JMET SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER
Directions for Questions 38 to 40: Select the set of words that best expresses a relationship SIMILAR
to the set in CAPITALS.
38. NOTES: COINS: MONEY
a. Silk : Worm: Dress b. Vegetables : Spices : Dish
c. Dalmatian: Pug : Dog d. Brain : Cells: Nerves
39. ENEMY : WEAPONS : ARMY
a. Earthquake : Tremors : Landslide b. Disaster : Aid : Refugees
c. Flood : Sand bags : Water d. Fire : Water : Firemen
40. TREE : WATER: PLANT
a. Paper : Book : Bind b. Composition: Music : Lyrics
c. Heart : Beat : Blood d. Feet : Shoe : Walk
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Directions for questions 41 to 45: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Six books namely A, B, C, D, E and F are placed side by side. C, B and E have blue covers and other
books have red covers. Only D and F are new books and the rest are old. A, C and D are books on law
whereas B and E are gazetteers.
41. Which book is a new book on law and has a red cover?
a. A b. B c. C d. D
42. Which two books are old gazetteers with blue cover?
a. B and C b. B and E c. B and F d. E and F
43. Which red covered gazetteer is a new book?
a. B b. D c. E d. F
44. Which one of the following is the old book of a gazetteer?
a. C b. D c. E d. F
45. Which one is old blue covered book on law?
a. A b. B c. C d. D
Directions for questions 46 to 50: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
The first National airlines has five destinations namely S, T, U, V, and W. The flight system that connects
the destinations is not working properly. The destination managers have determined that they can arrange
for direct flights from their destinations to certain other destinations.
Direct flights are only from:
• S to V
• T to S and U
• U to T
• V to T
• W to S & U
46. Which of the following destinations cannot be connected from any other destinations, either directly
or through any connecting flight?
a. T b. U c. V d. W
47. From which of the following destinations can one travel to S through exactly one connecting flight?
a. T only b. U only c. U and V d. T and W
48. In which of the following ways one can travel from T to V?
a. Take a direct flight from T to V.
b. Take a direct flight to S and from there a connecting flight to V.
c. Take a direct flight to U and from there a connecting flight to V.
d. Take a direct flight to W and from there a connecting flight to V.
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49. How many destinations are not directly connected with destination T?
a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. None of these
50. If no flight can land or takeoff from T and all other routes are open, which of the following routes can
be taken directly or through a series of connecting flights?
a. U to V b. U to S c. V to U d. W to V
Directions for questions 51 and 52: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. In
the following questions, some relationships have been expressed through symbols which are explained
below.
x = Greater than
Ä = Not less than
÷ = Not equal to
Ø = Equal to
+ = Not greater than
o = Less than
51. If x o y ÷ z, it implies that
a. x Ø y x z b. x + y Ø z c. x + y ÷ z d. x Ø y + z
52. If x o y Ø z, it implies that
a. x Ä y x z b. x Ä y o z c. x ÷ y Ä z d. x + y × z
53. A man travels 150 m south, then turns left to travel 300 m. He then turns left, walks 350 m, turns left
again, walks 50 m. Then he turns right to travel 50 m, he again turns right and travels 50 m. Further
he takes a left turn, travels 50 m, again he took a left turn, travels 300 m and then he takes a final left
turn and stops after travelling 75 m. How far is he from his starting position?
a. 225 m b. 200 m c. 250 m d. 300 m
54. If in a certain code PROPER is written UWTUJW, then what will be the code for EXTRACT?
a. JYCWFHY b. JCYWHFY c. JCYFWHY d. JCYWFHY
55. If in a certain code language, ‘maine pyar kiya’ is coded as ‘mic pan tu’; ‘tumse ijhar kiya’ is coded
‘tun tic tu’; and ‘pyar tumse kiya’ is coded ‘pan tun tu’, then what is the code for the word ‘pyar’ in
that language?
a. mic b. tu c. tic d. pan
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Directions for questions 56 to 58: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Five people are to be interviewed namely A, B, C, D and E from Monday to Friday within a single week
according to the following conditions.
i. A must be interviewed before E
ii. B’s interview is scheduled on Wednesday
iii. D must be interviewed on first two days of the week.
iv. E must be interviewed on the day just before the day on which C is interviewed.
v. Only one person is interviewed on a particular day.
56. Which of the following is the right arrangement of the sequence of the interviews?
a. A, B, C, D, E b. D, A , B, E, C c. A, D, B, C, E d. C, E, B, A, D
57. D’s interview can be followed by the interview of which of the following persons?
a. E, B b. A, B c. A, E d. C, E
58. If A is interviewed on Tuesday then D can be interviewed only on
a. Monday b. Thursday c. Friday d. None of above
Directions for questions 59 to 61: Answer the following questions on the basis of the information given
below
59. A team of researchers has claimed that the deadly scorpions of the Sahara desert do not
bother to waste venom on killing a victim, if they don’t have to. Instead, they use a pre-venom
that causes extreme pain, resorting to the deadlier version only when necessary.
