List of top Questions asked in CAT

Rearrange the following sentences to form a coherent paragraph:
A. The likelihood of an accident is determined by how carefully the motorist drives and how carefully the pedestrian crosses the street.
B. An accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian is such a case.
C. Each must decide how much care to exercise without knowing how careful the other is.
D. The simplest strategic problem arises when two individuals interact with each other, and each must decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.
Security inks exploit the same principle that causes the vivid and constantly changing colours of a film of oil on water.
A. When two rays of light meet each other after being reflected from these different surfaces, they have each travelled slightly different distances.
B. The key is that the light is bouncing off two surfaces, that of the oil and that of the water layer below it.
C. The distance the two travel determines which wavelengths and hence colours, interfere constructively and look bright.
D. Because light is an electromagnetic wave, the peaks and troughs of each ray then interfere either constructively to appear bright, or destructively, to appear dim.
6. Since the distance the rays travel changes with the angle as you look at the surface, different colours look bright from different viewing angles.
Commercially reared chicken can be unusually aggressive, and are often kept in darkened sheds to prevent them pecking at each other.
A. The birds spent far more of their time - up to a third - pecking at the inanimate objects in the pens, in contrast to birds in other pens which spent a lot of time attacking others.
B. In low light conditions, they behave less belligerently but are more prone to ophthalmic disorders and respiratory problems.
C. In an experiment, aggressive head-pecking was all but eliminated among birds in the enriched environment.
D. Alerting the birds’ environment, by adding bales of wood-shaving to their pens can work wonders.
6. Bales could diminish aggressiveness and reduce injuries; they might even improve productivity, since a happy chicken is a productive chicken.
The concept of a ‘nation-state’ assumes a complete correspondence between the boundaries of the nation and the boundaries of those who live in a specific state.
A. Then there are members of national collectivities who live in other countries, making a mockery of the concept.
B. There are always people living in particular states who are not considered to be (and often do not consider themselves to be) members of the hegemonic nation.
C. Even worse, there are nations which never had a state or which are divided across several states.
D. This, of course, has been subject to severe criticism and is virtually everywhere a fiction.
6. However the fiction has been and continues to be at the basis of nationalist ideologies.
In the sciences, even questionable examples of research fraud are harshly punished.
A. But no such mechanism exists in the humanities - much of what humanities researchers call research does not lead to results that are replicable by other scholars.
B. Given the importance of interpretation in historical and literary scholarship, humanities researchers are in a position where they can explain away deliberate and even systematic distortion.
C. Mere suspicion is enough for funding to be cut off; publicity guarantees that careers can be effectively ended.
D. Forgeries which take the form of pastiches in which the forger intersperses fake and real parts can be defended as mere mistakes or aberrant misreading.
6. Scientists funding data have no such defences.
Horses and communism were, on the whole, a poor match.
A. Fine horses bespoke the nobility the party was supposed to despise.
B. Communist leaders, when they visited villages, preferred to see cows and pigs.
C. Although a working horse was just about tolerable the communists were right to be wary.
D. Peasants from Poland to the Hungarian Pustza preferred their horses to party dogma.
6. “A farmer’s pride is his horse; his cow may be thin but his horse must be fat”, went a Slovak saying
Rearrange the following sentences to form a coherent paragraph:
1. If caught in the act, they were punished, not for the crime, but for allowing themselves to be caught another lash of the whip.
2. The bellicose Spartans sacrificed all the finer things in life for military expertise.
3. Those fortunate enough to survive babyhood were taken away from their mothers at the age of seven to undergo rigorous military training.
4. This consisted mainly of beatings and deprivations of all kinds like going around barefoot in winter, and worse starvation, so that they would be forced to steal food to survive.
5. Male children were examined at birth by the city council and those deemed too weak to become soldiers were left to die of exposure.
Rearrange the following sentences to form a coherent paragraph:
A. This very insatiability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world.
B. Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato’s cave, still revelling in its age-old habit in mere images or truth.
C. But being educated by photographs is not like being educated by older images drawn by hand; for one thing, there are a great many more images around claiming our attention.
D. The inventory started in 1839 and since then just about everything has been photographed or so it seems.
E. In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe.
Rearrange the following sentences to form a coherent paragraph:
A. To be culturally literate is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world.
B. Nor is it confined to one social class; quite the contrary.
C. It is by no means confined to “culture” narrowly understood as an acquaintance with the arts.
D. Cultural literacy constitutes the only sure avenue of opportunity for disadvantaged children, the only reliable way of combating the social determinism that now condemns them.
E. The breadth of that information is great, extending over the major domains of human activity from sports to science.
Rearrange the following sentences to form a coherent paragraph:
A. Both parties use capital and labour in the struggle to secure property rights.
B. The thief spends time and money in his attempt to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate property owners expends resources to prevent the theft (he buys locks).
C. A social cost of theft is that both the thief and the potential victim use resources to gain or maintain control over property.
D. These costs may escalate as a type of technological arms race unfolds.
E. A bank may purchase more and more complicated and sophisticated safes, forcing safecrackers to invest further in safecracking equipment.
Let x and y be real numbers. Let f(x,y) = |x+y|, F(f(x,y)) = f(x,y) and G(f(x,y)) = −F(f(x,y)).

