2014

Career Anna TISSNET Mock 1

Career Anna
Bangalore

TOTAL NUMBER OF QUESTIONS

95

SOCIAL AWARENESS SECTION

30

VERBAL ABILITY

30

MATHS AND LOGICAL REASONING

35

TOTAL MARKS

100

EACH QUESTION CARRIES 1 MARK ( RC QUESTIONS CARRY 2 MARK EACH)

NO NEGATIVE MARKING
TOTAL TIME

100 MINUTES

Social and General Awareness

1. Name of the Rig Vedic god who is believed to be the upholder of the Ruta or Cosmic order.
a) Agni
b) Soma
c) India
d) Varuna
2. Which part of the Vedic literature narrates about the passage of human soul from life to life?
a) Brahmanas
b) Samhitas
c) Upanishads
d) Aranyakas
3. Who was the first Indian selected as a member of British Parliament?
a) J.L.Nehru
b) Dada Bhai Naoroji
c) M.K.Gandhi
d) None of these
4. When and by whom were the Asokan inscription and their Brahmi script deciphered for the
first time?
a) 1787-John Tower
b) 1810-Harry Smith
c) 1825-Charles Metcalfe
d) 1837-James Prinsep
5. Name the Buddhist Stupa which is believed to have been originally built in brick by Ashoka?
a) Barhul Stupa
b) Naland Stupa
c) Sanchi Stupa
d) Amaravati Stupa
6. Who was the founder of Sunga Dynasty?
a) Pushyamitra
b) Agnimitra
c) Devabuthi
d) Kirtivarman

7. Who presides over the joint sessions of Parliament ?

a) the Vice-President
b) the Speaker
c) the President.
d) the Speaker and Vice-President by rotation
8. Mahabalipuram was established by thea) Pallavas
b) Pandyas
c) Cholas
d) Chalukyas
9. Who introduced Din-i-Ilahi?
a) Firuz Shah Tughlaq
b) Muhammad Bin tughlaq
c) Kabir
d) Akbar
10. Indus Valley civilization was spread overa) Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan
b) Punjab, Sind, Rajasthan, Gujarat
c) along River Indus
d) Sind, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, UP, Rajasthan, Gujarat
11. Who was the first Muslim ruler of Delhi?
a) Iltutmish
b) Allauddin Khilji
c) Qutbuddin Aibak
d) Mahmud Ghazni
12. Who was governor-general when the 1857 revolt broke out?
a) Dalhousie
b) Canning
c) Curzon
d) Lawrence
13. Which of the following is not a navigable river in India?
a) Brahmaputra
b) Godavari
c) Narmada
d) Chenab
14. The minimum distance between the sun and the earth occurs on-

a)
b)
c)
d)

December22
June21
September 22
January 3

15. One Astronomical Unit is the average distance betweena) Earth and the Sun
b) Earth and the Moon
c) Jupiter and the Sun
d) Pluto and the Sun
16. 'Galvanometer' measures
a) Pressure of grass
b) Sound under water
c) Electric current
d) Relative density of liquids
17. 'Otology is
a) the study of flowers
b) the study of Rivers
c) the study of Mountains
d) the study of ear
18. Polio vaccine was developed by
a) J.C Bose
b) John Sleeman
c) Jonas Salk
d) Henry William
19. Watson and Crick are famous for their discovery of __
a) Life history of Plasmodium vivax
b) Vaccinia
c) Structure of DNA
d) Antibodies
20. During which Five year plan was Green Revolution initiated in India?
a) 3rd
b) 4th
c) 5th
d) 6th
21. Under the "Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme" a monthly pension is given to the
widows. What is the amount of the pension?

a)
b)
c)
d)

Rs. 300
Rs. 400
Rs. 600
Rs. 800

22. Which of the following is a popular womens Empowerment Programme in India?

a) ASHA
b) Swabhiman
c) Mid Day Meal Scheme
d) Bharat Nirman
23. What does the term AAY denote which is the short form of a Social Scheme launched by the
Governmentof India?
a) Antodaya Awas Yojana
b) Astan Awas Yojana
c) Antodaya Anna Yojana
d) Area Antodaya Yojana
24. NABARD's primary role isa) to provide term loans to state cooperative banks
b) to assist state governments for share capital contribution
c) to act as a re-finance institution
d) all of these
25. Farmers in India are covered by some welfare schemes. Which of the following is the name of
the same?
a) Swasthya Bima Yojana
b) Varsha Bima Yojana
c) National Pension Scheme for unorganized sector
d) Food for work scheme
26. AGMARK isa) a cooperative for egg production
b) regulated agricultural market
c) fanners, cooperative
d) a quality guarantee stamp for commodities like egg. ghee, honey and so on
27. Who has taken over as the new Army Chief of India on 31st july 2014 ?
a) Gen V.K Singh
b) Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag
c) Gen Bikram Singh
d) Gen Deepak Kapoor

