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Re: Management Aptitude Test Exam Question Paper

Below list of few questions of Management Aptitude Test is given.

MAT Exam Question Paper

1. Who is the composer of National Anthem of India?
(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterji (b) Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
(c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
2. The International Labour Organisation is headquartered at
(a) Washington. (b) Paris. (c) Geneva. (d) Rome.
3. To which field of literature is the ‘Booker Prize’ awarded every year?
(a) Philosophy (b) Autobiography (c) Religion (d) Fiction
4. SEZ in Indian EXIM policy expands to
(a) Special Export Zone. (b) Special Excise Zone.
(c) Special Economic Zone. (d) Special Ecological Zone.
5. In which of the following years was the Indian rupee devalued for the first time?
(a) 1949 (b) 1955 (c) 1966 (d) 1974
6. Bush at War is a book authored by
(a) Mary N. Weaver. (b) John Grisham. (c) Jeffrey Archer. (d) Bob Woodward.
7. Which of the following is a market research firm in India?
(a) SOTC (b) ORG.MARG (c) AT&T (d) CRY
8. ‘Grand Vitara’ is a SUV from which car major?
(a) General Motors (b) Hyundai Motors
(c) Maruti Udyog Ltd. (d) Mahindra and Mahindra
9. Which of the following cities has got ISO-14001 certification for environment maintenance?
(a) Surat (b) Pune (c) Indore (d) Jamshedpur
10. The marketing guru Shunu Sen, who died recently, was associated with
(a) Nestle. (b) Brittania Industries.
(c) Hindustan Lever Limited. (d) Marico Industries.
11. Which of the following taxes has been reduced from 100% to 70% in 2003-04 budget?
(a) Service Tax (b) Entertainment Tax (c) Corporate Tax (d) Sales Tax
12. Which of the following is country’s first Non-Banking Financial Corporation (NBFC) to have been converted
into a bank and have also started its operations?
(a) ICICI (b) IDBI
(c) HDFC (d) Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd.
13. World’s fastest computer at present is
(a) ASCI Purple. (b) Deep Blue. (c) Param. (d) Earth Simulator.
14. Identify the wrong pair.
Personality Year of winning Nobel Prize
(a) Rabindranath Tagore 1913
(b) H. Khorana 1966
(c) S. Chandrashekhar 1983
(d) C. V. Raman 1930

