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Which one is correct:
- Her house is bigger than those of her relatives’ and friends’
- Her house is bigger than those of her relatives and friends
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Some one please explain answer to the below question . In my opinion , " these " should have a reference in the previous line ONLY and not any where before in the given paragraph . but the solution seems to suggest that it may have a reference anywhere in the paragraph before it . In my opinion this is against the grammar rule. Somebody please clarify this doubt to me .
P.S : question is attached in the form of the image . It is a question from TIME sectional tests
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someone kindly explain answer to this question . I am not able to understand what option 1 tries to say : comprehension is the issue with me . Or in fact I am not able to understand any option and what it implies . Someone plz enlighten me .
The question is given below :
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guys i need a quick and honest review from you. just attempted the va & rc section from cat 2003. 44 attempted 30 correct-14 wrong. time taken: around 60-65 minutes. want to know how bad the score is 😞
p.s I know i should've completed the whole test but i'm feeling too damn sleepy to do it
Mock CAT 2014 solutions by IIM?
Please tell wheather the below mentioned sentences are facts or inference:
Gold is the most expensive metal in the world.
The growth rate of China is much higher than that of India.
Indian cricketers are the highest paid cricketers in the world.
The 6th of february, 2008 was the coldest day in Mumbai.
The highest population growth leads to increasing stress on infrastructure.
According to Dr. Mathur's post mortem report, Mrs. Jaya was probably murdered on the night of 13th Of August.
The length, MN, and the breadth, NO, of a rectangle MNOP are 10 cm and 5 cm respectively. MN is split up into ten equal segments, by marking nine equidistant points − A, B, . . . . . H and I − between M and N. Now, if ten straight lines are drawn connecting P with each of the ten points A, B, . . . . H, I and N, find the total area (in sq.cm) of all the triangles which can be observed in the resultant figure.
Q1. The equation |x-1| - |x-2| + |x-4| = m has exactly n real solutions for some real m. Then which among the following relations between m and n can not be true?
(A) m/n = 3/5
(B) m = n
(C) m/n = 3/2
(D) m/n = 5/3
(E) m = n-1
Thus the end of knowledge and the closing of the frontier that it symbolizes is not a looming crisis at all, but merely one of many embarrassing fits of hubris in civilization’s long industry. In the end, it will pass away and be forgotten. Ours is not the first generation to struggle to understand the organizational laws of the frontier, deceive itself that it has succeeded, and go to its grave having failed.
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- But we might be the first generation to actually reach the frontier.
- But we might be the first generation to deal with the crisis.
- However, this time the success is not illusory
- One would be wise to be humble.
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Hi frnds please help in below question:
The pages of a book are numbered 0, 1, 2, ... up to M, M > 0. There are four categories of instructions that direct a person in positioning the book at a page. The instruction types and their meanings are: 1- OPEN: Position the book at page No. 1 2- CLOSE: Position the book at page No. 0 3- FORWARD, n: From the current page move forward by n pages; if, in this process, page number M is reached, stop at M. 4- BACKWARD, n: From the current page, move backward by n pages; if in this process, page number 0 is reached, stop at page number 0. In each of the following questions, you will find a sequence of instructions formed from the above categories. In each case, let n1 be the page number before the instructions are executed and n2 be the page number at which the book is positioned after the instructions are executed. Q.1 BACKWARD, 5; FORWARD, 5. Which of the following statements is true about the above set of instructions? A n1 = n2 provided n1 ≥ 5 B n1 = n2 provided n1 > 0 C n2 = 5 provided M > 0 D n1 > n2 provided M > 0 Q.2 FORWARD, 10; FORWARD, 10. Which of the following statements about the above instructions is true? A n2 - n1 = 20 only if n1 = 0 B n2 - n1 = 20 if M > 20 and n1 = 1 C n2 - n1 = 10 if M= 21 and n1 = 0 D n2> n1 if M > 0
A. It is against this background and in this context that we must begin our understanding of political theory.
B. Students of anthropology and of animal behavior are making it increasingly clear that in man, most of the other primates, and in many other animal species as well, social life and organization are primary biological survival devices.
C. What we call political and social organization- the customs, practices, and procedures that with varying degrees of firmness hold men together in interrelated groups- is perhaps the most important form of human adaptation to environment, both external and internal.
D. Man has no leathery armor like a turtle or spines like a porcupine, but he does have social life and the capacity to organize it effectively for survival purposes
(a) BCAD (b) CBDA (c) BCDA (d) DCBA
A. Even to suggest, in the recent climate, that an artwork might be good because it is pleasurable, as opposed to cognitively, morally or politically beneficial, is to court derision.
B. Much of the discourse about beauty since the Eighteenth century had deployed a notion of the 'aesthetic', and so that notion in particular came in for criticism.
C. The twentieth century has not been kind to the notions of beauty or the aesthetic
. D. This disdain for the aesthetic may have roots in a broader cultural Puritanism, which fears the connection between the aesthetic and pleasure.
