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Section I
Directions for questions 1 to 3: The passage given below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. In this age of fierce competition between Internet marketing and traditional retail, merchants want to know: Which approach stirs potential customers most? Experiments by neuroeconomist Antonio Rangel and his colleagues suggest that the old pop song chorus Aint nothing like the real thing, babymight have it right. The findings could be relevant to more than shopping, however. They may give insight into the ways our brains assign value in the computational activity that is human choice. Whether the stimuli are physically present or not really affects the values you assign and the choices you make, says Rangel, a California Institute of Technology researcher who published the research results with his colleagues in the American Economic Review in September. Rangel, an economist-turned-neuroscientist, is one of those people eager to find the biological basis for human behavior, including choice making. He and many others have concluded that choices are made based on the values people assign to the options they encounter. In a series of experiments, his group set out to learn how people assign values to the same goods presented differently: as text on a computer screen, as a high-quality photograph on the same screen or as the thing itself. They randomly presented more than 50 hungry Caltech students with snack foods such as candy bars, potato chips and other sweet and salty snacks, one by one, in three different conditions: a text condition where the foods name was written; a high-resolution picture of the food; or the actual snack in a tray. The students were asked to assign values to each of the foods. On average, there was no difference in the subjects willingness to pay for the foods between the text and picture conditions, but subjects were willing to pay, on average, 50 percent more for items that were physically present. Importantly, these were real decisions: Subjects purchased those items at the stated price. Concerned that noses rather than brains were guiding these judgments, the authors repeated the experiment with something other than food. They asked their subjects to rate Caltech paraphernalia: key chains, pens and baseball caps. The students still were willing to pay about 50 percent more for the goods in the real condition, with no difference between text and picture. We were shocked when it replicated with all of our goods, like the trinkets, Rangel says. Somehow the brain knows it is present, and computes the value of stimuli differently when this is the case.

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To gain more insight about the mechanisms in play, the team repeated the food experiment, but this time placed the actual food behind clear Plexiglas so that subjects could see the foods just as before, but could not reach or smell them. When behind glass, the real conditions advantage disappeared. The authors argue that this suggests that the original effect is triggered by the activation of automatic approach responses (often called Pavlovian processes) that strike when a highly appealing, or appetitive, item is placed within sight and reach of a subject. The findings reinforced questions that nag at Rangel. We want to understand not just how signals get coded in the brain but how they are constructed at the time of choice. What are the inputs that determine what values get assigned? How is that affected by learning? How is it affected by a lot of perceptual information in the environment? Rangel asks. The researchers working hypothesis is that seeing something that you know you could reach out and grab, if you really needed to, generates a larger cue in the brain than simply seeing an extrapolation of the same object. 1. According to the passage, the purpose of the experiments on Caltech students was to understand (a) which approach stirs potential customers most. (b) the way our brain assigns values to activities. (c) the biological basis of human behaviour in making choices. (d) human responses to actual objects. From the information on the findings of the researchers, which of the following situations would send the strongest signals to the brain? (a) A sweater displayed on a mannequin at the store entrance. (b) A sweater displayed by a model walking on the ramp. (c) A woman knitting a sweater behind a glass counter. (d) A sweater gift wrapped attractively. The passage can be best described as (a) Hypothetical (b) Argumentative (c) Factual (d) Experimental

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Directions for questions 4 to 7: The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. How would one search for knowledge? The things which he knows requires no search, for he already knows. The things which he does not know, he does not know what hes going to search for this is Menos Paradox, also called the Sophistic Paradox. In Meno, Plato eliminates the paradox by developing his theory of recollection through Socrates. A contradiction is an always-false statement. For example, if P is any statement, then P and the negation of P is a contradiction. A contradiction cannot be made true. A paradox, however, is a set of statements that leads one into a contradiction. So a paradox misleads us.

