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GATE Mechanical 2025 | GA | Question: 6
Identify the option that has the most appropriate sequence such that a coherent paragraph is formed:At once, without thinking much, people rushed towards the city in hord...
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GATE Mechanical 2022 Set 2 | GA | Question: 6
Fish belonging to species $\text{S}$ in the deep sea have skins that are extremely black (ultra-black skin). This helps them not only to avoid predators but also sneakily...
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GATE Mechanical 2022 Set 1 | GA | Question: 6
Humans are naturally compassionate and honest. In a study using strategically placed wallets that appear "lost", it was found that wallets with money are more likely to b...
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GATE Mechanical 2021 Set 1 | GA | Question: 6
Oxpeckers and rhinos manifest a symbiotic relationship in the wild. The oxpeckers warn the rhinos about approaching poachers, thus possibly saving the lives of the rhinos...
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GATE Mechanical 2020 Set 2 | GA | Question: 4
In one of the greatest innings ever seen in $142$ years of Test history, Ben Stokes upped the tempo in a five-and-a-half hour long stay of $219$ balls including $11$ four...
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GATE Mechanical 2020 Set 2 | GA | Question: 6
Climate change and resilience deal with two aspects – reduction of sources of non-renewable energy resources and reducing vulnerability of climate change aspects. The ter...
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GATE Mechanical 2020 Set 1 | GA | Question: 6
Crowd funding deals with mobilisation of funds for a project from a large number of people, who would be willing to invest smaller amounts through web-based platforms in ...
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GATE Mechanical 2019 Set 2 | GA | Question: 8
While teaching a creative writing class in India, I was surprised at receiving stories from the students that were all set in distant places: in the American West with co...
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GATE Mechanical 2019 Set 2 | GA | Question: 10
$X$ is an online media provider. By offering unlimited and exclusive online content at attractive prices for a loyalty membership, $X$ is almost forcing its customers tow...
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GATE Mechanical 2019 Set 1 | GA | Question: 6
Under a certain legal system, prisoners are allowed to make one statement. If their statements turns out to be true then they are hanged. If the statements turns to be fa...
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GATE Mechanical 2019 Set 1 | GA | Question: 8
Congo was named by Europeans, Congo’s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the county and the river to Zaire with the objective of Africanising names of persons and ...
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GATE ME 2012 | Question: 62
Wanted Temporary, Part-time persons for the post of Field Interviewer to conduct personal interviews to collect and collate economic data. Requirements: High-school pass,...
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GATE Mechanical 2017 Set 2 | GA | Question: 6
"If you are looking for a history of India, or for an account of the rise and fall of the British Raj, or for the reason of the cleaving of the subcontinent into two mutu...
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GATE Mechanical 2017 Set 1 | GA | Question: 9
Two very famous sportsmen Mark and Steve happened to be brothers and played for country $K$. Mark teased James, an opponent from country $E$, "There is no way you are goo...
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GATE Mechanical 2017 Set 1 | GA | Question: 6
"Here, throughout the early $1820$s, Stuart continued to fight is losing battle to allow his sepoys to wear their caste-marks and their own choice of facial hair on parad...
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GATE Mechanical 2016 Set 3 | GA | Question: 7
Social science disciplines were in existence in an amorphous form until the colonial period when they were institutionalized. In varying degrees, they were intended to fu...
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GATE Mechanical 2016 Set 3 | GA | Question: 3
After India’s cricket world cup victory in $1985$, Shrotria who was playing both tennis and cricket till then, decided to concentrate only on cricket. And the $\textbf{re...
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GATE Mechanical 2016 Set 2 | GA | Question: 7
A smart city integrates all modes of transport, uses clean energy and promotes sustainable use of resources. It also uses technology to ensure safety and security of the ...
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GATE Mechanical 2016 Set 2 | GA | Question: 6
Students taking an exam are divided into two groups, P and Q such that each group has the same number of students. The performance of each of the students in a test was e...
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GATE Mechanical 2016 Set 1 | GA | Question: 7
In a world filled with uncertainty, he was glad to have many good friends. He had always assisted them in times of need and was confident that they would reciprocate. How...
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GATE Mechanical 2015 Set 2 | GA | Question: 7
In the following question,the first and last sentence of the passage are in order and numbered $1$ and $6$. The rest of passage is split in $4$ parts and numbered as $2, ...
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GATE Mechanical 2015 Set 1 | GA | Question: 10
Lamenting the gradual sidelining of the arts in school curricula, a group of prominent artists wrote to the chief minister last year, asking him to allocate more funds to...
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GATE Mechanical 2014 Set 2 | GA | Question: 7
Lights of four colors (red, blue, green, yellow) are hung on a ladder. On every step of the ladder there are two lights. If one of the lights is red, the other light on t...
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GATE Mechanical 2014 Set 1 | GA | Question: 7
For submitting tax returns, all resident males with annual income below $Rs$ $10$ lakh should fill upForm $P$ and all resident females with income below $Rs$ $8$ lakh sho...
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GATE ME 2013 | Question: 65
After several defeats in wars, Robert Bruce went in exile and wanted to commit suicide. Just before committing suicide, he came across a spider attempting tirelessly to h...
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