By the time the school celebrates its silver jubilee in 2008, Mr. Anand _____ there for five years.
guys i am in need of help!... last time i got 66% in cat, i know it was terrible marks, i dont blame the system, but myself for committing unforgivable mistakes..
i have not taken any coaching, nor have googled much to know more abt the pattern. all i need to know is what are the types of questions we can expect in VA this year.
last time, i dint prepare for Inference, judgement and similar questions, will they ask such questions this year?...
i would be greatful if anyone makes a list of the types of questions...
i will begin..
1. Para jumbling
2. para completion.
3. fill in the blank.
.......
Choose out of given options the word appropriate to be filled in blank space.
1. The tourists were ..............by the view of mountains.
a)enlightened b)enraged c)enraptured d)enriched
2. The victim made an.............plea for mercy.
e) impersonal f)impassioned g) impassive h)impassable
3. The young boy is very.............for his age.
h)Premature i)immature j)Unmature k) undermature
A circular economy is one which would mean organizing industrial parks in such a manner that a power company, a drug company, a wall-board producer and an oil refinery would be located near one another so that they could use one another's solid and liquid wastes as raw materials. This would effectively curb the pollution around the area.
Which of the following is an assumption in the above conclusion that such a system would do away with pollution?
Options:
1.
The companies are located in the order by which the wastes of one can be used by the adjacent one and so on.
2.
The companies are built in a circle so that there is no waste left behind unutilized.
3.
Pollution is caused substantially by solid and liquid wastes.
4.
Solid and liquid wastes are easily convertible into required raw materials.
This India is a frighteningly linear narrative. Only banning and banishments can keep this India intact. It was in this India that 'The Satanic Verses' was banned even before Iran woke up to the blasphemy, and for a while, its author, an Indian by birth and imagination, was denied entry. It was in this India that some Catholic organizations almost convinced the 'secular' government that the screening of 'The Da Vinci Code' would cause cracks on Peter's Rock. In this India, the culturally paranoid are not let down by the so-called secular state. It is in this India that the over-whelming silliness of a public kiss has become an assault on civilization.
Which of the following can aptly conclude the author's viewpoint?
Options:
1.
It is in clash with the India that doesn't require cultural bodyguards.
2.
The power of orthodoxy can still make it a country unsafe for ideas that dare.
3.
We have no escape from the fury of religion and its war against metaphors.
4.
This India is a huge hypocrisy
Mr. Gautam _____ this car for eleven years before I purchased it from him.
Options:
1.had
2.had had
3.has had
4.was having
Find the odd one out
Options:
1.massive
2.large
3.monumental
4.astronomical
a) Two year's of political upheaval have battered tourism, a motor of Egypt's economy.
b)Its working population is rising by about 12m people a year, even as China's shrank last year by 3m.
are these sentences correct?
In how many ways the letter of the word JUPITER be arranged in a row such that vowel appear in alphabetic order.
Please provide solution..
guyzz I am back preparing for cat after a gap of one year and my exam is on 22 nov. what changes should i make in my prep strategy apart from the obvious change in the pattern this year ?
Pls if anyone have any link to some article regarding this , do post ..... badly in need of some advice
how to prepare for facts, inference and judgements type questions...?? any links to study pages... thanx in advance
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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. 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.
A man left home at x minutes after 4 p.m. and returned home at y minutes after 6 p.m. to find that the hour hand and the minute hand of his watch had interchanged positions. What is the value of (x - y)?
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there are 10 seats numbered 1,2,3.... 10
A sits on 1
B sits 2 places away from A
B sits on 3 or 4 ?
Karl Marx's criticism of capitalism was based, in part, on his justified claim that the Industrial Revolution had destroyed the historical relationship between craftsmen and the goods they produced. Assembly-line work turned people into cogs in a giant machine, and the machine didn't care about workers' need for effectance (i.e. competence or mastery). Later research on job satisfaction supported Marx's critique, but added nuance. In the 1960s, sociologists found that the key to understanding which jobs were satisfying was what they called 'occupational self direction'. People who were closely supervised in jobs of low complexity and much routine showed the highest degree of alienation (feeling powerless, dissatisfied and separated from the work). People who had more latitude in deciding how they approached work that was varied and challenging tended to enjoy their work much more. More recent research finds that most people approach their work in one of three ways: as a job, a career or a calling. If you see your work as a job, you do it only for the money, you look at the clock frequently while dreaming about the weekend ahead, and you probably pursue hobbies, which satisfy your effectance needs more thoroughly than your work does. If you see your work as a career, you have larger goals of advancement, promotion and prestige. The pursuit of these goals often energizes you, and you sometimes take work home with you because you want to get the job done properly. Yet, at times, you wonder why you work so hard. You might occasionally see your work as a rat race where people are competing for the sake of competing. If you see your work as a calling, however, you find your work intrinsically fulfilling - you are not doing it to achieve something else. You see your work as contributing to the greater good or as playing a role in some larger enterprise, the worth of which seems obvious to you. You frequently get caught up in your work, and don't particularly look forward to 'quitting time' or the weekend. You would continue to work, perhaps even without pay, if you suddenly became very wealthy.
