Getting an MBA

Can you provide me previous year question paper of Common Admission Test (CAT) entrance exam for admission in MBA course for preparation so that I can get good marks?

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The previous year question paper of Common Admission Test (CAT) entrance exam for admission in MBA course for preparation so that you can get good marks is as follows:

Direction-Q. 1 & 2 In each question there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar including, spelling, punctuation and usage. Pick out the most appropriate option, out of the given options that follow the question to indicate incorrect sentences
Q.1
A.It is heartening to note that many a progressive muslim women’s organizations
B. have emerged in our country to carry on the saga of emancipation. The petition of
C. Badar Sayeed in the Madras High Court is one such effort, which should be supported
D. by the silent majority of muslims who do want to usher in a change.
1. A&B 2. C&D 3. C only 4. A&D

Q.2
A.While courting India as a key Asia ally, U.S. has deployed
B. its covert machinery to watch New Delhi’s shoulder.
C. The latest tranche of NSA documents reveal
D. the Indian Embassy in Washington D.C. too was targeted
1. B&C 2.A&B 3. D only 4. C only
Direction-Q.3 & 4 In each question there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar including, spelling, punctuation and usage. Then pick out the most appropriate option, out of the given options that follow the question to indicate the best way of writing standard written English.

Q.3
A.The serial blasts deserve all round condemnation
B.in strongest possible words as the perpetrators targeted
C. the place of religious faith of crores of people with an aim
D. to create fear among them. After inspecting the blast sites at the Mahabodhi temple
E. and surrounding areas in Gaya district with senior civil and police officials, told the reporters.
1. A,B &D 2. A,B,C &E 3. A,C & D 4. B,C&D
Q.4 –
A. Across the globe an estimated 20.9 millions of people
B.are currently living in modern slavery, stripped of their dignity and humanity,
C. to effectively forced work without pay, trapped behind bars and worse.
D. The world’s most vulnerable sentenced to a lifetime of rape, abuse and extreme labour.
1. A,B&D 2. B,C & D 3. A&C 4.B&D
Direction- question 5 & 6–The sentences as given below in the question, when arranged properly, form a meaningful paragraph. Choose the most appropriate order of sentences out of the given options
A.the competition watchdog have expressed reservations about both the deal as well as the substantial seat enhancement
B.The Prime Minister (PM), an inter-ministerial group (IMG), a Parliamentary Committee, the capital market regulator and last but not the least,
C. the weekly seat entitlement to 40,000 seats between India and Abu Dhabi has raised several pertinent questions from key quarters.
D.That the pricing of the deal between Jet Airways and Etihad Airways came so quick on the heels of signing a lucrative bilateral agreement increasing

ABCD 2.DCBA 3.CDAB 4.BADC
Q.6
A.If we take a stand now, we can make ending slavery a global priority ,
B. Without the attention of world leaders, they have been able to enslave more people today than at any point in history
C.ensuring those trapped in the silent web of slavery are not ignored.
D.Those who perpetuate modern slavery count on our silence to drive their profits. They survive on secrecy and stigma..
1.CBAD 2.BDAC 3.DBAC 4.ACDB

Direction-question-7 & 8 – Out of the five sentences as given below and labelled A,B,C,D.E in the question, four, when arranged properly, will form a meaningful and coherent paragraph while one of the sentences is out of context. Choose the most appropriate order of sentences out of the given options with out of context sentence marked in brackets.
Q.7
A.over the last year, none of the FMCG majors have initiated a standalone portal to sell their wares in India.
B.the company-owned bottling entity of the Atlanta-based beverage giant, Coke2Home.com went live recently
C.the e-commerce bandwagon hoping to cash in on growing number of consumers
D. making purchases over the internet. While many egrocery stores have come up
E.With online retail growing rapidly, many brick-and mortar businesses have joined
1. ABCD(E) 2.BDEC(A) 3.ECDA(B) 4. CDEB(A)
Q.8
A.As per customs rules, for carrying gold and expensive items from India to other countries,
B.Upon return, the certificate can be shown to customs to claim duty exemption
C.one needs to procure a certificate from the precious cargo complex a day in advance
D.one declares the goods and their value before leaving, one can fall into customs' net upon return
E. The rules are different for international and domestic travel

F.For travelling abroad, one needs to be careful about one's baggage. It is usual for one to carry jewellery, cash and expensive gadgets, but unless
1. ABCDE(F) 2.DFCBE(A) 3.FDACB(E) 4.EACFB(D)
Direction –questions 9 & 10- In the following questions, more than one word has been used in each sentence. You have to pick out the most appropriate option out of the given options that follow the sentences

