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Common Admission Test — Solved Question Paper (Slot 2)

3 Sections • VARC · DI&LR · QA • 68 Questions • MCQ + TITA (Type In The Answer)

Instructions: Each section has its own question numbering. MCQs have four options — choose one. TITA questions have no
options; type the numeric/word answer. Reading-comprehension passages and DI&LR set data appear in shaded boxes above their
questions. The answer key is at the end.
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Sentence: While taste is related to judgment, with thinkers at the time often writing, for example, about
“judgments of taste” or using the two terms interchangeably, taste retains a vital link to pleasure,
embodiment, and personal specificity that is too often elided in post-Kantian ideas about judgment—a
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____(3)____. Tracing the history of taste in Spanish, French, and British aesthetic theory, as Denneny
did, also provides a means to recover the compelling and relevant writing of a set of thinkers who have
been largely neglected by professional philosophy. ____(4)____.

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Time and again, whenever a population [of Mexican tetra fish] was swept into a cave and survived long
enough for natural selection to have its way, the eyes disappeared. “But it’s not that everything has been
lost in cavefish . . . Many enhancements have also happened.” . . . Studies have found that cave-dwelling
fish can detect lower levels of amino acids than surface fish can. They also have more tastebuds and a
higher density of sensitive cells alongside their bodies that let them sense water pressure and flow. . . .
Killing the processes that support the formation of the eye is quite literally what happens. Just like non-
cave-dwelling members of the species, all cavefish embryos start making eyes. But after a few hours,
cells in the developing eye start dying, until the entire structure has disappeared. [Developmental
biologist Misty] Riddle thinks this apparent inefficiency may be unavoidable. “The early development of
the brain and the eye are completely intertwined—they happen together,” she says. That means the least
disruptive way for eyelessness to evolve may be to start making an eye and then get rid of it. . . .

It’s easy to see why cavefish would be at a disadvantage if they were to maintain expensive tissues they
aren’t using. Since relatively little lives or grows in their caves, the fish are likely surviving on a meager
diet of mostly bat feces and organic waste that washes in during the rainy season.

Researchers keeping cavefish in labs have discovered that, genetically, the creatures are exquisitely
adapted to absorbing and storing nutrients. . . .

Fats can be toxic for tissues, [evolutionary physiologist Nicolas] Rohner explains, so they are stored in
fat cells. “But when these cells get too big, they can burst, which is why we often see chronic
inflammation in humans and other animals that have stored a lot of fat in their tissues.” Yet a 2020
study by Rohner, Krishnan and their colleagues revealed that even very well-fed cavefish had fewer signs
of inflammation in their fat tissues than surface fish do. Even in their sparse cave conditions, wild
cavefish can sometimes get very fat, says Riddle. This is presumably because, whenever food ends up in
the cave, the fish eat as much of it as possible, since there may be nothing else for a long time to come.
Intriguingly, Riddle says, their fat is usually bright yellow, because of high levels of carotenoids, the
substance in the carrots that your grandmother used to tell you were good for your…eyes.
“The first thing that came to our mind, of course, was that they were accumulating these because they
don’t have eyes,” says Riddle. In this species, such ideas can be tested: Scientists can cross surface fish
(with eyes) and cavefish (without eyes) and look at what their offspring are like. When that’s done,
Riddle says, researchers see no link between eye presence or size and the accumulation of carotenoids.
Some eyeless cavefish had fat that was practically white, indicating lower carotenoid levels. Instead,
Riddle thinks these carotenoids may be another adaptation to suppress inflammation, which might be
important in the wild, as cavefish are likely overeating whenever food arrives.

2. Which one of the following results for the cross between surface fish (with eyes) and cavefish (without
eyes) would invalidate Riddle’s inference from the experiment?
1. Some eyeless offspring had white fat. 2. Some offspring with eyes had yellow fat.
3. Only eyeless offspring had yellow fat. 4. Some offspring with eyes had white fat.

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3. All of the following statements from the passage describe adaptation in Mexican tetra cavefish EXCEPT:
1. “Since relatively little lives or grows in their 2. “‘But when these cells get too big, they can
caves, the fish are likely surviving on a meager burst, which is why we often see chronic
diet of mostly bat feces and organic waste that inflammation in humans and other animals
washes in during the rainy season.” that have stored a lot of fat in their tissues.’”
3. “Even in their sparse cave conditions, wild 4. “It’s easy to see why cavefish would be at a
cavefish can sometimes get very fat, says disadvantage if they were to maintain
Riddle.” expensive tissues they aren’t using.”

