General Aptitude

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly. By the time the inspectors arrive next Monday, the accounts team ______ the quarterly reconciliation.

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly. Neither the head of the department nor her two assistants ______ informed about the change in the timetable.

Which of the following sentences is/are grammatically correct?

The finished bridge was a far cry from the elegant design shown at the launch. As used in the sentence, a far cry from means

The new rules are meant to check the spread of the disease. In which one of the following sentences is check used in the same sense as in the sentence above?

In 1990 a coastal district had 40 fishing cooperatives. Thirty years later it had 25, yet the total catch landed by the district's cooperatives had increased over the same period. The district's fisheries office believes that most of the fall in number came from mergers, in which smaller cooperatives joined larger ones that owned motorised boats. Based only on the passage, which one of the following must be true?

A city plans to reduce the traffic jams on its main road by doubling the number of buses on that route. The planners argue that because a bus carries far more people for each metre of road it occupies than a car does, the extra buses will reduce the number of cars on the road at peak hours. The planners' argument depends on which one of the following assumptions?

The four sentences P, Q, R and S below are in jumbled order. Which one of the following orders makes a coherent paragraph? P: Within a decade, however, the tank had silted up, and the wells it fed began to run dry each summer. Q: In 1962 the villagers of a dry upland district dug a large tank to store the monsoon rain. R: The committee's first decision was to remove the silt every year before the rains, a rule that has kept the wells full ever since. S: Alarmed, the elders formed a committee of water users to look after the tank.

Odometer : distance :: Anemometer : ______ Which one of the following completes the analogy?

Statements: 1. Some routers in the lab are configured. 2. No configured device is faulty. Which one of the following conclusions follows logically from the two statements?

In an office the following rules always hold. 1. Everyone who works on a Saturday gets the following Monday off. 2. Nobody who gets a Monday off attends that Monday's review meeting. 3. Every member of the audit team works on every Saturday. Ravi attended last Monday's review meeting. Which of the following must be true?

Six colleagues F, G, H, J, K and L sit in a row of six chairs numbered 1 to 6 from left to right, one to a chair. To the right of means in a higher-numbered chair. 1. H sits immediately to the right of K. 2. J does not sit next to G. 3. Exactly two people sit between F and L. 4. L sits somewhere to the left of G. 5. H does not sit next to L. Who sits in chair 4?

A worker's monthly wage is raised by 15% in April and the new wage is then cut by 10% in October. The October wage is what percentage of the wage before April? Give the answer rounded off to one decimal place.

If log₂ x + log₄ x + log₈ x = 11, what is the value of x? Give the answer as an integer.

Alloy X contains copper and zinc in the ratio 3 : 2 by mass, and alloy Y contains them in the ratio 2 : 5 by mass. Equal masses of X and Y are melted together. What is the ratio of copper to zinc by mass in the new alloy?

Find the value of 1/2 + 2/4 + 3/8 + 4/16 + ... + 10/1024, where the k-th term is k/2ᵏ and there are ten terms. Give the answer rounded off to three decimal places.

The six letters P, P, Q, Q, R and S are arranged in a row. Arrangements that differ only by swapping the two P's or the two Q's count as the same. In how many arrangements are the two P's not next to each other and the two Q's not next to each other? Give the answer as an integer.

A rectangular lawn 30 m long and 20 m wide has a path 2 m wide running all around it, outside the lawn. What is the area of the path?

A sector with central angle 216° is cut from a circle of radius 10 cm, and its two straight edges are joined, without overlap, to form the curved surface of a right circular cone. The volume of the cone is kπ cm³. What is the value of k? Give the answer as an integer.

The number of calls received by a help desk on eight days was 12, 15, 9, 15, 21, 18, 15 and 11. Which of the following statements is/are correct?

A bag holds 4 red and 6 blue balls. Three balls are drawn one after another without replacement. Given that at least one of the three balls drawn is red, what is the probability that exactly two of them are red?

The pie chart shows how a household's monthly spending of Rs 30,000 is divided. What is the central angle, in degrees, of the sector for Savings? Give the answer as an integer.

A wall clock without numerals shows 4:35. It is seen in a plane mirror held at its side, so that left and right are swapped while the 12 position stays at the top. What time does the clock appear to show in the mirror?

A square sheet of paper is marked into a 4 by 4 grid of equal squares; (r, c) means row r from the top and column c from the left. The sheet is folded three times, each fold flat: 1. The left half is folded over onto the right half. 2. The bottom half of the folded piece is folded up onto its top half. The piece now covers the squares (1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 3) and (2, 4) of the original position. 3. The piece is folded along its diagonal that joins its top-right corner to its bottom-left corner, the lower-right triangle going over onto the upper-left triangle. A small hole is then punched through all the layers at the point lying over the centre of square (1, 3). Which squares have a hole when the sheet is fully unfolded?