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Ph.D ADMISSIONS SPRING RESEARCH YEAR 2017

TOTAL NUMBER OF SECTIONS=07

The sample paper is total MCQ based, consisting of

question statements and four/five answer choices.
You have to select the correct answer choice.
Instructions about answer sheet+Right answer
keys are available at the end of exercise

Note: This sample paper does not include

quantitatively the same number of questions as
there would be in actual paper. This is merely
meant to provide conceptual guidance to the users
or prospective candidates

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SECTION-1

Question: 1

What least number should be subtracted from 2590 so that the remainder
when divided by 9, 11 and 13 will leave in each case the same remainder 6?
Which of the following statements is true? Indicate the corrrect option.

A. 2
B. 3
C. 6
D. 10
E. 14

Question: 2

Which is the smallest number by which 19404 should be multiplied to

make it a perfect square? Indicate the correct option.

A. 2
B. 3
C. 7
D. 11
E. 22

Question: 3

If a/b = 1/5 which of the following is equal to (3a+2b)/(3a-2b)? Indicate the

correct option.

A. 13/5
B. 91/25
C. -91/25
D. -13/7
E. 7/5

Question: 4

Find the next number in the series 12, 17, 23, 30, 38. Indicate the correct
option.
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A. 48
B. 43
C. 47
D. 51
E. 45

Question: 5

The price of commodity A is $5800 and it decreases at the rate of $2 per

three months. Commodity B costs $4200 and it increases at the rate of $8
per four months. How many years will it take for the two commodities to
become equal in price? Indicate the correct option.

A. 4.5
B. 3.8
C. 20
D. 60
E. 50

Question 6.
Refer to the figure.

Figure for Question 6

Begin skippable figure description.

The figure accompanying this question consists of a circle and triangle B O A,
where O is the center of the circle and A and B are points that lie on the circle. In
the triangle, the measure of angle B O A is 60 degrees.

End skippable figure description.

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It is given that O is the center of the circle and the perimeter of triangle B O A is 6.
Quantity A: The circumference of the circle
Quantity B: 12
A. Quantity A is greater.
B. Quantity B is greater.
C. The two quantities are equal.
D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
From the answer choices given, select and indicate the one that describes the
relationship between quantity A and quantity B.

Question 7.
Refer to the figure.

Figure for Question 3

Begin skippable figure description.

The figure accompanying this question consists of a large triangle PQR. Side PR is
horizontal, with point R to the right of point P, and vertex Q lies above side PR.
Point S lies on side PR and line segment QS divides the large triangle PQR into
two smaller triangles, PQS and QRS. The measure of angle PQS is x degrees, and
the measure of angle QRS is y degrees.

End skippable figure description.

It is given that the length of line segment PS is equal to the length of line segment
SR.

Quantity A: x
Quantity B: y
A. Quantity A is greater.
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B. Quantity B is greater.
C. The two quantities are equal.
D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
From the answer choices given, select and indicate the one that describes the
relationship between quantity A and quantity B.

SECTION-2
Question: 1

The diagonal of a square is 15*sqrt(6) cm. How many isosceles right

triangles of side 1 cm can be cut out from the square?

[sqrt(6) = square root of 6]

Question: 2

A semi-circular park has a flowerbed of a certain width running along its

arc on the inner side. The area of the park, including the flowerbed is
98*pi sq.m and the area of the park minus the flowerbed is 72*pi sq.m.
Find the width of the flowerbed in meters.

[pi=22/7]

Question: 3

Find 360% of 360.

Question: 4

Ann and Bill are 120cm and 165cm tall respectively. Their weights are
50kg and 64kg respectively. How much weight in kgs should Ann lose and
Bill gain so that the height to weight ratio for both of them is the same?

Question: 5

If f(x) = (x-3)/(x-1), then find the value of [x - f{f(x)}]

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SECTION-3
Question 1

Which of the following is not a multiple of 3, 7 and 19? Indicate all such
options.

A. 7980
B. 234901
C. 9975
D. 3591
E. 185191

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true about the number 34983?

Indicate all such options.

A. It is not a perfect square.

B. It is divisible by 132
C. It becomes a perfect square when it is divided by 23
D. It becomes a perfect square when it is multiplied by 23
E. It is divisible by 232

Question 3

What are the remainders when 86+6 is divided by 7 and 8? Indicate all
correct options.

