What is the least number which should be added to 1330 to make it a perfect square?

If a number is divisible by 63, then it is also divisible by

Write 528/7 as a mixed fraction.

Which number should be subtracted from 876905 so that it can be divisible by 8?

Solve: 4/5 × 61/80 × 10/9

The population of a town three years ago was 'b' and the population of the town three years from now will be 'c'. What is the current population of the town, if it grows at the same rate?

In a scheme, a pack of three soaps with MRP Rs.45 is available for Rs.42. If it still gives a profit of 5% to the shopkeeper, then the cost price of the pack is

A man sells 12 candles for Rs.12 & loses Rs.2.40. If he sells 12 candies for Rs.16, how much does he gain or lose?

Shobhit bought 300 litres of milk at Rs.19 per litre. He added 200 litres of water to it and sold 400 litres of this milk at Rs.20 per litre. To the rest, he added 10 litres more water and then sold it for Rs.15 per litre. If he used mineral water that costs Rs.10 per litre, then the total money earned by Shobhit is

A car is 250 metres behind the bus. The car and bus are moving with the speed of 60 km/hr and 35 km/hr respectively. The car will be ahead of bus by 250 metres in

Rahul can finish one-fifth of his homework in one hour. Neha can finish three- seventh of her homework in one hour thirty minutes and Riya can finish three fourth of her homework in three hours thirty minutes. If all of them start their homework at 12.00 p.m. and can go to play as soon as they all finish their homework, when can they start to play, if they take a break at 3.30 p.m. for thirty minutes?

49 pumps can empty a reservoir in 61/2 days, working 8 hours a day. If 196 pumps are used for 5 hours a day, then the same work will be completed in how many days?

In an annual sale, there was a flat discount of 40% on all items. Komal bought a pair of jeans for Rs.480. What is the labelled price of the pair of jeans?

A detergent powder company is having a contest. Each pack of 1 kg contains one of the letters B, A, M and O. If in every 20 packs, there are four Bs, five As, ten Ms and one O what is the probability that a pack will have a B?

Which number should be multiplied by 43 so that it will have 3 prime factors?

Problem question: Four people – A, B, C and D are sitting in a row. Who is sitting at the extreme right? Statements:

I. C is to the left of D.

II. B is to the left of A.

1Pick the odd man out.

Aaron was riding his bike. He rode 50 meters south and took a left turn to ride another 70 meters. After that he took another left turn and rode 50 meters again and finally he took a right turn to ride 60 meters more. How far and in which direction is he from the starting point?

If COMPUTER is coded as GKQLYPIN, what is the code for SENATE?

AZP : ZAR :: TXK : ?

Suneeta moves a distance of 9 meters towards East. She then moves towards South and travels a distance of 4 meters. From here, she moves a distance of 6 meters towards West. How far is the starting point from her final position? Reduce

Charu is facing south. She walks 20 meters towards her left and takes a right turn to walk 10 meters. Then she takes another left turn to walk 30 meters. In Which direction is she standing now from her starting point?

Pointing to a woman, a man said, "Her father is the only son of my mother". How is the man related to the woman?

G3S : J3P :: L4X :?

Problem question: What is the monthly salary of my father?

Statements:

My father’s and mothers salaries are in the ratio 5: 2 respectively.

My mother’s salary is 40% of that of my father’s salary.

9, 54, 135, 252 ,……..

The world production of sugar has been reported to be very scarce as compared to the global sales for four years. The demand for sugar is extremely high but the supply has been low for quite some time now. This could be because of the awful weather and also because some chief sugar growers have switched to high­ priced jute. The price of sugar has soared in response to the phenomena of the demand supply disparity. The price of sugar now equals that of jute.

Of all the fitness and wellness activities customary in Indi a, Artistic yoga is the new kid in town. It has successfully earned a pat on the back from whosoever has lent an ear to the latest advancements. Artistic yoga combines the suaveness of yoga and the frenzy of modem cardio-vascular exercises. The technique involves performance of various aasanas and pranayams followed by walking on treadmill, stair climbing, cycling and so on. The activities are performed in a cyclic order and the aasana or pranayam that is done in the beginning is repeated in the end. This helps an Individual at the physical level as well as the mental and spiritual level, thus helping bring about a complete transformation of body, mind and soul.

1. Mosquito

2. Rat

3. Cockroach

4. Lizard

5. Dog

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Economists are a difficult lot to please and are _____ impressed by either an increase in government expenditure or a cut in taxes.

