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Index

Math Aptitude

English Questions

Reasoning

General Awareness

Computer Questions

Interview Questions

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Math Aptitude (Answers are available in the end of this section)

1) Which of the following fractions is the greatest?

a) 219/337

b) 221/335

c) 217/339

d) 215/341

2) ? (2000) * 0.7 = whole square of (?)

a)? (31) or 5.56

b) ? (32) or 5.26

c)? (35)

d) ? (37)

3) 8/7 * 7/12 divide by ? = 4/9

a) 2/3

b) 3/2

c) 2/9

d) 9/2

4) A number is increased by 20% and then it is decreased by 10%. Find the net increase or decrease in %

a) 10% increase

b) 10% decrease

c) 8%increase

d) 8% decrease

5) What percent of 5/8 is 8/5?

a) 100

b) 64

c) 256

d) 1024

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6) Simran started a software business by investing Rs. 50,000. After six months, Nanda joined her with a

capital of Rs. 80,000. After 3 years, they earned a profit of Rs. 24,500. What was Simran's share in the

profit?

a) Rs. 9,423

b) Rs. 10,250

c) Rs. 12,500

d) Rs. 10,500

7) The compound interest on a certain sum for 2 years at 10% per annum is Rs. 525. The simple interest

on the same sum for double the time at half the rate percent per annum is:

a) Rs. 400

b) Rs. 500

c) Rs. 600

d) Rs. 800

8) A and B started a business in partnership. A invested Rs.2000/- for six months and B invested Rs.1500

for 8 months. What is the share of A in total profit of Rs.510?

a) Rs.250

b) Rs.255

c) Rs.275

d) Rs.280

9) Two trains A and B are running at the speeds of 45 KMPH and 25 KMPH respectively in the same

direction. The faster train i.e. trains A crosses a Man sitting in the slower train B in 18 secs. Find the

length of the train A?

a) 100 meters

b) 120 meters

c) 150 meters

d) 180 meters

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10) Assume that 20 cows and 40 goats can be kept for 10 days for Rs.460. If the cost of keeping 5 goats

is the same as the cost of keeping 1 cow, what will be the cost for keeping 50 cows and 30 goats for 12

days?

a) Rs.1104

b) Rs.1000

c) Rs.934

d) Rs.1210

11) The speed of a bus increases by 2 km after every one hour. If the distance travelling in the first one

hour was 35 km. what was the total distance travelled in 12 hours?

a) 422 km

b) 552 km

c) 502 km

d) 492 km

12) (132)^7 × (132)^? = (132)^11.5

a) 3

b) 3.5

c) 4

d) 4.5

13) On selling 17 balls at Rs. 720, there is a loss equal to the cost price of 5 balls. What is the cost price

of a ball?

a) Rs. 43

b) Rs. 60

c) Rs. 55

d) Rs. 34

14) A train having a length of 1/4 mile , is traveling at a speed of 75 mph. It enters a tunnel 3 ½ miles

long. How long does it take the train to pass through the tunnel from the moment the front enters to

the moment the rear emerges?

a) 3 min

b) 4.2 min

c) 3.4 min

d) 5.5 min

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15) The ages of two persons differ by 16 years. 6 years ago, the elder one was 3 times as old as the

younger one. What are their present ages of the elder person?

a) 10

b) 20

c) 30

d) 40

16) In how many ways can the letters of the word 'LEADER' be arranged?

a) None of these

b) 120

c) 360

d) 720

17) A student has to obtain 33% of the total marks to pass. He got 125 marks and failed by 40 marks.

The maximum marks are

a) 600

b) 500

c) 400

d) 300

18) A, B and C shared the profit in a business in the ratio 5 : 7 : 8. They had partnered for 14 months, 8

months and 7 months respectively. What was the ratio of their investments?

a) 10:12:14

b) 12:24:28

c) 20:22:12

d) 20:49:64

19) 5216 x 51 = ?

a) 266016

b) 212016

c) 266436

d) 216314

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20) How many kilograms of sugar costing Rs. 9 per kg must be mixed with 27 kg of sugar costing Rs. 7

per Kg so that there may be a gain of 10 % by selling the mixture at Rs. 9.24 per Kg ?

a) 60 Kg

b) 63 kg

c) 58 Kg

d) 56 Kg

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Answers for Math Aptitude

Question No. Answer Question No. Answer

1 b 11 b

2 a 12 d

3 b 13 b

4 c 14 a

5 c 15 c

6 d 16 c

7 b 17 b

8 b 18 d

9 a 19 a

10 a 20 b

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English Questions (Answers are available in the end of this section)

1) If our friends are not able to take us in their car, we must make _______ arrangements to go to the

airport.

a) Possible

b) Alternate

c) Another

d) Alternative

2) Even after a long discussion, the committee could not reach a _______ decision.

a) Cordial

b) Joint

c) Unanimous

d) Common

Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Once upon a time, there lived a pair of geese and a tortoise and the three were the best of friends. One

day they were faced by a huge drought and the lake in which they lived was ... (31)... up. They ... (32)...

to leave the lake and look for new lake, but the tortoise could not ... (33)... So, the geese thought of a ...