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Given below are four sentences. Each sentence has a pair of words that are italicized. From the italicized words, select the most appropriate words (A or B) to form correct sentences. The sentences are followed by options that indicate the words, which may be selected to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the options given, choose the most appropriate one. The artist uses a rich palate(A)/palette(B) of tones and timbres. It is a novel that wallows in gross sentimentality and bathos(A)/pathos(B). She was ingenuous enough to buy the meretricious(A)/meritorious(B) product from the vendor. A whopping ninety percent of the respondents unequivocably(A)/unequivocally(B) said Yes. (a) BAAB (b) BAAA (c) ABAB (d) BABA

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A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Zero has had a long history. The Babylonians invented the concept of zero; the ancient Greeks debated it in lofty terms (how could something be nothing?); the ancient Indian scholar Pingala paired Zero with the numeral 1 to get double digits; and both the Mayans and the Romans made Zero part of their numeral systems. But Zero finally found its place around AD 498, when the Indian astronomer Aryabhatta sat up in bed one morning and exclaimed, Sthanam sthanam dasa gunamwhich translates, roughly as, place to place in ten times in value. With that, the idea of decimal based place value notion was born. (a) Now Zero was on a roll. (b) Now Zero spread to the Arab world. (c) Zero ultimately found plenty of employment (together with the digit 1). (d) Zero ultimately flourished in Silicon valley.

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A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. And so I cried and I prayed, and as months passed, the ceiling above my bed slowly went back to being just a ceiling. Taking Lucette by the hand, I went back to school. There were hundreds of other children like me, children who had done nothing wrong and who, like me, had suffered some tragedy and were waiting patiently serving out their time, coping as best as they could. (a) If they did not ask questions, it was because they knew they would not like the answers. (b) At night, in the darkness, I brooded on my sadness. (c)I had loved this town all my life and today, I had to leave it. (d)The tension was palpable- the anger almost burnt the walls.

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Section II
21. The sum of three numbers in A.P. is 45. If the sum of their squares is 683, what is the largest of the three numbers? (a) 16 (b) 19 (c) 17 (d) 18 The average market price of three shares A, B and C is Rs. x. Shares A and C lose Rs. y each and B gains Rs. value of y is (a) 2 23.

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y . As a result, the average market price of the three shares decreases by Re. 1. The 2
(b) 3 (c) 4 (d) dependent on x

C(n,r ) =

n! where n! = n (n 1) (n 2) K 2 1. r ! (n r )!

What is the smallest positive integer k such that C(2k, k) is divisible by 200? (a) 23 (b) 61 (c) 13 (d) 11 24. If a, b, and c are positive integers such that (a b + c)(b c + a)(c a + b) = 15, then what is the product of a, b and c? (a) 24 (b) 64 (c) 42 (d) Cannot be determined In the figure given below, ABCD is a trapezium, in which AB||CD and DP||CQ. If AP = 4 units, QB = 2 units and CD = 4 units, then what is the ratio of the area of the triangle COD to that of the triangle AOB?

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O A 4
(a) 4 : 25 26. (b) 2 : 5

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B
(d) None of these

A watch, which gains time uniformly, was 5 minutes behind the correct time when it showed 11:55 AM on Monday. It was 10 minutes ahead of the correct time when it showed 06:10 PM on the next day. When did the watch show the correct time? (a) 6 AM, Tuesday (b) 6 PM, Monday (c) 2 PM, Tuesday (d) 10 PM, Monday A function f(x) is defined for all real values of x as 2f(x) + f(1 x) = x2. What is the value of f(5)? (a) 10 (b) 17 (c)
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(d) Cannot be determined

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Two jars contain milk and water in the ratio 7 : 3 and 3 : 2 respectively. In what ratio should the contents of the two jars be mixed such that the final ratio of milk and water in the resultant solution becomes 23 : 17? (a) 1 : 3 (b) 1 : 5 (c) 3 : 5 (d) Data Inconsistent

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1 b+ 1 c+ 1 d +K

= 21/ 3

If a, b, c, d etc are positive integers, then what is the value of b? (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 3 30.

