The PaGaLGuY UnderDogs Team 2012

MBA CAT 2024
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@ash1615 Q1) 125kg
Q2) 52%

PS: pls do post the approach fr solving the Q2, Ihv done it thru juggad method
1822
@ash1615
1)125
2)62
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@ash1615 said:
QA : Percentages
1. 80% of the weight of fresh dates is constituted by water. They are kept in a drying room and after drying them sufficiently, it turns out that only 20% of the weight is constituted by water. Find the weight of dried dates obtained from 500 kg of fresh dates.
1) 175 kg
2) 180 kg
3) 75 kg
4) 125 kg
5) 100 kg
2.
During the last show on the first day of a movie, the last five rows were empty. In the first row, a few seats were empty. The remaining rows were fully occupied. Each row had the same number of seats. There were as many empty seats in the front row as the number of rows between the first row and the first empty row. There were twice as many occupied seats in the front row as the empty ones in that row. If the theatre can house a total of 336 people, then what percentage of the seats in the theatre were occupied?
1) 52%
2) 58%
3) 60%
4) 62%
5) 68%
P.S - Next question on QA ko no. 3 karke post karna bhai log !
1.125 kg
2.62%
1824

Extremely Sorry guys...actually there wr some issues with my INTERNET..so was not able to come online...finalee i have come now...and in a while wld post sumthin..

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QA ( Revising Material )
I love the way they have explained each and everything...each topic has 4-6 examples as well...so you go thru these ...
1826

125- easy peesy

2>62
@abhi_14 soln milne ke baad method dete hain..
1827
DI Set 1
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Guys sabse request hain ki sab aapne answers ek ke baad ek na post karen...coz usse fir spamming hota h...nd thread CLEAN nhi rahega...wld b very difficult to locate things...when the solutions are posted v can discuss the questions den...abhi ke liye solve karo and answer nikal ke rakho...solutions aate hi koi doubt h toh bolo...

1829
@nits2811 said: DI Set 1
B4 anyone attempts these questions i have a lil errata in this set...i am telling you..
In the 4th question it shld be lowest 6 six scores rather than lowest 5 scores...so make sure u solve using this...
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Word Usage 1:

STEP :

step aside
To resign from a post, especially when being replaced.

step down
1. To resign from a high post.
2. To reduce, especially in stages: stepping down the electric power.

step in
1. To enter into an activity or a situation.
2. To intervene.

step out
1. To walk briskly.
2. To go outside for a short time.
3. Informal To go out for a special evening of entertainment.
4. To withdraw; quit.

step up
1. To increase, especially in stages: step up production.
2. To come forward: step up and be counted.
3. To improve one's performance or take on more responsibility, especially at a crucial time.

in step
1. Moving in rhythm.
2. In conformity with one's environment: in step with the times.

out of step
1. Not moving in rhythm: recruits marching out of step.
2. Not in conformity with one's environment: out of step with the times.

step by step
By degrees.

step on it
To go faster; hurry.

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@cat_virus Hey if u cld number this and put the topic and word in BOLD letters plss...
1832
@nits2811 i have typed in bold only .. but its coming like this ..
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Word Usage 2 :

CRY :

cry down
To belittle or disparage.

cry off
To break or withdraw from a promise, agreement, or undertaking.

cry up
To praise highly; extol.

cry havoc
To sound an alarm; warn.

cry (one's) eyes/heart out
To weep inconsolably for a long time.

cry on (someone's) shoulder
To tell one's problems to someone else in an attempt to gain sympathy or consolation.

cry over spilled milk
To regret in vain what cannot be undone or rectified.

cry wolf
To raise a false alarm.

for crying out loud
Used to express annoyance or astonishment: Let's get going, for crying out loud!

in full cry
In hot pursuit, as hounds hunting.
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Few things which I think are useful:


Difference between
Criticism: When the author/person has a problem with human ACTION
Cynicism: When the author/person has a problem with human NATURE

What is a Euphemism?
It is a way of expressing something uncomfortable or awkward (maybe even harsh) in a polite and refined manner. Eg. 'Having carnal knowledge of someone'(Slept with them) or 'big boned' (meaning obese)

Commonly confused words:
Auger= Tool but Augur= Bode
Wreath=Circular garland but Wreathe=Encircle or surround (comes from the same word but its a verb)