4. Which one of the following best explains why the “apparent inefficiency” is “unavoidable”?
1. The inefficiency resulting from eyelessness is 2. The lack of light in the caves kills the eye cells
compensated by enhancements like more in the developing Mexican tetra cavefish
tastebuds in Mexican tetra cavefish. embryo.
3. The caves have poor and inconsistent 4. Mexican tetra cavefish are similar to non-
availability of food and nutrition for Mexican cave-dwelling variants in their early stages of
tetra cavefish. development.

5. On the basis of the information in the passage, what is the most likely function of carotenoids in
Mexican tetra cavefish?
1. To render bright yellow colour to the cavefish. 2. To act as a substitute for eyes.
3. To control inflammation from the bursting of 4. To help the fat cells store nutrients.
fat cells.

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In 1903, left-wing feminist Elizabeth Magie invented The Landlord’s Game, the original version of what
became Monopoly. It was designed as a powerful teaching tool to illustrate the dangers of monopolies
and how wealth could concentrate in the hands of a few. The game featured a circular path, properties,
and a “Go to Jail” space. Magie created two rule sets: one “monopolist” version where players crushed
opponents through accumulation, and another, more radical “Prosperity” version, where everyone
shared in the wealth, promoting fairness and equity. Years later, unemployed Charles Darrow sold a
simplified version to Parker Brothers. They paid Magie only $500 for her patent—without royalties—and
credited Darrow as the sole inventor. For decades, his tale of inventing the game in his basement
remained the official story, while Magie’s name and her original, anti-capitalist message were left in the
shadows.

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original design and transformed Monopoly transforming it into a widespread commercial
into a worldwide phenomenon, while barely success while providing her only minimal
acknowledging her. financial compensation and granting scant
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In [my book “Searches”], I chronicle how big technology companies have exploited human language for
their gain. We let this happen, I argue, because we also benefit somewhat from using the products. It’s a
dynamic that makes us complicit in big tech’s accumulation of wealth and power: we’re both victims and
beneficiaries. I describe this complicity, but I also enact it, through my own internet archives: my Google
searches, my Amazon product reviews and, yes, my ChatGPT dialogues. . . .
People often describe chatbots’ textual output as “bland” or “generic” – the linguistic equivalent of a
beige office building. OpenAI’s products are built to “sound like a colleague”, as OpenAI puts it, using
language that, coming from a person, would sound “polite”, “empathetic”, “kind”, “rationally optimistic”
and “engaging”, among other qualities. OpenAI describes these strategies as helping its products seem
“professional” and “approachable”. This appears to be bound up with making us feel safe . . .

Trust is a challenge for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, partly because their products regularly
produce falsehoods and reify sexist, racist, US-centric cultural norms. While the companies are working
on these problems, they persist: OpenAI found that its latest systems generate errors at a higher rate
than its previous system. In the book, I wrote about the inaccuracies and biases and also demonstrated
them with the products. When I prompted Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator to produce a picture of
engineers and space explorers, it gave me an entirely male cast of characters; when my father asked
ChatGPT to edit his writing, it transmuted his perfectly correct Indian English into American English.
Those weren’t flukes. Research suggests that both tendencies are widespread.

In my own ChatGPT dialogues, I wanted to enact how the product’s veneer of collegial neutrality could
lull us into absorbing false or biased responses without much critical engagement. Over time, ChatGPT
seemed to be guiding me to write a more positive book about big tech – including editing my description
of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, to call him “a visionary and a pragmatist”. I’m not aware of research on
whether ChatGPT tends to favor big tech, OpenAI or Altman, and I can only guess why it seemed that
way in our conversation. OpenAI explicitly states that its products shouldn’t attempt to influence users’
thinking. When I asked ChatGPT about some of the issues, it blamed biases in its training data – though
I suspect my arguably leading questions played a role too. When I queried ChatGPT about its rhetoric, it
responded: “The way I communicate is designed to foster trust and confidence in my responses, which
can be both helpful and potentially misleading.”. . .

OpenAI has its own goals, of course. Among them, it emphasizes wanting to build AI that “benefits all of
humanity”. But while the company is controlled by a non-profit with that mission, its funders still seek a
return on their investment. That will presumably require getting people using products such as ChatGPT
even more than they already are – a goal that is easier to accomplish if people see those products as
trustworthy collaborators.

