GENERAL APTITUDE TEST BATERY 2 - QUESTION BOOKLET

GUIDELINE

This Test has 60 questions. Choose the most correct alternative answer from (a) to (e) and give your
option in the Answer sheet provided.

You have 30 minutes to complete the test. Please be honest in completing the test in 30 minutes

TEST STARTS HERE

MATHEMATICS SECTION

1. 35 + 47 + 127 + 19 = ?

(a) 318 (b) 228 (c) 218 (d) 208 (e) None

2. 379+14+17 = ?

(a) 430 (b) 420 (c) 320 (d) 410 (e) None

3. 411 x 13 = ?

(a) 5443 (b) 5343 (c) 5223 (d) 424 (e) None

4. 160 x 3 divided by 8 = ?

(a) 60 (b) 70 (c) 50 (d) 0 (e) None

5. 4352 – 3782 = ?

(a) 780 (b) 570 (c) 470 (d) 530 (e) None

6. 3423 – 1213 + 4324 – 3112 = ?

(a) 3222 (b) 3332 (c) 3722 (d) 3422 (e) None

7. ¾ - ¼ + ¼ = ?

(a) 1/0 (b) 11/2 (c) 2/4 (d) ¼ (e) None

8. Square root of ? = 3

(a) 3 (b) 9 (c) 4 (d) 9 (e) None

9. 110 divided by 1/5 = ?

(a) 22 (b) 53 (c) 550 (d) 32 (e) None

10. 258.9 divided by 100 = ?

(a) 25.89 (b) 2.599 (c) .02589 (d) 258.9 (e) None

11. 8.6% of 100 = ?

(a) 34.2 (b) 24.4 (c) 3.44 (d) 34.4 (e) None

12. 2.4% of ? = 3.6

(a) 150 (b) 140 (c) 160 (d) 250 (e) None

13. 41/4 x 4/5 = ?

(a) 4/20 (b) 16/20 (c) 5/17 (d) 15/17 (e) None

14. 75.90 divided by 15 = ?

(a) 5.6 (b) 5.006 (c) 5.06 (d) 0.506 (e) None

15. 6666 divided by 66 = ?

(a) 111 (b) 101 (c) 110 (d) 100 (e) None

16. 20.08 divided by 4 = ?

(a) .052 (b) 50.2 (c) .502 (d) 5.02 (e) None

17. 598 + 832 + ? = 1458

(a) 18 (b) 28 (c) 38 (d) 21 (e) None

18. 4783 – 2932 = ?

(a) 1851 (b) 1861 (c) 2851 (d) 1961 (e) None

19. 908 – 190 = ?

(a) 718 (b) 618 (c) 728 (d) 628 (e) None

20. 16th Square root of 1664 = ?

(a) 14 (b) 104 (c) 16/1664 (d) 1680 (e) None

 LOGICAL THINKING SECTION

Directions : A clerk commits certain errors in copying some addresses. The copied version of each
address is in each question. The number of mistakes, if any, is given as one of the alternative A, B and C
in each question. If there is no mistake the answer is D. Find the correct alternative in each case.

21. Edward Michael Edward Michael

102/38 102/18
Prem Nagar Pram Nagar
Kanpur – 208001 Kanpur - 208001
(Uttar Pradesh) (Uttar Pradesh)

(a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 4 (d) No errors

22. Lodick Madogo Lodrick Madogo

205, Hanuman Nagar 285, Hanuman Nagar
Nagpur – 440001 Nagpur – 404001
(Maharashtra) (Maharashtra)

(a) 5 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) No errors

23. Bernard Francis Bernard Francis

House No. 1 SD/29 House No. 1 SD/29
Zone – A Zone – A
Ramakrishna Pur Ramakrishna Pur
Adilabad – 504301 Adilabad – 504301
(Andhra Pradesh) (Andhra Pradesh)

(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) No errors

DIRECTIONS : In each of the following questions five dates / nonsense syllables / numbers have been
given of which two are exactly the same. Of the three combinations A, B, C given under each set one
may stand for the ones, which are exactly alike. Then that is your answer. Otherwise the answer is D

24. (A) 13, 14, 1314

(B) 14, 13, 1314
(C) 13, 14, 1314
(D) 14, 14, 1314
(E) 13, 11, 1413

(a) A, B (b) A,C (c) C, B (d) None

 25. (A) 5 7 2 8 9 0
(B) 7 5 2 9 0 8
(C) 5 7 9 2 8 0
(D) 7 5 9 2 0 8
(E) 5 7 2 9 8 0

(a) A, C (b) A, D (c) A, E (d) None

26. (A) 22, 12, 1819

(B) 23, 12, 1819
(C) 23, 12, 1918
(D) 22, 11, 1819
(E) 23, 12, 1918

(a) A, E (b) B, D (c) C, E (d) None

DIRECTIONS: In the following questions there is a name in a bold letters followed by four other names in
alphabetical order. For each question, find the correct space for the name given in the bold letters so
that it will be in alphabetical order with the others.

