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Sample Paper for:
NTS Graduate Admission Test (GAT)
For M. Phil. & PhD

Purpose of this sample paper is to familiarize the test If the radius of the well is 5 meters then the
taker with the question types that appear on the distance traveled is:
actual test. The number of questions and the A. 2.5 km
proportion of the questions do not as the number of B. 3.5 km
questions on the actual test.
C. 4.5 km
D. 5.5 km
E. None of the above
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Answer: C

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Directions: 3. If 1 cm on a map corresponds to an actual

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Solve each quantitative ability problem and indicate distance of 40 km. And the distance on the
the best of the answer choices given. map between Bombay and Calcutta is 37.5
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cm., the actual distance between them is :
Numbers: All numbers used are real numbers. A. 375 km
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B. 3750 km
Figures: A figure accompanying a quantitative C. 1500 km
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ability problem solving question is intended to D. 1375 km

provide information useful in solving the E. None of the above
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problem. Figures are drawn as accurately as

possible EXCEPT when it is stated in a specific Answer: C
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problem that its figure is not drawn to scale.

Straight lines may sometimes appear jagged. All 4. A box contains 90 nuts each of 100 gm and
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figures lie on a plane unless otherwise indicated. 100 bolts each of 150 gm. If the entire box
weighs 35.5 kg., then the weight of the empty
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1. A rectangle is 14 cm long and 10 cm wide. If box is :

the length is reduced by x cm and its width is A. 10 kg
increased also by x cm so as to make it a B. 10.5 kg
square then its area changes by : C. 11 kg
A. 4 D. 11.5 kg
B. 144 E. None of the above
C. 12
D. 2 Answer: D
E. None of the above.
5. If the radius of a circle is increased by 20%
Answer: A then the area is increased by :
A. 44%
2. A motorcycle stunts man belonging to fair B. 120%
3 rides over the vertical walls of a circular well C. 144%
at an average speed of 54 km/h for 5 minutes. D. 40%

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E. None of the above A. 1/3
B. 2/5
Answer: A C. 3/10
D. 5/6
6. A plot of land is in the shape of a trapezium E. None of the above
whose dimensions are given in the figure
below : Answer: C

9. A father is three times as old as his son. After

fifteen years the father will be twice as old as
his son's age at that time. Hence the father's
present age is

Hence the perimeter of the field is A. 36

B. 42
A. 50 m C. 45
B. 64 m D. 48
C. 72 m E. None of the above
D. 84 m
E. None of the above Answer: C

Answer: c 10. Tom, Dick and Harry went for lunch to a

restaurant. Tom had $100 with him, Dick had $60
7. Four concentric (having the same center) and Harry had $409. They got a bill for $104 and
circles with radii, x, 2x, 3x and 4x are drawn to decided to give a tip of $16. They further decided
to share the total expenses in the ratio of the
amounts of money each carried. The amount of
money which Tom paid more than what Harry
paid is

A. 120
B. 200
C. 60
D. 24
E. 36
form two rings A and B as shown in the figure.
Answer: E
Ratio of the area of inner ring A to the area of
outer ring B is

A. 1:2
Verbal Ability
B. 1:4
C. 2:3 Sentence Completion
D. 3:7
E. None of the above Directions:

Answer: D Each sentence below has one or two blanks. Each blank
shows that something has been omitted. Under each
4 sentence five words are given as choice. Choose the
8. If 3/p = 6 and 3/q = 15 then p - q = ?

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one correct word for each blank that best fits the 5. The Sociologist responded to the charge that her
meaning of the sentences as a whole. new theory was ______ by pointing out that it
did not in fact contradict accepted sociological
1. A child should not be ______ as being either very
principles.
shy or over confident.
A. unproven
A. categorized
B. banal
B. instructed
C. superficial
C. intoned
D. complex
D. distracted
E. heretical
E. refrained
Answer: E
Answer: A

2. President Anwar el Sadat of Egypt, disregarding Reading Comprehension

_______ criticism in the Arab world and in his
own Government, ________ accepted Prime Directions:

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Minister Menahem Begin's invitation to visit Each reading comprehension passage in this section is

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Israel in order to address the Israeli parliament. followed by questions based on the content of the
reading passage. Read the passage carefully and
A. acrimonious - formally

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chose the best answer to each question. The
B. blemished - stiffly questions are to be answered on the basis of what is
C. categorical - previously
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stated or implied in the passage.
D. malignant - plaintively
E. charismatic - meticulously
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But man is not destined to vanish. He can be killed,

Answer: A but he cannot be destroyed, because his soul is
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deathless and his spirit is irrepressible. Therefore,

3. In his usual _______ manner, he had insured though the situation seems dark in the context of the
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himself against this type of loss. confrontation between the superpowers, the silver
lining is provided by amazing phenomenon that the
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A. pensive very nations which have spent incalculable resources

B. providential and energy for the production of deadly weapons are
C. indifferent
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desperately trying to find out how they might never

D. circumspect be used. They threaten each other, intimidate each
E. caustic other and go to the brink, but before the total hour
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arrives they withdraw from the brink.