(34)..., whereby, the tortoise would have to hold a piece of stick by its mouth which would be ... (35)...

by the two geese.

3) a) rising b) vaporizing c) soaring d) soaking e) drying

4) a) advised b) confided c) decided d) thought e) suggested

5) a) understand b) swim c) fly d) talk e) think

6) a) magic b) plan c) game d) plot e) trick

7) a) agreed b) manufactured c) designed d) carried e) produced

8) I could not _______ what he wanted to say.

a) Make up

b) Make out

c) Make in

d) Make away

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9) We can't eat this food; it is ____.

a) Rotten

b) Old

c) bad

d) Rancid

10) The speaker painted a ______ picture of hunger in parts of India.

a) Poignant

b) Passionate

c) Parsimonious

d) Chimerical

11) Ramu has been nominated as the person to settle the dispute between the two warring parties; he

is the _____

a) Judge

b) Advocate

c) Arbitrator

d) Barrister

12) Do not ________ him; he has done no harm to any of you.

a) Accuse

b) Admire

c) Discuss

d) Refer

Pick out the word synonymous with the one in the sentence given below.

13) After the dismal show the caption resigned his job.

a) poor

b) sorrowful

c) minimum

d) short

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14) The boy gave a graphic account of the theft.

a) picture

b) drawing

c) vivid

d) broad

Fill up to blanks in the following Questions

15) Mahesh _____ me coming to his table, he smiled and ___ me a chair

a) looked, gave

b) welcomed, took

c) saw, offered

d) found, signaled

16) The counter Clerk was very busy and ____ not pay any ___ to Sohan’s request.

a) did, attention

b) had, cash

c) could, respect

d) can, help

Find out the choice which can correctly substitute that part of the sentence.

17) He has received no other message than an urgent telegram asking him to rush village soon.

a) asked him to rush his village

b) asking him to have to his village

c) asking him to rush to his village

d) No correction required

18) We must take it granted that Anju will not come for today’s function.

a) take it for granted

b) taking it granted

c) took it as granted

d) Non correction required

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19) Binita unnecessarily picked up a quarrel with Sanjay and left the party.

a) has picked up

b) picked on

c) picked


20) I need not offer any explanation, my behavior is speaking itself.

a) will speak to itself

b) speaks for itself

c) has been speaking


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Answers for English Questions


1 d 11 c

2 c 12 a

3 e 13 a

4 c 14 c

5 c 15 c

6 e 16 a

7 d 17 a

8 b 18 a

9 a 19 d

10 a 20 b

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Reasoning (Answers are available in the end of this section)

These questions (1-3) are based on the figure given above in which (1) Rectangle represents Males, (2)

Circle represents the urban (3) Square represents the educated and (4) Triangle represents the civil

servants.

1) The number indicating the uneducated urban males is

a) 4

b) 5

c) 7

d) 11

2) The number indicating the educated civil servants who are males but not urban is

a) 7

b) 8

c) 9

d) 10

3) The number indicating the educated urban males who are not civil servants is

a) 8

b) 9

c) 10

d) 11

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4) Arrange the words given below in a meaningful sequence.

1. Rainbow 2. Rain 3. Sun 4. Happy 5. Child

a) 4, 2, 3, 5, 1

b) 2, 3, 1, 5, 4

c) 4, 5, 1, 2, 3

d) 2, 1, 4, 5, 3

5) If P + Q means P is the brother of Q; P x Q means P is the father of Q and P - Q means P is the sister of

Q, which of the following relations shows that I is the niece of K?

a) K + Y + Z - I

b) K + Y x I - Z

C) Z - I x Y + K

d) K x Y + I – Z

6) Statements: Some dogs are bats. Some bats are cats.

Conclusions:

Some dogs are cats.

Some cats are dogs.

a) Only (1) conclusion follows

b) Only (2) conclusion follows

c) Either (1) or (2) follows

d) Neither (1) nor (2) follows

7) Two positions of a dice are shown below. When 3 points are at the bottom, how many points will be

at the top?

a) 2

b) 5

c) 4

d) 6

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8) Statements:

I...The university authority have instructed all the colleges under its jurisdiction to ban use of cell phones

inside the college premises.

II...Majority of the teachers of the college signed a joint petition to the university complaining the

disturbances caused by cell phone ring tones inside the classrooms.

a) Statement I is the cause and statement II is its effect.

b) Statement II is the cause and statement I is its effect.

c) Both the statements I and II are independent causes.

d) Both the statements I and II are effects of independent causes.

e) Both the statements I and II are effects of some common cause.

9) 20, 20, 19, 16, 17, 13, 14, 11, ?, ?

a) 10, 10

b) 10, 11

c) 13, 14

d) 13, 16

10) Umesh directly went from P, to Q which is 9 feet distant. Then he turns to the right and walked 4

feet. After this he turned to the right and walked a distance which is equal from P to Q. Finally he turned

to the right and walked 3 feet. How far is he now from P?

a) 6 feet

b) 5 feet

c) 1 feet

d) 0 feet

11) Which one will replace the question mark?

a) 18

b) 90

c) 108

d) 28

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In a class there are seven students (including boys and girls) A, B, C, D, E, F and G. They sit on three

benches I, II and III. Such that at least two students on each bench and at least one girl on each bench.

C who is a girl student, does not sit with A, E and D. F the boy student sits with only B. A sits on the

bench I with his best friends. G sits on the bench III. E is the brother of C.

12) How many girls are there out of these 7 students?

a) 3

b) 3 or 4

c) 4

d) Data inadequate

13) Which of the following is the group of girls?

a) BAC

b) BFC

c) BCD

d) CDF

14) Who sits with C?

a) B

b) D

c) G

d) E

15) On which bench there are three students?

a) Bench I

b) Bench II

c) Bench III

d) Bench I or II

16) Choose the word which is different from the rest.

a) Ant

b) Bee

c) Moth

d) Midge

e) Spider

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17) Select a suitable figure from the Answer Figures that would replace the question mark (?)

a) 1 b) 2

c) 3 d) 4

e) 5

18) Choose the alternative which is closely resembles the water-image of the given combination.

a) 1 b) 2

c) 3 d) 4

19) Identify the figure that completes the pattern.

a) 1

b) 2

c) 3

d) 4

20) Choose the alternative which is closely resembles the mirror image of the given combination.

a) 1

b) 2

c) 3

d) 4

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Answers for Reasoning Questions


1 b 11 c

2 d 12 b

3 b 13 c

4 b 14 c

5 b 15 a

6 d 16 e

7 c 17 e

8 b 18 d

9 a 19 d

10 c 20 c

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General Awareness (Answers are available in the end of this section)

1) Who Appointed as Foreign Secretary for India?

a) Sujatha Singh

b) Madhuri Bhatnagar

c) Mahima Singh

d) Radhika Arora

2) In which of the following city, the first women Post Office in the country have been established in

March 2013?

a) Mumbai

b) Kolkata

c) New Delhi

d) Chennai

3) Which of the following types of banks are allowed to operate foreign currency accounts?

(A) Foreign Banks (B) Regional Rural Banks (C) Nationalized Banks

a) Only A

b) Only B

c) Only C

d) All A, B & C

4) Secularism in the Indian context means that

a) Citizens are not discriminated on account of religion

b) Religion is regarded as a private affair of a citizen

c) Neither (A) nor (B)

d) Both (A) and (B)

5) The concept of welfare state is included in the constitution of India in the

a) Fundamental Rights

b) Fundamental Duties

c) Preamble

d) Directive Principles

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6) Which of the following countries in the world is the biggest consumer of gold?

a) USA

b) Bangladesh

c) Russia

d) India

7) Foreign currency which has a tendency of quick migration is called

a) Scarce currency

b) Soft currency

c) Gold currency

d) Hot currency

8) The theory of monopolistic competition is developed by

a) E.H.Chamberlin

b) P.A.Samuelson

c) J.Robinson

d) A.Marshall

9) Which of the following is also known as Direct Debit Facility?

a) NEFT

b) RTGS

c) ECS

d) IMPS

10) Which of the following companies on January 17, 2013 launched its video telephony service in Delhi

and Mumbai?

a) MTNL

b) Vodafone

c) Idea

d) Aircel

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11) Which country will launch a robotic lunar station in 2015?

a) USA

b) France

c) Russia

d) Japan

12) BC Roy award is associated to which of the following field?

a) Physics

b) Chemistry

c) Journalism

d) Medicine

13) Which of the following is a better measurement of Economic Development?

a) GDP

b) Disposable income

c) NNP

d) Per capita income

14) Who is the author of Gandhi’s favorite Bhajan Vaishnava jana to tene kahiye?

a) Purandar Das

b) Shyamal Bhatt

c) Narsi Mehta

d) Sant Gyaneshwar

15) Who elects the Vice-President of India?

a) Elected Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha

b) Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha

c) Elected Members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and State Assemblies

d) Members of Lok Sabha only

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16) What is the distance of running in a marathon race?

