Exams

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffee pot and hear the birds sing in one's own way, and not the way one was taught. It may be assumed on good grounds that seeing and hearing have a different quality for infants than for grownups and that they are more aesthetic and less intellectual in the first years of life. A little boy sees and hears birds with delight. Then the 'good father' comes along and feels he should 'share' the experience and help his son 'develop'. He says, "That's a jay and this is a sparrow." The moment the little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. He has to see and hear them the way his father wants him to. Father has good reasons on his side: since few people can afford to go through life listening to the birds sing, sooner the little boy starts his 'education' the better. Maybe he will be an ornithologist when he grows up.

The passage implies that when the boy starts his 'education' he will _____ .

The bar graph shows the production of table fans in a factory during one week. Study the bar graph and answer the question.

The maximum production exceeds the minimum production by:

The perimeter and the breadth of a rectangle are 68 cm and 10 cm respectively. Calculate the length of its diagonal (in cm).

The consumption schedule is such that

Find the fraction which is as much greater than 4/7 as it is less than 5/6

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Add insult to injury

The pie chart shows the number of seats that each party has in the lower house of the parliament. Study the diagram and answer the following questions.

If parties D, E and F form a coalition they would be still short of how many seats to reach the half way mark?

The below figure is embedded in one of the four answer figures. The correct figure containing the above problem figure is