eLitmus Sample Model Question Paper with answers

eLitmus Sample Model Question Paper with answers

1. What should come in the place of (?) in the given series?
ACE, FGH, ?, PON
(A) KKK
(B) JKI
(C) HJH
(D) IKL
Ans. (A)
2. Typist : Typewriter : : Writer: ?
(A) Script
(B) Pen
(C) Paper
(D) Book
Ans. (B)
3. Paint: Artist : : Wood: ?
(A) Furniture
(B) Forest
(C) Fire
(D) Carpenter
Ans. (D)
4. acme : mace :: alga: ?
(A) glaa
(B) gaal
(C) laga2
(D) gala
Ans. (D)
5. EIGHTY : GIEYTH : : OUTPUT:?
(A) UTOPTU
(B) UOTUPT
(C) TUOUTP
(D) TUOTUP
Ans. (D)
6. ‘Medicine’ is related to ‘Patient’ in the same way as ‘Education’ is related to—
(A) Teacher
(B) School
(C) Student
(D) Tuition
Ans. (C)
7. Fill in the missing letter in the following series—
S, V, Y, B, ?
(A) C
(B) D
(C) E
(D)G
Ans. (C)
8. What should come in the place of question mark in the following series?
3, 8, 6, 14, ?, 203
(A) 11
(B) 10
(C) 8
(D) 9
Ans. (D)
9. Select the correct option in place of the question mark.
AOP, CQR, EST, GUV, ?
(A) IYZ
(B) HWX
(C) IWX
(D) JWX
Ans. (C)
10. What should come in the place of question mark in the following series?
1, 4, 9, 25, 36, ?
(A) 48
(C) 52
(B) 49
(D) 56
Ans. (B)
Directions—(Q. 11 to 14): Select the one which is different from the other three.
11. (A) Bokaro
(B) Jamshedpur
(C) Bhilai
(D) Agra4
Ans. (D)
12. (A) January
(B) February
(C) July
(D) December
Ans. (B)
13. (A) Bible
(B) Panchsheel
(C) Geeta
(D) Quran
Ans. (B)
14. (A) Star
(B) Sun
(C) Sky
(D) Moon
Ans. (C)
Directions—(Q. 15 to 17): based on alphabets.
15. If the sequence of the alphabets is reversed which of the following would be the 14th letter from
your left?
(A) N
(B) L
(C) O
(D) None of these
Ans. (D)5
16. Which letter is the 8th letter to the right of the letter, which is 12th from the left?
(A) V
(B) T
(C) W
(D) Y
Ans. (B)
17. Which letter is the 8th letter to the right of the letter which is 10th to the left of the last but one
letter from the right?
(A) V
(B) X
(C) W
(D) I
Ans. (C)
Directions—(Q. 18 to 23) Three of the following four are alike in a certain way and so form a group.
Which is the one that does not belong to that group?
18. (A) Green
(B) Red
(C) Colour
(D) Orange
Ans. (C)
19. (A) Rabbit
(B) Crocodile
(C) Earthworm
(D) Snail
Ans. (A)6
20. (A) Polo
(B) Chess
(C) Ludo
(D) Carrom
Ans. (A)
21. (A) Sun
(B) Universe
(C) Moon
(D) Star
Ans. (B)
22. (A) Cheese
(B) Milk
(C) Curd
(D) Ghee
Ans. (B)
23. (A) Carrot
(B) Radish
(C) Potato
(D) Brinjal
Ans. (D)
24. In a certain code ‘CONTRIBUTOR’ is written as ‘RTNOCIROTUB’. How is ‘prohibition’ written in
that code?
(A) NOITIBIHORP7
(B) IHORPBITION
(C) ITIONBIHOTP
(D) IHORPBNOITI
Ans. (D)
25. If ‘CAT’ and ‘BOAT’ are written as XZG and ‘YLZG’ respectively in a code language how is ‘EGG’ to
be written in the same language?
(A) VSS
(B) URR
(C) VTT
(D) UTF
Ans. (C)
Directions—(Q. 1–15) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the
questions.
