CMAT Entrance 2007

Verbal Ability

1. Santosh wandered all day in the ....

2. Ram... your ruling on the matter.

3. I ... my... to be fulfilled.

4. The students organized a ....

5. Her attitude was .... in the answer she gave you.

Direction: Choose the words which are closet to the meaning of the word

6. Fallacy

7. Impeccable

8. Antidote

9. Founder

10. Dexterity

Direction: select the words or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in BOLD letters.

11. Derogatory

12. Temperate

13. Stigma

14. Mute

15. Foment

Direction: Each question below consists of an idiom or Phrase, followed by four lettered expression. Choose the lettered expression that most nearly expresses the meaning of the given idiom or Phrase.

16. A cat and dog life

17. To be lost in the clouds

18. To let the grass grow under own’s feet

19. To come off with flying colors

20. To draw a line

Direction: The following passage is followed by question based on its contents after reading the passage, choose the best answer to each question.

Advertisers become more add more expert at their work, they appeal to all the human emotion in the effort to increase sales-agreed, jealously love- of a bargain, fear of the disapproval of other people, fear of ill health; the desire to catch a husband, the desire to show off, and many others. But more and more customers are also becoming suspicious of and resistant to high powered advertisements. This is producing, in highly sophisticated countries, a deliberately modest, self-respecting type of advertisement that is intended to disarm the suspicious of sophisticates by giving an impression of absolute sincerity, or even deliberate understatement. Soon we may have the strange The spectacle of advertisers varying with each other, with Eastern courtesy, to belittle the merits of their own merchandise:

21. According to the author, high-powered advertisement has created suspicion among people in

22. The self-deprecating type of advertisement seeks of

23. In the context, “Eastern Courtesy” would mean

24. The new type of advertisement as compared with the high-powered advertisement of the past

25. Which of the following according to you is an understatement?

Quantitative Analysis

26. The difference between simple and compound interest in a certain sum in two years at 15% per annum is Rs. 144. The sum is

27. The number of student in a constituent campus and a affiliated campus in bachelor level is at the ratio of 3:5. If 20 students are increased in each campuses- at the same level,the ratio changed to 5:7. The total number of students in the two campuses before the increase was

28. Find the greatest number which divides 201 and 671 leaving remainders 6 and 8 respectively.

29. How many of the integers between 50 and 80 are odd?

30. One-third of a number is 20 more than one fifth of that number. What is the number?

31. A company reports that 2000 electronics parts were found defective. If this represents 5% of the total shipment, how many of these parts were shipped?

32. A diagram of a large ground drawn to the scale of 0.5 inch equals 80 feet. If the length of the diagram is 4.5 inches the actual length of the ground is

33. The value of x² + 5x = 12 — x² are

34. If 4y - x = 10, 3x = 2y, then xy?

35. There are 50 students enrolled in computer course. Of the enrolled students, 90% appeared in a final exam. Two-third of the student attending the final exam passed. How many student passed the final exam?

Direction : Question number 36 to 40 is related to the following data.

36. What is the productivity of food crops (production/area ) in 2005?

37. What is the productivity of cash crops (production/area) in 2005?

38. The productivity of food crops is highest in which year?

39. The productivity of the cash crops is lowest in which year?

40. What is the productivity of food and cash crops are taken to get the year 2001?

41. A tourist bus travels for 3 hours at 40 miles per hour and then covers a distance of 80 miles in two hours and 40 minutes. His average rate for the entire trip was

42. Four workers working together can plough the field in 12 hours. How long will it take for 6 workers to plough the field of the same size, if all of the work at the same rate?

43. The arithmetic means of x and y is 10 and their geometric mean is 8. What is the value of x and y?

44. When magnified 10,000 times by an electron microscope, the image of a certain circular piece of tissue has a diameter of 0.3 centimeters. The actual diameter of the tissue in centimeter is

45. Selling price of four articles equals to cost price of 5 articles. The gain is

46. A sports jacket marked $48 is offered at a discount of 25% during a stock-out sales. At this reduced price, the dealer makes a profit of 20% on the cost. The cost to the dealer is

47. ABC is a right-angled triangle with perpendicular side equal to 8, and the base side equal to 6. The hypotenuse side is equal to

48. If A = {1,3,5,7,.. ,21}, B = {1,2,3,4....20) and C = {2,4,6,8 ....20). What is a A∩B∩C?

49. The compound interest on a certain sum for the first year for 4% is Rs. 25. The compound interest for 2 years at the same rate on the same sum will be

50. Length and breadth of a rectangular field is 50 meter and 20 meter respectively. A 7-meter road runs outside around the field. What is the area of the road?

Logical Reasoning

Direction: Each of the questions below consists of two words that have a certain relationship to each other, followed by the four pairs. Select the pair that has the same relationship as the original pair of words.

51. Eight: nine::?

52. dear: heard::?

53. bat: blind::?

54. fear: terror::?

55. triangle: circle::?

Direction: Select the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the pair in BOLD letter.

56. Expenditure : Saving:: Import:?

57. Sale: Excise :: income?

58. Advocate: Law::Cook:?

59. Lunatic: Brain:: Blind:

60. Darkness : Evening:: Light:?

Direction: One out of the four choices is odd, Find the “odd one out” from each of the following.

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64.

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Direction for Q. 66 to 70.

Seven boys A, B, C, D, F, G and H have 10 pens each. A takes 4 pens from F and B takes 4 pens from G. D gives 3 pens to H and H gives 2 pens to F. G takes back the pens he had given to B. A gives 3 pens to D.

66. How many pens does D have?

67. How many boys have got eleven pens each?

68. Who have got the least number of pens?

69. After the exchange of pens among the boys is over, how many of them have 10 pens get?

70. The maximum number of pens, which any of the boys has?

Direction: Select the best answer choice which is logically based on the arguments in the given statement.

71. Yogesh is a student of Padmodaya school. He must be sharp.

72. Prices are rising again. This is mainly due to fall in production.

73. No babies can walk. All those who can walk are grown up, Therefore,

74. Nothing is man unless it is intelligent. Nothing is intelligent unless it has a brain. Therefore,

75. Some men are school teachers. Some school teachers are not football players. Therefore,

General Awareness

76. Prof. Mohammad Yunus received Nobel peace Prize in 2006 who is the citizen of

77. When the reading of barometer goes down, it is an indication of.

78. Which planet has been recently found as an asteroid, not the planet?

79. In which international organization, Nepal has recently got the membership?

80. NEPSE is a

81. The branch of science which deals with study of changes taking place in atmosphere is:

82. The revolutionary IPOD was brought out by

83. Nepal gained accession to WTO on,

84. ISO signifies

85. The 2007 Twenty 20 cricket tournament was held in

86. VAT is a form of.

87. One tola of gold is equivalent to

88. Which blood is universal acceptor?

89. The first bank established in Nepal is

90. “Man Sarover” is in

91. “Manager of the Year Award” given to best manager in Nepal is awarded by

92. Goodwill is a/an

93. The number of electoral constituencies as recommended by the “Electoral Constituency Delineation Committee 2064” is

94. Swami Ramdev is known for

95. The Gauri Shankar mountain Nepal

96. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP in %) of Nepal from Agriculture, Fisheries and F orestry in 2005 is recorded as

97. “Ramsetu” is known for

98. The average width of Nepal (North South) is

99. The Tsunami is the name of

100. “Bhagwad Gita” is related to