Question : Directions: Select the odd letter cluster from the given alternatives.

Option 1: HJLN

Option 2: LNPR

Option 3: SUWY

Option 4: EGIJ

Question : When India gained independence, who was the Prime Minister of England?

Option 1: William Bentick

Option 2: Warren Hastings

Option 3: Margaret Thatcher

Option 4: Clement Attlee

Question : As per the Constitution of India, the National Capital Territory of Delhi shall have a Council of Ministers consisting of not more than___________ of the total number of members in the Legislative  Assembly.

Option 1: 0.1

Option 2: 0.15

Option 3: 0.05

Option 4: 0.2

Question : Directions: From the given answer figures, select the one in which the question figure is hidden/embedded.

Option 1:

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

Question : The following table shows the mobile-addicted population of four different cities Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai, and Pune, and the ratio of males to females among them.

Find the total number of addicted males in Chennai.

Option 1: 1,10,000

Option 2: 80,000

Option 3: 1,00,000

Option 4: 1,20,000

Question : The venue of the Energy Summit, 2008 was

Option 1: Jeddah

Option 2: Tehran

Option 3: Riyadh

Option 4: Tripoli

Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.

The excitement of bird watchers on spotting a particular species for the very first time is unparalleled. With eyes shining and pride bursting, they exclaim, “I had a life today”, or “It was a lifer for me”. For the longest time, I couldn’t fathom what all the fuss was about. I mean, at some point in their lives, even a crow or mynah would have been a lifer — seen for the very first time. So, here, I’ve done a bit of jugaad with the term and defined it as a bird that you see maybe (but not necessarily) for the first time, but which has made a lasting, life-changing impact on you. Then I recalled some of my own “lifers”.

Number 1 is the little coppersmith barbet. The first bird I saw through brand new, big and powerful binoculars — and it was solely responsible for my getting interested in birds. The fellow looked like a tubby little clown with hiccups and that just blew me away.

I will never forget the first time I saw grey hornbills aeons ago: over sullen grey skies in the Borivali National Park (now called Sanjay Gandhi National Park) — squealing as they flew high up across the sky. They looked as if they had just left Jurassic Park. Or, for that matter, their larger, more glamorous, cousins — Great pied hornbills. Tramping through a streambed in Kalagarh (near Corbett), we suddenly heard this rasping, whooshing, sound. Up there, in the clear blue, were six-seven huge black-and-white birds with colossal yellow beaks flying in tandem across the clear blue sky, their wings making a rasping sound.

Say “paradise flycatcher” and a birder’s eyes will begin to glint: “Where? When? Will it be there now?” are questions that will be shot out like machine-gun bullets. The first time I saw a full-grown milk-white-and-glossy-black male, with its glamorous 18-inch streamer tail, was at the Sultanpur National Park in Haryana. But I remember better the flycatchers, that made me run around in a tea garden in Palampur, teasingly whistling at me from one end to the other. The nesting pair in Naukuchiatal was more accommodating except that I had to stand kneedeep in the hotel’s garbage dump to get a good view of them flitting to and fro the gully nearby. To compensate, one actually flew nearly down to my feet to snatch up a blue bottle I had missed.

Of course, there have been rarities: the highlight of the regular Bharatpur (the Keoladeo National Park) visits was the darshan of VIP Siberian cranes. Then they stopped coming, which was the first indication of their slow extinction — even if it was just “local” to our area. The gloriously uppity Great Indian bustards in the Karera Sanctuary (Madhya Pradesh) were another unforgettable sighting. The sheer disdain with which they flounced away from our howling, jolting jeep and took to their wings was a lesson in being put in your place. Now, not only does the sanctuary not exist anymore but those magnificent muscular birds are crashing to total extinction.

Question:
Which pair of birds did the author see in Naukuchiatal?

Option 1: Coppersmith barbet

Option 2: Paradise flycatcher

Option 3: Hornbill

Option 4: Great Indian bustard

Question : Directions: In the following question, a sentence is given with a blank that is to be filled in with an appropriate word. Four alternatives are suggested; choose the correct alternative out of them as your answer.

The burglar was __________ when he broke into the house and found himself surrounded by police officers.

Option 1: flabbergasted

Option 2: unimpressed

Option 3: bored

Option 4: unruffled

Question : Directions: In the following question, the given sentence has four parts marked P, Q, R, and S. Choose the part of the sentence with the error and select it as your answer. If there is no error, select "No Error (S)" as your answer.

(P) According to one survey (Q) only those forests which were (R) not under village management succumbed from fires recently. (S) No Error

1. P
2. Q
3. R
4. S

Option 1: 1

Option 2: 2

Option 3: 3

Option 4: 4

Question : A invests INR 6,00,000 more than B in a business. B invests his capital for $7 \frac{1}{2}$ months, while A invests his capital for $2 \frac{1}{2}$ more months than B. Out of the total profit of INR 12,40,000, if the share of B is INR 2,48,000 less than the share of A, then the capital of B is:

Option 1: INR 45,00,000

Option 2: INR 42,00,000

Option 3: INR 40,00,000

Option 4: INR 48,00,000