Official Verbal Ability thread for CAT 2013

MBA CAT 2024
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Please give logic behind.. @scrabbler and puys..

Kernland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed cashew nuts in order to ensure that the nuts are sold to domestic processing plants. If the tariff were lifted and unprocessed cashews were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by growing cashews. However, since all the processing plants are in urban areas, removing the tariff would seriously hamper the government's effort to reduce urban unemployment over the next five years. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. Some of the byproducts of processing cashews are used for manufacturing paints and plastics.

B. Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants.

C. More people in Kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them.

D. Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew processors in Kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices

E. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in Kernland off their land and into the cities.

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Identify one (or more) grammatically correct sentence(s):


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Directions for questions 34 to 36: The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question


In a stadium in Prague, 20 years ago today, a hundred thousand people, including my father and me, saw something we were not supposed to see. For decades it had been forbidden. The music, we were told, would poison our minds with filthy images. We would be infected by the West's capitalist propaganda. It was a cool August night in 1990; the Communist regime had officially collapsed eight months earlier, when Vaclav Havel, the longtime dissident, was elected president. And now the Rolling Stones had come to Prague. I was 16 then, and to this day I recall the posters promoting the concert, which lined the streets and the walls of the stadium: “The Rolling Stones roll in, Soviet army rolls out.


Soviet soldiers had been stationed in Czechoslovakia since 1968, when their tanks brutally crushed the so-called Prague Spring. My father was 21 at that time, dreaming of freedom and listening to bootlegged copies of “Let's Spend the Night Together.” But it would be more than two decades before he would get to see the band live. During those years, you had to tune into foreign stations to hear the Stones. Communists called the band members “rotten junkies,” and said no decent socialist citizen would listen to them.


I only knew one Stones song, “Satisfaction” — but I knew it by heart. I had heard it for the first time on a pirated tape my father had bought on the black market in Hungary and smuggled into the country. It put an immediate spell on me. I was hugely impressed by the rough, loud guitar riff, so unlike the mellow sound of Czechoslovakian music. (The Communists frowned on the bass and the electric guitar, but they severely disapproved of the saxophone because they said it was invented by a Belgian imperialist.)


Czechoslovakians had been urged for four decades to sacrifice their inner dreams to the collective happiness of the masses. People who went their own way — rebels — often ended up in jail.


That night in August, waiting for the Rolling Stones to come on stage, we felt like rebels.


The concert was held in the same stadium where the Communist government used to hold rallies and organize parades. My classmates and I had spent endless hours in that stadium, marching in formations that, seen from the stands above, were supposed to symbolize health, joy and the discipline of the masses. Now, instead of marching as one, we were ready to get loose. “We gotta get closer,” my father whispered into my ear as we tried to make our way through the crowd.

I sensed that everyone was nervous. They were accustomed to being lied to, to having promises broken. They didn't quite believe that the Stones were really coming to play live. I could see that my father didn't either. “We might see their photographs or a movie instead,” I heard some people saying, pointing to huge video screens installed inside the stadium. I started to have doubts myself. We had been waiting for five hours.


Suddenly, the lights dimmed. Drums started to pound, and the screens turned on as if by magic. “Oh my God, it is really happening,” whispered a woman standing close to me. She was expressing something more than just the thrill of a concert. She was saying that the Communists were truly gone. That we were finally free to do as we pleased.


34. Which of the following best captures what the Rolling Stones concert stood for in the author's mind?

(a) A chance to celebrate the demise of the communist regime.

(b) An expression of individual choice and freedom.

(c) An opportunity to indulge in an activity that had been banned for a long time.

(d) A rebellion against conformity.

35. According to the passage, which of the following is not a characteristic of Czechoslovakia while it was under Soviet/Communist influence?

(a) Suppressing of individual thoughts and ideas.

(b) Mass demonstrations and parades.

(c) Censorship of news reporting.

(d) Discouragement of rebellious ideas or themes.


36. What can be inferred as the real reason for Communists in Czechoslovakia to oppose 'The Rolling Stones'?

(a) They were viewed as a form of rebellion by the regime.

(b) They were created by outsiders and conflicted with traditional Czech themes.

