Common Entrance Test (CET) Maharashtra February 2011 Question Paper (Fully Solved) Continued from CSR.MBA, February 2012

Common Entrance Test (CET) Maharashtra February 2011

Question Paper (Fully Solved)

Continued from CSR.MBA, February 2012

Direction (Qs. 40 to 45): In each question below are three statements (for a set of question) followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the three given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the three statements disregarding commonly known facts. Given answer---------

(1)if only conclusion I follows

(2) if only conclusion II follows

(3) if either conclusion I or conclusion II follows

(4) if neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows

(5) if both conclusion I and conclusion II follow

Directions (Qs.40 to 41):

Statements :

Some ball are points.

All points are pens.

All pens are gels.

40. Conclusions:

I. All balls are pens

II. All pens are balls.

41. Conclusions:

I. Atleast some balls are gels

II. All points are gels

Directions (Qs.42 to 43):

Statements :

No shoe is glove.

All gloves are caps.

All caps are  jackets.

42. Conclusions:

I. Atleast some shoes are caps.

II atleast some jackets are gloves.

43. Conclusions:

I.  No shoe is a jacket.

II. All gloves are jackets.

Directions (Qs.44 to 45):

Statements :

All countries are streets.

No street is flag.

Some flags are avenues.

44. Conclusions:

I. Some avenues being streets is a possibility.

II. Some countries are flags.

45. Conclusions:

I. No avenue is a country.

II. Some countries are flags.

Directions(Qs.46 to 57): In the following, a passage “view” and : “Counterview” on the same theme is given. Answer the questions based on these. Answer the questions based on these. Some words in the passage are printed in bold to help you located them while answering some of the questions.

View

First, the good news. With an average score of 42 in the quantitative section of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)-----used as selection criteria by B.Schools across the world----Indian students placed seventh globally, comfortably beating the global average of 37. Now for the bad; Chinese students topped the list, beating the Indians handily. Given the obsession with China in this country, this is likely to cause dark warning about Chinese students and corporate workforce outdoing their Indian counterparts. But this is a false alarm. Standardised test scores have very little bearing on the actual academic or professional quality of an individual.

To understand what these scores really signify, one could look at Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother, a book by Chinese American academic and author Amy Chua on how Chinese mothers raise successful kids. It is a somewhat alarming account of parental pressure. We have Chua forcing her seven-year-old daughter to practice piano for hours into the night without being allowed to get up for water or go to the bathroom. Or calling her “garbage” for being disrespectful-of throwing a birthday card that her daughter had made for her back and demanding a better one. If this is the traditional Chinese mode of parenting as
Chua says, it is too high a price to pay for a few more points on a standardized test.

Just as importantly, such fierce focus on a narrow area of student performance ignores many other skills that are equally useful in academic and profressional life.

Creativity, cognitive skills, the ability to understand social dynamics and work well with one’s peers-these cannot be discounted. And they are picked up through social engagement and flexible academic structures. Little wonder that despite having a far lower average on such tests than either India or China, it is still the US that churns out the largest number of top-notch entrepreneurs and researchers.

Counterview

Our ancestors invented the zero and that’s just where we might end up if we continue to be beaten in mathematics by not only East Asians, but also people not traditionally thought of as numerically outstanding, such as Trucks and Israelis. Nor is it any comfort that Indians do considerably better than most nationalities including Americans because of the Indian test-takers’s profile.

They belong to our elite----at least economically since they can afford to go abroad—and benefit from this country’s best. They are far more focusssed than, for instance Americans, for a variety of reasons. Most significantly, about 60% of Indian GNAT test-takers are engineers by training as opposed to the global average of 15%. This means that Indians have the advantage of background, focus ad training. Despite this they are beaten by people statistically unlikely to be engineers, relatively unmovitated and most likely not hailing from the economic elite in their own countries.