(d) 5

A car runs on four tyres and has one extra tyre. If each tyre lasts for 10,000 km then what is the maximum distance (in km) that the car can travel using the five tyres? (a) 10,000 (b) 11,000 (c) 12,500 (d) 15,000 A and B start running simultaneously on a circular track from point O in the same direction. If the ratio of their speeds is 6 : 1 respectively, then how many times is A ahead of B by a quarter of the length of the track before they meet at O for the first time? (a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 7 (d) 10 x and y are real numbers such that y = |x 2| |2x 12| + |x 8|. What is the least possible value of y? (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 2 (d) None of these The difference between the compound interest (with annual compounding) and the simple interest earned in two years on a certain sum at the rate of 18% p.a. is Rs. 972. What will the same sum amount to (in Rs.) after three years at the rate of 18% p.a. when the interest is compounded annually? (a) 49290.96 (b) 49116.00 (c) 49280.50 (d) 49382.96 In the figure given below, there is a square circumscribed by a circle. In how many ways can 9 people occupy the marked positions such that each person occupies exactly one position?

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9

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What is the sum of all the possible values of a natural number n that satisfy

(
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n2 2n

n2 + 47

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16n16

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In the figure given below, ABCD is an isosceles trapezium (BC || AD) circumscribing a circle such that BC = 45 cm and AD = 125 cm. What is the radius of the circle?

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Section III
Directions for questions 41 to 43: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. The political parties mentioned in the graph given below participated in a constituency election. The graph shows the number of votes received by the candidates of six major parties and other smaller parties in Round 1 of the election. The election is held as follows: In Round 1, if a candidate gets more than 50% of the total number of votes cast in that round, (s)he is declared the winner of the election, else, top 5 candidates based on the number of votes move to Round 2. In Round 2, if a candidate gets more than 50% of the total number of votes cast in that round, (s)he is declared the winner of the election, else, top 3 candidates based on the number of votes move to Round 3. In Round 3, the candidate who gets the maximum number of votes in that round is declared the winner of the election. Assume that there are no ties in deciding top 5, top 3 (if Round 2 happens) candidates or the winner (if Round 3 happens) in Round 3.

1800000 16,52,754 16,38,192 16,38,913 16,42,139 16,34,345 16,42,332 1600000 1400000 1200000 1000000 800000 600000 400000 1,51,325 200000 0 AJP Kongress Junda Dal Bajrangi Samajik Hindu Others Dal Party Muslim Party

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Number of Votes

Among the five candidates who moved to Round 2, the candidate with the maximum number of votes in Round 1 got what percentage of the total number of votes in that round? (a) 17.4 % (b) 19.8% (c) 16.5% (d) 18.2% If the votes received by the candidates of Samajik Party and Hindu Muslim Party in Round 1 are not taken into account, then by what percentage points does the share of Others increase? (a) 0.64 (b) 0.74 (c) 0.84 (d) 0.94 If 1 Million votes are cast in Round 2 and 3 Million votes are cast in Round 3, then what is the minimum total number of votes needed by a candidate to be declared the winner of the election? (a) 26,38,194 (b) 21,38,195 (c) 21,38,193 (d) 26,38,195

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Directions for questions 54 and 55: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. The table given below is a part of the Profit & Loss statement of a company XYZ Limited from 2006 to 2011. All the values are given in Rs Crores.
Particulars
INCOME : Sales Turnover

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Directions for questions 59 and 60: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. Three teams A, B and C participated in a Football tournament in which the teams play with one another exactly once. A win fetches a team 2 points and a draw 1 point. A team gets no points for a loss. Each team scored exactly 1 goal in the tournament. A, B and C scored 3, 2 and 1 points respectively. 59. What was the result of the match A v/s B? (a) A won (c) A drew with B

(b) B won (d) Cannot be determined

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How many goals were scored by C against B? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 0 (d) Cannot be determined

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