(c) They exposed the audience to vulgar images.

(d) They were a form of propaganda for Western governments.

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can you share the CL mock pdf for CAT 14 ? any share drive ?


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can you share the CL mock pdf for CAT 14 ? any share drive ?


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News, which was once difficult and expensive to obtain, today surrounds us like the air we breathe. Much of it is literally ambient: displayed on computers, public billboards, trains, aircraft, and mobile phones. Where once news had to be sought out from expensive and scarce newsprint, today it is ubiquitous, and very largely free, at the point of consumption. Satisfying news hunger no longer involves a twice daily diet of a morning newspaper and evening TV news bulletin: news comes in snack-form, to be grazed, and at every level of quality, even programmed to order, to arrive, presorted, via your personal digital assistant. ______________________

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Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate sequence.

A. These feelings shape our thought, often without us realizing it.
B. It is not just that we are often in the grip of irrational or non-rational forces and desires; it is that our thinking is itself infused with emotion.
C. If we are to make the case for any point of view, the best way to do so is always to appeal to reasons and arguments that can command the widest possible support.
D. This book puts forward the rational case for atheism.
E. Unfortunately, we often approach rational discussions with prejudices, fears, and commitments.


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Yet a purely objective method will not suffice to give us an adequate idea of beauty. For beautiful things are created by men, not passively discovered, and are made, like other things which men make, in order to realize a purpose. Just as a saw is a good saw only when it fulfills the purpose of cutting wood, so works of art are beautiful only because they embody a certain purpose .

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Which is grammatically correct?
1. I request your favour of granting me permission to leave early.
2. I am requesting your favour in granting me permission to leave early.
3. I request for your favour to grant me permission in leaving early.
4. I request the favour of your granting me permission to leave early.

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please can anyone tell me which test series is good?? closest to real cat ? 

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if 4/7 piece of work is done in 7/4 days,in how many days can rest of the work be completed?


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a,b,c are three civil engineers.A can design a plan of a multi storeyed apartment in 5hours and B in 4hrs alone.three together can do it in 2 hrs..in what time can c do it alone?


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Sentence Completion


Gandhiji had to travel by train from Durban to Pretoria in connection with his job. Once while travelling by train, he was asked by white passengers to leave the first class compartment and shift to the van compartment. He refused to do so. Thereafter, he was pushed forcibly out of the compartment and his luggage was thrown on the platform. It was winter and he kept shivering all night. He did not go to the waiting room because white men sleeping there might insult him further

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Sentence Completion


When India became independent, it had only 20 universities and 500 colleges located in different parts of the country. It enrolled around a hundred thousand students in higher education. Participation of women was limited and those who graduated annually were no more than a couple of dozen or so.

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Solar energy has a great potential to transform India. India is in a unique position to introduce clean energy solutions on an enormous scale to provide affordable energy for everyone – especially the poor. From energy security perspective, solar is the most secure of all sources, since it is abundantly available.

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Sentence Completion 


It is firm resolve that we should strive together to build a new world – a world where there are no differences of rich and poor, colour and castes, where humanity will be the sole test of brotherhood, where every religion will be respected, where the wealth of the nations would be employed for the developmental works and for the improvement of education and nutrition of the children, instead of building up atomic piles for waging wars, where nations would have friendly relations with one another, even though they might have subscribed to different ideologies, where the structure of divine power in every man would be converted into the refulgent light of spiritualism.

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My mbacet score is 89.belongs to pune university. State general merit no. Is 3456.state category is 369.university category is 69.which are the colleges in mumbai that i could get??


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My mbacet score is 89.belongs to pune university. State general merit no. Is 3456.state category is 369.university category is 69.which are the colleges in mumbai that i could get??


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Arrange as per correct logic -


1. High-powered outboard motors were considered to be one of the major threats to the survival of the Beluga whales.

A. With these, hunters could approach Belugas within hunting range and profit from its inner skin and blubber.

B. To escape an approaching motor, Belugas have learnt to dive to the ocean bottom and stay there for up to 20 min, by which time the confused predator has left.

