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CSAT ABHYAAS TEST – 1 (4254) – 2023

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Directions for the following 3 (three) items:
Read the following two passages and answer the items
that follow each passage. Your answers to these items
should be based on the passages only.
Passage – 1
The Reserve Bank of India launched the digital rupee
on a pilot basis. The digital currency will be offered by
a select group of public and private banks in a few
major cities initially, which can be used for both
person-to-person and person-to-merchant transactions.
The digital rupee, or the e-rupee, is a central bank
digital currency issued by the RBI. It is similar to the
physical cash that you hold in your wallet except that
the e-rupee is held electronically in a digital wallet
overseen by the RBI. The digital rupee is recognized
making the shift. Such an event could cause the cash
holdings of banks to drop and hinder banks’ capacity
to create loans. It should be noted that the ability of
banks to create loans is influenced by the amount of
cash they hold in their vaults. This is because the cash
position of a bank determines its ability to expand its
loan book while keeping the risk of a bank running
under control. The digital rupee could also play a
crucial role in India’s transition towards a cashless
society. A rise in the use of the digital rupee could
eventually free banks from having to maintain
sufficient cash deposits before they expand their loan
books. This could happen if digital rupee deposits turn
out to be considered equivalent to other forms of
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exchange. It is, however, different from deposits that a check on the unrestrained expansion of loan books.
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interest, the digital rupees in your wallet are not paid 1. "The introduction of central bank digital
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any interest by the central bank. Deposits held in banks currencies internationally has worried many".
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rupee more attractive as a currency to users when 1. It could disrupt the entire banking system.
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currencies which progressively lose value over time

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create loans.
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due to debasement by central banks. The introduction

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of central bank digital currencies internationally has

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given below:
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worried many who believe that it could disrupt the

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banking system. When interest rates offered by banks

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are low, people may be more prone to converting their
bank deposits into digital currencies since they would (c) Both 1 and 2

not lose out much in the way of interest income by (d) Neither 1 nor 2

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2. Read the following factual statements based 4. n is the average of 5 consecutive integers,
on the above passage. wherein m is the first integer. What will be the
1. It is a legal tender issued by the RBI in average of 9 consecutive integers, wherein the
digital form.
first integer is (m + 2)?
2. It can be used for person-to-person
(a) m + 4
transactions only.
3. The digital rupee in your wallet receives (b) n + 4
interest paid by the central bank. (c) n + 3
Which of the above statements is/are valid? (d) m + 5
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only 5. Anjali is as much younger than Vijaya as
(c) 1 and 2 only
Tanya is younger than Anjali. If the sum of the
(d) 1, 2, and 3
ages of Vijaya and Tanya is 48, how old is

Passage – 2 Anjali?
The public is sometimes derisive of social (a) 26 years
psychologists' study of love and research questions like (b) 33 years
“Does good communication make for successful (c) 24 years
relationships?" They may believe that common sense

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(d) 18 years

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are false. It does not pay to be overly confident about divided by x – 1, leaves a remainder of 4,
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maxims learned at one's caregiver's knee or garnered while, when divided by x + 1, it leaves a
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from the latest column one has read about relationships remainder of 3. What is the value of b?
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in a magazine. Some popular stereotypes about (a) 2.5

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half-truths.
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time.
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(c) Knowledge about love through one’s
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student can be less than 10 kg in weight?

caregivers or from some literature cannot
be relied upon. (a) 5 kg
(d) Social psychologists should work towards (b) 6 kg
convincing the public about love through (c) 3 kg
an objective approach. (d) 4 kg
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8. A tank has two pipes – A and B, attached to it. 10. Consider the following series:
A can fill the tank in 20 minutes, whereas pipe ABD, DGK, HMS, MTB, SBL, ?
B can empty the tank in 30 minutes. If both A
and B are opened alternately for one minute Which term should come in place of the
question mark in the series?
each, how long will it take to fill the tank?
(a) 121 minutes
Select the correct answer using the code given
(b) 110 minutes
below.
(c) 115 minutes
(a) ZKW
(d) 119 minutes
(b) ZKU
(c) ZAB
9. Three statements followed by two conclusions (d) XKW
numbered I and II are given below. You have
to take the given statements to be true even if 11. If in a certain language, GAMBLE is coded as
they seem to be at variance from commonly FBLCKF, then how will FLOWER be coded
known facts. Read all the conclusions and then in that language?