A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
E. 6

Question 4

In a class of 20 girls and 40 boys, 20% of the girls are 12 years old and
40% of all the students are 12 years old. Which of the following statements
is true? Indicate all such statements.

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A. 50% of the boys are 12 years old

B. 5 girls are 12 years old
C. 35 students in the class are 12 years old
D. 20 boys are 12 years old
E. 50% of the children who are 12 years old are boys

Question 5

The average of 10 numbers is 7. Which of the following statements is true?

Indicate all true statements.

A. The average increases by 1 if each number increases by 1

B. The average becomes 3 times, if each number becomes three times
C. If the sum of the numbers increases by 7, the average increases by 1
D. If seven numbers increase by 3 each and three numbers decrease by 7
each, the average remains the same
E. The sum of the numbers is 70

SECTION-4
Passage for Questions from 1 to 3

In Asia and much of the third World, trees are still destroyed in the old-
fashioned way: they are cut down for fuel and cropland. In Europe, there
is a new and potentially more deadly culprit. The German call it
'Waldsterben', the dying forest syndrome. But the disease is far more than
a German phenomenon. Since it was first observed by German scientists in
the autumn of 1980, the mysterious malady has raced across Europe,
blighting woods in countries as far apart as Sweden and Italy.
Explanations for the epidemic range from a cyclic change in the
environment to a baffling form of tree cancer. But the most convincing
evidence points to air pollution. Indeed, saving the rapidly deteriorating
forests of Europe will probably require a two-pronged strategy: an
offensive campaign that includes the breeding of pollution-immune trees
and a defensive scheme that calls for reductions in toxic emissions. But
both will require more money than is currently being spent on such
measures, as well as total commitment to protecting the environment.

Choose the 2, 3, 4 correct answer options from the list provided:

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Question 1

Why do you think the narrator calls the reasons for cutting the trees in the
third world countries, 'old fashioned'?

A. As the countries he is referring to are known as the third world, or under-

developed countries.
B. Since science has made available modern and much developed methods
to satisfy these requirements.
C. As the reasons for which the trees are cut are no longer valid in today's
scenario.
D. It is a biased comment on the part of the narrator as it seems he belongs
to a highly developed nation or society.
E. As there are modern solutions for the requirement of fuel and cropland
available to us now.

Question 2

What are the two points of target that the strategy to fight the problem of
dying forests includes in itself?

A. Finding methods to sustain life for trees and all types of vegetation.
B. An aggressive movement directed towards breeding of trees that are
resistant to pollution.
C. Conservative efforts for demanding reduction in emission of toxic
substances which lead to air pollution.
D. The attempts to save the trees from being cut and popularizing other
alternatives for their use.
E. Making available more and more scientific methods that can help reduce
the air pollution.

Question 3

The explanations sought for this occurrence of drying forests include

factors like --------.

A. Air Pollution
B. Polluting of water resources
C. A form of cancer of trees that is incomprehensible
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D. Periodical environmental changes

E. The trees getting dried out

Passage for Questions from 4 to 6

Once upon a time there was a vast Kingdom in the north-west of India
called Rawalgarh. The King of Rawalgarh was a very contented person
and so were the people of his kingdom. Since the King had no children, the
Queen was all the time worried about his successor. The King was a God-
fearing person. He used to stage open durbars in which every one of his
citizens had the accessibility to him. He loved his subjects and wanted
them to prosper but he knew they could not prosper unless they were
educated. He decided to commission a project to eradicate illiteracy of the
people. He was quite serious and religiously wanted to implement his
project. Before he could give final shape to his project, he fell sick. For
several months he was confined to his bed. People held prayers and longed
for the speedy recovery of their King. One day burly youth from a nearby
kingdom came to the town and heard of the King's illness. The people were
all agog as the youth drew a wand from his huge pocket and rubbed it
against the bare chest of the king. It was to everybody's surprise that the
king immediately got cured and resumed his work with same vigor and
strength.The king was so delighted that the next day he called that boy and
honored him with a great gift.

Choose the 2/3/4 correct answer options from the list provided:

Question 4

What were the various impediments in the path that led to the prosperity
of the king's subjects?

