Sample Question Paper                                                                                                               

Section 1 - Verbal Ability  

Directions for Question 1:

Choose the option which will CORRECTLY fill the blank.

1) The social group _______ power has always manipulated the educational systems.

A) On                                      B) With                                   C) For                                      D) In

Directions for Question 2:

Choose the word nearest in meaning to the word in ITALICS from the given options.

2) He is telling the truth and I support him unequivocally.

A) Comfortably                      

B) Absolutely                          

C) Harmlessly                         

D) Selflessly

3) We swam upto ______ island in _____ distance.

A) A, the                                                 B) An, the                                C) An, a                                   D) The, a

Directions for Questions 4-5:

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage.

Complex relations in the Struggle for Existence

(Source: The Origin of Species)

...Nearly all our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of insects to remove their pollen masses and thus fertilise them. I find from experience that humble-bees are almost indispensable to the fertilisation of the heartsease (Viola tricolour); for other bees do not visit this flower. I have also found that the visits of bees are necessary for the fertilisation of some kinds of clover; for instance, 20 heads of Dutch clover (Trifolium repens) yielded 2290 seeds, but 20 other heads protected from bees produced not one. Again, 100 heads of red clover (T. pratense) produced 2700 seeds, but the same number of protected heads produced not a single seed. Humble-bees alone visit red clover, as other bees cannot reach the nectar. It has been suggested that moths may fertilise the clovers; but I doubt whether they can do so in the case of the red clover, from their weight not being sufficient to depress the wing petals. Hence we may infer as highly probable that if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear.

The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great measure on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Col. Newman, who has long studied the habits of humble-bees, believes that “more than two-thirds of them are thus destroyed all over England.” Now the number of mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cats; and Col. Newman says, “Near villages and small towns, I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.” Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!
 
4) From the passage, it can be concluded that:

A) Moths are lighter in weight than humble-bees.
B) Humble-bees are lighter in weight than moths.
C) The red clover’s nectar is not palatable to any insect other than the humble-bee.
D) Moths keep away from the aggressive humble-bees.

5) The nature of the relationship between the humble-bee and the red clover is:

A) Symbiotic – both gain from the interaction.
B) Parasitic – the humble-bee never gets nectar from the red clover.
C) Similar to that between predator and prey.
D) None of the options