This is all I can think of right now. Will refer notes and post more later.
1835
LR Set 1 ( Venn diagram Maxima and Minima )
It has material on it and also has a LR set at the end as well..so u can solve this...
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RC1
“We are our narratives” has become a popular slogan. “We” refers to our selves, in the full-blooded personconstituting sense. “Narratives” refers to the stories we tell about our -selves and our exploits in settings as trivial as cocktail parties and as serious as intimate discussions with loved ones. We express some in speech. Others we tell silently to ourselves, in that constant little inner voice. The full collection of one's internal and external narratives generates the self we are intimately acquainted with. Our narrative selves continually unfold.
State-of-the-art neuro-imaging and cognitive neuropsychology both upholds the idea that we create our “selves” through narrative. Based on a half-century's research on “split-brain” patients, neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga argues that the human brain's left hemisphere is specialised for intelligent behaviour and hypothesis formation. It also possesses the unique capacity to interpret - that is, narrate - behaviours and emotional states initiated by either hemisphere. Not surprisingly, the left hemisphere is also the language hemisphere, with specialised cortical regions for producing, interpreting and understanding speech. It is
also the hemisphere that produces narratives.
Gazzaniga also thinks that this left-hemisphere “interpreter” creates the unified feeling of an autobiographical, personal, unique self. “The interpreter sustains a running narrative of our actions, emotions, thoughts, and dreams. The interpreter is the glue that keeps our story unified, and creates our sense of being a coherent, rational agent. To our bag of individual instincts it brings theories about our lives. These narratives of our past behaviour seep into our awareness and give us an autobiography,” he writes. The language areas of the left hemisphere are well placed to carry out these tasks. They draw on information in memory (amygdalohippocampal circuits, dorsolateral prefrontal cortices) and planning regions (orbitofrontal cortices). As neurologist Jeffrey Saver has shown, damage to these regions disrupts narration in a variety of ways, ranging from unbounded narration, in which a person generates narratives unconstrained by reality, to denarration, the inability to generate any narratives, external or internal.
How does Gazzaniga's interpreter produce a narrative self? In 2003, one of us (Bickle) suggested that our “little inner voice” is the key. The inner voice may be produced by ongoing activity in language regions of the left hemisphere, both when the products of that activity are broadcast via external speech and when they are silently expressed through inner speech.
One compelling study used PET imaging to watch what is going on in the brain during inner speech. As expected, this showed activity in the classic speech production area known as Broca's area. But also active was Wernicke's area, the brain region for language Comprehension, suggesting that not only do the brain's speech areas produce silent inner speech, but that our inner voice is understood and interpreted by the comprehension areas. The result of all this activity, I suggested, is the narrative self.


1. What does the phrase “we are our narratives” mean?
(a) Our inner voice keeps us well informed about ourselves.
(b) We construct an idea of ourselves through stories which we communicate in certain ways.
(c) Our narratives are the true reflections of our identities.
(d) We are known by the stories we tell others.
Proctored Mock CAT-3 2011
Page 2 Proctored Mock CAT-3 2011
2. What does the author mean by the term “narrative self”?
(a) The narrative self is our inner voice that is generated and interpreted by certain areas of the brain.
(b) The 'narrative self' is a collection of the narratives about our past behaviour, which seep into
our awareness and give us an autobiography.
(c) The narrative self is the inner voice broadcast via external speech and actions.
(d) It is the interpreter that sustains a running narrative of our actions, emotions, thoughts, and
dreams.
3. From the views presented in the passage we can infer that
(a) the 'narrative self' is the glue that keeps our stories unified and makes us rational beings.
(b) our narrative selves are like alter egos, which are heard and comprehended by us.
(c) our narratives of the past help create a sense of who we are.
(d) narratives are mostly in first person because of the strong 'inner voice”.

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@ash1615 said:
QA : Percentages
1. 80% of the weight of fresh dates is constituted by water. They are kept in a drying room and after drying them sufficiently, it turns out that only 20% of the weight is constituted by water. Find the weight of dried dates obtained from 500 kg of fresh dates.
1) 175 kg 2) 180 kg
3) 75 kg
4) 125 kg
5) 100 kg
2.
During the last show on the first day of a movie, the last five rows were empty. In the first row, a few seats were empty. The remaining rows were fully occupied. Each row had the same number of seats. There were as many empty seats in the front row as the number of rows between the first row and the first empty row. There were twice as many occupied seats in the front row as the empty ones in that row. If the theatre can house a total of 336 people, then what percentage of the seats in the theatre were occupied?
1) 52%
2) 58%
3) 60%
4) 62%
5) 68%
P.S - Next question on QA ko no. 3 karke post karna bhai log !
q1)125 kg...approach:weight of date=20% of 500=100....but dried weight has 20% water...so 5/4(100)=125

q2) 62%.....tried to factorise 336 so that the no of seats is always a multiple of 3(bcoz in 1st row....no of occupied seats=2/3(seats in a row)...
by hit and trial...got 14X24...where 24 is number of seats in a row....so %age occupied seats=208/336=62%

PS: plz post approaches also..!!
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As Promised solutions at 11 PM

OA for DI SET 1
1) A
2) D
3) C
4) B
5) A
If any1 has any doubt in any key u can let me kno..wld give u the solution as well...
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@nits2811 Bhai, solution would help :)
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@nits2811 said: As Promised solutions at 11 PM
OA for DI SET 1
1) A
2) D
3) C
4) B
5) A
If any1 has any doubt in any key u can let me kno..wld give u the solution as well...
nits bhai soln bhi de daalo..