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Mock Aptitude Test I Questions

1. If the angles of a quadrilateral form an arithmetic progression and the third angle measures three
times the first, then the smallest angle is:

90 degrees
72 degrees
54 degrees
36 degrees

2. The cocktail Bloody Mary contains 70% tomato juice, 20% lime juice and the rest liquor. The cocktail
Go Bonkers is a mixture of Bloody Mary and Screwdriver in the ratio 2:1. If GoBonkers contains 60%
fruit juice, 15% lime juice and the rest liquor, then what is the percentage of lime juice in Screwdriver?

20%
5%
10%
15%

3. Alex bought a carpet to cover his drawing room completely. He found that its area was 2% less than
that required. He tried to shift the carpet to his bedroom, but found that the carpet area was 5% more
than the bedroom area. The length to breadth ratio of the carpet was 3:2, and he could not fit it in the
kitchen either. In frustration, he cut the largest circle possible out of the carpet. The area of the waste
material was 140 sq.ft. The area of the circular piece of the carpet was:

160 sq.ft.
140 sq.ft.
154 sq.ft
194 sq.ft

4. Queen and Express are two trains of the same length. They cross each other in time T when
traveling in the opposite directions. Queen over-takes Express in time t when both are moving in the
same direction. Find the time taken by Queen to overtake Express when the latter is at rest, if Queen is
faster than Express.

2Tt
t+T

T+t

Tt
2T(T-t)

2(T+t)
Tt

5. X's age after 6 years will be three-seventh of his father's age. 10 years ago, the ratio of their ages
was 1:5. What is X's father's age at present?

40
45
50
49

6. A hound takes 4 leaps to every 5 leaps of a hare, but 3 leaps of the hound are equal to 4 leaps of the
hare. What is the ratio of the speed of the hound to the speed of the hare?

5 : 3
3 : 5
15 : 16
16 : 15

7. If the price of sugar increases by 40%, then by what maximum percentage can a family increase its
sugar consumption, in order to avoid increase in its expenditure beyond 82% of the previous value?

60%
30%
40%
50

8. A garrison of 1500 men has provisions for 48 days. At the end of 13 days, a reinforcement arrives and
it is found that now the provisions would last for only 25 more days. What is the strength of the
reinforcement?

575
600
625
400

9. On Republic Day, 66 kg of fruits (bananas, oranges, apples) were brought from the market. The
ratio of the weights of bananas and oranges was 4 : 5. The ratio of the weights of oranges and apples
was 2 : 3. Find the weight of the apples that were brought from the market.

16 kg
20 kg
24 kg
30 kg

10. A manufacturer sells his goods to a wholesaler at 10% gain; the wholesaler to the retailer at 20% gain
and the retailer to the customer at 30% gain. The percent that the customer has to pay more on the
price charged by the manufacturer is:

72%
71 2/3%
71 3/5%
73%


11. The average speed of a train including stoppages was 27 kmph and excluding stoppages was 41
kmph. How many minutes did the train stop per hour?

20.5 minutes
15 minutes
25 minutes
30 minutes

12. A certain sum of money when deposited in a post office becomes 7/5 times in 8 years. An equal sum
deposited in a fixed deposit in a bank doubles in 12 & 1/2 years. Which of the two agencies, the post
office or the bank, gives a better rate of interest?

The Bank
The Post Office
Both give equal interest
Can't be determined

13. A cylindrical vessel of base area 154 sq.cm. and height 1.2 cm is filled with sand. The sand is emptied
to form a conical heap of the same height on the ground. What is the base radius of the cone?

15.4 cm
14.0 cm
12.1 cm
17.5 cm

14. The sum of two numbers is 126 and their L.C.M. is 405. The H.C.F of the numbers is equal to

5
9
14
12

15. A student was asked to find the product of two 2-digit numbers but instead he reversed the
position of the digits in both the numbers and calculated the answer and still managed to get the
correct answer. Then, the number are:

31, 39
31, 26
23, 96
all of the above

16. A boat going upstream takes 20 minutes while it takes 10 minutes for going downstream for the
same distance. If speed of the boat in still water is 7.5 kmph, then find speed of the stream in kmph.

