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Study the following information and answer the question given below:

Twelve friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L were born in different months of the same year. A was born in the month of April and G was born in the month of August. J was born the month immediately preceding the month in which K was born and immediately succeeding the month in which C was born. J was not born in the month of October nor in February. There is a gap of two months between the birthdays of L and B. There were 30 Days in the month in which L was born. D was born in the month immediately after the month in which I was born. There were 31 Days in the month in which D was born. There is a gap of one month between the birthdays of B and F. E and H were born in that months which had 31 Days each.

In which of the following months B was born ?

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Important Questions on Reading Comprehension

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The following Pie chart represents the percentage-wise distribution of 300 students of class X in a school in six different sections A, B, C, D, E and F.

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The table given below shows the number of boys of class X in six different sections A, B, C, D, E and F.

Section A B C D E F
Number of boys 36 26 34 28 x 20

If in section E, the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls is 3 : 4, then find the ratio of the number of boys in section E to the number of girls in section C.

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Study the paragraph and answer the question that follows:

At this stage of civilization, when many nations are brought into close and vital contact for good and evil, it is essential, as never before, that their gross ignorance of one another should be diminished, that they should begin to understand a little of one another's historical experience and resulting mentality. It is the fault of the English to expect the people of other countries to react as they do, to political and international situations. Our genuine goodwill and good intentions are often brought to nothing because we expect other people to be like us. This would be corrected if we knew the history, not necessarily in detail but in broad outlines, of the social and political conditions which have given to each nation its present character.

The need for a greater understanding between nations:

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The sum of four consecutive even numbers is greater than sum of three consecutive odd numbers by 81. If the sum of least odd and even number is 59, then find the sum of the largest odd and even numbers.
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Find the number of solutions of a pair of linear equation 4x-9y+13=0 and 2x+3y-13=0.
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Read the paragraph and answer the question that follows:

Judiciary has become the centre of controversy, in the recent past, on account of the sudden 'Me' in the level of judicial intervention. The area of judicial intervention has been steadily expanding through the device of public interest litigation. The judiciary has shed its pro-status-quo approach and taken upon itself the duty to enforce the basic rights of the poor and vulnerable sections of society, by progressive interpretation and positive action. The Supreme Court has developed new methods of dispensing justice to the masses through public interest litigation. Former Chief Justice P. N. Bhagwati, under whose leadership public interest litigation attained a new dimension comments that "the Supreme Court has developed several new commitments. It has carried forward participative justice".

According to the author, the judiciary has become the centre of controversy because of: 

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Study the given pie chart and answer the question that follows.

Total number of students admitted in a college =700

Distribution of the percentage of students in various couses.

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Percentage-wise distribution of the number of boys.

Course Number of boys
B.Sc. Maths 40%
B.Sc. Physics 68%
B.Sc. Chemistry 58%
B.Sc. Computer science 80%
B.Com 75%
BBA 65%

The ratio of the total number of girls admitted in B.Sc maths to the total number of students admitted in B.Sc maths is_____.

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Given below is a statement followed by some conclusions. You have to take the given statement to be true even if it seems to be at variance with the commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statement.

Statement:

Hrithik, in spite of his busy schedule, finds time to rest.

Conclusions:

I. Hrithik is an organized person.

II. Rest is the most important thing for a busy person.

Decide the right option from below:

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The following Pie chart represents the percentage- wise distribution of 800 students of class XII in a school in six different sections A, B, C, D, E and F.

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The table given below shows the number of girls of class XII in six different sections A, B, C, D, E and F.

Section A B C D E F
Number of girls 102 80 104 98 0 60

The total number of girls in sections B, C and D together is what percentage more than the total number of boys in sections A, B and D together?

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Study the paragraph and answer the questions that follow:

Judiciary has become the centre of controversy, in the recent past, on account of the sudden 'Me' in the level of judicial intervention. The area of judicial intervention has been steadily expanding through the device of public interest litigation. The judiciary has shed its pro-status-quo approach and taken upon itself the duty to enforce the basic rights of the poor and vulnerable sections of society, by progressive interpretation and positive action. The Supreme Court has developed new methods of dispensing justice to the masses through the public interest litigation. Former Chief Justice P. N. Bhagwati, under whose leadership public interest litigation attained a new dimension comments that "the Supreme Court has developed several new commitments. It has carried forward participative justice".

According to Justice P. N. Bhagwati, the Supreme Court has developed:

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Directions: Read the given comprehension carefully and answer the question that follows.

At this stage of civilisation, when many nations are brought into close and vital contact for good and evil, it is essential, as never before, that their gross ignorance of one another should be diminished, that they should begin to understand a little of one another's historical experience and resulting mentality. It is the fault of the English to expect the people of other countries to react as they do, to political and international situations. Our genuine goodwill and good intentions are often brought to nothing because we expect other people to be like us. This would be corrected if we knew the history, not necessarily in detail but in broad outlines, of the social and political conditions which have given to each nation its present character.

According to the author, the mentality of a nation is the main product of its:

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How many solutions will a pair of linear equations have, if the equations are 4x+5y-6=0 and 16x+20y+20=0?
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Hundreds of Shanty towns line the river banks, train tracks, and garbage dumps in the Filipino capital. Around a quarter of its 12 million are considered 'informal settlers'. Manila is starkly representative of a global problem. According to the United Nations, about a quarter of the World's urban population lives in slums. Slum tourism takes outsiders through their most impoverished marginalized districts. Slum tourism sparks considerable debate around an uncomfortable moral dilemma. Many consider the practice little more than slack-jawed privileged people gawking at those less fortunate. Others argue they raise awareness and provide numerous examples of giving back to the local communities.
The nearest meaning of 'Gawking' in this paragraph would be:
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Find the value of x after solving the following equation. 
0.12× (5x - 4) = 0.5x + 0.8 
 
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Study the paragraph and answer the question that follows:

At this stage of civilization, when many nations are brought into close and vital contact for good and evil, it is essential, as never before, that their gross ignorance of one another should be diminished, that they should begin to understand a little of one another's historical experience and resulting mentality. It is the fault of the English to expect the people of other countries to react as they do, to political and international situations. Our genuine goodwill and good intentions are often brought to nothing because we expect other people to be like us. This would be corrected if we knew the history, not necessarily in detail but in broad outlines, of the social and political conditions which have given to each nation its present character.

The character of a nation is the result of its:

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Study the paragraph and answer the questions that follow:

Judiciary has become the centre of controversy, in the recent past, on account of the sudden 'Me' in the level of judicial intervention. The area of judicial intervention has been steadily expanding through the device of public interest litigation. The judiciary has shed its pro-status-quo approach and taken upon itself the duty to enforce the basic rights of the poor and vulnerable sections of society, by progressive interpretation and positive action. The Supreme Court has developed new methods of dispensing justice to the masses through the public interest litigation. Former Chief Justice P. N. Bhagwati, under whose leadership public interest litigation attained a new dimension comments that "the Supreme Court has developed several new commitments. It has carried forward participative justice".

The steady expansion of judicial intervention is the result of:

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Read the passage and answer the given question.

There seems to be no chilly distance existing between the German students and the professor, but, on the contrary, companionable intercourse, the opposite of chilliness and reserve. When the professor enters a beer hall in the evening where students are gathered together, they rise up and take off their caps and invite the old gentleman to sit with them and partake. He accepts, and the pleasant talk and the beer flow for an hour or two, and by and by the professor, properly charged and comfortable, gives a cordial good night, while the students stand bowing and uncovered, and then he moves on his happy way homeward with all his vast cargo of learning afloat in his hold. Nobody finds fault or feels outraged. No harm has been done.

What does the author mean by the phrase ‘no chilly distance’?

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Directions: The given question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

It's a crowd-pleasing story, but there has always been more to Threadless than mere monocracy. For instance, it also offers a line of Select T-shirts, featuring the work of well-established designers like Cody Hudson. The voting system is straightforward: users rate each submission on a 0-to-5 scale and offer comments that range from the constructive to the unprintable. _____.

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In the question is given a passage followed by several inferences. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.

Though the state cultivates only 3.2 lakh tonnes of mangoes, they are of premium quality and with mangoes becoming second most consumed fruit in the world after grapes, the government has been trying to export it through sea route which is cheaper. An experiment which was done in this regard last year, has proved successful.

Inference: Most of the other exports are conducted through sea routes which is cheaper.

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The given question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

But the ambition that lifted Rain (real name: Ji Hoon Jung)out of a one-room house in Seoul won't be sated by simply conquering the biggest continent on earth. Rain is looking east to the U.S., studying English day and night. He sold out two shows at Madison Square Garden's smaller venue in February, and that could be just a few drops of the deluge that some think will follow the release of his English-language debut album this fall. _____.

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Directions: The given question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

The idealism of philosophy consists in nothing else than in recognising that the finite has no veritable being. Every philosophy is essentially an idealism or at least has idealism for its principle, and the question then is only how far this principle is actually carried out. This is as true of philosophy as of religion; for religion equally does not recognise finitude as a veritable being, as something ultimate and absolute, or as something underived, uncreated, eternal. _____.