We should recognise the indebtedness of the country to its farm families who toil to safeguard
national food security. Loan waiver is the price we have to pay for the neglect of rural India over the
past several decades. There has been a gradual decline in investment in key sectors related to
agriculture such as infrastructure, marketing, post harvest technology etc. The four crore farmers
whose debt is to be relieved will be eligible for institutional credit for their cultivation expenses
during Kharif 2008. The challenge is to prevent them from getting into the debt trap again. For this
purpose the Central and various State governments should set up an Indebted Farmers’ Support
Consortium, comprising scientists, panchayat raj officials and others relevant to assisting farmers to
improve the profitability and productivity of their farms in an environmentally sustainable manner.
The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus to reduce indebtedness.
The Indebted Farmers’ Support Consortium should aim to get all the four crore farmers all the
benefits of the government schemes such as the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, Irrigation Benefit
Programme and others. If this is done, every farm family released from the debt trap should be able
to produce at least an additional half tonne per hectare of foodgrains. This should help increase food
production by about 20 million tonnes by 2008-10. At a time when global and national food stocks 8
are dwindling and prices are rising, this will be a timely gain for our national food security. We need
to ensure that the outcome of the debt waiver is enhanced farmers’ income and production. The
prevailing gap between potential and actual yields in the crops of rainfed areas such as pulses and
oilseeds is over 200 per cent even with the necessary technologies on the shelf. We are now
importing without duty large quantities of pulses and oilseeds. If helped, farmers can produce these
at a lower cost.
Opportunities for assured and remunerative marketing are essential if loan waiver is not to become
a recurring event leading to the destruction of the credit system. This is why the Minimum Support
Price is necessary for all, not just for a few crops which is the case at present. This is the single most
effective step to make loan waivers history. There is another urgent step which needs to be taken.
The loan waiver does not cover those who borrow from moneylenders. It will not be possible for the
government to scrutinise the veracity of such private deals but steps can be taken such as giving
them Smart Cards which will entitle them to essential inputs like seeds and fertilizers. The gram
sabha can be entrusted with the task of identifying these farmers so that there is transparency in the
process and elimination of the chances for falsification and corruption. Fear of occasional misuse
should not come in the way of enabling millions of poor farmers who have borrowed from informal
sources if we are to achieve the goal of four per cent growth in agriculture.
1. What is the likely impact of ensuring farmers’ benefit from government schemes ?
1. They can use the credit from these schemes to repay moneylenders.
2. The government can control the price rise.
3. Increased agricultural production.
(A) Both 1 and 2
(B) All 1, 2 and 3
(C) Only 3
(D) Both 2 and 3
(E) None of these
2. Why does the author feel that rural India has been overlooked in the past ?
1. Institutional credit was only made available for Kharif crops.
2. Drop in investment in central areas related to agriculture.
3. Records of those eligible for loan waivers have not been maintained over time.9
(A) Only 2
(B) Both 1 and 2
(C) Only 3
(D) All 1, 2 and 3
(E) None of these
3. How can small farmers avoid debt ?
(A) They need to acquire additional land holdings
(B) They need to take advantage of both government schemes as well as credit from moneylenders
(C) They have to ensure a sufficient amount of their farm produce is sold
(D) The Government should provide periodic loan waivers
(E) None of these
4. What is the objective of the Indebted Farmers’ Support Consortium ?
(A) It is a support group for the families of indebted farmers
(B) It has to devise new government schemes for farmers
(C) It has to track farmers eligible for government schemes
(D) It has to evaluate government schemes and weed out the inefficient ones
(E) None of these
5. What does the author mean by the phrase “indebtedness of the country to its farm families” ?
(A) If farmers are in debt it impacts the entire country
(B) Citizens should be grateful to farmers and their families for the hardships borne by them to
cultivate crops
(C) India’s food production has fallen causing it to be in debt since it has to import food
(D) The number of farmers’ descendants taking up agriculture has fallen.
(E) None of these10
6. What is the author’s opinion of recurring loan waivers ?
(A) They are beneficial to farmers
(B) They are detrimental to the system of lending.