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7. All of the following statements from the passage affirm the disjunct between the claims about AI made
by tech companies and what AI actually does EXCEPT:
1. “It’s a dynamic that makes us complicit in big 2. “When I prompted Microsoft’s Bing Image
tech’s accumulation of wealth and power: Creator to produce a picture of engineers and
we’re both victims and beneficiaries.” space explorers, it gave me an entirely male
cast of characters . . .”
3. “In my own ChatGPT dialogues, I wanted to 4. “I’m not aware of research on whether
enact how the product’s veneer of collegial ChatGPT tends to favor big tech, OpenAI or
neutrality could lull us into absorbing false or Altman, and I can only guess why it seemed
biased responses without much critical that way in our conversation.”
engagement.”

8. On the basis of the purpose of the examples in the passage, pick the odd one out from the following AI-
generated responses mentioned in the passage:
1. “When I queried ChatGPT about its rhetoric, 2. “Over time, ChatGPT seemed to be guiding
it responded: ‘The way I communicate is me to write a more positive book about big
designed to foster trust and confidence in my tech – including editing my description of
responses, which can be both helpful and OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, to call him ‘a
potentially misleading’.” visionary and a pragmatist’.”
3. “When I prompted Microsoft’s Bing Image 4. “. . . when my father asked ChatGPT to edit
Creator to produce a picture of engineers and his writing, it transmuted his perfectly correct
space explorers, it gave me an entirely male Indian English into American English.”
cast of characters . . .”

9. The author compares AI-generated texts with “a beige office building” for all of the following reasons
EXCEPT:
1. AI aims to foster a feeling of trust and 2. AI-generated texts often exhibit a warm,
credibility among its users. polite, and collegial tone.
3. AI tends to blame its training data when 4. AI generates generalised responses that lack
scrutinised for its biases. specificity and nuance.

10. The author of the passage is least likely to agree with which one of the following claims?
1. The neutrality of AI is motivated by economic 2. When we use AI, we become accomplices to
considerations. the exploitative practices of big tech
companies.
3. The neutrality of AI is conducive to critical 4. ChatGPT favours AI companies and their
thinking. officials, like Sam Altman, in its responses.

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1. As books age, the cellulose and lignin in the paper begin to break down, releasing a mix of volatile
organic compounds into the air.
2. Old books carry a scent that many people instantly recognize—and even love.
3. These compounds are benzaldehyde, which gives off an almond-like scent, vanillin, which smells
like vanilla, ethyl hexanol (floral scent), toluene (sweet), and furfural (which has a slightly bready
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sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. ‘Literature on screen’ suggests something more capacious and defining than citation: the
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methodological subordination to literature proper.
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dual citizenship in two modes of presentation is an even more pervasive legacy that haunts
adaptation studies: the assumption that the primary context within which adaptations are to be
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Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can
be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of
that sentence as your answer.

1. Pfas are a class of about 15,000 compounds most frequently used to make products water-, stain-
and grease-resistant.
2. New research suggests exposure to some common perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(Pfas) cause changes to gene activity and that these changes are linked to health problems
including multiple cancers, neurological disorders and autoimmune disease.
3. These Pfas compounds are dubbed “forever chemicals” because they do not naturally break down
in the environment.
4. The research may also point toward other diseases potentially caused by Pfas that have not yet
been identified.
5. The findings are a major step toward determining the mechanism by which the chemicals cause
disease and could help doctors identify, detect and treat health problems for those exposed to Pfas
before the issues advance.

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For millennia, in the process of opening up land for agriculture, gardens, grazing and hunting, humans
have created ecological “mosaics”, or “patchworks”: landscapes holding a mixture of habitats, like
meadows, gardens and forests. These were not designed as nature reserves, but often catered to hugely
diverse animal life. Research indicates that European hay meadows cultivated for animal feed were
actually more successful at preserving a vast array of species than meadows explicitly cultivated for
biodiversity. Studying the early Holocene, researchers have found that human presence was about as
likely to increase biodiversity as reduce it. Of course, not all human-created landscapes have the same
value. A paved subdivision with astroturfed lawns is very different to a village with diverse vegetable and
flower gardens. But scientists continue to find evidence that the old idea of humans as antithetical to
nature is also wrong-headed, and that rosy visions of thriving, human-free environments are more
imaginary than real.

