Q.1 Rita, an accomplished pastry chef who is well known for her artistic and exquisite wedding cakes, opened a bakery a year ago and is surprised that the business has been that slow. A consultant she hired to conduct market research has reported that the local population doesn’t think of her shop as one they would visit on a daily basis but rather a place they’d visit if they were celebrating a special occasion. Which of the following strategies Rita should employ to increase her daily business ?

Q.2 The question below presents a situation and asks you to make a judgment solely on the basis of the information given

The neighborhood block association has received many complaints about people knocking on doors and soliciting money for an unknown charity organization even though door-to-door solicitation is prohibited. Three residents have provided descriptions of individuals who have come to their doors asking for money.

Solicitor #1 is male, 20-25 years old, 5’9”, 60 – 65 kg, with very short black hair. He was wearing a dark blue shirt and carrying a brown bag.

Solicitor #2 is male, 25-30 years old, 6’2”, 80-90 kg, with a shaved head. He was wearing a red T-shirt and jeans

Solicitor #3 is male, in early twenties, 5’10”, slight build with short black hair. He was wearing a blue shirt

Three days after the block association meeting, a resident noticed a man knocking on doors in the neighborhood and phoned the police. He gave the following description

Solicitor #4 is male, 22 years old, 60 kg, about 5’10”, with short black hair. He is carrying a bag.

Based on this description, which of the three solicitations was also likely carried out by Solicitor #4 ?

1. #1, #2 and #3
2. #1, but not #2 and #3
3. #1 and #3, but not #2
4. #1 and #2, but not #3

Q.3 If you are a fitness walker, there is no need for a commute to a health club. Your neighborhood can be your health club. You don’t need a lot of fancy equipment to get a good work out either. All you needs is a well-designed pair of athletic shoes. The paragraph best supports the statement that

Q.4 Mathematics allows us to expand our consciousness. Mathematics tells us about economic trends, patterns of disease and the growth of populations. Math is good at exposing the truth but it can also perpetuate misunderstandings and untruths. Figures have the power to mislead people The paragraph best supports the statement that

Q.5 By the time they reach adulthood, most people can perform many different activities involving motor skills. Motor skills involve such diverse tasks as riding a bicycle, threading a needle and cooking a dinner. What all these activities have in common is their dependence on precision and timing of muscular movement. The paragraph best supports the statement that

Q.6 America’s space agency is about to invade Mars. On April 7, NASA launched a craft called the 2001 Mars Odyssey. Once it has reached its orbit around the planet in October, it will spend one Martian year examining the surface. Its findings will help establish, among other things, whether Mars has, or ever had, any water. Which one of the following can be best inferred from the above passage?

Q.7 Las year’s presidential campaign in the United States catapulted Social Security reform – once known as the “third rail” of the country’s politics because nobody dared touch it – to the top of the political agenda. Many proposals, including those put forward by President George W. Bush and former Vice President AI Gore last autumn, had at their center the idea of creating private Social Security accounts held in financial institutions and invested in public markets. Which one of the following can be inferred on the basis of the above passage?

Q.8 The project manager is truly the heart and soul of a project. Project managers are expected to successfully bring their projects to fruition (achieved pre-determined quality) while keeping a tight rein on budgets (costs) and schedules (time). In order to fulfill the requirement of time, cost and quality, a project manager needs to acquire a set of skills to help him to manage the project and solve variety of problems during the implementation of project. These skills can be divided into two categories, which are hard skills and soft skills.

Q.9 Einstein, Hemmingway, Van Gogh. These are some of the most gifted and talented minds ever to grace the earth. Were they normal? No, in fact they were far from it. Each had weaknesses of his own. Einstein was known to be a little crazy. Hemmingway enjoyed throwing one back every now and again. And Van Gogh was deeply depressed for years. So can these men still be geniuses despite their conditions? If so, then was the great John Nash brilliant as well or simply insane?

Q.10 Flannery O’Connor, one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, is often noted for her satirical writing style and her comically inane characters that often meet gruesome and grotesque ends. The “uninitiated” might even be tempted to consider her work a confusing and pointless portrayal of senseless violence perpetrated in large part against ignorant innocents. To do so, however, would be to do a great disservice to the genius of her work, and to deny the existence of multiple layers and levels on which her stories can be interpreted.