SimCAT-1 ) Test Booklet Serial No. 19335 INSTRUCTIONS Before the Test: 1, DO NOT REMOVE THE SEAL OF THIS TEST BOOKLET UNTIL THE SIGNAL TO START IS GIVEN. 2. Keep only the IMS ID Card, Adinit Card, Email Admit Card, peneil, eraser and sharpener with you. DO NOT KEEP books, roters, drawing instruments, calculators (neluding watch, calculators), pagers, cellular phones, stop watches or any other device or loose paper with ‘you. These should be loft at a place indicated by the invigilator. Use only HB pencil to fill in the OMR Answer Sheet . Ensure that your personal data have been entered correctly on the OMR Answer Sheet . Check whether you have entered your Permanent IMS Number (PIN) in Box 1 of the OMR. Answer Sheet correctly or else you will not be able to access your score and feedback. wee At the start of the Test: 1. As soon as the signal is given, open the Booklet. 2. Immediately after opening the Test Booklet, verify that all the 32 pages (including the blank ones) have been printed properly and are in order. If there is a problem with your Test Booklet, immediately inform the iavigilator/supervisor. You will be provided with a replacement How to sswer: 1. This test has three sections which examine various abilities, Each section has 25 questions You will be given two and half hours to complete the test, In distributing your time over the three sections, please bear in mind that you need to demonstrate your competence in all three sections. 2. Directions for answering the questions are given before each group of questions. Read these Girections carefully and answer the questions.by darkening the appropriate ovals on the OMR Answer Sheet. There is only one correct answer to each question Each section carries 100 marks. Some of the questions carry 2.5 marks each, while the rest of the questions carry 5 marks each. The marks allotted to each question have been indicated alongside the questions. Wrong answers will attract a penalty of one-fourth of the marks allotted to the questions. Do your rough work only on the Test Booklet and NOT on the OMR Answer Sheet Follow the instructions of the invigilator. Candidates found violating the instructions will be disqualified. 2 6. The correct way of darkening the ovals. OQ O O @y OOOC ex CO00 «x OoO000 ex we After the Test: . At the end of the test, remain seated. The invigilator will cotlect the OMR Answer Sheet from your seat, The invigilator will then distribute the Explanatory Answers booklet. Do not leave the hall until the invigiiaor announces, "You may leave no 2. You may retain this Test Booklet and use the PIN to access your performance report on www.imsindia.com Candidates giving assistance or seeking/receiving help from any source in answering questions * or copying in any manner in the test will wot be considered for the evaluation process. The instinue reserves the right 1 exclude any questiondguestions from this-Test Booklet for final evaluation. a™ SimCAT MayPREP’ : S007 ATaiehe DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 5: Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which one sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that ‘completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. 1, Increasingly, India’s elderly feel vulnerable, lonely or abandoned. They may have lost a spouse or had children move overseas, or in cases of abuse, been turned out of homes they helped create. The children now find themselves sandwiched between looking after their own family and caring for old parents. é What they are short of is time and attention and the elderly have taken notice, 1] Urban professionals must now decide how to care for those who looked after them. 2] Urban professionals may have more money to buy their parents better healthcare, 3] Urban professionals may not have adeguate money and time to look ‘after their parents, 4] Urban professionals find it difficult to acclimatize themselves to such a demanding scenario. 5] Urban professionals who have grownup in ‘nuclear families find it more difficult to adjust themselyes, LO Fes te alates, ney! Mopolacion consists of one group with a single mutant and many groups with no mutants. There is not ‘much variation among groups in this scenario for group selection to act upon. Now imagine a ae has the ability to socially transmit information. A new cultural mutation can rapidly spread to everyone in the same group, resulting in one group that is very different from: the other groups in the total population, 1] It is time now to " aspect of the human condition. 2) A culture can radically ‘between levels of selection in favour of group selection. ; : 3] Hypothesis testing docs not always require quantification, 4] Consider genetic evolution by itself. 5] The balance between levels of selection is not fixed but can itself evolve. _ 3. The best thing for children is for them to be given more fteedom — not to do whatever iey want, of course; they need clear boundaries set by parents. But unsupervised Play isn’t just some kind of childhood luxury that kids can do without, It is vital “Tor children’s healthy emotional and social development. Study after study has shown that it helps to develop children’s ability to negotiate social rules and to create their own rules, Children need to learn to deal with risks and develop the capacity to assess challenges, and develop resilience to life's inevitable blows. 1] In short, taking risks in childhood should not be discouraged. 2] In short, taking risks in childhood can have unexpected consequences. 3] In short, taking risks in childhood goes hand-in-hand with developing new skills. 4] In short, taking risks in childhood is necessary for children’s physical development, <5}. In short, taking risks inchildhood is necessary for children’s intellectual development, © a TMS-30-1-AL-S-cT-12007 AaPREP™ Today, many green-leaning writers and activists argue that population control is the best solution to the problems we face. . Since the times of Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), a catastrophic vision of population growth causing the collapse of society, has formed an important part of the culturally pessimistic outlook. Back in the eighteenth century, it was predicted that population growth would lead to famine, starvation and death. Today's pessimists have raised the stakes further: they denounce population growth as a threat to biodiversity and to the very existence of the planet. 1} In the West, the population-control lobby castigates those who have large families for being environmentally irresponsible. 2) Twenty-first-century Malthusians are concerned that people are producing and consuming (oo much food and other commodities. 3| This belief that there are ‘too many people’ inhabiting the globe has reared its ugly head numerous times over the past 200 years, 4] Alongside today’s respect for human life, there is the increasingly popular idea that there is to much human life around, and that it is killing the planet, 5] The humanist impulse that once drove the development of the modern world has been replaced by 2 tendeney (0 View the growth of human beings with suspicion, To really understand a w the world was like ent to Affica, the place where humans arose and the only contr et animals roaming around, We used to have a wae ‘on all the other continents and on many of the isfands. We had enormous creatures in» North, America ~ giant sloths that were even bigger tha napoli size 0 ‘The extinetions on each landmass seemed to 1s oe an 2) Is controversial 2s the finger at climate change. § 3] It's controversial as to what actually wiped them out, but a lot of indications point the finger at us. 4] Climate change played some part in their extinction, but what ultimately wiped them out was us. 5] Ultimately, what wiped them out was climate change, so that by the time we arrived fon the scene, they were extinct, 2 TIS-30-PAL-S CTT 4 ©