VA Guide for CAT 2008

[srikar2097]

Originally Posted by rainakoolwal

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Join it by all means! You are welcome. Almost everyday a good samaritan posts a VA question, solve it and post your answer, discuss…

[Varun Khullar]

Originally Posted by srikar2097

I was beginning to feel guilty that the onus of posting questions always falls on either shivam or medulla or poojadutta or piscean84. So to mend my ways, here's a question from my side


The correct word from the set of two highlighted words in each of the sentences given below will form a pattern. Choose the correct pattern from among the given options.

I He was in a dilemma(A)/quandary(B) because of the number of options that the company offered.

II. John Keats, dying, expected his poetry to be forgotten, as the epitaph(A)/epigraph(B) he wrote for his tombstone reads: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water".

III. We are advancing the date of the trip in order to ensure(A)/insure(B) that we enjoy good weather.

IV. The management found it expedient(A)/expeditious(B) to blame the laborers for its own failure.

V. The candidates were not informed that the selection process also included an extemporaneous(A)/impromptu(B) speech of three minutes on a surprise topic.

1) BBAAA 2) BABAB 3) AABBB 4) BAAAB 5) BBAAB

2 BABAB is my choice..

[subho_86]

Originally Posted by srikar2097

I was beginning to feel guilty that the onus of posting questions always falls on either shivam or medulla or poojadutta or piscean84. So to mend my ways, here's a question from my side


The correct word from the set of two highlighted words in each of the sentences given below will form a pattern. Choose the correct pattern from among the given options.

I He was in a dilemma(A)/quandary(B) because of the number of options that the company offered.

II. John Keats, dying, expected his poetry to be forgotten, as the epitaph(A)/epigraph(B) he wrote for his tombstone reads: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water".

III. We are advancing the date of the trip in order to ensure(A)/insure(B) that we enjoy good weather.

IV. The management found it expedient(A)/expeditious(B) to blame the laborers for its own failure.

V. The candidates were not informed that the selection process also included an extemporaneous(A)/impromptu(B) speech of three minutes on a surprise topic.

1) BBAAA 2) BABAB 3) AABBB 4) BAAAB 5) BBAAB

My answer would be 3) AABBB. Thanks for the question. Waiting for the answer.

[srikar2097]

Answers

Dilemma is a tough choice between two things, and quandary is among many things. Hence,*it should*be B.

Epitaph is an inscription on a tombstone and epigraph is a pithy saying at the beginning of a poem or book. Hence, A.

Ensure is to make sure and to insure is to obtain insurance. Hence, A.

Expedient means convenient, expeditious means done speedily. Hence, A.

Extemporaneous is prepared but done without notes, and impromptu means without preparation. Hence, B.

Hence, the correct answer*is option (4) BAAAB.

All of those who got the answer correct, congrats!

Also a small request to all, there is no need to quote the entire post while answering. The whole point of putting the heading title for each question post (here "srikar2097 - CW1 - 01.08.2008 - pg 125") is to not quote the entire question and know where the question is so that one could go back…

[medulla]

Extremely sorry for the late reply!!!

Q1] No amount of sincerity can ________ the sanctification of evil through religion.
options are:

1. condemn
2. condone
3. contaminate
4. concur

Explanation:

condone - excuse, be lenient with
concur - agree, cooperate

Q2] Besides this class of mind, there exists that of the ______, i.e. professional blackeners.

options are:

1. couturiers
2. millions
3. chiropodists
4. denigrators

Q3] When they are confronted with anything unususal, they persist in taking its character away by the simple _______ of calling it pathological.

options are:

1. expectorant
2. expedient
3. experiment
4. example

Explanation :

expectorant - a medical term
expedient - based on or marked by a concern for self interest rather than principle

Q4] I will paint these multitudinous seas _____ with the gore of my foes.

options are:

1. reverberant
2. incarnadine
3. agog
4. incarcerate

Explanation -
The statements talks about gore which is blood of foes that is personal enemy. hence correct option is incarnadine which means red.

Q5] Sheep must flock together, always, for they are ______ animals.

options are:

1. segregated
2. adherent
3. gregarious
4. bereft

Explanation -

gregarious means sociable

[medulla]

Hi Puys...

Try following questions of paragraph completion:

Q1]Why do people X raise peanuts and sorghum? The internal Malinowskian explanation would be to meet their basic human need for food. The external, socio-ecological explanation would be because peanuts and sorghum are the only food crops available in their eco-zone that, when cultivated, will meet their subsistence needs. Both these answers are suggestive, but they are also incomplete. _______________

1. Malinowski has no other source of occupation except cultivation of food crops peanuts and sorghum that can allow people to survive.
2. People X in Malinowski have known for ages that their ecological balance would be disturbed if they opted for producing food grains like wheat or rice.
3. To a certain level, people feel the need to eat things that are easily digested keeping the local climate in mind.
4. To be sure, people must consume something to survive, and they will usually meet this need by exploiting plant and animal species locally available.

Q2]African American children who speak the vernacular form of African American English may be the only English-speaking children in the country who attend community schools in which teachers not only are ignorant of their dialect but refuse to accept its existence. This attitude leads to children being marginalized and designated as learning disabled. When children go to school they bring not only their homework and text books but also their language, culture and identity.____________________

1. Teachers who discriminate in imparting education to the African American children should be strictly reprimanded as to their callous attitude.
2. Sooner rather than later, the educational system must address its exclusion of cultural and dialect difference in teacher training and school curriculum.
3. The onus lies with the educators to address the needs of these learning disabled African American students through proper training and better school curriculum.
4. The education department should ensure that new schools are set up to look at the issues related to imparting proper education to the students who speak the vernacular form of African American English.

Q3]
Ethnocentrism is the term anthropologists use to describe the opinion that one's own way of life is natural or correct, indeed the only way of being fully human. Ethnocentrism is one solution to the inevitable tension between one cultural self and another cultural self. It reduces the other way of life to a distorted version of one's own. If our way is right, then their way can only be wrong. At best, their truth is a distorted truth: at worst, it is an outright falsehood. __________________________

1. Of course, from their perspective, we are ignorant fools who are not ready to accept a superior version of life as theirs.
2. Indeed, from our perspective, we are superior to them in understanding the meaning of life as it naturally is.
3. Of course, from their perspective, our way of life may seem to be a distortion of theirs.
4. But, from their perspective, there can be no possible distortion of the truth but mere falsehood as implied by us.

All the Best...

[mba.yodha]

My take :

1) option 1
2) option 2
3) option 3

[arbit_rageur]

medulla - PC - 4.8.2008 - pg 126

4
2
3

[arbit_rageur]

Re: srikar2097 - CW1 - 01.08.2008 - pg 125

My take: Option 4

quandary(B)
epitaph(A)
ensure(A)
expedient(A)
impromptu(B)

[vishwashah]

RE : medulla - PC - 4.8.2008 - pg 126

My take :

1) 1
2) 2
3) 2