Gave my first mock for SBI PO (PO1 at Oliveboard)
Got a score of 51. What to make of this performance ?And what can be the cutoff for Prelims.
Thanks
- If the verb indicates a purpose, an infinitive must be used and if the verb indicates a cause, a gerund must be used.
Thus,
- He went to the mall for watching a movie. (Incorrect)
- He went to the mall to watch a movie. (Correct)
- He was suspended to show indiscipline. (Incorrect)
- He was suspended for showing indiscipline.(Correct)
2. 'As' is not used with verbs like 'appointed', 'elected' , 'considered', 'called' but it is used with the word 'regard'.
Thus,
- He was elected as Secretary of the organisation. (Incorrect)
- He was elected Secretary of the organisation. (Correct)
- I regard Sahil my best friend. (Incorrect)
- I regard Sahil as my best friend. (Correct)
1) Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island.
2) India's name is derived from the "Indus" river.
3) Indus Valley Civilisation is the world's oldest civilisation.
4) India, hence, is the world's oldest, most advanced and continuous civilisation.
5) India has been the largest troop contributor to the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions since its inception.
6) India has the world's third largest active army, after China and USA.
7) The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.
8) Every 12 years, a religious gathering called the Kumbh Mela occurs in India. It is the world's largest gathering of people.
9) The gathering is so large that the Kumbh Mela is visible from the space.
Kumbh Mela from Space.
10) Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
11) India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.
12) And the third largest Muslim population in the world.
13) Takshila is said to be the first every university in the world; it started around 700 BC.
14) Today, India has the world's largest school in terms of students, the City Montessori School in Lucknow. It has more than 45 thousand students!
15) Indian Railways employs more than 1.3 million people. That's more than the population of many nations.
16) More than 54 crore people voted in the 2014 General Election - more people than the population of USA, UK, Australia and Japan combined.
17) Number of births in India every year is more than the total population of Australia, and many other nations.
18) India has the largest English speaking population in the world.
19) At an estimate, 25% of the total workforce of the world's population will be from India in the next year or so.
20) India's first rocket was brought on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart.
21) And despite budgetary constraints, India's space program is one of the top 5 space programs in the world.
India's first rocket, on a cycle.
22) In 2004, 200 women took law in their own hands and came to the court armed with vegetable knives and chilli powder and murdered on the court floor a serial rapist - Akku Yadav. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.
23) English Actor Sir Ben Kingsley's birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is of Indian descent.
24) Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteor hitting the Earth and is one of its kind in India.
25) In a village called Shani Shingnapur in Maharashtra, people have been living in houses with no doors for generations. This is because they believe that whoever steals anything from this place will incur the wrath of Shani God and will have to pay for his/her sins very dearly. There is no police station in this village either.
26) Magnetic Hill is a gravity hill located near Leh in Ladakh, India. The hill is alleged to have magnetic properties strong enough to pull cars uphill and force passing aircraft to increase their altitude in order to escape magnetic interference.
27) Viswanathan Anand is the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match.
28) Chess was invented in India.
29) Buttons were invented in India. Yes, your shirt's buttons.
30) We also invented the ruler.
31) And shampoo.
32) And discovered the number zero.
33) And the value of pi.
34) And trigonometry, algebra, calculus.
35) And cataract surgery.
36) And plastic surgery.
37) And diamond mining.
38) And water on the moon.
39) Until 1986, the only place where diamonds had been officially found was in India.
40) India has banned all captive dolphins, stating that dolphins should be viewed of non human persons.
41) India's tech capital, Bangalore, has increased its office supply by six times since 2006, and now has more Grade-A offices than Singapore.
42) India is the largest producer of films in the world.
43) India is the largest milk producer in the world.
44) India leads the world with the most murders (32,719) per year, with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.
45) To avoid polluting the elements (fire, earth, water, air), followers of Zoroastrianism in India don't bury their dead, but instead leave bodies in buildings called "Towers of Silence" for the vultures to pick clean. After the bones dry, they are swept into a central well.
46) Karmanasa River in India is considered to be a cursed river and it is believed that touching its water would ruin one's plans. There's hardly any development along this river. People around this river just eat dry fruits because cooking food would require water!
47) Three major religions, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism were established in India.
48) Chail in Himachal Pradesh is the highest cricket pitch in the world. It is situated at an elevation of 2444 meters (above the sea level).
