Q.5653·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyThe leader said, “I am aghast with the developments so far. I will take time to understand this.”View question
Q.5654·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyUninterrupted rain had fatigued the commuters from the outskirts to the city and work suffered.View question
Q.5656·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyA new show is trying to change the clichéd depictions of women in animation.View question
Q.5657·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyThe captain produced yet another stellar show to make her team enter the semi-finals.View question
Q.5658·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyHis thesis makes all generic statements which have already been proved.View question
Q.5659·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyThe budget incorporated a number of tax reforms which included higher taxes for the very rich.View question
Q.5660·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyA number divides 12288, 28200 and 44333 so as to leave the same remainder in each case. What is that number?View question
Q.5661·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyA two-digit number is 9 more than four times the number obtained by interchanging its digits. If the product of digits in the two-digit number is 8, then what is the number?View question
Q.5662·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyIf a = 1/3, b = 2, b = c, c = 1/2, d = e, d = 3 and e/f = 1/4, then what is the value of abc / def?View question
Q.5663·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyIf m is the number of prime numbers between 0 and 50; and n is the number of prime numbers between 50 and 100, then what is (m - n) equal to?View question
Q.5664·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyIn a competitive examination, 250 students have registered. Out of these, 50 students have registered for Physics, 75 students for Mathematics and 35 students for both Mathematics and Physics. What is the number of students who have registered neither for Physics nor for Mathematics?View question
Q.5665·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyHow many digits are there in (54)^10? (Given that log₁₀2 = 0.301 and log₁₀3 = 0.477)View question
Q.5666·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyIn this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on Answer Sheet. S1 : All governments claim eternal consistency and success. S6 : Diplomacy offers choices, and those choices must be negotiated with other sovereign actors. P : Choices involved uncertainty, risk and immediacy; those who must take the choices operate in the contemporary political milieu. Q : And yet the essence of governance is choice. R : Nowhere is this more true than in foreign policy decision-making. S : Some even claim omniscience. The correct sequence should beView question
Q.5667·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyTwo unequal pairs of numbers satisfy the following conditions: (i) The product of the two numbers in each pair is 2160 (ii) The HCF of the two numbers in each pair is 12. If x is the mean of the numbers in the first pair and y is the mean of the numbers in the second pair, then what is the mean of x and y ?View question
Q.5668·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyIn this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on Answer Sheet. S1 : For several million years, humans lived by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants. S6 : As a result, conditions were favourable for the growth of grasses such as wild barley and wheat. P : This led to the development of farming and pastoralism as a way of life. Q : This change took place because the last ice age came to an end about 13,000 years ago and with that warmer, wetter conditions prevailed. R : Then, between 10,000 and 4,500 years ago, people in different parts of the world learnt to domesticate certain plants and animals. S : The shift from foraging to farming was a major turning point in the human history. The correct sequence should beView question
Q.5670·Miscellaneous·2020·EasyWhen we pick up a newspaper, a book, or an article, we come to our task with certain preconceptions and predispositions. We expect to find a specific piece of information or be presented with an argument or an analysis of something, say, the likelihood of recession in the next six months or the reasons why children can’t read. We probably know a little about the book or article we are reading even before we start. There was, after all, some reason why we chose to read one piece of writing rather than another. Our expectations and predispositions may, however, blind us to what the article and its author is actually saying. If, for example, we are used to disagreeing with the author, we may see only what we expect to see and not what is actually there. Day after day in our routine pattern of life we expose ourselves to the same newspaper, the same magazine, even books by authors with the same perspectives. In order to reflect on our reading habits and improve our skills we need to break out of this routine, step back and look at what we are doing when we read. Our expectations and predispositions may, however, blind us becauseView question