 1873) aimed to solve a mechanical problem of early typewriters.
D. Yet the dvorak layout has never been widely adopted, even though (with electric typewriters and then pcs) the anti-jamming rationale for qwerty has been defunct for years.
E. When certain combinations of keys were struck quickly, the type bars often jammed.

bdace ceabd bcdea caebd

1. adbce
2. ceabd

billuisback Says

set 154

1. adbce
1. ceabd

SET 154

My Take:

1. ADBCE

2. CEABD

Set 153 :
An easy one :)


(A) It has removed many of the material obstacles to pursuit of the good life from the majority of mankind in those countries at a high level of technical development.
(B) But it had exposed us to new dangers, not the obvious dangers of new weapons of destruction, but the much more serious ones of a purely materialist view of life.
(C) The growth of science and technology has conferred obvious and immense benefits upon the community.
(D) It has also, as we too often forget, made possible new and daring adventures of the mind.


a)CADB
b)ABDC
c)ACBD
d)CDBA
e)ABCD

is it CADB??

set 152

1. a. Surrendered, or captured, combatants cannot be incarcerated in razor wire cages; this war has a dubious legality.
B. How can then one characterize a conflict to be waged against a phenomenon as war?
C. The phrase war against terror, which has passed into the common lexicon, is a huge misnomer.
D. Besides, war has a juridical meaning in international law, which has confided the laws of war, imbuing them with a humanitarian content.
E. Terror is a phenomenon, not an entity either state or non-state.

ecdba becda ebcad cebda

2. a. I am much more intolerant of a human beings shortcomings than i am of an animals, but in this respect i have been lucky, for most of the people i have come across have been charming.
B. Then you come across the unpleasant human animal the district officer who drawled, we chaps are here to help you chaps, and then proceeded to be as obstructive as possible.
C. In these cases of course, the fact that you are an animal collector helps; people always seem delighted to meet someone with such an unusual occupation and go out of their way to assist you.
D. Fortunately, these types are rare, and the pleasant ones i have met more than compensated for them but even so, i think i will stick to animals.
E. When you travel round the world collecting animals you also, of necessity, collect human beings.

ea cbd abdce ecbda acbde

3. a. Four days later, oracle announced its own bid for peoplesoft, and invited the firm's board to a discussion.
B. Furious that his own plans had been endangered, peoplesoft's boss, craig conway, called oracle's offer "diabolical", and its boss, larry ellison, a sociopath".
C. In early june, peoplesoft said that it would buy j .d. Edwards, a smaller rival.
D. Moreover, said mr. Conway, he could imagine no price nor combination of price and other conditions to recommend accepting the offer."
e. On june 12th, peoplesoft turned oracle down.

cabde cadbe cedab caebd

1 cebda
2 eacbd
3 cabde

SET 153

My Take:

a)CADB

SET 152

My Take:

1. CEBDA
2. EACBD
3. CABDE