49) The India-Pakistan World Cup semi-final match in Mohali drew 150 million viewers worldwide.
50) Sachin Tendulkar. (Okay, you knew this!)
51) The first Granite Temple of the world, the Brihadeswara Temple is situated in Tamil Nadu. It was built during the 11th century, in only five years.
52) Around the 17th century, India was one of the richest countries in the world.
53) Today, India is the world's third largest economy.
54) India is one of the only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are the other two).
55) The world's largest road network is in India-over 1.9 million miles of roads cover the country.
56) India has the largest amount of vegetarians in the world.
57) So much so that Pizza Hut had to open their first pure vegetarian restaurant in the country.
58) And KFC had to introduce a "vegetarian" menu for India.
59) And so did McDonalds, the world's largest fast-food manufacturer.
60) Chai is India's national drink.
61) India grows 1.2 million tons of mangoes every year, weight equivalent to 80,000 blue whales.
62) The state of Meghalaya is the wettest inhabited place of earth.
63) India gave the world Yoga, that has existed for more than 5,000 years.
64) May 26 is celebrated as the Science Day in Switzerland in honour of former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, because on the day, Kalam visited the country
65) Martial Arts was first created in India.
66) The world's biggest family lives in India. One man, 39 wives and 94 children.
67) India is the world's largest importer of arms.
68) But India has never invaded or attacked a country.
Solution with explanation please..
A and B run in opposite directions from a point P on the circumference of a circle with different but constant speeds. A runs in clockwise direction. They meet for the first time at a distance of 900 mts in the clockwise direction from P and for the second time at a distance of 800mts in anticlockwise direction from P and B is yet to complete one round. The circumference of the circle is..?
a. 1700 m
b. 1250 m
c. 1300 m
d. 1200 m
Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting in row I, facing South and six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in row II, facing North. Each person in row I is facing exactly one person from row II. The following information is known about their seating arrangement.
F is sitting opposite P and is at an end. The number of persons sitting to the left of T is equal to the number of persons sitting to the right of Q. Only one person is sitting between F and B, who faces T. S is sitting to the left of R, but is not sitting adjacent to R. U is neither adjacent to R nor opposite A. A is an immediate neighbour of C and is sitting second to the right of E. T is not facing the neighbour of A.
guys will the questions in the priliminary phase be difficult?? especially of quants? will we have DI in phase 1??
i just gave olivebord test 2 my scores are
EL 15.75
qa 3.75
LR 10
total 29.50 , enough to clear cut offs?? im sc candidate
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2 shots are fired from a stationary gun carriage with a gap of 25 mins between them..a motorist moving away from the gun carriage heard the second shot 27 mins after the first one. what is the ratio of speed of sound to that of the motorist?
a. 25:2
b. 49:1
c. 50:1
d. NOT
Can anyone give me a link of mrunal.org where he is discussing the studyplan of SBI PO maths section? Please
friends I have been working in ubi for 2 yrs now and I have rural posting and static kind of job where I have to work but have not much to learn.....if I leave it for sbi po now will it benefit as I think sbi po gets good exposure in banking industry. ...
What is the rate of interest p.c. p.fa charged on a sum of Rs.64000?
I. The sum is borrowed on compound interest, with interest being compounded annually.
II. The compound interest on the sum for the fourth year is Rs.31250
III. The compound interest on the sum for the fifth year is Rs.39062.50
What is the overall profit or loss for the shopkeeper on selling two articles?
I. The two articles are sold for Rs.6,930 each.
II. The difference between the cost prices of the two articles is Rs.1400.
III. There is a loss of 10% on one article and a gain of 10% on the other
In how many hours can two pipes A and B together fill a tank?
I. The time taken by pipe A alone to fill the tank is 8 hours more than that taken by A and B together.
II. The time taken by pipe B alone to fill the tank is 18 hours more than that taken by A and B together.
III. The number of hours in which A and B together can fill the tank is an intege
What is the average of five distinct positive integers?
I. All the numbers lie between 10 and 20 and their sum is more than 80.
II. Out of the five numbers exactly two are even.
III. The average of the smallest and the greatest numbers among the five is 15.
14, 18, 26, ?, 74, 138
6789, 6788, 6761, ?, 6293, 5564
Eight persons J, K, L, M, N, P, Q and R are sitting around a square table facing the centre, but not necessarily in the same order. They are sitting in such a way that four persons are sitting at the four corners of the table and each of the remaining four persons is sitting at the center of each side of the table. Each person has a son of different age, Viz, 7 yrs, 9 yrs, 10 yrs, 15 yrs, 16 yrs, 17 yrs, 18 yrs, and 22 yrs. Following information is known about them.
