CMAT Feb 2014: 20 solved sample questions for CMAT exam 2014 preparations

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February 15, 2014
This article shares with you 20 sample and probable solved questions, to help students focus on specific type of preparation during the last few days for CMAT Feb 2014 exam.
Opportunity for MBA aspirants to improve their scores over first CMAT held in September, 2013, or CAT/XAT

Second CMAT for admission in 2014, to be held from Feb 20 to 24, 2014  is going to be an opportunity for MBA aspirants to improve their scores over first CMAT held in September, 2013, or CAT/XAT and get admission call from  leading B schools in India.

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Prof S K Agarwal, expert and mentor, shares with MBAUniverse.com 20 sample and probable   solved questions, which will help the students to focus on specific type of preparation during the remaining few days to this important management test.

CMAT is divided in four sections with 25 questions per section. We shall strategically focus on each section and the probable question type in it.

Section 1: Language Comprehension

It is another name for Verbal Ability. This section will have 25 questions based on Grammar, Vocabulary usage; jumbled paragraphs and Reading Comprehension passages. Let us have samples on all the parts in this section

Part 1.Error correction

If you have strong fundamentals, know the core areas of Grammar and its usage, you can solve the 3-4 questions on error correction without much difficulty.  Level of difficulty is moderate.


Q.1 & 2 Fill in the blanks with correct option 

____    ______ mother ____ the salad when the table ______ set?
A. Whom; will help; with; will be
B. Whosoever; helped; on; is
C. Who; will help; for; will
D. Who; will help; with; is


Q.2    _____ my wife not ______ up until all ______ dinner?

A. Will; washing; will have had
B. Will; wash; have
C. Will; wash; would have had
D. Will; washing; will be having 

 

Part-2: Questions on Vocabulary usage
Candidates may find 5 to 7 questions on vocabulary usage-like correction in word spelling; opting the correct synonym/antonym to fill in the blank or to replace the given word; expressing the meaning of a phrase or word; one word substitution. It will be better to practice them well before going for the test


Q.3. Our Prime Minister has categorically stated that the ________ India is making progress.
A. whole       B. complete    C. whole of        D. total


Q.4. Although I do not have his birth certificate but I know that he is _______ than I.
 A. elder   B. older   C. older    D. eldest  


Q.5. He was a very ________ person who acted very ________.
 A. sensitive; sensible     B. sane; sensitive   C. sensibly; sensible   D. sensible; sensibly


Part-3; Jumbled sentences

Jumbled sentences in CMAT are short and not very difficult to understand. The need is to place them coherently in a flow of ideas.

Q.6. In the following question, the given sentences when properly sequenced will form a coherent paragraph. 1 and 6 are the opening and concluding sentences and in between the other four labeled A,B,C,D are to be placed to make the paragraph meaningful and coherent. Choose the most logical order out of the given options that makes the coherent paragraph.

1. The jury is still out on the link
6. While talking on his phone, said ENT specialist 
A. during World Deafness Week, doctors feel it is time to take a closer look at lifestyle factors
B. An audiogram of a 21-year-old revealed significant loss in his right ear, the one he favored
C. Doctors say they are now seeing patients going deaf in their twenties,
D. between new phones, listening devices and hearing loss, but
 
 DCAB    CABD   ABCD   BACD


Part-4: Reading comprehension

You may find 8 to 10 small RC passages in CMAT. But unlike CAT/XAT, where multiple questions follow one RC passage, one question per passage is asked in CMAT and that question is also of reasoning type.


Read the short passage below and answer the question 

Care should be taken when submitting manuscripts to book publishers. A suitable publisher should be chosen, by a study of his list of publications or an examination in the bookshops of the type of books in which he specializes. It is a waste of time and money to send the typescript of a novel to a publisher who publishes no fiction, or poetry to one who publishes no verse, though all too often this is done. A preliminary letter is appreciated by most publishers, and this should outline the nature and extent of the typescript and enquire whether the publisher would be prepared to read it (writers have been known to send out such letters of enquiry in duplicated form, an approach not calculated to stimulate a publisher’s interest). It is desirable to enclose the cost of return postage when submitting the typescript and finally it must be understood that although every reasonable care is taken of material in the Publishers’ possession, responsibility cannot be accepted for any loss or damage thereto.

