CAT Questions

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The "Pradhan Mantri Shram-Yogi Maandhan" scheme was launched on 15-02-2019. Under the PM-SYM scheme, the workers will get amount of Rs. 3,000 pension after attaining the age of 60 years. 

About 71% of the earth's surface is covered with water. In that 71% only 4% of water is a fresh water.

Ans. E.
Option A: ‘legally state-issued currencies’ is incorrect. The word describes the state-issued currencies; hence it should be an adjective and not an adverb. Option B: ‘state-issues’ is incorrect and should be replaced by ‘state-issued’. Option C: ‘carry-in’ is grammatically incorrect. Option D: ‘to carrying out’ is grammatically incorrect.

Opportunity cost is the cost of other alternative choices for making your interested choice of work. Oppurtunity cost is also called as alternative cost.

For example on a holiday, you have two choices to do, either you can go to movie or a function. And if you chose to go to moavie, the oppurtunity cost of going to movie is the value that would have gotten if you had gone to function.

The law of increasing opportunity costs states that as you increase production of one good, the opportunity cost to produce an additional good will increase.

In the given options, BIS is the odd one from the other three.  NABARD, RBI & IRDA are the bodies related to financial sector of India. The financial sector consists of banks, investment funds, insurance companies and real estate firms. 

BIS stands for Beareau of Indian Standards is a National standard body of India with the activities of standardization, marking and quality certification of goods.

Haryana state government has recently decided to rename Child Care Institutes as Jagannath Ashrams.

Ionisation energy is the energy required to remove one mole of electrons from one mole of gaseous atoms. Atoms are more stable when they have full valence shells.

The ionization energy decreases from top to bottom in groups, and increases from left to right across a period.

HGence, in this trend Francium (Fr) has the lowest ionization energy.