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Official PYQ2024General AptitudeMCQ · 1 mark
​​​If ' →\rightarrow ' denotes increasing order of intensity, then the meaning of the words [ charm →\rightarrow enamor →\rightarrow bewitch] is analogous to [bored →______⟶\rightarrow \_\_\_\_\_\_ \longrightarrow weary] Which one of the given options is appropriate to fill the blank?
Official PYQ2024General AptitudeMCQ · 1 mark
​​​​P, Q, R, S\text{P, Q, R, S}, and T\text{T} have launched a new startup. Two of them are siblings. The office of the startup has just three rooms. All of them agree that the siblings should not share the same room. If S\text{S} and Q\text{Q} are single children, and the room allocations shown below are acceptable to all. …
Official PYQ2024General AptitudeMCQ · 1 mark
​​​​Five years ago, the ratio of Aman's age to his father's age was 1:41: 4, and five years from now, the ratio will be 2:52:5. What was his father's age when Aman was born?
Official PYQ2024General AptitudeMCQ · 1 mark
​​​​For a real number x>1x>1, 1log⁡2x+1log⁡3x+1log⁡4x=1\frac{1}{\log _{2} x}+\frac{1}{\log _{3} x}+\frac{1}{\log _{4} x}=1 The value of xx is
Official PYQ2024General AptitudeMCQ · 1 mark
The greatest prime factor of (3199−3196)\left(3^{199}-3^{196}\right) is
Official PYQ2024General AptitudeMCQ · 2 marks
​Sequence the following sentences (P,Q,R,S)(\mathrm{P}, \mathrm{Q}, \mathrm{R}, \mathrm{S}) in a coherent passage: P\text{P}: Shifu's student exclaimed, "Why do you run since the bull is an illusion?" Q\text{Q}: Shifu said, "Surely my running away from the bull is also an illusion." R\mathrm{R} : Shifu once proclaimed that all life is illusion. …
Official PYQ2024General AptitudeMCQ · 2 marks
​​​​​Four identical cylindrical chalk-sticks, each of radius r=0.5 cmr=0.5 \mathrm{~cm} and length l=10 cml=10 \mathrm{~cm}, are bound tightly together using a duct tape as shown in the following figure. The width of the duct tape is equal to the length of the chalk-stick. The area (in cm2\mathrm{cm}^{2} ) of the duct tape required to wrap the bundle of …
Official PYQ2024General AptitudeMCQ · 2 marks
The bar chart shows the data for the percentage of population falling into different categories based on Body Mass Index (BMI)\text{(BMI)} in 20032003 and 20232023. Based on the data provided, which one of the following options is INCORRECT?
Official PYQ2024General AptitudeMCQ · 2 marks
Examples of mirror and water reflections are shown in the figures below: An object appears as the following image after first reflecting in a mirror and then reflecting on water. The original object is
Official PYQ2024General AptitudeMCQ · 2 marks
​​​Two identical sheets A\text{A} and B\text{B}, of dimensions 24 cm×16 cm24 \mathrm{~cm} \times 16 \mathrm{~cm}, can be folded into half using two distinct operations, FO1\text{FO1} or FO2\text{FO2}. In FO1\text{FO1}, the axis of folding remains parallel to the initial long edge, and in FO2\text{FO2}, the axis of folding remains parallel to the initial …
Official PYQ2023General AptitudeMCQ · 1 mark
“I cannot support this proposal. My _________ will not permit it.”
Official PYQ2023General AptitudeMCQ · 1 mark
Courts : _________: : Parliament : Legislature (By word meaning)
Official PYQ2023General AptitudeMCQ · 1 mark
What is the smallest number with distinct digits whose digits add up to 45?45?
Official PYQ2023General AptitudeMCQ · 1 mark
In a class of 100100 students, there are 3030 students who neither like romantic movies nor comedy movies, the number of students who like romantic movies is twice the number of students who like comedy movies, and the number of students who like both romantic movies and comedy movies is 2020. How many students in the class like romantic movies?
Official PYQ2023General AptitudeMCQ · 1 mark
How many rectangles are present in the given figure?
Official PYQ2023General AptitudeMCQ · 2 marks
Forestland is a planet inhabited by different kinds of creatures. Among other creatures, it is populated by animals all of whom are ferocious. There are also creatures that have claws and some that do not. All creatures that have claws are ferocious. Based only on the information provided above, which one of the following options can be logically inferred …
Official PYQ2023General AptitudeMCQ · 2 marks
Which one of the following options represents the given graph?
Official PYQ2023General AptitudeMCQ · 2 marks
Which one of the following options can be inferred from the given passage alone? When I was a kid, I was partial to stories about other worlds and interplanetary travel. I used to imagine that I could just gaze off into space and be whisked to another planet. [Excerpt from The Truth about Stories by T. King]
Official PYQ2023General AptitudeMCQ · 2 marks
Out of 10001000 individuals in a town, 100100 unidentified individuals are covid positive. Due to lack of adequate covid-testing kits, the health authorities of the town devised a strategy to identify these covid-positive individuals. The strategy is to: Given this strategy, no more than _______ testing kits will be required to identify all the 100100 …
Official PYQ2023General AptitudeMCQ · 2 marks
A 100 cm×32 cm100 \mathrm{~cm} \times 32 \mathrm{~cm} rectangular sheet is folded 55 times. Each time the sheet is folded, the long edge aligns with its opposite side. Eventually, the folded sheet is a rectangle of dimensions 100 cm×1 cm100 \mathrm{~cm} \times 1 \mathrm{~cm}. The total number of creases visible when the sheet is unfolded is ___________.