Targate'16: General Ability

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General Ability
Q. No. 1 – 5 Carry One Mark Each
1. Having definite information about drugs being smuggled in, the customs officials decided to
switch from a _______ examination of the passenger baggage to a rigorous inspection.
(A) inchoate (B) meticulous (C) cursory (D) specious
2. After working for two hours, the essay started to take shape, and he began to hope that he might
finish before the deadline.
(A) After working for two hours, the essay started to take shape, and he began to hope
(B) When the essay started to take shape after he had worked on it for two hours, he began to
hope
(C) When the essay started to take shape after he had worked on it for two hours, he begun to
hope
(D) When the essay started to take shape after working on it for two hours, he began to hope
(E) After working for two hours, the student's essay started to take shape, and he began to hope
3. Which of the following is an assumption upon which the author’s claim rests?
(A) When deciding between two options, consumers and businesses do not opt for the solution
that has fewer negative effects.
(B) People’s reluctance to transition to the Dvorak keyboard does not have multiple factors.
(C) Dvorak keyboards require users to relearn the configurations of the keyboard, a potentially
time-consuming process
(D) The Dvorak keyboard can only become a viable alternative if businesses require their
employees to no longer use QWERTY keyboards.
(E) The range of finger movement is the sole determinant of typing speed.
4. What will come in place of both the question marks (?) in the following question?
4
(?) 5 12
 6 is ____ .
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(?) 5
5. The perimeter of a square is 504 cms. What is the area of the square?
(A) 2016 Sq.cms (B) 15876 Sq.cms
(C) 15376 Sq.cm (D) 1008 Sq.cms
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Q. No. 6 – 10 Carry Two Mark Each
6. Authors writing detective stories frequently include a brilliant detective and an incompetent
investigator who embark on separate paths in an attempt to solve a crime. The separate accounts
frequently consist of the incompetent investigator becoming distracted by the criminals' well-
planned attempts and the competent detective solving the case after a violent confrontation. Many
literary analysts believe authors often choose this storyline in an attempt to provide readers
additional complexity and challenge in solving the investigation.
Which of the following most logically follows from the statements above?
(A) A well-written detective story consists of an investigation being undertaken by a competent
and incompetent investigator.
(B) Some authors use an incompetent investigator to show the complexities of an investigation.
(C) Authors never write stories with incompetent investigators who solve a case correctly.
(D) Authors can use the separate investigative accounts to make predicting the correct outcome of
the investigation more difficult.
7. A teacher at the school acknowledged that, despite government sponsored endeavors to improve
classroom performance, an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission
to higher education.
(A) an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education
(B) an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education
(C) an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education
(D) the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is
extraordinarily high
8. A committee of three students has to be formed. There are five candidates: Jane, Joan, Paul,
Stuart, and Jessica. If Paul and Stuart refuse to be in the committee together and Jane refuses to
be in the committee without Paul, how many committees are possible?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6
9. How many positive integers less than 10,000 are such that the product of their digits is 210?
(A) 24 (B) 30 (C) 48 (D) 54
10. A box contains 10 pairs of shoes (20 shoes in total). If two shoes are selected at random, what it is
the probability that they are matching shoes?
(A) 1/190 (B) 1/20 (C) 1/19 (D) 1/10
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Chemical Engineering
Q. No. 1 – 25 Carry One Mark Each
1. For a certain reaction, the equilibrium pressure of one of the products is given by
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ln  P  = 14.4  . Assuming ideal behavior, the value of H O will be ______________.
T
2. What is the order of a reaction for ammonia fabrication from the nitrogen and hydrogen?
(A) 2 (B) 1 (C) 0 (D) Cannot say
3. X and Y react together. For a threefold increase in the concentration of X, there is a nine-fold
increase in the rate of reaction. This shows that the order with respect to X is_____.
4. Pressure and temperature of N2  g  are 1 atm, 30C . Calculate the density of nitrogen gas
considering as ideal gas.
5. A wet stock of (NH 4 )2 SO4 containing 25% water on dry basis is sent to a dryer. The material
leaving the dryer contains 2.5% moisture on dry basis. Determine the % of water removed in the
drying operation.
6. If we increase the temperature of a chemical reaction, then the equilibrium constant  kC or k P 

(A) Increases (B) Decreases
(C) Data insufficient (D) None of these
7. The value of standard enthalpy value for the reaction, whose equilibrium constant values at
400OC and 600OC are in the ratio 2: 3, will be _________J.mol.
8. For the baffled tanks fitted with centrally located impellers at Reynolds’s number > 10000, the
power number
(A) Depends on Reynold’s number and Froude number
(B) Depends on Reynold’s number
(C) Is independent of Reynold’s number
(D) Depends on Froude number only.
9. For a dispersed phase, the interfacial area per unit volume of dispersion is
(A) Proportional to the hold
(B) Inversely proportional to the drop size
(C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) None of these
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10. Which of the following represents the head of 100m of water?

