Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together:

1. The only cheerful faces in the recent episode were those who had bet that Greenspan would do it once again. A. The appetite of the speculators was fed by the latest decision, they would expect more. B. It is indeed, strange that the fate of a nation's economy like the US is decided by a bunch of 100 or so speculative traders. C. The bond marketers who predicted this were upbeat although the stock market indices themselves went down. D. It is not as if there is an impersonal market who takes millions of decisions which is what one understands normally by market forces.
2. These 100 or so traders form a judgment as to whether the Fed is taking an anti-inflation stance tough enough to brake the economy.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together:

1. If the Indian national movement did not express the interests of the Indian people vis–à–imperialism, then whose interests did it represent? A. Thus, the elite groups, and their needs and interests, provide the origin as well as the driving force of the idea, ideology and movement of nationalism. B. But, in each case, these groups had a narrow, selfish interest in opposing British rule or each other. C. The national movement, assert the writers of the imperialist school, was not a people’s movement but a product of the needs and interests of the elite groups who used it to serve either their own narrow interests or the interests of their prescriptive groups. D. These groups were sometimes formed around religious or caste identities and sometimes through political connections built around patronage.
2. Nationalism, then, is seen primarily as a mere ideology which these elite groups used to legitimise their narrow ambitions and to mobilize public support.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together:

1. For 17 years, Girish Karnad's play, Anju Mallige, was suppressed, virtually ignored. A. Now, nearly two decades after its writing, Prasanna directs the third year students of Delhi's National School in Anju Mallige. B. Sexuality on the Indian stage is a strict no–no, especially a theme as murky as incest. ' C. The obvious questions that arise are, why this play and why now? D. It's easy to see why. '
2. Would Karnad's attitude have been any different if the play had been staged when it was written?

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together:

1. A substantial part of resources should be channelised to coaching programmes. A. Our sports infrastructure is very poor. B. Even in their acme, players have found wolves staring right in their faces. C. Funds wasted on organizational pomp should be diverted to provide sports infrastructure. D. Sporting activity plays a second fiddle to bread–earning.
2. Various training programmes die a lingering death starved of funds.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. It is not enough for the Westerner to try to set up a melting pot; it is also essential that the fusion of races should not collide with the obstinate resistance of hostile populations. B. Since the coexistence of two ethnic groups, one of which believes itself to be the victim of unjust social discrimination, is hardly conducive to peace in the world, one would be tempted to look upon the total fusion of all the earth's races as the ideal solution of the fratricidal wars which have rent humanity throughout the ages. C. On the contrary, among the Moslems, racial intermixture encounters for the time being the flat opposition of the only desirable elements of their population. D. Such a fusion is possible for the Hindus: by creating Indo-European half-breeds it would make possible the peopling of Equatorial Africa with a white population that could stand the African climate.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together:

1. With the titanium industry on a sound footing and the growing application base for titanium and its alloys, our projection is that titanium will see a much larger and significant usage in the country. A. Development of alloys with higher temperature capability, near net shaping technologies and isothermal forging will pave the way for an increased role of titanium in aerospace. B. Development of cheaper alloys, e.g. Titanium – Aluminum – Iron will facilitate access into commercial markets. C. Titanium will penetrate into non–aerospace sectors like naval, marine, oil and gas, power generation etc. D. Titanium will also become popular in applications such as surgical tools, decorative items, building, architecture and jewellery.
2. Titanium castings will be produced in India for extensive application in the aerospace, chemical, marine and mechanical engineering sectors.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

(A) Developed countries have set up several non–tariff barriers which strike at the roots of ‘ideal’ competition based on ‘market’ forces. (B) When one country prepares to cope with a set of barriers introduced by these developed countries, a new set of complex barriers comes up. (C) India has to be prepared to face such selectively targeted actions even when marching towards developed status. (D) These are mostly aimed at denying opportunities to other countries to reach developed status.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

