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MOCK TISSNET 1 (2015)

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MOCK TEST 1
Instructions1.
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Test consists of 95 questions which should be solved in not more than 100 minutes
Each question carries one mark, except RC (76-80) where every question is for 2 marks
Use of calculator or digital watch is not allowed
There is no sectional time limit
There is no negative marking
Section 1- General Knowledge

1)
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2.
3.
4.

Which is correct order of solar system starting from Sun?

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

2) Which one of the following is not the result of mechanical weathering of

rocks?
1. Peeling of the surface layers
2. Splitting into grains and gravels
3. Breaking into boulders
4. Falling into a powdery mass
3) What is the name of words first malaria vaccination developed by
GlaxoSmithKline?
1. Maldisparix
2. ARCEVA
3. Plasmodium falciparum
4. Mosquirix
4) Which instrument is used to measure attitudes of aircrafts?
1.
2.
3.
4.

Ammeter
Audiometer
Altimeter
Anemometer

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5) What is the name of the CalTech seismologist who invented the scale used to measure
the magnitude of earthquakes?
1. Charles Richter
2. Hiram Walker
3. Giuseppe Mercalli
4. Joshua Rumble
6) The theory of classical music is discussed in1. Samaveda

2. Yajurveda

3. Atharvaveda

4. Rigveda

7) Which Mughal emperor assumed the title of Alamgir?

1. Akbar

2. Aurangzeb

3. Babur

4. Bahadur Shah

8) To whom is the Bibi ka Maqbara, a monument built by Azam Shah, son of Aurangzeb at
Aurangabad dedicated?
1. Jodha Bai

2. Mumtaz Begum

3. Rabia Durrani (Dilras Banu Begum)

4. Chand Bibi

9) Who among the following is known as the Maker of Modern India?

1. William Bentinck
3. Lord Curzon

2. Lord Cornwallis
4. Lord Dalhousie

10) The violent incident at Chauri Chaura in Uttar Pradesh occurred during which of the
following movements?
1. Civil disobedience

2. Non-cooperation

3. Quit India

4. Poorna Swaraj

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11) Which of the following period is popularly known as Golden Age of India?
1) Gupta

2) Mauryan

3) Chalukya

4) Rashtrakuta

12) The largest religious monument in the world, Angkor Wat is situated in
1) Indonesia

2) Cambodia

3) India

4) Bhutan

13) How many Schedules are contained in the Constitution of India?

1) 12

2) 20

3) 10

4) 25

14) After which Nobel Laureate, NASA named Asteroid 316201 on 12 April 2015?
1. Mother Teresa

2. Amartya Sen

3. Rabindranath Tagore

4. Malala Yousafzai

15) Vasco Da Gama found the Cape of Good Hope route from Europe to India and reached
Calicut in
1) 1577

2) 1498

3) 1849

4) 1489

16) Who coined the name `Pakistan'?

1. Choudhary Rahmat Ali

2. Mohammad Ali Jinnah

3. Mahatma Gandhi

4. None of these

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17) What was the name of the atom bomb dropped in Nagasaki city?
1) Fat boy

2) Fat man

3) little boy

4) Death call

18) In which of the following cases did the Supreme Court allow Passive Euthanasia under
exceptional circumstances?
1. Gian Kaur vs. State of Punjab

2. Aruna Shanbaug vs. Union of India

3. Sharda vs. Union of India

4. Seema vs. Ashwini Kumar

19) In which year was the Banaras Hindu University established by Pt Madan Mohan
Malviya?
1. 1914

2. 1916

3. 1919

4.1920

20) The Radcliffe line is a boundary between1. India and Pakistan

2. India and China
3. India and Myanmar
4. India and Afghanistan

21) World cancer day is on?

1) 7 April

2) 1 December

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3) 8 December

4) 4 February

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22) Recently eminent Kannada writer Dr. MM Kalburgi was shot dead in Dharwad. He
received Sahitya Akademi award for which book?
1) Kettitthu Kalyan

2) Neeru Neeradisittu

3) Marga

4) Sarangarshi

23) Whistleblower Indian forest officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi, and Anshu Gupta are the two
Indians selected for this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award. What is the name of the NGO
Anshu Gupta founded?
1) Pradan

2) Pratham

3) Parivartan

4) Goonj

24) HRIDAY is related to1. Scheme to increase interstate co-operation

2. Indo- Pak peace initiative
3. National Heritage City Development And Augmentation Yojana
4. Heart transplant scheme for poor

25) Who is new brand ambassador of Tata Sky?