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decide which of the given conclusions (a) GKPVFQ

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I. Only a few rides are trips.

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II. No trip is a mountain.

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III. All mountains are trees.

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Passage – 1
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Conclusions: Quite often, our kids are only exposed to the end-user
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I: Some trees are not trips. part of technology. Most watch YouTube, play video
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II: All rides being trips is not a possibility. games, play on their smartphones, and download
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music from Alexa, but what if we could teach our

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them into digital old age with ease? Learning to code

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introducing complex skills, such as computer coding,
(b) Only conclusion II follows
to kids whilst they are young, they’ll consume it
(c) Either conclusion I or II follows
quickly, utilise it flexibly and continue to foster it for
(d) Both conclusions I and II follow
decades to come.
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12. Which one of the following statements best
reflects the message of the author of the
passage?
(a) Computer coding is the best way to teach
children complex life skills.
(b) Given the ill consequences of the end-user
part of technology, children should avoid
it.
(c) Learning coding at a younger age can
make old age easy and prosperous.
(d) Children should not only become the
consumers of coding products, but also
their creators.
Passage – 2
The connection between poverty
13. Based on the above passage, the following
assumptions have been made:
1. Exploitation of coral reefs is a causal
effect of poverty in developing countries.
2. With low levels of poverty in developed
countries, they do not exploit coral reefs
for livelihood.
Select the correct answer from the code given
below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
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reflects the crux of the passage?
and coral (a) Artificial coral reefs can act as an

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reef ecosystems is significant: two-thirds of all alternative livelihood for the protection of

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dependence is likely to endanger marine
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now well recognized that such communities need to be
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biodiversity, but not in developed

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countries.
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coral reefs are not further damaged, as well as to

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managers are shifting towards more integrated and through selective tourism.
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participatory approaches to reef management and (d) Practicing selective tourism by coastal
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conservation. Such approaches include identifying and communities for coral reef conservation
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dependence on coral reefs, as well as enhancing policy, globally.

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current livelihood activities to make them more cost

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circumstances, instead of blanket restrictions on use.

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father. How many male players are there?

capacity of the coral reef environment. In the case of
(a) One
selective tourism, the protection of flora and fauna can (b) Three
be done through notification and monitoring of the (c) Five
environment. (d) Two
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16. Gopal started from his house towards the west. 19. Consider the following series.
After walking a distance of 30 metres, he
10, 5, 5, 7.5, 15, P
turned right and walked 20 metres. He then
What must be the value of P in the above
turned left and after moving a distance of 10
metres, he turned to his left again and walked sequence?
40 metres. He then turned left and walked 5 (a) 60
metres. Finally, he turned to his left again. In
(b) 37.5
which direction he must be walking now?
(a) North (c) 90

(b) South (d) 46.5

(c) East
(d) South-west
20. The number of sides in a regular polygon is

17. In a row of 21 girls, when Monika was shifted ‘T’ times the number of diagonals in it. What
four places towards the right, she became 12th
is the interior angle of this polygon in terms of
from the left end. What was her initial position

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from the right end of the row?

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(b) 1, 4, 7 (c) Rs. 305
(c) 4, 7
(d) Rs. 480
(d) 4, 5, 6
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Directions for the following 4 (four) items:
Read the following two passages and answer the items
that follow each passage. Your answers to these items
should be based on the passages only.
Passage – 1
Several threats have led to the decline of the GIB
populations; however, power lines seem to be the most
significant. Like other species of bustards, the GIBs
are large birds standing about one-meter-tall and
weighing about 15 to 18 kg. In most cases, death is due
to collision rather than electrocution. A study by the
Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in 2020 recorded six
cases of GIB mortality due to power-line collisions in
Thar from 2017-20. Listed in Schedule I of the Indian
Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, in Appendix I of
CITES, as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red
of the GIBs and to release the chicks in the wild. The
initiative is likely to take 20 to 25 years. Experts,
including scientists from the WII, have called for
removing all overhead powerlines passing through the
GIB priority/critical areas in Rajasthan; the Ministry of
Environment, Forest and Climate Change has
constituted a task force. Questions, however, are being
raised about the slow pace of implementation.
22. What is/are the most logical conclusion(s) that
can be drawn from the passage given above?
1. Breeding of Great Indian Bustards, to
increase their population, can only be done
in the wild.
2. The steps being taken to conserve the GIB
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protection both in India and globally. The earliest given below:

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estimates show the population was about 1,260 in 1969
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Gujarat. Small populations are found in Maharashtra,

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Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. The overall

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northern Indian states.

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conservation breeding facility at Sam in Jaisalmer,

Rajasthan. The objective of ‘Habitat Improvement and (b) 2 only

Conservation Breeding of Great Indian Bustard-an (c) Both 1 and 2

integrated approach is to build the captive population (d) Neither 1 nor 2

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 Passage – 2
The unveiling of MBBS Hindi textbooks is a positive
development for students for whom this language was
the medium of instruction in school. Students schooled
in their mother tongue have a disadvantage in higher
education where English is usually the medium of
instruction and examination. Flexible
policies can greatly benefit such students, which is
why this reform should be extended to other languages
and disciplines too. But it’s important to ensure that
local language books maintain the quality standards of
the sourcebooks. The corpus of local language texts
must also expand so that a student who opts to study in
the local language isn’t left behind the rest. Much is
being made on social media of the new Hindi
textbooks having transliterations of terms
24. Which of the following statements best
reflects the underlying message of the
passage?
(a) Only an educated population can best
make use of the benefits of digital
progress.
language
(b) The use of English should be minimized.
(c) Educationally rich people are found to be
more morally upright as compared to the
uneducated.
(d) None of the above
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anatomy, physiology, etc. rather than pure Hindi especially in higher education.

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medicine, where the larger body of knowledge is in the language can affect migrants’ children
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higher education should include students having room Which of the above assumptions is/are valid?
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IT to nursing, is prized everywhere because of

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familiarity with English. Parents, across classes, angle

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migrant children should not be put at risk by rigid

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they finish the entire task?

approaches to language. GoI’s recent foundational
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learning survey found children displaying more
proficiency in English than in their mother tongues. (b) 14.33 days

Let all languages flourish. Let parents and students be (c) 11.50 days

able to choose what’s best for them. (d) 84 days

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27. Two statements followed by a question are given 30. Performances of four dancers - P, Q, R and S
below. are scheduled on four consecutive days, one
on each day, but not necessarily in that order.
Statement 1 : Anil and Pawan are of the same The first performance is scheduled on 13th
weight. February on Thursday, just followed by
Statement 2 : Pawan weighs more than Neeraj, performance of S. Dancer P will not perform
on 15th February, and one dance is scheduled
but less than Sahil. between the performance of P and Q.
On which day is the performance of dancer R
Question: Who is the heaviest? scheduled for?
(a) 15th February, Saturday
(b) 15th February, Friday
Select the correct answer from the code given (c) 16th February, Saturday
below: (d) 16th February, Sunday

(a) Statement I alone is sufficient to answer the 31. The sum of the fourth and twelfth terms of an
question. arithmetic progression is 20. What must be the
(b) Statement II alone is sufficient to answer the sum of the first 15 terms of that arithmetic
progression?
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y% alcohol to make a 60% alcohol solution. x

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(b) 2 (b) Only Conclusion-II
(c) 1 (c) Conclusion-I and Conclusion-III
(d) 0 (d) Conclusion-I and Conclusion-II

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33. A cube, whose two adjacent faces are 34. Which of the following measures guarantees
coloured, is cut into 125 identical small cubes. lower gender gaps in wealth accumulation?
What is the ratio of the number of cubes that
1. High proportion of women in leadership
are coloured on at least one face and cubes that
are not coloured at all? roles.
(a) 16 : 9 2. High rate of GDP growth of a country.
(b) 9 : 16 Select the correct answer using the codes
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given below:
(d) 8 : 5
(a) 1 only
Directions for the following 2 (two) items: (b) 2 only
Read the following passage and answer the items that (c) Both 1 and 2
follow. Your answers to these items should be based on
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
the passage only.
Passage
There’s a big gender disparity in wealth creation – this 35. According to this passage, which of the
is not a novel finding but what makes WTW’s 2022 following are the reasons affecting women's
global gender wealth equity report interesting is that it

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accumulation of wealth?

