MCA Entrance Previous Year Question Bank

Direction : Read the following passage and answer the equations, based on what is stated or implied in the passage. Declassification of government documents has shed new light on the events comprising the Cuban missible Crisis of October 1962. Perior to the accessibility of these records, the only sourceof account to the Crisis for scholars and histori- ans were the personal memoirs and narratives of the offi- cials who served under Kennedy and Krushchev during this period. Many of the declassified documents are transcrip-tions and notes of meetings between members of the CIA and President Kennedy’s Cabinet, as well as the President himself. The revelations in these documents have demon- strated the inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscuri- ties inherent in the first-person narratives of the Crisis, and has aided historians from all three countries involved in the Crisis to get a more authentic representation of what truly transpired, and for what reasons. Of perhaps the most inter- est to historians are declassified correspondence between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev that challenge the idea that the height of the Crisis extended only over the course of thirteen days. Indeed, these letters indicate that the Crisis was far from resolved by Krushchev’s October 28 decision to with draw the Soviet missiles from Cuba ; instead it endured far into the following month, while Amercia slept fitfully under the illusion of peace.

The author’s use of the phrase “inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscurities” suggests all of the following EXCEPT

Direction : Read the following passage and answer the equations, based on what is stated or implied in the passage. Declassification of government documents has shed new light on the events comprising the Cuban missible Crisis of October 1962. Perior to the accessibility of these records, the only sourceof account to the Crisis for scholars and histori- ans were the personal memoirs and narratives of the offi- cials who served under Kennedy and Krushchev during this period. Many of the declassified documents are transcrip-tions and notes of meetings between members of the CIA and President Kennedy’s Cabinet, as well as the President himself. The revelations in these documents have demon- strated the inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscuri- ties inherent in the first-person narratives of the Crisis, and has aided historians from all three countries involved in the Crisis to get a more authentic representation of what truly transpired, and for what reasons. Of perhaps the most inter- est to historians are declassified correspondence between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev that challenge the idea that the height of the Crisis extended only over the course of thirteen days. Indeed, these letters indicate that the Crisis was far from resolved by Krushchev’s October 28 decision to with draw the Soviet missiles from Cuba ; instead it endured far into the following month, while Amercia slept fitfully under the illusion of peace.

According to the passage, which of the following statement(s) is/are true of the Cuban Missile Crisis ? (I) The Crisis is still shrouded in mystery (II) The memoirs of those closely involved in the Crisis were not entirely factual (III) The Crisis spanned thirteen tense days

Direction : Read the following passage and answer the equations, based on what is stated or implied in the passage. Declassification of government documents has shed new light on the events comprising the Cuban missible Crisis of October 1962. Perior to the accessibility of these records, the only sourceof account to the Crisis for scholars and histori- ans were the personal memoirs and narratives of the offi- cials who served under Kennedy and Krushchev during this period. Many of the declassified documents are transcrip-tions and notes of meetings between members of the CIA and President Kennedy’s Cabinet, as well as the President himself. The revelations in these documents have demon- strated the inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscuri- ties inherent in the first-person narratives of the Crisis, and has aided historians from all three countries involved in the Crisis to get a more authentic representation of what truly transpired, and for what reasons. Of perhaps the most inter- est to historians are declassified correspondence between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev that challenge the idea that the height of the Crisis extended only over the course of thirteen days. Indeed, these letters indicate that the Crisis was far from resolved by Krushchev’s October 28 decision to with draw the Soviet missiles from Cuba ; instead it endured far into the following month, while Amercia slept fitfully under the illusion of peace.

The author is mainly concerned with

A boy observes the reflection of a clock in a mirror. The time observed by the boy in the mirror is 3 h 45 min. What is the actual time shown in the clock?

An airline has a certain free luggage allowance and charges for excess luggage at a fixed rate per kg. Two passengers Raja and Rahim have 60 kg luggage between them, and are charged ₹ 1200 and ₹ 2400, respectively for excess luggage. Had the entire luggage belonged to one of them, the excess luggage charge would have been ₹ 5400. What is the weight of Rahim’s luggage?

Of the three numbers, second is twice the first and is also thrice the third. If the average of three numbers is 44, the largest number is

In the middle of the confounded desert, there is the lost city of ‘’Ash’’. To reach it, I will have to travel overland by foot from the coast. On a trek like this, each person can only carry enough rations for five days and the farthest we can travel in one day is 30 miles. Also, the city is 120 miles from the starting point. What I am trying to figure out is the fewest number of persons, including myself, that I will need in our group so that I can reach the city, stay overnight, and then return to the coast, without running out of supplies. How many persons (including myself) will I need to accomplish this mission?

If $A_1=\{3\}$, $A_2=\{5,7,9\}$, $A_3=\{11,13,15,17,19\}$, $A_4=\{21,23,25,27,29,31,33\}$ and so on, what is the average of the numbers of the set $A_{20}$?

Reena visited her High School friend, Natasha after their 25th school reunion. “what a nice pair of children you have, are they twins?” Reena asked. “No my sister is older than I”, said Natasha’s son Rahul. “The square of my age plus the cube of her age is 7148”. “The square of my age plus the cube of his age is 5274”, said Preeti, Natasha;s daughter. How old were they?

Which optical phenomenon is utilized in the operation of the latest write- once optical storage medium called digital paper?