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Verbal Questions for CAT

January 7th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Verbal ability

Verbal Questions for CAT

Directions for next 4 Verbal Questions for CAT: For each verbal question in this section, select the best of the answer choices given.

1. According to a recent study, attending a single sex high school aids an adolescent’s physical growth. Cited as evidence is the finding that during the first two years of high school, the average boy in an all-boys school grew five inches, and the average girl in an all-girls school grew four inches.

The answer to which of the following questions is needed in order to evaluate the reasoning presented in the study?

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Verbal Ability Questions

January 2nd, 2010 | 5 Comments | Posted in Verbal ability

verbal-ability-questions.Directions for next 3 Verbal Ability Questions: Each question consists of 2 capitalized words that have a certain relationship to each other, followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair that is related in the similar way.

1. TACT : DIPLOMAT

A) masterpiece : painter

B) lecture : professor

C) operation : surgeon

D) sobriety : judge

E) painting : artist

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CAT Free Sample Verbal Questions

December 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Verbal ability

CAT Free Sample Verbal questions- Directions for next 4 Sample Verbal Ability Questions: In the following sample verbal ability questions the first and the last part of the sentence are numbered 1 & 6. The rest of the sentence is split up into 4 parts and named P, Q, R & S. These 4 parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence and find out which part of the 4 combination is correct.

1. 1: They left by car at about 8 pm.
P: Covering the last leg of the drive through a hilly terrain when they reached the estate- it was around ten.
Q: On the way to the party, 60 kms away, they suffered a puncture and then another minor breakdown.
R: However, the host was there and welcomed the late-comers.
S: The guests were getting ready to leave.
6: The food had gone rather cold but the smiles were warm.
a. RQPS
b. SRQP
c. QPSR
d. PRQS

2. 1: The Dance Theatre of Harlem has achieved what once seemed impossible; it has brought blacks to ballet and ballet to blacks.
P: The son of Harlem building superintendent, Mitchell auditioned for admission to New York City’s famous High School of Performing Arts when he was 15.
Q: The man responsible is Arthur Mitchell who, at 22, became first black star of classical ballet.
R: He immediately resolved to become one.
S: He was admitted, but the examiners told him he would never be a dancer.
6: He won a scholarship to the School of American Ballet and was taken into the Company in 1955.
a. RSQP
b. PQRS
c. PRSQ
d. QPSR

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CAT Verbal Ability Questions: Verbal Ability Test

December 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Verbal ability

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Directions for next 3 verbal ability questions: The sentences given in each verbal ability question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome.

B. In June 1944 Germany’s military position in World War Two appeared hopeless.

C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed.

D. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.

E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.

1. EDACB

2. BEDAC

3. BDECA

4. CEDAB

2. A. He felt justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves.

B. At times he was fighting the entire Congress.

C. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.

D. Bush was not fighting just the democrats.

E. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.

1. CAEDB

2. DBAEC

3. CEADB

4.ECDBA

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Verbal Ability Questions

December 21st, 2009 | 6 Comments | Posted in Verbal ability

Verbal Ability.

Directions for next 3 Verbal Ability Questions: Each question consists of five statements followed by four sets of combinations of three. Choose the set in which the statements are most logically related.

1. A. Akshat may be a Martin fan.
B. Akshat is an English Student.

C. Akshat is  a Martin fan.

D. Akshat is a Henry fan.

E. All English students are Martin fans.

a. BCE             b. ECB             c. BEA             d. BEC

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CAT Sample Verbal Questions

December 16th, 2009 | 11 Comments | Posted in Verbal ability

Directions for 3 CAT Sample Verbal Questions: In each cat sample Verbal Questions, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.

1. GOOD
a. Is this a good dress for the party?
b. The kept milk in the glass is still good.
c. Farah ruined the family’s good name.
d. I’m good for another round of golf.

2. WRITE
a. How do you write your name?
b. To write one’s thoughts is a good habit.
c. You’ll have to write out a request.
d. It is important to write ones will itself.

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CAT Verbal Questions

December 8th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Posted in Verbal ability

Directions for next 3 CAT Verbal Questions: In the following sentences, infer the meaning of the underlined word and then select the option that is the best synonym for the word.

1. The exegetic quality of his writings makes him my favorite writer.
(A) Exemplary
(B) Philosophic
(C) Explanatory
(D) Sketchy

2. A desultory approach to reach is opposed to the scientific method of enquiry.
(A) Unfocused
(B) Logical
(C) Desolate
(D) Detrimental

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CAT Verbal Questions

December 7th, 2009 | 5 Comments | Posted in Verbal ability

CAT verbal questions- Direction for next 3 CAT verbal questions: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words/set of words.

1. While the honourable function of language is to ___ communication, we must remember that another of its historic functions, sometimes deliberate, sometimes accidental, is to ___ thought.
a. facilitate … promote
b. promote … conceal
c. popularize … prevent
d. help … enhance
e. None of these

2. Erosion in nature is a beneficial process; the same process ___ by human mismanagement has become one of the most ___ forces that had ever been released by man.
a. enhanced … lucrative
b. hastened … potent
c. checked … raucous
d. accelerated … destructive
e. None of these

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Sample Verbal Questions

December 4th, 2009 | 5 Comments | Posted in Verbal ability

Direction for next 3 Verbal Questions: In each of the following Verbal Questions, a capitalized pair of words is given, followed by numbered pairs of words. Identify the numbered pair that exhibits the same relationship as the capitalized pair does and mark its number as your answer or choose E if none of them satisfies.

1. DEMURE: CHURL
(A) Hare-brained: savant
(B) Soothing: emollient
(C) Venal: greenery
(D) Diabolic: hoodoo
(E) None of these

2. PREJUDICIAL: INNOCUOUS
(A) Vertiginous: latitudinal
(B) Sybaritic: ascetic
(C) Diehard: bumptious
(D) Quotidian: quixotic
(E)  None of these

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Verbal Questions

November 27th, 2009 | 11 Comments | Posted in Verbal ability

Verbal Questions- Directions for next 3 Verbal ability questions: Given below are a set of three statements. Mark the alternative that has the correct sequence of the set as a Fact (F), Inference (I) or Judgement (J).

1.
A. instance of horrendous ragging are on the rise because no serious disciplinary action is possible as ‘careers are at stake’.
B. The students rushed off to expensive hotels because Teachers’ Day must be celebrated at any cost.
C. Christ has been crossed out because he has no place in the mindless revelry that Christmas has become.
a. JFI
b. IFJ
c. JJF
d. JFJ

2.
A. It will be difficult to legalize homosexuality in India because society disapproves of it. B. The government claimed that deletion of Section 377 will open floodgates of delinquent behavior.
C. No one except those whose rights are directly affected by the law can raise the question of its constitutionality.
a. FJF
b. FIJ
c. JFF
d. IFJ

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