Q.9- Continuous glide(A)/slide(B) in Rupee upset the calculations of Monetary and fiscal authorities alike
The Reserve Bank of India recalibrated(A)/recalcitrated(B) the marginal standing facility rate.
The overall depletion(A)/allocation(B) of funds under the LAF would be limited to one percent of the net demand and time liabilities of the banking system
Since the 1991-92 stock market scam the key players, at least some them have not seen a denouement(A)/deployment(B)
1.ABAB 2.BABA 3.BBAA 4. BAAB

Q.10
In 1958 Nehru rode to Bhutan with young Indira on the back of a yak forging(A)/forming(B) a friendship
Growing India-U.S. convergence(A)/reference (B) has not erased uncertainties between the two countries.
Significant preferences(A)/divergences(B) emanating from huge disparity in power and priorities have caused conflicting interests and differing views.
The law heeds the recommendations of the investigative report which lambasted(A)/flabbergasted(B) extant regulations.
1.BBAA 2. BABA 3. BBAB 4.AABA

Direction –Q. 11 & 12 – Below is given a word which has been used in four different ways. Please select the option wherein the word has not been used appropriately.
Q.11 - Grind
A. Glaciers slowly grind their way over mountains and plains, moving immense boulders and carving out fjords.
B.When the two come together, the ocean crust goes down, and those two plates really grind against each other.
C.Persistence can grind an iron beam down into a needle.
D.Grind a narrow victory in a game where we didn’t perform anywhere near our best.
1. A 2.B 3.C 4.D

Q.12- Foul
A.The lady seems to have fouled heavily of the people editing her letters
B.And I do think it is adorable, going to a game and catching a foul ball.
C. A mother and toddler missing for more than five years had met with foul play at the hands of her older lover.
D. A soccer team made up of prostitutes cried foul after being ejected from a tournament because of their profession

Directions for questions 13 to 16- Read the short passages below and answer the questions
Dance bars can again run in Maharashtra with the Supreme Court upholding a Bombay high court verdict quashing the state government's order. A bench comprising Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice S S Nijjar also vacated its stay order on implementation of the high court judgement.

The Maharashtra government had in 2005 brought in an amendment in the Bombay Police Act which was challenged in the high court by an association representing restaurants and bars.The high court in 2006 had quashed the government's decision. The state government had moved the apex court against the high court's order that same year.

The Supreme Court while admitting the government's plea had stayed the high court's verdict. In its plea, the state government had contended that prostitution rackets were being run under the garb of beer bars and indecent and vulgar performances, derogatory to the society were taking place.

The government had also contended that while there were only 345 licenced dance bars, about 2500 unlicenced bars were doing business in the state. On the other hand, various organisations representing dance bars, restaurants and bar girls had argued that the preamble of the Bombay Police (Amendment) Act, 2005, which had been struck down by the high court as unconstitutional, holds that dance performances for public amusement were permissible.

These organisations had also submitted that there were over 70,000 women engaged in dance bars and several of them had already committed suicide due to unemployment and financial crunch. They had said that with as many as 72 per cent of the bar girls being married and 68 per cent being sole bread earners of their family, the state government's order has rendered them jobless and had been rightly struck down as arbitrary and unconstitutional by the high court.

They had also contended that the impugned section of the Act was arbitrary and discriminatory as it permitted dance performances at places visited by the rich and well-to-do sections of the society while performances in small dance bars had been banned.
Q.13 – The tone of the passage, according to the ideas and thought expressed is –
A. Descriptive to critical in the expression
B. Tone is analytical and suggestive
C. Narrative and opinionless
D. Expressively ironical
1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D

Q.14 – The phrase ‘derogatory to the society’ as used in the passage means
A. Action of the Maharashtra Government had a sharp impact to bring down moral values in the society
B. The bar girls, since they became jobless, were resorted to such things, which were not healthy for the society
C. Bar girls, while performing at the dance bars etc. used to resort to prostitution and vulgar performances, detrimental to social ethics.
D. Impending decisions of the Apex court added fuel to the fire and the bar girls became the victims of women oppression, causing down graded social values.
1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D

Q.15- The phrase ‘the impugned section of the Act was arbitrary’ as used in the passage should mean –
A. Particular part of the act – was not operational
B. Amending particular section of the Law and repealing it was discriminatory
C. The section was made obsolete and of no use
D. The section was amended in the manner to favour only the poor while rich were discarded
1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D

Q.16 – The passage suggests that –
A. Alternate employment should have been provided before closing the dance bars
B. Had the high profile and star rated bars been closed, which were visited by the rich, alternate employment could have spontaneously been generated
C. The court acted on the plea of various organizations and allowed the operation of dance bars
D. Bar girls know only the dancing profession and should be allowed to earn
1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D

