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CSAT Model Test October 30th, 2010
Directions (Q. 1-3): These questions are based on the 6) Eight students are sitting in a circle facing centre.
following information: Maya is sitting to the immediate left of Ajit and to the
Seven persons R, J, M, Q, L, T and K conduct workshop immediate right of Kalpana. Sujit is sitting at third
on Developing Managerial skills in seven different position to the left of Kalpana. Sujit is at which
companies A, B, C, D, E, F and G on a different day of position to the right of Ajit?
the week from Monday to Sunday. The order of persons, a) 3rd b) 4th c) 2nd d) None of these
companies and days of the week are not necessarily the
same. J organizes workshop in Company D on
Wednesday. Q does not conduct workshop for Directions (Q. 7) : In each question below are given two
companies A or C and conducts on the next day of Lstatements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II,
who conducts the workshop for Company F. T conducts
III, and IV. You have to take the two given statements to
workshop for Company E on Friday. K conducts be true even if they seem to be at variance from
workshop on Monday but not for Company C or G. M commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and
conducts workshop for Company A but not on Tuesday.
then decide which of the given conclusions logically
1) M conducts workshop on which day? follows from the two given statements, disregarding
a) Saturday b) Sunday c) Tuesday d) Thursday commonly known facts.
7) Statements: Some cats are windows.
All doors are bats.
2) Which of the following combinations of person- Conclusions: I. Some cats are bats.
company and day is correct? II. All cats are bats.
a) K–B–Wednesday b) R–B–Monday III. Some bats are cats.
c) K–C–Monday d) None of these IV. All bats are cat
a) All follow
b) None follows
3) Who conducts workshop for Company C and on c) Only II and IV follow
which day? d) Only I follows
a) R, Thursday b)R, Tuesday e) None of these
c) Q, Saturday d) Q, Sunday

Directions (Qs. 4 & 5): Study the following table Directions (Q. 8): In each question below is given a
carefully and answer the questions that follow. statement followed by two assumptions numbered I and
II. An assumption is something supposed or taken for
granted. You have considered the statement and the
following assumption and decide which of the
assumption and decide which of the assumption is
implicit in the statement .Give answer.
a) if only assumption I is implicit.
b) If only assumption II is implicit.
c) If neither I nor II is implicit.
d) If both I and II are implicit.
8) Statement: “ International players are role models
and set examples by their actions on the field.
The table above shows the number of people who Whatever we do on field makes impact on younger
responded to a survey about their favourite style of generation.” – Zimbabwean captain Heath approach.
music. Use this information to answer the following Assumption:
questions to the nearest whole percentage.
I . International players should be cautious in their
approach.
4) What percentage of respondents under 31, indicated
that Blues is their favourite style of music? II. Most of international players lack good behaviour
a) 7.1 b) 7.6 c) 8.3 d) 14.1 e) 7.2 on the field.

5) What percentage of the total sample were aged 21-
30?
a) 31% b) 23% c) 25% d) 14% e) 30%

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Directions (Q. 9): In making decisions about important 12) In three equal containers, milk and water are in
questions, it is desirable to be able to distinguish the ratio 3:2, 4:3 and 7:3 respectively. If all the three
between strong‘ arguments and 'weak’ arguments. containers are emptied into a bigger container, then
Strong arguments are those which are both important what is the ratio of milk and water in the new
and directly related to the question. 'Weak' arguments container?
are those which are of minor importance and also may a) 7:4 b) 181:172 c) 131:79 d) None
not be directly related to the question or may be related
to a trivial aspect of the question.
Each question below is followed by arguments. You have 1 1 1
to decide which of the arguments is a strong argument 13) Simplify + + + ..... to 50
and which is a ‘weak’ argument. 1+ 3 3+ 5 5+ 7
Give answer terms:
a) if only argument I is strong; 101 − 1
a) b) 109 − 99
b) if only argument II is strong; 2
c) if neither I nor II is strong and 1 1 1
d) if both I and II are strong. c) 1− d) −
9) Statement: Should coal engines be replaced by 101 99 101
electric engines in trains?
Arguments:
I. Yes, coal engines cause a lot of pollution. 14) The sum of n terms of 1.2.3+2.3.4+3.4.5+….., is
II. No, India does not produce enough electricity to n (n + 1)(n + 2)(n + 3) n (n + 1)(2n + 1)(2n + 3)
a) b)
fulfill domestic needs also. 4 6
2
n (n + 1)(2n + 1)  n (n + 1) 
c) d)  
Directions (Q. 10): Each question comprises question 6  2 
figures and answer figures. The question figures obey a
specific pattern. From among the answer figures, choose
that option which follows the series or pattern, in the next 15) If Vijay had walked 1 km per hour faster, he
step. would have taken 10 minutes less to walk 2 km. Find
10) PROBLEM FIGURES the rate of walking.
a) 6 b) 9 c) 10 d) 3

16) Seema buys an article with 25% discount on the
ANSWER FIGURES original price. She makes a profit of 10% by selling it
at Rs.660. What is the original price of the article?
a) Rs.550 b) Rs.660 c) Rs.700 d) Rs.800

Directions (17-20): Read the following passage and
answer the questions below it. A few words are given in
the bold form to help easy location while answering
Directions (Qs. 11): The following series consists of six some questions.
figures, two of which at the ends are unnumbered. One Passage:
of the five numbered figures does not fit into the series. At low tide he walked over the sands to the headland
Find out the figure and round the corner to the little bay facing the open sea.
It was inaccessible by boat, because seams of rock
jutted out and currents swirled around them
treacherously. But you could walk there if you choose
one of the lowest ebb tides that receded a very long way.
You could not linger on the expedition, for once the tide
was on the turn, it came in rapidly. For this reason, very
11) A fresh grape contains water 78% by weight few people cared to explore the little bay and the cave at
where as the same dried (raisin) contains water 20% the back of it. But the unknown always drew this man like
by weight. Then how many Kg of raisin can be a magnet. He found the bay fresh and unlittered, as it is
obtained from 200 Kg of fresh grapes? completely covered by the sea at high tide. The cave
a) 60 b) 42 c) 50 d) 55 looked mysteriously dark, cool and inviting and he
penetrated to the farthest corner where he discovered a
wide crack, rather like a chimney. He peered up and
thought he could see a patch of daylight.