(A) Head of 120m of kerosene with specific gravity 0.81
(B) Head of 62.5m with specific gravity 1.6
(C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) None of these
11. Match the following with the lists given below.

List-I List-II
(P) Jaw Crusher (1) Compression
(Q) Gyrator Crusher (2) Tearing & crushing
(R) Smooth – roll Crusher (3) Impaction
(S) Toothed – roll Crusher
(A) P-1, Q-1, R-1, S-2 (B) P-3, Q-3, R-3, S-1
(C) P-1, Q-2, R-2, S-1 (D) P-1, Q-2, R-3, S-4
12. The wave length at which intensity of radiation emitted by a black body is 0.6 m . Calculate the
emissive power of that body.
(A) 64.80 MW (B) 18.22 MW (C) 43.67 MW (D) 30.51 MW
13. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists.
List-I List-II
P. Thermal radiation 1. 0.4 to 0.7 m
Q. Solar radiation 2. 0.4 to 0.001 m
R. Visible light 3. 0.1 to 4 m

S. Ultra violet 4. 0.1 to 100 m
(A) P-4;Q-1;R-3;S-2 (B) P-4;Q-3;R-1;S-2

(C) P-4;Q-3;R-2;S-1 (D) P-4;Q-1;R-2;S-3
14. If for the flow of a fluid at right angles to a circular cylinder, the average heat transfer coefficient
around the periphery is given by N u  a  bR e m  Pr n , then the analogous expression for the mass
transfer can be expressed as
(A) Sh  a  bR e mSc n (B) Sh  b  aR e m .Sc n
(C) N u  a  bR e m  Sc n (D) N u  n  mR e a  Sc b
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15. The Sieder-Tate correlation for heat transfer in turbulent flow in a pipe gives Nu  Re0.8 , where
Nu is Nusselt Number and Re is Reynolds Number for the flow. Assuming this relation is valid,
the heat transfer coefficient varies with pipe diameter (D) as
(A) D 1.8 (B) D-0.2 (C) D0.2 (D) D1.8
W W
16. Two fluids having heat transfer coefficients 500 2
and 750 2 are separated by tube wall
mK mK
with inner radius 2.5cm and outer radius 3cm. Inner fluid is of heat transfer coefficient -
W W
750 2 and tube wall has thermal conductivity 40 . The overall heat transfer coefficient
mK mK
(W/m2 K) with respect to inner wall will be _________________.
17. A pipe having emissivity 0.3 is carrying steam in a large room. The grey body factor of the pipe
with respect to the room will be ___________.
18. What are the dryness fraction values for a liquid just starts boiling and for the vapour which is
formed after complete vaporization?
(A) 0, 1 (B) 1, 0
(C) Between 0 and 1 (D) Greater than 1
 kg NH3 
19. The amount of ammonia vapour   present for each Hg of dry air in the mixture of air-
 kg dry air 
ammonia vapour in which the partial pressure of ammonia is given by 40mm will be
_________________.
20. A binary mixture of 10 Kg mol benzene and toluene containing 40-mol percent, benzene is to
distilled at atm pressure to recover 95% of the benzene. If the residue is 6 kg mol, then the
percentage of residue composition for toluene is _____________.
21. When the correlation coefficient r   1, then the two regression lines
(A) Are perpendicular to each other
(B) Coincide
(C) Are parallel to each other
(D) Do not exist
dy
22. If x y  y x  c then at x  1, y  1is _____
dx
(A) 1 (B) -1 (C) 2 (D) -2
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23. If the Laplace transform of a signal x(t) is X(s)  , then its final value is __ .
s(s 2)
24. The solution of the differential equation y  4y  5y  10e t with initial conditions
y(0)  1, y(0)  2 is
(A) et  e2t cos t (B) et  e2t sin t
(C) et  e2t cos t (D) et  e2t sin t
25. The D.E ey dx  y3  xey dy is 