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

______ not being well, he still scored well in his exams.

Fill in the blank with the option that makes the sentence meaningfully complete.

Their car _____ near the gas station.

In the question a part of the sentence is italicized. Alternatives to the italicized part are given which may improve the construction of the sentence. Select the correct alternative. After Michael typed the letter, he gave it to Jane to sign.

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Ravi put _____ the light and slept.

Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer ignore the error of publication, if any.

(A) It also aids (B) in digestion and act (C) as a blood purifier.

Improve the sentence by selecting the correct alternative to the italicized part of the sentence.

They always talk loudly in the library. Don’t they know about the rules?

Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

VEHEMENT

Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

GENERIC

Fill in the blank with the option that makes the sentence meaningfully complete.

It was time for him to take the _______ and bring the protest to an end.

Select the option that is most nearly opposite to the given word

CLARIFY (OPPOSITE)

Select the option that is most nearly opposite to the given word

CONSTITUENT (OPPOSITE)

Select the option that is most nearly opposite to the word given in bold.

He warned the team that they should not undermine their competitor’s strength.

The question consists of 6 sentences. S1 and S6 represent the first and the last sentences of a passage respectively. Arrange the sentences P, Q, R and S between S1 and S6, to form a complete meaningful passage.

S1: Politeness is not a quality possessed by only one nation or race.

S6: In any case, we should not mock at other’s habits.

P: One may observe that a man of one nation will remove his hat or fold his hands by way of greetings when he meets someone he knows.

Q: A man of another country will not do so.

R: It is a quality to be found among all peoples and nations in every corner of the earth.

S: obviously, each person follows the custom of his particular country.

Passage:

Sixty years ago, on the evening of August 14, 1947, a few hours before Britain’s Indian Empire was formally divided into the nation-states of India and Pakistan, Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina, sat down in the Viceregalmansion in New Delhi to watch the latest Bob Hope movie, “My Favourite Brunette.” Large parts of the subcontinent were descending into chaos, as the implications of partitioning the Indian Empire along religious lines became clear to the millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs caught on the wrong side of the border. In the next few months, some twelve million people would be uprooted and as many as murdered. But on that night in mid-August the bloodbath and the fuller consequences of hasty imperial retreat-still lay in the future and the Mountbatten’s probably felt they had earned their evening’s entertainment.

While the Mountbattens were sitting down to their Bob Hope movie, India’s constituent assembly was convening in New Delhi. The moment demanded grandlicquence, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi’s closest disciple and soon to be India’s first Prime Minister, provided it. “Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny” he said. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when step out from the old to the row, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

Posterity has enshrined this speech, as Nehru clearly intended. But today his quaint phrase “tryst with destiny” resonates ominously, so enduring have been the political and psychological scars of partition. The souls of the two new nation-states immediately found utterance in brutal enmity. In Punjab, armed vigilante groups organized along religious lines and incited by local politicians, murdered countless people, abducting and raping thousands of women. Soon, India and Pakistan were fighting a war the first of three-over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Gandhi, reduced to despair by the seemingly endless cycle of retaliatory mass murders and displacement, was shot dead in January, 1948, by a Hindu extremist who believed that the father of the Indian nation was too soft on Muslims. Jinnah, racked with tuberculosis and overwork, died a few months later, his dream of secular Pakistan apparently buried with him.

Choose the correct answer based on the passage.

In the view of the author, what does Nehru’s phrase ‘tryst with destiny” symbolise today?

Passage:

Sixty years ago, on the evening of August 14, 1947, a few hours before Britain’s Indian Empire was formally divided into the nation-states of India and Pakistan, Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina, sat down in the Viceregalmansion in New Delhi to watch the latest Bob Hope movie, “My Favourite Brunette.” Large parts of the subcontinent were descending into chaos, as the implications of partitioning the Indian Empire along religious lines became clear to the millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs caught on the wrong side of the border. In the next few months, some twelve million people would be uprooted and as many as murdered. But on that night in mid-August the bloodbath and the fuller consequences of hasty imperial retreat-still lay in the future and the Mountbatten’s probably felt they had earned their evening’s entertainment.