A. The delaying of the project to eradicate illiteracy from his kingdom.

B. The corruption in his kingdom.
C. The King's prolonged illness.
D. Their being uneducated.
E. The lack of co-operation from his subjects.

Question 5

'The youth drew a wand from his huge pocket and rubbed it against the
bare chest of the king' Which among the following are the correct words
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to explain this type of a treatment method?

A. Transcendental
B. Abstruse
C. Quixotic
D. Cryptic
E. Spectral

Question 6

What does the King's resuming of work with the same vigor and strength
imply?

A. The wiping off of all the vices from his kingdom.

B. His working for the betterment of his subjects again.
C. The young man being a doctor.
D. The prosperity and happiness of his people.
E. Resuming of work on project for eradication of illiteracy.

SECTION-5

Question: 1

The women in the Vedic ages enjoyed a free and ------------ position in the
society as such.

A. Redeemed
B. Confined
C. Emancipated
D. Liberated
E. Unbound

Question: 2

There have been found animals who --------- even 3 miles under the sea
level.

A. Endure
B. Exist
C. Survive
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D. Outlast
E. Sustain

Question: 3

The ---------------- outlook towards women in the olden times never found
them fit for independence.

A. Untraditional
B. Established
C. Orthodox
D. Conservative
E. Doctrinal

Question: 4

There is immense pressure felt by the body when one is under the sea, and
it keeps on ----------- by many folds as one goes deeper.

A. Escalating
B. Mounting
C. Depleting
D. Aggravating
E. Intensifying

Question: 5

Women have always -------- the religious and social duties of their
husbands by participating in them equally.

A. Divided
B. Dealt
C. Administered
D. Yielded
E. Partaken

SECTION-6

Question 1
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A frustrated old man, Badni Thakur was never tired of (1) -------------- the
exploits of his ancestors. With a little (2) -------------- he would lapse into a
reminiscent mood, push back the loosely tied turban from his close-
cropped grizzled hair and start a familiar story, improvising (3) -------------
-- details which, to the mirth of his audience, always kept changing with
every recounting.

Blank 1 Blank 2 Blank 3

A. criticizing A. prompting A. sincere

B. extolling B. advising B. rational
C. invoking C. arguing C. fanciful

Question 2

Even my goalies and the policemen, who have arrested me or (1) -------------
me as a prisoner from place to place have been kind to me, and much of
the (2) ------------ of conflict and the sting of goal-life has been (3) -----------
because of this human touch.

Blank 1 Blank 2 Blank 3

A. safeguarded A. kindness A. egged on

B. escorted B. affinity B. toned down
C. abandoned C. bitterness C. pumped up

Question 3

Attracted by the serenity of the evening, a friend and I lately went to one of
the public walks near the city. Here we (1) ---------- together for some time.
Then my friend, stopping suddenly, (2) ------------- by the elbow, and led me
out of the public walk. I could perceive by the quickness of his (3) ----------,
and by his frequently looking behind, that he was attempting to avoid
somebody who followed.

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Blank 1 Blank 2 Blank 3

A. sauntered A. trapped A. pace

B. vamoosed B. relinquished B. hands
C. danced C. caught C. gallop

Question 4

It was not surprising that my own countrymen should treat me so, for I
had gained a (1) ----------- of notoriety and popularity among them. Even
for Englishmen I was an individual and not merely one of the (2) ----------
and, I imagine the fact that I had received my education in England,
brought me (3) ------------.

Blank 1 Blank 2 Blank 3

A. weight A. collection A. in juxtaposition with them

B. ratio B. mass B. nearer to them
C. measure C. dispersal C. at a remote position

Question 5

When my daughter began to write her memoirs at the age of four, I

decided that she must have (1) ------------ keep them, if only a section of a
bureau drawer or as it happened, a box (2) -------- a key. I remembered the
agonies of my own childhood when my sister discovered I was writing
poems and began teasing me by (3) ---------- them in public.