(A) Linear, homogenous and exact
(B) Linear, non-homogeneous and exact
(C) Non-linear, non-homogeneous and in exact
(D) Non-linear, homogeneous and inexact
Q. No. 26 – 55 Carry Two Marks Each
2  6 2 2 
   2 a 1
26. The value of a+b such that the vector  1 is an Eigen vector of the matrix   is ___
 1   2 1 b 
dy
27. The D.E  0.025y 2  1 is to be solved using the implicit Euler’s method with the boundary
dx
condition y=1 at x=0 and with a step size of 1. What would be the value of y at x=1?
(A) 2 (B) 2.12 (C) 2.16 (D) 2.30
28. Using 3rd order Runge-Kutta method find an approximate value of y when x=0.2 given that
dy
 x  y and y  1 when x  0.
dx
(A) 1.240 (B) 1.241 (C) 1.242 (D) 1.243
29. The value of the integral of the complex function

e2z
f z  Along the contour C: z  1  3, oriented anti-clockwise, is equal to
z  z  1

(A) j e2  1  
(B) j e2  1  (C) 2j e2  1  (D) 2j e2  1 
30. The value of  (3x  4y)dx  (2x  3y)dy where ‘c’ is a circle with centre at the origin and radius
c
2 in xy plane is __.
(A) 8 (B) 4
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(C) 8 (D) None
31. Match the following humidity measuring apparatus in List-I with their functioning in List-II.
List-I List- II
P Direct chemical method 1 Measurement done using the electrical
conductivity
Q Hygrometer method 2 Measurement done using the dry bulb and
wet bulb temperatures
R Sling psychrometer method 3 Measurement based on expansion and
contraction of materials like hair,
wood, animal membrane and paper
S Dew point method 4 Measurement done using chemical like
H2SO4 , P2 O5 etc.
(A) P-2, Q-1, R-4, S-3 (B) P-3, Q-2, R-1, S-4
(C) P-4, Q-3, R-2, S-1 (D) P-1, Q-3, R-2, S-4
32. 200 lt/min is filtered by a rotary filter which is operating at 4 rpm under the same condition and
 lt 
neglecting the resistance of filter cloth. The filtration rate  in  of a rotary filter to maintain
 min 
the operating speed of 6 rpm, should be ____________.
33. A simple closed control loop has been shown below. Find the correct range of K C for stable
operation.
(A) -6 < KC < 60

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 KC
(B) -6 < KC < 66 R  s  1  s  2 C
(C) 0 < KC < 60
1
(D) 0 < KC < 66
 s  3
34. A pneumatic proportional controller has input output range of 3 to 15 psi air pressure. A
temperature-measuring element installed in the process produces 0.75 psi output for a change at
1ºC. It has been observed that for 10ºC change in the process side, there is a 12psi change of
controller output. What is the percentage proportional band of the [P] controller?
35. A measurement system used in a pressure control system consists of two elements, sensor and a
signal conditioner. If the sensor has a transfer function of 0.1mA/pa and the signal conditioner of
a transfer function of 20, then the overall transfer function of the measurement system will be
_______________(mA/pa).
36. A fire alarm unit, which is sensitive to the temperature, a unity gain is first order system with a
time constant of three minutes. There is sudden 120o C rise in temperature because of fire caused
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by electric shock. If an increase of 60o C is required to activate the alarm, then the delay
(minutes) in signaling the fire alarm will be ________________.
37. Which of the following statement is correct for the system shown in the below figure?

  0.5s 1   5
R 2  C
  s  2s 1
(A) Real parts of roots of characteristic equation are positive

