ShoutBox (Part 1)

Jobs & Careers
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@catophobicanshu said:
1 question. How much of RC do you guys understand while taking mocks? And is it in one go?
It varies...though I usually get around 7-8 correct out of 10.
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@YouMadFellow
@aimingCAT12
Another PC
Any time life does something bold it is quite an event and few occasions
were more eventful than when life moved on to the next stage and came
out of the sea. Land was a formidable environment, hot, dry, bathed in
intense ultra violet radiation, lacking the buoyancy that makes movement
in water comparatively effortless. To live on land, creatures had to
undergo wholesale revisions of their anatomies. Hold a fish at each end
and it sags in the middle, its backbone too weak to support it. To survive
out of water, marine creatures needed to come up with new load bearing
internal architecture. Above all any land creature would have to develop a
way to take its oxygen directly from the air rather than filter it from
water._________
(1) On the other hand, there was a powerful incentive to leave the water it was
getting dangerous down there.
(2) Never would there be a more propitious time to find an alternative
environment to water.
(3) This allowed animals to grow remarkably large remarkably quickly.
(4) These were not trivial challenges to overcome.
(5) Competition was fierce.
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@fisherking said:
@saniyamakhijani
@aimingCAT12 Another question....
Next week will mark the 35th anniversary of the National Cancer Act, the
opening salvo of the US government's battle to eradicate cancer. In those
35 years, the US has spent tens of billions of dollars on cancer research,
and we are frequently told that this has won us significant progress. Look
at the data, though and the picture is more confusing. The number
diagnosed each year as having cancer is nearly double what it was 35
years ago. __________
(1) Are we really winning the war on cancer?
(2) Over the past 35 years, the death rate from most of the metastatic cancers
has remained unchanged.
(3) The natural history of the disease has not changed at all: the time of death
is typically the same as it would have been had the disease been diagnosed later.
(4) It is also important to examine what exactly the term 'cancer' is being used
to describe.
(5) It is only when cancer is diagnosed at an early stage that cure is possible.
it is 2
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@fisherking said:
@YouMadFellow
@aimingCAT12 Another PC
Any time life does something bold it is quite an event and few occasions
were more eventful than when life moved on to the next stage and came
out of the sea. Land was a formidable environment, hot, dry, bathed in
intense ultra violet radiation, lacking the buoyancy that makes movement
in water comparatively effortless. To live on land, creatures had to
undergo wholesale revisions of their anatomies. Hold a fish at each end
and it sags in the middle, its backbone too weak to support it. To survive
out of water, marine creatures needed to come up with new load bearing
internal architecture. Above all any land creature would have to develop a
way to take its oxygen directly from the air rather than filter it from
water._________
(1) On the other hand, there was a powerful incentive to leave the water it was
getting dangerous down there.
(2) Never would there be a more propitious time to find an alternative
environment to water.
(3) This allowed animals to grow remarkably large remarkably quickly.
(4) These were not trivial challenges to overcome.
(5) Competition was fierce.
4) ?? Challenges refer to the last and the penultimate line...
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@maddy2807 said:
it is 2
Answer is 1
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@fisherking said:
@YouMadFellow
@aimingCAT12 Another PC
Any time life does something bold it is quite an event and few occasions
were more eventful than when life moved on to the next stage and came
out of the sea. Land was a formidable environment, hot, dry, bathed in
intense ultra violet radiation, lacking the buoyancy that makes movement
in water comparatively effortless. To live on land, creatures had to
undergo wholesale revisions of their anatomies. Hold a fish at each end
and it sags in the middle, its backbone too weak to support it. To survive
out of water, marine creatures needed to come up with new load bearing
internal architecture. Above all any land creature would have to develop a
way to take its oxygen directly from the air rather than filter it from
water._________
(1) On the other hand, there was a powerful incentive to leave the water it was
getting dangerous down there.
(2) Never would there be a more propitious time to find an alternative
environment to water.
(3) This allowed animals to grow remarkably large remarkably quickly.
(4) These were not trivial challenges to overcome.
(5) Competition was fierce.
(4) ??
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@fisherking said:
Statement 2 just continues the para instead of ending it.Its ok to end the para with a question.The confusion generated by the data is the main point of para.Hence,1 connects with that confusion and asks 'Are we really winning'??
i have this BIG confusion..how do u differentiate between questions where a proper 'para completing' sentence is to be chosen n where a sentence that jus goes with the flow n scope of the para can be chosen? not all sentences complete the para appropriately in many questions.
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@fisherking No i meant to ask, that as you read the passage, do you manage to understand every sentence of the RC and do you manage to keep it in memory with the links to other statements? How many times do you visit the RC again to answer the question? Silly question, but do you read the RC again?