Blank 1 Blank 2 Blank 3

A. a place to A. with A. writing

B. the freedom to B. for B. chanting

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C. the permission to C. attached to C. chirping

SECTION-7

Passage for questions 1 to 3

Martin Luther King's active career extended from 1957 to 1968. During this
brief career he led numerous protest demonstrations in the South as well as in
the North of the USA. He challenged the moral complacency of America and
fought for the rights of the Negroes. He hated the eye-for-an-eye method like
Gandhiji and fought with the weapon of non-violence - "a weapon", said King,
"that cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword
that heals." And he raised a vast army. It was an army that would move but not
maul. It was an army to storm bastions of hatred, to lay siege to the fortress of
segregation, to surround symbols of discrimination. It was an army whose
allegiance was to God and whose strategy and intelligence were the eloquently
simple dictates of conscience. His creed of nonviolence was criticized and
challenged by 'Black Power' militants who would not renounce the use of
violence to achieve their goals. Nevertheless, his faith in non-violence never
wavered.

Choose the single correct answer option from the list provided:

Question: 1

The agenda of Martin Luther King's army was to

A. Maul while moving.

B. To remove hatred, segregation and discrimination from the society
through non-violent moves.
C. Use swords to achieve their goals.
D. Use violent methods to fight their causes.
E. Make an army that fought using swords.

Question: 2

Martin Luther King fought for the rights of Negroes and

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A. Used violent methods to achieve his ends.

B. Stood against the political policies of American government.
C. Provided them with basic amenities.
D. Challenged the moral complacency of America.
E. Appreciated America's moral complacency.

Question: 3

His non-violent methods of fighting for the rights of Negroes were

A. Appreciated and keenly followed by the militants of America.

B. Disliked by the 'White Power' militants of America.
C. Criticized and challenged by 'Black Power' militants, who followed
violent means.
D. Followed by 'Black Power' militants, who appreciated them.
E. Hated and condemned by the 'Black Power' militants, yet followed by
them.

Passage for questions 4 to 6

The jobs do not get changed around from time to time. Started off on one of the
nicer ones, I sat at a conveyor belt slipping a piece of cardboard under each
cake as it came down the line. The thirst was difficult to keep up. An
uneconomic movement, a fumble and four cakes have gone without cards. I got
up to chase the four cakes, eight more appeared and for five minutes or so I had
to work at twice the speed to work my way back to where I was sitting before.
But it takes half a day or so to learn how it's done and soon it becomes quite
automatic. The frenzy had quite worn off by the end of the first day and then
there was only the monotony and the aching arms. Later I moved to another job
on the line, as the girl who usually did it had left. I wasn't surprised. It was the
nastiest job in that department. As the cake came out of a machine that had
sliced it in three layers, two streams of artificial cream were poured over the
layers. I had to stack the layers up again, a messy and very tiring job. The cakes
are heavy and the cream is slippery. Anyone who has worked at all in a factory
knows how deathly conveyor belt work is. At first it is difficult to keep up and
when you're tired it is quite merciless. After a while, when you have become
fairly used to it, the fact that you can't work faster is also infuriating.

Choose the single correct answer option from the list provided:

Question: 4
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The first day's frenzy was ascended by

A. Drowsiness, body ache and fatigue.

B. The feeling of being overjoyed and excited.
C. The feeling of satisfaction.
D. A sense of monotony and ache in the arms.
E. Happiness at being employed.

Question: 5

The layers of the cakes that came out of the machine

A. Had to be poured over with cream and stacked on top of each other.
B. Were required to be watched over.
C. Needed to be packed in paper covers.
D. Had to be collected and kept aside.
E. Needed to be stacked straightaway.

Question: 6

Difficult to keep up in the beginning, the conveyer belt work

A. Starts seeming enjoyable later on.

B. Seems merciless and tires one badly after a while.
C. Gradually makes one get used to it and enjoy it.
D. Gives delighting experience afterwards.
E. Is a drudgery filled experience later on.

ANSWER KEYS
SECTIONS QUESTIONS RIGHT CHOICE
SECTION-1 1 A
- 2 E
- 3 B
- 4 C
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- 5 D
- 6 A
- 7 B
SECTION-2 1 ANS
- 2 ANS
- 3 ANS
- 4 ANS
- 5 ANS
SECTION-3 1 C
- 2 D
- 3 E
- 4 B
- 5 A
SECTION-4 1 C
- 2 D
- 3 A
- 4 B
- 5 E
- 6 D
SECTION-5 1 E
- 2 A
- 3 B
- 4 C
- 5 D
SECTION-6 1 E
- 2 C
- 3 D
- 4 B
- 5 E
SECTION-7 1 A
- 2 B
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- 3 C
- 4 E
- 5 A
- 6 D

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