5
2.5
2
3

17. If a clock takes 10 seconds to strike 11, then how many seconds does it take to strike 6?

6
5
60/11
50/11


18. Two squirrels A & B are climbing up two separate 100 feet poles. Squirrel A climbs up 3 feet in 1
minute but slips back 1 foot for every 2 feet climbed. Squirrel B climbs up 4 feet in 1 minute but slips
down 1.5 feet for every 2 feet climbed. Squirrel A stops for a minute after every 2 minutes, while
Squirrel B stops for 1 minute after every 3 minutes. Assume that the slippage occurs continuously.
Which squirrel reaches the top first and in how many minutes?

Squirrel A in 101 minutes
Squirrel B in 132 minutes
Squirrel in 100 minutes
Squirrel B in 133 minutes

19. A person borrowed a sum of Rs. 34,000 from his provident fund account on the condition to repay
22 monthly installments of Rs. 1500 and the last installment of Rs. 1000. What will be the simple
interest at the rate of 4.5% per annum, which he pays as 24th installment?

Rs. 1510
Rs. 1250
Rs. 1400
Rs. 1600

20. A student has to match 3 historical events 'Dandi March', 'Quit India Movement' and 'Mahatma
Gandhi Assassination' with years 1948, 1930 and 1942. The student has no knowledge of the correct
answers and decides to match the events and the years randomly. The probability that the student
gets exactly 2 answers correct is:
(Assume that the student knows that no two events occurred in the same year.)

0
1
2/3
0.5

21. In the next 3 questions, a related pair of words is followed by pairs of words. Choose the pair that
best expresses a relationship similar to that of the given pair.

WEAR : JERKIN ::

eat : manumit
blow : longhorn
read : makimono
scare : hecatomb

22. HERMETIC : AIR ::

watertight : moisture
claustrophobic : closeness
combatant : strife
somnolent : boredom

23. FLURRY : BLIZZARD::

grass : dew
wind : air
shore : waves
drizzle : cloudburst



24. Choose a set of words for each pair of blanks that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a
whole.
Held up only by a ________ steel cable, the chair lift was _________ to carry only two people.

slender, instructed
single, intended
sturdy, obliged
massive, designed

25. The _______ of the early morning light _______ the room, making it larger and cozier at once.

brilliance, shattered
softness, transformed
harshness, transfigured
warmth, disfigured

26. As 'daring' goes with 'temerity', same way 'clear-sighted' goes with

Perspicacity
Impulsiveness
Energy
Clemency

27. He walked to the garden.

Present
Future
Past
None of these

28. Which of the following word is wrongly spelled?

possession
ocassion
profession
procession

29. Give the word which is most opposite in the meaning of the word 'evident'.

doubtful
unimportant
disagreed
understood

30. If ALONE is written as YKMMC, then CLASS is written as

BKVQQ
BKYRR
AKYQQ
None of these

31. The missing number in the series 5 13 ? 71 133 is

33
63
26
49

32. What is the missing number in the following series:
2 6 3 4 20 5 6 ? 7

35
30
49
42

33. Which letter will be seventh to the left of the fourteenth letter from the right end of the English
alphabet series?

F
T
S
E

34. A is mother of B. C is father of B and C has 3 children. On the basis of this information, find out
which of the following relations is correct.

C has 3 daughters.
C has 3 sons.
B is the son.
None of the above.

35. Vinod is the brother of Bhaskar. Manu is the sister of Vinod. Biswal is the brother of Preetam and
Preetam is the daughter of Bhaskar. Who is the uncle of Biswal?

Bhaskar
Manu
Vinod
Information is incomplete

36. The total number of factors of 12! is

802
796
792
768

37. The angle between the hands of a clock when the time is 3:40 is

130
135
120
145

38. Between 6 AM and 6 PM, how many times do the hands of the clock form a straight line (i.e. 180
degrees? (Note: Excluding 6 AM and 6 PM)

0
10
11
12

39. The number of ways in which 5 letters can be placed in 5 addressed envelopes so that no letter
goes to the correct envelope is?

