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This quiz consists of questions from
various past papers of MBA entrance exams. Leave your answers/ responses in the
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Directions for questions 1 to 3: The
sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical
order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent
paragraph.
1.
A. Similarly, turning to caste, even though
being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of disparity, its impact is
all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
B. Belonging to a privileged class can help
a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women from less thriving
classes.
C. It is the interactive presence of these
two kinds of deprivation – being low class and being female – that massively
impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
D. A congruence of class deprivation and
gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women very severely.
E. Gender is certainly a contributor to
societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class.
(1) EABDC (2)
EBDCA (3) DAEBC (4) BECDA
2.
A. What identity is thus ‘defined by
contrast’, divergence with the West becomes central.
B. Indian religious literature such as the
Bhagavad Gita or the Tantric texts, which are identified as differing from
secular writings seen as ‘western’, elicits much greater interest in the West
than do other Indian writings, including India’s long history of heterodoxy.
C. There is a similar neglect of Indian
writing on non-religious subjects, from mathematics, epistemology and natural
science to economics and linguistics.
D. Through selective emphasis that point up
differences with the West, other civilizations can, in this way, be redefined
in alien terms, which can be exotic and charming, or else bizarre and
terrifying, or simply strange and engaging.
E. The exception is the Kamasutra in which
western readers have managed to cultivate an interest.
(1) BDACE (2)
DEABC (3) BDECA (4) BCEDA
3.
A. This is now orthodoxy to which I
subscribe – up to a point.
B. It emerged from the mathematics of
chance and statistics.
C. Therefore the risk is measurable and
manageable.
D. The fundamental concept: Prices are not
predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can describe their
fluctuations.
E. This is how what business schools now
call modern finance was born.
(1) ADCBE (2)
EBDCA (3) ABDCE (4) DCBEA
Directions for questions 4 to 6: In each
question, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways,
numbered 1 to 4. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect
or inappropriate.
4. Near
(1) I got there just after you left – a
near miss!
(2) She and her near friend left early.
(3) The war led to a near doubling of oil
prices.
(4) They came near to tears seeing the plight
of the victims.
5. Hand
(1) I have my hand full, I cannot do it
today.
(2) The minister visited the jail to see
the breach at first hand.
(3) The situation is getting out of hand
here!
(4) When the roof of my house was blown
away, he was willing to lend me a hand.
6. For
(1) He has a great eye for detail.
(2) We are waiting for the day.
(3) I can’t bear for her to be angry.
(4) It couldn’t be done for ever.
Directions for questions 7 to 10: Each of
the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been
deleted. From the given options, choose that one that completes the paragraph
in the most appropriate way.
7. The audiences for crosswords and sudoku,
understandably, overlap greatly, but there are differences, too. A crossword
attracts a more literary person, while sudoku appeals to a keenly logical mind.
Some crossword enthusiasts turn up their noses at sudoku because they feel it
lacks depth. A good crossword requires vocabulary, knowledge, mental
flexibility and sometimes even a sense of humor to complete. It touches
numerous areas of life and provides an “Aha!” or two along the way. __________
(1) Sudoku, on the other hand, is just a
logical exercise, each one similar to the last.
(2) Sudoku, incidentally, is growing faster
in popularity than crosswords, even among the literati.
(3) Sudoku, on the other hand, can be
attempted and enjoyed even by children.
(4) Sudoku, however, is not exciting in any
sense of the term.
8. Most firms consider expert individuals to
be too elitist, temperamental, egocentric, and difficult to work with. Force
such people to collaborate on a high-stakes project and they just might come to
fisticuffs. Even the very notion of managing such a group seems unimaginable.
So most organizations fall into default mode, setting up project teams of
people who get along nicely. __________
(1) The result, however, is disastrous
(2) The result is mediocrity.
(3) The result is creation of experts who
then become elitist.
(4) Naturally, they drive innovations.
9. Federer’s fifth grand slam win prompted
a reporter to ask whether he was the best ever. Federer is certainly not
lacking in confidence, but he wasn’t about to proclaim himself the best ever.
“The best player of this generation, yes”, he said. “But nowhere close to ever.
Just look at the records that some guys have. I’m a minnow.” __________
(1) His win against Agassi, a genius from
the previous generation, contradicts that.
(2) Sampras, the king of an earlier
generation, was as humble.
(3) He is more than a minnow to his
contemporaries.
(4) The difference between ‘the best of
this generation’ and ‘the best ever’ is a matter of perception.
10. Thus the end of knowledge and the
closing of the frontier that it symbolizes is not a looming crisis at all, but
merely one of many embarrassing fits of hubris in civilization’s long industry.
In the end, it will pass away and be forgotten. Ours is not the first
generation to struggle to understand the organizational laws of the frontier,
deceive itself that it has succeeded, and go to its grave having failed.
__________
(1) One would be wise to be humble.
(2) But we might be the first generation to
actually reach the frontier.
(3) But we might be the first generation to
deal with the crisis.
(4) However, this time the success is not
illusory.
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Answers
1(2) 2(4)
3(2) 4(2) 5(1)
6(3) 7(1) 8(2)
9(3) 10(1)