Read the following information carefully and answer the question, which follows:-
Despite the fact that renewal of cricketing ties between India and Pakistan is being pursued at the highest level at the centre. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has made it clear that all extra precautions will be taken before issuing Visa to Pakistan fans wanting to enjoy the proposed series later this year.
Which of the statements numbered (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) can be assumed from the facts/information given in the statement?
Despite the fact that renewal of cricketing ties between India and Pakistan is being pursued at the highest level at the centre. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has made it clear that all extra precautions will be taken before issuing Visa to Pakistan fans wanting to enjoy the proposed series later this year.
Important Questions on Passage Based Reasoning
Read the instructions and answer the following question: Four couples decided to play Holi. Each couple has used three different colours. No two couples have used the same combination of colours. A, B, C & D are women whereas P, Q, R & S are men.
(a) They used red, green, yellow and black colours.
(b) 'C' who is not the wife of 'S', used red colour.
(c) Wife of 'P' used yellow and black colours, but the wife of 'Q' used only one colour.
(d) 'A' is not the wife of 'P' or 'S'.
(e) Wifes of 'R' and 'S', both used red and yellow colours.
Who among the following is the husband of 'A'?
(A)Q
(B) P
(C) S
(D) R
Question is wrong and has been corrected.
Read the instructions and answer the following question: Four couples decided to play Holi. Each couple has used three different colours. No two couples have used the same combination of colours. A, B, C & D are women whereas P, Q, R & S are men.
(a) They used red, green, yellow and black colours.
(b) 'C' who is not the wife of 'S', used red colour.
(c) Wife of 'P' used yellow and black colours, but the wife of 'Q' used only one colour.
(d) 'A' is not the wife of 'P' or 'S'.
(e) Wifes of 'R' and 'S', both used red and yellow colours.
Who is wife of Q?
(A) B
(B) D
(C) A
(D) C
Question is wrong and has been corrected.
Four women A, B, C and D and four men E, F, G and H are sitting around circular table facing the centre:
a) No two women or two men are sitting side by side.
b) C, who is sitting between G and E, is facing D.
c) F is sitting between D and A and is facing G.
d) H is sitting to the right of B. Then who is facing E?
() if conclusion is definitely true
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Passage:
In the absence of an integrated sugar field-to-sale policy, the Indian sugar industry has become a victim of surplus production and price mismatch of sugar cane and finished sugar. Despite a lower estimated sugar production at around million tonnes for against million tonnes in the previous year, the total availability is put to million tonnes including a carry overstock of million tonnes from the previous year. Of this, the domestic consumption may not exceed million tonnes. Though the industry could export million tonnes to different countries during , this year's export policy, existing norms and international market conditions may bring down the export quantity to half a million tonnes.
There may be a fall in the sugar price during .
Directions: A passage is given below followed by an inference that can be drawn from the facts stated in the passage. You have to examine each condition as stated in options separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.
The domestic steel industry has been going through challenging ties with raw material prices rising unabated and the government trying to cap final product (steel) prices in order to keep inflation under check. Notably, the government has taken several measures in the past six months to keep a check on steel prices, which contribute around 3.63% of WPI. Now, after holding prices for three months the battle between the government and steel players has erupted again. With the anticipation of players increasing prices very soon, the government is trying to counter this with the imposition of a price band on steel products. The imposition of price band may unfairly treat the domestic industry as global steel prices are ruling at a 30% premium to domestic prices. Global prices have increased by 50% - 60% in 2008 as compared to just a 20% rise in the domestic market.
Inference - Some countries in the western world have fixed a price band for steel products in their domestic markets.
Mark your answer as:
() If the inference is definitely true.
() If the inference is probably true.
() If the data is inadequate.
() If the inference is probably false.
() If the inference is definitely false.
Passage:
The process of developmental planning in India is greatly dominated by experts and technocrats. But, it was not always so. Among the initial stalwarts in the Indian planning process, there were only a handful of economists. It was their political conviction and their pre-conceived political pattern of creating an economy and a society that gave them the specific stability in the path of development. Under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, there was some change in the scenario, and the reflection of electoral manifesto of the congress party was continually enhanced in the plans.
In the planning procedure, the common man is primary.
Which of the following option, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn by the researchers?
Below is given a passage followed by several possible inferences which can be drawn from the facts stated in the passage. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.
The latest data to show that the overall power situation has gotten worse, with the ratio for peak-load shortages now the highest in a decade. In absolute terms, the power deficit has hit record levels and seems almost certain to further deteriorate without real reforms on the ground. Even as aggressive technical and commercial losses. In the power system remain much high at over a third of total generation, pan-India capacity addition is now well below target. A shortage of equipment and skills is blamed for the marked slow down in augmenting power capacity. But the dearth of resources can only be relative. In fact, the real bane of the sector is continuing revenue leakage in the state power utilities and unacceptably high aggregate technical and commercial losses, much of it plain theft of electricity. Given the preponderance of state utilities in power supply, the fact that they remain very much in red does affect investor comfort and return funds flow.
Indian power generation is largely controlled by private sector.
ABC Country and XYZ Country make competing plans for the river Kango's precious water. The dams and hydropower projects planned are stated to have a potential of about MW. There is, however, apprehension in the ABC Country water and power ministries that XYZ Country's similar dam construction programs on the same river could adversely affect this potential.