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14. The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the
essence of the passage.
1. In terms of preserving biodiversity, scientists 2. Studying the early Holocene and human
are finding increasing evidence that human practices over millennia, researchers say that
action is not always antithetical to nature, but while agricultural meadows, gardens, and
often assists the preservation of meadows, forests were not explicitly designed as nature
landscapes, and flourishing of species. reserves, they actually preserved a vast array
of species, belying the idea that humans harm
nature.
3. Contrary to the idea that humans always hurt 4. In our attempts to shape the world around us
nature and that it thrives in their absence, a to our needs, humans have often created
lot of human action across history has been landscapes like meadows, gardens, and
equally likely to increase biodiversity than forests, which support hugely diverse species,
reduce it, often creating varied ecological and are more successful at preserving them,
landscapes that support a vast array of than parks created specifically for this.
species.

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observation – until what is today called the new astronomy – had always been limited to what could be
seen within the limits of optical light. Indeed, until early modernity the limits to optical light were also
limits of what humans could themselves see within their limited and relative perceptual spectrum of
human vision. With early modernity and the invention of lensed optical instruments – telescopes –
astronomers could begin to observe phenomena never seen before. Magnification and resolution began
to allow what was previously imperceptible to be perceived – but within the familiar limits of optical
vision. Galileo, having learned of the Dutch invention of a telescope by Hans Lippershey, went on to
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trajectory of “more-is-better” but still remaining within the limits of the light spectrum. Today’s
astronomy has now had the benefit of some four centuries of optical telescopy. The “new astronomy,”
however, opens the full known electromagnetic spectrum to observation, beginning with the accidental
discovery of radio astronomy early in the twentieth century, and leading today to the diverse variety of
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microbiology, and takes account of the distinctive instrumental culture in her Making Sense of Life
(2002). Here, particularly with the development of biotechnology, instrumentation is far more
interventional than in the astronomy case. Microscopic instrumentation can be and often is
interventional in style: “gene-splicing” and other techniques of biotechnology, while still in their infancy,
are clearly part of the interventional trajectory of biological instrumentation. Yet, in both disciplines, the
sciences involved are today highly instrumentalized and could not progress successfully without
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15. All of the following statements may be rejected as valid inferences from the passage EXCEPT:
1. the advances in telescopy made by Newton 2. interventionist instruments, or instruments
with reflecting telescopes allowed early that intervene directly in scientific inquiry,
modern astronomers to observe the phases of are different from embodied instruments, or
Venus and the satellites of Jupiter. instruments that embody scientific inquiry.
3. the author distinguishes between the 4. Isaac Newton’s experiments with reflecting
receptive and interventionist uses of telescopes were the earliest versions of the
instruments in the sciences by comparing “new astronomy” referred to in the passage.
astronomy and biology, respectively.

16. Which one of the following observations is a valid conclusion to draw from the statement that “the
sciences involved are today highly instrumentalised and could not progress successfully without
constant improvements upon the respective instrumental trajectories”?
1. In both astronomy and microbiology, 2. Highly instrumentalised work in the sciences
progress has been the consequence of has resulted in the progressive improvement
improvements in the instruments they use. of scientific constants.
3. The growth of scientific technologies has led 4. The use of instruments in scientific
to the embodiment of progress in the trajectories must be respected in order to see
trajectories of improvement. successful progress in them.

17. None of the following statements, if true, contradicts the arguments in the passage EXCEPT:
1. because of the relatively recent entry of 2. some scientific instruments may be classified
computational machinery in mathematics, the as both receptive and interventional in their
field is only now beginning to develop a functions.
scientific culture.
3. like telescopy, microscopy has also sought to 4. Isaac Newton’s discovery of gravity was
move beyond the visible spectrum to be able accomplished without the help of
to detect objects that are invisible in that instruments.
spectrum.

18. To which one of the following instruments would the characterisations of instruments in the passage be
least applicable?
1. Kitchen oven 2. Milestone
3. Scalpel 4. Saxophone

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19.
The given sentence is missing in the paragraph below. Decide where it best fits among the options 1, 2,
3, or 4 indicated in the paragraph.

Sentence- The region’s Western customers found it hard to believe that Dhaka muslin could possibly
have been made by human hands – there were rumour that it was woven by mermaids, fairies and even
ghosts.

