Dear readers,

This quiz consists of questions from
various Banking entrance exams held during the last few years. Leave your
answers/ responses in the comments section below and we’ll soon let you know
the correct answers!

Directions (Q. Nos. 1 to 5) Which of the
phrases (1), (2), (3) and (4) given below each statement should replace the
phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct?  If the sentence is correct as it is given and
no correction is required, mark (5) as the answer.

1. MBA is the acme of a student’s dreams,
but as a post-graduate qualification it has been so distorted in its execution so as to lose nearly all the original
intent.

(a) that it has lost nearly

(b) to lose almost

(c) so as to lost nearly

(d) and has lost nearly

(e) No correction required

2. British conservationists, which were in Mumbai on March, have
appealed to their Indian counterparts to make a case for preserving the city’s
deselict cotton mills.

(a) which were at Mumbai on

(b) who was in Mumbai at

(c) which were on Mumbai on

(d) who were in Mumbai in

(e) No correction required

3. This drought, in the fifth consecutive years, must be used as an opportunity to
affect changes in practices for the management of our water resources where
every community and household is involved.

(a) on the five consecutive years

(b) in the fifth consecutive year

(c) for the fifth consecutive year

(d) in five consecutive years

(e) No correction required

4. Medical tourism will not make any
difference to Indian healthcare despite
it will mean more great profits for private hospitals but will not create
sub-sidised treatment for Indians

(a) however it will result greater

(b) because it will mean more great

(c) as it will mean greater

(d) also it will mean more great

(e) No correction required

5. With western fast food and brand name
sodas gaining foothold, Indian is incubating a new public health crisis by
being forced to choose between eradicating hunger and treating those who are overweight.

(a) forced to treat between

(b) forcibly choosing between

(c) forced to choose for

(d) forcing to treat between

(e) No correction required

Directions
(Q. Nos. 6 to 10) Rearrange the following sentences A, B, C, D, E and F to make
a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions which follow.

A. Increased competition,
globalization and the need for enormous resources have nudged priorities which
once held the fort.

B. In order to achieve these, hype and
sensationalism is put in to spice up the news which have robbed news stories of
credibility.

C. This is only possible if a lot more
thought is put into the gathering and presentation of the daily news and
delivering it much more sensitively to its receivers/users.

D. Technological innovation and
economic change have transformed the news industry to the extent where its
original definition as a public service no longer holds good.

E. In order to win it back, the media
should make full use of the tremendous power that the democracy blesses it
with.

F. These included public good and
social responsibility.  But sadly, today,
these have made way for a business target of commercial viability and a chase
of viewership.

6.
Which of the following sentence should be the SIXTH (LAST) after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D

(e) F

7.
Which of the following sentence should be the THIRD after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) E

(c) D

(d) F

(e) C

8.
Which of the following sentence should be the FIFTH after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(c) E

(d) C

(e) F

9.
Which of the following sentence should be the FIRST after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D

(e) E

10.
Which of the following sentence should be the SECOND after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F

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