Guys any good place for RC prep ??
I seriously need some practice material..
Thanks :)
Can someone please post the link of the thread for simcat 13 discussion.
https://mentalyields.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/first-blog-post/
For your reading pleasures, treat it like an RC. Constructive criticism and grammar mistakes are most welcome :P .
(a) Yet, the country
(b) suffers one big problem –
(c) its political system is especially
(d) dysfunctional when it come to immigration.
is it correct to say- especially dysfunctional or should it be dysfunctional especially when it..?
Do we have any group to build vocab ? please post .
Is the below sentence an inference or judgement? Please explain!
By mixing and matching them, enterprises can defy half a century of economic logic and make money entering highly profitable industries.
How to prepare for VARC for CAT??? Pls suggest guys. What course material and strategy are you using??
The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. I take your answer to indicate that there’s little positive to be said about George as a student.
2. I assume, that is, that you are cooperating unless there is compelling evidence to the contrary.
3. Instead of complaining, ‘You didn’t answer my question,’ I conclude that you did answer implicitly.
4. If I ask you whether George is a good student and you reply, ‘He is usually punctual,’ I make sense of your reply by assuming that you are cooperating and saying something relevant to my question.
5. Communication depends on the basic convention that participants are cooperating with one another and that, therefore, what one person says to the other is likely to be relevant.
RC Passage :: Need help in eliminating options. Found the passage weird.
Is it just me, or is everybody out there looking for a quick fix? There is something highly compelling about the idea that there is a secret switch we can flip to become suddenly smarter, to reveal cognitive abilities hidden inside each of us. It is a notion that certainly has commercial appeal. Over just seven years, the games-maker Lumosity rocketed from zero to 50 million users, promising rapid improvements in general intelligence by playing brain-training video games for just a few weeks. Lumosity recently settled with the United States Federal Trade Commission for making unsupported claims that its product was scientifically validated.‘Memory health’ nutritional supplements have sales of more than $1.5 billion, and ‘smart drugs’ – pills to enhance cognitive performance – have become prevalent on college campuses. Purveyors of products based on subliminal messages promise to teach us foreign languages and cure our addictions while we sleep. And makers of headgear that attaches electrodes to our scalps promise to rev up our brains to improve gaming performance and other cognitive activities.
We have a long tradition of positivism, progressivism and self-improvement. Thomas Edison was convinced that human existence could be dramatically improved with rapid technological innovation, and it is hard to dispute the transformative value of electric light and recorded sound. Henry Wallace looked at the variable and unpredictable yields of Iowa corn farmers and was convinced that scientific breeding and hybridisation could do better than allowing judges to select the most attractive ears at corn shows. His hybrid corn transformed grain farming and launched him on a political career that landed him as Franklin D Roosevelt’s vice president.
Some of this progressive self-improvement tradition is essential, and some is charming in a eccentric way. But part of the drive to engineer a quick fix for what ails us is alarming and dangerous. Americans have endured generations of rapid weight-loss schemes that don’t work and are often dangerous to health – especially diet pills from amphetamines to fen-phen. As the pace of life continues to accelerate, there is increasing pressure for a quick fix to boost our cognitive capacities – for study, for work and for recreation. So, is there anything out there that works?
Qs.1 Based on the passage, what can be said about the author’s style?
a)descriptive
b)analytical
c)argumentative
d)data-driven
e)abstract
Qs.2 Why does the idea of quick fix seem favourable?
a) We aspire to become great like Thomas Edison
b) It seems to hold commercial appeal
c)Some desire to excel in gaming.
d)We seek to awaken our cognitive abilities
e)Some reckon that they can do better in life
Qs.3 What did Lumosity propose?
a)Improved health by playing the brain-training game.
b)Enhanced mental health capable of solving complex arithmetic problems
c)Developed social and communication skills
d)Improved ability to think rationally
e)Improved retention with product usage in few weeks
Qs.4 What is/are the underlying cause of negative repurcussions of 'quick fix'?