While the Mountbattens were sitting down to their Bob Hope movie, India’s constituent assembly was convening in New Delhi. The moment demanded grandlicquence, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi’s closest disciple and soon to be India’s first Prime Minister, provided it. “Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny” he said. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when step out from the old to the row, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

Posterity has enshrined this speech, as Nehru clearly intended. But today his quaint phrase “tryst with destiny” resonates ominously, so enduring have been the political and psychological scars of partition. The souls of the two new nation-states immediately found utterance in brutal enmity. In Punjab, armed vigilante groups organized along religious lines and incited by local politicians, murdered countless people, abducting and raping thousands of women. Soon, India and Pakistan were fighting a war the first of three-over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Gandhi, reduced to despair by the seemingly endless cycle of retaliatory mass murders and displacement, was shot dead in January, 1948, by a Hindu extremist who believed that the father of the Indian nation was too soft on Muslims. Jinnah, racked with tuberculosis and overwork, died a few months later, his dream of secular Pakistan apparently buried with him.

Choose the correct answer based on the passage.

Why was Gandhi assassinated?

Passage:

Sixty years ago, on the evening of August 14, 1947, a few hours before Britain’s Indian Empire was formally divided into the nation-states of India and Pakistan, Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina, sat down in the Viceregalmansion in New Delhi to watch the latest Bob Hope movie, “My Favourite Brunette.” Large parts of the subcontinent were descending into chaos, as the implications of partitioning the Indian Empire along religious lines became clear to the millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs caught on the wrong side of the border. In the next few months, some twelve million people would be uprooted and as many as murdered. But on that night in mid-August the bloodbath and the fuller consequences of hasty imperial retreat-still lay in the future and the Mountbatten’s probably felt they had earned their evening’s entertainment.

While the Mountbattens were sitting down to their Bob Hope movie, India’s constituent assembly was convening in New Delhi. The moment demanded grandlicquence, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi’s closest disciple and soon to be India’s first Prime Minister, provided it. “Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny” he said. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when step out from the old to the row, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

Posterity has enshrined this speech, as Nehru clearly intended. But today his quaint phrase “tryst with destiny” resonates ominously, so enduring have been the political and psychological scars of partition. The souls of the two new nation-states immediately found utterance in brutal enmity. In Punjab, armed vigilante groups organized along religious lines and incited by local politicians, murdered countless people, abducting and raping thousands of women. Soon, India and Pakistan were fighting a war the first of three-over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Gandhi, reduced to despair by the seemingly endless cycle of retaliatory mass murders and displacement, was shot dead in January, 1948, by a Hindu extremist who believed that the father of the Indian nation was too soft on Muslims. Jinnah, racked with tuberculosis and overwork, died a few months later, his dream of secular Pakistan apparently buried with him.

Choose the correct answer based on the passage.

What does the author imply about the future of Pakistan?

Passage:

Sixty years ago, on the evening of August 14, 1947, a few hours before Britain’s Indian Empire was formally divided into the nation-states of India and Pakistan, Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina, sat down in the Viceregalmansion in New Delhi to watch the latest Bob Hope movie, “My Favourite Brunette.” Large parts of the subcontinent were descending into chaos, as the implications of partitioning the Indian Empire along religious lines became clear to the millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs caught on the wrong side of the border. In the next few months, some twelve million people would be uprooted and as many as murdered. But on that night in mid-August the bloodbath and the fuller consequences of hasty imperial retreat-still lay in the future and the Mountbatten’s probably felt they had earned their evening’s entertainment.

While the Mountbattens were sitting down to their Bob Hope movie, India’s constituent assembly was convening in New Delhi. The moment demanded grandlicquence, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi’s closest disciple and soon to be India’s first Prime Minister, provided it. “Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny” he said. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when step out from the old to the row, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

Posterity has enshrined this speech, as Nehru clearly intended. But today his quaint phrase “tryst with destiny” resonates ominously, so enduring have been the political and psychological scars of partition. The souls of the two new nation-states immediately found utterance in brutal enmity. In Punjab, armed vigilante groups organized along religious lines and incited by local politicians, murdered countless people, abducting and raping thousands of women. Soon, India and Pakistan were fighting a war the first of three-over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Gandhi, reduced to despair by the seemingly endless cycle of retaliatory mass murders and displacement, was shot dead in January, 1948, by a Hindu extremist who believed that the father of the Indian nation was too soft on Muslims. Jinnah, racked with tuberculosis and overwork, died a few months later, his dream of secular Pakistan apparently buried with him.

Choose the correct answer based on the passage.

The author persists on talking about the “Bob Hope movie” in the article. Why?

Passage;

The economic transformation of India is one of the great business stories of our time. As stifling government regulations have been lifted, entrepreneurship has flourished, and the country has become a high-powered center for Information technology and pharmaceuticals. Indian companies like Infosys and Wipro are powerful global players, while Western firms like G.E. and I.B.M. now have major research facilities in India employing thousands. India’s seemingly endless flow of young, motivated engineers, scientists, and managers offering developed-world skills at developing-world wages is held to be putting American jobs at risk, and the country is frequently heralded as “the next economic superpower.”

