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hi puys...
NMAT 2008 has few days to go now. And i thought we could get together and discuss our preparation strategies, solve questions and discuss our doubts. So lets start our journey to NMIMS!

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I am posting a set of questions here.
I'll post the answers tomorrow.
I hope it helps.


SENTENCE CORRECTION:

1.) Published in Harlem, the owner and editor of the

Messenger were two young journalists. Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader.
(A) Published in Harlem, the owner and editor of the Messenger were two young journalists. Chandler

Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader.

(B) Published in Harlem, two young journalists, Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later
make his reputation as a labor leader, were the owner and editor of the

Messenger.

(C) Published in Harlem, the

Messenger was owned and edited by two young journalists, A. Philip
Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, and Chandler Owen.
(D) The Messenger was owned and edited by two young journalists. Chandler Owen and A. Philip
Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, and published in Harlem.
(E) The owner and editor being two young journalists, Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would

later make his reputation as a labor leader, the Messenger was published in Harlem.

2.) Some buildings that were destroyed and heavily damaged in the earthquake last year were constructed in violation of the city's building code.
(A) Some buildings that were destroyed and heavily damaged in the earthquake last year were
(B) Some buildings that were destroyed or heavily damaged in the earthquake last year had been
(C) Some buildings that the earthquake destroyed and heavily damaged last year have been
(D) Last year the earthquake destroyed or heavily damaged some buildings that have been
(E) Last year some of the buildings that were destroyed or heavily damaged in the earthquake had been


3.) From the earliest days of the tribe, kinship determined the way in which the Ojibwa society organized its labor, provided access to its resources, and defined rights and obligations involved in the distribution and consumption of those resources.
(A) and defined rights and obligations involved in the distribution and consumption of those resources
(B) defining rights and obligations involved in their distribution and consumption
(C) and defined rights and obligations as they were involved in its distribution and consumption
(D) whose rights and obligations were defined in their distribution and consumption

(E) the distribution and consumption of them defined by rights and obligations.

4.) Delighted by the reported earnings for the first quarter of the fiscal year, it was decided by the company manager to give her staff a raise.
(A) it was decided by the company manager to give her staff a raise
(B) the decision of the company manager was to give her staff a raise
(C) the company manager decided to give her staff a raise
(D) the staff was given a raise by the company manager

(E) a raise was given to the staff by the company manager

5.) Each of Hemingway's wives--Hadley Richardson. Pauline Pfeiffer. Martha Gelhom. and Mary Welsh --were strong and interesting women, very different from the often pallid women who populate his novels.
(A) Each of Hemingway's wives--Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhom, and Mary
Welsh--were strong and interesting women,
(B) Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh--each of them Hemingway's
wives--were strong and, interesting women,
(C) Hemingway's wives--Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhom, and Mary Welsh--were all
strong and interesting women,
(D) Strong and interesting women—Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhom, and Mary
Welsh--each a wife of Hemingway, was
(E) Strong and interesting women—Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhom, and Mary

Welsh--every one of Hemingway's wives were

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DATA SUFFICIENCY:

Common Instructions:
A. Statement 1 alone is sufficient but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
B. Statement 2 alone is sufficient but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
C. Both statements 1 and 2 together are sufficient to answer the question but neither statement is sufficient alone.
D. Each statement alone is sufficient to answer the question.
E. Statements 1 and 2 are not sufficient to answer the question asked and additional data is needed to answer the statements.


6.) Who types at a faster rate, John or Bob?

(1) The difference between their typing rates is 10 words per minute.
(2) Bob types at a constant rate of 80 words per minute.

7.) What is the average distance that automobile D travels on one full tank of gasoline?
(1) Automobile D averages 8.5 kilometers per liter of gasoline.
(2) The gasoline tank of automobile D holds exactly 40 liters of gasoline.

8.) If l1,l2 and l3 are lines in a plane, is l1perpendicular to l3?
(1) l1 is perpendicular to l2.
(2) l2 is perpendicular to l3

9.) In a certain packinghouse, grapefruit are packed in bags and the bags are packed in cases. How many grapefruit are in each case that is packed?
(1) The grapefruit are always packed 5 to a bag and the bags are always packed 8 to a case.
(2) Each case is always 80 percent full.