28. The 18th SAARC Summit was held at _____________ in 2014. SAARC Framework Agreement on
Energy (Electricity) Cooperation was signed among the SAARC member countries in this
summit which will enable SAARC member nations to cooperate in the power sector and to
trade electricity among themselves.
a) Kathamandu
b) New Delhi
c) Dhaka
d) Colombo
29. Which country has the world's largest number of youth population with 356 million 10-24year-olds as per the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) State of the World's
Population report published in 2014?
a) China
b) India
c) USA
d) Europe
30. Which Indian private bank launched "KayPay" product for facebook users to send money to
each other in Oct 2014?
a) HDFC Bank
b) ICICI Bank
c) Kotak Mahindra Bank
d) Yes Bank

Verbal Ability
1.
The increase in the number of newspaper articles exposed as fabrications serves to bolster the
contention that publishers are more interested in boosting circulation than in printing the truth.
Even minor publications have staffs to check such obvious fraud.
The argument above assumes that
a)
b)
c)
d)

Newspaper stories exposed as fabrications are a recent phenomenon.

Everything a newspaper prints must be factually verifiable.
Fact checking is more comprehensive for minor publications than for major ones.
The publishers of newspapers are the people who decide what to print in their newspapers.

2.
Time and again it has been shown that students who attend colleges with low faculty/student ratios
get the most well-rounded education. As a result, when my children are ready to attend college, I'll
be sure they attend a school with a very small student population.
Which of the following, if true, identifies the greatest flaw in the reasoning above?
a)
b)
c)
d)

A low faculty/student ratio is the effect of a well-rounded education, not its source.
Intelligence should be considered the result of childhood environment, not advanced education.
A very small student population does not by itself, ensure a low faculty/student ratio.
Parental desires and preferences rarely determine a child's choice of a college or university.

Rearrange the following five sentences in proper sequence so as to for a meaningful

paragraph, then answer the questions given below them.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

After Examining him, the doctor smiled at him mischievously and took out a syringe.
Thinking that he was really sick, his father summoned the family doctor.
That day, Mintu wanted to take a day off from school
Immediately, Mintu jumped up from his bed and swore the he was fine
Therefore; he pretended to be sick and remained in bed.

3. Which sentence should come last in the paragraph?

a)
b)
c)
d)

1
2
3
4

4. Which sentence should come fourth in the paragraph?

a)
b)
c)
d)

1
2
3
4

5. Which sentence should come first in the paragraph?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 5

6. Which sentence should come second in the paragraph?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 5

7. Which sentence should come third in the paragraph?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
In each question rearrange the given sentences in proper sequence to form a meaningful
paragraph; then, mark the correct sequence as answer.
8.
1. Participation involves more than the formal sharing of decisions.
2. Through anticipation, individuals or organizations consider trends and make plans,
shielding institutions from trauma of learning by shock.
3. Innovative learning involves both anticipation and participation.
4. It is an attitude characterized by cooperation, dialogue and empathy.
a) 2314
b) 1243
c) 4132
d) 3214
9.
1. However, different rulers and governments dealt with the different groups in a
compartmentalized manner.
2. Various situational and political changes have taken place over the past three and half
centuries.
3. This tendency resulted in deeply embedded fragmented South African society which
became even more prominent in the period 1948 until the new commencement of the new
Constitution on May 10 1994.
4. South Africa is a racially divided society since the first European settlers arrived in 1652.
a)
b)
c)
d)

2413
3124
1342
2134

10.
1. Now under liberated economy they are learning to complete domestically and globally.