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3. Gender pay gap
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trajectories on account of care giving. A stop-start

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accumulate only 64% of wealth as compared to men,
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India is the worst performer among the 12 Asia-Pacific

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countries studied. The trade-off between a smooth 36. If the ratio of the lengths of two trains is 5 : 4
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career trajectory and an outsized influence in India, and the ratio of their speeds is 4 : 3, what must
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leadership roles, it fares a shade worse than India. The (a) 5 : 3

Argentinian economy is prone to bouts of (b) 13 : 15
hyperinflation. Gender-wise wealth disparity is a
(c) 15 : 16
product of deeper inequalities that are not easily
remedied. (d) 5 : 16

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37. Ramkumar, a fruit seller, purchased some 41. Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting
bananas at the rate of 25 for Re. 1. If after
equidistant from each other around a circular
selling all bananas, he earned a profit of 25%,
table. Three of them face inwards, while the
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sold to get back his investment of Re. 1? other three face outwards. Any two neighbours
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42. Two statements followed by two conclusions
numbered I and II are given below. You have
to take the given statements to be true even if
they seem to be at variance from commonly
known facts. Read all the conclusions and then
decide which of the given conclusions
logically follow(s) from the given statements,
disregarding commonly known facts.
S1: All pictures are Bright.
S2: No Picture is Dark.
Conclusion:
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II. Some Pictures are not Dark.
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Read the following three passages and answer the
44. A German text has to be translated to French.
What are the options available to accomplish
the job?
(a) C can translate from German to English
and then E can translate from German to
French.
(b) B can translate from German to English
and then E can translate from German to
French.
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(d) C
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favour at the Centre, even though society is Passage – 2
irrevocably headed in the opposite direction. But the Knowing what’s needed to solve a problem is one
moot point is no one entity can claim complete control. thing, but doing it is quite another. By now every
It is a diverse ecosystem. Far more important issues doctor in the country should be familiar with growing

than locating education in the Constitution are at stake.
The Constitution’s bouquet of rights, directive
principles, and duties cannot be meaningfully enjoyed
by citizens without quality education, and access to
quality remains a big failure. Against the National
Education Policy’s goal of combined government
expenditure on education at 6% of GDP, 3% of GDP
was budgeted in 2021-22. States should be goading
GoI to spend more; moving education to the state list
could reduce the Centre’s urgency to boost education
spending. State governments must also ask themselves
why state universities and many state government
antimicrobial resistance and what their role in curbing
its spread needs to be, but their prescription behaviour
remains largely unreformed. The latest ICMR attempt
to reform this behaviour involves advising doctors to
avoid using antibiotics in conditions such as low-grade
fever and viral bronchitis, plus planning a stop date to
ensure that antibiotics are not given beyond the
recommended duration.
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concern of the author?
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 Passage – 3
The society that we live in is in a continuous state of
change. The changed lifestyle of individual consumers,
for instance, has changed their way of doing things
such as consumption patterns. For
approximately 100 years ago, consumption occurred in
the form of bartering or purchases made by travelling
merchants. These days, the developments in the field
of communication, technology, information, and
marketing have created new shifts in the way
consumers inform and learn about certain products and
services. In particular, in the last two decades,
49. Based on the above passage, the following
assumptions have been made:
1. Consumption patterns of society change
every 100 years.
example, 2. Today, consumption of services through
the internet is safer than a barter system.
3. It is not possible to understand consumer
behaviour without the integration of new
technologies.
Which of the above assumptions is/are
invalid?
(a) 1, 2 and 3

consumers have become accustomed to using the (b) 2 and 3 only

internet as means to inform themselves about products (c) 1 and 2 only

or services and other information in general. It has (d) 3 only

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 Which of the following can we infer from the 53. Who is at the extreme left end ?
above graph? (a) Alok
1. Temperature has increased consistently
(b) Bhagat
from 7th to 9th April.
2. If there was a 5% decrease in temperature (c) Subodh

