List of top Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) Questions asked in MICAT

'To give millions knowledge of English is to enslave them. The foundation that Macaulay laid of education has enslaved us. A universal language for India should be Hindi', Gandhi wrote in Hind Swaraj. 'His opposition was not to English but to what it symbolized: political slavery and cultural degradation', according to Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. At various times, Gandhi had especially warned of the dangers involved in taking to English. But ironically for both Gandhi and Nehru, English was an instrument to subjugate the empire rather than a language that enslaved them.
Once he was Prime Minister, and then Prime Minister-in-waiting. The scion of India's premier political family, he was a ‘VIP’ by birth, nurtured in an ambience his fellow citizens could only dream of. But hubris stalked him day and night. For the 40 years it stayed its hand, Rajiv Gandhi was a mere mortal, a pilot working for a living though he lived in a Prime Minister's house.
In the Indian business landscape, Reliance stands second to none. Dhirubhai Ambani embraced the cult of equity ownership when other industrial barons were preoccupied with more conservative strategies of perpetuating their control. This ensured the recruitment of a substantial body of shareholders to its cause – an agglomeration of corporate and civic voters with substantial political clout.
Philosophy is a word that has been used in many ways; some wider, some narrower. Choose the most correct alternative.
If one is asked to define the words testimony, charismatic or clandestine, one may face discomfort. Choose the grammatically and semantically correct alternative.
The ability to understand main ideas is perhaps the most important factor for good reading skills. Choose the correct rephrased sentence.
America’s economy has cooled during recent months. Choose the most grammatically and semantically correct alternative.
Treat: The Sarod recital by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan was a treat for music lovers.
Delays in disposals of files are everywhere. Choose the most correct alternative.
_________ is our _________ guide to Truth and we allow ourselves to be swept by it.
By the time the radio had ......... way for television, every Indian .......... the small screen just as he had the big screen.
Junk: Many of the junk foods in the market today are preferred by children, causing a concern to the parents.
The ........... rites of the Black Magic cult were kept secret by the members and were never .......... to outsiders.
Being a bit hesitant about _________ the man as a complete fraud, I decided to attack the weaker points of his theory, _________ them one by one.
Key: Behaviour, rather than genetics, may provide the key to reducing a woman’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Early _________ of maladjustment to college culture is _________ by the tendency to develop friendship networks outside colleges which mask signals of such maladjustment.
Some feel that the reason of farmers’ suicides is that agriculture, especially in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, which used to be .............. by rain-fed, low cost food crops, has gradually ............. towards the cultivation of cash crops.
Tea, Bone, Clay, Republic — choose the alternative associated with all four clues.
Sparkle, Hard, Forever, Poker — choose the alternative associated with all four clues.
Under, Back, Play, Work — choose the alternative associated with all four clues.
Fictitious, Fixed, Monetary, Toxic — choose the alternative associated with all four clues.
Fire, Life, General, Cargo — choose the alternative associated with all four clues.
Property, Number, Time, Concern — choose the alternative associated with all four clues.
Master, Hyatt, Ceremony, Canyon — choose the alternative associated with all four clues.
Lighting, Character, Stoop, Tone — choose the alternative associated with all four clues.