1) Aamir Khan

2) Shahrukh Khan

3) Kangana Ranaut

4) Kareena Kapoor

26) Juvenile Justice Bill, 2014 will now replace the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000. The Act
1. will allow 16-18 years of children work
2. will allow the judiciary to treat children between the age of 16-18 as adults depending
on the heinousness of the crime committed
3. Protect children between the age of 16-18 in case of heinous crimes

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4. Provide extra protection to the female children the age of 16-18

27) Which Hungarian writer has been awarded the 60,000 Man Booker International
Prize of 2015?
1) Lszl Krasznahorkai

2) Hoda Barakat

3) Mia Couto

4) Amitav Ghosh

28) Warli is associated with

1) Cave in Bihar

2) Kind of drama

3) Old script

4) Tribal art of painting

29) Who is author of the book Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh
Swamiji?
1) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 2) Swami Prabhupad 3) Baba Ramdev 4) Sri Sri Ravishankar

30) Who is the author of the book 'Nineteen Eighty Four'?

1. Thomas Hardy

2. V.P. Singh

3. George Orwell

4. Leo Tolstoy
Section 2- Mathematical and logical Reasoning

31) EPFA, GPHA, IPJA, _____, MPNA?

1) OPPA

2) KPMA

3) LPMA

4) KPLA

32) The H.C.F. of two numbers is 23 and the other two factors of their L.C.M. are 13 and
14. The larger of the two numbers is
1) 276

2) 299

3) 322

33) Statements: All soaps are detergents.

Conclusion: I. All soaps are powder.
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All detergents are powder.

II. Some detergents are soaps.

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III. Some powder are soaps. IV. Some powder are detergents
1. All follow

2. Only I and II follow

3. Only II and III follow

4. Only I follow

34) Akash took loan from a bank at the rate of 12% p.a. simple interest. After 3 years he
had to pay Rs. 10800 interest only for the period. The principal amount borrowed by him
was:
1) 300

2) 30000

3) 12000

4) 15000

35) Simple interest on a certain sum of money for 3 years at 8% per annum is half the
compound interest on Rs. 4000 for 2 years at 10% per annum. The sum placed on simple
interest is
1) 1550

2) 1650

3) 1750

4) 1850

36) The fees in Xaviers and TISS are in the ratio of 9/2. If fees of Xaviers is Rs. 2,80,000
more than that of TISS, the fees of TISS is1) Rs.40,000

2) Rs.80,000

3) Rs.1,40,000

4) Rs.3,60,000

37) The compound interest on Rs. 30,000 at 7% per annum is Rs. 4347. The period (in
years) is1) 3

2) 2.5

3) 4

4) 2

38) Present age of Chintoo and Pintoo are in the ratio of 6:4. 3 years hence, ratio became
7:5. What is Chintoos present age?
1) 18

2) 12

3) 30

4) 6

39) A Statue is made of Steel, Silver and Gold which were in the ratio of 12: 5: 2, mass of
Steel is 30 kg. What is the mass of Gold?
1) 2

2) 5

3) 4

4) 2.5

40) Ratio of men to women in an office was 5/8. If there were 32 women, by how many
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number the women are more than men?

1) 3

2) 12

3) 20

4) 13

41) A triangle with sides 13cm, 14cm and 15cm is inscribed in a circle. What is the radius
of the circle?
1) 3

2) 2

3) 4

4) 5

42) Ironman wanted to save a child stuck on the terrace of 6m high building. He is 8m
away from the building. What will be the shortest distance (in meter) Ironman will have
to fly to reach at the top of the building?
1) 9

2) 10

3) 8

4) 36

43) Anand and Seema drive at a same speed while going back home. They leave from a
garden which is at point Q, Anand goes in the north and Seema in the east direction.
After reaching at P Anand realizes that key of Seemas house is with him and he calls
Seema who is at point R and asks her to stop. What is the measure of angle PQR?
1) 90 degrees

