GATE EC General Aptitude questions

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Lamenting the gradual sidelining of the arts in school curricula, a group of prominent artists wrote to the chief minister last year, asking him to allocate more funds to support art education in schools. However, no such increase has been announced in this year's Budget. The artists expressed their deep anguish at their request not being approved, but many …

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence. If the athlete had wanted to come first in the race, he ________________ several hours every day.

Choose the most suitable one word substitute for the following expression: Connotation of a road or way

Choose the correct verb to fill in the blank below: Let us __________

Find the missing sequence in the letter series below:

A, CD, GHI,?, UVWXY

x>y>1,

which of the following must be true?

(i)

and

(ii)

(i)

and

(iii)

(iii)

and

(iv)

(ii)

and

(iv)

Ram and Shyam shared a secret and promised to each other that it would remain between them. Ram expressed himself in one of the following ways as given in the choices below. Identify the correct way as per standard English.

In the following question, the first and the last sentence of the passage are in order and numbered

1

and

6.

The rest of the passage is split into

4

parts and numbered as

2,3,4,

and

5.

These

4

parts are not arranged in proper order. Read the sentences and arrange them in a logical sequence to make a passage and choose the correct …

From a circular sheet of paper of radius

30

cm, a sector of

10\%

area is removed. If the remaining part is used to make a conical surface, then the ratio of the radius and height of the cone is ________.

\log \tan1^{\circ}+ \log \tan2^{\circ}+ \dots + \log \tan89^{\circ}

Ms.

X

will be in Bagdogra from

01/05/2014

20/05/2014

and from

22/05/2014

31/05/2014.

On the morning of

21/05/2014,

she will reach Kochi via Mumbai. Which one of the statements below is logically valid and can be inferred from the above sentences?

Choose the most appropriate phrase from the options given below to complete the following sentence. The aircraft _________ take off as soon as its flight plan was filed.

Read the statements: All women are entrepreneurs. Some women are doctors. Which of the following conclusions can be logically inferred from the above statements?

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence. Many ancient cultures attributed disease to supernatural causes. However, modern science has largely helped _________ such notions.

The statistics of runs scored in a series by four batsmen are provided in the following table. Who is the most consistent batsman of these four? …

What is the next number in the series?

12

35

81

173

357

________,

Find the odd one from the following group:

W,E,K,O \qquad I,Q,W,A \qquad F,N,T,X \qquad N,V,B,D

For submitting tax returns, all resident males with annual income below

Rs

10

lakh should fill up Form

P

and all resident females with income below

Rs

8

lakh should fill up Form

Q.

All people with incomes above

Rs

10

lakh should fill up Form

R,

except non residents with income above

Rs

15

lakhs, who should fill up …

A train that is

280

meters long, traveling at a uniform speed, crosses a platform in

60

seconds and passes a man standing on the platform in

20

seconds. What is the length of the platform in meters?

The exports and imports (in crores of

Rs

.) of a country from

2000

2007

are given in the following bar chart. If the trade deficit is defined as excess of imports over exports, in which year is the trade deficit

\frac{1}{5}

th of the exports?