(A) The gut instincts that have made people like Warren Buffet such great fund managers were not allowed free play among the smart men and women handling the Asian, and for that matter, other funds. (B) The safest way to ensure that the funds performed close to the benchmark was to buy blue chip stocks, which made up the region's main indexes. (C) Their bosses - and, to be fair, their clients - were obsessed by performances linked to benchmark fund indexes such as the MSCI Emerging Markets index. (D) The fund managers cannot be held solely to blame for relatively poor performance because there was a tendency in the fund management industry to give diminishing degrees of independence to those managing the funds.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Economic output in South Korea, for example, doubled in a period of just eleven years. B. At its most basic, the Asian Miracle represented a level of economic growth not seen in 130 years of recorded history. C. Compare this with the fifty-eight years it took the British to double the level of output from 1780, or the forty-seven years it took the United States to double output from 1839. D. The Asian achievement in part is a product of the cycle of development that has speeded up economic growth and in part an acceleration of that cycle, bringing it to new levels.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. A sense of life is a pre-conceptual equivalent of metaphysics, an emotional, subconsciously integrated appraisal of man and of existence. It sets the nature of a man’s emotional responses and the essence of his character. B. That myth is true, not existentially, but psychologically. C. One of such allegories, which men find particularly terrifying, is the myth of a supernatural recorder from whom nothing can be hidden, who lists all of a man’s deeds - the good and the evil, the noble and the vile - and who confronts a man with that record on judgment day. D. Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy - an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality - many of its myths are distorted, dramatised allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man’s existence. E. The merciless recorder is the integrating mechanism of a man’s subconscious; the record is his sense of life.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. In use, the company says that the FIT format uses only a single image file for both thumbnail and full-size image creations and supports spatial scaling of displayed images and a variety of colour models. B. File Flow has developed, what the company claims, a new ultra - efficient file compression system for the transmission of digital camera files, as well as for use in desktop publishing and document flow systems. C. The Norwegian firms technology is based around Java and allows massive file compression. The company says that a typical 37 megabyte (MB) file image will compress down to just 600 kilobytes (KB) using its system, allowing the file to transfer in under two minutes across a 56 kilobits-per-second (K-bps) modem connection. D. FileFlow says its compression technology is the result of more than 10 years of academic research to develop the ultimate still-image compression format. Using the fast image transfer (FIT) format, the firm, produces significantly smaller file sizes than the equivalent JPEG (Joint photographic experts group) file - requiring significantly less disk space, dramatically reducing download time, bandwidth cost and server loads.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. The different phases merely represent differences in emphasis at different historical periods. B. For example, truth is dharma in Satyayuga, yajna (sacrifice) in Tratayuga, jnana (knowledge) in Dvaparayuga, and dana (alms) in Kaliyuga. C. It seeks to achieve homogeneity and harmony of thought. D. The Hindu respect for tradition has a purpose. E. The Hindu philosophy believes in the continuity of the present with the past in which it is rooted and its projection into the future.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. From the point of view of personal disorganisation, the unemployed person faces disillusionment and falls easy prey to cynicism. B. Unemployment affects an individual, family, as well as society, or it may be said that unemployment causes personal disorganisation, family disorganisation and social disorganisation. C. Most of the criminals are undoubtedly recruited from boys with a history of earlier delinquencies, but there has been an increase in the number of daring criminals with the decrease in work opportunities. D. These anti–social activities offer a chance to the undisciplined and recalcitrant youth to extract a living. E. Having no outlet to release their depression, young persons tune their creative energies into wrong channels which explains the rise of the number of youthful bandits, highway robberies and bank hold-ups.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Though attacks by Muslims on India had started in the tenth century, but it was more from the fifteenth century onwards that the impact of Islamic culture on Hindu great tradition was observed. B. Islam influenced Hindu ideals in the medieval period. C. Though both Islam and Hinduism are oriented to the principle of holism (collectivism), but in Hinduism, holism is linked with hierarchy while in Islam, holism is differentiated from hierarchism. D. It is monotheistic and non–hierarchical, i.e. it believes in equality. E. Islam does not believe in idol–worship.