BASE INSTITUTE – NAMAKKAL | www.ibpsguide.com Sample Puzzle from Ultimate Hard Puzzles eBook Seven people namely P, Q, R, S, T, U and V buy different phones viz. Gionee, Xioami, Samsung, Lenovo, Motorola and Micromax and different earphones viz. JBL, Philips, Sony and Bose from different websites say Paytm, Snapdeal, Amazon and Flipkart. Not more than two people shop from same website. It is known that each person buys both the items from the same website. The people who buy Xioami phones order from the same website and they don’t buy the same earphones and is neither P or V. U buys from Flipkart. S and U buy same earphones which are bought by no one apart from them and they order from different websites. The only person who orders Bose earphone from Amazon and is neither Q nor R. S doesn’t shop on Paytm. Micromax phones are ordered from Paytm but not by P. R buy Samsung phones. One who buys JBL earphone buys from Paytm and is not Q and also buys either Gionee or Motorola phones. The persons who buy Philips earphone order on different websites but not on Snapdeal. Only one person buys JBL earphone. R doesn’t order Sony earphone. U neither orders Gionee or Lenovo phones. 1. Who among the following buys from Snapdeal? (a) S (b) T (c) U (d) Q (e) R 2. Who buys Philips earphone? (a) T, U, V (b) U, V, Q (c) Q, R, V (d) Either (a) or (c) (e) None of these 3. Which phone does the one having Bose earphone have? (a) Gionee (b) Micromax (c) Motorola (d) Xioami (e) None of these 4. Which earphone does the one having Micromax phones have? (a) Philips (b) Bose (c) Sony (d) JBL (e) Cannot be determined 5. Who buy Lenovo phone? (a) R (b) U (c) V (d) S (e) None of these

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BASE INSTITUTE – NAMAKKAL | www.ibpsguide.com | PH: 900 37 111 66 Sample Puzzle from Top 700 English Questions eBook (Based on New Pattern) I. Choose the Appropriate Sentence: In each of the following questions, a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given to make the passage complete and coherent. 1). With the taxman putting out a request for private sector entities to help analyse the reams of data collected as part of the demonetisation exercise, there is the fear that confidential tax data can now get leaked and be used illegally. The government will obviously have to ensure there are no data leaks. ____________________. Despite this, the data doesn’t leak for two important reasons. One, just as the taxman who handles data is bound by secrecy rules and a code of conduct, private sector vendors and their employees are bound by confidentiality clauses and the law of the land for breaching this. Two, the processor does not necessarily know the identity of the person/organisation whose information is being processed. a) The government has always ensured that the data doesn‟t leaks and is always in safe hand. b) The government‟s move to include private players in data analysis has been highly criticized by the opposition. c) It has to be kept in mind that, even today, there are several private sector players who assist the taxman in both analysing and processing tax data. d) But to improve the quality of data analysis of tax, it is important to include private sector. e) Data leaks cannot be fully restricted, but this should not stop the government from including private sector in tax data analysis as this will improve efficiency. Answer: c) Option c) is correct answer since in the passage it is explaining about taxman who helps to analyse the reams of data collected, also about assurance by private sector for no data leakage and about two important reasons behind that. The next statement of blank states that “Despite this the data doesn‟t leaks”, hence the blank statement should be related to information about data. So, option c) is opt for blank since it states about two types of data and makes the paragraph coherent. II. Combining Sentence: Choose the appropriate phrase/connector/conjunction from the given three options which can be used to form a single sentence from the two sentences I and II which are given below, implying the same meaning as expressed in the statement sentences. 2). I. The nearest supermarket started to carry produce and spices that specifically matched the diets of many people in the community. II. Shoppers continued to be lured to the big-box store out on the highway. (i) Nevertheless (ii) However (iii) Unless a) (i) & (ii)

