Banking Exam PCI20251 Welcome to your Banking Exam PCI20251 Name Email DIRECTIONS (Qs. 1-5) : Study the following tables carefully and answer the questions given below: None 1. In which of the following years was the difference in numberof candidates appeared from Mumbai over the previousyear the minimum ? (a) 2004 (b) 2006 (c) 2007 (d) 2002 (e) None of these None 2. In which of the following years was the number of candidatesqualified from Chennai, the maximum among the givenyears ? (a) 2007 (b) 2006 (c) 2005 (d) 2003 (e) None of these None 3. Approximately what was the total number of candidatesqualified from Delhi in 2002 and 2006 together ? (a) 27250 (b) 25230 (c) 30150 (d) 28150 (e) 26250 None 4. Approximately how many candidates appearing fromKolkata in 2004 qualified in the competitive examination ? (a) 13230 (b) 13540 (c) 15130 (d) 15400 (e) 19240 None 5. Approximately what was the difference between the numberof candidates qualified from Hyderabad in 2001 and 2002 ? (a) 1680 (b) 2440 (c) 1450 (d) 2060 (e) 1860 None DIRECTIONS (Qs. 1-5) : Study the following table carefully and answer the questions that follow: . None 1. What is the ratio of the number of males to the number offemales respectively in Patna from Bank A, Bank C and BankE together ? (a) 175: 173 (b) 177: 173 (c) 177: 172 (d) 175: 172 (e) None of these None 2. What is the ratio of the number of males to the number offemales respectively in Bank D from all the cities together ? (a) 496: 387 (b) 487 : 356 (c) 422: 385 (d) 486: 397 (e) None of these None 3. The number of females in all the banks together in Delhi areapproximately what per cent of the number of males from allthe banks together in the same city ? (a) 88 (b) 98 (c) 78 (d) 68 (e) 58 None 4.  The number of females in Bank B from Agra is what per centof the females in Bank C from the same city? (a) 33.2 (b) 23.2 (c) 13.2 (d) 28.2 (e) None of these None 5. What is the approximate average of the number of malesworking in all the banks together in Kolkata ? (a) 350 (b) 310 (c) 340 (d) 380 (e) 360 None DIRECTIONS (Qs. 1-5): Study the given information carefully and answer the following questions. Nine people Z, Y, X, W, V, U, T, S and Q are living on the different floors of a hotel not necessarily in the same order such that four floors remains vacant. Ground floor is numbered one, first floor is numbered two and so on. Top and bottom floor of the hotel are Vacant. There are four floors between Z and T. Z lives above T. Two persons live between the floors on which S and W live. Z lives immediate below S. T is not living in odd number floor. T lives immediately above Vacant floor. Number of floors between the floors on which X and Q live is same as the number of floors between the ones on which T and Y live. X lives in one of the floor above Q and T. W lives immediately below vacant floor. No two vacant floor are immediate next to each other. At most three floor are there in between two vacant floor. Difference between Floor in which U and V lives is prime number with U lives above V. None 1. Who lives immediately two floor below one of the vacant floor? (a) U (b) V (c) T (d) Y (e) W None 2. How many persons live between Z and T? (a) Three (b) One (c) Four (d) Six (e) Five None 3. How many floor are there in between Y and W? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 1 (e) 5 None 4. Which floors are vacant? (a) 6, 2 (b) 2, 4 (c) 5, 1 (d) 6, 3 (e) 2, 5 None 5. Four among the five are the same and thus forms a group. Who among the following does not belong to that group? (a) S (b) X (c) T (d) V (e) Z None DIRECTIONS (Qs. 1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: A group of 10 friends go on a trip for 2 days. They stay on different floors in the same building. The building has ten floors ground floor is numbered 1 and the topmost floor is numbered 10. Nila lives on an even number floor above the sixth floor. Only two persons live between Nila and Achyuta. Only three floors are there between Achyuta and Janita who does not live on the ninth floor. More than four floors between Janita and Balraj who lives below Nila. Only three persons live between Balraj and Hansika. The number of floors between Nila and Hansika same as the number of floors between Janita and Farid. Geet lives on the prime number floor. Geet lives below Drisana and above Ella. Candy does not live on the sixth floor None 1. Which of the following is true with respect to Candy as per the given information? (a) Nila lives immediately below Candy. (b) Candy lives immediately below Drisana. (c) Candy lives on floor number 9. (d) Two floors are there between Candy and Drisana (e) Candy lives on an even-numbered floor. None 2. Who lives on the floor immediately above Drisana? (a) No one (b) Achyuta (c) Hansika (d) Janita (e) Geet None 3. Who among the following lives on floor number 6? (a) Farid (b) Ella (c) Drisana (d) Geet (e) Cannot be determined None 4. How many persons live between the floors of Geet and Balraj? (a) Four (b) Seven (c) Five (d) Six (e) None of the above None 5. Who amongst the following live on the floors exactly between Farid and Hansika? (a) Achyuta and Candy (b) Ella and Achyuta (c) Ella and Drisana (d) Drisana and Achyuta (e) Candy and Ella None Directions (1-8) : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. certain words in the passage are printed in bold to help you to locate them easily while answering some of the questions. The University Grants Commission’s directive to college and university lecturers to spend a minimum of 22 hours a week in direct teaching is the product of budgetary cutbacks rather than pedagogic wisdom. It may seem odd, at first blush, that teachers should protest about teaching a mere 22 hours. However, if one considers the amount of time academics require to prepare lectures of good quality as well as the time they need to spend doing research, it is clear that most conscientious teachers work more than 40 hours a week . In university systems around the world, lecturers rarely spend more than 12 to 15 hours in direct teaching activities a week . The average college lecturer in India does not have any office space. If computers are available, internet connectivity is unlikely. Libraries are poorly stocked. Now the UGC says universities must implement a complete freeze on all permanent recruitment, abolish all posts which have been vacant for more than a year, and cut staff strength by 10 percent. And it is in order to ensure that these cutbacks do not affect the quantum of teaching that existing lecturers are being asked to work longer. Obviously, the quality of teaching and academic work in general will decline. While it is true that some college teachers do not take their classes regularly, the UGC and the Institutions concerned must find a proper way to hold them accountable. An absentee teacher will continue to play truant even if the number of hours he is required to teach goes up. All of us