All India Management Association (AIMA) 2008 Entrance Exams Management Aptitude Test (MAT) MANAGEMENT APTITUDE TEST(-) - Question Paper

from the tenth Plan.
E. If the existing stock of poor quality dwellings and the growing urbanization–driven demand are
taken into account, the real deficit will be even higher.
(1) ADBEC (2) ACDEB (3) ABEDC (4) ABCDE

155. A. The upsurge of public activism against the setting up of Special Economic Zones, which
eventually forced the State Government to announce the scrapping of all 15 such projects, is an
impressive case in point.
B. Early last year, a similar agitation coerced the government into calling for a revision of the Goa
Regional Plan 2011, a controversial document that opened up large swathes of land, including
green belts and coastal stretches, for construction.
C. The broad–based agitation against SEZs has demonstrated the power of popular protest in the
State.
D. Those opposed to the projects had questioned the propriety of the government acquiring large
tracts of land and then selling them to promoters at low prices.
E. A coastal State with an area of 3,700 square kilometers and a population of about 1.4 million,
Goa has always been extremely sensitive to the impact of unrestrained economic development.
(1) CDEAB (2) BCDEA (3) EABCD (4) DABCE

156. A. India’s security apparatus responds well when beset by crisis. However, successful security
depends not on crisis.
B. Potential targets must be secured as if terror strikers were imminent.
C. Here the Indian system’s record is appalling.
D. Despite years of painful experience, sensitive government installations in New Delhi, including
the headquarters of a few of India’s key military organizations and covert services, are defended
in a manner that would be considered unconscionably negligent in many parts of the world.
E. However, successful security depends not on crisis–time creativity but on the disciplined and
effective implementation of mundane, everyday protocols.
(1) ABDEC (2) AEBCD (3) ADECB (4) ABEDC

157. A. On the Republican side, the Iowa outcomes have left the picture somewhat murkier.
B. Mike Huckabee beat the putative front–runner, Mitt Romney, by a margin of 34.4 per cent to
25.4 per cent, but is not expected to carry the momentum forward into New Hampshire.
C. Mr. Huckabee’s victory is attributable largely to the strong support he got from evangelical

Earning:   Approval pending.