Authors are strongly advised not to pay for the publication of their work. If a MS. is worth publishing, a reputable publisher will undertake its publication at his own expense, except possibly for works of an academic nature.

Q.7. The author of the passage assumes that care in submitting the manuscript to the publisher for publication of the book needs to be taken due to which of the following reason

 A.  The publisher will stick to his line of publication only.
B. The publisher who does not publish the other books may not understand the ingredients and pattern of publication.
C. Publisher will not devote time to the Editing and reading the material which is not of its line of publication.
D. Any publisher, not publishing the stuff of other type will not be able to do justice with the manuscript.


Section 2: Quantitative aptitude & data interpretation

The topics from which most of the questions appear in quant are arithmetic (ratios, mixtures, work, averages, profit & loss, percentage and counting principles. A few questions on permutation combination, geometry and algebra do also appear in the test.


Q.8. Jaya went to a fruit market with certain amount of money.  With this money she can buy either 40 peaches or 30 apples.  She retains 15% of the money for her auto fare. If she buys 14 peaches, then the number of apples she can buy is:-

A. 10    B. 12    C. 13   D.15


Q.9. A railway half ticket costs half of the full fare and the reservation charge is the same on half ticket as on full ticket.  A person reserved one full ticket from Hyderabad to Bangalore and paid Rs. 262/-. Another person reserved one full ticket and one half ticket and paid Rs.405. What is the reservation charge?

A. 48    B.24    C. 34    D.12


Q.10. The students in a class take either English course or Mathematics course or both.  Twenty five boys take English and twenty eight girls take mathematics. Twenty girls take only English and thirty boys take only Mathematics. Three girls take both subjects.  How many students are there in the class?
A. 103   B.97    C. 100   D. Indeterminate


Section-3: Logical Reasoning

The section is a mix of the topics from problems on seating arrangements, sequencing, statement-conclusion, logical puzzle, numerical puzzle, Venn Diagram, true/false statements, visual reasoning. The basic preparatory tip for LR is to attempt as many practice exercises as possible   

Q.11. If PRINCE is written as NPGLAC, then how is QUEEN written?

A. OSCCL   B. PSCCL   C.OSCCM   D.OTCCL


Q.12. the question contains six statements followed by four sets of combinations of three statements. Choose the set in which the statements are logically related.

A. All pens are pencils         B. Some pencils are not papers
C. No pencil is clip               D. No clip is book
E. Some books are pencils   F. No clip is pen
1. D, E, C    2. A, C, D     3. F, C, A     4. B, F, A


Q.13 & 14. In the following questions a pair of words in Capitals is given followed by four pairs of words.  Choose from the choices, the pair which exhibits the same relationship as the capitalized pair of words.

ADVANCE: RETREAT
A. CREATE: DESTROY    B. FORWARD: ONWARD   C. BUY: SELL   D. PUSH: PULL

 

Q.14. BODY: HAND
A. AUTOMOBILE: WHEEL    B.THORN: FLOWER    C. PIN: NAIL    D. CHAIR : TABLE


Section 4: General Awareness

This section can be the best scoring one. It can be divided in three parts and each part has to be given due weightage.  Conventional GK-available in books; Current GK- based on current reading of newspapers and periodicals; Business & Economics GK. 25 questions are well balanced and covers all the above three parts.


