anybody here enrolled for cracku's crash 50?
hey guyz having a horrible tym in da rc section..hardly get any questions ryt..have tried various strategies still no improvement.can't retain details f the complex passage n answer questions.even doing vice-versa doesn't help..need guidance how to tackle and excel this secion...plzz help guyzz!!!
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In a Christie novel, everything is subordinate to the plot/puzzle du jour, and every book is brought to a conclusive ending.
@chinki93 @darchangel @Preeti_L is it necessary to have a good vocab... ?? I believe my vocab is very poor and its only one month left for the exam..what should I do..
Statistics published by the Department of Traffic and Highway Safety show that nearly 80% of all traffic fatalities occur at speeds under 35 miles per hour and within 25 miles of home.
Which of the following would be the most reasonable conclusion to draw from these statistics?
-CL
Every human being, after the first few days of his life, is a product of two factors; on the one hand, there is his ___________ endowment; and on the other hand, there is the effect of environment, including ___________.
[CAT2008]
- constitutional; weather
- congenital; education
- personal; climate
- economic; learning
- genetic; pedagogy
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Narendra Modi and other political leaders may want to distance themselves from the fallen godman for strategic reasons. But it is no secret that Asaram was treated as the de facto rajguru in Gujarat under both BJP and Congress governments. Indeed, when you examine the record closely, it is clear that Asaram’s hugely profitable empire of ashrams, gurukuls and schools was built up with the largesse of land given by the state as grant (which he later expanded through encroachment) and as private donations from the wealthy Sindhi-Marwari community. His political connections created a protective shield around him, immunising him from many allegations of crimes (including murder of children) and misdemeanours. The godman could literally get away with murder. Asaram, of course, is hardly alone in using his political clout to amass a fortune. Behind every successful godman in India today stands a cluster of powerful politicos with free access to the public assets and the machinery of the state. Once launched, the successful gurus build business empires, which attract other corporate interests, especially those with interests in the burgeoning market in education and tourism.
what made asaram immune from many allegations of crimes?
- his faith in god
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explain it as well????????????
Narendra Modi and other political leaders may want to distance themselves from the fallen godman for strategic reasons. But it is no secret that Asaram was treated as the de facto rajguru in Gujarat under both BJP and Congress governments. Indeed, when you examine the record closely, it is clear that Asaram's hugely profitable empire of ashrams, gurukuls and schools was built up with the largesse of land given by the state as grant (which he later expanded through encroachment) and as private donations from the wealthy Sindhi-Marwari community. His political connections created a protective shield around him, immunising him from many allegations of crimes (including murder of children) and misdemeanours. The godman could literally get away with murder. Asaram, of course, is hardly alone in using his political clout to amass a fortune. Behind every successful godman in India today stands a cluster of powerful politicos with free access to the public assets and the machinery of the state. Once launched, the successful gurus build business empires, which attract other corporate interests, especially those with interests in the burgeoning market in education and tourism.
what made asaram immune from many allegations of crimes?
- none of these
- his firm faith in god
- his political connection with both the bjp and the congress
- political back and free access to the public assets and the machinery of the states
- a,b,c
- only b
- only b and c
- only a
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guys please answer my question posted below.i am going crazy.
plz give me some pointers in VA or by grace of god i ll end up scoring -50 in VA this year... ek dum vaat lgi hui hai .... :'(
A genuine enquirer wants to get to the truth of the matter that concerns him whether or not that truth _____ with what he believed at the outset of his investigation and whether or not his acknowledgement of that truth gets him a tenure, makes him rich, famous or popular
- contrasts
- comports
- confirms
- supports
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To the extent that Foucault fits into the philosophical tradition, it is the critical tradition of Kant, and his project could be called a Critical History of Thought. This should not be taken to mean a history of ideas that would be at the same time an analysis of errors that might be gauged after the fact; or a decipherment of the misinterpretations linked to them and on which what we think today might depend. If what is meant by thought is the act that posits a subject and an object, along with their possible relations, a critical history of thought would be an analysis of the conditions under which certain relations of subject to object are formed or modified, insofar as those relations constitute a possible knowledge [savoir]. It is not a matter of defining the formal conditions of a relationship to the object; nor is it a matter of isolating the empirical conditions that may, at a given moment, have enabled the subject in general to become acquainted with an object already given in reality. The problem is to determine what the subject must be, to what condition he is subject, what status he must have, what position he must occupy in reality or in the imaginary, in order to become a legitimate subject of this or that type of knowledge [connaissance]. In short, it is a matter of determining its mode of "subjectivation", for the latter is obviously not the same, according to whether the knowledge involved has the form of an exegesis of a sacred text, a natural history observation, or the analysis of a mental patient's behavior. But it is also and at the same time a question of determining under what conditions something can become an object for a possible knowledge [connaissance], how it may have been problematized as an object to be known, to what selective procedure it may have been subjected, the part of it that is regarded as pertinent. So it is a matter of determining its mode of objectivation, which is not the same either, depending on the type of knowledge [savoir] that is involved.