Seven players who represented the university are to be felicitated in a function. They are A, B, C, D, E, F and G. They are to be seated on the dias along one side of a rectangular table. Some of the conditions are:
i. A Gare to be seated at the extreme right, which is closest to the exit because they have to leave early.
ii. B has won the most medals and so has to be seated at the centre.
iii. C and D do not get along well and so have to be seated as far as possible.
iv. E and F are good friends and sit together.

Mr. Rajiv is covering a given distance by car in 4 hrs. He goes at a speed of 35 km per hour for the first two hours and at 45 km per hour for the next two hours. Aditi is going on the same journey but is going to cover at the speeds of 30, 40 and 50 km per hour, covering equal distances in each of the speed segments. The mileage given by the two cars is exactly the same.

Recently, Ghosh Babu spent his winter vacation on Kyakya island. During the vacation, he visited the local casino where he came across a new card game. Two players, using a normal deck of 52 playing cards, play this game. One player picks a card at random from the deck. This is called the base card. The amount in Rupees equal to the face value of the base card is called the base amount. The face values of Ace, King, Jack and Queen are ten. For other cards, the face value is the number on the card. Once a player picks up a card from the deck, the dealer pays him the base amount. Then the dealer picks a card from the deck and this is called the top card. If the top card is of the same suit as the base card, the player pays twice the amount to the dealer. If the top card is of the same color as the base card (but not of the same suit) then the player pays the base amount to the dealer. If the top card happens to be of a different color than the base card, the dealer pays the base amount to the player.
Ghosh Babu played the game 4 times. First time he picked eight of clubs and the dealer picked queen of clubs. The second time, he picked ten of hearts and the dealer picked two of spades. Next time, Ghosh Babu picked six of diamonds and the dealer picked ace of hearts. Lastly, he picked eight of spades and the dealer picked jack of spades. Answer the following questions based on these four games.

There are 50 integers a1, a2, a3...a50, not all are necessarily different. The greatest of the integers is called G and the smallest L. The first 24 of the set, a1 to a24 are part of a sequence S1 and the rest make sequence S2. Each member of S1 is less than or equal to each member of S2

A road network (shown in the figure below) connects cities A, B, C and D. All road segments are straight lines. D is the midpoint on the road connecting A and C. Roads AB and AC are at right angles to each other with BC shorter than AB. The segment AB is 100 km long.
Mr. X and Mr. Y leave A at 08:00 am, take different routes to city C and reach at the same time. X takes the highway from A to B to C and travels at an average speed of 61.875 km per hour. Y takes the direct route AC and travels at 45 km per hour on segment AD. Y’s speed on segment DC is 55 km per hour.

The following table presents the sweetness of different items relative to sucrose whose sweetness is taken to be 1.00.