2. In India corporations until recently achieved success by avoiding competition, using protected
and regulated domestic markets.
3. The trend is irreversible.
4. Business leaders are preparing themselves to meet competitive challenges and to avoid being
swept away.
a) 1243
b) 2431
c) 2413
d) 2143

Each question consist of two words which have a certain relationship to each other followed
by four pairs of related words, Select the pair which has the same relationship.
11.
WAN:COLOUR
a)
b)
c)
d)

corpulent:weight
insipid:flavour
pallid:complexion
enigmatic:puzzle

12.
INDIGENT:WEALTHY
a)
b)
c)
d)

angry:rich
native:affluent
gauche:graceful
scholarly:erudite

13.
TEN:DECIMAL
a)
b)
c)
d)

seven:septet
four:quartet
two:binary
five:quince

14.
CORPOREAL:SPIRITUAL
a)
b)
c)
d)

mesa:plateau
moron:savant
foreigner:immigrant
pedagogue:teacher

15.
MUNDANE:SPIRITUAL
a)
b)
c)
d)

common:ghostly
worldly:unworldly
routine:novel
secular:clerical

16. The battalion operating from the mountain was able to ...... three enemy divisions.
a) tie up
b) tie down
c) tie on
d) tie with
17.
a)
b)
c)
d)

I purposely ...... meet you during my last visit to Kashmir.

didn't
won't
hadn't
wouldn't

18. I have read one novel by Premchand. I want to read ...... novel by him.
a) other
b) another
c) all
d) few
19. A man remains narrow minded, self compliance and ignorant unless he visits other people and
...... from them.
a)
b)
c)
d)

earns
borrows
learns
hears

20. I think they allow their children too much ......

a)
b)
c)
d)

liberality
latitude
lassitude
levity

In each of the following questions, the word at the top of the table is used in different ways.
Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.
21. DEAL
a) You begin the game by dealing 7 cards to each player.
b) Parents find it difficult to deal with their childrens hostile and stubborn attitude.
c) The nuclear deal between India and the U.S. has sparked off a controversy.
d) Judges usually deal in harsher sentences to repeat offenders.
22. FOOL
a) Dont fool with those tools, you could hurt yourself!
b) Raghu told me that he was the Managing Director of the company and I was fool enough to
believe him.
c) Stop playing the fool and finish your work, the mother said sharply.
d) Kalpana is a powerful personality who
23. LINE
a) Large scale manufacturing has made assembly lines the order of the day.
b) Many politicians see power as a means to line their pocket.
c) The victim was asked to recognize the culprit from the suspects lined against the wall.
d) The latest in the line of Harry Potter novels has broken all records
Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning
of proverb/idiom.
24. To keeps one's temper
a) To become hungry
b) To be in good mood
c) To preserve ones energy
d) To be aloof from
25. To drive home
a) To find one's roots
b) To return to place of rest
c) Back to original position

d) To emphasize

Answer the questions after reading through the passage. Base your answers on information
that is either stated or implied in the passage.
The rich analyses of Fernand Braudel and his fellow Annales historians have made significant
contributions to historical theory and research. In a departure from traditional historical
approaches, the Annales historians assume (as do Marxists) that history cannot be limited to a
simple recounting of conscious human actions, but must be understood in the context of forces that
underlie human behavior. Braudel was the first Annales historian to gain widespread support for
the idea that history should synthesize data from social sciences, especially economics, to provide a
broader historical view of human societies over time (although Febvre and Bloch, founders of the
Annales school, originated this approach).
Braudel conceived of history as the dynamic interaction of three temporalities. The first of these,
the evenementielle, involved short-lived dramatic "events," such as battles, revolutions, and the
actions of great men, which had preoccupied traditional historians like Carlyle. Conjonctures was
Braudel's term for the larger, cyclical processes that might last up to half a century. The longue
duree, a historical wave of great length, was for Braudel the most fascinating of the three
temporalities. Here he focused on those aspects of everyday life that might remain relatively
unchanged for centuries. What people ate, what they wore, their means and routes of travelfor
Braudel these things create "structures" that define the limits of potential social change for
hundreds of years at a time.

Braudel's concept of the longue duree extended the perspective of historical space as well as time.
Until the Annales school, historians had taken the juridicial political unitthe the nation-state,
duchy, or whateveras their starting point. Yet, when such enormous time spans are considered,
geographical features may have more significance for human populations than national borders. In
his doctoral thesis, a seminal work on the Mediterranean during the reign of Philip II, Braudel
treated the geohistory of the entire region as a "structure" that exerted myriad influences on human
lifeways since the first settlements on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