But India has run into a surprising hitch on its way to superpower status: its inexhaustible supply of workers is becoming exhausted. Although India has one of the youngest workforces on the planet, the head of Infosys said recently that there was an “acute shortage of skilled manpower,” and a study projects that this year salaries for skilled workers will rise fourteen and a half percent, a sure sign that demand for skilled labor is outstripping supply.

How is this possible in a country that every year produces two and a half million college graduates and four hundred thousand engineers? Start with the fact that just ten percent of Indians get any kind of post-secondary education, compared with some fifty percent who do in the U.S. Moreover, of that ten percent, the vast majority go to one of India’s seventeen thousand colleges, many of which are closer to community colleges than to four-year institutions. India does have more than three hundred universities, but a recent survey by the London Times higher Education Supplement put only two of them among the top hundred in the world. Many Indian graduates therefore enter the workforce with a low level of skills. A current study led by VivekWadhwa, of Duke University, has found that if you define “engineer” by U.S. standards, India produces just a hundred and seventy thousand engineers a year, not four hundred thousand. Infosys says that, of 1.3 million applicants for jobs last year, it found only two percent acceptable.

India has taken tentative steps to remedy its skills femine the current government has made noises about doubling spending on education, and a host of new colleges and universities have sprung up since the mid-nineties. But India’s impressive economic performance has made the problem seem less urgent than it actually is, and allowed the government to defer difficult choices. (In a country where more than three million people live on a dollar a day, producing college graduates can seem like a low priority.) Ultimately the indian government has to oull off a very tough trick making serious changes at a time when things seem to be going very well. It needs, in other words, a clear sense of everything that can still go wrong. The paradox of the Indian economy today is that the more certain its glowing future seems to be, the less likely that future becomes.

What is an appropriate title to the passage?

Passage;

The economic transformation of India is one of the great business stories of our time. As stifling government regulations have been lifted, entrepreneurship has flourished, and the country has become a high-powered center for Information technology and pharmaceuticals. Indian companies like Infosys and Wipro are powerful global players, while Western firms like G.E. and I.B.M. now have major research facilities in India employing thousands. India’s seemingly endless flow of young, motivated engineers, scientists, and managers offering developed-world skills at developing-world wages is held to be putting American jobs at risk, and the country is frequently heralded as “the next economic superpower.”

But India has run into a surprising hitch on its way to superpower status: its inexhaustible supply of workers is becoming exhausted. Although India has one of the youngest workforces on the planet, the head of Infosys said recently that there was an “acute shortage of skilled manpower,” and a study projects that this year salaries for skilled workers will rise fourteen and a half percent, a sure sign that demand for skilled labor is outstripping supply.

How is this possible in a country that every year produces two and a half million college graduates and four hundred thousand engineers? Start with the fact that just ten percent of Indians get any kind of post-secondary education, compared with some fifty percent who do in the U.S. Moreover, of that ten percent, the vast majority go to one of India’s seventeen thousand colleges, many of which are closer to community colleges than to four-year institutions. India does have more than three hundred universities, but a recent survey by the London Times higher Education Supplement put only two of them among the top hundred in the world. Many Indian graduates therefore enter the workforce with a low level of skills. A current study led by VivekWadhwa, of Duke University, has found that if you define “engineer” by U.S. standards, India produces just a hundred and seventy thousand engineers a year, not four hundred thousand. Infosys says that, of 1.3 million applicants for jobs last year, it found only two percent acceptable.

India has taken tentative steps to remedy its skills femine the current government has made noises about doubling spending on education, and a host of new colleges and universities have sprung up since the mid-nineties. But India’s impressive economic performance has made the problem seem less urgent than it actually is, and allowed the government to defer difficult choices. (In a country where more than three million people live on a dollar a day, producing college graduates can seem like a low priority.) Ultimately the indian government has to oull off a very tough trick making serious changes at a time when things seem to be going very well. It needs, in other words, a clear sense of everything that can still go wrong. The paradox of the Indian economy today is that the more certain its glowing future seems to be, the less likely that future becomes.

Why are salaries for skilled workers rising?

