The Review of CET Sample Paper

Directions for Q. 1 to 5: Refer to the following information and the answer the following questions.

People Power Corporation presently employs three Managers (A, B and C) and five recruitment agents (D, E, F, G and H). The company is planning to open a new office in San Jose to manage placement of software professionals in the US. It is planning to relocate two of the three managers and three of the five recruitment agents to the office at San Jose. As it is an organization which is highly people oriented the management wants to ensure that the individuals who do not function well together should not be made as a part of the team going to the US. The following information was available to the HR department of People Power Corporation.

• Managers A and C are at each others throat and therefore cannot be sent as a team to the new office.

• C and E are excellent performers in their own right. However, they do not function together as a team. They should be separated.

• D and G have had a major misunderstanding during the last office picnic. After the picnic these two have not been in speaking terms and should therefore not be sent as a team.

• D and F are competing for a promotion that is due in another 3 months. They should not be a team.

1. If D goes to the new office which of the following is (are) true?

I. C cannot go II. A cannot go III. H must also go

(a) I only (b) II and III only

(c) I and III only (d) I, II and III

2. If A is to be moved as one of the Managers, which of the following cannot be a possible working unit?

(a) ABDEH (b) ABFGH (c) ABEGH (d) ABDGH

3. If C and F are moved to the new office, how many combinations are possible?

(a) 4 (b) 1 (c) 3 (d) 5

4. Given the group dynamics of the Managers and the recruitment agents, which of the following is sure to find a berth in the San Jose office?

(a) B (b) H (c) G (d) E

5. If C is sent to the San Jose office which member of the staff cannot go with C?

(a) B (b) D (c) G (d) F

Directions for Q. 6 - 11: Refer to the following data and answer the following questions. It is a game based on the position you take in a clock. You are at the 1 O’clock position. You can move one step clockwise, 1 step anti clockwise or to a place that is diametrically opposite yours. For example, from 1 O’clock if you move clockwise you will be at 2 O’clock. As you start the game, you are at 1 O’clock position and your score is 1. If you move a step clockwise, add the value of the time in that position to your score to give you the new score. If you move a step anticlockwise, add the value of the time in that position and subtract 2 from your score. If you move a step diametrically opposite, add the value of the time in that position to your score and subtract 4 from your score to get the new score. You cannot get back to a position that you have already visited.

6. What will be your minimum score after the third move?

(a) 10 (b) 7 (c) 11 (d) None of these

7. What will be your maximu m score after the second move?

(a) 16 (b) 18 (c) 20 (d) 24

8. If you had moved a step anticlockwise in the first move, you could not have reached one of the following positions in the third move.

(a) 10 O’clock (b) 5 O’clock (c) 7 O’clock (d) 6 O’clock

9. What is the shortest number of moves that you require to reach the 5 O’clock position When you start from 1 O’clock position?

(a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) 2

10. A man said to a lady, “Your mother’s husband’s sister is my aunt.” How is the lady related to the man?

(a) Mother (b) Aunt (c) Sister (d) Grandmother

11. If P + Q means P is the brother of Q; P – Q means P is the mother of Q and P * Q means P is the sister of Q. Which of the following means M is the maternal uncle of R, if you can assume a third person K to be involved in establishing the relationship?

(a) M-K*P (b) M+K*R (c) M+K-R (d) M+K+R

Directions for Q. 12 - 13: Refer to the following information and answer the following questions. A, B, C and D are four ladies who are friends of Elizabeth. On one Saturday the four of them visited Elizabeth at her weekend getaway.

I. The time of each visit was as follows: A at 8 O’clock, B at 9 O’clock, C at 10 O’clock and D at 11 O clock.

II. At least one woman visited Elizabeth between A and B.

III. At least one of C or D visited Elizabeth before A.

IV. C did not visit Elizabeth between B and D.

12. Who visited Elizabeth first?

(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D

13. Who visited Elizabeth last?

(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) Insufficient data

Directions for Q. 14 to 19: Refer to the following line charts and answer the following questions. The two line charts provide the fluctuation of three international currencies Dollar, Pound and the Deutche Mark during the six month period July to December of a particular year.

14. In which month was the DMP/Pound exchange rate the highest?

(a) September (b) August (c) December (d) November

15. Between which two months was the fall in DMP/Pound exchange rate the lowest?

(a) Nov-Dec (b) Aug-Sep (c) Oct-Nov (d) Jul-Aug

16. If I wanted to purchase Pounds using Deutsche Marks, in which month could I have purchased the maximum number of pounds for DM 120?

(a) November (b) August (c) July (d) December

17. If one Dollar cost Rs. 48, how many tones of Tea should India export to US to earn an export income of $ 100 mn if the cost per kg of tea is Rs 64?

