Quiz : GMAT quiz for preparation

1. The difference between the compound interest and the simple interest on a certain sum at 12% p.a. for two years is Rs.90. What will be the value of the amount at the end of 3 years?
a) 9000
b) 6250
c) 8530.80
d) 8780.80
e) 8980

Ans : d

2. Quantity A: 0.83 Quantity B: 0.81/3
a) Quantity B is greater
b) Relationship Indeterminate
c) Quantity A is greater
d) Quantity A equals Quantity B

Ans : a

3. According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, DOUBLING THOSE REPORTED IN THE 1977 SURVEY.
a) doubling those reported in the 1977 survey
b) to double the number the 1977 survey reported
c) twice those the 1977 survey reported
d) twice as much as those reported in the 1977 survey
e) twice the number reported in the 1977 survey

Ans : e

4. In ancient times, Nubia was the principal corridor where there WERE CULTURAL INFLUENCES TRANSMITTED BETWEEN Black Africa and the Mediterranean basin.
a) where there were cultural influences transmitted
b) through which cultural influences were transmitted
c) where there was a transmission of cultural influences
d) for the transmitting of cultural influences
e) which was transmitting cultural influences

Ans : b

5. If a sum of money grows to 144/121 times when invested for two years in a scheme where interest is compounded annually, how long will the same sum of money take to treble if invested at the same rate of interest in a scheme where interest is computed using simple interest method?
a) 9 years
b) 22 years
c) 18 years
d) 33 years
e) 44 years

Ans : b

6. All German philosophers, except for Marx, are idealists. From which of the following can the statement above be most properly inferred?
a) Except for Marx, if someone is an idealist philosopher, then he or she is German.
b) Marx is the only non-German philosopher who is an idealist.
c) If a German is an idealist, then he or she is a philosopher, as long as he or she is not Marx.
d) Marx is not an idealist German philosopher.
e) Aside from the philosopher Marx, if someone is a German, then he or she is an idealist.

Ans : e

7. A and B working together can finish a job in T days. If A works alone and completes the job, he will take T + 5 days. If B works alone and completes the same job, he will take T + 45 days. What is T?
a) 25
b) 60
c) 15
d) 45
e) None of these

Ans : c

8. Visual recognition involves storing and retrieving memories. Neural activity, triggered by the eye, forms an image in the brains memory system that constitutes an internal representation of the viewed object. When an object is encountered again, it is matched with its internal representation and thereby recognized. Controversy surrounds the question of whether recognition is a parallel, one-step process or a serial, step-by-step one. Psychologists of the Gestalt school maintain that object are recognized as wholes in a parallel procedure : , the internal representation is matched with the retinal image in a single operation. Other psychologists have proposed that internal representation features are matched serially with an object’s features. Although some experiments show that, as an object become familiar, its internal representation becomes more familiar, its internal representation becomes more holistic and the recognition process correspondingly more parallel, the weight of evidence seems to support the serial hypothesis, at least for objects that are not notably simple and familiar. The author is primarily concerned with
a) Explaining how the brain receives images
b) Synthesizing hypotheses of visual recognition
c) Examining the evidence supporting the serial recognition hypothesis
d) Discussing visual recognition and some hypotheses proposed to explain it.
e) Reporting on recent experiments dealing with memory systems and their relationship to neural activity.

Ans : b

9. The rate of violent crime in this state is up 30 percent from last year. The fault lies entirely in our court system: Recently our judges’ sentences have been so lenient that criminals can now do almost anything without fear of a long prison term. The argument above would be weakened if it were true that
a) 85 percent of the other states in the nation have lower crime rates than does this state.
b) white collar crime in this state has also increased by over 25 percent in the last year.
c) 35 percent of the police in this state have been laid off in the last year due to budget cuts.
d) polls show that 65 percent of the population in this state oppose capital punishment.
e) the state has hired 25 new judges in the last year to compensate for deaths and retirements.