are well aware of the unsound state that the Indian higher education system is in today. Thanks to years of sustained financial neglect, most Indian universities and colleges do no research worth the name. Even as the number of students entering colleges has increased dramatically, public investment in higher education has actually declined in relative terms. Between 1985 and 1997, when public expenditure on higher education as a percentage of outlays on all levels of education grew by more than 60 percent in Malaysia and 20 percent in Thailand, India showed a decline of more than 10 percent . Throughout the world, the number of teachers in higher education per million population grew by more than 10 percent in the same period; in India it fell by one percent. Instead of transferring the burden of government apathy on to the backs of the teachers, the UGC should insist that the needs of the country’s university system are adequately catered for. None 1. Why does the UGC want to increase the direct teaching hours of university teachers ? (1) UGC feels that the duration of contact between teacher and the taught should be more. (2) UGC wants teachers to spend mor e time in their departments. (3) UGC wants teachers to devote some time to improve univer sity administration. UGC does not have money to appoint additional teachers. (5) None of these None 2. Which of the following is the reason for the sorry state of affairs of the Indian Universities as mentioned in the passage ? (1) The poor quality of teachers (2) Involvement of teachers in extra- curricular activities (3) Politics within and outside the departments (4) Heavy burden of teaching hours on the teachers (5) Not getting enough financial assistance None 3. Which of the following statements/ is/ are TRUE in the context of the passage ? (A) Most colleges do not carry out research worth the name. (B) UGC wants lecturers to spend minimum 22 hours a week in direct teaching. (C) Indian higher education system is in unsound state. (1) Only (A) and (C) (2) All (A), (B) and (C) (3) Only (C) (4) Only (B) (5) Only (B) and (C) None 4. Besides direct teaching University teachers spend considerable time in/ on ........ (1) administrative activities such as admissions (2) supervising examinations and correction of answer papers (3) carrying out research in the area of their interest (4) maintaining research equipment and libraries (5) developing liaison with the user organisations None 5. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE in the context of the passage ? (1) UGC wants teachers to spend minimum 40 hours in a week in teaching (2) Some college teachers do not engage their classes regularly (3) The average college teacher in India does not have any office space (4) UGC wants universities to abolish all posts which have been vacant for more than a year (5) All are true None 6. Between 1985-1997, the number of teachers in higher education per million population, in India ......... (1) Increased by 60% (2) Increased by 20% (3) decreased by 22% (4) decreased by 10% (5) decreased by 1% None 7. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE in the context of the passage ? (1) Indian universities are financially neglected. (2) All over the world, the university lecturers hardly spend more than 12 to 15 hours a week in direct teaching. (3) Indian Universities are asked to reduce staff strength by 10%. (4) Public investment in higher education has increased in India. (5) Malaysia spends more money on education than Thailand. None 8. What is the UGC directive to the universities ? (1) Improve the quality of teaching. (2) Spend time on research activities. (3) Do not appoint any permanent teacher. (4) Provide computer and internet facilities. (5) Do not spend money on counselling services to the students. None DIRECTIONS (1-10): In the passages given below, there are blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Every blank has four alternative words given in options (a), (b), (c) and (d). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. If the word given in bold after the blank is your answer, mark (e), i.e.,'No change required'. The idea of the documentary was _1_ (deceive) by Krishna in the year 2007 while he was _2_ (attaining) to his undergraduate course _3_ (off) the Western International University, New Delhi, India as a possible _4_ (enmity) for an annual inter-university competition _5_ (furor) SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) _6_ (as well as) his institution rejected his _7_ (prosperous) on account of non-feasibility. _8_ (sincere) then he is independently working on this documentary and has _9_ (likewise) interviewed famous personalities from all walks of _10_ (sphere). None 1. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 1. (a) accepted (b) conceived (c) borrowed (d) taken (e) No change required None 2. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 2. (a) attending (b) arriving (c) catching (d) noticing (e) No change required None 3. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 3. (a) on (b) in (c) at (d) as (e) No change required None 4. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 4. (a) exit (b) entry (c) retirement (d) allocation (e) No change required None 5. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 5. (a) for (b) from (c) if (d) form (e) No change required None 6. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 6. (a) except (b) only (c) but (d) yet (e) No change required None 7. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 7. (a) angle (b) proposal (c) motion (d) news (e) No change required None 8. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 8. (a) Since (b) nearby (c) convenient (d) beside (e) No change required None 9. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 9. (a) presently (b) lastly (c) old (d) already (e) No change required None 10. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 10. (a) light (b) live (c) alone (d) life (e) No change required None DIRECTIONS (Qs. 1-5): Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions given below them. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option. A. The species, which are most numerous in individuals, will have the best chance of producing variations within any given period. B. Hence any rare species will be less quickly modified or improved within any given period, and they will be consequently beaten in the race for life by the modified descendants of the commoner species. C. From these considerations I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed others will become rare and finally extinct. D. We have evidence of this in the fact that it is the more common species that afford the greatest number of varieties, or incipient species. E. Extinction or survival, therefore, is a function of a parameter that is totally beyond the control of the species. (a) ABCDE (b) ADBCE (c) BCAED (d) EDABC None Time's up