CAM- 3rd November

A to D

A. Verbal Ability

Directions for Q1 & Q2: Each passage is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best
captures the author’s position and mark the number corresponding to it in the box provided below.

Q1)
Kant's identification with the Universal is not the identification with an all-encompassing substance or
material form of 'humanity', but the identification with a universal ethico-political principle accessible to
everyone. This is what Kant, in the famous passage of "What Is Enlightenment?" means by "public" as
opposed to "private": "Private" is not individual as opposed to communal ties, but the very
communal-institutional order of one's particular identification; while "public" is the transnational
universality of the exercise of one's Reason. The resultant paradox is that one participates in the
universal dimension of the "public" sphere precisely as a singular individual extracted from one's
substantial communal identification—one is truly universal only as radically singular, in the interstices of
communal identities.

(1) The notion of universality of Reason in humans, stemming from Kant's philosophy, is dependent on a
widely differential identification with one's singularity pertaining to the lived situation.
(2) The compositions of "public'' and "private" in Kant's philosophy are identified not as exclusive modes
of existence, but as association with the universal rational principles and one's communal situation
respectively.
(3) The Universal, according to Kant, is located in the faculty of Reason, which is available to all human
beings provided they identify it, as opposed to the empirical projects that are understood to be 'human'.
(4) The interstices of communal identities are chaos-ridden as the dualities of 'universal' and 'singular' are
rejected.

Q2)
Some sociologists write about informal authority to praise it, while others write to condemn it. For
conservative sociologists, such as Max Weber, informal authority enables large-scale social cooperation
and provides the basis for civilization. For radical sociologists, including Karl Marx, informal authority
divides humanity into the dominant and the dominated, and the social scientists' intellectual duty is to
expose the oppressive character of the informal authority so that people will rebel against it.

(1) The concept of informal authority is perceived variously by sociologists of various schools.
(2) The existence of informal authority is essential as a cohesive force for the formation of the society.
(3) The extreme form of informal authority is never good for the welfare of the society.
(4) Consolidation of informal authority becomes divisive, resulting in disruptive forces.
Directions for Q3 & Q4: The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly
sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most
logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph and mark the correct sequence in the box
provided below the question.

Q3)
(1) Philip Ngolania, a small holder in Machakos, Kenya, planted some of the first high-tech seeds last
February.
(2) Climate change is becoming a frightening reality in many parts of the world.
(3) But the Consultative Agricultural Research in Montpellier, France and the Mexico-based International
Maize and Wheat improvement centre have mixed and matched numerous samples from international
gene banks to create several maize varieties that don't require much rain.
(4) The U.N Development Programme predicts that droughts will reduce Africa's production of maize by
10 percent by 2050.
(5) Kenya is seeing its worst drought for a decade, with the maize crop failing completely, but this one
-third - hectare plot produced 360 kilos.

Q4)
(1) Not that European or US managers would ever want to build a shrine for their company god or make
their whole workforce worship every morning, but if religion really were a key element in Japan's success,
the country's economic dominance would be here to stay.
(2) When the Japanese economy outshone the rest of the world in the late 1980s, an almost heretical
thought was muttered throughout the (Christian) West.
(3) Whatever part Shintoism played in Japan's business boom — or didn't, as the case may be — it is still
worth posing the question.
(4) Does religion matter?
(5) Could it possibly be that the Japanese religion, Shintoism, was a reason for the country's economic
superiority?
B. Reading Comprehension

We humans have built a creativity machine. It's the sum of three things : a few hundred million
computers, a communication system connecting those computers, and some millions of human beings
using those computers and communications.

This creativity machine is the Internet. It has already changed the way we do science, most importantly
by enhancing collaboration between researchers. The present day Internet provides convenient
connections between computerized labs, simulations and research databases. It also represents an
enormous financial investment that is driven by the demands of hundreds of millions of consumers. As
such, the total Internet software and infrastructure investment dwarfs the budgets of scientific research
programmes and even of many government defence programmes. And, more than any megaproject of
the past, the essence of the Internet is to provide coordinated processing of information. For researchers
seeking resources, these are facts worth-considering.

For some disciplines, the Internet itself has become a research tool: grid computing has been used to
exploit the power of millions of Internet — connected machines. Building on the popularity of
SET1@home, an experiment that uses Internet — connected computers to search for extraterrestrial
intelligence and prime number hunts, there are now physics, medical and proteomics projects enlisting
the enthusiasm of people (and their computers) across the world. For linguists and sociologists, new
questions can be investigated simply by observing what occurs on the publicly available Internet. Even
experimental sociology is possible: in their study of social influence on music preference, Salganik et al,
recruited more than 14,000 subjects through a popular-website, ran online trials on these subjects, and
then obtained results directly from their experiment website.

The possibilities do not end there. Even online games are attracting academic interest. Some games
have millions of players. MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games,) such as World of
Warcraft and EverQues', feature vivid three dimensional action involving both cooperation and combat.
Another genre of MMORPGs lack a significant combat or quest element and are more often called
'virtual worlds'. For example, the virtual world Second Life has the visual realism of many MMORPGs,
but it exists as a venue for the participants rather than as a predesigned adventure. Second Life
provides a range of software tools, including a programming language that gives participants the power
to create artifacts according to their own designs. Thus, the game depends on the skill and creativity of
its participants to generate content. Such virtual worlds have already been used for educational projects,
and are worthy of psychological and social research.

Q1)
The primary purpose of the passage is to

(1) elaborate on the creativity machine called the Internet.

(2) show how the Internet can be used as an amusement tool.
(3) list the possibilities of the Internet in both academic research and entertainment.
(4) demonstrate how the Internet, as a reliable source for information, can facilitate research and promote
development of creative skills.
Q2)

According to the passage, the Internet can help researchers in all the following ways EXCEPT:

1) It builds coordination between researchers.

2) It provides a common source for researchers to gather information about their research projects.
3) It reduces investment in research projects.
4) It helps researchers conduct all kinds of experiments online.

Q3)
According to the passage, what can be inferred from the proposition "the Internet itself has become a
research tool"?

1) Some scientists take up research issues that investigate what happens on the Net.
2) The Internet forms a grid of computers so that the researcher can make use of the power of millions of
Internet-connected computers to gather or share information.
3) The Internet makes experimental sociology possible.
4) Researchers in some disciplines can rely on the Internet to form a topic for their research, run surveys
or experiments and get the results.

There are several factors that explain the increase in store variety and quality in American grocery
stores: the generalized increase in wealth has given households the means to purchase more and
better products and created larger markets for more specialized products. The gains in technology and
food science, along with the widespread reduction in transaction and transportation costs, have enabled
producers to increase quality, get better information on what consumers want, and ship those products
to stores more quickly, more safely, and all year round. We take for granted the ability to get almost any
fruit or vegetable year-round these days, when that was not possible even as recently as the 1970s or
'80s. Some of that is due to food science enabling us to grow things indoors, and ship them more
cheaply from far away, but it's also due to the growth of global trade agreements reducing the
transaction costs of getting produce where it is in season.

Similar factors are at work in explaining the increase in the variety of grocery stores, as more Americans
can afford higher end produce and meats and falling costs have made it possible to supply them. They
might wish to get their basics at the warehouse or delivered by Amazon, as quality differences are
fewer. This fragmentation of the grocery market parallels that of other markets (e.g., recorded music) as
technology and falling transaction costs make thinner markets more profitable and, thereby, enable
people to obtain more precise matches for their preferences.
Q4)
Which of the following best describes what the passage is trying to do?

1) It evaluates a business practice followed by a specific business sector.

2) It analyzes factors responsible for a phenomenon.
3) It compares different strategies followed by a business sector.
4) It criticizes a business for making unwise decisions.

Q5)
All of the following explain the advancement of grocery business in America EXCEPT that

1) Gains in technology and food science reduced the input costs.

2) Economic advancement of the population has increased the business opportunity.
3) Thinner markets have made the business more competitive.
4) Business can have insights about customer preferences, because of technology.
C. Quantitative Aptitude

Q1)
A man jumps out of a plane at a height of 2300 m with a closed parachute. The distance that a man falls
under gravity in t seconds is 5t2 meters and the distance the man falls with an open parachute under
gravity in t seconds is (2t2 -3t) meters. Find the height at which he can open the parachute so as to reach
the ground in exactly 40 seconds.

(A) 1050 m (B) 1775 m (C) 1175 m (D)1250 m

Directions for questions 2 and 3: These questions are based on the information given below

The Rajdhani express and the Shatabdi express enter a tunnel from opposite directions. Rajdhani
express takes 12 seconds to completely enter the tunnel, while Shatabdi express takes 4 seconds. The
distance between the points where the engines meet on parallel tracks to the point where the last
compartments cross each other is 34 m. Shatabdi express is 5/3 times as fast as Rajdhani express.

Q2)
What is the length of Rajdhani express in metres?

(A) 82.5 (B) 165 (C) 110 (D) 120

Q3)
How many seconds do the two trains take to cross each other completely?

(A) 5 (В) 7 (C) 10 (D) 12

Q4)
It takes Bhuvan, Bheem and Bahadur 18, 24 and 36 days respectively to do a piece of work. Each of
them does the same amount of work and they complete the work in 26 days. Instead, if Bheem did extra
work equal to the sum of yth parts of the work done by Bhuvan and Bahadur, they could have completed
the work one day earlier. How much more work did Bheem do in the second case as compared to that
done by him in the first case?

(A) 1/9 (B) 1/6 (C) 1/4 (D) 1/3

Q5)
Find the sum of all those numbers less than or equal to 108, which are neither factors nor multiples of 36
Q6)
Anup brought three cylindrical ice-cream packs whose radii are in the ratio of 2 : 3: 4. He has to carry
them home. The rate at which the temperature of each pack increases varies directly as the lateral
surface area and varies inversely as the volume of the container. He has an insulating flask which can be
used to enclose exactly one of the three packs. If he wants to keep in the flask the pack whose
temperature increases at the fastest rate, which pack must he keep in the flask?

(A) First pack (B) Second pack (C) Third pack (D) Either first or second

Q7)
ABCD is a quadrilateral P, Q, R and S are points of trisection of the sides AB, BC, CD and DA
respectively, which are closer to A and C. Find the sides of the figure (in cm) formed by joining PQRS if
the two diagonals AC and BD of the quadrilateral ABCD measure 15 cm and 21 cm respectively.

(A) PQ = 10, QR = 7, RS=10, PS =7

(B) PQ = 7, QR =10, RS=7, PS =10

(C ) PQ = 10, QR = 10, RS=7, PS =7

(D) PQ = 7, QR = 7, RS=7, PS =7

Q8)
A and B draw a card from a pack of 52 cards successively in the order given. Each time they replace the
card. If the person who draws a queen first receives 400, what is the expectation of B? (in ₹)
D. DILR

Directions for questions 1 to 4: These questions are based on the information given below

The table below gives the listing of players, ranked from the highest (1) to the lowest (32), who are due to
play in a Chess Tournament. This tournament has four knockout rounds before the final i.e., first round,
second round, quarterfinals and semifinals. In the first round, the highest ranked player plays with the
lowest ranked player, which is designated as match no.1 of first round; the 2nd ranked player plays the
31st ranked player which is designated match no.2 of first round and so on. Thus, for instance, match
no.10 of the first round is to be played between the 10th ranked player and the 23rd ranked player.
In the second round, the winner of match no.1 of first round, plays the winner of match no.16 of the first
round, and is designated as match no.1 of the second round. Similarly, the winner of match no.2 of first
round plays the winner of match no.15 of the first round and is designated match no.2 of the second
round. Thus, for instance match no 5 of the second round is to be played between the winner of match
no.5 of the first round and the winner of match no.12 of the first round. The same pattern is allowed for
the next rounds as well. There is exactly one upset (a lower ranked player beating a higher ranked player)
in each of the rounds, including the finals. No match ended in a draw.

Rank Player Rank Player Rank Player Rank Player

1 Kramnik 9 Anju 17 Peltsin 25 Nisha

2 Karpov 10 George 18 Peter 26 Murthy

3 Anand 11 Spassky 19 Sam 27 Swati

4 Kasparov 12 Ramiz 20 Ramesh 28 Meenakshi

5 Vishy 13 Sachin 21 Rajesh 29 Kapil

6 Barua 14 Amit 22 Rakesh 30 Arvind

7 Fischer 15 Dibyendu 23 Roopesh 31 Niranjan

8 Bobby 16 Stalin 24 Vijaya 32 Sunil

Q1)
If Kapil reaches the final, then who will play with him in finals?

(A) Karpov (B) Anand (C) Kramnik (D) Vishy

Q2)
If Peter won the second-round match then who won the finals?

(A) Peter (B) Dibyendu (C) Каріl (D) Cannot be

determined

Q3)
If Vishy played the quarterfinals, then who amongst the following must not have played against him in
quarterfinals?

(A) Anand (B) Kasparov (C) Sachin (D) Каpil

Q4)
If Ramiz played the semi-finals, then who amongst the following must not have played him before the final
rounds?

(A) Ramesh (B) Bobby (C) Meenakshi (D) Kasparov

Direction for question 5 to 8: Answer the questions on the basis of information given below

Q5)
What could be the maximum turnover (in crore) of third largest company of business group A ?

(A) 570 (B) 600 (C) 645 (D) 672

Q6)
At most how many companies of group D had a turnover of more than ₹400 crore?

(A) 4 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 1

Q7)
What is the maximum turnover (in crore) of the second smallest company of business group I ?

(A) 528 (B) 586 (C) 620 (D) 651

Q8)
At most how many companies of business groups B, E or F had a turnover less than ₹500 crore?

(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 8 (D) 10