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Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
19 questions from GATE CS 2011 to 2026, newest first.
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GATE CS 2026 Set 1, Q.6
Combinatorics deals with problems involving counting. For example, "How many distinct arrangements of N distinct objects in M spaces on a circle are possible?" is a typical prob...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2025 Set 1, Q.6
"I put the brown paper in my pocket along with the chalks, and possibly other things. I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that o...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2025 Set 2, Q.6
Based only on the conversation below, identify the logically correct inference: "Even if I had known that you were in the hospital, I would not have gone there to see you", Ramy...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2024 Set 2, Q.6
Sequence the following sentences in a coherent passage. P: This fortuitous geological event generated a colossal amount of energy and heat that resulted in the rocks rising to a...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction · Verbal Ability and Grammar
GATE CS 2023, Q.6
The country of Zombieland is in distress since more than 75% of its working population is suffering from serious health issues. Studies conducted by competent health experts con...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2022, Q.6
Some people believe that "what gets measured, improves". Some others believe that "what gets measured, gets gamed". One possible reason for the difference in the beliefs is the...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2021 Set 2, Q.6 (GA Q.6)
Listening to music during exercise improves exercise performance and reduces discomfort. Scientists researched whether listening to music while studying can help students learn...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2020, Q.4 (GA Q.4)
The dawn of the 21st century witnessed the melting glaciers oscillating between giving too much and too little to billions of people who depend on them for fresh water. The UN c...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2020, Q.6 (GA Q.6)
Goods and Services Tax (GST) is an indirect tax introduced in India in 2017 that is imposed on the supply of goods and services, and it subsumes all indirect taxes except few. I...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2017 Set 1, Q.61 (GA Q.61)
"The hold of the nationalist imagination on our colonial past is such that anything inadequately or improperly nationalist is just not history." Which of the following statement...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2017 Set 2, Q.61 (GA Q.6)
“We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent - namely ideology....
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction · Verbal Ability and Grammar
GATE CS 2016 Set 2, Q.7 (GA Q.7)
Computers were invented for performing only high-end useful computations. However, it is no understatement that they have taken over our world today. The internet, for example,...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2014 Set 1, Q.6 (GA Q.6)
The Palghat Gap (or Palakkad Gap), a region about 30 km wide in the southern part of the Western Ghats in India, is lower than the hilly terrain to its north and south. The exac...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2014 Set 1, Q.7 (GA Q.7)
Geneticists say that they are very close to confirming the genetic roots of psychiatric illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia, and consequently, that doctors will be ab...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2014 Set 2, Q.6 (GA Q.6)
The old city of Koenigsberg, which had a German majority population before World War 2, is now called Kaliningrad. After the events of the war, Kaliningrad is now a Russian terr...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2014 Set 3, Q.6 (GA Q.6)
A dance programme is scheduled for 10.00 a.m. Some students are participating in the programme and they need to come an hour earlier than the start of the event. These students...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2014 Set 3, Q.7 (GA Q.7)
By the beginning of the century, several hypotheses were being proposed, suggesting a paradigm shift in our understanding of the universe. However, the clinchin...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2013, Q.63 (GA Q.63)
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 have its...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction
GATE CS 2011, Q.61 (GA Q.61)
Few school curricula include a unit on how to deal with bereavement and grief, and yet all students at some point in their lives suffer from losses through death and parting. Ba...
Reading Comprehension and Verbal Deduction