Passage;

The economic transformation of India is one of the great business stories of our time. As stifling government regulations have been lifted, entrepreneurship has flourished, and the country has become a high-powered center for Information technology and pharmaceuticals. Indian companies like Infosys and Wipro are powerful global players, while Western firms like G.E. and I.B.M. now have major research facilities in India employing thousands. India’s seemingly endless flow of young, motivated engineers, scientists, and managers offering developed-world skills at developing-world wages is held to be putting American jobs at risk, and the country is frequently heralded as “the next economic superpower.”

But India has run into a surprising hitch on its way to superpower status: its inexhaustible supply of workers is becoming exhausted. Although India has one of the youngest workforces on the planet, the head of Infosys said recently that there was an “acute shortage of skilled manpower,” and a study projects that this year salaries for skilled workers will rise fourteen and a half percent, a sure sign that demand for skilled labor is outstripping supply.

How is this possible in a country that every year produces two and a half million college graduates and four hundred thousand engineers? Start with the fact that just ten percent of Indians get any kind of post-secondary education, compared with some fifty percent who do in the U.S. Moreover, of that ten percent, the vast majority go to one of India’s seventeen thousand colleges, many of which are closer to community colleges than to four-year institutions. India does have more than three hundred universities, but a recent survey by the London Times higher Education Supplement put only two of them among the top hundred in the world. Many Indian graduates therefore enter the workforce with a low level of skills. A current study led by VivekWadhwa, of Duke University, has found that if you define “engineer” by U.S. standards, India produces just a hundred and seventy thousand engineers a year, not four hundred thousand. Infosys says that, of 1.3 million applicants for jobs last year, it found only two percent acceptable.

India has taken tentative steps to remedy its skills femine the current government has made noises about doubling spending on education, and a host of new colleges and universities have sprung up since the mid-nineties. But India’s impressive economic performance has made the problem seem less urgent than it actually is, and allowed the government to defer difficult choices. (In a country where more than three million people live on a dollar a day, producing college graduates can seem like a low priority.) Ultimately the indian government has to oull off a very tough trick making serious changes at a time when things seem to be going very well. It needs, in other words, a clear sense of everything that can still go wrong. The paradox of the Indian economy today is that the more certain its glowing future seems to be, the less likely that future becomes.

Inthe third sentence of the third paragraph of the passage, the phrase “closer to community colleges” is used. What does it imply?

Passage;

The economic transformation of India is one of the great business stories of our time. As stifling government regulations have been lifted, entrepreneurship has flourished, and the country has become a high-powered center for Information technology and pharmaceuticals. Indian companies like Infosys and Wipro are powerful global players, while Western firms like G.E. and I.B.M. now have major research facilities in India employing thousands. India’s seemingly endless flow of young, motivated engineers, scientists, and managers offering developed-world skills at developing-world wages is held to be putting American jobs at risk, and the country is frequently heralded as “the next economic superpower.”

But India has run into a surprising hitch on its way to superpower status: its inexhaustible supply of workers is becoming exhausted. Although India has one of the youngest workforces on the planet, the head of Infosys said recently that there was an “acute shortage of skilled manpower,” and a study projects that this year salaries for skilled workers will rise fourteen and a half percent, a sure sign that demand for skilled labor is outstripping supply.

How is this possible in a country that every year produces two and a half million college graduates and four hundred thousand engineers? Start with the fact that just ten percent of Indians get any kind of post-secondary education, compared with some fifty percent who do in the U.S. Moreover, of that ten percent, the vast majority go to one of India’s seventeen thousand colleges, many of which are closer to community colleges than to four-year institutions. India does have more than three hundred universities, but a recent survey by the London Times higher Education Supplement put only two of them among the top hundred in the world. Many Indian graduates therefore enter the workforce with a low level of skills. A current study led by VivekWadhwa, of Duke University, has found that if you define “engineer” by U.S. standards, India produces just a hundred and seventy thousand engineers a year, not four hundred thousand. Infosys says that, of 1.3 million applicants for jobs last year, it found only two percent acceptable.

India has taken tentative steps to remedy its skills femine the current government has made noises about doubling spending on education, and a host of new colleges and universities have sprung up since the mid-nineties. But India’s impressive economic performance has made the problem seem less urgent than it actually is, and allowed the government to defer difficult choices. (In a country where more than three million people live on a dollar a day, producing college graduates can seem like a low priority.) Ultimately the indian government has to oull off a very tough trick making serious changes at a time when things seem to be going very well. It needs, in other words, a clear sense of everything that can still go wrong. The paradox of the Indian economy today is that the more certain its glowing future seems to be, the less likely that future becomes.

According to the passage, what is the paradox of the Indian economy today?