Once upon the silty banks of the Meghna River, a miracle was spun — a fabric so light it was called
“baft-hawa”, or woven air. This was Dhaka Muslin — the world’s most coveted cloth. ____(1)____.
Handspun from a rare cotton called Phuti Karpas, found nowhere else on Earth, and woven with a 16-
step sacred ritual — beginning with cleaning the cotton using the teeth of a river catfish! ____(2)____.
Every spring, the maple-like leaves pushed up through the grey, silty soil to produce a single daffodil-
yellow flower twice a year, which gave way to a snowy floret of cotton fibres. ____(3)____. Spun at
dawn on boats by sharp-eyed young women, its threads were so fine the elderly could barely see them.
Motifs of wildflowers, river breeze, and soul were etched into each piece — some so light, a 91-metre bolt
could pass through a ring, or a 60’ length fit inside a snuffbox. It draped Greek goddesses, Roman
nobles, Mughal emperors, and European aristocrats. Marie Antoinette, Empress Joséphine — even Jane
Austen adored its floating grace. ____(4)____.

1. Option 3 2. Option 2
3. Option 1 4. Option 4

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into literary texts can be made by paying close attention to how authors craft place, as well as to how
place functions in a narrative. The authors included in this reference work engage deeply with either real
or imagined geographies. They care about how human decisions have shaped landscapes and how
landscapes have shaped human practices and values. Some of the best writing is highly vivid, employing
the language of the senses because this is the primary means through which humans know physical
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such a topic speaks to the valuable knowledge produced from bridging disciplines and combining
material from both the arts and the sciences to better understand the human condition. The perspectives
that most concern cultural geographers are often those regarding movement and migration, cultivation
of natural resources, and organization of space. The latter two reflect concerns of the built environment,
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linked to those racial or class disparities. Literary texts can also account for the way in which absence—
of other people, animals, and so on—affects a human observer or inhabitant. Both literary and scientific
approaches to place are necessary, working in unison, to achieve a complete record of an environment. It
is important to note that the interdisciplinary nature of this work teaches us that landscapes are not
static, that they are not unchanged by human culture. At least part of their identity derives from the
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21. Which one of the following is not true of the argument in the second paragraph?
1. The emotional and spiritual experience of a 2. Analysing the literary descriptions of a place
place can replace a surveyor’s map. can give us a sense of how people relate
emotionally to it.
3. The spiritual experience of a place may be 4. Literary accounts of places can be filled with
considered as real as the physical experience histories, manifested as memory or
of it. imagination.

22. All of the following statements, if false, would contradict the arguments in the passage, EXCEPT that:
1. highly vivid writing, employing the language 2. literature provides us with deep insights into
of the senses, can capture the multi-modal the ways in which movement and migration
manner in which humans experience places. affect physical geography.
3. humans do not interact with places in 4. descriptions of places do not need satellite
subjective, emotional ways because places are imagery or other visual aids to give a “real”
only physical topography. sense of the place.

23. Which one of the following is a valid conclusion to draw from the author’s statement that, “The pursuit
of such a topic speaks to the valuable knowledge produced from bridging disciplines and combining
material from both the arts and the sciences to better understand the human condition.”?
1. A comprehensive understanding of the 2. A comprehensive bridging of the human
valuable knowledge produced by the arts and condition can best be achieved by a
sciences can best be achieved by studying the disciplined pursuit of human understanding.
human condition.
3. The literary descriptions of the emotions we 4. A comprehensive understanding of the
experience in the places we visit can human condition can best be achieved by
contribute to our understanding of the arts combining the findings of disciplines from the
and sciences. arts and the sciences.

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24.
Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can
be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of
that sentence as your answer.

1. Sporting a copper-coloured pixie cut and a pair of pink feather antlers, Torres himself resembles a
child’s doodle.
2. His casual millennial delivery, peppered with “um”s and “ah”s, makes surreal concepts sound like
items on a brunch menu.
3. Though he may have failed so far in his colour-scouting mission (he hasn’t yet found a new one,
he admits), this hour leaves you tickled pink.
4. Like his previous show, My Favourite Shapes, this is an hour of sit-down comedy aided by an
overhead camera which relays Torres’s theories – illustrated with crayon squiggles – on to a
screen behind him.
5. His inquisitive mind produces interconnected ideas about Catholicism, the blandness of Pixar and
what orange sounds like, while his insights train us to spot “highly purple behaviour”.