This objectivation and this subjectivation are not independent of each other. From their mutual development and their interconnection, what could be called the "games of truth" come into being - that is, not the discovery of true things but the rules according to which what a subject can say about certain things depends on the question of true and false. In sum, the critical history of thought is neither a history of acquisitions nor a history of concealments of truth; it is the history of "veridictions", understood as the forms according to which discourses capable of being declared true or false are articulated concerning a domain of things. What the conditions of this emergence were, the price that was paid for it, so to speak, its effect on reality and the way in which, linking a certain type of object to certain modalities of the subject, it constituted the historical a priori of a possible experience for a period of time, an area and for given individuals.
Now, Michel Foucault did not pose this question - or this series of questions, which are those of an "archaeology of knowledge" - and does not wish to pose it concerning just any game of truth, but concerning only those in which the subject himself is posited as an object for possible knowledge: What are the processes of subjectivation and objectivation that made it possible for the subject qua subject to become an object of knowledge [connaissance], as a subject ? Of course it is a matter not of ascertaining how a "psychological knowledge" was constituted in the course of history but of discovering how various truth games were formed through which the subject became an object of knowledge. Michel Foucault attempted to conduct his analysis in two ways. First, in connection with the appearance and insertion of the question of the speaking, labouring, and living subject, in domains and according to the form of a scientific type of knowledge. This had to do with the formation of certain "human sciences", studied in reference to the practice of the empirical sciences, and of their characteristic discourse in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (The order of Things). Foucault also tried to analyse the formation of the subject as he may appear on the other side of a normative division, becoming an object of knowledge - as a madman, a patient or a delinquent, through practices such as those of psychiatry, clinical medicine and penality (Madness and Civilization, Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish).
Foucault has now undertaken, still within the same general project, to study the constitution of the subject as an object for himself: the formation of procedures by which the subject is led to observe himself, analyse himself, interpret himself, recognize himself as a domain of possible knowledge. In short, this concerns the history of "subjectivity", if what is meant by the term is the way in which the subject experiences himself in a game of truth where he relates to himself. The question of sex and sexuality appeared in Foucault's view, to constitute not the only possible example, certainly, but at least a rather privileged case. Indeed, it was in this connection that through the whole of Christianity and perhaps beyond, individuals were all called on to recognize themselves as subjects of pleasure, of desire, of lust, of temptation and were urged to deploy, by various means (self-examination, spiritual exercises, admission, confession), the game of true and false in regard to themselves and what constitutes the most secret, the most individual part of their subjectivity.
In sum, this history of sexuality is meant to constitute a third segment, added to the analyses of relations between the subject and truth or, to be exact, to the study of the modes according to which the subject was able to be inserted as an object in the games of truth.
Can anyone summarise this passage ???
is it just me or is the VA LR section of aimcats getting tougher with every passing mock?? bloody..pehle LR toh banta tha...depress karra dete time waale. i can understand Quant being set tougher, it helps. but i dont what purpose is served by such time consuming and faadu VA LR sets
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The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
The sentient supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman to stop what he is doing in a famous and weirdly
poignant scene towards the end of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death
by the malfunctioning computer, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial brain. 'Dave, my mind is going,'
HAL says, forlornly. 'I can feel it. I can feel it.'
I can feel it too. Over the last few years I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going - so far as I can tell - but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I feel it most strongly when I'm reading. I used to find it easy to immerse myself in a book or a lengthy article. But that's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration starts to drift after a page or two. I feel like I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.
I think I know what's going on. For well over a decade now, I've been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet. The Web's been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I've got the telltale fact or the pithy quote I was after. Even when I'm not working, I'm as likely as not to be foraging in the Web's data thickets. The Net has become my all-purpose medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich and easily searched store of data are many, and they've been widely described and duly applauded.