You might think that blue-collar workers have jobs, managers have careers, and the more respected professionals (doctors, scientists, clergy) have callings. Although there is some truth to that expectation, we can nonetheless paraphrase Marcus Aurelius and say, 'Work itself is but what you deem it'. Amy Wrzesniewski, a psychologist at New York University, finds all three orientations represented in almost every occupation she has examined. In a study of hospital workers, for example, she found that the janitors who cleaned bed pans and mopped up vomit - perhaps the lowest-ranking job in a hospital - sometimes saw themselves as part of a team whose goal was to heal people. They went beyond the minimum requirements of their job description, for example, by trying to brighten up the rooms of very sick patients or anticipating the needs of the doctors and nurses rather than waiting for orders. In doing so, they increased their own occupational self-direction and created for themselves jobs that satisfied their effectance needs. Those janitors who worked this way saw their work as a calling and enjoyed it far more than those who saw it as a job.
The optimistic conclusion coming out of this research is that most people can get more satisfaction from their work. The first step is to know your strengths, and then choose work that allows you to use your strengths every day. If you are stuck in a job that doesn't match your strengths, recast and reframe your job so that it does. Maybe you'll have to do some extra work for a while, like the hospital janitors who were acting on strengths of kindness, loving, emotional intelligence or citizenship. If you can engage your strengths, you'll find more gratification in work; if you find gratification, you'll shift into a more positive, approach-oriented mindset; and in such a mindset it will be easier for you to see the bigger picture - the contribution you are making to a larger enterprise - within which your job might turn into a calling.
What is the author's purpose in writing this passage?
1) To encourage people to change the way they work
2) To guide people towards finding fulfilment in their work
3) To show what kind of work leads to job satisfaction
4) To prove that work fails to meet most people's effectance needs
5) To demonstrate that people need to find work that engages them
Which of the following examples makes the same point as the example of the hospital janitors in this passage?
1) Research shows that lawyers who see their work as a way of helping clients get justice, are more satisfied than those who see it as a way of earning a lot of money.
2) A survey found that professionals such as doctors and clergymen report higher job satisfaction than people in managerial posts, but the same as many people in service industry jobs.
3) A study has shown that people who choose their jobs based on their personal strengths and inclinations are happier than those who do so based on the social prestige of the jobs.
4) A report showed that people who put all their energy into pursuing a career, including taking work home and working overtime, find that when they do achieve career success, they are less satisfied than they expected to be.
5) None of the above
Does the author agree with Karl Marx's criticism?
1) No - the whole passage shows how Marx was completely wrong about the causes of job satisfaction.
2) Yes - the passage shows the negative effect of workers being alienated from their work, as critiqued by Marx.
3) Partially - he agrees with Marx about the causes of alienation, but shows that people do have a certain amount of control over their job satisfaction.
4) To some extent - he agrees with Marx that the Industrial Revolution resulted in workers' effectance needs remaining unmet, but disagrees about how to fix this.
5) Cannot be determined - the author mentions studies that partially agree with Marx's views, but his own opinion cannot be discerned.
What, according to the author, is the correct order of preferability of the different types of work?
1) A job is preferable to a career, but not to a calling.
2) A career is preferable to a job as well as a calling.
3) A job is better than a career, but as good as a calling.
4) A career is better than a calling, which is better than a job
5) A career is preferable to a job, but not to a calling.
Which of the following people is most likely to see his/her work as a calling?
1) A would-be-musician who works as a waiter while hoping to make it big as a singer
2) A teacher who enjoys teaching and loves her students, but who also looks forward to the vacations eagerly
3) A writer who has not had any books published so far, but persists in trying to get published because he loves to write
4) An actress who takes any roles she can get, because even the smallest roles could open the way to something bigger in the future
5) A doctor who finds more meaning in her after-hours volunteer work among the homeless than in her 9-to-5 job at a clinic
-IMS
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