a) 26 miles 105 yards

b) 26 miles 385 yards

c) 26 miles 405 yards

d) 26 miles

17) On whose recommendation the financial distribution between the ‘Union’ and ‘States’ takes place?

a) The Inter-State Council

b) The Planning Commission

c) The Finance Commission

d) The National Development Council

18) The natural region which holds the Indian sub-continent is

a) Mediterranean

b) Monsoon

c) Hot Desert

d) Equatorial Climate Region

19) The only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi was

a) Razia Sultana

b) Mumtaz Mahal

c) Hamida Banu Begum

d) Nur Zahan

20) What is the Name of Japanese parliament?

a) Reteria

b) Diet

c) Federalnoje Sobranije

d) Congress

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Answers for General Awareness Questions


1 a 11 c

2 c 12 d

3 c 13 a

4 d 14 c

5 d 15 b

6 d 16 b

7 d 17 c

8 a 18 b

9 c 19 a

10 a 20 b

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Computer Questions (Answers are available in the end of this section)

1) A general purpose single-user microcomputer designed to be operated by one person at a time is

a) Special-purpose computer

b) KIPS

c) M

d) PC

2) Which device of computer operation dispenses with the use of the keyboard?

a) Joystick

b) Light pen

c) Mouse

d) Touch

3) "The term ""hypertext"" means"

a) Blinking text

b) Text with heavy formatting

c) Hypermedia

d) None of the above

4) What is the extension of executable program under windows?

a) .doc

b) .txt

c) .exe

d) .bin

5) When you are working on a document on a PC where is the document temporarilystored ?

a) HardDisk

b) ROM

c) RAM

d) CD-ROM

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6) Which output device is used for translating information from a computer into pictorial form on paper.

a) Mouse

b) Plotter

c) Touch panel

d) Card punch

7) Which one among the following is not included in the basic functions of operating system?

a) Job Control

b) Job Scheduling

c) Memory Management

d) Data Management

8) After a picture has been taken with a digital camera and processed appropriately, the actual print of

the picture is considered:

a) data

b) output

c) input

d) the process

9) A program component that allows structuring of a program in an unusual way is known as

a) Correlation

b) Coroutine

c) Diagonalization

d) Quene

10) The section of the CPU that selects, interprets and sees to the execution of program instructions

a) Memory

b) Register unit

c) Control unit

d) ALU

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11) The feature to customize the desktop to display information that can be updated from

internet is:

a) Active desktop

b) Online desktop

c) E-mail

d) Resource Sharing

12) ........ is a process of sending documents to

a) Printing

b) Queuing

c) Waiting Queue

d) Print Spooling

13) An email address typically consists of user id followed by ........ and the domain name.

a) @

b) #

c) &

d) ∗

14) The name, a user assigns to a document is called:

a) File name

b) Program

c) Record

d) Data

15) 15. ........... View shows how the content on printed page, along with footer and margin

Header, appear.

a) Draft

b) Full screen reading

c) Outline

d) Page layout

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16) EROM Stands For:

a) Erasable Read Only Memory

b) Erasable Read Access Memory

c) Error Read Only Memory

d) Error Read Access Memory

17) Which of the following is NOT one of the four major data processing functions of a computer?

a) gathering data

b) processing data into information

c) analyzing the data or information

d) storing the data or information

18) All of the following are examples of input devices EXCEPT a:

a) scanner

b) mouse

c) keyboard

d) printer

19) The bar which displays information about the current page number is

a) Title bar

b) Status bar

c) Standard bar

d) Formatting bar

20) Changing an existing document is called ......the document.

a) Creating

b) Editing

c) Modifying

d) Adjusting

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Answers for Computer Questions


1 d 11 a

2 c 12 d

3 a 13 a

4 c 14 a

5 c 15 d

6 b 16 a

7 a 17 c

8 b 18 d

9 b 19 b

10 c 20 b

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Interview Questions

1. Why do you want to intern here?

2. Which classes do you like the most and least?

3. What do you expect this position to be like?

4. Why should we hire you?

5. What’s your goal with this internship?

6. Tell me about some of your school involvements and how they relate to this job.

7. What are your salary expectations?

8. What are your plans after graduation?

9. Why did you pick your school/major/minor?

10. What do you know about this specific industry and what are some trends that occurred in the past

few years?

11. Tell us something about yourself.

12. Why do you consider yourself a suitable candidate for this position?

13. Why do you want to leave your present job or company?

14. You have stayed in your current job for quite a long time, why?

15. What do you know about us?

16. What do you do to improve your knowledge?

17. Can you perform under pressure?

18. Tell us some of your strengths.

19. Tell us some of your weaknesses.

20. Are you comfortable working in a team?

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