(a) BCAD (b) BDAC (c) BDCA (d) ABCD
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Studies show that most people on road may be apparently compliant, but they do not bother too much about jumping a traffic red light if they believe no one is watching them. Possibly, the lack of fear of being caught is the major culprit in such cases.
Which of the following best weakens the above conclusion?
- People more often jump red lights than they take wrong U-turns on the road.
- The criminal justice system in case of traffic offences is so flawed that conviction rate is not more than 1%
- The police department plans to hike the fine from $40 to $100 for each such offense.
- Several traffic lights were recently found to be defective in Washington.
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RC:
In the 1950s, Niels Jerne, the famous Swiss immunologist, rocked the world of immunology to its core. At the time, there was a nearly unanimous consensus among immunologists that antibody formation was equivalent to a learning process in which the antigen played an instructive role. Antigens are usually proteins or polysaccharides that make up parts of cell surfaces. These cells can be microbes, such as bacteria or viruses, or nonmicrobial, such as pollen, or protein from transplanted organs, tissues or on the surface of transfused blood cells. Jerne suggested that instead of a specifically designed antibody being formed when an antigen presented itself, the body was born supplied with all the different types of antibodies that it was ever going to have: antigens were merely molecules that were recognized or selected by one of these innate antibodies. No instruction was going on, just selection. The complexity is built into the immune system, it doesn't become more so over time. His ideas are the foundation for what is now known about antibody response and clonal selection theory (the cloning, that is, the multiplying, of white blood cells with receptors that bind to invading antigens). Most of these antibodies will never encounter a matching foreign antigen, but those that do are activated and produce many clones of themselves to bind and inactivate the invading antigen.
Jerne kept on shaking things up. He later suggested that if the immune system works on this selection process, then most likely other systems do, too, including the brain. He wrote an article in 1967, entitled 'Antibodies and Learning: Selection versus Instruction', on the importance of viewing the brain as responding to selection processes and not to instruction: the brain was not an undifferentiated mass that could learn anything, just as the immune system was not an undifferentiated system that could produce any type of antibody. He made the startling suggestion that learning may actually be the process of sorting through pre-existing capacities that we innately possess to apply to a particular challenge facing us at a moment in time. In other words, these capacities are genetically determined neural networks specialized for particular kinds of learning. An oft-used example is that it is easy to learn to be afraid of snakes, while it is difficult to learn to be afraid of flowers. We have a built-in template that elicits a fear reaction when we detect certain types of motion, such as slithering in the grass, but no such innate reaction to flowers. Here, just as in the immune system, the idea is that complexity is built into the brain. The very important idea is that there is selection from pre-existing capacity. But it also implies constraints. If the capacity is not built-in, it does not exist.
The older model of the brain featured an undifferentiated mass ready to learn: any brain could learn anything. For such a brain, it would be as easy to teach it to enjoy the fragrance of roses as the stench of rotten eggs. Jerne's ideas challenged this conception and argued that the brain is built in a very specific way, which is genetically determined, and that we arrive from the baby factory mostly prewired.
What is the main topic of this passage?
1) Niels Jerne's radical medical ideas
2) Jerne's theory about antibody formation in immunology
3) Niels Jerne's views on learning and the structure of the brain
4) The connection between the immune system and the brain, as per Jerne
What was Niels Jerne's big idea as given in the first paragraph?
1) The immune system does not become more complex over time.
2) The immune system is much more complex than previously supposed.
3) Antibodies target specific antigens, rather than responding to all kinds of antigens at random.
4) Antibodies are present in the body from birth, rather than being formed in response to specific antigens.
What, according to the passage, is the similarity between the immune system and the brain?
1) Just as the immune system has the pre-existing capacity to produce any type of antibody, the brain has the inbuilt capacity to learn anything.
2) The immune system has a pre-existing set of antibodies from birth; similarly, the brain has an inborn set of mental templates that are applied when learning.
3) The immune system has the ability to select which antibody can be used with which antigen; in the same way, the brain can select which mental template to use when learning different things.
4) None of the above
What is the most likely source of this passage?
1) A scholarly article on antibody formation
2) A news item in a contemporary medical journal
3) A book on medical theories written in the 1980s
4) An extract from the biography of Niels Jerne
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Any post/links..for writing statement of purpose....
2nd slot of CAT. What time will you report the centre?
- Chod yar, is sal nahin. Next year aur pad ke denge
- 1 pm obviously. Duh!
- 1-1:30 pm
- 1:30-2 pm
- 2-2:30 pm
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For thousands of years millions of men have labored to clear the forests, to drain the marshes, and to open up highways by land and water. Every inch of soil we cultivate in Europe has been watered by the sweat of several races of men. Every acre has its story of enforced labor, of intolerable toil, of people’s sufferings. Every mile of railway, every yard of tunnel, ….