Name of the Organisation : Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
Exam : SSSIHL MBA Admission Test
Degree : MBA
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Instructions To Candidates
Sub-test I – English – 60 questions
Sub-test II – Quantitative Analysis & Logical Reasoning – 30 questions
Sub-test III – Aptitude Test – 30 questions
Total Questions = 120 Total time: 2 hours and 15 minutes
1. You are required to write your (i) Applicant Id and (ii) Question Paper Code no. and SHADE THE NUMERALS appropriately in the space provided on the RESPONSE SHEET. You are also required to write the (iii) Room number and (iv) Test Date in the space provided separately.
2. Choose the correct answer from the Question Paper and SHADE THE CORRECT RESPONSE viz., A, B, C, D or E. Only one response must be clearly shaded for each question. More than one entry, unclear entries or wrong entries will ATTRACT NEGATIVE MARKS.
3. Use of electronic calculator is strictly not permitted.
Sub Test – I
Instructions :
Each question, 1 through 60, is followed by 5 answers – A through E. Indicate your correct answer by shading the appropriate choice viz., A, B, C, D or E, provided against each question number in the RESPONSE SHEET.
Max. Marks: 60 x 1: 60
English
Sample Questions :
Directions :
Each of the five passages given below is followed by questions. Choose the best answer of each question.
Passage I :
The current debate on intellectual property rights (IPRs) raises a number of important issues concerning the strategy and policies for building a more dynamic national agricultural research system, the relative roles of public and private sectors, and the role of agribusiness multinational corporations (MNCs).
This debate has been stimulated by the international agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), negotiated as part of the Uruguay Round. TRIPs, for the first time, seeks to bring innovations in agricultural technology under a new worldwide IPR regime.
The agribusiness MNCs (along with pharmaceutical companies) played a leading part in lobbying for such a regime during the Uruguay Round negotiations. The argument was that incentives are necessary to stimulate innovations, and that this calls for a system of patents which gives innovators the sole right to use (or sell/lease the right to usE) their innovations for a specified period and protects them against unauthorised copying or use. With strong support of their national governments, they were influential in shaping the agreement on TRIPs, which eventually emerged from the Uruguay Round.
1. Which one of the following statements describes an important issue, or important issues, not being raised in the context of the current debate on IPRs?
(A) The role of MNCs in the sphere of biotechnology and agriculture.
(B) The strategy and policies for establishing an IPR regime for Indian agriculture.
(C) The relative roles of public and private sectors.
(D) Wider concerns about “privatisation? of research.
(E) None of these
2. The fundamental breakthrough in deciphering the structure and functioning of DNA has become a public good. This means that
(A) breakthroughs in fundamental research on DNA are accessible by all without any monetary considerations.
(B) the fundamental research on DNA has the characteristic of having beneficial effects for the public at large.
(C) due to the large scale of fundamental research on DNA, it falls in the domain of public sector research institutions.
(D) the public and other companies must have free access to such fundamental breakthroughs in research.
(E) None of these
3. In debating the respective roles of the public and private sectors in the national research system, it is important to recognise
(A) that private companies do not produce new varieties and inputs entirely on their own research.
(B) that almost all technological improvements are based on knowledge and experience accumulated from the past.
(C) the complementary role of public-and private-sector research.
(D) that knowledge repositories are primarily the scientific community and its academic publications.
(E) None of these
4. Which one of the following may provide incentives to address the problem of potential adverse consequences of biotechnology?
(A) Include IPR issues in the TRIPs agreement.
(B) Nationalise MNCs engaged in private research in biotechnology.
(C) Encourage domestic firms to patent their innovations.
(D) Make provisions in the law for user compensation against failure of newly developed varieties.
(E) None of these
5. Which of the following statements is not a likely consequence of emerging technologies in agriculture?
(A) Development of newer and newer varieties will lead to increase in biodiversity.
(B) MNCs may underplay the negative consequences of the newer technology on environment.
(C) Newer varieties of seeds may increase vulnerability of crops to pests and diseases.
(D) Reforms in patent laws and user compensation against crop failures would be needed to address new technology problems.
(E) None of these
Passage II :
One of the criteria by which we judge the vitality of a style of painting is its ability to renew itself-its responsiveness to the changing nature and quality of experience, the degree of conceptual and formal innovation that it exhibits.
By this criterion, it would appear that the practice of abstractionism has failed to engage creatively with the radical change in human experience in recent decades. It has, seemingly, been unwilling to re-invent itself in relation to the systems of artistic expression and viewers’ expectations that have developed under the impact of the mass media.
9. Which one of the following is not stated by the author as a reason for abstractionism losing its vitality?
(A) Abstractionism has failed to reorient itself in the context of changing human experience.
(B) Abstractionism has not considered the developments in artistic expression that have taken place in recent times.
(C) Abstractionism has not followed the path taken by all revolutions, whether in politics or art.
(D) The impact of mass media on viewers? expectations has not been assessed, and responded to, by abstractionism.
(E) None of these
10. Which one of the following, according to the author, is the role that abstractionism plays in a society?
(A) It provides an idiom that can be understood by most members in a society.
(B) It highlights the absence of a shared language of meaningful symbols which can be recreated through greater awareness.
(C) It highlights the contradictory artistic trends of revolution and conservatism that any society needs to move forward.
(D) It helps abstractionists invoke the wistful, delicate beauty that may exist in society.
(E) None of these
Sub Test – II
Instructions :
** Each question, 61 through 90, is followed by 5 answers – A through E. Indicate your correct answer by shading the appropriate choice viz., A, B, C, D or E, provided against each question number in the RESPONSE SHEET.
