Friday 23 September 2011

CAT Question of the Day


Find the remainder when S = 343 + 1993 + 27 is divided by 236.
OPTIONS
1) 0 2) 6 3) 8 4) 36
Tip of the Day
In questions on Percentages, Profit and Loss and Interest, assume values like 100 instead of variables like x. This will increase your calculation speed.

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Last year's Question of the day (23-Sep-10)


The question below contains a paragraph with a missing sentence or part of a sentence. Choose the option that most logically completes the paragraph. Tests of general mental ability are common for those applying for a job or for a university course. However, research from Indiana’s Kelley School of Business, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, suggests that the tools used to check whether such tests are biased- against ethnic minorities or women, for example- are themselves flawed. “The irony is that for 40 years we have been trying to assess potential test bias with a biased procedure,” says Herman Aguinis, one of the authors, __________.

OPTIONS


1) “and because of the prominence of test fairness in the popular media, there is a need to revive test bias research.” 2) “and we now see that countless people may have been denied or given opportunities unfairly.” 4) “and predictive bias has been examined extensively in the cognitive ability domain.” 5) “and the established conclusion based on 40 years of research is that test bias is not found regarding slopes.”

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