VA Practice-1

Directions(Q.1-5): The following question has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted.
Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits in the context of the sentence.

1. The public sector has been called the private______ sector of politicians, used for creating patronage and ______.
A. networks, kickbacks B. buildings, hospitals C. malls, complexes
D. relations, assets E. forms, figures

2. If people fail to realize the____ of the water crisis India is facing and fail to____ be into action then there are bound
to be many more Chennai.
A. magnitude, recommended B. intensity, galvanized C. weather, forced
D. acuteness, ploughed E. behemoth, strewn

3. The internal and concurrent audit system of banks is intended to red___ risks in real time, but has failed and must
be___ up.
A. hood, kept B. flag, shored C. dress, developed D. salute, prodded E. dame, given

4. Further, to_____ augment bond market liquidity, corporates _____need to be encouraged to

exiting bonds under the same International Securities Identification Number, to
duly shore up floating .
A. redistribute, stakes B. frame, images C. reissue, stocks
D. recirculate, steaks E. expunge, companies

5. Population growth tapers off with ____literacy, access to contraception, and social
and economic ______ .
A. increased, progress B. decreased, progress C. improved, regress
D. stagnant, duress E. mediocre, brevity

Directions(Q.6-10): Since 1947, Indians have not spoken out so strongly and clearly for a completely new brand of
people running government. Mercifully, there are no ministers educated abroad. Thankfully, none of them has been
brainwashed at Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, the World bank or the IMF, subtly forcing expensive Western solutions
on typically Indian problems at the cost of the poor. Look what the high powered, foreign returned degree wallahs
have reduced this country to. They wasted opportunities to show the inner strength of what is essentially Indian
because they never really knew their own people living in Bharat. In the eyes of the World, we have lost our self-
respect, dignity and identity.
All the ministers now have gone through average government schools. Some have never been to college. Many have
experienced poverty, exploitation, injustice and discrimination at some point of time in their lives. It is truly the first
barefoot government ever to be voted into power in independent India. Where else in the World would you have a
one time tea seller on a railway station becoming Prime Minister, shaping the destiny of more than one billion people?
The first example the Modi government must set is by drastically reducing the perks and privileges of MPs. Free
power, food, housing, travel to those whose personal assets run into crores and a Rs.2 Crore annual fund for
development for over 500 MPs is costing the exchequer nearly Rs.2000 Crore. Only the Prime Minister will be able to
make it happen and, at the same time, stifle any dissent from BJP MPs. The time is now.
No other government in the World has a Class 12 pass woman ministers speaking as an equal to almost 120 heavily
qualified, on paper, vice chancellors (90 % male). Today, as we judge them, the VCs are all to intellectually and morally
fatigued. There is something dreadfully wrong with an education system that produces graduates from even private,
expensive, snobbish schools and colleges who are still prejudiced about caste, class, religion, sex and colour. These
“graduates”, who roam the streets of small towns and cities by the thousands, call themselves “educated”, practise
the worst forms of cruelty, slavery and crimes against humanity, against society and in their own families. Indeed,
some of them rose to the level of their incompetence by becoming ministers in previous governments, reinforcing the
status quo, wasting vast public resources by implementing silly Western ideas, listening to foreign returned “experts”
and making a hopeless mess of this country. The tragedy is that they cannot see the colossal damage they have done
to the very fabric of this country.

6. What is/are true about the ministers of the new government formed at the Centre?
a) Some of them are highly qualified and foreign degree holders.
b) Only a few of them are the products of average government schools.
c) There are so many ministers who have never been to college.
d) Our Prime Minister is a postgraduate in Political Science.
7. Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of the
ministers of the last government at the Centre?
a) Some of the ministers of the last government at the Centre were educated abroad.
b) The ministers of the last government were brainwashed at foreign universities to suggest Western solutions for
Indian problems.
c) The Western degree holder ministers coming from the elite class never knew their own people living in Bharat.
d) Though the ministers of the last government were Western educated yet they had great concern about the
gripping problems of India

8. Which of the following statements is based on the facts mentioned in the passage?
a) The present government aims at reducing the perks and privileges of MLAs.
b) There is something wrong with those educational institutions that produce graduates who remain prejudiced
about caste, class and gender
c) The elitist education policy has still managed to make students humble and sensitive towards humanity.
d) None of the present ministers has gone through poverty, injustice, exploitation and discrimination

9. What is the perception about India in the eyes of the World?

a) That India is a developing nation
b) That we don’t have self respect, dignity and identity
c) That India is still a country of snake charmers
d) That India is an educationally backward nation

10. Choose the word/group of words which is most similar in meaning

to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.
a) Objective - b) Prospect- c) Future- d) Concept-

Questions 11 to 15: Choose the grammatically correct sentence from among the four options given for each
question.
11. (a) The Excel Company has greatly enhanced it’s advertising expense.
(b) The Excel Company has greatly increased its advertising expense.
(c) The Excel Company has greatly enhanced its advertising expense.
(d) The Excel Company has greatly increased it’s advertising expense.

