Set 230

option 4

SET 230

Answer.3)DBCAE

My take on SET 230
Option 4 :banghead:

Suja bhai,terrific question!!!!!

SET 230

my take is 3) DBCAE

SET 230

My take option 4

Yo 230 ----- option 3

set-230
my take is option 5

set 229-
1. d
2. b

Set 230...

Option C

SET 230

3

Set 230

My take is option 3

set 229:
1. 2
2. 3

SET 230

Read the sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.

Most of the philosophers commonly counted "great" have not been sceptics, of course, they are usually quite straightforward with their claims, not only to know, but to know what knowledge is, and often have given reasons supporting their view.

Even the extreme sceptic must come dangerously close, for him, to knowing what knowledge is, if his claims are to be at all intelligible and interesting, since a person who does not know what he is denying the possibility or actuality of would have little claim to be taken seriously.

Accordingly, each sceptical philosopher has articulated, more or less, a conception of knowledge which he regards as reasonable to accept.

From its earliest phases up to the present, philosophical inquiry has taken the nature of knowledge to be a central concern.

Still, no philosophical positions have been more contested than those on the nature of knowledge, and this remains so up to today.

OPTIONS

1)EDCAB
2)DBCEA
3)DBCAE
4)ABCDE
5)ABDCE

SET 211
1- A
2- 4
3- 4
4- 1

tell me rite or worng?

if worng please explain it...
thanks

set 230:

1. 4

set 229

1)4
2)3

set 230

3

Set 230
option 4

SET 230

Read the sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.

A Most of the philosophers commonly counted "great" have not been sceptics, of course, they are usually quite straightforward with their claims, not only to know, but to know what knowledge is, and often have given reasons supporting their view.
B Even the extreme sceptic must come dangerously close, for him, to knowing what knowledge is, if his claims are to be at all intelligible and interesting, since a person who does not know what he is denying the possibility or actuality of would have little claim to be taken seriously.
C Accordingly, each sceptical philosopher has articulated, more or less, a conception of knowledge which he regards as reasonable to accept.
D From its earliest phases up to the present, philosophical inquiry has taken the nature of knowledge to be a central concern.
E Still, no philosophical positions have been more contested than those on the nature of knowledge, and this remains so up to today.


OPTIONS

1)EDCAB
2)DBCEA
3)DBCAE
4)ABCDE
5)ABDCE

SET 229:
(4) caefbd

(2) dfcabe

Set 229

My take

1. 4
2. 3

Set 229
1. 4
2. 3

SET 229

1. (4) caefbd

2. (1) defbac

Set-228

1-b
2-d

Set-229

1-4
2-1

Set 229
1. 1
2. 3

SET 229

1. a. It is humanly impossible to read the hundreds of books which come out every month.
b. By going through book covers, reviews and gossips about authors anyone can take part in any literary discussion.
c. All of us like to be, or pretend to be well read, take part in literary proceedings and pepper our conversations with quotes.
d. The trick is to understand that even a slight familiarity with books and authors is enough to put on a show of enlightenment.
e. No one is obliged to read all the books, yet we can talk and argue about them.
f. We can even have passionate literary exchanges on books we have not read at all.

(1) cdefab
(2) cefdba
(3) efdcba
(4) caefbd

2. a. There are additional benefits in the form of reduced travel time, fuel use and pollution.
b. This is not surprising given the unsustainable levels of peak hour vehicle use particularly in big cities, and the rise in the price of fuel.
c. But with the support of the local government and the public sector it can become a part of public transport.
d. Informal car-sharing has always been popular with the middle class but a more organized and a formal system of sharing vehicles is taking shape.
e. What it can do is improve the efficiency of unavoidable car use by distributing the cost of travel and easing congestion.
f. Yet, according to many, car-sharing cannot totally replace the reliable, comfortable, safe, and affordable public transport.

(1) defbac
(2) dfcabe
(3) dbfeac
(4) adcbef

SET 228

1. A. The species, which are most numerous in individuals, will have the best chance of producing variations within any given period.
B. Hence any rare species will be less quickly modified or improved within any given period, and they will be consequently beaten in the race for life by the modified descendants of the commoner species.
C. From these considerations I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed others will become rare and finally extinct.
D. We have evidence of this in the fact that it is the more common species that afford the greatest number of varieties, or incipient species.
E. Extinction or survival, therefore, is a function of a parameter that is totally beyond the control of the species.
(a) ABCDE (b) ADBCE (c) BCAED (d) EDABC

2. A. The good news is that a major deficiency in rainfall, as had happened last year, is an extremely remote possibility.
B. Two crucial indicators, the El Nino, caused by difference in sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Ocean Dipole, are both moving in a direction that is positive for a good monsoon.
C. The first long-range forecast for the rainfall during the four-month period of July- September indicates rain around the end of this month.
D. It is still very early days for a monsoon forecast for this season but at least the available signs as of now are all pointing in the right direction.
E. Even the persistent & sustained heat is the past few days over most of central and Northern India is likely to help in good rainfall.
(a) ADBCE (b) DABCE (c) BCDEA (d) DCBEA

Official Answers :-

1. Option B
2. Option D

Takes on SET 228

1-B
2-D

228
B
D

Suja

Set 228
B
D

my take are

1. b
2. d

SET 228
B
D
comparitively easier one.....

