Mini Mock || CAT 2021 || 15 November for CAT & MBA Exams

Question 1

Direction: Find the correct order of the sentences given below such that they make a coherent paragraph:

1) They had then filed an appeal in the High Court challenging their conviction.

2) They were sentenced to life by a trial court in 2008, for the gang rape of x girl and for the murder of her family members in the wake of the Godhra riots.

3) a State High Court on Thursday upheld the life sentence order of the trial court against the 11 accused in the 2002 gang rape case.

4) The court further said that it will consider the undergone jailed period of the convicts as part of their sentence but will impose a fine on them.

Question 2

Direction: Find the correct order of the sentences given below such that they make a coherent paragraph:

1. On Tuesday, the ministry, in a statement, said 83 per cent of respondents to the Swachh Survekshan 2017 report had said that their localities were cleaner than the previous year.

2. Indore has been declared the cleanest city in India among 434 cities surveyed for the government cleanliness ranking by the Quality Council of India, according to the Swachh Survekshan 2017 report.

3. “Survey results are very encouraging. Revealed major improvement in cleanliness in last one year. Swachh Bharat buzz is reflecting on ground,” Naidu said in a tweet on Tuesday.

4. It added that 80 per cent of the respondents said they had better access to community and public toilets.

Question 3

Direction: Find the correct order of the sentences given below such that they make a coherent paragraph:

1. The 67-year-old murdered his wife Carol Jarvis at their home in Bathgate, West Lothian, in 2009.

2. Jarvis's lover, Rita Heyster, was convicted of helping him cover up the murder.

3. Harry Jarvis, a prisoner at HMP Addiewell, was convicted at Edinburgh High Court on 30 March 2011.

4. She had been living in Jarvis's shed in the weeks before the crime

Question 4

Direction: Find the correct order of the sentences given below such that they make a coherent paragraph:

1. Among the five reasons cited for his dismissal, two are of serious nature. The note adds that he has been charge sheeted in both the cases.

2. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had interrogated Salwinder four times last year after he repeatedly denied any role in the attack, which killed seven security personnel.

3. He was later made a witness in the NIA charge-sheet but a parliamentary panel report on February 8 had termed his "release" by terrorists as "questionable and suspicious".

4. The reasons, however, do not include his role in the attack.

Question 5

Direction: Find the correct order of the sentences given below such that they make a coherent paragraph:

1. Abstract art can also make people uneasy because they don't automatically know what the art is "about" just by a cursory glance.

2. Or they assume that because it doesn't look like anything, then it is not "about" anything.

3. Abstract art doesn't contain recognizable objects, so there is nothing to grasp or hold onto.

4. This can be very confusing, even threatening, to some who are not used to assigning their own meaning to what they see before them.

Question 6

Direction: Read the information carefully and give the answer of the following questions-

In an election several candidates contested for a constituency. In any constituency, the winning candidate was the one who polled the highest number of votes, the first runner up was the one who polled the second highest number of votes, the second runner up was the one who polled the third highest number of votes, and so on. There were no ties (in terms of number of votes polled by the candidates) in any of the constituencies in this election. In an electoral system, a security deposit is the sum of money that a candidate is required to pay to the election commission before he or she is permitted to contest. Only the defeated candidates (i.e., one who is not the winning candidate) who fail to secure more than one sixth of the valid votes polled in the constituency, lose their security deposits. The following table provides some incomplete information about votes polled in four constituencies: A, B, C and D, in this election

The following additional facts are known:

1) The first runner up polled 10,000 more votes than the second runner up in constituency A .

2) None of the candidates who contested in constituency C lost their security deposit. The difference in votes polled by any pair of candidates in this constituency was at least 10,000.3 . The winning candidate in constituency D polled 5% of valid votes more than that of the first runner up. All the candidates who lost their security deposits while contesting for this constituency, put together, polled 35% of the valid votes.

What is the percentage of votes polled in total by all the candidates who lost their security deposits while contesting for constituency A? ( TITA)

Question 7

Direction: Read the information carefully and give the answer of the following questions-

In an election several candidates contested for a constituency. In any constituency, the winning candidate was the one who polled the highest number of votes, the first runner up was the one who polled the second highest number of votes, the second runner up was the one who polled the third highest number of votes, and so on. There were no ties (in terms of number of votes polled by the candidates) in any of the constituencies in this election. In an electoral system, a security deposit is the sum of money that a candidate is required to pay to the election commission before he or she is permitted to contest. Only the defeated candidates (i.e., one who is not the winning candidate) who fail to secure more than one sixth of the valid votes polled in the constituency, lose their security deposits. The following table provides some incomplete information about votes polled in four constituencies: A, B, C and D, in this election

The following additional facts are known:

1) The first runner up polled 10,000 more votes than the second runner up in constituency A .

2) None of the candidates who contested in constituency C lost their security deposit. The difference in votes polled by any pair of candidates in this constituency was at least 10,000.3 . The winning candidate in constituency D polled 5% of valid votes more than that of the first runner up. All the candidates who lost their security deposits while contesting for this constituency, put together, polled 35% of the valid votes.

