SELECTIVE PRACTICE GA

1. A motorboat whose speed in 25 km/hr in still water goes 60 km downstream and comes
back in a total of 5 hours. The speed of the stream (in km/hr) is:
2km/hr
3km/hr
4km/hr
5km/hr

2. wave is to crest as ____ is to peak

trough
valley
high
mountain

3. Add one letter to the word STEEP. Rearrange the letters to make a word meaning
'POUNDER'. The added letter is
M
N
L
P

4. Add a letter to the word CRANE. Rearrange the letters to make a word meaning
'GROWTH'. The added letter is
C
D
F
G

5. Add a letter to the word DEIGN. Rearrange the letters to make a word meaning
'AUTHORIZED'. The added letter is
R
S
T
P

6. Add a letter to the word CREST. Rearrange the letters to make a word meaning
'CLANDESTINE'. The added letter is
O
E
M
N
7. Add a letter to the word KITCHEN. Rearrange the letters to make a word meaning
'CONGEALS'. The added letter is
L
K
T
S

8. In a foreign language,
TAYO YETI means OLD MAN,
ALI SOTI means YOUNG WOMAN,
 and ALI YETI means OLD WOMAN.
What is the foreign word for YOUNG?

ALI
TAYO
SOTI
YET

9. Which letters are missing in this series?

WV SR ON ____ GF

KJ
LK
MJ
NJ

10.Which letters are missing in this series?

LL D NNN F ___ H RRRRR

G
PPPP
OOOO
PPP

11.The word CONDENSE is most nearly the opposite of

CONGEAL
EXPAND
REDUCE
HOPE

12.There are 26 students in 6 Red. 6 Blue has 14 boys and 11 girls. When the classes are
combined there are three more girls than boys. How many girls are there in 6 Red?

14
15
16
17

13.Lex rides his bicycle at an average speed of 20 kilometres per hour. In two hours Sam
rides 4 kilometres further than Lex.
What is Sam's average speed?
21km/hr
22km/hr
23km/hr
24km/hr

14.Which letter is missing in this series?

S N J ____ E

F
G
H
 I

15.Rearrange all the words below to make the best sentence. What letter does the last
word begin with?
a brown had each porch shack little

P
L
B
S

16.

8
9
10
11

17.The word UNNECESSARY is nearest in meaning to

RUDE
SHORT
SUPREME
SUPERFLUOUS

18.Three of the following words have similar meanings. Which word has a different
meaning to the other three?
TUNE
SONG
MELODY
INSTRUMENT

19.
20.Rearrange all the words below to make the best sentence. What letter
does the last word begin with?
put the to on they their robes guests welcome
G
R
O
W

21.Which letters are missing in the series?

AB BC DD GE ? PG

KF

LF
IF
IL

22.Three of the following words have similar meanings. Which word has a different
meaning?
IMBECILE
IDIOTIC
MORONIC
SAGE

23.granamelke means big tree

pinimelke means little tree
melkehoon means tree house
Which word could mean "big house"?

granahoon
pinishur
pinihoon
melkegrana

24.hapllesh means cloudburst

srenchoch means pinball
resbosrench means ninepin
Which word could mean "cloud nine"?

leshsrench
ochhapl
haploch
haplresbo

25.Reptile is to lizard as flower is to

Petal
Stem
Daisy
 Alligator

26.Find the pair that has a similar relationship to ELEPHANT : PACHYDERM

Mantis : Rodent
Poodle : Feline
Kangaroo : Marsupial
Zebra : Horse

27.Find the pair that has a similar relationship to PASTORAL : RURAL

Metropolitan : Urban
Harvest : Autumn
Agrarian : Benevolent
Sleepy : Nocuturnal

28.Find the pair that has a similar relationship to CONDUCTOR : ORCHESTRA

Jockey : Mount
Thrasher : Hay
Driver : Tractor
Skipper : Crew

29.Find the pair that has a similar relationship to SLAPSTICK : LAUGHTER

Fallacy : Dismay
Genre : Mystery
Satire : Anger
Horror : Fear

30.Find the pair that has a similar relationship to VERVE : ENTHUSIASM

Loyalty : Duplicity
Devotion : Reverence
Intensity : Color
Eminence : Anonymity

31.Find the pair that has a similar relationship to PROFESSOR : ERUDITE

Aviator : Licensed
Inventor : Imaginative
Procrastinator : Conscientious
Overseer : Wealthy

32.Find the pair that has a similar relationship to DOMINANCE : HEGEMONY

Romance : Sympathy
Furtherance : Melancholy
Independence : Autonomy
Tolernace : Philanthropy

33.Which word does NOT belong with the others?