My take set 228:
B
D

set 228
1.b
2.d

Set 228

1.b
2.d

SET 228

1.(b) ADBCE


2. (d) DCBEA

set 228

1.B
2.D

set 228:

1. B
2. D

My Take: SET 228
1. B
2. D

SET 228

1. A. The species, which are most numerous in individuals, will have the best chance of producing variations within any given period.
B. Hence any rare species will be less quickly modified or improved within any given period, and they will be consequently beaten in the race for life by the modified descendants of the commoner species.
C. From these considerations I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed others will become rare and finally extinct.
D. We have evidence of this in the fact that it is the more common species that afford the greatest number of varieties, or incipient species.
E. Extinction or survival, therefore, is a function of a parameter that is totally beyond the control of the species.
(a) ABCDE (b) ADBCE (c) BCAED (d) EDABC

2. A. The good news is that a major deficiency in rainfall, as had happened last year, is an extremely remote possibility.
B. Two crucial indicators, the El Nino, caused by difference in sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Ocean Dipole, are both moving in a direction that is positive for a good monsoon.
C. The first long-range forecast for the rainfall during the four-month period of July- September indicates rain around the end of this month.
D. It is still very early days for a monsoon forecast for this season but at least the available signs as of now are all pointing in the right direction.
E. Even the persistent & sustained heat is the past few days over most of central and Northern India is likely to help in good rainfall.
(a) ADBCE (b) DABCE (c) BCDEA (d) DCBEA

SET 227

A. Fortunately, global wealth and technology allow us to better prepare for and respond to natural disasters.
B. It does not necessarily mean that volcanoes and quakes are getting worse but rather that there are more of us living in areas where we might be affected by a disaster, and we have more to lose.
C. As global populations have grown and people have crowded into risk zones like earthquake areas and flood plains the toll of natural disasters has grown as well.
D. According to the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters, the number of catastrophic events has more than doubled since the 1980s.
E. The Red Cross estimates that the economic damage from disasters rose fivefold, to $629 billion, from 1985 to 2005.
(a) CDBEA (b) BCDEA (c) CDEBA (d) CADEB

2. A. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
B. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer.
C. That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today.
D. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity.
E. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye.
(a) BDCEA (b) CBDEA (c) CDEBA (d) CEABD

3. A. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
B. Who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds.
C. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
D. Who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
E. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
(a) EBDAC (b) CEDBA (c) DBAEC (d) CEBDA

OA FOR SET 227
1. OPTION C (E-B) is a mandatory pair as statement B gives the correct inference that should be made from the data in statement E. Statements D & E should also come together as they both present data pertaining to natural disasters. Statement A begins a new idea and therefore has to come in the end.

2. OPTION B (E-A) is a mandatory pair as is (B-D). Statement C starts talking about a new idea that of taking a pledge. It could come either at the end or the beginning. However, statement C starts with that future. This
reference does not make sense if we put statement C at the end of the paragraph. Therefore statement C has to begin the paragraph.

3. OPTION D (C-E) is a mandatory pair as it builds upon the idea through contrast. It is not the critic who counts in statement C and the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena in statement E. Statements B and D should also come together as they build on the idea
of the man in the arena. (D-A) is another mandatory pair as the conclusion in statement A is based on statement D.

from set 207:

Q2)

(a) Planet Earth is in urgent need of a healing touch to save it from the impending environmental disaster.
(b) Which is why the 'Earth Day', celebrated on April 2 every year, assumes such special significance.
(c) The world over ambient standards of air and water pollution are likely to exceed the limits prescribed by the WHO and the impact of air pollution on cities could result in hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and millions of causes of hospitalization.
(d) In India alone, the cost of pollution when computed in health terms could exceed Rs5000 crore per annum to cure health problems caused by it.

(A) cdab
(B) abdc
(C) dbac
(D) cdba

I opted for option 1 but the OA given is D. Isnt the "healing touch" they are talking bout in sentence A mentioned in sentence B ??

Set 227

1.3
2.1
3.4

SET 226

........

Take on SET 226
B
C
B
D

SET 227

....

Take On Set 227
C
B
D

Takes on SET 227

1.(c)
2.(a)
3.(b)

Set 227 :

1.(c)
2.(a) :banghead:
3.(d)

227

C
B
D

Suja

227

C
B
D

Suja

takes on 227...