Which of the following best supports the conclusion reached by the researchers?
a. The pre-venom is more easily produced in the scorpion than the venom that kills.
b. No person stung by the deadly scorpion of the Sahara desert has so far survived the
sting.
c. Some people stung by the deadly scorpion of the Sahara desert lived for weeks before
succumbing to death.
d. Some people have actually survived the sting of the deadly scorpion.
60. Political language consists largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy
vagueness. Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and
to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Which of the following can be conclusively inferred from the above:
a. Politicians would find it more difficult to deceive people without political language.
b. Politicians know only the political language, hence cannot help deceiving people.
c. An assembly of only politicians will not produce any results because the language
they use is in itself flawed.
d. Political language is a corruption of the language created with the sole purpose to
deceive others.
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61. The common use of the same types of antibiotics in medicine has two effects that are
particularly worrisome. First, antibiotics can kill not only the infection, but also the bacteria
that fight infections naturally. Second, antibiotics can give rise to drug-resistant infections,
making it more difficult to treat patients.
Based on the passage above, the effectiveness of the continued common use of antibiotics
can be extended by doing which of the following?
a. Gradually increasing the amount of antibiotics used.
b. Not treating patients with antibiotics.
c. Increasing research on drug-resistant infections.
d. Periodically switching the type of antibiotic used.
Directions for questions 62 to 66: Read the following arguments and answer the questions that follow.
62. The best movie showing in India right now is Khiladi No. 45 — it has been in the No. 1 slot for six
weeks.
Which of the following statements can weaken the argument?
a. Popularity ratings are a good indicator of the quality of a movie.
b. No movie has held the No. 1 slot for more than three weeks.
c. A popular movie is not necessarily a good movie.
d. None of the above
63. With reference to question 62, which of the following statements can strengthen the argument?
a. Khiladi No. 45 is an adult-rated movie.
b. The audience for movies mostly comprise of upper-class citizens.
c. Critics believe that a popular movie is generally considered as a good movie.
d. None of the above
64. All boys are hyper. Therefore, Siddharth is hyper.
What is the missing assumption that supports the above argument?
a. Girls are not hyper.
b. Boys and girls are not hyper.
c. Siddharth can be a girl.
d. Siddharth is a boy.
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65. The Municipal Commissioner has recently suggested adding chlorine to all public water sources.
This is obviously a bad idea since many of the totalitarian regimes also added chlorine to all their
public water sources.
What is the assumption on which this argument is based?
a. The Municipal Commissioner is ill-informed.
b. The totalitarian regimes could not provide better service to the public with the said measure.
c. The Municipal Commissioner has leftist tendencies.
d. None of the above
66. With reference to question 65, which of the following statements can weaken the argument?
a. The Municipal Commissioner is implementing the plan under very different circumstances.
b. The totalitarian regimes did not have healthy intentions.
c. The Municipal Commissioner is not aware of the totalitarian measure.
d. None of the above
Directions for questions 67 and 68: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
(1) A cube has six faces each of the faces having a different colour .
(2) The face which is coloured red is opposite to the face which is coloured black.
(3) The face which is coloured green is in between the faces coloured red and black.
(4) The face which is coloured blue is adjacent to the face which is coloured white.
(5) The face which is coloured brown is adjacent to the face coloured blue.
(6) The face of the cube at the bottom is coloured red.
67. The face of the cube which is opposite to the face coloured brown is
a. Red b. Black c. White d. Green
68. The four colours adjacent to the face of cube coloured green are
a. Red, Black, Blue and White b. Red, Black, Brown and Blue
c. Red, Black, Brown and White d. Red. Black, Blue and White
Directions for questions 69 to 71: In the following questions, there are four sentences labelled A, B, C
and D. Arrange the sentences in a logical order to make a coherent paragraph.
69. A. Information Technology, television and the media in general are some examples.
B. The proof lies in the fact that the areas of economic activity free from government control have
boomed.
C. The dictatorship of the petty official and the corrupt politician has prevented and continues to
prevent India from being a rich, developed country.
D. So the lesson should be that whenever there has been democracy in economic activity there
has been progress and prosperity.
a. BACD b. CABD c. CDBA d. CBAD
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70. A. Unlike most of the world’s volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great
drifting plates that make up the earth’s surface; on the contrary, many of them lie deep in the
interior of a plate.