Quantitative Analysis & Logical Reasoning
Instructions :
** Each question, 61 through 90, is followed by 5 answers – A through E, Indicate your correct choice by shading the appropriate choice viz., A, B, C, D or E, provided against each question number in the RESPONSE SHEET.
Sample Questions :
1. A cistern normally takes 5 hours to be filled by a tap, but because of a leak, it takes 1 hour more. In how many hours will the leak empty a full cistern?
A) 8
B) 6
C) 12
D) 20
E) 30
2. A man buys two fans for Rs.700. He sells one at 16% profit and the other at 12% loss. If he neither gains nor loses in the transaction find the cost price of each fan
A) Rs.350 each
B) Rs.400 & Rs.300
C) Rs.300 & Rs.400
D) Rs.360 & Rs.480
E) Rs.250 & Rs.450
3. In a party 70% of the people drank coffee, 65% drank soft drinks, 27% did not drink anything, whereas 248 people drank both. Find the total number of people who attended the party.
A) 300
B) 400
C) 500
D) 600
E) None of these
4. Persons x, y, z and Q live in red, green, yellow or blue coloured houses placed in a sequence on a street. Z lives in a yellow house. The green house is adjacent to the blue house. X does not live adjacent to z. the yellow house is in between the green and red houses. The colour of the house x lives in is:
A) Red;
B) Green;
C) Blue;
D) Red or Green;
E) cannot be determined
5. A teacher has 6 fruits – 3 oranges, 2 apples and 1 pine apple. Four students – 101, 102, 103 and 104 are lined up one behind the other. The teacher helps them put the fruit on their head so that they cannot see the fruit kept on their head.
Student number 101 can see the fruit kept on the heads of 102, 103 and 104. Student 102 can see the fruits kept on 103 and 104’s head. 103 can see the fruit kept on 104’s head. 104 cannot see any of the fruits, since he is at the front of the line. Now the teacher asks the students to tell the name of the fruit kept on their own heads. None of them could reply.
Question: What was the fruit on student 104’s head?
A) Orange;
B) Apple;
C) Pineapple;
D) Apple or Pineapple;
E) cannot be determined
Sub Test – III
Instructions :
** Each question, 91 through 120, is followed by 5 answers – A through E. Indicate your correct answer by shading the appropriate choice viz., A, B, C, D or E, provided against each question number in the RESPONSE SHEET.
Aptitude Test
Sample Questions :
Directions for questions 91 to 94: Answer the questions based on the following information.
The figure below represents sales and net profit in Rs. crore of IVP Ltd. for five years from 1994-95 to 1998-99. During this period the sales increased from ?100 crore to ? 680 crore. Correspondingly, the net profit increased from ? 2.5 crore to ?12 crore. Net profit is defined as the excess of sales over total costs.
91. The highest percentage of growth in sales, relative to the previous year, occurred in
(A) 1995-96
(B) 1996-97
(C) 1997-98
(D) 1998-99
(E) None of these
92. The highest percentage growth in net profit, relative to the previous year, was achieved in
(A) 1998-99
(B) 1997-98
(C) 1996-97
(D) 1995-96 (E) None of these
93. Defining profitability as the ratio of net profit to sales, IVP Ltd., recorded the highest profitability in
(A) 1998-99
(B) 1997-98
(C) 1994-95
(D) 1996-97 (E) None of these
94. With profitability as defined in question 93, it can be concluded that
(A) profitability is non-decreasing during the five years from 1994-95 to 1998-99.
(B) profitability is non-increasing during the five years from 1994-95 to 1998-99.
(C) profitability remained constant during the five years from 1994-95 to 1998-99.
(D) None of the above
(E) (A) & (B)
Directions for questions 95 to 98: Answer the questions based on the following information. Consider the information provided in the figure below relating to India’s foreign trade in 1997-98 and the first eight months of 1998-99. Total trade with a region is defined as the sum of exports and imports from that region. Trade deficit is defined as the excess of imports over exports. Trade deficit may be negative.
A. USA
B. Germany
C. Other EU
D. UK
E. Japan
F. Russia
G. Other East European countries
H. OPEC
I. Asia
J. Other LDCs
K. Others
95. What is the region with which India had the highest total trade in 1997-98?
(A) USA
(B) Other EU countries
(C) OPEC
(D) Others
(E) Russia
96. In 1997-98 the amount of Indian exports, million US dollars, to the region with which India had the lowest total trade, is approximately
(A) 750
(B) 340
(C) 220
(D) 440
(E) None of these
97. In 1997-98, the trade deficit with respect to India, billion US dollars, for the region with the highest trade deficit with respect to India, is approximately equal to
(A) 6.0
(B) 3.0
(C) 4.5
(D) 7.5
(E) None of these
98. What is the region with the lowest trade deficit with India in 1997-98?
(A) USA
(B) Asia
(C) Others
(D) Other EU countries
(E) None of these
Directions for questions 99 and 100: Answer the questions based on the following information.
Assume that the average monthly exports from India and imports to India during the remaining four months of 1998-99 would be the same as that for the first eight months of the year.
99. What is the region to which India’s exports registered the highest percentage growth between 1997-98 and 1998-99?
(A) Other East European countries
(B) USA
(C) Asia
(D) Exports have declined, no growth
(E) None of these
100. What is the percentage growth rate in India’s total trade deficit between 1997-98 and 1998-99?
(A) 43
(B) 47
(C) 50
(D) 40
(E) None of these