15. Name the First Indian Company that was admitted to trade on NYSE Euronext London and Paris on 20.2.13

A. Tata Consutancy Services (TCS)
B. Punjab National Bank
C.Infosys
D.Wipro  
                

16. Who is the president of FICCI?

A.Naina Lal Kidwai
B.Adi Godrej
C.D. S. Rawat
D.M. S. Unnikrishnan  


                              
17.  What is the name of the 1000 cr. Initial capital fund assigned in the Budget 2013 to establish all women bank?

A.  Abhay fund
B.  Nirala fund
C.  Nirbhay fund
D. Nirantar fund  

            
18. The Court of Arbitration (Intl. court of justice) Hague, has allowed India to go ahead with the construction of which hydro-electric project in Kashmir, rejecting Pakistan’s plea.

A. Kishanganga hydroelectric project
B. Jhelum Hydroelectric project
C. Baanganga hydroelectric project
D. Chinav Hydroelectric project    

                      

19.The Tata group has tied up with Asia’s biggest  budget carrier to reenter the country’s aviation sector. Name the carrier
A.  Indigo
B.  Goair
C.  Jet
D.  AirAsia 

                                                    

 20. Who is the new president and CEO of iGATE?

A. Phaneesh Murthy   B.  Rajesh Kalyan   C.  Ashok Vemuri   D.  S K Anant

 
Answers-  
Ans.Q.1- D- Future Indefinite in conditional form. ‘When’, ‘if’ ‘after’–clauses do not take future tense. Simple Future is to be used in the main clause.

Ans.Q2-B- Future Indefinite in conditional form ‘Until’- rest of the rules remain the same.

Ans. Q.3-C- correct word is whole of; we write whole of the country; whole of the nation meaning all the components of the society.

Ans. Q.4-B. Older is comparative followed by than. Elder is followed by to and an objective form like ‘me’ and not subjective form like ‘I’.

Ans. Q.5-D. sensible is an adjective which modifies a common noun ‘person’;   a sensible person is supposed to act sensibly. All other options do not relevance in usage.

Ans.Q.6- DCAB – Explanation- After sentence 1 D follows and introduces the thought of link coherently; C & A discuss the causes leading to effects in B concluding with 6.

Ans.Q.7-D- Any publisher, not publishing the stuff of other type will not be able to do justice with the manuscript.

Ans. Q.8-D. She can buy 15 apples.  The question is based on ratio and proportion, we can solve it with the application of percentage.
 
Ans. Q.9- B.  Charge is Rs.24.  This question is based on linear equation. We can solve it by using the variables.

  Ans. Q.10- A. There are 103 students in the class. This question is based on Venn diagram. We get the answer by identifying the values and adding them.

Ans. Q.11-A. QUEEN will be written as OSCCL. Every alphabet -2 will be the key to the answer

Ans Q. 12 – F,C,A.  This question is based on Syllogism. We will arrive at the right answer option by following all the cases and resorting to elimination round.

Ans. Q.13- D. Pair of Push : Pull has the same relationship.  The question is based on analogy.

  Ans. Q.14 A.  Pair of words AUTOMOBILE: WHEEL has same relationship as Body: hand. Analogy concept

Ans Q.15 C. Infosys

Ans.Q.16 A.  Naina Lal Kidwai

Ans.Q.17 C. Nirbhay fund named after the gang raped victim of Delhi

Ans. Q 18 A. Kishanganga hydroelectric project

Ans Q 19 D.   AirAsia   

Ans Q 20 C.  Ashok Vemuri                                                     

Important tips for CMAT Feb 2014

There are 180 minutes to solve 100 questions and this can be considered sufficient time to answer the questions. If you know the answers, attempt maximum number of questions on General awareness. 

Every question carries equal marks. Any question that seems more difficult and time consuming may be taken up later, instead of wasting time on it in the very first round.

Since there is negative marking of one fourth, avoid the confusion. CMAT provides the facility of navigating through the entire test paper and answer options from any section. In the first attempt of solving the paper, focus on all the sections and solve as many questions as possible. 

Remember that questions from all the sections are answered. Manage the time and be balanced. In case you answer three sections and leave one section, you may not qualify for final admission round despite scoring high. So take note of that.

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