Directions: In the question below, a set of four statements is given, followed by five answer options to categorize these statements as facts, inferences and judgments. Consider the statements and decide which of the choices is true.

J: Judgment: If it is an opinion or estimate or anticipation of common sense or intention. I: Inference: If it is a logical conclusion or deduction about something, based on the knowledge of facts.1. The gruesome episode of Nandigram has compelled the Central government to review its SEZ policy and to scrap the ceiling; the states have been directed to buy land from the farmers at the floor rate.

1. In specifying the floor rate, the state government will be a mere facilitator in the land acquisition process.
2. Over the years, corporates and industrialists have been paying low rates for the land that commands greater market value, and this has resulted into the Nandigram catastrophe.
3. Floor rate in the eastern region is just Rs. 5 lakh per acre, whereas it is Rs. 20 lakh is Haryana.

Directions: In the question below, a set of four statements is given, followed by five answer options to categorize these statements as facts, inferences and judgments. Consider the statements and decide which of the choices is true.

J: Judgment: If it is an opinion or estimate or anticipation of common sense or intention. I: Inference: If it is a logical conclusion or deduction about something, based on the knowledge of facts.1. Caste based vote bank politics in India is striking at the very roots of Indian democracy, and in the elections of Punjab and UP, caste politics might aggravate violence.

1. The Supreme Court, in its interim order, has stayed the 27% reservation for OBC's in educational institutions to the chagrin of the ruling UPA government.
2. Industry Chamber FICCI has welcomed the SC Judgment indicating the need for further debate on the reservation issue.
   
3. In its interim order, the honourable Supreme Court held that the government has no detailed data on OBCs other than that of the 1931 census, which put OBC's at 52% of the population.

Directions: An argument is a statement meant to convince another person about your point of view. An assertion is a point of view. A counter argument contains logic opposed to your assertion. Based on these definitions you are required to classify the five sentences in the question below as:(A) concluding assertion (B) supporting reason (C) statement irrelevant to argument (D) counter argument

(i) No visible or dramatic changes in the company are expected this year. (ii) The company's chairman has always been a publicity-shy individual who acts quietly and slowly. (iii) Unless visible or dramatic changes are made, the problems facing the company may worsen. (iv) In the past, the company has always taken a bold action which it has needed the most. (v) The company is expecting a favourable turn of events.

Directions: An argument is a statement meant to convince another person about your point of view. An assertion is a point of view. A counter argument contains logic opposed to your assertion. Based on these definitions you are required to classify the five sentences in the question below as: (A) concluding assertion (B) supporting reason (C) statement irrelevant to argument (D) counter argument

(i) A body expected to crack down on cartels is being pulled apart even before its birth. (ii) The government claims that 'cartels' are the real cause behind inflation. (iii) Industry, NGO's and regulators oppose provisions mooted by the government. (iv) In a bid to get started, the government is reviewing and diluting new competition laws.

Directions: In the question below, a set of four statements is given, followed by five answer options to categorise these statements as facts, inferences and judgments. Consider the statements and decide which of the choices is true.

J: Judgment: If it is an opinion or estimate or anticipation of common sense or intention. I: Inference: If it is a logical conclusion or deduction about something, based on the knowledge of facts.

1. The Commerce Ministry constituted many expert committees to find an alternative to the duty entitlement passbook scheme (DEPB), but no workable replacement for the scheme was suggested.
2. The DEPB scheme is designed by the Commerce Ministry to reimburse basic and special customs duty paid by an exporter on imported goods.
3. The DEPB scheme is full of anomalies as there is a plethora of taxes existing at the state level and the Central government may not have the authority to reimburse state taxes.
4. Hooda committee has recommended extending the DEPB scheme by three years, but this is no tangible solution.

Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(A)        They borrow all help from poetry and eloquence, and treat their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections.
(B)        The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves.
(C)        As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours.
(D)        They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples.
(E)        They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that they have fully attained the end of all their labours.

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(A)        They borrow all help from poetry and eloquence, and treat their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections.
(B)        The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves.
(C)        As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours.
(D)        They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples.
(E)        They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that they have fully attained the end of all their labours.

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(A)        They borrow all help from poetry and eloquence, and treat their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections.
(B)        The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves.
(C)        As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours.
(D)        They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples.
(E)        They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that they have fully attained the end of all their labours.

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph  and then, answer the question.

(A) Scars occasioned by actual loss of substance or by wounds healed by granulation, never disappear.
(B) Tattoo marks may disappear during life; the brighter colours, as vermilion, as a rule, more readily than those made with carbon, as Indian ink.
(C) The medical man may, in such cases, be consulted as to family resemblance, marks on the body, scars and tattoo marks or with regard to the organs of generation in cases of doubtful sex.
(D) It is but seldom that medical evidence is required with regard to the identification of the living, though it may sometimes be so.
(E) If the tattooing is superficial (merely underneath the cuticle) the marks may possibly be removed by acetic acid or cantharides or even by picking out the colouring-matter with a fine needle.