(C) They will reduce the need for a Minimum Support Price for agricultural products
(D) Farmers will no longer be in debt to moneylenders
(E) None of these
7. Which of the following is TRUE in the context of the passage ?
(A) The Minimum Support Price for agricultural products is yet to be implemented
(B) Loan waiver is a permanent solution to indebtedness of farmers
(C) Current agricultural growth is below four per cent
(D) India’s food production has increased in 2008
(E) Moneylenders benefit from loan waivers
8. Why does the loan waiver not cover credit taken from moneylenders ?
1. It is difficult to verify these contracts between farmers and moneylenders.
2. It will increase the deficit in the budget.
3. There is a risk that the funds may be misappropriated.
(A) Both 1 and 3
(B) All 1, 2 and 3
(C) Only 2
(D) Both 1 and 2
(E) None of these
9. Why is there a vast gap in actual and potential yields of crops in rainfed areas ?
(A) The government prefers to import these crops at a lower rate
(B) No technological advances have been made to improve the growth of crops in these areas11
(C) There is no Minimum Support Price available for these crops
(D) Farmers are forced to sell these crops at a low rate
(E) None of these
10. How does the government intend to ensure transparency in the Smart card issuance process ?
(A) Screening private players involved in the scheme
(B) Granting access to those farmers who register with their local moneylenders
(C) Providing cards which cannot be forged
(D) Regularly rotating members of the gram sabha so there is no corruption
(E) None of these
Directions—(Q. 11–13) Choose the word which is most similar in meaning to the word printed in
bold as used in the passage.
11. assured
(A) insured
(B) definite
(C) doubted
(D) confident
(E) reliance
12. relieved
(A) exempted
(B) backed
(C) supported
(D) calmed
(E) substituted
13. gap12
(A) hole
(B) break
(C) pause
(D) difference
(E) interruption
Directions—(Q. 14–15) Choose the word which is most opposite in meaning to the word printed in
bold as used in the passage.
14. timely
(A) young
(B) lately
(C) overdue
(D) aged
(E) slowly
15. elimination
(A) authority
(B) forgiveness
(C) attack
(D) provision
(E) protection
Directions—(Q. 16–20) Which of the phrases (A), (B), (C) and (D) given below should replace the
phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and
correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and no correcton is required, mark (E) as the answer.
16. In order to control rising prices the government has restricted the export of certain commodities.
(A) For control of raised13
(B) In control of raised
(C) To control the rise
(D) By controlling rising
(E) No correction required
17. Over two crores will be required to renovate the building being damaged during the cyclone.
(A) that was damage
(B) which was damaged
(C) has been damaged
(D) been damaged
(E) No correction required
18. Small investors often suffer because of delays in getting its grievance redressed.
(A) their grievances redressed
(B) the grievances redress
(C) to redress grievance
(D) this grievances redressed
(E) No correction required
19. With the failure of the investment bank, the public’s confidence in the banking sector has been
how badly shaken.
(A) so badly shaken
(B) that much shaky
(C) badly shaken
(D) too badly shaky
(E) No correction required
20. A consultant is been appointed to advise us on the viability of the project.14
(A) appointed
(B) has been appointing
(C) will be appointed
(D) to be appointed
(E) No correction required
Directions—(Q. 21–25) Rearrange the following six sentences (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) in the
proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
(1) Expansion of retail banking especially has a lot of scope, since retail assets are just 22 per cent of
the total banking assets.
(2) Where they do not find it viable to open branches they may open satellite offices in these areas.
(3) There is tremendous scope for the expansion of banking in India.
(4) Banks can also diversify beyond cities to semi-urban and rural areas.
(5) In these ways a transition from class banking to mass banking can take place.
(6) They can also collaborate with local stakeholders in order to extend microcredit services to those
living there.
21. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
(E) 6
22. Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 415
(E) 5
23. Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
(E) 6
24. Which of the following should be the SIXTH (LAST) sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
(E) 5
25. Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
(E) 5
Directions—(Q. 1–5) Each sentence has one or two blanks. Choose the word or set of words that
best completes the sentence meaningfully.