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been the hottest morning.
3. Temperature difference between the
54. Who is in the middle ?
hottest morning and the coolest evening is
(a) Bhagat
more than 10° C
(b) Jayesh
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given below.
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V. Subodh is just between Jayesh and Pramod. (d) 11/17
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Directions for the following 4 (four) items: 58. Which one of the following statements best
Read the following two passages and answer the items reflects the crux of the passage?
that follow each passage. Your answers to these items (a) Considering the high potential of AI
should be based on the passages only. chatbots, India should fund the
Passage – 1
development of such technologies.
Artificial intelligence will be integrated into everyday
(b) Without autonomous functionality, the
technology throughout the next decade to facilitate
adoption of AI chatbots would be difficult.
services. Currently, chatbots rely on a human
(c) AI chatbots have the potential to bring
engineer’s intelligence to continuously update the
about a major change in the business
system (i.e., they are not autonomous). AI chatbots
will be different from current conversational and setups.

messenger chatbots (e.g., Google Home and Siri) as (d) Companies while developing AI chatbots

they will autonomously identify arrangements, trends, should address the ethical challenges
and significance from data that is too intricate to be related to AI.
processed by human programmers or machines to
mimic human-like conversation. It has been suggested Passage – 2

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(b) 2 only
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59. Which of the following is/are the most 62. Three statements followed by a question are
rational and logical inference/inferences that given below.
I. Sanjay is six years older than Gopal.
can be made from the passage?
II. Gopal's brother was born in 1982.
1. New developments in education field
III. Sanjay' s brother is two years younger than
cannot always be assessed with the old Gopal's brother, who was eight years younger
paradigms of evaluation. than Gopal.
2. MOOCs are more effective than
classroom-based education. Question: In which year was Sanjay born?

Select the correct answer from the code given

Select the statements that are required to
below:
answer the question
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(b) 2 only (b) II and III together
(c) Both 1 and 2 (c) I and III together
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 (d) All I, II and III

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(c) Rs. 2,000 IV. U and S stay in a hostel. T stays as a PG and Q
(d) Rs. 1,600 stays at home.
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64. Who studies English? 69. An urn contains 5 green, 4 blue and 3 red
(a) R marbles. If 3 marbles are drawn randomly,
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(d) 52/55
subject and place of stay is not correct?
(a) English — Hostel
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(c) Philosophy — Home
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(d) Physics — Hostel
the passage only.
Passage
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(d) 15 : 8
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problematic issues caused due to the COVID- 10 + 103 + 106 + 109
19 pandemic? What is the value of the above expression?
1. Tele-education (a) 1010101010
2. Increased virtual presence (b) 1001000010
3. Teleworking (c) 1001000110
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(b) 2 and 3 only between 106 and 107, such that the sum of their
(c) 2 only digits is equal to 2?
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Directions for the following 4 (four) items: 78. Based on the above passage, the following
Read the following two passages and answer the items assumptions have been made:
that follow each passage. Your answers to these items
1. Cinema is the best medium to understand
should be based on the passages only.
the complexities of society.
Passage – 1
Cinema, frequently termed the 7th art form, offers 2. The user’s previous choices and

viewers, not only an opportunity for mood regulation demographics are sufficient for effective
but also a window to other values and experiences, internet-based recommendation systems.
providing new forms to understand personal and social
Which of the above assumptions is/are valid?
issues and affording a valuable medium to promote
(a) 1 only
health, education and wellbeing. To help viewers
(b) 2 only
access and navigate through these resources, internet-
based recommendation systems can be helpful tools. (c) Both 1 and 2
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ought to consider more than the user’s previous
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(c) Both 1 and 2
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rational and logical inference/inferences that
can be made from the passage?
1. Construction in climate-affected urban
locations may not be a sustainable plan.
2. Climate change has not discouraged the
construction of buildings in urban cities.
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(b) 2 only
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