Noun
Proposition
Punctuation
 Adverb

34.Which word does NOT belong with the others?

Biology
Chemistry
Theology
Zoology

35.Which word does not belong with the others?

Valley
Ravine
Ocean
Canyon

36.Which word does not belong with the others?

Snake
Lizard
Aardvark
Toad

37.In the question below, the first and sixth sentence are given in the beginning.
The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up.
These are labelled as P, Q, R and S.
Find out the proper order for the four sentences.

S1: On vacation in Tangier, Morocco, my friend and I sat down at a street cafe.
P : At one point, he bent over with a big smile, showing me, a single gold tooth and a
dingy fez.
Q : soon I felt the presence of someone standing alongside me.
R : But this one wouldn't budge.
S : We had been cautioned about beggars and were told to ignore them.
S6: Finally a man walked over to me and whispered, "Hey buddy this guy is your waiter
and he wants your order"
The Proper sequence should be:

SQRP
SQPR
QSRP
QSPR

38.At 10 a.m. two trains started travelling toward each other from stations 287 miles
apart.
They passed each other at 1:30 pm the same day.
 If the average speed of the faster train exceeded the average speed of the slower train
by 6 miles per hour, which of the following represents the speed of the faster train, in
miles per hour?

38 miles/hr
40 miles/hr
44 miles/hr
48 miles/hr

39.Horses are tethered at 4 corners of a square field of side 70 metres so that they just
cannot reach one another. The area left ungrazed by the horses is:
1000m2
1025m2
1050m2
1075m2

40.The proportion of milk and water in 3 samples is 2:1, 3:2 and 5:3. A mixture comprising
of equal quantities of all 3 samples is made. The proportion of milk and water in the
mixture is

2:1
5:1
99:61
227:133

41.Which word has a different pattern of letters?

Denver
Hiatus
Nokia
Swahili

42.When you use all the letters from ERUS you can make a word which means
Something that is sure
Something that you borrow
Something that you farm
Something that is variable

43.CEASAR is to ROMAN as ALEXANDER is to

Italian
Gladiator
Centurion
Greek

44.Which number comes next in the series?

9 7 10 8 11 9

12
11
6
9

45.In the flollowing row of words, one word does not belong with the others in that row.
Pick an odd word.
 piano, tambourine, drums, triangle, clarinet

Piano
Drums
Clarinet
Triangle

46.For each of the following, insert three letters into the spaces. These three letters will
complete the first word and also start the second word.

VEL___ERAN

VET
CRO
ATE
OUR

47.Bee is to busy as sloth is to

Early
Quick
Black
Lazy

48.Assume that:
All HIFS are PIFS
Some SIFS are RIFS
All ZIFS are SIFS
All PIFS are ZIFS
Which of the following do we know is correct?

All ZIFS are RIFS

Some HIFS are ZIFS
All RIFS are SIFS
Some ZIFS are PIFS

49.Which is the odd word out?

Conventional
Peculiar
Conservative
Typical
50.One container has 28 kilograms of flour and another has 4 kilograms.
How many kilograms must be taken from one container, so each has an equal amount
of flour?
4kg
8kg
12kg
16kg
51.Working mothers who earn $30,000 or less per year receive a rebate on before and
after school care of 75%, plus a school bonus of $6,000 that only applies to this
category of earnings.
Each dollar earned above this amount and up to $40,000 reduces the rebate to 55%,
and for any amount above this, the rebate drops to 30%.
There are three mothers Jade earns $40,001, Emily earns $38,000 and Lucy earns
$29,550.
If the cost of before and after school care is $10,000 per year, what amount of money
does the person who has the least amount of money left after paying for before and
after school care, have?
$30000
$30001
$33000
$33001

52.There are 72 apples on my tree at home; 38 are red, and the rest are green.
I know 46 of the apples have worms in them, so I cant use them for cooking.
What is the maximum number of green apples I could have left to cook with?

0
8
12
26

53.Find the missing number in the following series:

4 ? 17 51 56 168

12
14
16
18

54.From home, Marys work is two thirds along the way to training. Training is 2.5 km from
work.
Mary normally goes to work, then training and then home again. However, today she
forgot her shoes.
How far will Mary travel in total today if she has to go home before training to get her
shoes?

15 km
20 km
25 km
27.5 km

55.The numbers in each triplet go together in a certain way.