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. In the first decade after independence, gender equality was recognized as a significant problem and a greater amount of effort went into assuring that exploitation of women would be identified and responded to with proper measures. B. Prior to the enactment of these laws, professionals and politicians were extremely reluctant to identify the necessary legal measures needed to boost equality of the sexes. C. Between 1952 and 1962, several laws were designed to bring about equality to women. D. Justice to women has to be recognized publicly so that human service professionals could respond with proper action. E. But after India became a republic, our new power-holders came to believe that woman's equality was no longer a 'family matter' but a social problem.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Since early family in India was one what is called ‘joint family’ today, we should consider this family as our basic family unit and should term it as a ‘traditional’ family, while the so called ‘nuclear’ family should be termed as a ‘fissioned’ family, i.e. one which has separated from its parental unit. B. The term ‘joint’ would be appropriate only when we take ‘nuclear’ family as our basic family unit and the joining together of two such nuclear units gives us a new pattern of family. C. After the residential separation, it may continue to be dependent on its parental unit or may function as a completely independent unit. D. But knowing that ‘nuclear’ family was not our basic unit, it is necessary that we take ‘traditional’ family as basic family unit and understand other forms in this context. E. My contention is that the structural ideal of the Indian family is entirely different from the western family.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. The caste and the linguistic groups may help the individual from time to time but his most staunch, trustworthy and loyal supports could only be his nearest kins. B. Cousin marriages, preferential mating, exchange rules and the marriage norms which circumvent the field of mate selection need to be changed so that kinship relations through marriage may be extended and a person is able to get their help in seeking power and the status-lift that power can bring. C. The kinship organization in India is influenced by caste and language. D. It is, therefore, necessary that a person must not only strengthen his bonds with kin but should also try to enlarge his circle of kins. E. In this age of sharp competition for status and livelihood, a man and his family must have kin as allies.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Quite early on, the name catechesis was given to the totality of the Churchs efforts to make disciples, to help men believe that Jesus is the Son of God so that believing they might have life in his name, and to educate and instruct them in this life, thus building up the body of Christ. B. This catechism aims at presenting an organic synthesis of the essential and fundamental contents of Catholic doctrine, as regards both faith and morals, in the light of the Second Vatican Council and the whole of the Churchs Tradition. C. Its principal sources are the Sacred Scriptures, the Fathers of the Church, the liturgy, and the Church's Magisterium. It is intended to serve as a point of reference for the catechisms or compendia that are composed in the various countries. D. Catechesis is an education in the faith of children, young people and adults which includes especially the teaching of Christian doctrine imparted, generally speaking, in an organic and systematic way with a view to initiating the hearers into the fullness of Christian life.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. In India, Marxist theory did influence some scholars, but as a whole, failed to develop a scientific tradition of thinking and research. B. From its early Marxist form, the dialectical approach in sociology has undergone further refinements in concepts and propositions; its speculative elations of categories. C. Marxist sensibility, however, remains diffused in the thought patterns of modern Indian intellectuals. D. It dominates the minds of the leaders in the Communist Party and a large membership of the Congress and other liberal parties is also influenced by its ideology. E. Among the early studies based on this model were many studies of caste based on economic interpretation, interpretation of Indian history from a class view-point in the “chronological order of successive developments in the means and relations of production”, and evolutionary formulation of the stages of social development in India, guided by economic institutions.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Covering 193 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean, the Turks and Caicos Islands has the third largest coral reef system and the best tropical beaches in the world, making it a premier beach, driving and snorkeling destination and an ideal location for romantic couples, families and adventure seekers, which is probably why 60% of our visitors come back over and over again. B. American Airlines, US Airways, Lynx Air, Air Canada and British Airways offer direct routes from Miami, New York, Boston, Charlotte (Nov 2, 2002), Fort Lauderdale, Toronto and London. C. In addition, those wishing to travel from within the region can make it easy by flying with BahamasAir, Air Jamaica Express, SkyKing and Inter Island Airways from Nassau, Montego Bay, Puerto Plata, Cap Haitien or Cuba. D. The beautiful Turks and Caicos Islands are situated 575 miles (or 75 minutes) southeast of Miami and 39 miles southeast of Mayaguana in the Bahamas.