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BASE INSTITUTE – NAMAKKAL | www.ibpsguide.com | PH: 900 37 111 66 b) Only (ii) c) Only (i) d) Only (iii) e) (i), (ii) and (iii) Answer: a) Explanation: The statement I talks about the steps taken by the super market to attract the customers. Statement II talks about the shoppers who shops in the big – box store instead of super market. So here, we have to use a word with a meaning of “seems to contradict with something”. Hence both the words nevertheless and however exploit the same meaning. The nearest supermarket started to carry produce and spices that specifically matched the diets of many people in the community; nevertheless, shoppers continued to be lured to the big-box store out on the highway. (Or) The nearest supermarket started to carry produce and spices that specifically matched the diets of many people in the community; however, shoppers continued to be lured to the big-box store out on the highway. III. Error Spotting: Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one or more sentence. Then choose the sentence(s) without error as your answer. If there is error in all the sentences, then your answer is e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.) 3). A. leading textile manufacturer, one of the fastest growing in the industry is looking for a marketing manager to look up the marketing network of the company. B. The single biggest gainer in this process was ITC's Gold Flake Kings sales are estimated to have moved up from 50 million to 200 million sticks per month during 1987 and last year. C. Salim and Antony are such good friends that one won't go to the pictures without his coming too. D. Locke's treatises on government toleration and education show a mind fully awake in the possibilities of social reconstruction. a) Only A b) Only B c) Both B & C d) Both A & C

e) None of the sentence is correct.

Answer: e) In A, use “look after” in place of „look up‟; In B, use “sales of which are estimated” or “whose sales are estimated” in place of „sales are estimated‟; In C, use “the other‟s” in place of „his‟; In D, „awake in‟ is replaced by “alert to”. IV. Fill in the Blanks: In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are four words denoted by numbers a), b), c) and d). Find out ONE word that to be fitted in both the sentences I and II and another word that fit to the sentence III and to make it meaningfully complete. In case no word is fit to these sentences, option 'e' is the answer. 4). I. The doctors tried to _________________ the baby’s condition to parental negligence, but tests showed that he had a rare virus.

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BASE INSTITUTE – NAMAKKAL | www.ibpsguide.com | PH: 900 37 111 66 II. Although Cathryn’s explanation of the poem was interesting, she wasn’t able to _____________ her interpretation to anything that made sense. III. Self-discipline and persistence are two of the ____________ qualities to have for anyone who is serious about being successful in life. a) Assign, essential b) Attribute, crucial c) Ascribe, imperative d) Consign, decisive e) Dispense, significant Answer: c) Ascribe – attribute something to (a cause). Imperative – of vital importance; crucial. V. Odd One Out: Five statements are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. Among these, four statements are in logical order and form coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the option the does not fit into the theme of the paragraph. 5). A. Glivec will now be available to local producers who can manufacture copies of that drug at drastically lower costs and sell it at affordable prices. B. A lot of money and time goes into the development of new drugs and medicines, and it is only fair that those who invest billions get to enjoy the benefits of selling a profitable product. C. In developing countries such as India, it is these relatively low-cost generic drugs that make life-saving treatment accessible to the poor. D. The Supreme Court‟s rejection of multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis AG‟s plea for patent protection to its life-saving cancer drug Glivec, marks a huge victory for patients in the country. E. For example, nine years ago when Glivec was being sold abroad at $2600, its generic versions were available at about $200 in India. a) E b) B c) A d) C e) All fits to paragraph Answer: b) Option b) is the one which does not fit to the theme of the paragraph, since it talks about drugs and its cost in favour of investors.; while others speaks that drugs should be sold at low cost and reasons behind that. VI. Sentence Improvement: Which of the words/phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the words/phrases given in bold in the following sentences to make it meaningful and grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No improvement required’, mark (e) as the answer.