This is deeply troubling because it signals a skills deficit produced almost certainly by the shortcomings of our education system and this skills deficit threatens our development. Without highly trained engineers, it is unlikely that India will ever be able to build the massive infrastructure projects needed to lift the masses out of humiliating poverty. The goals might have changed from dams to nuclear power plants, but both still require people highly competent in maths. Do we want to wind up like the UK and US where engineering jobs are the hardest to fill because students flock to the humanities? Our poverty ensures we cannot afford such luxuries. Numerical skills are an essential complement to literacy. To be second rate in this area is to lose out on an essential ingredient of national competitiveness.

46. Which of the following is the main point in the Counterview?

(1) India invented zero and we should keep that historical position by doing well in numerical skills

(2) If US or UK scores higher than India it is OK But, China?

(3) In spite of the elitist profile of our test takers and majority of them being engineers, we have not scored will.

(4) In spite of our education system being better than that of other countries, we have scored low

(5)With this low rank, we shall not be able to produce top-notch researchers

47. According to the view, parental pressure--------------

(1) helps in overall development

(2) helps in producing researchers

(3) helps in achieving success in some limited areas

(4) does not help in achieving success in any area

(5) helps in immigrant families

48. Which of the following has the same meaning as the phrase ‘bearing on’  as used in the View?

(1) refer to 

(2) concern for

(3) cover on

(4) load off

(5) related to

49.  Which of the following has the same meaning as “ flock to” as used in the counterview?

(1) fight for

(2) collect to

(3) master at

(4) opt for

(5) score high

50. Which of the following in indicated in both----the view and the counterview?

(1) US has scored lower than India

(2) The global average score is  37

(3) The Indian test takers’ profile is different than that of other countries

(4) Low score is a matter of concern for India

(5)  Turkey has scored higher than US

51.  Which of the following would be true of Turks? Their average score would be-------(1) higher than that of Israelis

(2) lower than that of Americans

(3) lower than that of Indians

(4) more than 42

(5)more than 53

52. According for the View, the bad news is/has--

(1) a cause for concern

(2) no cause for concern

(3) good for China

(4) a hidden meaning for local admission tests

(5) good for engineering graduates

53. Which of the following has the same meaning as the word “handily” as used in the View?

(1) hands down

(2) unexpectedly

(3) over the top

(4) awkwardly

(5) narrowly

54. The counterview indicates ------ that Indians have the advantage of background focus and training. Which of the following is referred to as “background”?

(1) Educational

(2) Economical

(3) Social

(4) Goal-orientation

(5) Parental mode

55.  According to the Counterview, which of the following is expected?

(1) More students should opt for engineering subjects

(2) The GMAT score should not be taken as the be-all and end-all

(3) All Asians are expected to do equally well in quantitative skills

(4) The engineers are expected to do well in quantitative skills

(5)China is expected to do well in quantitative skills

56. Which of the following is an area of agreement between both the View and the Counterview?

(1) Indian must do better than at least Turks and Israelis

(2) India produces more number of entrepreneurs than China

(3) There are more engineering test-takers of GMAT from India than from any other country.

(4) Focussing only on quantitative section is like having a highly narrow view

(5) None of these

57. Which of the following is indicated in the View?

(1) Standardised test scores indicate success in a profession

(2) Academic scores do not predict professional success

(3) Standardised test scores do not predict professional success

(4) Creativity is more important than understanding social dymamics

(5) Chinese mode of parenting is better than the Indian way.

58. Rs.1950 is divided amongst three workers A,B and C such that 6 times A’s share I equal to 4 times B’s share which is equal to 8 times C’s share. How much did A get?

(1) Rs.600

(2) Rs.550

(3) Rs.900

(4) Rs.450

(5) None of these

ANSWERS

40.(4) 41. (5) 42. (2) 43. (2) 44. (1) 45. (4) 46. (1) 47. (3) 48. (5) 49. (4) 50. (3) 51. (2)

52. (3) 53. (2) 54. (1) 55. (4) 56. (4) 57. (3) 58. (1)