(B) Roots of characteristic equation lies on imaginary axis
(C) Roots of characteristic equation lies on left hand side of imaginary axis
(D) Roots of characteristic equation lies on right hand side of imaginary axis
38. A production equipment costs Rs. 500000. Its salvage value is Rs. 50000. The expected return is
Rs. 75000. If the corporate taxes are taken as 40%, then the payback period in years will be
_________________.
39. Mild steel studs are manufactured in batches of 100 not 500. The direct material cost is Rs. 50,
labor cost Rs. 20. Overhead is 100% of direct labor. If selling cost is 50% of factory cost, then
selling price of each unit to release the profit of 50% of the selling price will be
_________________ rupees.
40. If 360g of propane, C3H8, is burned in excess oxygen, then how many grams of water is formed?
41. The rate of return in a petrochemical industry, whose total capital investment of Rs. 2,00,00,000
and cumulative net cash flow is Rs. 1,20,00,000 at the end of project life of 6 years, will be
______________%.
42. The heat evolved in the combustion of benzene is given by the equation:
C6 H6  7.5O2  6CO2  3H2 O H  3264.6kJ / k.mole. The heat energy change, when 39gm of
C6 H6 is burnt in an open container, will be (in kJ/kg mole)
(A) +816.15 (B) +1632.3 (C) -1632.3 (D) -2448.45
43. One mole of an ideal gas is compressed from 200 kPa and 400 K to a final state of 200000 kPa
and 400 K. Calculate the change in the helmotz potential, if the surrounding is at 400 K.
(A) 23332.25J/mol.K (B) 22972.4J/mol.K
(C) 20000.4J/mol.K (D) 21132.7 J/mol.K
44. The percentage of Na2SO4 present in one mole of Na 2SO4 .5H2 O will be _____ than the
percentage of Na 2SO4 present in Na 2SO4 10H2O.
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(A) Greater (B) Less (C) Equal (D) None of these
45. If the maximum allowable superficial vapor velocity in packed column is 6.2 m/s and if liquid
density is 55 kg/m3 and empirical constant is 0.40, then the vapor density in packed column (in
kg/m3) will be _____________________.
46. Calculate the Grashoff number for the central heating radiation of 0.6m high with a surface
temperature of 75ºC in a room at 18ºC.
  1.2kg / m , Pr  0.72 and =1.8 10
3 -5
kg / ms  .
(A) 2.1109 (B) 1.2 109 (C) 1.3 109 (D) 1.84 109
47. Two long parallel surfaces each of emissivity 0.7 are maintained at different temperatures and
accordingly have radiation heat exchange between them. It is desired to reduce 75% of this
radiant heat transfer by inserting thin parallel shields of emissivity on both sides. The number of
shields should be __________.
48. If we increase mass velocity of drying medium by 4 times, then the volumetric heat transfer
coefficient will increase _______________ times.
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 2.53 (D) 1.414
49. At 318 K and 24.4 kPa total pressure, the composition of the system ethanol(1) and toluene(2) at
equilibrium is x1 =0.3 and y1 = 0.634. The saturation pressure at the given temperature for pure
components P1 = 23.06kPa and P2 =10.05kPa. The activity coefficient of the toluene will be
_____________________.
50. What is the ratio of rate of mass transfer due to eddy diffusion to the rate of mass transfer due to
molecular diffusion, if Eddy diffusivity is 3 times the molecular diffusivity? (Assume same
concentration gradient)
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(A) (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 0.25
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51. Calculate  for the following reaction:

n  hexane  benzene + dihydrogen  aromatization 
52. If Damkohler number (Da) for a first order reaction is 5, then the percentage conversion in CSTR
will be _________________.
53. An irreversible homogeneous liquid phase reaction A  B+ C is carried out in two isothermal
flow reactors of 60 liters capacity each operating at 60°C , both the reactors are operated in series
with feed rate as 25 mol/min, feed concentration as 2 mol/liter and rate constant as 0.50min -1. If
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both the reactors are ideal plug flow reactors, then the percentage of exit conversion will be
________________.
54. A feed consist of 60 mole% A and 40 mole % inerts is sent to a plug flow reactor such that the
C
conversion of A at the exit of reactor is 60%. Calculate A at the exit of the reactor, if reaction
C A0
kinetics is represented as 3A  5C .
55. Consider a reaction A   product. If half life of this reaction at 30C and initial concentration
mol mol
of A at 0.4 and 0.8 are 1240 min and 620 min respectively, then the order of
l l
reaction will be ________________.
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CHTest ID: 168272 TarGATE’16 www.gateforum.

Q. No. 1 – 5 Carry One Mark Each

Q. No. 6 – 10 Carry Two Mark Each

6. If we increase the temperature of a chemical reaction, then the equilibrium constant  kC or k P 

10. Which of the following represents the head of 100m of water?

11. Match the following with the lists given below.

R. Visible light 3. 0.1 to 4 m

(A) P-4;Q-1;R-3;S-2 (B) P-4;Q-3;R-1;S-2

25. The D.E ey dx  y3  xey dy is 

Q. No. 26 – 55 Carry Two Marks Each

29. The value of the integral of the complex function

(C) 8 (D) None

(A) -6 < KC < 60

(A) Real parts of roots of characteristic equation are positive

(A) Greater (B) Less (C) Equal (D) None of these

51. Calculate  for the following reaction:

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