12. (a) Today we love, what tomorrow we hate; today we seek, what tomorrow we shun, today we desire, what
tomorrow we fear.
(b) Today, we love what tomorrow we hate, today, we seek what tomorrow we shun, today, we desire what tomorrow
we fear.
(c) Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow
we fear.
(d) Today we love what tomorrow we hate; today we seek what tomorrow we shun; today we desire what
tomorrow we fear.

13. (a) There’s Mr. Som, whom they say is the best singer in the country.
(b) There’s Mr. Som, who they say is the best singer in the country.
(c) There is Mr. Som, whom they say is the best singer in the country.
(d) There is Mr. Som who, they say is the best singer in the country.

14. (a) I am not one of those who believe everything they hear.
(b) I am not one of those who believes everything I hear.
(c) I am not one of those who believes everything he hears.
(d) I am not one of those who believes in everything one hears.

15. (a) The Board of Directors will hold its next meeting in July.
(b) The Board of Directors will hold it’s next meeting in July.
(c) The Board of Directors shall hold the next meeting in July.
(d) The Board of Directors shall hold it’s next meeting in July
Questions 16 to 18: Each of the following questions has a pair of CAPITALIZED words followed by four
pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in
the capitalized pair.
16. CAR : ROAD
(a) electricity : cable (b) ink : pencil (c) bomb : missile (d) fly : bird

17. FORESIGHT : FARSIGHTEDNESS

(a) long : lengthy (b) further : farther (c) short : dwarf (d) thinker : visionary

18. FLEET : NAVY

(a) chapter : book (b) seats : auditorium (c) letter : word (d) drop : ocean

Directions(Q.19-22): The questions below consist of a group of sentences followed by a suggested sequential
arrangement. Select the best sequence.

19. A. And that the pursuit of money by whatever design within the law is always benign.
B. And it holds broadly that the greater the amount of money, the greater the intelligence.
C. This is the institutional truth of Wall Street, this you will be required to believe.
D. The institutional truth of the financial world holds that association with money implies intelligence.
(a) ACBD (b) CDBA (c) DBAC (d) DCAB

20. A. Then think of by how much our advertising could increase the sales level.
B. Advertising effectiveness can be best grasped intuitively on a per capita basis.
C. Overall effectiveness is easily calculated by considering the number of buyers and the cost of
advertising.
D. Think of how much of our brand the average individual is buying now.
(a) DCAB (b) DACB (c) BCDA (d) ABCD

21. A. The age of pragmatism is here, whether we like it or not.

B. The staple rhetoric that was for so long dished out also belongs to the bipolar world of yesterday.
C. The old equations, based on the cold war and on non-alignment no longer holds good.
D. But contrary to much of what is being said and written, it is a multipolar rather than unipolar
world that appears to be emerging out of recent events.
(a) ABCD (b) ACBD (c) ADBC (d) ADCB

22. A. Past research has uncovered the fact that cognitive age is inversely related to life satisfaction
among the elderly.
B. A person may feel young or old irrespective of chronological age.
C. That is, the ‘younger’ an elderly person feels, the more likely she or he is to be satisfied with life
in general.
D. Cognitive age is a psychological construct that refers to one’s subjective assessment of one’s
age.
(a) BDAC (b) DBAC (c) DCAB (d) ABCD

Directions(Q.23-24): Select the most appropriate indirect/indirect form of the given sentences.
23. Pushpa said, “I arrived at the workshop an hour ago but nothing much is happening here.”
1. Pushpa observed that though she had arrived at the workshop an hour ago but nothing much is happening there.
2. Pushpa said that she has arrived at the workshop an hour earlier but nothing much is happening here.
3. Pushpa asked why she had to arrive at the workshop an hour before when nothing much was happening there.
4. Pushpa said that she had arrived at the workshop an hour before but nothing much was happening there.

24. She told the villagers that she would not rest till she had solved their water problem.
1. She said to the villagers, “She would not rest till she has been solved their water problem.”
2. She said to the villagers, “She will not rest till she has solved my water problem.”
3. She said to the villagers, “I will not rest till I have solved your water problem.”
4. She said to the villagers, “I would not rest till I am solving our water problem.”