2) 45 degrees

3) 30 degrees

4) 60 degrees

44) A rectangular field is to be fenced on three sides leaving a side of 20 feet uncovered.
If the area of the field is 680 sq. feet, how many feet of fencing will be required?
1) 34

2) 40

3) 68

4) 88

45) In covering a distance of 30 km, Itisha takes 2 hours more than Kshama. If Itisha
doubles her speed, then she would take 1 hour less than Kshama. Itisha's speed is:
1) 6

2) 5

3) 6.25

4) 7.5

46) An adventure enthusiast 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
1) 14

2) 15

3) 17

4) 16

47) A thief is noticed by a policeman from a distance of 200 m. The thief starts running
and the policeman chases him. The thief and the policeman run at the rate of 10 km and
11 km per hour respectively. What is the distance between them after 6 minutes?
1) 100m

2) 150m

3) 110m

4) 50m

48) A can complete a piece of work in 18 days, B in 20 days and C in 30 days, B and C
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together start the work and forced to leave after 2 days. The time taken by A alone to
complete the remaining work is:
1) 10 days

2) 12 days

3) 15 days

4) 16 days

49) A tank can be filled with water by two pipes A and B together in 36 minutes. If the
pipe B was stopped after 30 minutes, the tank is filled in 40 minutes. The pipe B can
alone fill the tank in:
1) 45 Minutes

2) 75 Minutes

3) 60 Minutes

4) 90 Minutes

50) If A and B together can complete a piece of work in 15 days and B alone in 20 days, in
how many days can A alone complete the work?
1) 60 days

2) 45 days

3) 40 days

4) 30 days

51) How many ways can 4 prizes be given away to 3 boys, if each boy is eligible for all the
prizes?
1) 256

2) 24

3) 12

4) None of these

52) Using digits 3, 9, 8, 2 without repetition how many different 4 digit numbers can be
made?
1) 6

2) 24

3) 12

4) 256

53) How many words of 4 consonants and 3 vowels can be made from 12 consonants and
4 vowels, if all the letters are different?
1) 16C7 *7!

2) 12C4 *4C3 *7!

3) 12C3 *4C4

4) 11C4 *4C3

54) Using digits 7, 8, 3, 2, 1, 9 with repetition how many different 4 digit numbers can be
made?
1) 216

2) 24

3) 12

4) 256

55) In a class 40 students, 27 like Calculus and 25 like Chemistry. How many like
both Calculus and Chemistry?
1) 10

2) 11

3) 12

4) 13

56) In the following figure triangle represents 'girls', square players and circle-coach.
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Which part of the diagram represents the girls who are player but not coach?

1) P

2) Q

3) R

4) S

57) In a class of 60, 42 students speak English, 34 can speak Hindi. How many students in
the class can speak only English?
1) 18

2) 26

3) 16

4) 10

58) In a class of 60, 42 students speak English, 34 can speak Hindi. How many students in
the class can speak both Hindi and English?
1) 16

2) 26

3) 18

4) 10

3) 527

4) 511

59) 15, 31, 63, 127, 255, ?

1) 513

2) 523

60) Which number would replace the question mark in series 7,12,19,?,39
1) 24

2) 28

3) 31

4) 33

61) 19, 2, 38, 3, 114, 4, ? Which term should replace the question mark in this series?
1) 340

2) 380

3) 456

4) 486

3) 145

4) 147

2) 24

3) 26

4) 28

2) 118

3) 120

4) 122

62) 3, 12, 27, 48, 75, 108, ?

1) 141

2) 143

63) 8, 10, 14, 18, ? , 34, 50, 66

1) 20
64) 1,2,6,24, ?
1) 110

65) Complete the series 95, 115.5, 138, ? , 189

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1) 160.5

2) 162.5

3) 164.5

4) 165

Section 3- English
In the following questions (66-70), a pair of words having a certain relationship is given.
Select a word/ pair from the given options, which has a similar relationship as in the given
pair.
66)EMPLOYEE : WAGES : :
1)worker : jobs 2)land owner : rent 3)composer : symphony 4)negotiator : conflict
67) advance : retreat :: curtail : ________
1.
2.
3.
4.

damage
discard
consume
prolong

68) Nigeria is to Africa as France is to _____.

1.
2.
3.
4.

