Are the rules of grammar for sentence correction different for GMAT and CAT?
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Can some one please provide me with a document which encompasses majority of the Idioms and Phrasal verbs that one encounters in MBA examinations.
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I check the dictionary when I want to __ the correct definition of an unfamiliar word.
A. extirpate
B. expunge
C. suppress
D. ascertain
E. falsify
Oil is a ___ resource. Hence, we should start driving hybrid and electric cars.
A. timely
B. infallible
C. finite
D. invulnerable
E. rampant
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The further [A]/farther [B] he pushed himself, the more disillusioned he grew.
For the crowds it was more of a historical [A]/historic [B] event; for their leader, it was just another day.
The old man has a healthy distrust [A]/mistrust [B] for all new technology.
This film is based on a real [A]/true [B] story.
One suspects that the compliment [A]/complement [B] was backhanded.
Hi Puys,
Not sure whether this is the right thread to post such a query, but here goes nothing.
How many tests / mocks per week would be considered optimum considering that there are still 2 months to go for CAT.
I am currently clocking at 2 mocks a week which sometimes reach 3 mocks also. Is that sufficient? or should I start giving them more frequently?
Thanks in advance
Are all the similes considered technically incorrect? or some specific similes are correct technically too? ......
he swims like a fish(implicit simile)
he swims as gracefully as a fish(explicit simile)
On what ground above two similes are categorised like that anyone knows help here...
Can anyone suggest where I can get good material for practising reading comprehension.
Check whether the following sentences are grammatically correct or not:-
- If the objects being selected are being arranged among themselves or are being assigned to distinguishable positions, then we use (nPr).
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A.) "Bunnychow is a quarter loaf of bread that is soaked either in bean or mutton curry."
B.) "Bunnychow is a quarter loaf of bread that is soaked either in bean or in mutton curry."
Can anyone explain which is the correct usage and the rule behind the usage?
Statements:
1. If there is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that endeavour is surely publicly financed science.
2. There is a widespread feeling that the journal publishers who have
mediated the scientific exchange for the past century or more are
becoming an impediment to free distribution of knowledge.
3. Internet revolution is happening, making knowledge transfer cheaper.
Technology permits it; researchers and politicians want it, more public
money can be spent on it.
A. Statement 1, 2 and 3 are necessarily independent
B. Statement 2 definitely illustrates statement 1
C. Statement 3 is a facilitating condition for statement 1 D. Statement 3 states a condition under which statement 1 would be invalid
Statements:
1. Business schools are ideally positioned to point out when an action
that provides a benefit for an individual comes at a cost to society,
but in reality they rarely bother.
2. It is part of the malaise that has befallen the political debate on
capitalism, which has been taken over by special interests and people
who have no faith in a real market-based system.
3. When governments favour the private sector it is all too often by
being "pro-business" rather than "pro-market", meaning that favourable
conditions are provided to particular institutions rather than to
institutions broadly.
A. All the three statements are necessarily independent B. Statements 1 and 2 are necessarily dependent C. Statements 2 and 3 are necessarily dependent D. Statements 2 and 3 may be dependent E. Statements 1, 2 and 3 cannot be independent
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An experimental psychologist investigating the possibility of lasting happiness, Lyubomirsky understands far better than most of us the folly of pinning our hopes on a new car-or on any good fortune that comes our way. We tend to adapt, quickly returning to our usual level of happiness. The classic example of such "hedonic adaptation" comes from a 1970s study of lottery winners, who a year after their windfall ended up no happier than nonwinners. Hedonic adaptation helps to explain why even changes in major life circumstances-such as income, marriage, physical health and where we live-do so little to boost our overall happiness. Not only that, but studies of twins and adoptees have shown that about 50 percent of each person's happiness is determined from birth. This "genetic set point" alone makes the happiness glass look half empty, because any upward swing in happiness seems doomed to fall back to near your baseline.
"There's been a tension in the field," explains Lyubomirsky's main collaborator, psychologist Kennon M. Sheldon of the University of Missouri-Columbia. "Some people were assuming you can affect happiness if, for example, you picked the right goals, but there was all this literature that suggested it was impossible, that what goes up must come down."
Lyubomirsky, Sheldon and another psychologist, David Schkade of the University of California, San Diego, put the existing findings together into a simple pie chart showing what determines happiness. Half the pie is the genetic set point. The smallest slice is circumstances, which explain only about 10 percent of people's differences in happiness. So what is the remaining 40 percent? "Because nobody had put it together before, that's unexplained," Lyubomirsky says. But she believes that when you take away genes and circumstances, what is left besides error must be "intentional activity," mental and behavioral strategies to counteract adaptation's downward pull.
