Q-1. If you will buy one box(1)/ at the regular price(2)/ you will receive another(3)/ at no extra cost (4)/ No Error (5)
01. 1
02. 2
03. 3
04. 4
05. 5
Ans: 1
Q-2. The train(1)/ has arrived (2)/ when he reached(3)/ the station (4) /No Error (5)
01. 1
02. 2
03. 3
04. 4
05. 5
Ans: 2
Q. 3-10. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some questions.
The increasing numbers of suicides among students at India’s premier technology institutes and schools, especially after or during the process of placements or examinations, are saddening indeed. The reasons are not being established in many of these instances. In a few cases it is clearly discernible that visions of a bleak future springing from immediate failures, especially at examinations or placements, may be behind young people taking such drastic steps. Suicides by students seem to be increasing by the day. Students must understand that setbacks at placements and examinations are not the end of the road or even an end in itself. When one window closes, new doors and vistas may open. Whenever thoughts of suicide surface in somebody’s mind, they should just think about their own parents. Do we want to leave them in tears? They will accept all our failures and successes — but not our shrouds. The suicide of a child will break them from the inside. We must banish all such thoughts the moment we find them entering our minds. Life’s landscape may seem to be an existential conundrum, even an arid wasteland. But we must learn to find the hidden oases. We must learn to overcome the fear of failure and even learn to fail with grace and courage of character. Look at me. I am learning to fail on a daily basis by writing letters to the editors of newspapers, and sending articles for publication, and hardly seeing them in print. I also failed in my second attempt to clear the civil services examination. But invariably I believe I have been learning a lot. Failure is not bad, rather it can be sweeter than success. Failing with perfection is as good as success. Since perfection is never achieved, the quest for it must go on. With failure as one’s best friend, one can hope to narrow the gap with perfection. Failure, somehow, understands perfection better, much better than success.
Q-3. Which of the following has been termed as ‘hidden oases’ as mentioned in the passage?
01. The challenges in life seem many but together we can overcome them easily.
02. With problems remain solutions so we should overlook problems.
03. The opportunities lying within failure which one can take advantage of through accepting the failure.
04. We must find ways to make money by any means.
05. Not explained in the passage
Ans: 3
Q-4. In most of the cases of suicides by the students, which of the following has been the reason, according to the passage?
01. The fear of being rejected by the society the student belongs to.
02. The fact, that the college or school has not understood the child’s dilemma
03. Pressure from peer group
04. The failure that the student faced would not let him make a bright future
05. Cannot be understood from the passage
Ans: 4
Q-5. Which of the following gets most affected whenever children commit suicide?
01. Their siblings
02. Their parents
03. Their teachers
04. Their close friends
05. No one gets affected
Ans: 2
Q-6. How is the author learning to fail, on a regular basis?
01. By making efforts in the same direction without changing his approach
02. By adopting the ways of people who have experienced failures in their lives
03. He looks for avenues which pose challenges and then makes efforts
04. He sends the articles and letters to be published but they don’t get published but he has not given up.
05. Not mentioned in the passage
Ans: 4
Q-7. Why does the author feel that failure understands perfection better than success does?
01. When the person fails he understand what efforts he needs to make to get perfect and eventually succeed.
02. Failures are the outcome of one’s efforts made in the wrong direction
03. After success the person stops learning whereas the learning process starts after each failure.
04. Failure is not related to perfection
05. Success understands perfection better than does failure.
Ans: 1
Q-8. Choose the word most SIMILAR in meaning to the word printed in bold, as used in the passage.
Discernible
01. Audible
02. Legible
03. Noticeable
04. Tolerable
05. Reliable
Ans: 3
Q-9. Choose the word most SIMILAR in meaning to the word printed in bold, as used in the passage.
Drastic
01. Extreme
02. Tedious
03. Divine
04. Superficial
05. Thoughtful
Ans: 1
Q-10. Choose the word most SIMILAR in meaning to the word printed in bold, as used in the passage.
Invariably
01. Endless
02. Doubtfully
03. Methodically
04. Beginning
05. Constantly
Ans: 5