15. The most famous movie of 75th Oscar Awards Chicago has been directed by
(a) Peter O’ Tool. (b) Rob Marshall. (c) Roman Polanski. (d) Adrian Brandy.
16. Justice Adarsh Sen Anand was recently in news as he was appointed as the chairman of
(a) National Commission for SCs and STs. (b) National Human Rights Commission.
(c) Telecome Regulatory Authority of India. (d) National Commission for Minorities.
17. The leading silk producing state in India is
(a) Karnataka. (b) West Bengal. (c) Madhya Pradesh. (d) Himachal Pradesh.
18. ‘Kaizen’ means
(a) restructuring the processes.
(b) error-free production.
(c) continuous improvement in work process.
(d) weakening the weaknesses by strengthening the strengths.
19. According to the Berlin-based Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2002, out of the
surveyed 102 countries, which of the following was the most corrupt nation?
(a) Paraguay (b) India (c) Nigeria (d) Bangladesh
20. According to the survey of Indian population 2001, which of the following states was the least populated?
(a) Punjab (b) Goa (c) Haryana (d) Mizoram
21. Which of the following accounting majors have recently changed its name to Bearing Point ?
(a) Arthur Anderson (b) A. F. Ferguson (c) KPMG (d) Ernst & Young
22. Who is the present disinvestment minister of India?
(a) M. Venkaiah Naidu (b) Pradeep Baijal (c) Arun Shourie (d) Ram Naik
23. Who is the present director-general of World Trade Organisation?
(a) Mike Moore (b) James D. Wolfenson
(c) Klaus Schwab (d) Supachai Panitchpakadi
24. Who is the present chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)?
(a) A. K. Purwar (b) G. N. Bajpayee (c) N. Rangachari (d) K. V. Kamath
25. Which Indian state attracted the maximum foreign direct investment in 2001-2002?
(a) Kerala (b) Maharashtra (c) Karnataka (d) Orissa
26. Which of the following companies launched ‘Pure for Sur’ campaign?
(a) Tata Salt (b) BPCL (c) Amul (d) Mother Dairy
27. According to the Union Budget 2003-04, the service tax has been raised from the present 5
per cent to
(a) 10 per cent. (b) 9 per cent. (c) 8 per cent. (d) 7 per cent.
28. Tenth Five-year Plan will end in
(a) 2004. (b) 2005. (c) 2006. (d) 2007.
29. According to the latest Census 2001, the literacy rate of India is
(a) 52.56%. (b) 59.66%. (c) 65.38%. (d) 68.42%.
30. Who among the following personalities won the Nobel Prize 2002 for Literature?
(a) Salman Rushdie (b) Yann Martel (c) Rohinton Mistry (d) Imre Kertesz
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31. Under which of the following Constitutional articles financial emergency is proclaimed?
(a) 352 (b) 370 (c) 376 (d) 378
32. SAARC is headquartered at
(a) Jakarta (b) Bangkok (c) Kuala Lampur (d) Kathmandu
33. The book which won the Booker Prize 2002 is titled as
(a) Dirt Music. (b) Family Matters.
(c) Steps Across This Line. (d) Life of Pie.
34. According to the Tenth Plan (2002-07), what is the targeted growth rate of GDP?
(a) 8% (b) 6% (c) 6.5% (d) 6%
35. Which among the following is a central government tax?
(a) Income tax (b) Sales tax (c) Octroi (d) Property tax
36. Reserve Bank of India was nationalized in which of the following years?
(a) 1948 (b) 1949 (c) 1950 (d) 1952
37. Who among the following has the right to speak and take part in the proceedings of the Union Legislature
without the right to vote?
(a) Advocate General (b) Comptroller and Auditor General
(c) Solicitor General (d) Attorney General
38. World Population Day is observed on which of the following dates?
(a) May 1 (b) May 11 (c) July 1 (d) July 11
39. Who received the Dada Saheb Phalke Award recently ?
(a) Asha Bhosale (b) Ramesh Sippy (c) Yash Chopra (d) Sunil Dutt
40. Which of the following correctly describes the three types of justice referred to in the Preamble?
(a) Economic, social and religious (b) Political, economic and religious
(c) Social, economic and political (d) Social, religious and political

Section – 2
Direction for questions 41 to 50: Read the following passages, and answer the questions that follow.
Passage – 1
With Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx in 1848 published Communist Manifesto, calling upon the masses to rise and throw
off their economic chains. His mature theories of society were later elaborated in his large and abstruse work, Das
Kapital. Starting as a non-violent revolutionist, he later became a major social theorist more or less sympathetic with
violent revolution, if it was necessary in order to change the social system which he believed preyed upon the
masses.
On the theoretical side, Marx set up the doctrine of surplus value as the chief element in capitalistic exploitation.
According to this theory, the ruling classes no longer employed military force primarily as a means to plundering
people. Instead, they used their control over employment, and working conditions under the bourgeois capitalistic
system for this purpose, paying only bare subsistence wage to the worker while they appropriated all surplus value
in the productive process. He further said that the strategic disadvantage of the worker in industry prevented him
from obtaining a fairer share of the earning by bargaining methods and drove him to revolutionary procedures as a
means to establish his economic and social rights. This revolution might be peacefully consummated by parliamentary
procedures if the people prepared themselves for political action by mastering the materialistic interpretation and by
organizing politically for the final event. It was his belief that the aggressions of the capitalistic class would
eventually destroy the middle class and take away all their resources of income by a process of capitalistic absorption
of industry — a process which has failed to occur in most countries.
With minor exceptions, Marx’s philosophy is now generally accepted by left-wing labour movements in various
countries, but rejected by centrist labour groups, especially those in the US. In Russia and other Eastern European
countries, however, socialist leaders adopted the methods of violent revolution because of the opposition of the
ruling classes. Yet, many now hold that the present communist regime in Russia and her satellite countries is no longer
a proletarian movement based on Marxist theory, but a camouflaged imperialistic effort to dominate the world in the
interest of a new ruling class.
41. Which of the following books did Marx author or co-author?
(a) Communist Manifesto and Surplus Value
(b) Das Kapital and Communist Manifesto
(c) Capitalistic Exploitation and Das Kapital
(d) Communist Manifesto, Surplus Value and Das Kapital
42. Marx started his philosophical life as a
(a) democrat. (b) believer in non-violent revolution.
(c) believer in violent revolution. (d) congressman.
43. According to the author, the present communist regime in Russia can be described as
(a) proletarian. (b) democratic.
(c) imperialistic. (d) socialist.
44. Marx’s social philosophy is now generally accepted by
(a) left-wing labour unions. (b) centrist labour groups.
(c) most labour unions. (d) all labour groups.
45. The word ‘abstruse’ means
(a) hard to understand. (b) absurd
(c) interesting. (d) crude.