How many candidates who contested in constituency B lost their security deposit? (TITA)

Question 8

Direction: Read the information carefully and give the answer of the following questions-

In an election several candidates contested for a constituency. In any constituency, the winning candidate was the one who polled the highest number of votes, the first runner up was the one who polled the second highest number of votes, the second runner up was the one who polled the third highest number of votes, and so on. There were no ties (in terms of number of votes polled by the candidates) in any of the constituencies in this election. In an electoral system, a security deposit is the sum of money that a candidate is required to pay to the election commission before he or she is permitted to contest. Only the defeated candidates (i.e., one who is not the winning candidate) who fail to secure more than one sixth of the valid votes polled in the constituency, lose their security deposits. The following table provides some incomplete information about votes polled in four constituencies: A, B, C and D, in this election

The following additional facts are known:

1) The first runner up polled 10,000 more votes than the second runner up in constituency A .

2) None of the candidates who contested in constituency C lost their security deposit. The difference in votes polled by any pair of candidates in this constituency was at least 10,000.3 . The winning candidate in constituency D polled 5% of valid votes more than that of the first runner up. All the candidates who lost their security deposits while contesting for this constituency, put together, polled 35% of the valid votes.

What BEST can be concluded about the number of votes polled by the winning candidate in constituency C?

Question 9

Direction: Read the information carefully and give the answer of the following questions-

In an election several candidates contested for a constituency. In any constituency, the winning candidate was the one who polled the highest number of votes, the first runner up was the one who polled the second highest number of votes, the second runner up was the one who polled the third highest number of votes, and so on. There were no ties (in terms of number of votes polled by the candidates) in any of the constituencies in this election. In an electoral system, a security deposit is the sum of money that a candidate is required to pay to the election commission before he or she is permitted to contest. Only the defeated candidates (i.e., one who is not the winning candidate) who fail to secure more than one sixth of the valid votes polled in the constituency, lose their security deposits. The following table provides some incomplete information about votes polled in four constituencies: A, B, C and D, in this election

The following additional facts are known:

1) The first runner up polled 10,000 more votes than the second runner up in constituency A .

2) None of the candidates who contested in constituency C lost their security deposit. The difference in votes polled by any pair of candidates in this constituency was at least 10,000.3 . The winning candidate in constituency D polled 5% of valid votes more than that of the first runner up. All the candidates who lost their security deposits while contesting for this constituency, put together, polled 35% of the valid votes.

What was the number of valid votes polled in constituency D?

Question 10

Direction: Read the information carefully and give the answer of the following questions-

In an election several candidates contested for a constituency. In any constituency, the winning candidate was the one who polled the highest number of votes, the first runner up was the one who polled the second highest number of votes, the second runner up was the one who polled the third highest number of votes, and so on. There were no ties (in terms of number of votes polled by the candidates) in any of the constituencies in this election. In an electoral system, a security deposit is the sum of money that a candidate is required to pay to the election commission before he or she is permitted to contest. Only the defeated candidates (i.e., one who is not the winning candidate) who fail to secure more than one sixth of the valid votes polled in the constituency, lose their security deposits. The following table provides some incomplete information about votes polled in four constituencies: A, B, C and D, in this election

The following additional facts are known:

1) The first runner up polled 10,000 more votes than the second runner up in constituency A .

2) None of the candidates who contested in constituency C lost their security deposit. The difference in votes polled by any pair of candidates in this constituency was at least 10,000.3 . The winning candidate in constituency D polled 5% of valid votes more than that of the first runner up. All the candidates who lost their security deposits while contesting for this constituency, put together, polled 35% of the valid votes.

The winning margin of a constituency is defined as the difference of votes polled by the winner and that of the first runner up. Which of the following CANNOT be the list of constituencies, in increasing order of winning margin?

Question 11

Direction: Read the information carefully and give the answer of the following questions-

In an election several candidates contested for a constituency. In any constituency, the winning candidate was the one who polled the highest number of votes, the first runner up was the one who polled the second highest number of votes, the second runner up was the one who polled the third highest number of votes, and so on. There were no ties (in terms of number of votes polled by the candidates) in any of the constituencies in this election. In an electoral system, a security deposit is the sum of money that a candidate is required to pay to the election commission before he or she is permitted to contest. Only the defeated candidates (i.e., one who is not the winning candidate) who fail to secure more than one sixth of the valid votes polled in the constituency, lose their security deposits. The following table provides some incomplete information about votes polled in four constituencies: A, B, C and D, in this election

The following additional facts are known:

1) The first runner up polled 10,000 more votes than the second runner up in constituency A .

2) None of the candidates who contested in constituency C lost their security deposit. The difference in votes polled by any pair of candidates in this constituency was at least 10,000.3 . The winning candidate in constituency D polled 5% of valid votes more than that of the first runner up. All the candidates who lost their security deposits while contesting for this constituency, put together, polled 35% of the valid votes.

For all the four constituencies taken together, what was the approximate number of votes polled by all the candidates who lost their security deposit expressed as a percentage of the total valid votes from these four constituencies?

Question 12

Let m and n be natural numbers such that n is even and 0.2<

. Then m – 2n equal

Question 13

Find the number of integral solutions for the inequality: (|x – 1| – 4)(|x + 2| – 5) < 0 (TITA)

Question 14

If y² + 3y – 18 ≥ 0, which of the following is true?

Question 15

What is the maximum value of (y² – 1), if

and y is a natural number?