Lyubomirsky has been studying these activities in hopes of finding out whether and how people can stay above their set point. In theory, that is possible in much the same way regular diet and exercise can keep athletes' weight below their genetic set points. But before Lyubomirsky began, there was "a huge vacuum of research on how to increase happiness," she says. The lottery study in particular "made people shy away from interventions," explains eminent University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman, the father of positive psychology and a mentor to Lyubomirsky. When science had scrutinized happiness at all, it was mainly through correlational studies, which cannot tell what came first-the happiness or what it is linked to-let alone determine the cause and effect. Finding out that individuals with strong social ties are more satisfied with their lives than loners, for example, begs the question of whether friends make us happier or whether happy people are simply likelier to seek and attract friends.
Lyubomirsky began studying happiness as a graduate student in 1989 after an intriguing conversation with her adviser, Stanford University psychologist Lee D. Ross, who told her about a remarkably happy friend who had lost both parents to the Holocaust. Ross explains it this way: "For this person, the meaning of the Holocaust was that it was indecent or inappropriate to be unhappy about trivial things-and that one should strive to find joy in life and human relationships." Psychologists have long known that different people can see and think about the same events in different ways, but they had done little research on how these interpretations affect well-being. So Lyubomirsky had to lay some groundwork before she could go into the lab. Back then, happiness was "a fuzzy, unscientific topic," she says, and although no instrument yet exists for giving perfectly valid, reliable and precise readings of someone's happiness from session to session, Lyubomirsky has brought scientific rigor to the emerging field. From her firm belief that it is each person's self-reported happiness that matters, she developed a four-question Subjective Happiness Scale. Lyubomirsky's working definition of happiness-"a joyful, contented life"-gets at both the feelings and judgments necessary for overall happiness. (If a sleep-deprived new mom feels fulfilled but frazzled, and an aimless party girl feels empty despite loads of fun, neither would consider herself truly happy.) To this day, she rarely sees her studies' participants; they do most exercises out in the real world and answer detailed questionnaires on the computer, often from home. To assess subjects' efforts and honesty, she uses several cross-checks, such as timing them as they complete the questionnaires.
The author cites the example of lottery winners in order to support which one of the following?
a.That happiness is a result of the pursuit of the senses.
b.That happiness is always motivated by the desire for pleasure
c.That happiness is seldom sustained through materialism.
d.That happiness is consistently eugenic.
In the context of happiness, which one of the following factors is not mentioned in the passage?
a.The genetic set point.
b.An individual's circumstances.
c.Picking up the right goals.
d.Unintentional activity
According to the passage, which fact does the author choose to support the theory of increasing happiness?
a.The increase in research directed towards this subject is comforting.
b.Happy people attract more friends.
c.Lyubomirsky does not see her studies' participants.
d.None of the above.
Which of the following is in line with Lyubomirsky's views regarding happiness?
a.That the definition of happiness is indefinite.
b.That there is no instrument to measure happiness.
c.That it is indecorous to be unhappy about trivial things.
d.That happiness can lead to an effervescent and satisfied life.
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Which of the following if true will weaken the given paragraph...
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OA given to be as D, I marked B...pls explain why it should be D and not A
Can someone help me with this, is the highlighted part of the sentence correct ?
Way-of-life work catches in its net most of the biggest fish in literature, in part because it offers the most heroic,tragic and most comic possibilities.
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The concentration of power in the state capitals makes it easy for political exigency to trump policy innovation, with the former often a more pressing concern than good governance or growth. Ruling parties are more concerned with consolidating power behind a powerful clique or leader, reflexively resisting everything the opposition supports or championed when it was in power, or currying favour with the Centre for more funds, than with experimenting with genuine policy reform.___________________________.
a)It is no wonder, then, that the states have often fought tirelessly for further devolution of power to the local level and have constrained experimentation with policy reforms, as they fear losing control over local bodies.
b)It is no wonder, then, that the states have often fought tirelessly to obstruct further devolution of power to the local level, and have constrained experimentation with policy reforms, as they fear that the Centre will have greater power over them.
c)It is no wonder, then, that the states have often fought tirelessly to obstruct further devolution of power to the local level, and have constrained experimentation with policy reforms, as they fear that they will lose control over local bodies.
d)It is no wonder, then, that the states have often fought tirelessly for further devolution of power to the local level, and have constrained experimentation with policy reforms, as they will have less influence over the Centre if they don't do so.
" The sun shines bright " Is this sentence correct ?