And so the reader is given such arcane information as the list of products that came to Spanish
shores from North Africa, the seasonal routes followed by Mediterranean sheep and their
shepherds, and the cities where the best ship timber could be bought.
Braudel has been faulted for the imprecision of his approach. With his Rabelaisian delight in
concrete detail, Braudel vastly extended the realm of relevant phenomena; but this very
achievement made it difficult to delimit the boundaries of observation, a task necessary to
beginning any social investigation. Further, Braudel and other Annales historians minimize the

differences among the social sciences. Nevertheless, the many similarly designed studies aimed at
both professional and popular audiences indicate that Braudel asked significant questions which
traditional historians had overlooked.
26. The primary purpose of the passage is to
a) show how Braudel's work changed the conception of Mediterranean life held by previous
historians.
b) evaluate Braudel's criticisms of traditional and Marxist historiography
c) contrast the perspective of the longue duree with the actions of major historical figures
d) outline some of Braudel's influential conceptions and distinguish them from conventional
approaches
27. The author refers to the work of Febvre and Bloch in order to
a) illustrate the limitations of the Annales tradition of historical investigation
b) suggest the relevance of economics to historical investigation
c) debate the need for combining various sociological approaches
d) show that previous Annales historians anticipated Braudel's focus on economics
28. According to the passage, all of the following are aspects of Braudel's approach to history
EXCEPT that he
a) attempted to unify various social sciences
b) studied social and economic activities that occurred across national boundaries
c) pointed out the link between increased economic activity and the rise of nationalism
d) examined seemingly unexciting aspects of everyday life

29. The passage suggests that, compared to traditional historians, Annales historians are
a) more interested in other social sciences than in history
b) more critical of the achievements of famous historical figures
c) more skeptical of the validity of most economic research
d) more interested in the underlying context of human behavior provided by social structure

30. The author is critical of Braudel's perspective for which of the following reasons?
a) It seeks structures that underlie all forms of social activity.
b) It assumes a greater similarity among the social sciences than actually exists.
c) It fails to consider the relationship between short-term events and long-term social activity.
d) It clearly defines boundaries for social analysis.

Math and Logical Reasoning

Study the diagram given below and answer each of the following questions.

1. How many persons who take tea and wine but not coffee?
a)
b)
c)
d)

20
17
25
15

2.
a)
b)
c)
d)

How many persons are there who take both tea and coffee but not wine?
22
17
7
20

3.
a)
b)
c)
d)

How many persons take wine?

100
82
92
122

4.
a)
b)
c)
d)

How many persons are there who takes only coffee ?

90
45
25
20

5. How many persons take all the three?

a) 20
b) 17

c) 25
d) 15

In these series, you will be looking at both the letter pattern and the number pattern. Fill the
blank in the middle of the series or end of the series.
6.
a)
b)
c)
d)

SCD, TEF, UGH, ____, WKL

CMN
UJI
VIJ
IJT

a)
b)
c)
d)

7. B2CD, _____, BCD4, B5CD, BC6D

B2C2D
BC3D
B2C3D
BCD7

a)
b)
c)
d)

8. FAG, GAF, HAI, IAH, ____

JAK
HAL
HAK
JAI

In each series, look for the degree and direction of change between the numbers. In
other words, do the numbers increase or decrease, and by how much
9.
a)
b)
c)
d)

a)
b)
c)
d)

Look at this series: 7, 10, 8, 11, 9, 12, ... What number should come next?
7
10
12
13

10. Look at this series: 36, 34, 30, 28, 24, ... What number should come next?
20
22
23
26

11. Look at this series: 22, 21, 23, 22, 24, 23, ... What number should come next?
a) 22

b) 24
c) 25
d) 26
12. Look at this series: 53, 53, 40, 40, 27, 27, ... What number should come next?
a) 12
b) 14
c) 27
d) 53

a)
b)
c)
d)

13. X = {0, 1, 2, 3, 5} I is the set of integers greater than 999 and not exceeding 5000, formed by
using one or more elements of X as its digits. Find the number of elements in I.
376
375
500
499

a)
b)
c)
d)

14. How many five-digit numbers divisible by 9 can be formed using the digits 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9
such that each digit occurs atmost once in any such number?
96
192
288
144

a)
b)
c)
d)

15. How many five-digit numbers divisible by 4 can be formed using the digits 0, 7, 5, 2, 4, 6
without repeating any digit?
126
186
204
180

16. From a group of 7 men and 6 women, five persons are to be selected to form a committee so
that at least 3 men are there on the committee. In how many ways can it be done?
a) 564
b) 645
c) 735
d) 756

17. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'LEADING' be arranged in such a
way that the vowels always come together?
a) 360

b) 480
c) 720
d) 5040
18. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'CORPORATION' be arranged so that
the vowels always come together?
a)
b)
c)
d)

810
1440
2880
50400

a)
b)
c)
d)

19. It takes eight hours for a 600 km journey, if 120 km is done by train and the rest by car. It
takes 20 minutes more, if 200 km is done by train and the rest by car. The ratio of the speed
of the train to that of the cars is:
2:3
3:2
3:4
4:3

a)
b)
c)
d)

20. A farmer travelled a distance of 61 km in 9 hours. He travelled partly on foot @ 4 km/hr and
partly on bicycle @ 9 km/hr. The distance travelled on foot is:
14 km
15 km
16 km
17 km

21. Pipe X can fill a tank in a certain time. It was opened at 12 pm. Due to a leak at the bottom of
the tank, the tank was filled only at 12:50 pm. If the leak can empty the tank in 200 minutes,
then find the time (in minutes) in which X can fill the tank.
a) 30
b) 45
c) 40
d) 50

22. If A, B, C, D work independently, the amount that A is paid for 3 days is equal to that paid to
B for 4 days. The amount paid to C for 3 days is equal to that paid to D for 2 days. B and D
are paid equal amounts for equal duration. A and B together complete a piece of work for

a)
b)
c)
d)

which they are paid `1680. If all 4 had completed the same work together, what would A's
share have been (in rupees)? Assume that equal amounts are paid for equal work.
960
800
560
630

23. A train can travel 50% faster than a car. Both start from point A at the same time and reach
point B 75 kms away from A at the same time. On the way, however, the train lost about
12.5 minutes while stopping at the stations. The speed of the car is:
a) 100 kmph
b) 110 kmph
c) 120 kmph
d) 130 kmph

24. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph.
For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
a) 9

b) 10
c) 12
d) 20

a)
b)
c)
d)

25. If 3a + 5b + 7c = 1.25 k and 2a + b + 3c = 0.75 k, then 7b + 5c is what percentage of k?

25%
50%
35%
75%

a)
b)
c)
d)

26. There are some two rupee coins and five rupee coins in a bag. If the number of five rupee
coins is tripled, then the amount in the bag is increased by 75%. Which of the following can
be the number of five rupees coins in the bag?
13
20
18
32

In each question below are given two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I
and II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at
variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusion and then decide which of the
given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly
known facts.
(A) If only conclusion I follows
(B) If only conclusion II follows
(C) If either I or II follows
(D) If neither I nor II follows

27. Statements: No women teacher can play. Some women teachers are athletes.
Conclusions:
Male athletes can play.
Some athletes can play.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Only conclusion I follows

Only conclusion II follows
Either I or II follows
Neither I nor II follows

28. Statements: All bags are cakes. All lamps are cakes.
Conclusions:
Some lamps are bags.
No lamp is bag.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Only conclusion I follows

Only conclusion II follows
Either I or II follows
Neither I nor II follows

29. Statements: All mangoes are golden in colour. No golden-coloured things are cheap.
Conclusions:
All mangoes are cheap.
Golden-coloured mangoes are not cheap.

a)
b)
c)
d)

Only conclusion I follows

Only conclusion II follows
Either I or II follows
Neither I nor II follows

30. Statements: Some kings are queens. All queens are beautiful.
Conclusions:
All kings are beautiful.
All queens are kings.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Only conclusion I follows

Only conclusion II follows
Either I or II follows
Neither I nor II follows

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

31. PQR is a triangle. PQ = 19.5 cm and QR = 11 cm. PS is the altitude of PQR of length 5 cm. C
is a circle circumscribing the triangle PQR. Find the radius (in cm) of C.
18.05
28.85
27.25
21.45
31.25

a)
b)
c)
d)

32. Two students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 9 marks more than the
other and his marks was 56% of the sum of their marks. The marks obtained by them are:
a) 39, 30
b) 41, 32
c) 42, 33
d) 43, 34
33. If A = x% of y and B = y% of x, then which of the following is true?
A is smaller than B.
A is greater than B
Relationship between A and B cannot be determined.
None of these

34. What percentage of numbers from 1 to 70 have 1 or 9 in the unit's digit?

a) 1
b) 14
c) 20

d) 21
35. Find the side of the smallest equilateral triangle that can contain a semicircle of radius 8 3
cm. (in cm)
a) 16 Sqrt (3)
b) 32
c) 32 Sqrt(3)
d) 40