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Section II — Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DI & LR)
22 questions

QUESTION NUMBERS 1 TO 4

There are six spherical balls, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, and B6, and four circular hoops H1, H2, H3, and H4.
Each ball was tested on each hoop once, by attempting to pass the ball through the hoop. If the diameter
of a ball is not larger than the diameter of the hoop, the ball passes through the hoop and makes a
“ping”. Any ball having a diameter larger than that of the hoop gets stuck on that hoop and does not
make a ping.

The following additional information is known:

B1 and B6 each made a ping on H4, but B5 did not.
B4 made a ping on H3, but B1 did not.
All balls, except B3, made pings on H1.
None of the balls, except B2, made a ping on H2.

1. What was the total number of pings made by B1, B2, and B3?
(TITA — type in your answer)

2. Which of the following statements about the relative sizes of the balls is NOT NECESSARILY true?
1. B2 < B1 < B5 2. B1 < B5 < B3
3. B4 < B5 < B3 4. B1 < B6 < B3

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4. What BEST can be said about the total number of pings from all the tests undertaken?
1. 13 or 14 2. 12 or 13
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7. Which of the following statements is/are NECESSARILY true?
i. Arman wrote three-author papers only with Chintan and Devon.
ii. Brajen wrote three-author papers only with Chintan and Devon.
1. Neither i or ii 2. Both i and ii
3. Only ii 4. Only i

8. If Devon wrote more than one two-author papers, then how many two-author papers did Chintan write?
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QUESTION NUMBERS 9 TO 13

Ananya Raga, Bhaskar Tala, Charu Veena, and Devendra Sur are four musicians. Each of them started
and completed their training as students under each of three Gurus — Pandit Meghnath, Ustad Samiran,
and Acharya Raghunath between 2013 and 2024, including both the years. Each Guru trains any student
for consecutive years only, for a span of 2, 3, or 4 years, with each Guru having a different span. During
some of these years, a student may not have trained under these Gurus; however, they never trained
under multiple Gurus in the same year.

In none of these years, any of these Gurus trained more than two of these students at the same time.
When two students train under the same Guru at the same time, they are referred to as Gurubhai,
irrespective of their gender.

The following additional facts are known.

Ustad Samiran never trained more than one of these students in the same year.
Acharya Raghunath did not train any of these students during 2015-2018, as well as during 2021-24.
Ananya and Devendra were never Gurubhai; neither were Bhaskar and Charu. All other pairs of
musicians were Gurubhai for exactly 2 years.
In 2013, Ananya and Bhaskar started their trainings under Pandit Meghnath and under Ustad
Samiran, respectively.

9. In which of the following years were Ananya and Bhaskar Gurubhai?
1. 2020 2. 2018
3. 2021 4. 2014

10. In which year did Charu begin her training under Pandit Meghnath?
1. 2017 2. 2015
3. 2016 4. 2021

11. In which of the following years were Bhaskar and Devendra Gurubhai?
1. 2015 2. 2022
3. 2018 4. 2020

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12. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
1. Ananya was training under Ustad Samiran in 2. Charu was training under Ustad Samiran in
2015. 2019.
3. Ananya was training under Ustad Samiran in 4. Charu was training under Ustad Samiran in
2018. 2018.

13. In how many of the years between 2013-24, were only two of these four musicians training under these
three Gurus?
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QUESTION NUMBERS 14 TO 17

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question is related to SI of six countries – A, B, C, D, E, and F – at three different points in time – 2016,
2020, and 2024. The plot represents the exact changes in their SI, with X-coordinate representing %
increase in 2020 from 2016, i.e., (SI in 2020 minus SI in 2016) / (SI in 2016), and Y-coordinate
representing % increase in 2024 from 2020. At any point in time, the country with highest SI is ranked
1, while the country with the lowest SI is ranked 6. The following additional facts are known.

In 2016, B, C, E, and A had ranks 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively.
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14. What was the SI of E in 2016?
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15. What was the SI of F in 2020?
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16. What was the SI of C in 2024?
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17. What was the SI of B in 2024?
1. 54 2. 45
3. 60 4. 80

QUESTION NUMBERS 18 TO 22

The two most populous cities and the non-urban region (NUR) of each of three states, Whimshire,
Fogglia, and Humbleset, are assigned Pollution Measures (PMs). These nine PMs are all distinct
multiples of 10, ranging from 10 to 90. The six cities in increasing order of their PMs are: Blusterburg,
Noodleton, Splutterville, Quackford, Mumpypore, Zingaloo.

