Odd One Out || Verbal Ability || CAT 2021 || 16 April (App update required to attempt this test)

1) Some of the new Black poets made their debuts in the anthologies. Others were first published in Harlem’s new avant-garde literary publication, Umbra.

2) By the end of the decade not only had poetic giants such as Melvin Tolson, LeRoi Jones etc. had reappeared with new volumes of poetry, but also at least five anthologies of Black poetry were published.

3) Like the spirituals and the secular songs of slavery, the new Black poetry burst forth out of a time of racial turmoil.

4) As the decade drew to a close, the “Broadside Press” poets appeared through Dudley Randall’s series of Broadside Press editions and in Hoyt Fuller’s Negro Digest, which was later known as Black World.

5) These poets brought with them new poetic concepts, a new aesthetic, and a strong awareness of the Black ghetto experience.

1. Then people started placing runners below the heavy object and started dragging it like a sledge.

2. The wheel forms the basic component of any mechanized system today, be it a watch or a jet engine.

3. The world moves on wheels today and the inception of this technology can be traced back to 3500 BC in Mesopotamia (Sumerian civilization).

4. However, it is still a mystery as to who actually made the first wheel.

5. The Sumerian wheel was invented by joining planks of wood together.

1) The complete instructions for generating a human are encoded in the DNA present in our cells: the human genome, comprising roughly 3 billion bp of DNA

2) Scientists from across the world collaborated in the ‘Human Genome Project’ to generate the first DNA sequence of the entire human genome.

3) Change in the structure of DNA may lead to observable differences in the phenotype, which may be transmitted to subsequent generations.

4) The majority of our DNA is present within the nucleus as chromosomes but there is also a small amount of DNA in the mitochondria.

5) It remains the world's largest collaborative project which involved identifying and mapping of genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint.

1) It can be as simple as picking up your mobile and launching some birds at hostile pigs in a castle, or as complex as dedicating years to learning and mastering a game .

2) Gaming in India has been given a boost in the recent years with the advent of 4G and FTTH. Prices have grown more competitive which has helped not only companies but also gamers across India.

3) Gaming is a form of entertainment which is consumed via interaction, participation and viewership is multi-billion dollar industry globally.

4) This industry comprises of gamers who can be a casual or an enthusiast, an amateur or a professional, a player or a viewer.

5) Esports is the part of gaming that’s competitive, where various genres of games are played competitively against other players, on different platforms.

1) The consumers of today are more aware about the use of product and other information of the product, it is not easy to sell or attract customer to buy the product.

2) As consumers are the most important person for marketer or sales person, therefore it is important for them to consider their likes and dislikes.

3) The main purpose behind marketing a product is to satisfy demands and wants of the Consumers. Study of consumer behavior helps to achieve this purpose.

4) The study of consumer behavior helps marketers to design the best possible product or service that fully satisfies consumer’s needs and demands.

5) To decide where the service or product would be made available, for easy access of consumers, to determine the price and the best method of promotion

Direction: Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

1) The men met in a basement that was accessed by a trapdoor hidden under a rug, investigators say.

2) In one video, a suspect denounced the state's role in deciding when to reopen gyms during the coronavirus lockdown.

3) Their phones were gathered and placed in another room to avoid secret recordings, but the undercover FBI source was wearing a separate recording device.

4) In a press conference on Thursday, the governor tied the plot against her to the rhetoric of President Donald Trump, who she said had spent the last several months "stoking distrust, fomenting anger and giving comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division".

5) "Several members talked about murdering 'tyrants' or 'taking' a sitting governor," the charging document states.

Directions.Four sentences related to a topic are given below. Three of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Key in the number of the answer choice you choose as your answer through onscreen key board.

1.Experts believe many factors can influence our feelings about food and our eating behaviors.

2.A lot of attention has been paid to how genetics influence our predisposition to Alzheimer’s.

3.But there’s one key component of our environment that we are just beginning to connect more strongly to brain health: eating.

4.Many forms of dementia are increasingly prevalent in much of Western society, as people live longer.

1) On the most primitive level this sort of external conflict is psychologically empty.

2) The totality of choices determines the outcomes of the game, and it is assumed that the rank order of preferences for the outcomes is different for different players.

3) A game of strategy, as currently conceived in game theory, is a situation in which two or more "players" make choices among available alternatives .

4) Whether these interests are diametrically opposed or only partially opposed depends on the type of game.

5) Thus the "interests" of the players are generally in conflict.

1) I had wanted be a journalist, a writer, and had been told it was not a respectable profession.

2) I first came across a worn-down copy of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own at age 18 in a tiny “raddiwala” shack in Bombay, India.

3) Young women, I am told are disgracefully ignorant. They have never made a discovery of any sort of importance.

4) I had heard the ridicule Woolf had described: “The world said with a guffaw, Write? What’s the good of your writing?

5) I was trying to decide what to do next with my life, as the options for someone of my gender, class, and caste in India then were limited and all led to a lifetime of housewifery.

1) Neoliberalism is a policy model that encompasses both politics and economics and seeks to transfer the control of economic factors from the public sector to the private sector.

2) Many neoliberalism policies enhance the workings of free market capitalism and attempt to place limits on government spending, government regulation, and public ownership.

3) It is refers to an economic system in which the “free” market is extended to every part of our public and personal worlds.

4) Neolibralism leads to wealth disparity, societal disintegration, war profiteering, structural adjustments, exploitation etc.

5) Neoliberalism is generally associated with policies like cutting trade tariffs and barriers.