44
47
50
40

40. Refer to the following information to answer the questions that follow.

Two Countries, Aryavarta and Syria, have agreed to submit any disputes that might arise between
them to arbitration panels drawn from a pool of arbitrators.
The pool consists of the following: three Aryan representatives- K, L and M; three Syrian
representatives- P, Q and R and three neutral arbitrators- S, T and U.

Each arbitration panel must be formed according to the following conditions:

A panel can have three, four, five or six members.
At least one member of each panel must be neutral.
Neither Aryan nor Syrian representatives can make up more than half the number of members on a
panel.
S cannot be on a panel with L, with M or with U.
R cannot be on a panel with L or with T.

If both S and T are to be members of a three-member panel, then which of the following can be the
third member of that panel?

L
M
P
R

41. If R and S are both selected as members of a four-member panel, then which of the following must
also be selected as a member of that panel?

K
L
P
Q

42. If K, M, Q and R are all selected as members of a five-member panel, then which of the following
must be selected as the fifth member of that panel?

L
U
S
T

43. Check the four group of words given below. Three of these groups are alike in some way while one
is different. Find the one which differs & mark it as your answer.

MLON
VCXE
OJQL
JQPK

44. Check the four groups of words given below. Three of these groups are alike in some way while
one is different. Find the one that differs & mark it as your answer.

JPL
SGU
TGH (Answer)
BXD

45. Read the passage below and answer the questions following it on the basis of what is stated or
implied in the passage.

Currently, the paramount problem in the field of biomaterials, the science of replacing diseased tissue
with human-made implants, is control over the interface or surface, between implanted biomaterials
and living tissues. The physical properties of most tissues can be matched by careful selection of raw
materials: metals, ceramics, or several varieties of polymer materials. Even the requirement that the
biomaterials processed from these materials be of several varieties of polymer materials. Even the
requirement that biomaterials processed from these materials be nontoxic to host tissue can be met
by techniques derived from studying the reactions of tissue cultures to biomaterials or from short-
term implants. But achieving necessary matches in physical properties across interfaces between living
and non-living matter requires knowledge of which molecules control the bonding of cells to each
otheran area that we have not yet explored thoroughly. Although recent research has allowed us to
stabilize the tissue-biomaterial
interface by controlling either the chemical reactions or the microstructure of the biomaterials, our
fundamental understanding of how implant devices adhere to tissues remains woefully incomplete.

According to the passage, the major problem currently scientists are facing in the field of biomaterials
is:

assessing and regulating the bonding between host tissue and implants
controlling the transfer of potentially toxic materials across the interface of tissue and implant
discovering new materials from which to construct implant devices
deciding in what situations implants are needed.

46. The authors primary purpose is to

answer a theoretical question in the field of biomaterials
discuss the current state of technology in the field of biomaterials
resolve a research dispute in the field of biomaterials
predict an ethical crisis for biomaterials researchers

47. Read the information given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. Eleven students Anwar, Baham, Chetan, Dayal, Eshwar, Farooq, Gajendra, Hariom, Inayat, Jatin and
Kishore are sitting on a bench in a lecture room facing towards the teacher.
2. Dayal is towards the left of Farooq and second to the right of Chetan.
3. Eshwar is second to the left of Anwar and is sitting on one end.
4. Jatin is the neighbourer of Anwar and Baham is third to the left of Gajendra.
5. Hariom is next to left of Dayal and is third to the right of Inayat.

Which two students are sitting on two ends?

Kishore and Dayal
Eshwar and Dayal
Eshwar and Farooq
Kishore and Farooq

48. Which group of students is sitting just next to the right of Gajendra?

Chetan, Hariom, Dayal, Eshwar
Chetan, Hariom, Inayat, Baham
Chetan, Hariom, Dayal, Inayat
None of the above

49. Who is sitting just in the middle?

Inayat
Chetan
Baham
Jatin

50. Which of the given 5 statements is unnecessary?

(1) and (3)
(1)
(3)
All are necessary.


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