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TEST DATE : 19 JUN 2005
LOCATION : DELHI
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There were two papers : - Aptitude and English
Aptitude Paper contained 10 questions in 60 mins:
- While
driving through the countryside one day I saw a farmer tending his
pigs and ducks in his yard. I was curious to know how many of each
he had. I stopped the car and inquired.
Leaning on the stile
jovially, he replied, “I have altogether 60 eyes and 86 feet between
them”.
I drove off calculating
in my mind exact dugs and pigs he had. What do you think is the answer
? (4 Marks)
Sol : 13 Pigs and 17
Ducks.
- Here
is a simple arithmetical puzzle set by Longfellow in his own
flowery, poetical language.
If one-fifth of a hive
of bees flew to the badamba flower, one-third flew to the slandbara,
three times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour, and
one bee continued to fly about, attracted
on each side by the fragrant Ketaki and Malati, what was the
total number of bees ? (4 Marks)
Sol : The number of bees
was 15.
- There
are 100 men in town. Out of which 85% were married, 70% have a
phone, 75% own a car, 80% own a house. What is the maximum number
of people who are married, own a phone, own a car and own a house
? ( 3 marks)
Sol: 15% (check it).
- There
are 10 Red, 10 Blue, 10 Green, 10 Yellow, 10 White balls in a bag.
If you are blindfolded and asked to pick up the balls from the
bag, what is the minimum number of balls required to get a pair of
atleast one colour ? ( 2 Marks)
Sol : 6 balls.
- Triplet
who usually wear same kind and size of shoes, namely, Annie,
Danny, Fanny. Once one of them broke a glass in kitchen and their
shoe prints were there on floor of kitchen. When their mother
asked who broke Annie said, “I didn’t do it”; Fanny said
“Danny did it”; Danny said “Fanny is lieing”; here two of
them are lieing, one is speaking truth. Can you find out who broke
it ? (3 Marks)
Sol : Annie
- 4
players were playing a card game. Cards had different colours on
both sides. Neither of cards had same colour on both sides.
Colours were 2 Red, 2 Blue, 2 Green, 2 Yellow. Cards were lying in
front of each player. Now, each player knew the colour on other
side of his card. They are required to tell their colour.
Statement given by each
of them was :
Annie : Blue or Green
Bobby : Neither Blue nor Green
Cindy : Blue or Yellow
Danny : Blue or Yellow
Colours of cards that
are visible to all were Red, Blue, Green, Blue in order of their
names. Exactly two of them are telling truth and exactly two of them
are lieing. Can you tell the colour on other face of card for each
player ? (6 Marks)
Sol :
Annie : Yellow (Lieing)
Bobby : Yellow (Telling truth)
Cindy : Blue (Telling truth)
Danny : Green (Lieing)
- (I
don’t remember the exact question, but it was something like
this only.) Addy asks Sunny to pick as number of cards from a deck
of cards. Sunny picks first card, picks another card by skipping 1
card, then, picks another card by skipping 2, so on skipping one
card more each time. Ultimately he finds that he has picked up
5%of the cards. Can u find out the number of cards ? (6 Marks)
Sol : 39 ( answer is
correct I don’t know the procedure).
- One
day Harry and I set our watches together. None of us was aware
that my watch was getting faster by 2 min per hour and Harry’s
watch was getting slower by 1 min per hour. After sometime, we
discovered that my watch was 1 hr ahead of Harry’s watch. Can
you find out after how long we noticed this ? (3 Marks)
Sol : 20 hrs
- Four
people, say, A, B, C, D belonging to M, N, O, P group, not in
order decided for a picnic. All of them brought salad from their
home in their traditional style. Fruits used in salad were Grapes,
Banana, Apple, Cherry. All of them used exactly 3 fruits in their
salad. None of them used same combination of fruits in their
salad. Some clues given are :
A doesn’t belong to
group M used Apple.
B who doesn’t belong
to group M and O used Apple & Cherry.
Person belonging to M
group used Apple & Cherry in his salad.
C and person belonging
to O used Cherry & Grapes both, but person belonging to N used
only one of them.
Question goes on like
this and finally you need to answer 4 questions based on these clues :
(a)
Which of the following fruits is not used by M group ?
Apple, Banana, Grapes,
Cherry
(b)
Which combination was used by B ?
Some pairs were given.
I don’t remember the
full question. It was of 8 marks, (4 parts.) But I was able to solve
it.
- One
4 marks questions was there. I don’t remember it but I was able to
solve it.
English Paper contained
50 questions of 50 marks in 45 min.
There were 5 sections ;
- Comprehension
: A paragraph was given and questions were asked from it.
- Finding
out correct sentence among two sentences given in each ques.
- Finding
out wrong sentence among 4 sentences given in each question.
- Fill
up the blanks by choosing the suitable very from the options
given.
- Fill
up the blanks based on suitable words given in option as :
(a)
Eyes like a “
Parrot
Hawk
Pigeon
Sparrow.
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