Let's take example of TIME Mock.
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@fisherking
@fisherking said:
@YouMadFellow
@aimingCAT12 Another PC
Any time life does something bold it is quite an event and few occasions
were more eventful than when life moved on to the next stage and came
out of the sea. Land was a formidable environment, hot, dry, bathed in
intense ultra violet radiation, lacking the buoyancy that makes movement
in water comparatively effortless. To live on land, creatures had to
undergo wholesale revisions of their anatomies. Hold a fish at each end
and it sags in the middle, its backbone too weak to support it. To survive
out of water, marine creatures needed to come up with new load bearing
internal architecture. Above all any land creature would have to develop a
way to take its oxygen directly from the air rather than filter it from
water._________
(1) On the other hand, there was a powerful incentive to leave the water it was
getting dangerous down there.
(2) Never would there be a more propitious time to find an alternative
environment to water.
(3) This allowed animals to grow remarkably large remarkably quickly.
(4) These were not trivial challenges to overcome.
(5) Competition was fierce.
option 2?
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@fisherking said:
Statement 2 just continues the para instead of ending it.Its ok to end the para with a question.The confusion generated by the data is the main point of para.Hence,1 connects with that confusion and asks 'Are we really winning'??
i have this BIG confusion..how do u differentiate between questions where a proper 'para completing' sentence is to be chosen n where a sentence that jus goes with the flow n scope of the para can be chosen? not all sentences complete the para appropriately in many questions.
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@fisherking
@fisherking said:
@YouMadFellow
@aimingCAT12
Another PC
Any time life does something bold it is quite an event and few occasions
were more eventful than when life moved on to the next stage and came
out of the sea. Land was a formidable environment, hot, dry, bathed in
intense ultra violet radiation, lacking the buoyancy that makes movement
in water comparatively effortless. To live on land, creatures had to
undergo wholesale revisions of their anatomies. Hold a fish at each end
and it sags in the middle, its backbone too weak to support it. To survive
out of water, marine creatures needed to come up with new load bearing
internal architecture. Above all any land creature would have to develop a
way to take its oxygen directly from the air rather than filter it from
water._________
(1) On the other hand, there was a powerful incentive to leave the water it was
getting dangerous down there.
(2) Never would there be a more propitious time to find an alternative
environment to water.
(3) This allowed animals to grow remarkably large remarkably quickly.
(4) These were not trivial challenges to overcome.
(5) Competition was fierce.