Q sits second to the right of the person whose son is 10 yrs old. J's son is 10 yrs old and J sits three places away from P. L's son is younger than N's son. K sits opposite the person, whose son is 16 yrs old and is a neighbour of P. L is not a neighbour of J, but sits second to the left of the person whose son is the oldest. The person whose son is the youngest sits third to the left of R, who is not a neighbour of J. The person whose son is 15 yrs old sits third to the right of the person whose son is the second youngest. N's son is neither 17 yrs old nor 15 yrs old.
1. Who's son is the third oldest?
a. M b. L c. N d. R e. None
2. Who sits opposite to R?
a. M b. L c. The person whose son is the youngest
d. The person whose son is 10 yrs old e. CBD
3. How many persons sit between L and the person whose son is 15 yrs old, when counted from the left of L?
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 1 e. CBD
4. Who sits second to the left of the person whose son is the youngest?
a. M b. L c. The person whose son is the 2nd oldest
d. The person whose son is the 2nd youngest e. J
5. Four out of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Find the one who does not belong to that group.
a. K, 15 yrs b. P, 7 yrs c. R, J d. N, L e. L, 18 yrs
WHICH TEST SERIES ARE YOU ATTEMPTING?
A 10 litre cylinder contains a mixture of sugar and water, the volume of sugar being 15% of total volume. A few litres of mixture is released and an equal amount of water is added . then the same amount of the mixture as before is released and replaced with water for the second time. As a result, the sugar content becomes 10% of the total volume. What is the approximate quantity of mixture released each time?
1
1.2
1.5
2
2.2
Ans - 2Litre
Directions (1-5): In each of the questions below are given two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusion and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. Give answers:
(1) Only conclusions I follows
(2) Only conclusions II follows
(3) Either conclusion I or II follows
(4) Neither conclusion I nor II follows
(5) Both conclusion I & II follows
For Qs (1-3) Statements: All stars are bottles.
Some bottles are papers.
No paper is a calendar.
1. Conclusions: I. All star being paper is a possibility.
II. No calendar is a bottle.
2. Conclusions: I. All calendars being stars is a possibility.
II. At least some bottles are stars.
3. Conclusions: I. At least some calendars are bottles.
II. No calendar is a star.
For Qs (4-5) Statements: Some pencils are blanket.
All blankets are erasers.
4. Conclusions: I. At least some pencils are erasers.
II. All blankets are erasers.
5. Conclusions: I. No eraser is a pencil.
II. All blankets being pencils is a possibility.
Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.
A, B, C, D, E, G and H are eight friends travelling in three different cars viz X, Y and Z, which at least two in one car to three different places viz Delhi, Chandigarh and Agra.
There is at least one female member in each car. D is travelling with G to Delhi but not in car Y. A is travelling with only H in car Z but not to Chandigarh. C is not travelling with either D or E. F and D are studying in the same only girl's college. H, B and G are studying in the same boy's college.
6. Which of the following represents the group of females?
(1) F, C, A (2) F, G, A
(3) D, C, A (4) Data inadequate
(5) None of these
7. Which of the following combinations is correct?
(1) Delhi - X - C
(2) Chandigarh - X - F
(3) Agra - Z - E
(4) Delhi - Y - E
(5) None of these
8. Which of the following cars carrying four people?
(1) Either X or Z (2) Y
(3) Either X or Y (4) Z
(5) None of these
9. In which of the following cars is C travelling?
(1) X (2) Y
(3) Z (4) Either X or Y
(5) Data inadequate
10. Which of the following cars is carrying people to Chandigarh?
(1) Y (2) X
(3) Either X or Y (4) Data inadequate
(5) None of these
Answers:
1 (1)
2 (5)
3 (4)
4 (5)
5 (2)
Solutions (6-10)
X (Delhi) Y (Chandigarh) Z (Agra)
D (female) C A (female)
G (male) F (female) H (male)
E
B (male) travelling in either X or Y
6 (5)
7 (5)
8 (5)
9 (2)
10 (1)