1.Inherent insecurities
2.Rapid technological innovations
3. Fast pace of life
a)1 and 2
b)1 and 3
c)Only 1
d)Only 3
e) All 1,2,3
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With about few days to go for CAT, it’s panic stations for a lot of aspirants. It is imperative that aspirants keep a cool head on their shoulders and work systemically at plugging the gaps in their preparation. Here’s an article to help you do so in the Verbal Ability (VA) section of CAT. The Article is written by Sriram Krishnan is a 4 time CAT 99+percentiler
In the question below, read the given extract and then answer the question that follows and type in the right option as your answer.
Under the long shadow of the Puritans, handwriting in America was put in the service of moralism. After an early life devoted to alcohol, Platt Rogers Spencer, born in 1810, discovered the vice of temperance. He moved on to better causes, like abolitionism and universal education, before discovering his real calling: penmanship. To promote Spencerian script—we know it from the swirly “Coca-Cola” on bottles and cans—he franchised schools and sold his own brand of books and pens. He believed that good penmanship is more than ink on paper. Rather, it “refines our tastes” and “makes us better men.”
Which of the following best summarizes the given paragraph?
1. The vice of temperance was discovered by Platt Rogers, an American, who also contributed to abolitionism and universal education. He popularly franchised schools and sold his own brand of books and pens.
2. An American moralist, Platt Rogers, was very temperamental. He endorsed the causes like abolitionism and universal education as well as promoted Spencerian script by franchising schools and selling stationary. He was a champion of the idea of ‘penmanship’.
3. Platt Rogers Spencer was an American who grew up to become a teetotaler who endorsed the causes like abolitionism and universal education as well as promoted Spencerian script by franchising schools and selling stationary. He was a champion of the idea of ‘penmanship’.
4. Under the influence of the Puritans, Platt Rogers Spencer, born in 1810, discovered temperance which made him move on to better causes like abolitionism, universal education and promotion of Spencerian script through selling stationary.
In IMS cat test series I am able to do 16 questions in dilr and 11 in QA, with almost all correct.. but in varc I am unable to get more than 40% accuracy by solving 12 questions?? whot shud I do?
"The students were exhausted and bored by the 150 minute tests." Is this sentence correct?
Please explain.
Thanks in advance
SENTENCE CORRECTION :: SPOT THE ERROR
"In this particular job we have discovered that to be diligent is more important than being bright."
P.S- I have options but not posting it here as we need to practise TITA in sentence correction.
Spot the error (if any):
"Heightened land erosion, caused by human activity, has many negative effects including the following: algae blooms, coral reef destruction, imbalance of the fish population, and the introduction of harmful chemicals to the oceans environment."
Please reframe the entire sentence with your corrections.
The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. I take your answer to indicate that there’s little positive to be said about George as a student.
2. I assume, that is, that you are cooperating unless there is compelling evidence to the contrary.
3. Instead of complaining, ‘You didn’t answer my question,’ I conclude that you did answer implicitly.
4. If I ask you whether George is a good student and you reply, ‘He is usually punctual,’ I make sense of your reply by assuming that you are cooperating and saying something relevant to my question.
5. Communication depends on the basic convention that participants are cooperating with one another and that, therefore, what one person says to the other is likely to be relevant.
Rearrange
(1) A recent study in Johannesburg found that 50% of women experience violent abuse at home and 75% of men admit to dishing it out.
(2) Every day members of the African National Congress Women's League come to court in support of the family of Ms Steenkamp, whom they see as a victim of domestic violence, another of South Africa's biggest blights.
(3) Four days before she was killed, Ms Steenkamp, who was aware of the issue, tweeted, “I woke up in a happy safe home this morning. Not everyone did.”
(4) Some observers have sought to ease racial tensions in the Reeva Steenkamp murder case.
(5) Some see the trial as a referendum on the country's willingness to confront it.
When he was ridiculed he was _______ but he regained _____ very soon
- worried… little
- lost…nothing
- chagrined…composure
- happy… friendship
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FIJ concept explained in detail (mujhe toh detailed laga :-P)
http://www.campusgate.co.in/2011/11/fact-inference-judgement.html