CAT 2015 - A Game Changer !

CAT 2015 - A Game Changer !

CAT 2015 will be conducted in two sessions in one day. The exam will be held on 29.11.2015 (Sunday).

1. Duration of the examination has been increased to 180 minutes instead of 170 minutes.

2 There will be three sections, QA ( 34 Qs ) VARC 34 Qs) DRLI ( 32 Qs )

2 Some questions in each section may not be
of multiple choice type. Instead, direct answers are to be typed on the screen.

3 Also, we will allow use of basic on-screen calculator for
computation. (First Time Ever!!)

4 Candidates will be allotted exactly 60 minutes for answering questions in each section and they
cannot switch from one section to another while answering questions in a section.

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QA1

UP1101

1. If A is the sum of the squares of the first n natural numbers (where n < 100), then for how many values of n will A be divisible by 5?

(a) 40 (b) 60 (c) 59 (d) 39

16)  In many small societies, victims of injury do not ask for money: turning a horrible incident into

(i) ______________ received from someone else is often considered to be an attempt to (ii) ______________

society for one's own benefit.

 

Blank (i) A. compensation B. beneficence C. exchanges

Blank (ii) D. measure E. bilk F. elude

11)  People who are realistic and deeply concerned about trying to reach a state of personal mental health need to

understand that there is no one ______________ for achieving a stable psyche.

 

A. disrepute

B. paradox

C. panacea

D. derivative

E. preventative

CR3

One of the effects of lead poisoning is an
inflammation of the optic nerve, which causes those
who have it to see bright haloes around light sources.
In order to produce the striking yellow effects in his
"Sunflowers" paintings, Van Gogh used Naples
yellow, a pigment containing lead. Since in his later
paintings, Van Gogh painted bright haloes around
the stars and sun, it is likely that he was suffering
from lead poisoning caused by ingesting the
pigments he used.
Which one of the following is an assumption on
which the argument relies?
(a) In Van Gogh's later paintings he painted some
things as he saw them.
(b) Van Gogh continued to use paints containing
lead after having painted the "Sunflowers"
paintings.
(c) Van Gogh did not have symptoms of lead
poisoning aside from seeing bright haloes
around light sources.
(d)The paints Van Gogh used in the "Sunflowers"
paintings had no toxic ingredients other than
lead.
(e) The effects of Naples yellow could not have
been achieved using other pigments.

CR -2

Beginning in 1997, high school seniors in State Q have been required to pass a comprehensive proficiency exam before they are allowed to graduate. The exam requirement was intended to ensure that a minimum level of academic quality will be achieved by the students in the state. In 1997, 20 percent of the seniors did not pass the exam and were, therefore, not allowed to graduate. In 1998, the number of seniors who passed the exam decreased by 10% from the previous year.

The argument above, if true, LEAST supports which of the following statement.

A. If the percentage of high school seniors who passed the exam increased from 1997 to 1998 , the number of high schools seniors decreased during that time period.
B. If the percentage of high school seniors who passed the exam decreased from 1997 to 1998 , the number of high schools seniors increased during that time period.
C. Unless the number of high school seniors was lower in 1998 than in 1997, the number of seniors who passed the exam in 1998 was lower than 80 percent.
D. If the number of high school seniors who did not pass the exam decreased by more than 10 percent from 1997 to 1998, the percentage of high school seniors who passed the exam in 1998 was greater than 80 percent.
E. If the percentage of high school seniors who passed the exam in 1998 was less than 70 percent, the number of high school seniors in 1997 was higher than the number in 1998.

Please provide an explanation with actual numbers.

CR Qstn

Archaeologist: Researchers excavating a burial site in Cyprus found a feline skeleton lying near a human
skeleton. Both skeletons were in the same sediment at the same depth and equally well-preserved. suggesting
that the feline and human were buried together about 9.500 years ago. This shows that felines were
domesticated around the time farming began, when they would have been useful in protecting stores of grain
from mice.

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the archaeologists argument?

(A) Archaeologists have not found any remains of stores of grain in the immediate vicinity of the burial site.

(B) The burial site in Cyprus is substantially older than any other known burial site in which a feline skeleton
and a human skeleton appear to have been buried together.

(C) Paintings found near the burial site seem to show people keeping felines as domestic companions, but do
not show felines luring mice.

(D) In Cyprus, there are many burial sites dating from around 9,500 years ago in which the remains of wild animals appear to have been buried alongside human remains.

(E) Before felines were domesticated, early farmers had no effective way to protect stores of grain from
Mice.

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