4?
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@shashankg13 Thanks.
16406
The question consists of a certain number of sentences. Some sentences are grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Select the option that indicates the grammatically incorrect and inappropriate sentence(s).
Phosphorescence and fluorescence seem especially to result from the alpha and beta rays, particularly from the alpha rays, to which belongs the most important part of the total energy of the radiation.
Sir W. Crookes has invented a curious little apparatus, the spinthariscope, who enables us to examine the phosphorescence of the blend excited by these rays.
By means of magnifying glass, a screen covered with sulphide of zinc is kept under observation, and in front of it is disposed, at a distance of about half a millimetre, a fragment of some salt of radium.
We then perceive multitudes of brilliant point on the screen, which appear and at once disappear, producing a scintillating effect.
It seems probable that every particle falling on the screen produces by its impact a disturbance in the neighbouring region, and it is this disturbance which the eye perceives as a luminous point.
OPTIONS
1) B, C and D
2) A, B and E
3) C, D and E
4) A, B and C
5) B and D
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@fisherking said:
@YouMadFellow
@aimingCAT12 Another PC
Any time life does something bold it is quite an event and few occasions
were more eventful than when life moved on to the next stage and came
out of the sea. Land was a formidable environment, hot, dry, bathed in
intense ultra violet radiation, lacking the buoyancy that makes movement
in water comparatively effortless. To live on land, creatures had to
undergo wholesale revisions of their anatomies. Hold a fish at each end
and it sags in the middle, its backbone too weak to support it. To survive
out of water, marine creatures needed to come up with new load bearing
internal architecture. Above all any land creature would have to develop a
way to take its oxygen directly from the air rather than filter it from
water._________
(1) On the other hand, there was a powerful incentive to leave the water it was
getting dangerous down there.
(2) Never would there be a more propitious time to find an alternative
environment to water.
(3) This allowed animals to grow remarkably large remarkably quickly.
(4) These were not trivial challenges to overcome.
(5) Competition was fierce.
4?
16408
@catophobicanshu said:
The question consists of a certain number of sentences. Some sentences are grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Select the option that indicates the grammatically incorrect and inappropriate sentence(s).
Phosphorescence and fluorescence seem especially to result from the alpha and beta rays, particularly from the alpha rays, to which belongs the most important part of the total energy of the radiation.
Sir W. Crookes has invented a curious little apparatus, the spinthariscope, who enables us to examine the phosphorescence of the blend excited by these rays.
By means of magnifying glass, a screen covered with sulphide of zinc is kept under observation, and in front of it is disposed, at a distance of about half a millimetre, a fragment of some salt of radium.
We then perceive multitudes of brilliant point on the screen, which appear and at once disappear, producing a scintillating effect.
It seems probable that every particle falling on the screen produces by its impact a disturbance in the neighbouring region, and it is this disturbance which the eye perceives as a luminous point.
OPTIONS
1) B, C and D
2) A, B and E
3) C, D and E
4) A, B and C
5) B and D
2) A, B and E
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@catophobicanshu said:
The question consists of a certain number of sentences. Some sentences are grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Select the option that indicates the grammatically incorrect and inappropriate sentence(s).
Phosphorescence and fluorescence seem especially to result from the alpha and beta rays, particularly from the alpha rays, to which belongs the most important part of the total energy of the radiation.
Sir W. Crookes has invented a curious little apparatus, the spinthariscope, who enables us to examine the phosphorescence of the blend excited by these rays.
By means of magnifying glass, a screen covered with sulphide of zinc is kept under observation, and in front of it is disposed, at a distance of about half a millimetre, a fragment of some salt of radium.
We then perceive multitudes of brilliant point on the screen, which appear and at once disappear, producing a scintillating effect.
It seems probable that every particle falling on the screen produces by its impact a disturbance in the neighbouring region, and it is this disturbance which the eye perceives as a luminous point.
OPTIONS
1) B, C and D
2) A, B and E
3) C, D and E
4) A, B and C
5) B and D
option 4?
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@catophobicanshu said:
The question consists of a certain number of sentences. Some sentences are grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Select the option that indicates the grammatically incorrect and inappropriate sentence(s).
Phosphorescence and fluorescence seem especially to result from the alpha and beta rays, particularly from the alpha rays, to which belongs the most important part of the total energy of the radiation.
Sir W. Crookes has invented a curious little apparatus, the spinthariscope, who enables us to examine the phosphorescence of the blend excited by these rays.
By means of magnifying glass, a screen covered with sulphide of zinc is kept under observation, and in front of it is disposed, at a distance of about half a millimetre, a fragment of some salt of radium.
We then perceive multitudes of brilliant point on the screen, which appear and at once disappear, producing a scintillating effect.
It seems probable that every particle falling on the screen produces by its impact a disturbance in the neighbouring region, and it is this disturbance which the eye perceives as a luminous point.
OPTIONS
1) B, C and D
2) A, B and E
3) C, D and E
4) A, B and C
5) B and D
option 1?
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havin pre exam jitters..its first day firs show for me....not bein able to concentrate at all....all sums gettin wrong...confidence gettin lost....did a mock yestrda, got horrible marks n mistakes which i dont make ever...any advice any advice please... 😞

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@aimingCAT12 Yes, option 1.
The question consists of a certain number of sentences. Some sentences are grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Select the option that indicates the grammatically incorrect and inappropriate sentence(s).
a)Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.
b)To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, shutting our ears against conviction.

c)Since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired.

d)We must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.

e)And this difficulty attaches itself more closely to an age in which progress has gained a strong ascendency over prejudice, and in which persons and things are, day by day, finding their real level, in lieu of its conventional value.
OPTIONS
1) B and C
2) A and D
3) D and E
4) B and E
5) Only E

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@shashankg13 B contains error of who instead of which, C should contain "a" before magnifying glass and D should contain plural points instead of "point".