Passage – 2
In Rome, defeated enemies were generally put to death as criminals for having offended the emperor. In the Middle
Ages, however, the practice of ransoming, or returning prisoners in exchange for money, became common.Though
some saw this custom as a step towards a more humane society, the primary reason behind it was economic rather
than humanitarian. In those times, rulers had only a limited ability to raise taxes. They could neither force their
subjects to fight nor pay them to do so. The promise of material compensation in the form of goods and ransom was
therefore the only way of inducing combatants to participate in a war. In the Middle Ages, the predominant incentive
for the individual soldier to participate in a war was the expectation of spoils. Although collecting ransom clearly
brought financial gain, keeping a prisoner and arranging for his exchange had its costs. Consequently, several
procedures were devised to reduce transaction costs.
One such device was a rule asserting that the prisoner had to assess his own value. This compelled the prisoner to
establish a value without much distortion; indicating too low a value would increase the captive’s chances of being
killed, while indicating too high a value would either ruin him financially or create a prohibitively expensive ransom
that would also result in death.
A second means of reducing costs was the practice of releasing a prisoner on his word of honour. This procedure was
advantageous to both parties since the captor was relieved of the expense of keeping the prisoner while the captive
had freedom of movement. The captor also benefited financially by having his captive raise the ransom himself. This
‘parole’ was a viable practice since the released prisoner risked recapture or retaliation against his family. Moreover,
in medieval society, breaking one’s word had serious consequences. When, for example, King Francois I broke his
word to the Emperor Charles V in 1525, his reputation suffered immensely.
A third method of reducing costs was the use of specialized institutions to establish contact between the two parties.
Two types of institutions emerged: professional dealers who acted as brokers, and members of religious orders who
acted as neutral intermediaries. Dealers advanced money for the ransom and charged interest on the loan. Two of the
religious orders that became intermediaries were the Mercedarians and the Trinitarians who between them arranged
the ransom of nearly one million prisoners.
46. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(a) discuss the economic basis of the medieval practice of exchanging prisoners for ransom.
(b) examine the history of the treatment of prisoners of war.
(c) emphasize the importance of a warrior’s ‘word of honour’ during the Middle Ages.
(d) explore three ways of reducing the costs of ransom.
47. It can be inferred from the passage that a medieval soldier
(a) was less likely to kill captured members of opposing armies than was a soldier of the Roman
Empire.
(b) was similar to a 20th-century terrorist in that he operated on a basically independent level and was
motivated solely by economic incentives.
(c) had few economic options and choose to fight because it was the only way to earn an adequate
living.
(d) was motivated to spare prisoners’ lives by humanitarian rather than economic ideals.
48. Which of the following best describes the change in policy from executing prisoners in Roman times to
ransoming prisoners in the Middle Ages?
(a) The emperor of Rome demanded more respect than did medieval rulers, and thus Roman subjects
went to greater lengths to defend their incentives.
(b) It was a reflection of the lesser degree of direct control medieval rulers had over their subjects.
(c) It became a show of strength and honour for warriors of the Medieval Ages to be able to capture
and return their enemies.
(d) Medieval soldiers were not as humanitarian as their ransoming practices might have indicated.

