About twice every century, one of the massive stars in our galaxy blows itself apart in a supernova explosion that sends massive quantities of radiation and matter into space and generates shock waves that sweep through the arms of the galaxy. The shock waves heat the interstellar gas, evaporate small clouds, and compress larger ones to the point at which they collapse under their own gravity to form new stars. The general picture that has been developed for the supernova explosion and its aftermath goes something like this. Throughout its evolution, a star is much like a leaky balloon. It keeps its equilibrium figure through a balance of internal pressure against the tendency to collapse under its own weight. The pressure is generated by nuclear reactions in the core of the star which must continually supply energy to balance the energy that leaks out in the form of radiation. Eventually the nuclear fuel is exhausted, and the pressure drops in the core. With nothing to hold it up, the matter in the center of the star collapses inward, creating higher and higher densities and temperatures, until the nuclei and electrons are fused into a super-dense lump of matter known as a neutron star.
As the overlying layers rain down on the surface of the neutron star, the temperature rises, until with a blinding flash of radiation, the collapse is reversed. A thermonuclear shock wave runs through the now expanding stellar envelope, fusing lighter elements into heavier ones and producing a brilliant visual outburst that can be as intense as the light of 10 billion suns. The shell of matter thrown off by the explosion plows through the surrounding gas, producing an expanding bubble of hot gas, with gas temperatures in the millions of degrees. This gas will emit most of its energy at X-ray wavelengths, so it is not surprising that X-ray observatories have provided some of the most useful insights into the nature of the supernova phenomenon. More than twenty supernova remnants have now been detected in X-ray studies.
Recent discoveries of meteorites with anomalous concentrations of certain isotopes indicate that a supernova might have precipitated the birth of our solar system more than four and a half billion years ago. Although the cloud that collapsed to form the Sun and the planets was composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, it also contained carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, elements essential for life as we know it. Elements heavier than helium are manufactured deep in the interior of stars and would, for the most part, remain there if it were not for the cataclysmic supernova explosions that blow giant stars apart. Additionally, supernovas produce clouds of high-energy particles called cosmic rays. These high-energy particles continually bombard the Earth and are responsible for many of the genetic mutations that are the driving force of the evolution of species.

4.The author employs which of the following to develop the first paragraph?
(A) Analogy
(B) Deduction
(C) Generalization
(D) Example
(E) Refutation

I have a doubt in this question. Can anybody help me out?

Solutions are available in the student homepage even though the links are missing.

You can get them by clicking

http://www.time4education.com/OnlineInvigilated/printwindow-sol.asp?tno=1212
http://www.time4education.com/OnlineInvigilated/printwindow.asp?tno=1212

after logging into your homepage

I dnt know whats happening..... Everything went smooth...Nothing happened in 2.15hrs but in end when i submitted the test, test window got hanged :w00t::w00t:... i tried to resubmit it but nothing happened...waited for 1 hr with dat hanged window...nothing happened.... then i closed it. Now it is showing nothing on clicking View Summary link .... n as usual time ppl dnt have ny explanation for this.
Nybody faced same issue...??

Thanks for the tip RmishraHyd

Here is another useful url trick.
TIME takes ages to upload question papers and solutions of the mocks they conduct.
In my homepage, i sometimes dont see the links of some tests at all.

However you can easily obtain the papers from their db.

For example, to get the qp for aimcat 1215,
after logging in to your TIME homepage, copypaste
http://www.time4education.com/OnlineInvigilated/printwindow.asp?tno=1215
and press enter ;)
Similarly solution sheet can be obtained using the url
http://www.time4education.com/OnlineInvigilated/printwindow-sol.asp?tno=1215

Well.. what a mock..
Scaled score - 365.89
AIR - 2
City rank - 1
City rank 1 in VA as well ..:p , and/but 6 in QA

QA: 3c 0w___9___18.7_____39.47 %ile

DI: 0c 0w____0____8.28____12.04 %ile

VA: 0c 0w____0___0_______0 %ile

Overall_______9___26.98____10.43 %ile

AIR: 13917

CR: 1583

Got AIR 15538 out of 15537 people who appeared for this AIMCAT in the VA section

I think I need to start studying seriously now :|

Didnt insert the image as it would have taken too much of space. See the link if you are really interested.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4308/1110b.png

On a serious note, congrats to all those who did well :thumbsup: