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MBA Exams || VERBAL ABILITY || 1.12.2020

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Question 1

Direction: Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.
The moment that the Indian government was waiting for a decade has finally arrived. The single biggest indirect tax regime has kicked into force, dismantling all the inter-state barriers with respect to trade. The GST rollout, with a single stroke, has converted India into a unified market of 1.3 billion citizens. Fundamentally, the $2.4-trillion economy is attempting to transform itself by doing away with the internal tariff barriers and subsuming central, state and local taxes into a unified GST. The rollout has renewed the hope of India’s fiscal reform program regaining momentum and widening the economy. Then again, there are fears of disruption, embedded in what’s perceived as a rushed transition which may not assist the interests of the country.

Question 2

Direction: Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.
Industrial relations usually imply good and positive relations between the employees and employers. The good IR help run an industry effectively and successfully, i.e., the desideratum of the day. The importance of IR can be imbued with multiplicity of justifications. Under the mechanism of IR, both employees and managers discuss the matter and consult each other before initiating any actions. Doubts, if any, in the minds of either party are removed. Thus, unilateral actions that prop confusion and misunderstanding disappear from the scene. In this way, IR helps create a peaceful environment in the organisation. Peace, in turn, breeds prosperity.

Question 3

Direction: Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.
Your small business needs to advertise and promote to attract customers. However, that doesn't mean you can just put out your message and start counting the new customers. Advertising and promotion affect consumers in ways you might find surprising. You need to know these effects before you launch your campaign. When customers weigh benefits, they become emotionally involved with advertising and promotion. Consumers identify ways the product or service can make them happier, improve their lives or give them pleasure. This part of the consumer response is irrational and can lead to impulse buying and competition to obtain the product. Consumer behavior splits between loyalty and alienation depending on how well the product lives up to its advertised benefits. Corporate behavior – such as scandals or charity work – can also affect alienation and loyalty responses. Once the consumer makes this choice, advertising and promotion are not likely to undo that decision.

Question 4

Direction: The given sentences, (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and 6, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Find the most logical order of the sentences to construct a coherent paragraph, keeping (6) as the last statement. Then answer the questions that follow.

(A) While it’s true that the pitfalls associated with the belief can interfere with your happiness, it’s important to ____________ that self-doubt is a normal, healthy emotion.

(B) That’s because, contrary to popular belief, confidence isn’t something you’re born with, but is a skill that takes deliberate practice.

(C) At the core of Impostor Syndrome is a persistent belief that you’re incapable of facing challenges life throws at you, despite having proved otherwise.

(D) Even best-selling authors, award-winning actors, and world leaders who seem to have it all together, battle their own inner critics.

(E) Nearly 70% of people experience Impostor Syndrome, or the inability to internalize achievements particularly common among high achievers.

(6) Luckily, though, it’s one you can acquire by using self-awareness to manage feelings of insecurity so that when Impostor Syndrome inevitably comes rushing in, you can act despite any fear.

Which of the following would be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

Question 5

Direction: The given sentences, (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and 6, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Find the most logical order of the sentences to construct a coherent paragraph, keeping (6) as the last statement. Then answer the questions that follow.

(A) While it’s true that the pitfalls associated with the belief can interfere with your happiness, it’s important to ____________ that self-doubt is a normal, healthy emotion.

(B) That’s because, contrary to popular belief, confidence isn’t something you’re born with, but is a skill that takes deliberate practice.

(C) At the core of Impostor Syndrome is a persistent belief that you’re incapable of facing challenges life throws at you, despite having proved otherwise.

(D) Even best-selling authors, award-winning actors, and world leaders who seem to have it all together, battle their own inner critics.

(E) Nearly 70% of people experience Impostor Syndrome, or the inability to internalize achievements particularly common among high achievers.

(6) Luckily, though, it’s one you can acquire by using self-awareness to manage feelings of insecurity so that when Impostor Syndrome inevitably comes rushing in, you can act despite any fear.

Which of the following can precede the FOURTH sentence of the passage?

Question 6

Direction: The following question carries a sentence with a blank. Find the most appropriate segment from the options to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

The early great servers in lawn tennis were all Americans because ______________.

Question 7

Direction: The following question carries a sentence with a blank. Find the most appropriate segment from the options to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.
The variety of forms found among angiosperms is ___________________.

Question 8

Direction: The following question carries a sentence with a blank. Find the most appropriate segment from the options to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region has the maximum reserve of frozen water after the poles, due to that ____________.

Question 9

Direction: The following question carries a sentence with a blank. Find the most appropriate segment from the options to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.
As therapeutics may possibly lag for years to find a vaccine, so __________________.

Question 10

Direction: The following question carries a sentence with a blank. Find the most appropriate segment from the options to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.
Trains will stop for up to 30 seconds more than usual at stations to ensure ____________.
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