A. Kango river passes through both the countries.
B. ABC Country should take the lead and begin construction of dams for hydropower projects before XYZ Country does.
C. Building cascades of dams at multiple locations in the river would have massive environmental impacts.
D. A dam built by XYZ Country on river Xang, close to ABC Country border, led to severe floods in ABC Country and some parts of XYZ Country last year.
E. Similar dams built on the river Xang which passes through both countries did not affect the power generating capacity of either dam.
Which of the statements A, B, C, D and E mentioned above would ease ABC Country's apprehensions regarding XYZ Country's similar dam construction projects?
Mark your answer as:
(1) If the inference is definitely true.
(2) If the inference is probably true.
(3) If the data is inadequate.
(4) If the inference is probably false.
(5) If the inference is definitely false.
Passage:
The process of developmental planning in India is greatly dominated by the experts and technocrats. But, it was not always so. Among the initial stalwarts in the Indian planning process there were only a handful of economists. It was their political conviction and their pre-conceived political pattern of creating an economy and a society which gave them the specific stability in the path of development. Under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, there was some change in the scenario, and the reflection of electoral manifesto of the congress party was continually enhanced in the plans.
Initially, the Indian Planning was free of the influence of ideology of the ruling party.
Directions: A passage is given below, followed by several possible inferences that can be drawn from the facts stated in the passage. You have to examine each inference separately from the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.
Privatisation is no panacea when it comes to education. Nor can high-cost intervention at the tertiary stage produce quality talent. The backbone of quality education is primary schooling. And improving that is not a question of funding. The government has taken some steps to improve the situation by increasing the percentage of allocation in the budget. But it has done precious little to increase the efficacy of public spending in education for that is a political and administrative task. Teachers who do not turn up to teach at rural schools (absenteeism is about 30% according to one estimate) and teachers who are not equipped or motivated to teach but continue in service with challenges are part of India’s socio-political reality.
Motivating primary school teachers and improving the attendance of these teachers are major challenges in India.
Three persons were caught with drugs in the city. Which of the following can be an effective courses of action logically follows for pursuing?
Mark answer () if the inference is definitely true, ie, it properly follows from the statement of facts given.
Mark answer () if the inference is probably true though not definitely true in the light of the facts given.
Mark answer () if the data are inadequate ie, from the facts given you can not say whether the inference is likely to be true or false.
Mark answer () if the inference is 'probably false though not 'definitely false' in the light of the facts given.
Mark answer () if the inference is definitely false' ie, it cannot possibly be drawn from the facts given Or it contradicts the given facts.
Passage
One of the promising features of the current market is that domestic institutions seem to have turned buyers after a very long time. They have been net buyers this month with inflows exceeding by Crore till early this month. That's admittedly a small amount, but its significance lies in the fact that domestic institutions have been net sellers every month this financial year except in September when their net purchase amounted to a microscopic Crore. This financial year's net sales by domestic institutions amounted to Crore, which has substantially offset the net inflows of Crore by Finis. The net purchase by domestic institutions could indicate that money is once again flowing into equity funds, eager not to miss the widely expected rally. Part of this reason could be a shift in investor portfolios, as people lighten up on debt and put that money into equity.
Domestic institutions have been consistently selling only in all the months in this financial year.
(1) If (A) is the effect and (B) is its immediate and principal cause.
(2) If (A) is the immediate and principal cause and (B) is its effect.
(3) If (B) and (A) is an individual effect.
(4) If (A) is an effect but (B) is not its immediate and principal cause.
(5) If (B) is an effect but (A) is not its immediate and principal cause.
Event (A): High inflation in India is not yet "the new normal" and RBI cannot afford to drop its guard.
Event (B): "Despite significant actions on policy rates and liquidity by the Reserve Bank of India, inflation remains high.
I. The police authority has recently caught a group of housebreakers.
II. The citizens group in the locality have started night vigil in the area.
ABC Country and XYZ Country make competing plans for the river Kango's precious water. The dams and hydropower projects planned are stated to have a potential of about MW. There is, however, apprehension in the ABC Country water and power ministries that XYZ Country's similar dam construction programs on the same river could adversely affect this potential.
A. Kango river passes through both the countries.
B. ABC Country should take the lead and begin construction of dams for hydropower projects before XYZ Country does.
C. Building cascades of dams at multiple locations in the river would have massive environmental impacts.
D. A dam built by XYZ Country on river Xang, close to ABC Country border, led to severe floods in ABC Country and some parts of XYZ Country last year.
E. Similar dams built on the river Xang which passes through both countries did not affect the power generating capacity of either dam.
Which of the statements A, B, C, D and E mentioned above would best represents a course of action which can be taken by the ABC country government to counter XYZ country's competing plans?
Which of the following, if true, ‘most strongly supports the Write Company's projection that its plan will lead to an increase in its sales of pencil leads?
(1) If (A) is the effect and (B) is its immediate and principal cause.
(2) If (A) is the immediate and principal cause and (B) is its effect.
(3) If (B) and (A) is an individual effect.
(4) If (A) is an effect but (B) is not its immediate and principal cause.
(5) If (B) is an effect but (A) is not its immediate and principal cause.
Event (A): Oil price can reach a new high in Iran.
Event (B): Demand of oil in global market is increasing.
The telecom department in India is badly managed. years ago, a new installation of a telephone cost only Rs. and would take around months. Since then, the price has increased fivefold, with an actual increase in the time taken to regularize a new installation.
All the following would tend to weaken the conclusion of the argument above except:
