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CAT(COMMON ADMISSION TEST) is the entrance exam for admission into Forbes’ top 100 listed IIMS’ and various B -schools. This blog gives you good number of practice questions and some tips to crack the question paper and go ahead!.
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CAT- 2006 is scheduled to take place on Nov 19th!. Described as one of the toughest papers set , it is almost impossible to answer all questions in the given time.So it is advisory not to waste too much time on any question.Try to answer the easier question first and then move on to the tougher ones!.One more thing bothering the aspirants is-silly mistakes.
There is no other thing to say than 'try to bring them down!'.
Learn from your errors as well as those of others.The questions are liable to induce errors of thinking from it's aspirants!.
I wish you the very best and try my very best to publish good questions for your practice!.Go on to the questions!.
1. 4 bells first begin to toll together and then at intervals of 6,7,8 & 9 seconds respectively.Find how many times the bells toll together in 2 hours & at what intervals they toll together?.
a)10 b)12 c)14 d)16
2. For how many integer values of V, (V + 1)^2 is greater than 5V - 1 and less than (7V - 3)?
a) 3 b) 2 c) 1 d) 0
3. There are 100 students applying for summer jobs in a university's electrical and electronics department.
Ten of the students have never taken a course in electrical or electronics. Sixty-three of the students have taken at least one electrical course. Eighty-one have taken at least one electronics course.
What is the probability that out of those 100 any student selected at random has taken only
one course in either electrical or electronics?
How many students (in %) have taken at least one course in both geology and geography?
a) 0.36, 54% b) 0.54, 36% c) 0.45, 63% d) 0.63, 45%
4. A fly is trapped inside a hollow cube. It moves from A to B along the edges of the cube, taking
the shortest possible route. It then comes back to A, again along the edges, taking the longest
possible route (without going over any point more than once). If the total distance M travelled
is 5040 m, what is the volume of the cube in m3?
A
B
a) 340200000 b) 324000000 c) 254700000 d) 250047000
5.Tamiya asked a question to five of her classmates ìn what shape can one arrange 24 balls such that
there are 5 in each row?Bareera replied it is a pentagon. Zuvariya said it is tetrahedron. Fahika
replied it is a octagon. Shifaya replied ì it is a hexagon. Tabasum said it is impossible to have such
a combination. Who is correct?
a) Zuvariya b) Shifaya c) Tabasum d) Bareera
6.
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow!.
No revolutions in technology have as visibly marked the human condition as those in transport. Moving goods and people, they have opened continents, transformed living standards, spread diseases, fashions and folk around the world. Yet technologies to transport ideas and information across long distances have arguably achieved even more: they have spread knowledge, the basis of economic growth.
The most basic of all these, the written word, was already ancient by 1000. By then China had, in basic form, the printing press, using carved woodblocks. But the key to its future, movable metal type, was four centuries away. The Chinese were hampered by their thousands of ideograms. Even so, they quite soon invented primitive movable type, made of clay, and by the 13th century they had movable wooden type. But the real secret was the use of an easily cast metal.
When it came, Europe -- aided by simple western alphabets -- leapt forward with it. One reason why Asia's civilisations, in 1000 far ahead of Europe's, then fell behind was that they lacked the technology to reproduce and diffuse ideas. On Johannes Gutenberg's invention in the 1440s were built not just the Reformation and the Enlightenment, but Europe's agricultural and industrial revolutions too.
Yet information technology on its own would not have got far. Literally: better transport technology too was needed. That was not lacking, but here the big change came much later: it was railways and steamships that first allowed the speedy, widespread dissemination of news and ideas over long distances. And both technologies in turn required people and organisations to develop their use. They got them: for individual communication, the postal service; for wider publics, the publishing industry.
Throughout the 19th century, the postal service formed the bedrock of national and international communications. Crucial to its growth had been the introduction of the gummed postage stamp, combined with a low price, and payment by the sender (not, as till then, the recipient). Britain put all three of these ideas into effect in 1840 (50 years later, alas, than its first plan for a penny post).
By then, the world's mail was taking off. It changed the world. Merchants in America's eastern cities used it to gather information, enraging far-off cotton growers and farmers, who found that New Yorkers knew more about crop prices than they did. In the American debate about slavery, it offered abolitionists a low-cost way to spread their views, just as later technologies have cut the cost and widened the scope of political lobbying. The post helped too to integrate the American nation, tying the newly opened west to the settled east.
Everywhere, its development drove and was driven by those of transport. In Britain, travellers rode by mail coach to posting inns. In America, the post subsidised road-building. Indeed, argues Dan Schiller, a professor of communications at the University of California, it was the connection between the post, transport and national integration that ensured that the mail remained a public enterprise even in the United States, its first and only government-run communications medium, and until at least the 1870s, the biggest organisation in the land. And in most countries -- the United States was an exception -- the carriers of mail became in turn the providers of telegraphy and then of telephony.
The change has not only been one of speed and distance, though, but of audience. At the start of the millennium, with rare exceptions -- kings, chiefs and churchmen -- a man's words could reach no further than his voice, not just in range but in whom they reached. Gossip moves fast, be it from medieval mouth to ear or mobile phone to phone. But, for some purposes, efficient communication is mass communication, regular, cheap, quick and reliable. When it became possible it transformed the world. Now one voice could reach distant thousands.
1. According to the passage, the reason that Asia’s civilisations, which were ahead of Europe’s, fell behind was that:
a) the alphabet of European scripts was simple and reproducible.
b) the invention of movable type
c) Europe developed the technology of communication.
d) the invention of the printing press created a revolution.
2. Why did information technology require better transport technology in order to succeed?
a) it allowed wide dissemination of news and ideas over long distances
b) both technologies required people and organisations to develop their use
c) it formed the basis of postal service and publishing industry.
d) none of the above.
3. Which of the following could be a basis for the statement that “the post subsidised road-building”?
a) better communication meant better transport, which in turn meant better roads.
b) there was a connection between the post, transport and national integration.
c) the delivery of mail entailed better transport and better roads.
d) the carriers of mail became the providers of telegraphy and then of telephony
4. Which of the following is NOT an effect of the mail service, as mentioned in the passage?
a) collection of market prices of goods
b) a low cost way to spread ideas
c) the scope of political lobbying has widened and costs reduced
d) integrating the American nation.
5. In terms of communication, which of the following have transformed the world, according to the passage?
a) transport b) painting press c) postal service d) mass communication.
Questions 7 to 11: Each of the questions is followed by two statements. You have to decide whether
the information provided in the statements is sufficient for answering the question.
Mark 1. If the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered by
using the other statement alone.
Mark 2. If the question can be answered by using either statement alone.
Mark 3. If the question can be answered by using both statements together, but cannot be answered by using either statement alone.
Mark 4. If the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together.
7. How much more salary did Krish get over Bama?
(A) Krish got a 25% increment on his salary at the end of last fiscal year.
(B) Bama got a 8% hike on her salary at the end of last fiscal year.
8. Did the transport department suffer a greater loss than the water board on account of the hike in salary
of their employees after the fifth pay commission revision at the beginning of this year.
(A) The transport department which made a profit of Rs.12 crores last year made a loss of Rs.3
crores this year.
(B) The water board which made a profit of Rs.11 crores last year made a lower profit of Rs.1.2 crores this year.
9. A trader offers a 25% discount on the marked price of a certain product at his shop. What is the usual
selling price?
(A) The amount of profit that he makes after the discount is 20%
(B) The Rupee value of the discount would have been Rs.10 less if he had offered a discount of 20%.
10. How many quintals of oat will 4 horses and 2 oxens consume in 5 days?
(A) The average quantity of oat consumed by a horse is a third more than that consumed by an oxen.
(B) 16 horses consume 14.4 quintals of oat in a month.
11. What day of the week did Shiv join IIM Indore in 2001?
(A) He joined in the month of July.
(B) He took CAT on the same date eight months ago on the second Sunday of that month.
Arrange the following into meaningful paragraphs.
12. A. Both parties use capital and labour in the struggle to secure property rights.
B. The thief spends time and money in his attempt to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate property owner expends resources to prevent the theft (he buys locks).
C. A social cost of theft is that both the thief and the potential victim use resources to gain or maintain control over property.
D. These costs may escalate as a type of technological arms race unfolds.
E. A bank may purchase more and more complicated and sophisticated safes, forcing safecrackers to invest further in safecracking equipment.
a) ABCDE b) CABDE c) ACBED d) CBEDA
13. A. The likelihood of an accident is determined by how carefully the motorist drives and how carefully the pedestrian crosses the street.
B. An accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian is such a case.
C. Each must decide how much care to exercise without knowing how careful the other is.
D. The simplest strategic problem arises when two individuals interact with each other, and each must decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.
a) ABCD b) ADCB c) DBCA d) DBAC
14. The theory of games is suggested to some extent by parlour games such as chess and bridge. Friedman illustrates two distinct features of these games. First, in a parlour game played for money, if one wins the other (others) loses (lose). Second, these games are games involving a strategy. In a game of chess, while choosing what action is to be taken, a player tries to guess how his/her opponent will react to the various actions he or she might take. In contrast, the card-pastime, ‘patience’ or ‘solitaire’ is played only against chance.
Which one of the following can best be described as a “game”?
a) The team of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary climbing Mt. Everest for the first time in human history.
b) A national level essay writing competition.
c) A decisive war between the armed forces of India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
d) Oil Exporters’ Union deciding on world oil prices, completely disregarding the countries which have at most minimal oil production.
15. Remainder when (16^3)+(17^3)+(18^3)+(19^3) is divided by 70 is
a)11 b)1 c)17 d)none of these ....(CAT 2005)
ANSWERS WILL BE PRESENTED WHEN UPDATED!.Bye.
Any comments?.Go ahead to comment!.
I would be able to update this blog daily or every 2-3 days!. So serious preparers don’t forget to look into this blog regularly and practice!.I would be pleased if u comment on the content!.
CAT- 2006 is scheduled to take place on Nov 19th!. Described as one of the toughest papers set , it is almost impossible to answer all questions in the given time.So it is advisory not to waste too much time on any question.Try to answer the easier question first and then move on to the tougher ones!.One more thing bothering the aspirants is-silly mistakes.
There is no other thing to say than 'try to bring them down!'.
Learn from your errors as well as those of others.The questions are liable to induce errors of thinking from it's aspirants!.
I wish you the very best and try my very best to publish good questions for your practice!.Go on to the questions!.
1. 4 bells first begin to toll together and then at intervals of 6,7,8 & 9 seconds respectively.Find how many times the bells toll together in 2 hours & at what intervals they toll together?.
a)10 b)12 c)14 d)16
2. For how many integer values of V, (V + 1)^2 is greater than 5V - 1 and less than (7V - 3)?
a) 3 b) 2 c) 1 d) 0
3. There are 100 students applying for summer jobs in a university's electrical and electronics department.
Ten of the students have never taken a course in electrical or electronics. Sixty-three of the students have taken at least one electrical course. Eighty-one have taken at least one electronics course.
What is the probability that out of those 100 any student selected at random has taken only
one course in either electrical or electronics?
How many students (in %) have taken at least one course in both geology and geography?
a) 0.36, 54% b) 0.54, 36% c) 0.45, 63% d) 0.63, 45%
4. A fly is trapped inside a hollow cube. It moves from A to B along the edges of the cube, taking
the shortest possible route. It then comes back to A, again along the edges, taking the longest
possible route (without going over any point more than once). If the total distance M travelled
is 5040 m, what is the volume of the cube in m3?
A
B
a) 340200000 b) 324000000 c) 254700000 d) 250047000
5.Tamiya asked a question to five of her classmates ìn what shape can one arrange 24 balls such that
there are 5 in each row?Bareera replied it is a pentagon. Zuvariya said it is tetrahedron. Fahika
replied it is a octagon. Shifaya replied ì it is a hexagon. Tabasum said it is impossible to have such
a combination. Who is correct?
a) Zuvariya b) Shifaya c) Tabasum d) Bareera
6.
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow!.
No revolutions in technology have as visibly marked the human condition as those in transport. Moving goods and people, they have opened continents, transformed living standards, spread diseases, fashions and folk around the world. Yet technologies to transport ideas and information across long distances have arguably achieved even more: they have spread knowledge, the basis of economic growth.
The most basic of all these, the written word, was already ancient by 1000. By then China had, in basic form, the printing press, using carved woodblocks. But the key to its future, movable metal type, was four centuries away. The Chinese were hampered by their thousands of ideograms. Even so, they quite soon invented primitive movable type, made of clay, and by the 13th century they had movable wooden type. But the real secret was the use of an easily cast metal.
When it came, Europe -- aided by simple western alphabets -- leapt forward with it. One reason why Asia's civilisations, in 1000 far ahead of Europe's, then fell behind was that they lacked the technology to reproduce and diffuse ideas. On Johannes Gutenberg's invention in the 1440s were built not just the Reformation and the Enlightenment, but Europe's agricultural and industrial revolutions too.
Yet information technology on its own would not have got far. Literally: better transport technology too was needed. That was not lacking, but here the big change came much later: it was railways and steamships that first allowed the speedy, widespread dissemination of news and ideas over long distances. And both technologies in turn required people and organisations to develop their use. They got them: for individual communication, the postal service; for wider publics, the publishing industry.
Throughout the 19th century, the postal service formed the bedrock of national and international communications. Crucial to its growth had been the introduction of the gummed postage stamp, combined with a low price, and payment by the sender (not, as till then, the recipient). Britain put all three of these ideas into effect in 1840 (50 years later, alas, than its first plan for a penny post).
By then, the world's mail was taking off. It changed the world. Merchants in America's eastern cities used it to gather information, enraging far-off cotton growers and farmers, who found that New Yorkers knew more about crop prices than they did. In the American debate about slavery, it offered abolitionists a low-cost way to spread their views, just as later technologies have cut the cost and widened the scope of political lobbying. The post helped too to integrate the American nation, tying the newly opened west to the settled east.
Everywhere, its development drove and was driven by those of transport. In Britain, travellers rode by mail coach to posting inns. In America, the post subsidised road-building. Indeed, argues Dan Schiller, a professor of communications at the University of California, it was the connection between the post, transport and national integration that ensured that the mail remained a public enterprise even in the United States, its first and only government-run communications medium, and until at least the 1870s, the biggest organisation in the land. And in most countries -- the United States was an exception -- the carriers of mail became in turn the providers of telegraphy and then of telephony.
The change has not only been one of speed and distance, though, but of audience. At the start of the millennium, with rare exceptions -- kings, chiefs and churchmen -- a man's words could reach no further than his voice, not just in range but in whom they reached. Gossip moves fast, be it from medieval mouth to ear or mobile phone to phone. But, for some purposes, efficient communication is mass communication, regular, cheap, quick and reliable. When it became possible it transformed the world. Now one voice could reach distant thousands.
1. According to the passage, the reason that Asia’s civilisations, which were ahead of Europe’s, fell behind was that:
a) the alphabet of European scripts was simple and reproducible.
b) the invention of movable type
c) Europe developed the technology of communication.
d) the invention of the printing press created a revolution.
2. Why did information technology require better transport technology in order to succeed?
a) it allowed wide dissemination of news and ideas over long distances
b) both technologies required people and organisations to develop their use
c) it formed the basis of postal service and publishing industry.
d) none of the above.
3. Which of the following could be a basis for the statement that “the post subsidised road-building”?
a) better communication meant better transport, which in turn meant better roads.
b) there was a connection between the post, transport and national integration.
c) the delivery of mail entailed better transport and better roads.
d) the carriers of mail became the providers of telegraphy and then of telephony
4. Which of the following is NOT an effect of the mail service, as mentioned in the passage?
a) collection of market prices of goods
b) a low cost way to spread ideas
c) the scope of political lobbying has widened and costs reduced
d) integrating the American nation.
5. In terms of communication, which of the following have transformed the world, according to the passage?
a) transport b) painting press c) postal service d) mass communication.
Questions 7 to 11: Each of the questions is followed by two statements. You have to decide whether
the information provided in the statements is sufficient for answering the question.
Mark 1. If the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered by
using the other statement alone.
Mark 2. If the question can be answered by using either statement alone.
Mark 3. If the question can be answered by using both statements together, but cannot be answered by using either statement alone.
Mark 4. If the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together.
7. How much more salary did Krish get over Bama?
(A) Krish got a 25% increment on his salary at the end of last fiscal year.
(B) Bama got a 8% hike on her salary at the end of last fiscal year.
8. Did the transport department suffer a greater loss than the water board on account of the hike in salary
of their employees after the fifth pay commission revision at the beginning of this year.
(A) The transport department which made a profit of Rs.12 crores last year made a loss of Rs.3
crores this year.
(B) The water board which made a profit of Rs.11 crores last year made a lower profit of Rs.1.2 crores this year.
9. A trader offers a 25% discount on the marked price of a certain product at his shop. What is the usual
selling price?
(A) The amount of profit that he makes after the discount is 20%
(B) The Rupee value of the discount would have been Rs.10 less if he had offered a discount of 20%.
10. How many quintals of oat will 4 horses and 2 oxens consume in 5 days?
(A) The average quantity of oat consumed by a horse is a third more than that consumed by an oxen.
(B) 16 horses consume 14.4 quintals of oat in a month.
11. What day of the week did Shiv join IIM Indore in 2001?
(A) He joined in the month of July.
(B) He took CAT on the same date eight months ago on the second Sunday of that month.
Arrange the following into meaningful paragraphs.
12. A. Both parties use capital and labour in the struggle to secure property rights.
B. The thief spends time and money in his attempt to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate property owner expends resources to prevent the theft (he buys locks).
C. A social cost of theft is that both the thief and the potential victim use resources to gain or maintain control over property.
D. These costs may escalate as a type of technological arms race unfolds.
E. A bank may purchase more and more complicated and sophisticated safes, forcing safecrackers to invest further in safecracking equipment.
a) ABCDE b) CABDE c) ACBED d) CBEDA
13. A. The likelihood of an accident is determined by how carefully the motorist drives and how carefully the pedestrian crosses the street.
B. An accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian is such a case.
C. Each must decide how much care to exercise without knowing how careful the other is.
D. The simplest strategic problem arises when two individuals interact with each other, and each must decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.
a) ABCD b) ADCB c) DBCA d) DBAC
14. The theory of games is suggested to some extent by parlour games such as chess and bridge. Friedman illustrates two distinct features of these games. First, in a parlour game played for money, if one wins the other (others) loses (lose). Second, these games are games involving a strategy. In a game of chess, while choosing what action is to be taken, a player tries to guess how his/her opponent will react to the various actions he or she might take. In contrast, the card-pastime, ‘patience’ or ‘solitaire’ is played only against chance.
Which one of the following can best be described as a “game”?
a) The team of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary climbing Mt. Everest for the first time in human history.
b) A national level essay writing competition.
c) A decisive war between the armed forces of India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
d) Oil Exporters’ Union deciding on world oil prices, completely disregarding the countries which have at most minimal oil production.
15. Remainder when (16^3)+(17^3)+(18^3)+(19^3) is divided by 70 is
a)11 b)1 c)17 d)none of these ....(CAT 2005)
ANSWERS WILL BE PRESENTED WHEN UPDATED!.Bye.
Any comments?.Go ahead to comment!.
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