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question.

(A) Many of the emigrants were men of wealth, as the old lists show, and all of them, with few exceptions, were men of property and good standing.
(B) Many of the immigrants to America in colonial days were capitalists themselves, in a small or a large way, and paid their own passage.
(C) What proportion of the colonists were able to finance their voyage across the sea is a matter of pure conjecture.
(D) Undoubtedly a very considerable number could do so, for we can trace the family fortunes of many early settlers.
(E) They did not belong to the classes from which emigration is usually supplied, for they all had a stake in the country they left behind.

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question.

(A) Many of the emigrants were men of wealth, as the old lists show, and all of them, with few exceptions, were men of property and good standing.
(B) Many of the immigrants to America in colonial days were capitalists themselves, in a small or a large way, and paid their own passage.
(C) What proportion of the colonists were able to finance their voyage across the sea is a matter of pure conjecture.
(D) Undoubtedly a very considerable number could do so, for we can trace the family fortunes of many early settlers.
(E) They did not belong to the classes from which emigration is usually supplied, for they all had a stake in the country they left behind.

Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph  and then, answer the question.

(A) Scars occasioned by actual loss of substance or by wounds healed by granulation, never disappear.
(B) Tattoo marks may disappear during life; the brighter colours, as vermilion, as a rule, more readily than those made with carbon, as Indian ink.
(C) The medical man may, in such cases, be consulted as to family resemblance, marks on the body, scars and tattoo marks or with regard to the organs of generation in cases of doubtful sex.
(D) It is but seldom that medical evidence is required with regard to the identification of the living, though it may sometimes be so.
(E) If the tattooing is superficial (merely underneath the cuticle) the marks may possibly be removed by acetic acid or cantharides or even by picking out the colouring-matter with a fine needle.

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question:

(A) Not only while I am still alive will I try to advise you in this, but I will make my counsel available to you after I am dead.
(B) I will then write three books for you, to which you may have recourse for guidance in all things which must be done in the management of a farm.
(C) You have bought a farm and wish to increase its fertility by good cultivation, and you ask me what I would do with it were it mine.
(D) And since, as men say, the gods aid those who propitiate them, I will begin my book by invoking divine approval, from a solemn council of those twelve divinities who are the tutelaries of husbandmen.
(E) For as it befell the Sibyl to have been of service to mankind not alone while she lived, but even to the uttermost generations of men after her demise, so may not I, while I still live, bequeath my counsel to my nearest and dearest.

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question:

(A) Not only while I am still alive will I try to advise you in this, but I will make my counsel available to you after I am dead.
(B) I will then write three books for you, to which you may have recourse for guidance in all things which must be done in the management of a farm.
(C) You have bought a farm and wish to increase its fertility by good cultivation, and you ask me what I would do with it were it mine.
(D) And since, as men say, the gods aid those who propitiate them, I will begin my book by invoking divine approval, from a solemn council of those twelve divinities who are the tutelaries of husbandmen.
(E) For as it befell the Sibyl to have been of service to mankind not alone while she lived, but even to the uttermost generations of men after her demise, so may not I, while I still live, bequeath my counsel to my nearest and dearest.

Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question.

(A) Many of the emigrants were men of wealth, as the old lists show, and all of them, with few exceptions, were men of property and good standing.
(B) Many of the immigrants to America in colonial days were capitalists themselves, in a small or a large way, and paid their own passage.
(C) What proportion of the colonists were able to finance their voyage across the sea is a matter of pure conjecture.
(D) Undoubtedly a very considerable number could do so, for we can trace the family fortunes of many early settlers.
(E) They did not belong to the classes from which emigration is usually supplied, for they all had a stake in the country they left behind.

Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question.

(A) Many of the emigrants were men of wealth, as the old lists show, and all of them, with few exceptions, were men of property and good standing.
(B) Many of the immigrants to America in colonial days were capitalists themselves, in a small or a large way, and paid their own passage.
(C) What proportion of the colonists were able to finance their voyage across the sea is a matter of pure conjecture.
(D) Undoubtedly a very considerable number could do so, for we can trace the family fortunes of many early settlers.
(E) They did not belong to the classes from which emigration is usually supplied, for they all had a stake in the country they left behind.

Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question:

(A) Not only while I am still alive will I try to advise you in this, but I will make my counsel available to you after I am dead.
(B) I will then write three books for you, to which you may have recourse for guidance in all things which must be done in the management of a farm.
(C) You have bought a farm and wish to increase its fertility by good cultivation, and you ask me what I would do with it were it mine.
(D) And since, as men say, the gods aid those who propitiate them, I will begin my book by invoking divine approval, from a solemn council of those twelve divinities who are the tutelaries of husbandmen.
(E) For as it befell the Sibyl to have been of service to mankind not alone while she lived, but even to the uttermost generations of men after her demise, so may not I, while I still live, bequeath my counsel to my nearest and dearest.

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(A)        They borrow all help from poetry and eloquence, and treat their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections.
(B)        The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves.
(C)        As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours.
(D)        They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples.
(E)        They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that they have fully attained the end of all their labours.

Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(A)        They borrow all help from poetry and eloquence, and treat their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections.
(B)        The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves.
(C)        As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours.
(D)        They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples.
(E)        They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that they have fully attained the end of all their labours.

Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question:

(A) Not only while I am still alive will I try to advise you in this, but I will make my counsel available to you after I am dead.
(B) I will then write three books for you, to which you may have recourse for guidance in all things which must be done in the management of a farm.
(C) You have bought a farm and wish to increase its fertility by good cultivation, and you ask me what I would do with it were it mine.
(D) And since, as men say, the gods aid those who propitiate them, I will begin my book by invoking divine approval, from a solemn council of those twelve divinities who are the tutelaries of husbandmen.
(E) For as it befell the Sibyl to have been of service to mankind not alone while she lived, but even to the uttermost generations of men after her demise, so may not I, while I still live, bequeath my counsel to my nearest and dearest.

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph  and then, answer the question.

(A) Scars occasioned by actual loss of substance or by wounds healed by granulation, never disappear.
(B) Tattoo marks may disappear during life; the brighter colours, as vermilion, as a rule, more readily than those made with carbon, as Indian ink.
(C) The medical man may, in such cases, be consulted as to family resemblance, marks on the body, scars and tattoo marks or with regard to the organs of generation in cases of doubtful sex.
(D) It is but seldom that medical evidence is required with regard to the identification of the living, though it may sometimes be so.
(E) If the tattooing is superficial (merely underneath the cuticle) the marks may possibly be removed by acetic acid or cantharides or even by picking out the colouring-matter with a fine needle.

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question:

(A) Not only while I am still alive will I try to advise you in this, but I will make my counsel available to you after I am dead.
(B) I will then write three books for you, to which you may have recourse for guidance in all things which must be done in the management of a farm.
(C) You have bought a farm and wish to increase its fertility by good cultivation, and you ask me what I would do with it were it mine.
(D) And since, as men say, the gods aid those who propitiate them, I will begin my book by invoking divine approval, from a solemn council of those twelve divinities who are the tutelaries of husbandmen.
(E) For as it befell the Sibyl to have been of service to mankind not alone while she lived, but even to the uttermost generations of men after her demise, so may not I, while I still live, bequeath my counsel to my nearest and dearest.

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question.

(A) Many of the emigrants were men of wealth, as the old lists show, and all of them, with few exceptions, were men of property and good standing.
(B) Many of the immigrants to America in colonial days were capitalists themselves, in a small or a large way, and paid their own passage.
(C) What proportion of the colonists were able to finance their voyage across the sea is a matter of pure conjecture.
(D) Undoubtedly a very considerable number could do so, for we can trace the family fortunes of many early settlers.
(E) They did not belong to the classes from which emigration is usually supplied, for they all had a stake in the country they left behind.

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph  and then, answer the question.

(A) Scars occasioned by actual loss of substance or by wounds healed by granulation, never disappear.
(B) Tattoo marks may disappear during life; the brighter colours, as vermilion, as a rule, more readily than those made with carbon, as Indian ink.
(C) The medical man may, in such cases, be consulted as to family resemblance, marks on the body, scars and tattoo marks or with regard to the organs of generation in cases of doubtful sex.
(D) It is but seldom that medical evidence is required with regard to the identification of the living, though it may sometimes be so.
(E) If the tattooing is superficial (merely underneath the cuticle) the marks may possibly be removed by acetic acid or cantharides or even by picking out the colouring-matter with a fine needle.

Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph  and then, answer the question.

(A) Scars occasioned by actual loss of substance or by wounds healed by granulation, never disappear.
(B) Tattoo marks may disappear during life; the brighter colours, as vermilion, as a rule, more readily than those made with carbon, as Indian ink.
(C) The medical man may, in such cases, be consulted as to family resemblance, marks on the body, scars and tattoo marks or with regard to the organs of generation in cases of doubtful sex.
(D) It is but seldom that medical evidence is required with regard to the identification of the living, though it may sometimes be so.
(E) If the tattooing is superficial (merely underneath the cuticle) the marks may possibly be removed by acetic acid or cantharides or even by picking out the colouring-matter with a fine needle.