Indian Institue of Management 2008 COMMON APTITUDE TEST (CAT ) - Question Paper

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49. Aditya did not get a call from even a single college. What could be the maximum aggregate marks found by him?

50. Bhama got calls from all colleges. What could be minimum aggregate marks found by her?
(1) 180 (2) 181 (3) 196 (4) 176 (5) 184

part III

This part contains 40 ques.

Directions for ques. 51 to 54: every of the subsequent ques. has a sentence with 2 blanks. provided beneath every ques. are 5 pairs of words. select the pair that best completes the sentence.

51. The genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda, apart from being mis-described in the most sinister and ___________ manner as ‘ethnic cleansing’, were also blamed, in further hand-washing rhetoric, on something dark and interior to _____________ and perpetrators alike.

1) innovative; communicator 2) enchanting; leaders 3) disingenuous; victims
4) exigent; exploiters 5) tragic; sufferers

52. As navigators, calendar makers, and other ___________ of the might sky accumulated evidence to the contrary, ancient astronomers were forced to ___________ that certain bodies might move in circles about points , which in turn moved in circles about the earth.

1) scrutinizers; believe 2) observers; agree 3) scrutinizers; suggest 4) observers; concede 5) students; conclude

53. Every human being, after the 1st few days of his life, is a product of 2 factors; on the 1 hand, there is his_____________ endowment; and on the other hand, there is the effect of environment, including _____________.

1) constitutional; weather 2) congenital; education 3) personal; climate
4) economic; learning 5) genetic; pedagogy

54. Exhaustion of natural resources, destruction of individual initiative by governments, control over men’s minds by central ____________ of education and propaganda are a few of their major evils which appear to be on the increase as a outcome of the impact of science upon minds suited by _____________ to an earlier type of world.

1) tenet; fixation 2) aspects; inhibitions 3)institutions; inhibitions
4) organs; tradition 5) departments; repulsion

Earning:   Approval pending.