AICAT official Mock Test solution - PMRDF 2013

Reading Comprehension 

1. b and c, rural poor and tribal populations
2. all of the above
3. women are economic as well as household caregivers
4. imbalanced privatization of land
5. all of the above
6. historical and political-economic reasons
7. dismantling social and economic structures
8. production, exchange and redistribution
9. as a source of cultural identity and security
10. they could engage in reciprocal labor exchange

Data Interpretation & Inference 

1 to 5: subjective answers (note: such questions are not to appear in the actual paper as per the guidelines and pattern)

6. 20 percent (population of hamlet b- 1200 and a-1000)

7. 960 (80 percent of 1200)

8. 88 percent (400 employed males and total 480 males above 15)

9. 42 percent (there is a typo/ typing error in the question, male is used instead of female in first line)

10. 47 percent (there is a typo/ typing error in the question, male is used instead of female in first line)

11. 1.25 percent (2000/160000)

12. 5.3 percent (8000/150000)

13. 5.4 percent (80000 increases to 84240)

14. 60 percent (10000 to 4000)

15. subjective

(note: yesterday, they removed the subjective questions, i.e. 1 to 5 and 15th, now only 9 questions show up. this proves our prediction that such questions are not to appear in the actual paper)

General Awareness

1. John Steinbeck 
2. Veerappa Moily 
3. Saina 
4. The sum of budgetary deficit and net increase in internal and external borrowings 
5. satire and essay 
6. red gram 
7. Brigalia Bam of South Africa (was member of election commission during mandela's election) (ellen sirleaf of liberia was awarded Indira Gandhi peace prize) 
8. Mirc electronics 
9. Karnataka (In Bangalore) (name of Chennai's stadium is Chidambaram) 
10. health and well-being (in news for anti-ageing research)

Logical reasoning

1. 174 (2nd number is half of first number)
2. 4th option
3. VIJ (1st alphabet changes sequentially S T U V..., 2nd alphabet leaves one C E G I...)
4. 4th option (read syllogism topic for more understanding on this question)
5. undetermined/either (there is some confusion on wording of ques)

Knowledge about National Programmes and Schemes

1. female member of household (it varies from state to state though, joint allotment/ to eldest woman in most states)
2. 04/1999
3. panchayat
4. 75:25
5. rural landless households