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Designation : UPESMET Management Entrance Test 2016
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UPES-MET is an objective type test. The UPES-MET has four sections, each section having thirty five questions. The total 140 questions are to be attempted over 2 hrs and 30 mins.
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The test structure is given below;
Sections No. of Questions
General English: Reading Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Verbal Ability 35
Quantitative, Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency 35
General Awareness: General Knowledge, Current Affairs, Business Scenario 35
Analytical & Logical Reasoning 35
Total No.of Questions 140
Time: 1000 – 1230 Hours
Duration: 2 hrs 30 mins
DATE OF EXAMINATION (UPES-MET): 13 March 2016
SAMPLE QUESTIONS :
A few sample questions are given below for the guidance of the candidates in the preparation. These are illustration purpose only. They do not necessarily indicate the types or the difficulty levels of questions or the number of questions in each section that can be in the actual test.
Section I – General English
I. Reading Comprehension :
Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped not only human morphology but also human behavior. The role those anthropologists ascribe to evolution is not of dictating the details of human behavior but one of imposing constraints – ways of feeling, thinking, and acting that ”come naturally” in archetypal situations in any culture. Our ”frailties” – emotions and motives such as rage, fear, greed, gluttony, joy, lust, love-may be a very mixed assortment quality: we are, as we say, ”in the grip” of them. And thus they give us our sense of constraints.
Unhappily, some of those frailties our need for ever-increasing security among them are presently maladaptive. Yet beneath the overlay of cultural detail, they, too, are said to be biological in direction, and therefore as natural to us as are our appendixes. We would need to comprehend thoroughly their adaptive origins in order to understand how badly they guide us now. And we might then begin to resist their pressure.
1. The author implies that control to any extent over the ”frailties” that constrain our behavior is thought to presuppose
A. That those frailties and adaptive are recognized as currently beneficial and adaptive
B. That there is little or no overlay of cultural detail that masks their true nature.
C. That there are cultures in which those frailties do not ”come naturally” and from which such control can be learned
D. A full understanding of why those frailties evolved and of how they function now
2. It can be inferred that in his discussion of maladaptive frailties the author assumes that
A. Evolution does not favor the emergence of adaptive characteristics over the emergence of maladaptive ones
B. Changes in the total human environment can outpace evolutionary change.
C. Maladaptive characteristics, once fixed, make the emergence of other maladaptive characteristics more likely
D. The designation of a characteristic as being maladaptive must always remain highly tentative
3. The primary purpose of the passage is to present
A. A position on the foundations of human behavior and on what those foundations imply
B. A theory outlining the parallel development of human morphology and of human behavior
C. A diagnostic test for separating biologically determined behavior pattern from culture – specific detail
D. An overview of those human emotions and motive’s that impose constraints on human behaviour
4. Which of the following most probably provides an appropriate analogy from human morphology for the ”details” versus ”constraints” distinction made in the passage in relation to human behaviour?
A. The ability of most people to see all the colors of the visible spectrum as against most peoples inability to name any but the primary colors
B. The ability of even the least fortunate people to show compassion as against people’s inability to mask their feelings completely
C. The ability of some people to dive to great depths as against most people’s inability to swim long distance
D. The greater lung capacity of mountain peoples that helps them live in oxygen-poor air as against people’s inability to fly without special apparatus.
II. Verbal Reasoning:
1. All German philosopher, except for Marx, are idealists.
From which of the following can the statement above be most properly inferred?
A. Aside from the philosopher Marx, if someone is a German, then he or she is an idealist.
B. Marx is the only non-German philosopher who is an idealist.
C. If a German is an idealist, then he or she is a philosopher, as long as he or she is not Marx.
D. Marx is not an idealist German philosopher.
2. Bill earns more commission than does Sandra. But since Andrew earns more commission than does Lisa, it follows that Bill earns more commission than does Lisa.
Any of the following, if introduced into the argument as an additional premise, makes the argument above logically correct EXCEPT:
A. Andrew earns more commission than Bill
B. Sandra earns more commission than Lisa
C. Sandra earns more commission than Andrew
D. Sandra and Andrew earn the same amount of commission
3. During the SARS days, about 23,500 doctors who had treated SARS sufferers died and about 23,670 doctors who had not engaged in treatment for SARS sufferers died. On the basis of those figures, it can be concluded that it was not much more dangerous to participate in SARS treatment during the SARS day than it was not to participate in SARS treatment.
Which of the following would reveal most clearly the absurdity of the conclusion drawn above?
A. Counting deaths among doctors who had participated in SARS treatment in addition to deaths among doctors who had not participated in SARS treatment
B. Expressing the difference between the numbers of deaths among doctors who had treated SARS sufferers and doctors who had not treated SARS suffers as a percentage of the total number of deaths
C. Separating deaths caused by accidents during the treatment to SARS suffers from deaths caused by infect of SARS suffers.
D. Comparing death rates per thousand members of each group rather than comparing total numbers of deaths
III. Sentence Correction :
Directions: The sentence correction question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
This sentence correction question tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. In choosing your answer, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words, and sentence construction. Choose the answer that produces the most effective sentence; this answer should be clear and exact, without awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, or grammatical error.
1. The Navy used the nuclear submarine accident off the coast of Hawaii to show that everyone must be held responsible for their actions.
A. to show that everyone must be held responsible for their actions.
B. to demonstrate their belief that everyone must be held responsible for their actions.
C. to show that everyone must be held responsible for his actions.
D. to signal how no one should be able to get away with committing acts of terrible negligence.
2. I never fail to get frustrated on the golf course: nonetheless, I always resolve to continue my involving in the game.
A. on the golf course: nonetheless, I always resolve to continue my involving in the game.
B. on the golf course: nonetheless I always resolve to continue my involvement in the game.
C. on the golf course; nonetheless, I always resolve to continue my involvement in the game.
D. on the golf course; nonetheless I always resolve to continue my involvement in the game.
3. Each of the movies were great and the choice for the best one among all three was very difficult indeed.
A. were great and the choice for the best one among all three was very difficult indeed.
B. was great and the choice for the best one among all three was very difficult indeed.
C. were great and the choice for the best one between all three was very difficult indeed.
D. was great and the choice for the best one between all three was very difficult indeed.
4. The employees viewed the work-sharing plan with hostility, having feared that it will undermine the seniority system and negatively affect their retirement benefits.
A. having feared that it will undermine
B. fearing that it would undermine
C. having the fear that it would undermine
D. feared that it would undermine
5. In many coastal New England towns, the fisherman still operates as they have for generations, displaying and selling their catch dockside at the end of each day.
A. the fisherman still operates as they have
B. the fisherman still operates as was done
C. fishermen still operate as they have done
D. the fisherman still operates as he has