@jain.pratik86 said:

@maddy2807 Explanation ?? No where in the para there is talk about the specifications, how can it end with it??

@maddy2807 said:

SET 221

@joyjitpal said:

3

@maddy2807 said:

SET 221 Camera phones, a gimmick and a luxury a few years ago, have become ubiquitous. The International Telecommunications Union estimates that 4.6 billion mobile phones are in use at the moment. Of those, more than a billion are equipped with cameras, according to Tom Hausken, an analyst at Strategies Unlimited, a market research firm based in Mountain View, California. Dr Hausken estimates that some 800m camera-phones will be sold this year. Yet most of the photos taken with these phones will be grainy and of low resolution—fine for capturing the essence of a moment to send to friends and family, but not good enough to frame for the wall. The reason is that both camera and lens have to be small, to fit with all the other gubbins on a phone.A) Phone cameras with up to five megapixels are becoming available, but InVisage, hopes to leap from that to 12 megapixels, without any increase in size. B) In a typical camera-phone, the image is focused by the lens onto a photosensitive silicon chip. C) A typical camera-phone is equipped with a one- or two-megapixel silicon-based camera chip that is about 8mm across. D) After all one buys a phone not for the camera alone; the camera is merely another feature.

@gizmotech said:

Set 220The gap between news and entertainment was always sacrosanct. News was about facts. Entertainment was about imagination, ergo fiction. To see them occupy the same media platforms today is scary for those who have spent a lifetime pursuing facts in the search for news. Even the dividing line has blurred. What we once shunned as preposterous lies slips in so casually today into our news menu. It's no one's fault. It's just that the fault lines have shifted.____________________1) Journalists and media owners are only following a global model that is making our times entirely forgettable.2) The kind of news we are consuming today has become so trite nothing of it will be eventually remembered.3) News has become just another consumable, another platform to commerically exploit.4) We remember the Mughals and the British because they wrote their own history.5) Our memory, collective or individual, has limited storage and there's too much to absorb and retain.

@maddy2807 said:

SET 221 Camera phones, a gimmick and a luxury a few years ago, have become ubiquitous. The International Telecommunications Union estimates that 4.6 billion mobile phones are in use at the moment. Of those, more than a billion are equipped with cameras, according to Tom Hausken, an analyst at Strategies Unlimited, a market research firm based in Mountain View, California. Dr Hausken estimates that some 800m camera-phones will be sold this year. Yet most of the photos taken with these phones will be grainy and of low resolution—fine for capturing the essence of a moment to send to friends and family, but not good enough to frame for the wall. The reason is that both camera and lens have to be small, to fit with all the other gubbins on a phone.A) Phone cameras with up to five megapixels are becoming available, but InVisage, hopes to leap from that to 12 megapixels, without any increase in size. B) In a typical camera-phone, the image is focused by the lens onto a photosensitive silicon chip. C) A typical camera-phone is equipped with a one- or two-megapixel silicon-based camera chip that is about 8mm across. D) After all one buys a phone not for the camera alone; the camera is merely another feature.

@maddy2807 said:

SET 221

@mba4mheart said:

@gizmotechc

@angadsharma said:

Q 1. People may be attracted to those who have similar attitudes, values, and beliefs and even marry them at least in part on the basis of this similarity because attitudes are highly visible and salient characteristics and they are fundamental to the way people lead their lives. Personality-related characteristics, on the other hand, take much longer to be known. However, once people are in a committed relationship, it is primarily personality similarity that influences marital happiness because being in a committed relationship entails regular interaction and requires extensive coordination in dealing with tasks, issues and problems of daily living. ____.1)But Nature doesnt really care whether they get along or not, as long as the two procreate.2)That is why we try to choose someone with the same interests as we, someone from a similar background, with the same values, and with whom we have a lot in common.3)Hence couples with similar temperaments tend to get along better, and that similar attitudes and beliefs are not an important factor.4)Where personality similarity is likely to facilitate this process, personality differences may result in more friction and conflict in daily life.5)Exceptions generally do not arise when some external factors, like interference of in-laws, is playing a role in the couples unhappiness, not their personalities.

@gizmotech

c

@gizmotech said:

Set 220The gap between news and entertainment was always sacrosanct. News was about facts. Entertainment was about imagination, ergo fiction. To see them occupy the same media platforms today is scary for those who have spent a lifetime pursuing facts in the search for news. Even the dividing line has blurred. What we once shunned as preposterous lies slips in so casually today into our news menu. It's no one's fault. It's just that the fault lines have shifted.____________________1) Journalists and media owners are only following a global model that is making our times entirely forgettable.2) The kind of news we are consuming today has become so trite nothing of it will be eventually remembered.3) News has become just another consumable, another platform to commerically exploit.4) We remember the Mughals and the British because they wrote their own history.5) Our memory, collective or individual, has limited storage and there's too much to absorb and retain.