C. Today, however, even with much more powerful engines, it is difficult to come close, because the whales seem to disappear suddenly just when you thought you had them in your sights.

D. When the first outboard engines arrived in the early 1930s, one came across 4 HP and 8 HP motors.

6. Belugas seem to have used their well-known sensitivity to noise to evolve an ‘avoidance’ strategy to outsmart hunters and their powerful technologies.

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#RC -3


A British judge has decided that belief in human influence on climate has the status of religious conviction. This is being celebrated as a success by some activists. As a scientist who works on climate change, I find it deeply alarming. Is Jeremy Clarkson similarly entitled to protection if he declares himself a conscientious objector and wants to keep his 4 x 4?

It is yet another symptom of general confusion over the status of science among the public, politicians, the judiciary and, indeed, just about anyone who is not a practising scientist. I don't ask anyone to believe in human influence on climate because I do, or because thousands of other scientists do. I ask them to look at the evidence. As Einstein is said to have reacted to an article entitled 100 scientists against Einstein: “If I'm wrong, one would be enough.”

The scientific case for human influence on climate is not a political opinion, made stronger simply by lots of people signing up. Nor is it a religious conviction, made stronger, in Mr Justice Burton's phrase, if it is “genuinely held”. It is based on evidence and understanding that has withstood some of the most intense scrutiny in the history of science.

If I could come up with convincing evidence that greenhouse gas emissions do not cause dangerous climate change after all, evidence that similarly withstands the scrutiny of my peers, I would get, and deserve, a Nobel prize (and for physics this time, not peace). If a scientist finds something that appears to conflict with mainstream opinion, she or he publishes it like a shot – this is not the behaviour of an adherent to a “genuinely held philosophical belief”.

There is, of course, a moral and ethical dimension: to what extent should we concern ourselves with what happens to the generation-after-next? But very few of those arguing against emission reductions actually claim they don't care at all what happens in the 22nd century. They argue that emission reductions will not make a substantial difference to the risk of dangerous climate change. That is a testable hypothesis, and one which looks, on the overwhelming weight of current evidence, to be wrong.

To be fair, Tim Nicholson, the activist who brought the case, seems to be aware he may have opened a Pandora's box, stressing that climate change is not a new religion because it “is based on scientific evidence”. But that means he should have lost his case: one of the key arguments the judge used was that, in his opinion, the case for human influence on climate was not “a view based on the present state of information available”. But that is precisely what scientific evidence provides: if countervailing information becomes available, I would revise my view, as would any genuine scientist.

There is a very dangerous trend to regard climate scientists as just one of many “stakeholders” in the climate change debate. Journalists have taken to asking me whether I take steps to reduce my personal carbon footprint, presumably as a test of whether my beliefs are “genuinely held”. If anyone thinks this is relevant, they don't understand how science works. I know climate scientists who drive Priuses and climate scientists who drive 4x4s: this is not a factor I consider when reading or reviewing their papers.

1) Which of the following factors underlines the main reason why the author finds the statement of the British Judge alarming?
a)The British Judge is not a practicing scientist like the author.
b)The British Judge disregards the evidence which points to human influence on climate change.
c)The climate change lobby has genuine believers in the 'human influence on climate change' which is like a religious conviction.
d)The judge may lose his position if it is proved that humans are actually responsible for climate change.
e)None of these

2) Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage ?
a)An adherent to a genuinely held philosophical belief would not normally, immediately publish a finding which is in conflict with mainstream opinion.
b)According to the British Judge, the belief and conviction in human influence on climate change can be traced back to the evidence in the past.
c)A scientist who furnishes evidence which proves beyond doubt that climate change is independent of human influence should be awarded the Nobel Prize.
d)Both A and B
e)None of these.

3) Which of the following would be most in line with the author's views in the passage ?
a)Climate scientists should not be regarded as stakeholders in the climate change process.
b)Climate scientists should take steps to reduce their personal carbon footprint in order to reinforce their genuine image in the media.
c)Climate scientists do not worry about the adverse effect on the climate which is caused by the small day to day tasks that they indulge in.
d)It is important to focus on the views of climate scientists even though the scientists may not have taken personal steps in line with their views.
e)None of these