Parajumbles for CAT 2008

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Answers to PJ's from CAT 2003

101. 2 102. 4 103. 3 104. 3 105. 1

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6. A. To much of the Labour movement, it symbolises the brutality of the upper
classes.
B. And to everybody watching, the current mess over foxhunting symbolises the
government's weakness.
C. To foxhunting's supporters, Labour's 1991 manifesto commitment to ban it

symbolises the party's metropolitan roots and hostility to the countryside.

D. Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power.
E. To those who enjoy thundering across the countryside in red coats after foxes,
foxhunting symbolises the ancient roots of rural lives.
1. DEACB 2 ECDBA 3. CEADB 4. DBAEC

7. A. In the case of King Merolchazzar's courtship of the Princess of the Outer Isles,
there occurs a
regrettable hitch.
B. She acknowledges the gifts, but no word of a meeting date follows.
C. The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighbouring princess, dispatches
messengers with gifts to her
court, beseeching an interview.
D. The princess names a date, and a formal meeting takes place; after that
everything buzzes along pretty smoothly.
E. Royal love affairs in olden days were conducted on the correspondence method.
1. ACBDE 2. ABCDE 3. ECDAB 4. ECBAD

8. A. Who can trace to its first beginnings the love of Damon for Pythias, of David for
Jonathan, of Swan for Edgar?
B. Similarly with men.
C. There is about great friendships between man and man a certain inevitability that
can only be compared with the age-old association of ham and eggs.
D. One simply feels that it is one of the things that must be so.
E. No one can say what was the mutual magnetism that brought the deathless
partnership of these wholesome and palatable foodstuffs about.
1. ACBED 2. CEDBA 3. ACEBD 4. CEABD

9. A. Events intervened, and in the late 1930s and 1940s, Germany suffered from
"over-branding".
B. The British used to be fascinated by the home of Romanticism.

C. But reunification and the federal government's move to Berlin have prompted

Germany to think again about its image.
D. The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by Thomas
Cook in 1855.
E. Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself
abroad.
1. ACEBD 2. DECAB 3. BDAEC 4. DBAEC

10. A. The wall does not simply divide Israel from a putative Palestinian state on the
basis of the 1967
borders.
B. A chilling omission from the road map is the gigantic 'separation wall' now being
built in the West Bank by Israel.
C. It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire and moats; there are watchtowers at
regular intervals.
D. It actually takes in new tracts of Palestinian land, sometimes five or six kilometers
at a stretch.
E. Almost a decade after the end of South African apartheid, this ghastly racist wall
is going up with scarcely a peep from Israel's American allies who are going to pay
for most of it.

1. EBCAD 2. BADCE 3. AEDCB 4. ECADB

11. A. Luckily the tide of battle moved elsewhere after the American victory at
Midway and an Australian victory over Japan at Milne Bay.
B. It could have been no more than a delaying tactic.
C. The Australian military, knowing the position was hopeless, planned to fall back to
the south-east in the hope of defending the main cities.
D. They had captured most of the Solomon Islands and much of New Guinea, and
seemed poised for an invasion.
E. Not many people outside Australia realize how close the Japanese got.
1. EDCBA 2. ECDAB 3. ADCBE 4. CDBAE

12. A. Call it the third wave sweeping the Indian media.
B. Now, they are starring in a new role, as suave dealmakers who are in a hurry to
strike alliances and agreements.

C. Look around and you will find a host of deals that have been inked or are ready to

be finalized.
D. Then the media barons wrested back control from their editors, and turned
marketing warriors with the brand as their missile.
E. The first came with those magnificent men in their mahogany chambers who took
on the world with their mighty fountain pens.
1. ACBED 2. CEBDA 3. CAEBD 4. AEDBC

13. A. The celebrations of economic recovery in Washington may be as premature as
that
"Mission Accomplished" banner hung on the USS Abraham Lincoln to hail the end of
the Iraq war.
B. Meanwhile, in the real world, the struggles of families and communities continue
unabated.
C. Washington responded to the favorable turn in economic news with enthusiasm.
D. The celebrations and high-fives up and down Pennsylvania Avenue are not to be
found beyond the Beltway.
E. When the third quarter GDP showed growth of 7.2% and the monthly
unemployment rate dipped to 6%, euphoria gripped the US capital.

A. ACEDB 2. CEDAB 3. ECABD 4. ECBAD

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116.