Find the missing number marked by the question mark:
5, 10, 25
9, 18, 81
4, 8, 16
8, 16, ?
 56
64
72
80

56.It takes 1.5 litres of sugar soap to wash a square metre of ceiling and 0.5 litres of sugar
soap to wash a square metre of wall.
Biancas room is 4 metres high and each wall is 5 metres wide. There is one window,
which is 4 m and a door, which is 9 m.
How much sugar soap will Bianca need, assuming she does not wash the door or
window (a room has four walls and a roof)?

69 L
71L
73 L
75L

57. T-

shirts = $7 Pants= $4 Jumpers= $3.50

Ms Smith and Ms Able are T-shirts = $7 Pants= $4 Jumpers= $3.50
Ms Smith and Ms Able areselling used clothes at a trash and treasure stall. The prices
are shown above.
Ms Able calculates that half of the money she took is profit.
Ms Smith is the same, except for her jumpers- she makes $1 of profit per jumper.
Takings (the prices listed above) are the money they take from customers overall.
Profit is what they have left over after they have paid all of their expenses.

How much profit will Ms Able make?

$10
$10.75
$11
$11.75

58.A farmer bought chickens and ducks to restock his farm.

He also purchased milking cows for his wifes milk-making enterprise.
The total cost was $11,425.
He remembered that the 50 chickens cost $65 each and the cows cost $45 each.
He counted 10 ducks in the paddock, but he could not remember what they cost.
His wife reminded him that the total number of animals he bought was 75.
Work out for the farmer the price for each duck.
$75
$750
 $85
$850

59.
Larger boxes hold 4 smaller boxes
each. Different ships carry a
different number of larger boxes.
The number of larger boxes
carried by different types of ships
is indicated in the table
There are two of each ship. What
is the smallest number of each
type of ship needed to carry 72
smaller boxes, with no spaces left
over?

1
2
3
4

Answers
1. 5 km/hr
Try each of the answer
When stream speed is 5 km/hr
Speed upstream = 20 km/hr
Speed downstream = 30 km/hr
Time taken = 60/20 + 60/30
= 3 + 2 = 5 hours
2. Mountain
3. L
Add L to the word STEEP. Rearrange the letters to make 'PESTLE' meaning 'POUNDER'.
4. Add C to the word CRANE. Rearrange the letters to make CANCER meaning 'GROWTH'
5. Add S to the word DEIGN. Rearrange the letters to make SIGNED meaning
'AUTHORIZED'.
6. Add E to the word CREST. Rearrange the letters to make SECRET meaning
'CLANDESTINE'
7. Add S to the word KITCHEN. Rearrange the letters to make THICKENS meaning
'CONGEALS'
8. ALI SOTI means YOUNG WOMAN, and ALI YETI means OLD WOMAN. so, ALI means
WOMAN
so, SOTI means YOUNG
9. KJ.
Next letter is obtained by going backwards 4 places
W -> S - > O -> K -> G
V -> R -> N -> J -> F
10.PPPP
11.EXPAND
12.Let there be B boys in 6 Red
So, there are 26 - B girls
After combining the classes,
Number of girls = 37 - B
Number of boys = 14 + B
37 - B = 17 + B
2B = 20
B = 10
 So, number of girls = 16
13.Lex rides 40 km in 2 hours
So, Sam rides 44 km in 2 hours
So, Sam's average speed is 22 km per hour
14.S - 5 letters back is N
N - 4 letters back is J
J - 3 letters back is G
G - 2 letters back is E
15.The sentence is
each brown shack had a little porch
16.10
17.SUPERFLUOUS
18.INSTRUMENT. An instrument is used to make the other three
19.The number of lines increases by 1
The missing figure would have 6 lines which is answer b
20.The sentence is
they put on their robes to welcome the guests
21.AB BC DD GE KF PG
22.SAGE
23.Granahoon
24.Haplresbo
25.Daisy. A lizard is a type of reptile; a daisy is a type of flower.
26.Elephant is a kind of pachyderm; kangaroo is a kind of marsupial
27.Pastoral describes rural areas; metropolitan describes urban areas.
28.A conductor leads an orchestra; a skipper leads a crew.
29.Slapstick results in laughter; horror results in fear.
30.Verve and enthusiasm are synonyms; devotion and reverence are synonyms.
31.Being erudite is a trait of a professor; being imaginative is a trait of an inventor.
32.Hegemony means dominance; autonomy means independence.
33.The noun, preposition, and adverb are classes of words that make up a sentence.
Punctuation belongs in a sentence, but punctuation is not a class of word.
34.Biology, chemistry, and zoology are all branches of science. Theology is the study of
religion.
35.Ocean is a body of water; the others are land based geological forms
36.aardvark is a mammal and hence warm blooded; the other three are cold blooded
37.The correct order is
S1: On vacation in Tangier, Morocco, my friend and I sat down at a street cafe.
Q : soon I felt the presence of someone standing alongside me.
S : We had been cautioned about beggars and were told to ignore them.
R : But this one wouldn't budge.
P : At one point, he bent over with a big smile, showing me, a single gold tooth and a
dingy fez.
S6: Finally a man walked over to me and whispered, "Hey buddy this guy is your waiter
and he wants your order"
38.Let's the average speed of the fast train be A, and the average speed of the slow train
B.
If they both start at 10 am, and meet at 1:30 pm, then they both travel for 3.5 hours.
The distance travelled by the first train can be represented by
dA = A 3.5
Similarly, the distance travelled by the second train is
dB = B 3.5
We know that they started 287 miles apart, so dA + dB = 287 mi
If we plug in our previous equations, we get
( A 3.5 ) + ( B 3.5 ) = 287 mi
( A + B ) 3.5 = 287 mi
A + B = 287 mi / 3.5 h
A + B = 82 mi/h
Now, the next thing we're told is that the average speed of the faster train exceeded
the average speed of the slower train by 6 miles per hour. So
 A=B+6
If we plug that into the above equation, we get
(B + 6) + B = 82 mi/h
2B + 6 = 82 mi/h
2B = 76 mi/h
B = 76 mi/h / 2 B = 38 mi/h
Now that we know the speed of the slow train, we can find the speed of the fast train.