27. Abbas, Arjun

a. Abbas, Abhay
b. Abbas, Ajai
c. Abbas, Amar
d. Abbas, Ashish

28. Bansal, Prabhu Dayal

a. Bansal, Om Prakash
b. Bansal, Om Singh
c. Bansal, Prakash Chand
d. Bansal, Prakash Singh

29. Chandha, Damodar

a. Chadha, Daljit
b. Chadha, Devendra
c. Chadha, Dinesh
d. Chadha, Dhruva
LETTERS : H G R I Y N S W

CODES : 3 6 1 8 5 2 7 4

You have to find out which of the answers a, b, c or d has the correct coded form of the given number.
Mark that as your answer

30. 385276

a. HYISNG
b. HYSING
c. HIYNSG
d. HIYSNG

31. 476813

a. WSGIRH
b. WISHRH
c. WGISRH
d. NONE

32. 184256

a. RINWYG
b. RIWNYG
c. RISWGY
d. GRISWY

The questions given below are based on the number – letter relationship given here, where each
number is the code of the letter given below it. Each question contains four pairs of letters – codes
against the alternatives a, b, c and d out of these, one pair is wrong i.e., the numbers do not represent
the correct code of the letters. Find out this wrong combination.

Numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Letters Q R S Y W O N L P

33. (a) 176543 QNOWSR

(b) 345862 SYOLOR
(c) 651279 OWQSNP
(d) 246735 RYONSW

34. (a) 463517 YOSWQN

(b) 134659 QSYNWP
(c) 512386 WORSNO
(d) 157839 QWNLRP
 35. (a) SPLNSY 398724
(b) WOYSON 564267
(c) RSRQPW 232185
(d) RSONPL 236798

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SECTION

36. He was so convinced that people were driven by ………………… motives that he could not believe
that anyone could be unselfish.

(a) Selfless (b) personal (c) altruistic (d) ulterior (e) intrinsic

37. When the infant displayed signs of illness, the anxious parents called in a ………………………..

(a) Podiatrist (b) pediatrician (c) practitioner (d) pedagogue (e) plagiarist

38. The concept of ………………….. grouping of people with similar interests and abilities was very
popular among educators.

(a) Segregated (b) integrated (c) heterogeneous (d) homogeneous (e) congruent

DIRECTIONS: In each of the following questions you are given a related pair of words or phrases in
capital letters. Each capitalized pair is followed by five (5) lettered pairs of words or phrases. Choose
the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed by the original pair. Write the letter
preceding your answer in answer sheet.

39. CORRUGATED : STRIPED ::

(a) Box : zebra (b) paint : crayon (c) roughness : smoothness (d) pit : dot
(e) Wall : board

40. CAT : MOUSE

(a) Bird : worm (b) dog : tail (c) trap : cheese (d) hide : seek (e) lion : snake

41. NOSE : FACE

(a) Ring : finger (b) stem : root (c) knob : door (d) shoe : foot (e) leaf : vine
DIRECTIONS: Each of the following questions consists of a word printed in capital letters followed by
five (5) lettered words or phrases. Select the word or phrase, which is most nearly opposite to the
capitalized word in meaning. Write the correct answer in the answer sheet

42. OPPORTUNE

(a) Dialectical (b) mutable (c) unplanned (d) weird (e) ill-timed

43. REDUNDANT

(a) Dilatory (b) apocryphal (c) astute (d) insufficient (e) calumnious

44. INGENUOUS

(a) Genuflecting (b) hypothetical (c) spasmodic (d) genuine (e) hypocritical

Each of the questions below consists of a word printed boldly, followed by five words or phrases (a) to
(e). Choose the numbered word or phrase which is most nearly similar in meaning to the word printed
boldly and write the number of your choice on your answer sheet

