Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay Solutions for Chapter: CAT Previous Years' Questions, Exercise 5: CAT Archives

Directions for the question: Read the short passage given below and answer the question that follow it.

Cellular phone services are being provided by two companies in each telecom circle. These companies were awarded the contracts based on the licence fees they agreed to pay the government and were selected on a competitive basis. Cellular phone service providers have found that their profits are much less than they expected -in fact, in most cases they are losing money.

Which of the following can be inferred from the above passage?

Directions for the questions : Read each of the short passages given below and answer the questions that follow it

Organizations are often defined as groups of people who come together to pursue a common goal. But more often than not, goals diverge as much as they converge, making the rationality of the overall organization no more than an elusive ideal. Beneath the collective irrationality, however, organizations are often operating in a way that is eminently rational from the standpoint of the individuals, groups and coalitions directly involved.

Which of the following can be inferred from the above passage?

Directions for the questions : Read each of the short passages given below and answer the questions that follow it.

BSE officials point out that ever since on-line trading took off, surveillance isn't difficult any more. Sophisticated software has been installed for continuous monitoring of stock prices. If that is so, how could the unnatural spurt in prices of operator-driven stock go unnoticed? There does not seem to be regular checks or supervision.

Which of the following can be inferred from the above passage?

Directions for the questions : Read each of the short passages given below and answer the questions that follow it.

At a movie theatre in Bangalore, last year, the proprietor decided to sell about one-third of his total balcony capacity on the internet. The response was tremendous. On every new release, the entire on-line capacity was sold out. Today, there are at least 2 million educated and well-heeled consumers in India who are ordering everything from cinema tickets to paan and tennis racquets to shirts from the comfort of their offices or homes.

Which of the following can be inferred from the above passage?

Directions for the questions : Each passage below is followed by a question and four alternative answers. Select the best alternative.

In the Panchatantra, a woodpecker offered the following words of consolation to a hen sparrow whose eggs had been crashed by an elephant with spring fever:

For the lost and dead and past

The wise have no laments:

Between the wise and fools

Is just this difference.

This stanza highlights an important lesson that :

Directions for the questions : Each passage below is followed by a question and four alternative answers. Select the best alternative.

The Sanskrit text of the Laws of Manu were first translated into English in $1794$and translations into other European languages swiftly followed. For Nietzsche, the humane wisdom of Manu far surpassed that of the New Testament; for the British Raj, it seemed to be the perfect tool with which to rule the Hindu. No understanding of modern India is possible without it and in the richness of its ideas, its aphoristic profundity and its relevance to universal human dilemmas, Manu stands beside the great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabarata. The author of this passage