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BASE INSTITUTE – NAMAKKAL | www.ibpsguide.com | PH: 900 37 111 66 6). Howe brought his army south from New York and plagued the Patriot capital of Philadelphia. Although he thrived in capturing the city and forcing Congress to escape to York, Pennsylvania, he determined to camp his army in the capital for the winter, rather than proceeding with the plan and marching to Albany. a) Attacked, failed, run away, decisive b) Occupied, achieved, take off, resolute c) Assaulted, accomplished, sprint, firmed d) Invaded, succeeded, flee, decided e) No correction required Answer: d) Invaded – (of an armed force or its commander) enter (a country or region) so as to subjugate or occupy it. Succeeded – achieve the desired aim or result. Flee – run away from a place or situation of danger. Decided – (of a quality) definite; unquestionable. VII. Sentence Rearrangements: In each of the questions below, five sentences are given which are denoted by A), B), C), D) and E). By using all the five sentences you have to frame a meaningful paragraph. The correct order of the sentences is your answer. Choose from the five alternatives the one having the correct order of sentences and mark it as your answer. 7). A. This burnt off many living forms and it took a long time before oxygen- using life forms started flourishing about 500 million years later. B. Some of this was „fixed‟ by iron and organic matter of earth, but the rest soon led the „poisonous‟ gas, oxygen, attain levels of about 20 per cent in the air. C. Those days, the earth was rich in a set of microbes called cyano - bacteria, which started the early events of photosynthesis, wherein the microbe used CO2 for energy production and emitted oxygen gas as the waste material. D. One such massive upheaval of the earth‟s atmosphere occurred about 2.4 billion years ago, during what is called the “Oxygen Catastrophe”. E. Cyano bacteria reproduced very fast (doubling every 30 minutes), leading to vast amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere. a) DABCE b) CEBAD c) CBDEA d) BEDCA e) DCEBA Answer: e) Sentence C introduces cyano - bacteria, and sentence E tells us how these microbes lead to the increase of oxygen in the atmosphere, so there is a link between sentences C and E.

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BASE INSTITUTE – NAMAKKAL | www.ibpsguide.com | PH: 900 37 111 66 Now, sentence B too talks of the levels of oxygen in the atmosphere, describing how some of it was fixed by iron and organic matter on the earth, while the rest was just added to the oxygen in the atmosphere. CEB is a unit. Sentence A talks of “this” leading to the “burning off” of existing life forms. The word „poisonous‟ in sentence B gives us the clue, i.e. about increase in the level of oxygen, which was poisonous to the life. So, we have the arrangement CEBA. Sentence D talks about a massive upheaval of the earth's atmosphere. But sentence A talks of burning off of life forms that existed on Earth. So D does not make sense after A. So DCEBA is the correct order.

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BASE INSTITUTE – NAMAKKAL | www.ibpsguide.com Sample DI question from Ultimate Hard Level Data Interpretation eBook Directions: Refer to the following pie-charts and answer the given questions: The first pie-chart given below shows the break-up of amount budgeted by a government school for various expenditures in 2013. The second pie chart shows the break-up of funds utilized by the school in 2013.

Pie-chart-1, amount budgeted = Rs. 57, 69,190

Pie-chart 2, funds utilized = Rs. 35, 09,190

1). 70% of the total expenditure made on Books and stationery was for Books, the amount budgeted for the same was 65% in books and stationery. What is the approximate difference between the amount budgeted and the actual expenditure on Books and stationery other than books? (a) 1,45,231 (b) 1,73,963 (c) 1,56,700 (d) 2,00,002 (e) Cannot be determined

Answer: b)

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Explanation: Amount budgeted for Books and stationery = 18% × 57, 69,190 ≈ 10, 38,454 Amount budgeted for books alone = 65% (given) So, Amount budgeted other than books = 100 – 65 = 35% Therefore, Amount budgeted for books and stationery other than books = 35% of 10, 38, 454 ≈ 3, 63,459. Total expenditure on Books and stationery = 18% of 35, 09,190 = 6, 31,654. Total expenditure on books and stationery other than Books = 30% × 6, 31,654 = 1, 89,496. Required difference = 3, 63,459 - 1, 89,496 = 1, 73,963

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