General Aptitude GATE Exam 2013 Questions and Answers
1. Choose the grammatically CORRECT sentence:
(A) Two and two add four (B) Two and two become four
(C) Two and two are four (D) Two and two make four
Ans. Option (D) is correct
Two and two make four
2. Statement: You can always give me a ring whenever you need.
Which one of the following is the best inference from the above
statement?
(A) Because I have a nice caller tune.
(B) Because I have a better telephone facility
(C) Because a friend in need is a friend indeed
(D) Because you need not pay towards the telephone bills when
you give me a ring
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
You can always given me a ring whenever you need. Because a friend
is need is a friend indeed
3. In the summer of 2012, in New Delhi, the mean temperature of
Monday to Wednesday was 41°C and of Tuesday to Thursday was
43C. If the temperature on Thursday was 15% higher than that of
Monday, then the temperature in C on Thursday was
(A) 40 (B) 43
(C) 46 (D) 49
Ans. Option (C) is correct
4. Complete the sentence: Dare .................. mistakes.
(A) commit (B) to commit
(C) committed (D) committing
Ans. Option (B) is correct.
Dare to commit mistakes
5. They were requested not to quarrel with others.
Which one of the following options is the closest in meaning to the
word quarrel?
(A) make out (B) call out
(C) dig out (D) fall out
Ans. Option (D) is correct.
They were requested not to quarrel with others.
Quarrel has a similar meaning to ‘fall out’
6. A car travels 8 km in the first quarter of an hour, 6 km in the
second quarter and 16 km in the third quarter. The average speed
of the car in km per hour over the entire journey is
(A) 30 (B) 36
(C) 40 (D) 24
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
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Ans. Option (D) is correct.
8. Statement: There were different streams of freedom movements
in colonial India carried out by the moderates, liberals, radicals,
socialists, and so on.
Which one of the following is the best inference from the above
statement?
(A) The emergence of nationalism in colonial India led to our Independence
(B) Nationalism in India emerged in the context of colonialism
(C) Nationalism in India is homogeneous
(D) Nationalism in India is heterogeneous
Ans. Option (D) is correct.
Nationalism in India is heterogeneous
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Ans. Option (B) is correct.
10. What is the chance that a leap year, selected at random, will contain
53 Sundays?
(A) 2/7 (B) 3/7
(C) 1/7 (D) 5/7
Ans. Option (A) is correct.
1. Choose the grammatically CORRECT sentence:
(A) Two and two add four (B) Two and two become four
(C) Two and two are four (D) Two and two make four
Ans. Option (D) is correct
Two and two make four
2. Statement: You can always give me a ring whenever you need.
Which one of the following is the best inference from the above
statement?
(A) Because I have a nice caller tune.
(B) Because I have a better telephone facility
(C) Because a friend in need is a friend indeed
(D) Because you need not pay towards the telephone bills when
you give me a ring
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
You can always given me a ring whenever you need. Because a friend
is need is a friend indeed
3. In the summer of 2012, in New Delhi, the mean temperature of
Monday to Wednesday was 41°C and of Tuesday to Thursday was
43C. If the temperature on Thursday was 15% higher than that of
Monday, then the temperature in C on Thursday was
(A) 40 (B) 43
(C) 46 (D) 49
Ans. Option (C) is correct
4. Complete the sentence: Dare .................. mistakes.
(A) commit (B) to commit
(C) committed (D) committing
Ans. Option (B) is correct.
Dare to commit mistakes
5. They were requested not to quarrel with others.
Which one of the following options is the closest in meaning to the
word quarrel?
(A) make out (B) call out
(C) dig out (D) fall out
Ans. Option (D) is correct.
They were requested not to quarrel with others.
Quarrel has a similar meaning to ‘fall out’
6. A car travels 8 km in the first quarter of an hour, 6 km in the
second quarter and 16 km in the third quarter. The average speed
of the car in km per hour over the entire journey is
(A) 30 (B) 36
(C) 40 (D) 24
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
7.
Ans. Option (D) is correct.
8. Statement: There were different streams of freedom movements
in colonial India carried out by the moderates, liberals, radicals,
socialists, and so on.
Which one of the following is the best inference from the above
statement?
(A) The emergence of nationalism in colonial India led to our Independence
(B) Nationalism in India emerged in the context of colonialism
(C) Nationalism in India is homogeneous
(D) Nationalism in India is heterogeneous
Ans. Option (D) is correct.
Nationalism in India is heterogeneous
9.
Ans. Option (B) is correct.
10. What is the chance that a leap year, selected at random, will contain
53 Sundays?
(A) 2/7 (B) 3/7
(C) 1/7 (D) 5/7
Ans. Option (A) is correct.