The Pollution Index (PI) of a state is a weighted average of the PMs of its NUR and cities, with a weight
of 50% for the NUR, and 25% each for its two cities.
There is only one pair of an NUR and a city (considering all cities and all NURs) where the PM of the
NUR is greater than that of the city. That NUR and the city both belong to Humbleset.

The PIs of all three states are distinct integers, with Humbleset and Fogglia having the highest and the
lowest PI respectively.

18. What is the PI of Whimshire?
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19. What is the PI of Fogglia?
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20. What is the PI of Humbleset?
(TITA — type in your answer)

21. Which pair of cities definitely belong to the same state?
1. Splutterville, Quackford 2. Mumpypore, Zingaloo
3. Noodleton, Quackford 4. Blusterburg, Mumpypore

22. For how many of the cities and NURs is it possible to identify their PM and the state they belong to?
(TITA — type in your answer)

Section III — Quantitative Ability (QA)

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22 questions

1. In a , points and are on the sides and , respectively. and intersect at point
such that , and . Point lies on such that is parallel to
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1. 2.

3. 4.

2. Let and . Then, the domain of the function is
all real numbers except
1. 2.
and and
3. 4.
and and

3. The set of all real values of for which , is
1. 2.

3. 4.

4. If , then the product of all possible values of is

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. Ankita is twice as efficient as Bipin, while Bipin is twice as efficient as Chandan. All three of them start
together on a job, and Bipin leaves the job after days. If the job got completed in days, the number
of days needed by Chandan to complete the job alone, is
(TITA — type in your answer)

6. If , where , and are positive real numbers, then the minimum
possible value of is
1. 2.

3. 4.

7. The number of divisors of , which are of the form , where is a non-
negative integer, is
1. 2.

3. 4.

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eighth day, and the average number of copies sold per day from a second day to ninth day becomes .
The number of copies sold on the first day of the book launch is
(TITA — type in your answer)

9. Suppose are three distinct natural numbers, such that . Then, the smallest possible
value of is
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11. Let be a regular hexagon and and be the midpoints of and , respectively. Then,
the ratio of the areas of trapezium and hexagon is
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13. A mixture of coffee and cocoa, of which is coffee, costs Rs per kg. Another mixture of coffee
and cocoa, of which is coffee, costs Rs per kg. If a new mixture of coffee and cocoa costs Rs.
per kg, then the quantity, in kg, of coffee in kg of this new mixture is
1. 2.
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3. 4.

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16. Rita and Sneha can row a boat at km/h and km/h in still water, respectively. In a river flowing with a
constant velocity, Sneha takes minutes more to row km upstream than to row the same distance
downstream. If Rita starts from a certain location in the river, and returns downstream to the same
location, taking a total of minutes, then the total distance, in km, Rita will cover is
(TITA — type in your answer)

17. Let be the term of a decreasing infinite geometric progression. If and
, then the sum of this geometric progression is
1. 2.

3. 4.

18. If and are integers such that their sum is , then minimum possible value of
is
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19. The sum of digits of the number , is
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20. An item with a cost price of Rs. is sold at a certain discount on a fixed marked price to earn a profit
of on the cost price. If the discount was doubled, the profit would have been Rs. . The rate of
discount, in percentage, at which the profit percentage would be equal to the rate of discount, is nearest
to
1. 2.

3. 4.

21. The equations and have one common root. The sum of the other
roots of these two equations is
1. 2.

3. 4.

22. The ratio of expenditures of Lakshmi and Meenakshi is , and the ratio of income of Lakshmi to
expenditure of Meenakshi is . If excess of income over expenditure is saved by Lakshmi and
Meenakshi, and the ratio of their savings is , then the ratio of their incomes is
1. 2.

3. 4.

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Answer Key

Section I — Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension

Q.No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Ans 4 3 2 4 3 4 4 1 3 3

Q.No 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Ans 2413 1423 3 3 3 1 1 2 3 3

Q.No 21 22 23 24

Ans 1 3 4 3

Section II — Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning

Q.No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Ans 6 4 3 2 4 1 2 3 1 2

Q.No 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Ans 2 2 4 60 40 84 2 45 35 50

Q.No 21 22

Ans 3 9

Section III — Quantitative Ability

Q.No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Ans 4 3 3 3 340 3 3 49 12 80

Q.No 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Ans 3 3 2 2 17 8 4 2 25 4

Q.No 21 22

Ans 1 2

MCQ answers are the correct option number (1–4). TITA answers are the numeric/sequence value.

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