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Question : In migration, the factors which cause people to leave their place of residence or origin are called _______.

Option 1: pull factors

Option 2: regular factors

Option 3: push factors

Option 4: irregular factors

Team Careers360 25th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: push factors


Solution : The correct option is push factors.

In migration, push factors are conditions or circumstances that compel individuals to leave their place of residence or origin. These factors often include economic hardships, political instability, environmental issues, or lack of opportunities, motivating people to seek

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Question : Directions: In the question, a part of the sentence is in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (1), (2), and (3) that may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is (4).

I have not finished to paint the door.

(1) painting

(2) the paint

(3) the painting

(4) No Improvement

Option 1: (1)

Option 2: (2)

Option 3: (3)

Option 4: (4)

Team Careers360 19th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: (1)


Solution : The sentence can be improved using the first option.

This option is the correct choice. It changes the infinitive phrase "to paint" to the gerund "painting", which is the appropriate form when describing the action of applying paint to the door.

The meanings of

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Question : Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

It's a challenge, as you yourself said, and men find it hard to turn________challenges.

Option 1: up

Option 2: below

Option 3: down

Option 4: aside

Team Careers360 24th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: down


Solution : The correct choice is the third option.

Explanation:

The phrase turn down challenges is idiomatic and means to reject or refuse challenges. In the context of the sentence, the idea is that men find it difficult to decline or avoid challenges.

So, the correct

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Question : A man buys 13 pens for a rupee. How many pens should he sell for a rupee to earn a profit of 30%?

Option 1: 8

Option 2: 10

Option 3: 5

Option 4: 15

Team Careers360 21st Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: 10


Solution : A man buys 13 pens for a rupee.
1 rupee = 100 paise
For a profit of 30%, he sells 13 pens in 100 + 30 = 130 paise
So, in 100 paise, the number of pens he sells $=\frac{13}{130}×100=10$
Hence, the correct answer is

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Question : 'Galpaguchchha', written by Rabindranath Tagore, is a collection of_______.

Option 1: devotional songs

Option 2: poems

Option 3: english shayaris

Option 4: short stories

Team Careers360 24th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: short stories


Solution : The correct option is short stories.

Galpaguchchha is a collection of sixty-one of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories. These short stories are broadly grouped under the themes of parting ways and the relationship between men and women.

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Question : Who invented the first-ever safety elevator?

Option 1: Bill Gates

Option 2: Elisha Otis

Option 3: Paul Allen

Option 4: Dave Hyatt

Team Careers360 20th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: Elisha Otis


Solution : The correct option is Elisha Otis.

American Elisha Otis is credited with developing the safety elevator. In the New York City store of E. V. Haughwout & Co., he installed the first safety elevator for passenger use on March 23, 1857. He patented

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Question : The diameter of a circle is $\frac{7}{4}$ times the base of a triangle, and the height of the triangle is 14 cm. If the area of the triangle is 56 cm2, then what is the circumference (in m) of the circle? (Use $\pi=\frac{22}{7}$)

Option 1: 0.44 m

Option 2: 2.46 m

Option 3: 0.48 m

Option 4: 1.74 m

Team Careers360 19th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: 0.44 m


Solution : Given: The diameter of a circle is $\frac{7}{4}$ times the base of a triangle, and the height of the triangle is 14 cm.
The area of the triangle is 56 cm2.
Use the formulas,
The diameter of the circle = $2r$,
The

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Question : Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

To smell a rat

Option 1: To suspect something

Option 2: To catch someone during a crime

Option 3: To leave things undisturbed

Option 4: To detect a dead rat

Team Careers360 23rd Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: To suspect something


Solution : The correct choice is the first option.

To smell a rat means to suspect something or to recognise something is not as it appears to be.

Therefore, the correct answer is, to suspect something.

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Question : Directions: Five students A, M, C, Y and G are sitting around a circular table facing outside the center not necessarily in the same order. M sits to the immediate left of A and the immediate right of G. Y is not an immediate neighbour of A. Who sits second left of G?

Option 1: Y

Option 2: M

Option 3: A

Option 4: C

Team Careers360 24th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: C


Solution : Given:
(I) Five students A, M, C, Y and G are sitting around a circular table facing outside the centre.
(II) M sits to the immediate left of A and the immediate right of G.


(III) Y is not an immediate neighbour of A.

So,

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