@vishal.das said:

Set 218 People walking in the streets look out for different things. Bargain sunglasses, for example, or the latest pirated movie or, more practically, for broken pavements and puddles. Me, I look out for bananas . But not any bananas and certainly not the identically bright yellow, elegantly curved Cavendish variety which is fast predominating with banana sellers in places like Mumbai. Cavendishes, I have to keep reminding myself, are not that bad. They are agreeably sweet, well textured and have a picture perfect banana look but that is their problem. Cavendishes were developed by the banana industry for the huge American market where they are almost the only banana variety known. ______________a) Thanks to this, American consumers have very definite ideas about what bananas are like, and that is Cavendish and no other.b) But this is India where we eat more bananas than anyone else and have a matchless range of local varieties of all shapes, sizes and flavoursc) But it is fine if one was unfortunate enough to be Americand) The good thing is that some still sell desi varieties, and this is what I look out for while walking.e) Cavendish growers are dumping their surplus on the local market, branding it with names like Golden Banana to persuade us that it is superior.

@maddy2807 said:

SET 217A century and a half ago, Charles Darwin detailed his theory of evolution by natural selection in his book ‘On the Origin of Species’. How does this remarkably successful theory apply to life on our planet? How have the scientists of subsequent generations built on Darwin’s ideas?______________________.1) Darwin’s general theory presumes the development of life from non-life and stresses a purely naturalistic (undirected) “descent with modification”.2) And can Darwin’s theory of Evolution be aligned with the evolutionary worldview, which is as old as antiquity?3) Natural selection is the preservation of a functional advantage that enables a species to compete better in the wild4) And does revisiting the original theory shed new light on the remaining puzzles?

@gizmotech said:

Set 220The gap between news and entertainment was always sacrosanct. News was about facts. Entertainment was about imagination, ergo fiction. To see them occupy the same media platforms today is scary for those who have spent a lifetime pursuing facts in the search for news. Even the dividing line has blurred. What we once shunned as preposterous lies slips in so casually today into our news menu. It's no one's fault. It's just that the fault lines have shifted.____________________1) Journalists and media owners are only following a global model that is making our times entirely forgettable.2) The kind of news we are consuming today has become so trite nothing of it will be eventually remembered.3) News has become just another consumable, another platform to commerically exploit.4) We remember the Mughals and the British because they wrote their own history.5) Our memory, collective or individual, has limited storage and there's too much to absorb and retain.

@maddy2807 said:

bhai 1 ka to koi link hi nai baithta... how come 1... it talks abt the co existence... but nowhere is the passage talking abt the co existence of any1....what is the OA...?

bhai, peaceful coexistence and religious tolerance mein relation nahi lag raha? mujhe laga.. the OA is 2 but I'm not satisfied, the worst part is that I would have attempted this one in CAT The only problem with the 2nd one is that "European colonizers" wala phrase seems out of context, hence I ruled it out. Still do you think that 1 is completely out of the question? @spectramind07 : please help out with this set

@themaster said:

5 is not the correct answer, I strongly feel that 1 should be the answer..

@maddy2807 said:

will go for 5Passage talks abt the Mattancherry's streets... which are beautiful and is visited by tourists every year... 1,2,3,4 can easily be eliminated on this basis... please tag me in the OA...

@themaster said:

SET 219Mattancherry is Indian Jewry’s most famous settlement. Its pretty streets of pastel coloured houses,connected by first-floor passages and home to the last twelve saree-and-sarong-wearing, whiteskinnedIndian Jews are visited by thousands of tourists each year. Its synagogue, built in 1568,with a floor of blue-and-white Chinese tiles, a carpet given by Haile Selassie and the frosty Yahehselling tickets at the door, stands as an image of religious tolerance.(1) Mattancherry represents, therefore, the perfect picture of peaceful co-existence.(2) India’s Jews have almost never suffered discrimination, except for European colonizers andeach other.(3) Jews in India were always tolerant.(4) Religious tolerance has always been only a façade and nothing more.(5) The pretty pastel streets are, thus, very popular with the tourists.Kindly explain your answer as well

@vishal.das said:

i m getting option D

Set 218

Option A?