Official verbal ability thread for CAT 2014


got a dismal score of 153 in testfunda's mock inmat 02 😞

need suggestions guys

This was, of course, a ridiculous scenario,_______________

  • as few Physicists didn’t waste any time in pointing out.
  • as few Physicists ate Hamburgers.
  • as few Physicists wasted no time in pointing out.
  • as a few Physicists wasted not time in pointing out.

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@shawshanks  sir ... ye lo ...!!

http://my.fakingnews.firstpost.com/2014/09/23/after-kashmir-bilawal-bhutto-says-he-will-take-us-back...

hello everyone can you please telll me some websites where i can have good reading material. (to improve my comprehension part)

advance me shukriya!!!!!

Critical Reasoning...

(1) Judges work only for 180 days in the Supreme Court and 210 days in the High Courts.

(2) The pendency of cases is mounting and, needless to say, the dilatory tactics and leisurely disposal of cases aggregate the arrears.

(3) Some judges are ready to grant easy adjournments where another hour or two would have been sufficient to decide the case.

(4) How does one expect the executive, which is directed to dispose of representations within a prescribed timeframe, to do so, when judges themselves do not work within the time?


(1) FJIJ (2) FIJI (3) FFJJ (4) FJJJ (5) FIIJ



Germane


A.impartial

B.indifferent

C.irrelevant

D.improvident

Gambol


A.trudge

B.hedge

C.crone

D.misplace


We have in America a ______ speech that is neither American, Oxford English, nor colloquial English, but ______ of all three.

A.motley, an enhancement

B.hybrid, a combination

C.nasal, a blend

D.mangled, a medley.



@ Asia Pacific Institute Of Management


In keeping with his own ____ in international diplomacy, Churchill proposed a personal meeting of heads of government, but the effort was doomed to failure, as the temper of the times was ____ .

A.ideas - pluralistic 

B.predilections - inimical 

C.aversions - hostile 

D.impulses - amicable

E.maxims - salacious


The Governor General of Bengal became the Governor General of India through the charter act of?

A.    The Charter Act of 1853

B.    The Charter Act of 1813

C.    The Charter Act of 1833

D.    The Charter Act of 1793


Guys there's a simple doubt. In circular arrangement :

If A is sitting immediately right to B , then A is sitting in the anticlockwise direction wrt B

If P is sitting immediately left to Q, then P is sitting in the clockwise direction wrt Q.

Is this correct?


RC:


Deconstruction, an exercise in which unraveling - of meaning and coherence, of the kind of binary logic that tends to populate philosophical texts - is the path to illumination. In Derrida's reading, Western philosophers' preoccupation with first principles, a determination to capture reality - truth, "presence" - what he called in reference to the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl "the thing itself" - was doomed. He traced this impulse in thinkers from Aristotle to Heidegger, famously arguing, for example, that a tendency to favour the immediacy of speech over the remoteness of writing was untenable. (Aristotle's formulation: "Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience and written words are the symbols of spoken words"). Through a series of deft and delicate manoeuvers, Derrida sought to show that speech is inextricable from writing, no more or less authentic. The difference between the two depends, as all differences do, on a process of enforced absence or repression:a is a only because it is not b, and thus b is never entirely out of picture. 

With the tenacity of a gumshoe, he haunted texts by Plato, Rousseau, Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Marx, and Hegel, among dozens of others, exposing the ways in which the subjugated or banished half of a crucial pair - inside/outside, man/woman, reason /madness, signifier/ signified - continued to plague its partner. His close readings were at once highly specific and abstract, but lent themselves to extrapolation. As the scholar Mark C. Taylor neatly put it: "The guiding insight of deconstruction is that every structure - be it literary, psychological, social, economic, political or religious - that organizes our experience is constituted and maintained through acts of exclusion." And what is excluded "does not disappear but always returns to unsettle every construction, no matter how secure it seems".


Deconstruction addresses which of the following issues related to Husserl's interpretation of "Presence"?

a)How the fluidity of thought cannot be captured by the obstinacy of meaning.

b)How interpretations of primary meaning do not subscribe to the value of truth.

c)How an emphasis on immediate access to meaning undermines critical thinking.

d)How openness and transparency facilitate complete comprehension of meaning.


The author mentions Aristotle primarily in order to

a)argue that speech is as authentic as writing.

b)identify certain philosophers who favour the fixedness of writing to the immediacy of speech.

c)establish a standard of comparison for Derrida as a deconstructive reader.

d)provide an example of those who perceive primary in speech.


Which of the following statements about the inextricability of repression is supported by Derrida?

a)'a' would be 'a' with 'b'.

b)'a' would not be 'a' without 'b'.

c)'a' and 'b' are mutually exclusive.

d)'a' and 'b' are not mutually exclusive.

Derrida suggests that anyone attempting to closely read philosophical texts must confront which of the following dichotomies?

a)Between the privileged and the marginalized.

b)Between the intended meaning and the subverted meaning.

c)Between the reader's impressions and the writer's intent.

d)Between construction and deconstruction.

The author mentions "man/woman" to provide an illustration of

a)deconstructed binary oppositions.

b)binary logic.

c)exclusionary binary representation.

d)flawed binary oppositions.

Which of the following best states Taylor's main point?

a)A work of philosophy is laden with multiple layers of meaning

b)The openness of relativism is essential to deconstructive interpretations.

c)The excluded returns to destabilize the structures of thought.

d)Acts of exclusion are central to philosophy's perception of society.

-Aimcat

a)Although since he had not been to a doctor in years, he had to look up Doctors in the Yellow Pages.

Is this sentence gramatically correct?



How many of you are practising RCs from CL Test Gym.

It becomes really difficult to attempt the 6 questions from 3-4 passages in 15 minutes.

@aimonlyiim @amanbharti @harshcat91 

How are you all managing this?

Can some one help in answering strong and weak arguments wale questions?? Is there any link on pagalguy???


Which one one of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

1) Please visit the below link.

2) Please visit the link below.

In every AIMCAT RC's are so lengthy on avg 7-8 paragraphs
In CAT are they really going to give all RC's of these many paragraphs :/


http://imgur.com/ASmb1HZ


My sister decided to go to two countries this year. She is going to _ Ireland __ Scotland this summer.

1. both, and

2. whether, or

3. either, but


Josh has twenty years of typing experience behind him; therefore, if you are looking for an efficient typist to enter your data into the new system, you need look no further.

The speaker assumes that

A. Twenty years of practice ensures typing efficiency
B. The type of typing required for the new system is identical to what Josh has been doing
C. Josh's job profile is the best that the new employer is going to get
D. Josh is an outstandingly fast and accurate typist
E. Josh will fit well into the new office