45. Homogenous

(a) Heterogeneous (b) motley (c) scrambled (d) different (e) similar

46. Disparity

(a) Argumentation (b) difference (c) belittlement (d) harmony (e) discord

47. Infinite

(a) Verbal (b) indefinite (c) endless (d) strange (e) vague

DIRECTIONS: Out of the given alternatives a, b & c, select the word which closely fits each definition

48. An unmarried man

(a) Bachelor (b) master (c) mister

49. Study of disease

(a) Philology (b) pathology (c) physiology

50. Custom of having many wives

(a) Matrimony (b) bigamy (c) polygamy

DIRECTIONS: Each of the following idioms is followed by five meanings of which only one is correct

51. To fly off the handle

(a) To dislocate (b) to lose one’s temper (c) to take off (d) to be air borne (e) to be
indifferent

52. Gift of the gab

(a) To be lucky (b) to win a prize (c) to get something free (d) to distribute gifts (e) talent for
speaking.

53. To worship the rising sun

(a) To welcome the coming events

(b) To honour the promising people
(c) To make salutations to the sun early at sunrise
(d) To honour a man who is coming into the office.

DIRECTIONS: Indicate which phrase or sentence you consider to be the most acceptable in each of the
following groups putting your choice in the answer sheet provided.

54. He is foreigner here. He

(a) Is born in Persia

(b) Has been born in Persia
(c) Had been born in Persia
(d) Was born in Persia

55. It’s not very hot at present

(a) Was it?

(b) It is
(c) Is it?
(d) Isn’t it?

56. I haven’t seen you for weeks. Where

(a) Are you all this time?

(b) Have you being all this time?
(c) Have you been all this time?
(d) Were you being all time?
Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of
which is partly to designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English, and partly to
secure greater exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects, or jargons, are necessary in technical
discussion of any kind. Being universally understood by the devotees of the particular science or art,
they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more
economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very properly
included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on the outskirts of the English
language than actually within its borders.

Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades
and handicrafts and other vocations, like farming and fishing, that have occupied great numbers of men
from remote times, the technical vocabulary is very old. It consists largely of native words, or of
borrowed words that have worked themselves into the very fibre or our language. Hence, through
highly technical in many particulars, these vocabularies are more familiar is sound and more generally
understood, than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity and philosophy
have also, in their older strata, become pretty familiar to the cultivated persons, and have contributed
much to the popular vocabulary. Yet every vocation still possesses a large body of technical terms that
remain essentially foreign, even to educated speech. And the proportion has been much increased in
the last fifty years, particularly in the various departments of natural and political science and in the
mechanic arts. Here new terms are coined with the greatest freedom and abandoned with indifference
when they have served their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussion, and
seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet no profession is nowadays, as all professions
once were, a closed guild. The lawyer, the physician, the man of science, the cleric, associates freely
with his fellow creatures, and does not meet them in a merely professional way. Furthermore, what is
called ‘popular science’ makes everybody acquainted with modern views and recent discoveries. Any
important experiment, through made in a remote or provincial laboratory, is at once reported in the
newspapers and everybody is soon talking about it – as in the case of Roentgen rays and wireless
telegraphy. Thus our common speech is always taking up new technical terms and making them
common place.

57. This passage is primarily concerned with

(a) A new language

(b) Technical terminology
(c) Various occupations and professions
(d) Scientific undertakings
(e) Popular science

58. Special words used in technical discussion

(a) Never last long

(b) Should be confined to scientific fields
(c) Should resemble mathematical formulae
(d) Are considered artificial speech
(e) May become part of common speech
59. It is true that

(a) The average man often uses in his own vocabulary what was once technical language not
meant for him
(b) Various professions and occupations often interchange their dialects and jargons
(c) There is always a clear non technical word that may be substituted for the technical word
(d) An educated person would be expected to know most technical terms
(e) Everyone is interested in scientific findings

60. In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of technical terms in the
nomenclature of

(a) Farming
(b) Government
(c) Handicrafts
(d) Fishing
(e) Sports

61. The writer of this article was no doubt

(a) A linguist
(b) An attorney
(c) A scientist
(d) A politician
(e) A physician

62. The author’s main purpose in the passage is to

(a) Describe a phenomenon

(b) Argue a belief
(c) Propose a solution
(d) Stimulate action
(e) Be entertaining

END OF THE TEST