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Each week, thousands of retirees swap the pension pots they have built up over their working lives for a product that provides  an income in retirement , called  an annuity.

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As geographical barriers are eliminated students are able to interact with students from a diverse background.

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The learning is self directed and students are able to design their curriculum to fit their unique interests, skill level and career goals

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The instuctions in the mock cat at iimcat  website specified 4 options, however many quesions had 5 options......ambiguous

Q.  Arrange the sentences  B, C,D and E  between the sentences A & F toform a logical sequence  & to construct a coherent paragraph.

 

A. Man cannot except through his mind. He comes on this earth unarmed.

B. Man has no claws, no fangs,no horns and no great strength of muscle.

C. Animals  obtain food by force.

D. He must plant his food or hunt it.

E. His brain is his only weapon.

F. To plant he needs a process of thought; to hunt he needs weapons and to make weapons --the process of thought.

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A. The villagers  sat under the..............(.1..shadow/2.shade) of a tree to take rest.

B The dog saw its own................(3. shade/4.shadow) in water  and started barking at it.


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What do you guys intend to do in a moderate level cat exam? Please give an honest reply 

  • devote more time to section 1
  • equal time to both the sections
  • devote more time to section 2

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"Reduce" vs "decrease"


These two words do mean the same thing in general. However, "reduce usually refers to the action taken by an agent, while "decrease" usually refers to the drop in quantity itself. Therefore, "reduce" is usually used BEFORE the object and "decrease" is used AFTER the object

Example:"Tylenol will reduce fever." (used BEFORE "fever")
"If the fever does not decrease within two hours, call your doctor." (used AFTER fever)

"To reduce your risk of certain cancers, quit smoking." (used BEFORE "risk")
"If you quit smoking, your risk for cancer will decrease." (used AFTER "risk")

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Is the sentence '"three fourths of the cakes have been eaten'" grammatically correct?

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Q. No. 16  Arrange the sentences  B, C,D and E  between the sentences A & F to form a logical sequence  & to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. Speech was the first means of conveying information.

B. Thirdly printing helped in dissemination of knowledge in a permanent form.

C. Then writing as a means introduced a capacity for storing information.

D. Computer is the only medium that cannot only store but analyse information to make decision.

E. However all these are passive media.

F. Therefore computer is hailed as the fourth information revolution.

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Q.  Arrange the sentences  B, C,D and E  between the sentences A & F  to form a logical sequence  & to construct a coherent paragraph.



A. Those are fortunate people who have good, true and faithful friends.

B. It is a sacred attachment or a bond of interest between two persons of a congenial mind.

C. True friendship increases our happiness in prosperity and diminishes our misery in adversity.

D. Friendship often springs from similarity of taste, feelings and sentiments. 

E. However true friendship should be based on truth and such vices as selfishness,greed and falsehood should be kept out of it.

F.It must be borne in mind that prosperity breeds and multiplies friends and adversity tests them.

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According to its proponents, Dada was not art- it was "anti-art". It was anti-art in the sense that Dadaists protested against the contemporary academic and cultured values of art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art were to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strove to have no meaning - interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada is to offend. Through their rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics, the Dadaists hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.

If the above is true, which of the following could be considered a legitimate expression of Dadaism?

  a)Marcel Duchamp's exhibition of a public urinal entitled 'Fountain' as ready-made-art in 1917.

  b)Rene Magritte's 1929 painting, 'The Treachery of Images', which shows a pipe with the words 'This is not a pipe' written below it.  

c)Hugo Ball choosing to write his novels in a language full of general axioms, leaving it up to the reader to decide the context in which they fit that knowledge. 

 d)Francisco Picabia's 1919 composition of a song in a language only he and his ancestors could understand.

hey guys, I am in urgent need of practice questions on Word Usage. example questions are listed below :

Q. the students accessed(A)/assessed(B) their results .... she spoke with an american accent(a)/Assent(b).....

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(a) AAAB (b) BABA (c) BBAA (d) ABAB

Q. Cream :

A) would you like some CREAM in ur coffee?

B) they decided to paint their room with shade of CREAM

c).........

d).........

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