1. C
2. B
3. D

SET 226

B/D
C
B
B

Suja

Takes on SET 227

1-C
2-B
3-D

set 227

1) c
2) b
3) d

Set 227
(1)Option C
(2)Option B
(3)Option D

MY TAKE ON SET 227
(1)Option C
(2)Option B
(3)Option D

SET 227

A. Fortunately, global wealth and technology allow us to better prepare for and respond to natural disasters.
B. It does not necessarily mean that volcanoes and quakes are getting worse but rather that there are more of us living in areas where we might be affected by a disaster, and we have more to lose.
C. As global populations have grown and people have crowded into risk zones like earthquake areas and flood plains the toll of natural disasters has grown as well.
D. According to the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters, the number of catastrophic events has more than doubled since the 1980s.
E. The Red Cross estimates that the economic damage from disasters rose fivefold, to $629 billion, from 1985 to 2005.
(a) CDBEA (b) BCDEA (c) CDEBA (d) CADEB

2. A. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
B. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer.
C. That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today.
D. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity.
E. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye.
(a) BDCEA (b) CBDEA (c) CDEBA (d) CEABD

3. A. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
B. Who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds.
C. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
D. Who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
E. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
(a) EBDAC (b) CEDBA (c) DBAEC (d) CEBDA

SET 226

1. A. Capping it all was a row about the legitimacy of holding election events in government property.
B. Not a problem, the Labour party insisted, for this was a PFI hospital and thus commercial property.
C. Gordon Brown then set out his manifesto in front of a peculiar mixture of party supporters and journalists, some of whom were jeered for asking impertinent questions.
D. The stage seemed set for a typical, if rather embarrassing, New Labour event.
E. In a Birmingham hospital, Soul Man blasted out while the likes of Pat McFadden and Bob Ainsworth fumbled in choreographed order towards their seats.
(a) DEACB (b) DECAB (c) EBADC (d) EDCAB

2. A. Far worse than even in some poor African countries.
B. This remains an area of grave concern: opening the cages will not solve the problems of basic education and health so public private partnerships may be needed.
C. Literacy, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty and every other social indicator was always far worse in socialist India than in Asian miracle economies.
D. So, the socialist cage gave Indians neither economic growth nor social justice.
E. Vast sums of spent on health and education were wasted; teachers and health staff had an absenteeism rate of 18 % to 58 % but were protected from disciplinary action by strong trade unions.
(a) EDCAB (b) BACED (c) CAEDB (d) EDBCA

3. A. Hakim Ali argued against the use of tobacco: It is not necessary for us to follow the Europeans, and adopt a custom, which is not sanctioned by our own wise men without experiment or trial.
B. Here instinct worked better than reason but worked well enough!
C. The fact that fact may not be infallible, especially in the presence of uncertainty, is well illustrated by an episode regarding the then newly arrived practice of smoking tobacco.
D. Armed with that argument , Akbar tried smoking, but happily for him , he took an instant dislike of it and never smoked again.
E. Akbar ignored this argument on the ground that we must not reject a thing that has been adopted by the people of the world, merely because we cant find it in our books; or else how shall we progress.
(a) CEBDA (b) CAEDB (c) CADEB (d) AEBDC

4. A. The greatest turbulence never destroyed all elements of the old order.
B. Unlike America or Australasia, Europe is an old continent, in the sense that it has a long and continuous history of some two thousand years.
C. Even when it suffered severe changes and considerable disintegration, as during the barbarian invasion of the fifth century, enough of its past always survived to provide real continuity.
D. Beneath the patchwork suggested by a political map showing the division of Europe into states, there was a vast substratum of historical heritage and continuity.
(a) BDCA (b) DABC (c) ABCD (d) BCAD

OA FOR SET 226
1. OPTION B There are two clues to solve this question. The first is the mandatory pair (A-B). Statement B has to come immediately after statement A as B is the response of the Labour party to the row about the legitimacy. mentioned in A. This leaves us with options (b) and (d). Here the difference is in the order of statements D & E. (D-E) would be the correct order as statement D introduces the event while statement E begins the
description of the events that followed. Statement E also matches the tone of statement C.

2. OPTION C The paragraph has a mandatory pair (D-B) as B carries further the idea of opening of the cages, which gets introduced in D. (C-A) is another mandatory pair. Statement C compares Indias performance on social
indicators with that of Asian economies. Statement A further compares Indias performance with that of poor African countries. Only options (c) and (d) have both mandatory pairs. Option (d) gets negated as the paragraph must start with C, which introduces the para. Option (c) aligns all the statements of the paragraph thereby making it coherent.

3. OPTION B Statement C clearly emerges as an introductory sentence an episode regarding the.. (A-E) is a mandatory pair as in statement E Akbar gives reasons to refute Hakim Alis argument. The only possible answer choice is (b).

4. OPTION D Statement B is the opening line of the paragraph.
(C-A) is a mandatory pair that describes the changes or disintegration that did not affect the continent. Statement D has to follow (C-A) as the patch work suggested by.. is a reference to the changes in (C-A).

set 226
c i know this is wrong after attempting i realised ... i think it shud be D
c
b
b

takes on 226...

1. B
2. C
3. B
4. A

set 226
1-b
2-c
3-b
4-a

SET 226

1.B
2.C
3.B
4.D

Good one...especially in the last one, spent considerable time btwn options A and D