Ans : c

10. Quantity A: 0.2x Quantity B: y
a) Quantity B is greater
b) Relationship Indeterminate
c) Quantity A equals Quantity B
d) Quantity A is greater

Ans : d

11. But man is not destined to vanish. He can be killed, but he cannot be destroyed, because his soul is deathless and his spirit is irrepressible. Therefore, though the situation seems dark in the context of the confrontation between the superpowers, the silver lining is provided by amazing phenomenon that the very nations which have spent incalculable resources and energy for the production of deadly weapons are desperately trying to find out how they might never be used. They threaten each other, intimidate each other and go to the brink, but before the total hour arrives they withdraw from the brink. The main point from the author’s view is that
a) Man’s soul and spirit can not be destroyed by superpowers.
b) Man’s destiny is not fully clear or visible.
c) Man’s soul and spirit are immortal.
d) Man’s safety is assured by the delicate balance of power in terms of nuclear weapons.
e) Human society will survive despite the serious threat of total annihilation.

Ans : e

12. India is country with at least fifty major regional languages, OF WHOM FOURTEEN HAVE OFFICIAL RECOGNITION.
a) of whom fourteen have official recognition
b) fourteen that have official recognition
c) fourteen of which are officially recognized
d) fourteen that are officially recognized
e) among whom fourteen have official recognition

Ans : c

13. Consider a rectangle. The length of its shorter side is 8, and the length of its diagonal is 16. Quantity A: 30o Quantity B: measure of angle formed by diagonal and shorter side
a) Quantity A is greater
b) Quantity A equals Quantity B
c) Quantity B is greater
d) Relationship Indeterminate

Ans : c

14. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn in the second sentence?
a) Cars with a capacity of more than 8 tons are already excluded outside highways.
b) Highways are experiencing overcrowded traffic primarily because of sharp increases in car traffic.
c) Many drivers of trucks would rather buy a truck with a capacity of less than 8 tons than be excluded from highways.
d) The number of collisions that occur near highways has decreased in recent years.
e) Trucks that have a capacity of more than 8 tons cause a disproportionately large number of collisions in highways.

Ans : e

15. Nowhere in Prakta is the influence of modern European architecture MORE APPARENT THAN THEIR government buildings.
a) more apparent than their
b) so apparent as their
c) more apparent than in its
d) so apparent than in their
e) as apparent as it is in its

Ans : c

16. Amy, Beth and Charlie divided a pizza amongst themselves. Amy took 30% of the pizza and ate (3/4) of what she took. Beth took 20% of the pizza. Charlie ate (2/5) of what he took. Quantity A: The amount Amy ate Quantity B: The amount Charlie ate
a) Quantity A is greater
b) Quantity B is greater
c) Quantity A equals Quantity B
d) Relationship Indeterminate

Ans : a

17. If the value of XYZ Company stock drops from $25 per share to $21 per share, what is the percent of the decrease?
a) 4
b) 8
c) 12
d) 16
e) 20

Ans : d

18. Quantity A: (y + 5)2 Quantity B: (y - 5)2
a) Quantity B is greater
b) Relationship Indeterminate
c) Quantity A equals Quantity B
d) Quantity A is greater

Ans : b

19. Let x, y and z be distinct integers. x and y are odd and positive, and z is even and positive. Which one of the following statements cannot be true?
a) (x-z)2y is even
b) (x-z)y2 is odd
c) (x-z)y is odd
d) (x-y)2z is even
e) (x-y)z is odd

Ans : a

20. Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped not only human morphology but also human behavior. The role those anthropologists ascribe to evolution is not of dictating the details of human behavior but one of imposing constraints - ways of feeling, thinking, and acting that ‘’come naturally’’ in archetypal situations in any culture. Our ‘’frailties’’ - emotions and motivs such as rage, fear, greed, gluttony, joy,lust, love-may be a very mixed assortment quality: we are, as we say, ‘’in the grip’’ of them. And thus they give us oursense of constraints. Unhappily, some of those frailties our need for ever-increasing security among them are presently maladaptive. Yet beneath the overlay of cultural detail, they, too, are said to be biological in direction, and therefore as natural to us as are our appendixes. We would need to comprehend throughly their adaptive origins in order to understand how badly they guide us now. And we might then begin to resist their pressure. The primary purpose of the passage is to present
a) A position on the foundations of human behavior and on what those foundations imply
b) A theory outlining the parallel development of human morphology and of human behavior
c) A diagnostic test for separating biologically determined behavior patters from culture - specific detail
d) An overview of those human emotions and motive’s that impose constraints on human behavior
e) A practical method for resting the pressures of biologically determined drives.

Ans : a