GATE 2014 Syllabus for General Aptitude (GA) with Sample Questions

GATE 2014 Syllabus for General Aptitude (GA) with Sample Questions
Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs) has has released Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014 Syllabus for General Aptitude (GA) free download on its official web site - www.gate.iitb.ac.in/ Who are are interested and join to the Engineering through GATE. Those candidates are must read this article observe the process of the GATE 2014, New Pattern of Examination and Syllabus and other details as given below.

Here we provides GATE 2014 GA Syllabus PDF, Exam Pattern, Model Question Papers or Previous Question Papers or Old Model Question Papers with answers and candidates download subject wise and Eligibility Criteria and Selection Process and exam date details are available in official website and Keep visiting on educations9.blogspot.in for GATE 2014 Notification and other details as given below.

Syllabus for General Aptitude (GA) Common in all Papers
Verbal  Ability:
English grammar, sentence completion, verbal analogies, word groups, instructions, critical reasoning and verbal deduction.

Numerical Ability: Numerical computation, numerical estimation, numerical reasoning and data interpretation.

Sample Questions
Verbal  Ability:

Q.1. Choose the appropriate answer to complete the following sentence:

After several ……. attempts to send the missile into space, the spacecraft was finally launched successfully.

(A) Abortive   (B)     Difficult   (C)     Experimental   (D)     Preliminary

Answer: A

Q.2. Choose the appropriate answer to complete the following sentence:

Medicine is to illness as law is to _________

(A)       Discipline   (B)       Anarchy   (C)       Treason   (D)       Etiquette

Answer: B

Q.3. Read the following paragraph :

“The ordinary form of mercury thermometer is used for temperature ranging from –40oF to 500oF. For measuring temperature below –40oF, thermometers filled with alcohol are used. These are, however, not satisfactory for use in high temperatures. When a mercury thermometer is used for temperature above 500oF, the space above the mercury is filled with some inert gas, usually nitrogen or carbon dioxide, placed in the thermometer under pressure. As the mercury rises, the gas pressures is increased, so that it is possible to use these thermometers for temperatures as high as 1000oF.”

With what, besides mercury, would a thermometer be filled if it was designed to be used for measuring temperature of about 500oF?

(A)  Pyrometer     (B)  Inert gas       (C) Iron and brass        (D) Gas

Answer: B

Q.4. The cost of manufacturing tractors in Korea is twenty percent less than the cost of manufacturing  tractors in Germany. Even after transportation fees and import taxes are added, it is still cheaper to import tractors from Korea to Germany than to produce tractors in Germany.

Which of the following assertions is best supported by the above information?

(A)  Labour costs in Korea are twenty  percent below those in Germany.

(B)  Importing tractors into Germany will eliminate twenty  percent of the manufacturing jobs in Germany.

(C)  The costs of transporting a tractor from Korea to Germany is more than twenty  percent oft he cost of manufacturing the tractor in Korea.

(D)  The import taxes on a tractor  imported from Korea to Germany is less than twenty  percent of the cost of manufacturing the tractor in Germany.

Answer: D

Numerical Ability

 Q.5. In a survey, 3/16  of  the people surveyed told  that they preferred to use public transport while commuting  daily to office. 5/8 of the people surveyed told that they preferred to use their own vehicles. There meaning 75respondents said that they had no clear preference. How many people  preferred to use public transport?

(A)  75   (B)  100  (C) 125  (D) 133

Answer: A

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