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M.Sc Entrance Test Question Paper :

M.Sc. Actuarial Science 2011 :
** All questions are compulsory.
** Programmed calculators are not allowed. Rough work may be done in the space provided at the end of the Test Booklet.

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** The Test Booklet has the following four tests :
Test – I Mathematics No. of Questions 50 (1 to 50)
Test – II Probability and Statistics No. of Questions 20 (51 to 70)
Test – III General English No. of Questions 15 (71 to 85)
Test – IV General Awareness of No. of Questions 15 (86 to 100) Economic Environment

** Read the instructions given on the OMR Answer Sheet carefully before you start.
** Each question carries 1 mark. For each wrong answer there is negative marking of 0.25 mark.

General Instructions :
1. Mobile Phones, programmed calculators, books, slide-rules, foot rulers, note-books or written notes, etc. are not allowed inside the examination hall.

2. You should follow the instructions given by the Centre Superintendent, Observers and by the Invigilators at the examination venue. If you violate the instructions vou will be disqualified.
3. Any candidate found copying or receiving or giving assistance in the examination will be disqualified.

4. The Test Booklet and the OMR Answer Sheet would be supplied to you by the Invigilators. After the exam is over, you should hand over the Test Booklet and the OMR Answer Sheet to the Invigilator before leaving the examination hall. Any candidate who does not return the Question Booklet and the OMR Answer Sheet will be disqualified.

5. All rough work is to be done on the test booklet itself and not on any other paper. Scrap paper is not permitted. For arriving at answers you may work in the margins, make some markings or underline in the test booklet itself.

6. The University reserves the right to cancel scores of any candidate who impersonates or uses malpractices. The examination is conducted under uniform conditions. The University would also follow a procedure to verify the validity of scores of all examinees uniformly. If there is substantial indication that your performance is not genuine, the University may cancel your score.

Probability And Statistics :
1. Arithmetic Mean (AM), Geometric Mean (GM) and Harmonic Mean (HM) are related as follows
(1) AM =GM = TIM
(2) GM AM HM
(3) HM > GM > AM
(4) AM > GM ?- HM

2. Which of the following measures of dispersion is the best ?
(1) Standard deviation
(2) Range
(3) Mean deviation
(4) Co-efficient of variation

3. Q1, Q2 and Q3 are the quartiles of a frequency distribution. If the distribution is positively skewed, then :
(1) Q1 + Q3>2Q2
(2) Q1 + Q2>2Q3
(3) Qt Q3>Q2
(4) Q3 – >Q2

4. For a negatively skewed distribution :
(1) Mean = Median = Mode
(2) Median<Mean<Mode
(3) Mode < Mean < Median
(4) Mean < Median < Mode

5. The term regression was introduced by :
(1) R.A. Fisher
(3) Karl Pearson
(2) Sir Francis Galton
(4) C.R. Rao

6. 8X —10Y + 66 = 0 and 40X — 18Y = 214 are regression equations. The correlation coefficient between X and Y is :
(1) — 0.6
(2) 0.40
(3) 0.60
(4) 0.55

7. The regression co-efficient is :
(1) independent of change of origin and scale
(2) independent of change of origin but not scale
(3) independent of change of scale but not origin
(4) independent of neither change of scale nor origin

8. Bernoulli random variables give rise to :
(1) Poisson Distribution
(2) Geometric Distribution
(3) Uniform Distribution
(4) Binomial Distribution

9. The probability distribution with lack of memory property is :
(1) Binomial Distribution
(2) Normal Distribution
(3) Exponential Distribution
(4) Poisson Distribution

10. The characteristic function 4)(0 of a random variable X is :
(1) continuous from left but not from right
(2) continuous from right but not from left
(3) continuous but not uniformly continuous
(4) uniformly continuous

11. All higher odd order moments vanish for the following probability distribution :
(1) Normal Distribution
(2) Binomial Distribution
(3) Poisson Distribution
(4) Exponential Distribution

12. Mean and variance are equal in :
(1) Normal Distribution
(2) Binomial Distribution
(3) Uniform Distribution
(4) Poisson Distribution

TEST – III :
General English :
Read the following passage and choose the option 1, 2, 3 or 4 which best answers the questions 71 to 75.
There is a problem that will touch us all-men, women and children – in the not too distant future, a problem that resolves itself into a question : what is education for ? At the moment most of us can answer that fairly practically and without too much soul-searching. On the lowest level education is for enabling us to cope in an adult world where money must be added up, tax forms filled in, numbers looked up in telephone directories, maps read, curtains measured and street signs understood. On the next level it is for getting some kind of job that will pay a living wage.

71. According to the writer, the purpose of education is :
(1) to help us cope with practical adult demands
(2) to learn as a life-long process
(3) to get employment
(4) to pursue a hobby

72. According to the writer, the most difficult adjustment for us to make will be :
(1) getting used to having more free time
(2) working without the hope of material reward
(3) seeing education as being its own reward
(4) learning essentially impractical subjects

73. Our duty towards our children will be to :
(1) prepare them to set their own goals
(2) encourage them to be more ambitious
(3) improve their chances of employment
(4) teach them basic moral values in life

74. According to the writer, future learning will resemble the new-style tug-of-war in that :
(1) there will be no possibility of failing
(2) the object will be to avoid winning
(3) it will depend on operating as a team
(4) it will involve a personal challenge

75. The reason for the writer’s optimistic conclusion is that she has :
(1) discovered how satisfying learning can be
(2) found in herself a new talent for playing the piano
(3) found how easy it is to develop a new skill
(4) taken up a hobby for the first time