A. Branded disposabie diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug
stores.
B. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper, customers may buy that brand
elsewhere.
C. By contrast, the demand for private-label products may be less price sensitive
since it is available only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
D. So, the demand for branded diapers at any particular store may be quite price
sensitive.
E. For instance, only SavOn Drug stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
F. Then, stores should set a higher incremental margin percentage for private-label
diapers.
(1) ABCDEF (2) ABCEDF (3) ADBCEF (4) AEDBCF

117. A. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.

B. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that enables a company to
offer unique value.
C. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough trade
offs in choosing what not to do.
D. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.
E. A company must stay the course even during times of upheaval while constantly
improving and extending its distinctive positioning.
F. When a company's activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any
competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system.
(1) ABCDEF (2) ACEDBF (3) ADBCEF (4) AEDBCF

118.

A. As officials their vision of a country shouldn't run too far beyond that of the
local people with whom they have to deal.
B. Ambassadors have to choose their words.

C. To say what they feel they have to say, they appear to be denying or ignoring

part of what they know.
D. So, with ambassadors as with other expatriates in black Africa, there appears at a
first meeting a kind of ambivalence.
E. They do a specialised job and it is necessary for them to live ceremonial lives.

(1) BCEDA (2) BEDAC (C) BEADC (4) BCDEA

119

. A. “This face off will continue for several months given the strong convictions
on either side,” says a senior functionary of the high-powered task force on drought.
B. During the past week-and-half, the Central Government has sought to deny some
of the earlier apprehensions over the impact of drought.
C. The recent revival of the rains had led to the emergence of a line of divide
between the two.
D. The state governments, on the other hand, allege that the Centre is downplaying
the crisis only to evade its full responsibility of financial assistance that is required to

alleviate the damage.

E. Shrill alarm about the economic impact of an inadequate monsoon had been
sounded by the Centre as well as most of the states, in late July and early August.
(1) EBCDA (2) DBACE (3) BDCAE (4) ECBDA

120

. A. This fact was established in the 1730s by French survey expeditions to
Equador near the Equator and Lapland in the Arctic, which found that around the
middle of the earth the arc was about a kilometer shorter.
B. One of the unsettled scientific questions in the late 18th century was the exact
nature of the shape of the earth.
C. The length of one-degree arc would be less near the equatorial latitudes than at
the poles.
D. One way of doing that is to determine the length of the arc along a chosen
longitude or meridian at one-degree latitude separation.
E. While it was generally known that the earth was not a sphere but an ‘oblate
spheroid’, more curved at the equator and flatter at the poles, the question of ‘how
much more’ way yet to be established.

(1) BECAD (2) BEDCA (3) EDACB (4) EBDCA

[deepakraam]

Originally Posted by vyomb

6. A. To much of the Labour movement, it symbolises the brutality of the upper
classes.
B. And to everybody watching, the current mess over foxhunting symbolises the
government's weakness.
C. To foxhunting's supporters, Labour's 1991 manifesto commitment to ban it

symbolises the party's metropolitan roots and hostility to the countryside.

D. Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power.
E. To those who enjoy thundering across the countryside in red coats after foxes,
foxhunting symbolises the ancient roots of rural lives.
1. DEACB 2 ECDBA 3. CEADB 4. DBAEC

My answers

6.1
7.3
8.2
9.3
10.2
11.2
12.4
13.4

-Deepak.

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[quote=vyomb;1028587]

116.

A. Branded disposabie diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug
stores.
B. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper, customers may buy that brand
elsewhere.
C. By contrast, the demand for private-label products may be less price sensitive
since it is available only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
D. So, the demand for branded diapers at any particular store may be quite price
sensitive.
E. For instance, only SavOn Drug stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
F. Then, stores should set a higher incremental margin percentage for private-label
diapers.
(1) ABCDEF (2) ABCEDF (3) ADBCEF (4) AEDBCF

My answers for the above set:
116.3
117.2
118.4
119.4
120.2

-Deepak.

[getintoiimb]

moi take
6)option 1
7)option 4
option 4
9)option 3
10)option 1
11)option 1
12)option 4
13)option 3
116)option 2
117)option 3
11option 1
119)option 4
120)option 2

[dkny.jakhar]

hi puys....my answers for the POST #22- PJs from CAT 04|>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Q6-1 >>>Q7-4>>>>Q8-2>>>>>>Q9-4>>>>>Q10-2>>>Q11-1>>>>Q12-4>>>>>Q13-4....@vyomb can we have the correct answers man....RegardsJakhar

[dkny.jakhar]

PJs from CAT'02---116-3.......117-2.......118-4.......119-4.......120-2.......regardsJakhar...P.S. can we have the correct answers pls

[dkny.jakhar]

@vyomb...hey give us the correct answers as well....and the input by you is simply gr8...... my regardsJakhar

[deepakraam]

Hi Vyomb,
Can you plz post the ans for the above mentioned qs and the next set asap.


-Deepak.