Asia
North America
Middle East
Europe

69) Cat: meow:: Owl:

1.
2.
3.
4.

chatter
low
chirp
hoot

70) LOST : DIRECTION ::CONFUSED

1.
2.
3.
4.

compass
maps
intelligence
understanding

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In the following questions (71-75), a sentence with a blank is given. Choose the word that
best completes the sentence from among the given options.
71) To get the promotion she wanted, Priya ________ that it was best to go back to school to
get her masters degree as soon as she could.
1.
2.
3.
4.

anticipated
hindered
augmented
resolved

72) The car rental company considered the scratches on the drivers door to be caused by a
minor ________.
1.
2.
3.
4.

mishap
coercion
infiltration
quirk

73) Being a direct relative of the deceased, her claim to the estate was ________.
1.
2.
3.
4.

optional
vicious
prominent
legitimate

74) The two cats could be ________ only by the number of rings on their tails; otherwise,
they were exactly alike.
1.
2.
3.
4.

separated
diversified
disconnected
differentiated

75) Her rapport with everyone in the office ________ the kind of interpersonal skills that all
of the employees appreciated.
1.
2.
3.
4.

prevailed
diverged
exemplified
delegated

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Read the following passage and answer the questions (76-80) that follow.
A new study carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) has generated sufficient evidence to say that computers in schools do not necessarily
contribute to higher achievement levels by children. As a nation, India has persisted in
meting out shoddy treatment to children and their teachers. State policies have become
increasingly inexplicable. How would you explain, for example, the distribution of free
laptops to thousands of children in Uttar Pradesh? States like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,
Bihar and Maharashtra have pursued equally bizarre ideas in their curriculum policies.
In many regions of India, lack of focus and volatility characterise both routine and reform
activities in education. The two things that count in childhood health and education
have become meagre, expensive commodities. Yet, in all States, equipping schools with
computers is treated as a reliable short cut to higher quality. This is why it is important that
the OECD study is read and discussed in State-level Directorates of Education.
One important message conveyed is that teachers matter even more in computer-equipped
classrooms. The digital environment requires a greater engagement between the teacher
and students over any subject matter. This necessity arises out of the nature of tools
involved in the new information and communication technologies (ICTs). Both the speed at
which the technologies respond and the quantum of information they provide need
dexterous negotiation by the user. When a variety of sources are available, students need to
know how to distinguish reliable sources from the rest. Skills of this kind require painstaking
guidance by a competent teacher. Indeed, the engagement expected between the teacher
and the student would be higher in a computer-assisted lesson than in a conventional lesson.
76) According to the author, when does the teachers importance in schools increase?
1) When ICT is not used in schools
2) When classrooms are computer-enabled
3) When state government policy is shoddy
4) When the students are weak in studies

77) What does the author mean by shoddy treatment?

1) the education policy is excellent

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2) the government does not cooperate with teachers

3) the education policy is inferior
4) the government is trying hard to improve the status of students

78) The term dexterous negotiation means:

1) intelligent intervention
2) industrial involvement
3) expert handling
4) dependable operations

79) Fill in the blank with a word from the passage: The idiom a friend in need, is a friend
indeed describes a ___________ friend.
1) shoddy
2) bizarre
3) dexterous
4) reliable

80) Skills of this kind require painstaking guidance by a competent teacher. What does this
refer to?
1) learning to use ICT
2) learning from computers and not teachers
3) differentiate between types of sources
4) improve interaction with teachers

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In the following questions (81-85), a sentence with two blanks is given. Choose the words
that best complete the sentence from among the given options. (The first word in an
option is for the first blank)
81) There's no denying that India's _____ with diesel is responsible for ____ pollution levels.
1- love, higher 2- worry, extreme

3- obsession, dizzying4- plan, few

82) It was a ____of the real ___ of his thought.

1- secret, protagonist 2-proof, robbery

3- disclosure, plans

4- revelation, trajectory

83) Big data by ____ equals more information which equals more ____.
1- definition, transparency
comparison, efficiency

2- multiplication, poverty

3-computation, numbers

4-

84) Desperate to ___ off criticism the rogues are ____ the discussion.
1- skip, aggravating

2- manage, provoking 3-fend, disrupting

4- add, upsetting

85) Several Indian gas power plants have come back from the brink after lying idle for years
1- death, vigorous

2-brink, idle

3- profits, unserviceable

4- fame, publicity

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a
coherent paragraph.
(Questions 86-90)
86 1). Thrills, ranging from video games to burgers cover the rest.
2).This is because the returns from browsing cover only a percentage of your costs.
3). The bigger your cafe, the more is the need for additional mean of income.
4). Some cafes can get away with being plain vanilla.