Q.17 - Direction- In the following questions there is a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Several critical decisions are involved. Judging where to locate relief camps and ware houses, sourcing relief items, at what cost, in what quantities, with what kind of packaging, and one is to do to minimise pilferage and wastage. It would be of immense value, if supply chain specialists from the private sector could step in.
A.Many industries prefer to intervene directly through their own personnel rather than merely provide donations.
B.A good professional team of supply chain experts, cognizant of the challenges on the ground could work with the state’s officials.
C.And assist the affected state administration with expertise to help put together a system which will adapt to the context.
D.Logistic companies can be invited to set up quality, temporary warehouses.
1. A 2.B 3.C 4.D

Directions for questions 18 to 20- Read the short passage below and answer the questions that follow
Relaxation of foreign investment rules, aimed at drawing funds needed to turn around slowing economic growth and support a crumbling rupee, barely lifted markets due to doubts whether long-term inflows would materialise anytime soon. The Prime Minister eased FDI rules late on Tuesday for several industries, including insurance and telecoms, although some of the liberalisation measures fell short of expectations or came with caveats.

The long-pending move to increase the foreign direct investment (FDI) cap in insurance from 26 to 49 per cent, for example, still needs approval from parliament, where a bill has been stuck for months. The measures came a day after the central bank mounted a defence of the rupee by tightening liquidity and lifting short-term interest rates, in order to make speculation against the currency more difficult.

Those moves helped to slightly steady a currency that has lost 9 per cent against the dollar since the start of May, making it the worst performer among emerging Asian currencies tracked by Reuters, but have not allayed investor worries about the country's record-high current account deficit. "Foreign investment rules easing and the recent RBI measures will not be enough to entice overseas investors. The government should declare a war on the current account deficit," said Hitendra Dave, head of global markets at HSBC India in Mumbai. "All measures in that light will work. Otherwise, collateral damage will be too high."

The RBI's measures sent bond yields soaring and raised worries that the increased costs to borrowers will crimp growth already at a decade low of 5 per cent. The RBI's measures have had unintended consequences. The central bank rejected all bids in a $2 billion sale of Treasury bills on Wednesday as investors and the RBI were locked in a stand-off over the appropriate price for debt after Tuesday's bond rout. That could also make it tougher for the central bank's $2 billion debt sale planned for Thursday.

The RBI's tightening measures also led to a surge in redemption requests for mutual funds, forcing the central bank to provide a special funding facility for them in a move last taken during the financial crisis in 2008.

Worryingly for investors, Singh's weak coalition government has struggled to push through reforms and has limited firepower for further measures as it faces elections by May. Among the steps announced on Tuesday, the foreign investment cap in telecoms, which stood at 74 per cent, was removed. But the measure was not expected to draw fresh entrants as the cut-throat industry is already crowded, and plagued by regulatory uncertainty.

Instead, existing foreign operators such as Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L), Telenor ASA (TEL.OL) and Sistema (SSAq.L) may opt eventually to buy out their local partners.
Although the government hopes its latest reforms attract long term capital flows, previous measures have had mixed results, and FDI fell to $36.9 billion in the fiscal year ending in March from $46.6 billion the previous year. A move last September to allow foreign direct investment in supermarkets has not attracted a single proposal, as rules continue to be ironed out.

If the present government loses the election next year, some reforms, such as supermarket liberalisation, could be reversed. There are also doubts that measures taken by this government may be rolled back or reversed if the next government with a different mind-set comes to power.

Q. 18- In view of the author, the main idea of the passage would be –
A. There is no possibility to speed up the country’s economic growth with increase in FDI
B. Tight money policy of the Central Bank of the Country will be helpful in future to speed up the economic growth
C. Not only the fiscal reforms but also numerous monetary reforms are required to speed up the economic growth of the country
D. Devaluation of Rupee has become the major factor causing a slow economic growth

1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D

Q.19 – The passage as describes the economic situation conveys the tone which is
A. Narrative to descriptive
B. Critical to analytical
C. Sarcastic to narrative
D. Descriptive to ironic

1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D

Q.20- The phrase ‘ appropriate price for Debt’ as used in the passage would broadly mean-
A. The amount of graft and processing charges required to be paid to the lending agency
B. The bid price required to secure the debt
C. The interest to be paid on the debt
D. The bonds and securities required to be kept against the Debt
1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D
Ans.
1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 5.2 6.3 7.3 8.3 9.2 10.4
11. 4 12.1 13.3 14.3 15.2 16.4 17.3 18.3 19.2 20.3