RK JHA Solutions for Chapter: Verbal and Logical Ability, Exercise 14: Solved Paper 2007

Directions : Choose the option that correctly unscrambles the paragraphs below.

I. You could try friendly competition, or set yourself team targets and agree that you'll all go out for an evening together if you meet them.

II. Presumably your team members have the same problem, so perhaps you could find collective incentives.

III. Work towards targets of your own, or promise yourself a reward for certain achievements.

IV. Or aim towards promotion or earning new responsibilities as an incentive to keep you enthusiastic.

V. Find ways to motivate yourself.

VI. Or simply make a point of congratulating each other on good work, even if the boss does not join in.

Directions  : Choose the option that correctly unscrambles the paragraphs below.

I. Individuals and firms moving into a new and unfamiliar field of activity are increasingly using information resources provided over the Internet.

I. The economic importance of a strong, viable business sector, especially a strong and viable small business sector with its potential for employment and export generation, makes it imperative that government agencies provide encouragement, leadership and effective support.
Governments undertake a wide variety of initiatives to achieve these ends and online information provision is one of many such initiatives.

IV. The power of the Internet to deliver information and services online offers an opportunity for governments to support businesses and the economies they serve.

V. Many small to medium-size enterprises may turn initially to a government agency for business related information, in part because they lack the confidence and financial resources to engage private consultants at the initial stages of the planning process.

VI. This is an important issue, both for government economic development strategies and to help them meet the rising public expectations of online service provision.

Directions : Choose the option that correctly unscrambles the paragraphs below.

I. Employees are seeing organizational leaders who appear to have only their personal interests in sight.

II. All the while, these same leaders appear to be walking away from their failures with multimillion-dollar exit bonuses or millions in for given 'loans'.

III. They are feeling increasingly expendable and disposable, all for the purpose of enriching CEOs and top leaders.

IV. Workers are feeling less and less connected with top management.

V. Some corporate leaders are simply losing touch.

VI. Those they lead are, understandably, losing confidence, and trust in their leaders.

Directions  : Analyse the statements given and provide an appropriate answer for the questions that follow.

Prediction, the hallmark of natural sciences, appears to have been possible by reducing phenomena to mathematical expressions. Some social scientists also want, the power to predict accurately and assume they ought to perform the same reduction. But this would be a mistake, it, would neglect data that are not easily mathematised and thereby would only distort the social phenomena.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conlusion of the argument?

Directions : Analyse the statements given and provide an appropriate answer for the questions that follow.

Chandra : Hailey's Comet, now in a part of its orbit relatively far from the Sun, recently flared brightly enough to be seen by telescope on earth. This has never happened before, so such a flare must be highly unusual.

Surya : Nonsense. Usually no one bothers to observe comets when they are so far from the Sun. This flare was observed only because an observatory was tracking Hailey's Comet very carefully. Surva challenges Chandra's reasoning by

Directions : Analyse the statements given and provide an appropriate answer for the questions that follow.

Most antidepressant drugs cause weight gain. While dieting can help reduce the amount of weight gained as one takes much antidepressants, some weight gain is unlikely to be preventable. The information above most strongly supports which one of the following ?

Directions  : Analyse the statements given and provide an appropriate answer for the questions that follow.

Industry experts expect improvements in job safety training prograimmes to lead to safer work environments. A recent survey indicated, however, that for manufacturers who improved job safety training programmes during the $1980$s, the number of on the job accidents increased in the months following the imparting of improved training programmes. Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the passage above ?

Directions : Analyse the statements given and provide an appropriate answer for the questions that follow.

The number of airplanes equipped with a new anti-collision device has increased steadily during the past two years. During the same period, it has become increasingly common for key information about an aeroplane's altitude and speed to disappear suddenly from air traffic controller's screens. The new anti-collision device, which operates at the same frequency as air traffic radar, is therefore responsible for the sudden disappearance of key information.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above ?