10.) What is the value of x?
(1) x + y = 7
(2) x – y = 3 – y

11.) A rectangular floor that is 4 meters wide is to be completely covered with nonoverlapping square tiles, each with side of length 0.25 meter, with no portion of any tile remaining. What is the least number of such tiles that will be required?
(1) The length of the floor is three times the width.
(2) The area of the floor is 48 square meters.

12.) If a rope is cut into three pieces of unequal length, what is the length of the shortest of these pieces of rope?
(1) The combined length of the longer two pieces of rope is 12 meters.
(2) The combined length of the shorter two pieces of rope is 11 meters.

13.) A certain company paid bonuses of $125 to each of its executive employees and $75 to each of its nonexecutive employees. If 100 of the employees were nonexecutives, how many were executives?
(1) The company has a total of 120 employees.
(2) The total amount that the company paid in bonuses to its employees was $10.000

14.). What fraction of his salary did Mr. Johnson put into savings last week?
(1) Last week Mr. Johnson put $17 into savings.
(2) Last week Mr. Johnson put 5% of his salary into savings.

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MATH:

15.) 5 girls and 3 boys are arranged randomly in a row. Find the probability that:

A) there is one boy on each end.

B) There is one girl on each end.


16.) A number is selected at random from first 30 natural numbers. What is the probability that the number is a multiple of either 3 or 13?

(A) 17/30
(B) 2/5
(C) 7/15
(D) 4/15
(E) 11/30

17.) What is the reminder when 9^1 + 9^2 + 9^3 + ...... + 9^9 is divided by 6?

(1) 0
(2) 3
(3) 4
(4) 2
(5) None of these

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LOGICAL REASONING:

18.) Six senior girls, including the Vincent girl, were nominated by the members of the Junior Class to be this year's Summerset High Prom Queen. In the election by the entire student body, each of the contestants got a different number of the 3200 total votes cast, with the girl elected Prom Queen receiving 800 votes to win the title. Given the clues below, can you solve this mathematical Logic Puzzle by finding each Prom Queen candidate's full name and the number of votes she got in the balloting?

1. Lara got 240 more votes than the Torres girl, who had twice as many votes as Nina.
2. At the Junior Class assembly to nominate Prom Queen candidates, Kerrie was nominated just before the Roman girl was.
3. The Young girl tallied half as many votes as Monica, who had 160 fewer votes than the Wilson girl.
4. Monica and the Stone girl and their Prom dates are going to the dance together in a limousine after dinner at Chez Fernand's.
5. Lara and the Roman girl were Junior Attendants to the 2006 Summerset High Prom Queen.
6. Heidi, who isn't the Wilson girl, got 80 more votes than the Roman girl did.
7. The girl who finished last in the contest is the school's yearbook editor and got the votes of all 80 members of the yearbook staff.
8. Jana finished 4th in the balloting.

PARAJUMBLES:

19.) A. A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young
people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like.
B. I would go to sleep in my hotel room around midnight each night, and when Iawoke, my mailbox would be full of replies -- sent at 1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23
a.m.
C. One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke up each morning
at seven; she could afford that much rest because she had learned to supplement
her full day of work by studying in her sleep.
D. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I
sent them e-mails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups.
E. As she was falling asleep she would recite a math problem or a paper topic to
herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke up, the
problem might be solved.
(1) DABCE (2) DACEB (3) ADBCE (4) CABDE




20.) A. Four days later, Oracle announced its own bid for PeopleSoft, and invited the
firm's board to a discussion.
B. Furious that his own plans had been endangered,
PeopleSoft's boss, Craig Conway, called Oracle`s offer "diabolical", and its boss,
Larry Ellison, a "sociopath".
C. In early June, PeopleSoft said that it would buy J.D. Edwards, a smaller rival.
D. Moreover, said Mr. Conway, he "could imagine no price nor combination of price
and other condition to recommend accepting the offer.
E. On June 12th, PeopleSoft turned Oracle down.
(1) CABDE (2) CADBE (3) ACBDE (4) CAEBD

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There is already a thread on NMIMS. You can post your questions on the same for discussion. Also, let other people post on thread.