1. He went to the library ……… to find that it was closed.
(A) seldom16
(B) never
(C) only
(D) solely
Ans : (C)
2. The ties that bind us together in common activity are so ………that they can disappear at any
moment.
(A) tentative
(B) tenuous
(C) consistent
(D) restrictive
Ans : (B)
3. Her reaction to his proposal was ………. She rejected it ……….
(A) inevitable–vehemently
(B) subtle–violently
(C) clever–abruptly
(D) sympathetic–angrily
Ans : (A)
4. His ……… directions misled us we did not know which of the two roads to take.
(A) complicated
(B) ambiguous
(C) narrow
(D) fantastic
Ans : (B)17
5. It would be difficult for one so ……… to believe that all men are equal irrespective of caste, race
and religion.
(A) emotional
(B) democratic
(C) intolerant
(D) liberal
Ans : (C)
Directions—(Q. 6–10) In each of the following sentences four words or phrases have been bold. Only
one bold part in each sentence is not accepted in standard English. Identify that part and mark its
letter (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your as answer.
6. Gaze for a thing (A) that are not (B) available easily (C) in the country is a universal phenomenon.
(D)
Ans : (B)
7. It is foolish to be expecting (A) one person to be like another (B) person, for (C) each individual is
born (D) with his characteristics traits.
Ans : (A)
8. The tendency to believe (A) that (B) man is inherently dishonest is something (C) that will be
decried. (D)
Ans : (D)
9. I have not come across very (A) few (B) people who (C) think of thing beyond (D) their daily work.
Ans : (B)
10. He managed to board (A) the running train (B) but all his luggages (C) was (D) left on the station.
Ans : (C)18
Directions—(Q. 11–15) Select the pair of words which are related in the same way as the capitalised
words are related to each other.
11. SCALES : JUSTICE : :
(A) Weights : Measures
(B) Laws : Courts
(C) Torch : Liberty
(D) Launch : Peace
Ans : (C)
12. HOBBLE : WALK : :
(A) Gallop : Run
(B) Stammer : Speak
(C) Stumble : Fall
(D) Sniff : Smell
Ans : (B)
13. FRAYED : FABRIC : :
(A) Watered : Lawn
(B) Renovated : Building
(C) Thawed : Ice
(D) Worn : Nerves
Ans : (D)
14. YOLK : EGG : :
(A) Rind : Melon
(B) Nucleus : Cell
(C) Stalk : Corn19
(D) Web : Spider
Ans : (B)
15. BAMBOO : SHOOT : :
(A) Bean : Sprout
(B) Pepper : Corn
(C) Oak : Tree
(D) Holly : Sprig
Ans : (A)
Directions—(Q. 16–20) For each of the following capitalized words, four words or phrases are given
of which only one is synonymous with the given word. Select the synonym.
16. DEFER
(A) Respect
(B) Dislike
(C) Postpone
(D) Disrespect
Ans : (C)
17. DUBIOUS
(A) Clear
(B) Undoubtedly
(C) Hesitant
(D) Doubtful
Ans : (D)
18. COARSE20
(A) Impolite
(B) Rough
(C) Polished
(D) Improper
Ans : (B)
19. PROXIMITY
(A) Nearness
(B) Aloofness
(C) Completely
(D) Nearly
Ans : (A)
20. ABSTAIN
(A) Stay
(B) Tempt
(C) Refrain
(D) Pardon
Ans : (C)
Directions—(Q. 21–25) Fill in blanks by selecting appropriate alternative.
21. I met him only a week ……….
(A) back
(B) past
(C) ago
(D) previous
Ans : (C)21
22. Lovey asked me ……….
(A) why are you angry ?
(B) why I am angry ?
(C) why I was angry ?
(D) why was I angry ?
Ans : (C)
23. Even after repeated warnings, he ……… to office on time.
(A) never come
(B) never comes
(C) is never coming
(D) have never come
Ans : (B)
24. He told his wife that ……… from Germany.
(A) he will like to visit France
(B) he was liking to visit France
(C) he would like to visit France
(D) he is liking to visit France
Ans : (C)
25. Some people can ……… even with murder.
(A) get on
(B) get out
(C) get off
(D) get away
Ans : (D)