A = B + 6 mi/h A = 38 mi/h + 6 mi/h

A = 44 mi/h
39.The length of the rope in which the horses tied should be equal to half of the side of the
square plot so that they just cannot reach one another.
Therefore, the length of the rope is 35m (70/2).
The area covered by each horse should be equal to the area of sector with radius of
70/2 = 35m(length of the rope).
Total area covered by the four = 702 - (22/7)3535 = 4900 - 3850 = 1050 sq.m.
40.words the vowel is preceded by the letter that comes before it in the alphabet; for
example in DENVER, the D comes before the E; in HIATUS the H comes before the I but
the pattern in SWAHILI is different.
41.Rearrange the letters and then you have to match them up with one of the alternatives.
The rearranged word is SURE which means that something is certain.
42.Ceasar is to Roman as Alexander is to the Greek Empire.
43.The numbers go down two and then up three. So the next number must be 12.
44.Clarinet is a wind instrument, while the other instruments are not.
45.VET is the answer
The first word is VELVET.
The second word is VETERAN.
46.Bee is to busy as sloth is to lazy
47.Some ZIFS are PIFS
48.peculiar means strange while the rest of the words means normal or conventional
49.The difference between the 2 containers is 28-4 = 24 kg
To result in an equal amount of flour in each container, we would need to move 24 / 2 =
12 kg
50.

51.There are 72 apples on my tree at home

38 are red
So, number of green apples = 72 - 38 = 34
46 apples have worms in them
To find the maximum number of green apples, assume all red ones have worms
This means 38 red have worms and 46-38=8 green ones have worms
So, number of good green apples = 34 - 8 = 26
52.These are numbers in pairs
The rule is multiple by 3
17 3 = 51
56 3 = 168
4 3 = 12
53.total travel =
Home to work + work to home+ home to training + training to home
= 5 + 5 + 7.5 + 7.5
= 25 km
54.2nd number is 1st number multiplied by 2
3rd number is 1st number squared

So, 8 squared is 64
55.walls are 4 metres high and each wall is 5 metres wide
Area of each wall = 20 m
Area of all 4 walls = 4 20 m = 80 m
Area of walls minus (door and window) = 80 - 4 - 9 = 67 m
 Area of ceiling = 5 5 = 25 m
Sugar soap for ceiling = 25 1.5 = 37.5 litres
Sugar soap for walls = 67 0.5 = 33.5 litres
Total sugar soap required = 37.5 + 33.5 = 71 litres
56.Ms Able will make a profit of $10.75
57.There are 50 chickens and 10 ducks
So, number of cows = 75 - 50 - 10 = 15
Cost of chickens = 50 65 = 3250
Cost of cows = 15 45 = 675
Total cost of ducks = 11425 - 3250 - 675 = 7500
Number of ducks = 10
Cost of each duck = 7500 / 10 = $750
58.3 ships are required to carry 72 smaller boxes
Tanker, submarine and sail boat can carry 8 + 60+ 4 = 72 small boxes