49. The author uses the phrase ‘without much distortion’ in order
(a) to indicate that prisoners would fairly assess their worth.
(b) to emphasize the important role medieval prisoners played in determining whether they should be ransomed.
(c) to explain how prisoners often paid more than an appropriate ransom to increase their chances
for survival.
(d) suggest that captors and captives often had understanding relationships.
50. All of the following are mentioned in the passage as actions that were taken to ensure that ransoming
prisoners was a profitable operation EXCEPT
(a) each prisoner was made to designate the amount of ransom to be paid for his return.
(b) prisoners were released on the condition that they guaranteed that their ransoms would be paid.
(c) professional intermediaries were employed to facilitate the smooth exchange of prisoner and
ransom, at a price to the prisoner.
(d) medieval rulers promised to aid soldiers in their efforts to collect ransom.
Direction for questions 51 to 53: Pick out the synonyms for the word given.
51. MUTATION
(a) Change (b) Decency (c) Adolescent (d) Clangorous
52. APATHY
(a) Tolerance (b) Unconcern (c) Obstinacy (d) Discrimination
53. PUNCTILIOUS
(a) Rueful (b) Frugal (c) Careful (d) Insolent
Direction for questions 54 to 58: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate choices.
54. Because of his excellent ___ skills, he could mesmerize the crowd with the power of his speech.
(a) loquacious (b) convincing (c) presentation (d) oratory
55. The patriot was given a tumultuous welcome ___ his countrymen.
(a) with (b) from (c) among (d) by
56. There is no time like the ___ to start thinking about owning a house.
(a) current (b) past (c) present (d) future
57. Practice will ___ pay its dividends.
(a) finally (b) eventually (c) sooner (d) later
58. When certain kind of monkeys are ___, they act just like human beings.
(a) domesticated (b) pet (c) beaten (d) flattered
Direction for questions 59 to 63: In each of the following questions find the word pair that is related to the same way
as the word pair provided.
59. TRAINING : HEREDITY
(a) unnatural : usual (b) ornithologist : birds
(c) habits : instincts (d) astute : ingenious
60. FRAGRANT : INCENSE
(a) frequent : sound (b) sneeze : nostrils
(c) noxious : garbage (d) noisome : pleasant

61. TRIANGLE : HEXAGON
(a) cone : sphere (b) rectangle : octagon
(c) pentagon : heptagon (d) angle : quadrilateral
62. ABRIDGE : LENGTHEN
(a) root : trunk (b) stop : end
(c) lend : borrow (d) prize : reserve
63. Soup : Liquid
(a) water : thirst (b) book : knowledge
(c) oxygen : gas (d) writer : publisher
Direction for questions 64 to 67: Select the odd word from the given set of four alternatives.
64. (a) juvenile (b) immature (c) old (d) childish
65. (a) slack (b) draconian (c) rigorous (d) severe
66. (a) Achilles (b) Thetis (c) Paris (d) Pandora
67. (a) divulge (b) inform (c) secret (d) reveal
Direction for questions 68 to 72: Identify the part of the sentence that has an error.
68. The reason he has been such a success is because he never gives up.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
69. Consider all the possibilities, I really believe that I would prefer not to make any changes.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
70. The fact that he was disinterested in politics was clear from the way he shunned political news.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
71. After every student had turned in their paper, the teacher dismissed the class.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
72. Any help that you can give me will be appreciate.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Direction for questions 73 to 77: Fill in the blanks in the passage below with the appropriate choice.
For a novelist, a ... 73... call from Oprah Winfrey is like a house... 74... from the prize patrol: the big ... 75 ... has arrived.
The ... 76 ... appears on Oprah’s show, and sales go through the ... 77...
73. (a) phone (b) clarion (c) timid (d) cat
74. (a) check (b) call (c) cheque (d) hold
75. (a) dog (b) fire (c) cheque (d) girl
76. (a) police (b) don (c) manager (d) author
77. (a) door (b) window (c) wall (d) roof
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