Institute Name : Indian Statistical Institute
Course Name : PGDBA
Document Type : Sample Questions
Year : 2020
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ISICAL PGDBA Sample Questions
Indian Statistical Institute, ISICAL PGDBA Sample Questions 2020
PGDBA 2020 Sample Questions
Q.1–Q.15: Verbal Ability
Instructions for Questions 1 and 2: In each of the questions a word has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
Q.1. Match
A) “This marriage is a match made in heaven” she gushed.
B) “Please light the match so that I can see the switch” said my friend.
C) It was an even match between the two contestants.
D) This movie sequel is not a match on the original.
Q.2. Accede
A) She was confident that her manager would accede to her earnest request.
B) It would have been difficult for the teacher to accede to their latest proposal.
C) The ballerina could not accede to the demands of her hectic tour schedule.
D) The princess could not accede to the throne vacated by her late father.
Q.3. Arrange the sentences in the most logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the given options (A, B, C, D) choose the most appropriate sequence.
(i) It would secure a 25% increase in overall revenue; and devoted but cashstrapped supporters would have more opportunities to watch their team.
(ii) The Football Supporters Federation maintains that, under government regulations about spectator density, safe-standing sections would allow 1.8 people to occupy the same space as one seated match-goer.
(iii) The willingness of the Premier League to consider reintroducing terraces has less to do with reminiscing, however, than with pragmatism.
(iv) If the Football Supporters Federation’s is correct, then both clubs and fans would stand to gain since the teams could offer a reduction on the price of standing tickets.
A) (ii), (iii), (iv), (i) B) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
C) (iii), (ii), (iv), (i) D) (iv), (ii), (iii), (i)
Q.4. Arrange the sentences in the most logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the given options (A, B, C, D) choose the most appropriate sequence.
(i) In an integrated market one country might specialise in a high-wage industry with increasing returns to scale and others in areas in which wages are lower.
(ii) New models of trade do not imply that close economic integration should cause incomes to converge.
(iii) As freer trade expands the size of the market, producers with initial size advantages outcompete rivals.
(iv) Firms and places are often subject to economies of scale: they become more productive as they grow larger.
A) (ii), (iv), (iii), (i) B) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
C) (ii), (iv), (i), (iii) D) (iv), (ii), (iii), (i)
Q.5. Arrange the sentences in the most logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the given options (A, B, C, D) choose the most appropriate sequence.
(i) Taken together, these elements enable developers to discover and build on what works, to jettison what does not work, and, when necessary, to “fail fast”—before they have expended significant resources or large amounts of time on a project.
(ii) Over the past few decades, the business world has seen the emergence of several process and product improvement platforms.
(iii) Both of those platforms emphasize experimentation and rapid iteration, strong feedback loops that facilitate early and continuous engagement with end users, and the use of minimally designed prototypes to test products or processes.
(iv) Examples include human-centred design, a product innovation method developed by the design firm IDEO, and lean experimentation, an entrepreneurship method that originated in Silicon Valley.
A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) B) (ii), (iv), (iii), (i)
C) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii) D) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
Instructions for Questions 6 to 9:
There are two main kinds of development agency: the one which tries to introduce specific changes and is mainly interested in material development; and the other which is primarily interested in people. On the whole the first wants to “get things done”; the other to develop the people’s own abilities for leadership, wise judgement and co-operative action. For agencies of the second kind, the material result is less important than the way it is achieved.
Agencies and workers, who themselves decide the specific form development should take, assume, of course, that they know better than the people what the people need. Most social development workers and technical officers have worked on this assumption in the past, and although they were often right they were not always right, for they sometimes made the mistake of assuming that what was good within their own culture was certain to be good in other cultures too.
Missionaries, for instance, insisted on their converts wearing clothes because they were used to them themselves, and they established schools with syllabuses that suited the missionaries? own countries, rather than the countries where the schools were built.
Agencies and their workers tend to be more careful nowadays, but experts and specialists trained in Western ways still often make mistakes in cultures other than their own. Agencies everywhere are now realizing that they are risking failure if they assume that their own ideas are right in environments and cultures other than their own.
The East African Groundnut Scheme failed because it did not take the local conditions of soil and climate sufficiently into account. The West African Anchau Rural Development Scheme illustrates, less spectacularly, the result of failing to consider the human factor when working in a different culture.
This Scheme was started in 1937 to eradicate sleeping sickness from a part of the Zaria province of the Northern Region of Nigeria. The people in charge made a detailed survey of the area, made detailed studies of the farming conditions in sample hamlets and made a careful census of the people.
Indeed, they scientifically examined in minute detail every aspect of the situation that seemed to them important. But it failed because people were thought of as being there “to be done good to” in the mass, but they were not envisaged as persons, each with one;s own small world of hopes and fears, who might in some way be consulted.
Q.6. In the passage “development agency” refers to
A) the agenda for development
B) the freedom of people to participate
C) social workers engaged in development activities
D) aid organizations engaged in development work
Q.7. According to the author, development agencies who want to “get things done” are
A) interested in economic outcomes and progress for the area
B) concerned with initiating specific changes to improve natural conditions in an area
C) focused on quantifiable benefits to local communities
D) reliant on external experts and consultants for solutions to community
Q.8. The West African Anchau Rural Development Scheme failed because
A) local conditions were different from those in Western cultures
B) the men heading the project went into too much of detail and forgot the big picture
C) the project coordinators did not consult or involve local people in the change initiative
D) the development experts thought they knew better than the locals, what was required
Q.9. In this passage the main point that the author wants to make is that
A) there are two approaches to bringing about change in a community
B) western experts are successful in their own cultures but make mistakes in other cultures
C) one cannot have a universal approach to development, it has to be nuanced
D) involvement and participation of local communities is essential for implementing change
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