CAT 2007 Discussions: Verbal Ability Section

[Rahul Tikku]

Originally Posted by niravj

thanks for the source.....but iam pretty sure that choice b (images are after all....) concludes the para

the question asked is what concludes the para and choice a will only elongate it....

how can u say that choice a will elongate this para.
conversely choice b concludes it.

[vasTheAspirant]

searching with "personification of whole organization is a textual device" gives a link to some jourmal... http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=036...3E2.0.CO%3B2-7

but it has to be bought and the purchase link is not working..

[anarchy]

I have solved the EU part of the paper (out of interest, lets call it) and I definitely disagree with what people are saying my when they mark choice 2 for the photography para completion problem.

Read this...
The space between life as it is being lived and life as it is being displayed shrinks to a mere second. Images are, after all, surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or a traveller on a holiday.

This does not look even continuous!!! From where do the two examples telling good things abt current mode of photography come in? It has to be qualified first (grammatically speaking). The thing being talked abt is the loss of magic in photography of today. Logically speaking, a sentence to justify the first line has to be said. Which would be option (1)

I might be wrong, but I am fairly confident that this is the correct option!

[imagineabhishek]

Originally Posted by anarchy

I have solved the EU part of the paper (out of interest, lets call it) and I definitely disagree with what people are saying my when they mark choice 2 for the photography para completion problem.

Read this...
The space between life as it is being lived and life as it is being displayed shrinks to a mere second. Images are, after all, surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or a traveller on a holiday.

This does not look even continuous!!! From where do the two examples telling good things abt current mode of photography come in? It has to be qualified first (grammatically speaking). The thing being talked abt is the loss of magic in photography of today. Logically speaking, a sentence to justify the first line has to be said. Which would be option (1)

I might be wrong, but I am fairly confident that this is the correct option!

The answer is 1. You are correct. For ppl who beg to differ have a look -
The New Atlantis - The Image Culture - Christine Rosen
search for "space" and u will find the line...

[niravj]

Originally Posted by karl

Dude! Read the first line again " Nevertheless , Photographs still retain some of the magical allure that the earliest daguerreotypes inspired " ad all throughout the passage the author goes on to say how changes in technology has affected without even alluding to the idea mentioned in the first line. So I think the option concludes the para aptly by saying "Yet, Despite these technological developments , photographs still remain powerful because they are reminders of the people and things we care about."

U convinced?

Originally Posted by aishu.comar

Yet, despite these technical developments, photographs remain powerful because they are reminders of the people and things we care about. They are surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or by a traveler on holiday. They exist to remind us of the absent, the beloved, and the dead. But in the new era of the digital image, they also have a greater potential for fostering falsehood and trickery, perpetuating fictions that seem so real we cannot tell the difference.

im pretty sure this is right..

Originally Posted by MBA_007

boss concludes and follow up are the same thing.in this case choice 1 should be the answer if the source of this particular is correctly represented

accd to me the second part of option 1 "photographs still remain powerful bcoz thy r ....." shud go on to talk more about about the people we care about and something related to it.....

on the other hand, the passage seems to give a -ve view about digital photography and option 2 continues in a similar tone.....

3,4,5 are eliminated anyways....

i maybe wrong.....but thats what i thought when i marked this option.....

[satisfied_mind]

Originally Posted by anarchy

I have solved the EU part of the paper (out of interest, lets call it) and I definitely disagree with what people are saying my when they mark choice 2 for the photography para completion problem.

Read this...
The space between life as it is being lived and life as it is being displayed shrinks to a mere second. Images are, after all, surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or a traveller on a holiday.

This does not look even continuous!!! From where do the two examples telling good things abt current mode of photography come in? It has to be qualified first (grammatically speaking). The thing being talked abt is the loss of magic in photography of today. Logically speaking, a sentence to justify the first line has to be said. Which would be option (1)

exactly...option 1 is correct...
i think people's opinions are being influenced by the so-called "answer-keys" which all coaching institutes are releasing...
just to put things in perspective, last year i was getting all kinds of marks in english, ranging from 5 to 15, depending on the answer key used, but when the final result came, i had 99%ile...
just have some patience and let the iims do their work...

[niravj]

Originally Posted by satisfied_mind

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just to put things in perspective, last year i was getting all kinds of marks in english, ranging from 5 to 15, depending on the answer key used, but when the final result came, i had 99%ile...
just have some patience and let the iims do their work...

precisely.....i had a -ve 5 in verbal accd to pt and -10 accd to ims.....in the end, the result showed a 93%ile in va...so lets hope for the best and prepare for the oncoming exams....

[k_saksena]

I hope that is the case with me - The CL answer key gives me a humongous ammount of wrong answers out of my attempts.

[s_vivek777]

Hi.. Can someone post the answers to the questions on ordering the sentences ... different websites giving different answers.

Please mention a part of the question, instead of the question numbers!

Thanx!

[abhishek.205]

2007 disaster:
Verbal isaster..
checking the answers feels there might be differnt answrs from IIMS..

few assumptions/attempts of mine with my answers..need ur feedback for them .. r they correct..
333:
1).How a set of shared belief evolves into paradigm..Relationship wala answer kaise hosakta hai woh to pehli line hi likhi hai..IIM ander ki baat pouchta hai na..
2).Paradigms are a general representation of rules and beliefs of scientific tradition..
3)..Yet wala thik hai as last line is a conclusion itslef.
4)..the diffenrcr b/w width and depth....
5)..define the palce of poet in his culture..
6) poets and artist who are driven by courage..