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5). These fruits will make your clients spend more time with you and also add to your profits.
6). But others cannot.
1. 463215
2. 423156
3. 321564
4. 346215
87. 1). Indeed, unless they are willing to take open positions, they will cease to be marketmakers.
2). For market-makers offering two-way quotes in the international markets, open positions
are far more common.
3). Thus, depending on the policy of a bank, dealers may be allowed to take intra-day
positions in order to make profit.
4). For instance, a dealer expecting the dollar to weaken during the day might deliberately
create, through customer transactions and transaction in the inter-bank market, an oversold
position in the hope of squaring it later during a day at a profit, should his expectation about
the dollar weakening materialise.
Q). Large overbought or oversold positions are often deliberately built up in the hope of
profiting from price movements.
1) 1432
2) 1342
3) 3421
4)3241
88. P). The one major cause for the current weakened state of Indian banks is the level and
volume of non-performing assets.
1). Yet, the fact remains that the banks allowed themselves to be pressurized into lowering
their guard in the one area of business that is and should be their bread and butter of

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existence- risk assessment.

2). Description such as 'deceased portfolio' and figures running into thousands of crores have
all led to treating the problem as a major one-time aberration requiring emergency
treatment.
3). The causal explanations - political interference, wilful defaults, targeted lending and even
fraudulent behaviours by banks - have some grain of truth in them.
4). The problem has not been looked at in its proper perspective.
Q). The response from the banks is to concentrate on somehow reducing the amount and
number of accounts in this category.
1.4312
2.4231
3.2431
4.1432

89 1). The inherent expectations of a high short-term return on advertising investment that is
common to most traders who are attempting to scale up operations is not conductive to a
long-term consistency in advertising direction.
2). The lack of significant players with national reach is only one of the factors that explains
the relatively low attention given to mass marketing by the retail sector in India.
3). Mass marketing by Indian retail chains has hitherto been the exception rather than the
rule.
4). The focused brand image which leads to pithy, punchy advertising has been difficult
because most retailers have not been focused in terms of their own vision for their retail
brand. Most advertising has tended to focus on the presence of locations or the range.
5). Advertising then tends to focus significantly on announcement of in store promotions and
events, where the payoffs in terms of immediate increases in customer entry and average
cash memo size are more visible.
1.15342

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2.32415
3.45123
4.23451
90) 1). Nonetheless, Tocqueville was only one of the first of a long line of thinkers to worry
whether such rough equality could survive in the face of a growing factory system that
threatened to create divisions between industrial workers and a new business elite.
2)."The government of democracy brings the nation of political rights to the level of the
humblest citizens. He wrote ," Just as the dissemination of wealth brings the notion of
property within the reach of all the members of the community".
3). Tocqueville was far too shrewd an observer to be uncritical about the US, but his verdict
was fundamentally positive.
4). No visitor to the US left a more enduring record of his travels and observations than the
French writer and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America, first
published in 1835, remains one of the most trenchant and insightful analyses of American
social and political practises.

1.4132
2.2134
3.4321
4.4213
In the following questions (91-95), pick the word from the alternatives given that is most
inappropriate in given context:
91) Ubiquitous: Most new TVs and many other appliances come with Internet connections
as well. The Internet is truly ubiquitous.
(1) pervasive (2) omnipresent (3) persuasive (4) universal
92) Esteemed: Wherever he goes, the esteemed Dr. Sanchez is applauded for his life saving
research.

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(1) denounced (2) venerated (3) revered (4) admired

93) Controversy: The social media rage over female domination over men, is a controversy
that will not go away soon.
(1) polemic (2) row (3) accord (4) argument
94) Daunting: In the early 1600s, a dangerous trip across the Atlantic Ocean was a daunting
idea.
(1) intimidating (2) encouraging (3) thwarting (4) baffling
95) Revert: Christmas is a time when Dad reverts to his childhood.
(1) relapse (2) relent (3) reminisce (4) bethink

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