According to the passage, which of the following can be inferred as the main thrust of the authors argument?

I.          The organized retail stores would in the long run largely adversely affect large sections of small retail stores.
II.         The organized retail stores would help develop a broad based domestic economy, affordable food prices, farm sector development and intensive growth; in short, the organized retail stores would improve a wide sections of stakeholders concerned in the society - customers, farmers and employment opportunities.
III.       The share of organized retail would be insignificant only 4% (approx) of the amount spent on food and consumer products.

Which of the following statement(s), if true, will strengthen the argument(s) in favour of the organized retail stores?

I.          The organized retail stores offer small regional brands more shelf – space, better displays and ambience compared to kirana stores.
II.         Regional brands are benefited by pushing their brands through the organized retail stores with bargains and value deals that are often better and bigger players.
III.       The organized retail stores controlled and invested by big business – Indian and foreign – for example, Reliance, Wall Mart and others, offer variety of products at affordable price-tag and better quality.

Which of the following statement(s), if true, WEAKENS the arguments in favour of the organized retail stores presented in the passage?

I.          The organized retail stores with deep pockets can withstand losses for a short-term in order to gain and control the market.
II.         In absence of social security net to help small traders and workers who could lose jobs when and if that happens to tide over crises, a public policy that puts a large number of people who are likely to be the affected by the organized retail stores can have disastrous social and economic implications in the long run.
III.       The organized retail stores will target rich and winnable as customers in urban centres with a large disposable income.

Which of the following statement(s), according to the passage, is/are true according to author?

I.          Across the value chain in retail markets, growth of organized retail will benefit almost all stakeholders.
II.         The fear among small retailers and traders that they stand to lose their livelihood if mega retail chains enter the market in a big way is more or less unreal – according to the ICRIER survey.
III.       The foreign retail chain like Wall Mart without any protective clause in an open and free market economy as in India today will kill indigenous entrepreneurship.
IV.       Organized retailers will push the mom and pop stores and small retailers up in the value chain which they couldn’t sustain in the long run.

(A) India may be one of the world’s two fastest growing economics, its future prospects     
     may be making both Dalal Street and Wall Street droll.

(B) India is, at the same time, a country which produces millions of employment seekers
      every year but precious little employment.

(C) Jobs in the once bloated public sectors are necessarily decreasing and restrictive
      labour laws, in part, ensure that the private organized sector hasn’t made good the
      defecit.

(D) And the situation is getting worse with every passing year.

(E) The cumulative result is an unemployment situation that is a social time bomb, with
      scarcity driven parochialism providing the fuse.

(A) The developed world has been forced to give in the demand to end agricultural export
      subsidies by 2013.

(B) The deep divisions that were evident in the negotiations leading up to and during the
      ministerial meetings are sufficient to show that this success is by no means a
     foregone conclusion.

(C) And, more important for a development round of trade negotiations, the little
      progress that has been achieved is in the direction of opening markets for the benefit
     of more vulnerable economies.

(D) The WTO’s Hong Kong ministerial has done just about enough to keep alive the
      prospects of a successful completion of the Doha Development Round.

(E) But the self-imposed new deadlines for finalizations of modalities for negotiations
      suggest a desire on the part of all concerned to make the round work.

(A) When faced with a threatening context, the psychological stress and anxiety may
      induce a rigid cognitive response on the part of individuals.

(B) In many cases, strategic decision making occurs in the context of a threatening situation – the
organization must deal with poor financial performance, deteriorating competitive position and/on or dramatic shift in customer requirements.

(C) Over confidence bias becomes a factor in many situations as well.

(D) Consequently, we may not recognize when we need to solicit input and advice from
      others, or we downplay the doubts that others display regarding our judgments and
     decisions.

(E) Most of us tend to overestimate our own capabilities.

(A) The outside region of sun will expand approximately 35 million miles, about the
       distance to Mercury, which is the closest planet to the sun.

(B) By studying other stars, astronomers can predict what the rest of the sun’s life will be
       like.

(C) The sun will be red than be a red gaint star; temperatures on the Earth will become
        too hot for life to exist.

(D) The surface temperature will fall and the higher temperature of the centre will
         increase the rate of thermonuclear reactions.
           
(E) About 5 billion years from now, the core of the sun will shrink and become hotter.

(1)  Do you really expect me to help you out with cash.

(2)  Potter may help himself with his favorite cold drinks from the fridge.

(3)  This syrup will help your cough and cold.

(4)  I can’t help the colour of my skin.  

(1)  Professor Habib will read a paper in the seminar on criminalization of politics in contemporary India.

(2)  So far I have been able to paper over the disagreements among my brothers.

(3)  Your suggestions look great on the paper, but are absolutely impractical.

(4)  Do people are concerned how many trees are killed to make a truck load of paper?

Passage:

Some decisions will be fairly obvious – “no brainers”. Your bank account is low, but you have a two-week vacation coming up and you want to get away to some place warm to relax with your family. Will you accept your in-laws’ offer of free use of their Kovalam beachfront resort? Sure you like your employer and feel ready to move forward in your career. Will you step in for your boss for three weeks while she attends a professional development course? Of course.

Summaries:

(1)  Some decisions are no-brainers. You need not think them. Examples are beachfront resorts offers from in-laws and job offers from bosses when your bank account is low or boss is away.
(2)  Accepting an offer from in-laws when you are short of funds and want a holiday is no-brainer. Another no-brainer is taking the boss’s job when she is away.
(3)  Easy decisions are called “no-brainers” because they do not require any cerebral activity. Examples such as accepting free holiday accommodation abound in our lives.
(4)  Some decisions are obvious under certain circumstances. You may, for example, readily accept a relative’s offer of free holiday accommodation. Or step in for your boss when she is away.

Passage:

Physically, inertia is a feeling that just can’t move; mentally, it is a sluggish mind. Even if you try to be sensitive, if your mind is sluggish, you just don’t feel anything intensely. You may even see a tragedy enacted in front of your eyes and not be able to respond meaningfully. You may see one person exploiting another, one group persecuting another, and not able to get angry. Your energy is frozen. You are not deliberately refusing to act; you just don’t have the capacity.

Summaries:

(1)  Physical inertia stops your body from moving; mental inertia freezes your energy, and stops your mind from responding meaningfully to events, even tragedies, in front of you.
(2)  Inertia is of two types – physical and mental. Physical inertia restricts bodily movements. Mental inertia prevents mental response to events enacted in front of your eyes.
(3)  Inertia makes your body and mind sluggish. They become insensitives to tragedies, exploitations, and persecution because it freezes your energy and decapacitates it. 
(4)  When you have inertia you don’t act although you see one person exploiting another or one group persecuting another. You don’t get angry because you are incapable.

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If you score 65 or more in these sample Questions following instructions within the time allotted in each section separately without consulting the key and/on any other help, you will do well in the actual test.