The boons are real. But they come at a price. Media aren't just channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I'm online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words; now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski. Maybe I'm an aberration, an outlier. But it doesn't seem that way. When I mention my troubles with reading to friends, many say they're suffering from similar afflictions. The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing. Some worry they're becoming chronic scatterbrains. Scott Karp, who used to work for a magazine and now writes a blog about online media, speculates: 'What if I do all my reading on the web not so much because the way I read has changed, i.e. I'm just seeking convenience, but because the way I think has changed?'
We seem to have arrived at an important juncture in our intellectual and cultural history, a moment of transition between two very different modes of thinking. What we're trading away in return for the riches of the Net - and only a curmudgeon would refuse to see the riches - is our old linear thought process. The calm, focused, undistracted linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts - the faster, the better.
What is the author's main argument in this passage?
1) The Internet changes the way people think and process information.
2) Overreliance on the Internet has led to a superficial mode of thinking.
3) Overuse of the Internet may lead to an inability to concentrate on large amounts of text.
4) People may lose the ability to think on their own due to the effects of the Internet.
Why does the author begin the passage with a description of a scene from a movie?
1) He wants to show that technology - like HAL as well as the Internet - can have a negative effect on the human mind.
2) He wants to show that his 'mind is going' due to an overdependence on machines, just as in the movie.
3) He wants to show how he is helpless to keep his mind from going, just like HAL is in the movie.
4) He wants to provide an analogy for how he can feel that his mind is changing, just like HAL does.
The author's attitude towards the Internet is that of:
1) anxiety and pessimism.
2) appreciation and apprehension.
3) admiration and condemnation.
4) concern and aversion.
Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words; now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.' What does the author mean by this?
1) Once he used to read deeply, but now he merely skims through text.
2) Once he used to take his time reading, but now he reads much more quickly.
3) Once he used to command a great vocabulary, but now he expresses himself in simpler words.
4) Once he could understand the deeper meanings of the books he read, but now he cannot see beyond the surface
Which of the following is a flaw in the author's main argument?
1) He assumes that everyone uses the Internet as much as he does.
2) He does not acknowledge that the Internet has both positive and negative qualities, and that the positive ones outweigh the negative ones.
3) He fails to take into consideration that the problems he is facing could be due to medical or psychological reasons.
4) He does not consider that some other aspect of modern life - such as watching TV or movies - could be causing the problems he is facing.
-IMS
Directions: The question is a logical sequence of sentences with a missing link, the location of which is shown parenthetically. From the four choices available, you are required to choose the one which best fits the sequence logically.
(…………………………………………). We have engineered cars, therefore, with engines whose performance reduces fuel consumption and emissions. That is also why we now construct cars with more and more recyclable and non-polluting materials. And we dampen the sound caused by incoming air and outgoing exhaust. We also build our engines with special components to insure that our cars leave only a minimum of noise in their path.
- We know that you will enjoy a car most when you are at ease with its ecological impact on the world outside.
- The cost of living keeps rising and we are aware that you want to economise
- The consumer today wants the best of both worlds.
- Our motto is: “The customer is our master!”
- People’s tastes vary, and to be successfully competitive, we have to cater for different and demanding tastes.
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Summary type questions:
It is important for shipping companies to be clear about the objectives for maintenance and materials management - as to whether the primary focus is on service level improvement or cost minimization. Often when certain systems are set in place, the cost minimization objective and associated procedure become more important than the flexibility required for service level improvement. The problem really arises since cost minimization tends to focus on out of pocket costs which are visible, while the opportunity costs, often greater in value, are lost sight of.
A. Shipping companies have to either minimize costs or maximize service quality. If they focus on cost minimization, they will reduce quality. They should focus on service level improvement, or else opportunity costs will be lost sight of.
B. Shipping companies should determine the primary focus of their maintenance and materials management. Focus on cost minimization may reduce visible costs, but ignore greater invisible costs and impair service quality.
C. Any cost minimization programme in shipping is bound to lower the quality of service. Therefore,shipping companies must be clear about the primary focus of their maintenance and materials management before embarking on cost minimization.
D. Shipping companies should focus on quality level improvement rather than cost cutting. Cost cutting will lead to untold opportunity costs. Companies should have systems in place to make the service level flexible.
(1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D
which test series do you find most in line with expected cat 2014???PS-
just in case u come across this poll in different threads,please answer
it only in one of the threads otherwise it will lead to overlapping and
mite not reveal the actual current. Thanks
- CL-…
- TIME-AIMCAT
- TEST FUNDA
- OTHERS
- IMS-SIMCAT
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