ItemSweetness Relative to Sucrose
Lactose0.16
Maltose0.32
Glucose0.74
Sucrose1.00
Fructose1.70
Saccharin675.00

These questions are based on the situation given below.
There are m blue vessels with known volumes \( v_1, v_2, \dots, v_m \) arranged in ascending order of volume, where \( v_1 = 0.5 \) litre and \( v_m < 1 \) litre. Each of these is full of water initially. The water from each of these is emptied into a minimum number of empty white vessels, each having volume 1 litre.
The water from a blue vessel is not emptied into a white vessel unless the white vessel has enough empty volume to hold all the water of the blue vessel. The number of white vessels required to empty all the blue vessels according to the above rule is \( n \).

These questions are based on the situation given below. Ten coins are to be distributed among P, Q, R, and S, such than one of them gets one coin, another gets two coins, the third gets three coins and the fourth gets four coins. It is known that Q gets more coins than P and S gets fewer coins than R.
These questions are based on the situation given below: A, B, C, D, E and F form a group of friends from a club; There are two housewives, one lecturer, one architect, one accountant and one lawyer in the group. There are two married couples in the group; the lawyer is married to D who is a housewife. No lady in the group is either an architect or an accountant. C, the accountant, is married to F who is a lecturer. A is married to D and E is not a housewife.

These questions are based on the situation given below: A robot moves on a graph-sheet with x and y axes. The robot is moved by feeding it with a sequence of instructions. The different instructions that can be used in moving it, and their meanings are:

InstructionMeaning
GOTO(x, y)Move to point with coordinates (x, y) no matter where you are.
WALKX(p)Move parallel to the x-axis through a distance of p, in the positive direction if p is positive, and in the negative direction if p is negative.
WALKY(p)Move parallel to the y-axis through a distance of p, in the positive direction if p is positive, and in the negative direction if p is negative.

These questions are based on the situation given below:
A rectangle PRSU is divided into two smaller rectangles PQTU and QRST by the line TQ. \( PQ = 10 \, \text{cm}, \quad QR = 5 \, \text{cm}, \quad RS = 10 \, \text{cm} \). Points A, B, F are within the rectangle PQTU and, points C, D, E are within the rectangle QRST. The closest pair of points among the pairs \( (A, C), (A, D), (A, E), (F, C), (F, D), (F, E), (B, C), (B, D), (B, E) \) are \( \frac{10}{\sqrt{3}} \, \text{cm} \) apart.

Roopa has some flowers with her when she leaves from her home. She has to worship 4 deities to whom she presents flowers. She moves from her home with X number of flowers and goes to the bank of the river nearby. She dips the number of flowers in the river and the number of flowers doubles. She then goes to the first deity and presents Y number of flowers to him. She then again goes to the river and dips the flowers in the river. The number of flowers again double. She then goes to the second deity and presents him with Y number of flowers. Then she again goes to the river and dips the flowers. The number of flowers again doubles. She then goes to the third deity, presents him with Y flowers and again goes to the river, dipping the flowers. The number of flowers again doubles. Finally, she goes to the last deity and presents him with Y number of flowers. Now she finds that she is not left with any flowers.

In each of these questions, a pair of graphs \( F(x) \) and \( F1(x) \) is given. These are composed of straight-line segments, shown as solid lines, in the domain \( x \in (-2, 2) \).
If \( F1(x) = F(x) \), choose the answer as 1; if \( F1(x) = -F(x) \), choose the answer as 2; if \( F1(x) = F(-x) \), choose the answer as 3; and if none of the above is true, choose the answer as 4.

Unreasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes to confide in you when you are busy. He serenades his beloved when she is ill. He asks a man who has just lost money by paying a bill for a friend to pay a bill for him. He invites a friend to go for a ride just after the friend has finished a long car trip. He is eager to offer services which are not wanted but which cannot be politely refused. If he is present at an arbitration, he stirs up dissension between the two parties, who were really anxious to agree. Such is the unseasonable man