(a) 7500 tonnes (b) 75000 tonnes

(c) 7.5 lakh tonnes (d) None of these

18 .If one DM is equal to Rs. 30, how many Rupees would I have got by converting 10 Pounds to dollars and the dollars to DM and DM to Rupees in the month of August?

(a) Rs. 74.80 (b) Rs. 724 (c) Rs. 747.80 (d) Can’t be determined

19 What was the highest % change in the exchange rate fluctuation of Dolalr/Pound in this six month period?

(a) 2.60% (b) 2.74% (c) 1.22% (d) 1.96%

Directions for Q. 20 – 21: Refer to the following information and answer following questions. Speaker: The great majority of people in this city have access to the best medical care available any where in the world.

Opposition: There are thousand of poor in this city who cannot afford to pay to see a doctor.

20. Which of the following is true of the opposition’s comment?

(a) It constitutes a hasty generalization on few examples

(b) It cities statistical evidence which tends to corroborate the views of the speaker

(c) It tries to compare two unrelated data and draws a contrarian conclusion

(d) It is not necessarily inconsistent with the speaker’s remarks.

21. A possible objection that opposition could have fielded to the spearker’s comments would be to point to the existence of

(a) a city which has more doctors than this city

(b) a city in which people are given better medical care than this city

(c) a city which has a higher per capita hospital bed than this city

(d) the amount spent on medical insurance for people of this city

Direction for Q. 22 to 25. Refer to the diagram below and answer the following questions. Shown below is the number of people working in the various levels of a top secret nuclear plant at Jamshedpur.

22. If there are 355 people in all working in the plant, only 20% of whom work in and within the technical layer. How many work in the administration layer?

(a) 284 (b) 230 (c) 218 (d) 262

23. Security rules state that there must be at least 3 personnel in and within the security layer for every person in the core group. How many people can there be in and within the security layer, if the total of the peripheral and security personnel must not be more than 110 (for cost purposes)?

(a) 40 (b) 32 (c) 58 (d) 30

24. If the number of people in the plant is slashed by 15%, 50% of which is in the peripheral layer resulting in the number of personnel in that layer dropping to 42, what was the original number of employees in the plant?

(a) 240 (b) 120 (c) 180 (d) 160

25. If only the employees at or outside the administration layer are the ones who do not need an extra security clearance and if there are 360 people in the factory and 48 people work in the administration layer, what percentage of employees need security clearance?

(a) 70% (b) 72% (c) 74% (d) 75%

Directions for Q. 26 - 28: These questions are based on the following data: Mr. and Mrs. Sharma and Mr. and Mrs. Gupta, during a picnic, competed among themselves for the chess crown. Overall 3 games were played on a knock out basis, i.e., after the first game was decided the loser was eliminated and winner played the next game and so on. Further,

(a) Sharmas won less number of games than Guptas

(b) The women won one game and the men won two games

(c) In only the first game were the two players married to each other.

26. Who did not lose a game?

(a) Mr. Sharma (b) Mrs. Sharma (c) Mr. Gupta (d) Mrs. Gupta

27. Who played & won the first game?

(a) Mr. & Mrs. Sharma – Mr. Sharma

(b) Mr. & Mrs. Gupta – Mr. Gupta

(c) Either (a) or (b) – Mr. Sharma or Mr. Gupta

(d) Either (a) or (b) – Mrs. Sharma or Mrs.

28. Which was a all-men game?

(a) Second (b) Third

(c) Either Second or Third (d) Both Second and Third

Directions for Q. 29 – 33: Refer to following passage:

Six participants in the National Billiards Championship, who played in the super six stage of the championship all belonged to different states. The six states are Gujarat, Orissa, Karnataka, Maharasthra, MP and UP. The six participants are aged 18, 26, 32, 34, 38, 44 years (not necessarily in order).

1. Pravan is the oldest while Laxman is the youngest player.

2. Player from MP is aged 32

3. Minal comes from Orissa but Laxman is not from Gujarat

4. Pankaj and Kunal belong to Karnataka and UP resp. They are not aged 38 or 18

5. Asim, 32 is not from Maharashtra or Gujarat

6. Minal, Laxman and Pankaj are neither the oldest nor in their twenties.

29. Which of the following statements must be true?

(a) Pravin 44, is from Orissa (b) Kunal, 26, is from MP

(c) Pankaj, 26, is from Karnakata (d) Laxman, 18, is from Maharashtra

30. Which of the following statements must not be true?

(a) Pravin 44, belongs to Gujarat (b) Pankaj, 36, belongs to Karnataka

(c) Asim, 32, belongs to Orissa (d) Laxman, 18, belongs to Maharasthra

31. Pravin belongs to the state of

(a) Gujarat (b) Orissa (c) Maharashtra (d) None of these

32. Which player is aged 34?

(a) Kunal (b) Pankaj (c) Pravin (d) Kunal or Pankaj

33. Which player is in his 20s?

(a) Minal (b) Pankaj (c) Kunal (d) Pravin

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