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17) It was not possible to ‘linger on the expedition’ Directions (23 - 25): Each of the following problems has
because: a question and two statements which are labelled (1) and
a) the water rose rapidly b) the tide turned quickly (2). Use the data given in (1) and (2) together with other
c) the tide turned sprightly d) the water forcely rushed available information (such as the numbers in a day, the
in definition of clockwise, mathematical facts, etc) to decide
e) none of these. whether the statements are sufficient to answer the
question. Choose, if:
a) If you can get the answer from (1) alone but not
18) He found the bay ‘fresh and unlittered’ because: from (2) alone;
a) the sea water had receded b) If you can get the answer from (2) alone but not
b) he was the first visitor there from (1) alone;
c) the high tide had just washed the litter away c) If you can get the answer from (1) and (2)
d) it was not frequented by people who would pollute together, although neither statement by itself
it. suffices;
e) there are people who regularly clean the area. d) If you can not get the answer from statements (1)
and (2) together, but need even more data.
19) Choose the right synonym: TREACHEROUSLY
a) traitorously b) reasonably 23) How far is it from A to B?
c) demandingly d) quickly (1) It is 15 miles from A to C
(2) It is 25 miles from C to B

20) Choose the right antonym: PEERED
a) drawn b) stood c) climbed d) looked 24) Is x>y?
(1) x+y=5
(2) x2>y2
Directions (Q. 21 & 22): Read the following passage
and answer the questions given below.
At that time everyone believed that the earth was at the 25) k is integer. Is k divisible by 8?
centre of the universe. But Copernicus realized that this (1) k is divisible by 4
picture did not agree with astronomical observations. He (2) k is divisible by 16
worked out that the sun was at the centre with all the
planets moving round it. He said that our earth takes a
year to travel round the sun, and also rotates once every
24 hours. Copernicus believed that the planet moved
round the sun in perfect circles. Fifty years later Kepler Typical Comprehension would be like this…
used the extremely accurate measurements of Tycho Among the several hundred million cells that comprise
Brahe to show that they do not. the wondrously complex human body, and thus to be
theoretically detectable in lab tests and in electron
21) Copernicus’ belief that the planets moved in photomicrographs, a tiny fraction, no more than a few
perfect circles hundred, belong to a curious subclass whose
a) Was self evidently wrong luminescence has a wavelength distribution so unique
b) Was perfectly correct that it long defied explanation. Such systems luminesce
c) Was based on astronomical observations strongly in the visible region of the spectrum, but some of
d) Proved wrong on further astronomical them do so even more strongly at both shorter and
observations longer wavelengths: in the ultraviolet region and in the
infrared regions.

22) Copernicus belief that the sun was at the centre This odd distribution of luminescence is best explained
of the universe was based on by the pairing of a giant red blood cell and an intensely
a) Common sense small white blood cell that is virtually in contact with its
b) His astronomical observations larger companion as the two travel around a common
c) Mathematical calculations centre. Such objects have become known as Clinging
d) Observations of other astronomers cells. On photographic plates only the giant cell can be
discerned, but evidence for the existence of the tiny
companion has now been supplied by magnifying
instruments capable of detecting ultraviolet
luminescence at wavelengths that are absorbed by the
body's heat and therefore cannot be detected by typical
analytical instruments.


The spectra of Clinging cells indicate that the giant red 4) According to the passage, the exchange of matter
blood cell is surrounded by very thin lipid filaments. The within a Clinging cell system is believed to be a
existence of the lipid filaments marked such objects as process in which
being unique several decades before clinical (a) cell grows in mass at the expense of the other
observations finally identified the lipid as the (b) the mass of each cell remains fairly stable
luminescence from the tiny companion white blood cell. (c) the mass of both cells declines
Clinging cells also flare up in outbursts indicating the (d) both cells absorb matter emitted by other nearby
ejection of material in the form of a shell or a ring, cells
reminiscent of the recurrent circulation of hormonal (e) both cells gradually return to an earlier singular
cells. Clinging cells may therefore represent a transitory state
phase in the evolution of certain types of hormonal
systems in which there is a substantial transfer of matter 5) The assumption that the Clinging cell phase in the
from the larger partner to the smaller. evolution of some hormonal systems "must be
extremely brief " is most likely based on the fact that
The exact evolutionary course that turns a typical blood (a) hormones are rapidly ejected from clinging
cell system into a clinging one is a matter of conjecture. systems
The comparatively small number of known Clinging cells (b) few Clinging cells have been detected in our
in our bodies suggests that if all binaries of modest mass bodies
normally pass through a clinging phase in their evolution, (c) the cells in a clinging pair are in close proximity
the phase must be extremely brief, perhaps as short as a to each other
millisecond. (d) Clinging cells vary considerably in size from one
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