B. The hot spots and their volcanic trails are milestones that mark the passage of the plates.
C. Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known
to geologists as hot spots.
D. Most of the hot spots move only slowly, and in some cases the movement of the plates past
them has left trails of extinct volcanoes.
a. CADB b. BCAD c. DCBA d. BADC
71. A. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is
secure, hidden inside a hard core.
B. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks.
C. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell, which is its security, it starts
moving.
D. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many.
a. BACD b. DCAB c. ABCD d. ACBD
Directions for questions 72 to 75: Study the following statements and mark:
a. if only inference I follows.
b. if only inference II follows.
c. if both the inferences follow.
d. if neither inference follows.
72. All cats are dogs. Some cats are rats. So,
I. Some rats are dogs.
II. Some dogs are rats.
73. No turtle is a sparrow. All turtles are hens. So,
I. No hen is a sparrow.
II. No sparrow is a hen.
74. Some birds are elephants. Some elephants are ants. So,
I. Some birds are ants.
II. Some ants are birds.
75. All pedestrians are poor. All poor are sincere. So,
I. All sincere are pedestrians.
II. All pedestrians are sincere.
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DIRECTIONS for questions 76 and 77: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
“Dayar-e-Yaqta” is a residential colony near Delhi where people from different socio-economic backgrounds
live. The different geometrical figures, in the diagram below, represent the different types of homes that
people live in. Circle represents penthouse, triangle represents slum, rectangle represents government
quarter and square represents a rented room. The number shown in a particular type of geometrical figure
represents the total number of people in the colony who live in such homes.
10
50
70
100
200
76. Given, 150 people live in slums. How many of them work in the penthouses?
a. 20 b. 10 c. 30 d. None of these.
77. How many people living in the government quarters are there who are neither part of slums nor pay
any rents?
a. 200 b. 100 c. 170 d. Cannot be determined.
DIRECTIONS for questions 78 to 80: Answer each questions independently.
78. If 1st January of year N is Sunday, then 1st January of year N + 1 will be.
a. Sunday b. Monday c. Saturday d. Cannot be determined
79. Arun is taller than Kapil who is taller than Pawan. Arindam is taller than Salim but shorter than Kapil.
Who is the shortest?
a. Arindam b. Salim c. Pawan d. Cannot be determined
80. A boy rode his bicycle northwards, then turned right and rode for 3 kms, then he turned left and rode
for 2 kms. He then took a U-turn and started riding again. In which direction is he going now?
a. North b. South c. North east d. South west
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81. Ammar drives his car at twice the speed of an auto-rickshaw. One day, he drove the car for 10 min
after which, the car broke mid-way. He left the car and took an auto to reach the office. It took him
30 min from the point where the car broke, to reach the office. What would be the total time taken to
reach the office if he travels, only by car?
a. 25 min b. 20 min c. 27 min d. 36 min
82. The least common multiple of two natural numbers x and y, is 399. What is the minimum possible
sum of the digits of the number x (given x > y)?
a. 3 b. 7 c. 1 d. None of these
83. ITC increased the selling price of their cigarette brand “Gold Leaf” by 20% because of which their
profit percentage increased from 10% to 15%. What was the corresponding percentage increase in
the cost price of the cigarette brand “Gold Leaf” ?
a. 14.78% b. 11.11% c. 9.09% d. 7%
84. A beaker contains alcohol and water in the ratio 4:1. When 15 L of this mixture is replaced with
water, the ratio of alcohol and water in the beaker becomes 1:4. How many liters of alcohol was
present initially in the beaker?
a. 24 liters b. 16 liters c. 20 liters d. 12 liters
85. If 7 and 2 are two roots of the following equation
x 3 7
2 x 2 0
7 6 x
= , then its third root will be
a. –9 b. 14 c. 1
2
d. None of these
86. Kapil invested Rs. 75000 in a fixed deposit at 15% compound interest for 2 years. At the end of the
2 years, he invested the total amount in funds at 12% simple interest for the next 3 years. What will
be the final value of the initial investment?
a. Rs.1,24,680 b. Rs.1,15,500 c. Rs.1,34,895 d. Rs.1,20,400
87. If a3−xb5x = ax+5b3x , then
b
x log
a
is equal to
a. log a b. log b c. x log a d. None of these
88. From a point X, on the surface of a sphere of radius 3 cm, two ants “Chinti” and “Pinti” started moving
along two different circular paths, each having the maximum possible radius, on the surface of the
sphere, that lie in two different planes which are inclined at an angle of 45° to each other. If Chinti
and Pinti take 18 sec and 6 sec respectively, to complete one revolution along their respective
circular paths, then after how much time will they meet again, after they start from X?
a. 27 seconds b. 18 seconds c. 9 seconds d. Never
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