Answer: D
1. The main point from the author's view is that
4. We never believed that he would resort to A. Man's soul and spirit cannot be destroyed by
______ in order to achieve his goal; we always superpowers.
regarded him as a _______ man. B. Man's destiny is not fully clear or visible.
C. Man's soul and spirit are immortal.
A. charm - insincere D. Man's safety is assured by the delicate balance
B. necromancy - pietistic of power in terms of nuclear weapons.
C. logic - honorable E. Human society will survive despite the serious
D. prestidigitation - articulate threat of total annihilation.
E. subterfuge - honest
Answer: E
5 Answer: E
2. The phrase 'Go to the brink' in the passage
means

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A. Retreating from extreme danger. lettered pairs of related words. Select the
B. Declare war on each other. lettered pair of words.
C. Advancing to the stage of war but not engaging
in it. 1. ANGLE : DEGREE
D. Negotiate for peace. A. area : square inch
E. Commit suicide. B. milk : quart
C. society : classes
Answer: C D. letter : alphabet
E. time : minutes
3. In the author's opinion
A. Huge stockpiles of destructive weapons have so Answer: A
far saved mankind from a catastrophe.
B. Superpowers have at last realized the need for 2. CONFIRMED : INVETERATE
abandoning the production of lethal weapons. A. knowledge : supposed
C. Mankind is heading towards complete B. financial : bankrupt
destruction. C. immature : callow
D. Nations in possession of huge stockpiles of D. credible : incredible
lethal weapons are trying hard to avoid actual E. careful: punishing
conflict.
E. There is a Silver lining over the production of Answer: B
deadly weapons.
3. LULLABY : BARCAROLE
Answer: D A. birth : marriage
B. night : morning
4. 'Irrepressible' in the second line means C. cradle : gondola
A. incompatible D. song : poem
B. strong E. carol : sonneteer
C. oppressive
D. un-restrain able Answer: C
E. inspirited
4. ZOOLOGY : ANIMALS
Answer: D A. ecology : pollution
B. botany : plants
5. A suitable title for the above passage is C. chemistry : atoms
A. Destruction of mankind is in evitable. D. history : people
B. Man's desire to survive inhibits use of deadly E. mathematics : geometry
weapons.
C. Mounting cost of modern weapons. Answer: A
D. Threats and intimidation between super
powers. 5. DORY : VAN
E. Cowardly retreat by man A. dairy : cow
B. fish : vehicle
Answer: B C. freighter : caisson
D. runners : wheels
Analogies E. Danish : Dutch

Answer: C
Directions:
Each of the GRE sample analogy questions below
6 consists of two words that have a certain
relationship to each other, followed by five

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Antonyms D. conjoin
E. laud

Directions: Answer: E
Each of the GRE sample antonyms questions

Analytical Ability
consists of a word followed by five words or
phrase as choices. Choose the word or phrase
which is most nearly opposite in meaning to the
word in capitals and shade the alphabets marked
in the grid on your answer sheet. Logical Reasoning

1. ABOMINATE : Directions:
A. loathe
B. despise Each logical reasoning question in this part of the
C. adore assessment starts with a reading passage containing
D. abhor the information to be used to choose between correct
and incorrect logical conclusions. These conclusions

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are based on the information in the passage. After

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Answer: C this reading passage, you are given a lead-in phrase
that tells you to choose from among five different

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2. OBSEQUIOUS : responses. These possible responses are generated by
A. servile correctly or incorrectly applying logical thought to the
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B. first information in the passage at the beginning of the
question. They can be thought of as different ways of
C. fawning
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D. supercilious completing a sentence that begins with the lead-in

phrase.
E. improper
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1. In Los Angeles, a political candidate who buys

Answer: D
saturation radio advertising will get maximum
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name recognition.
3. OROTUND :
A. not resonant
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B. not reddish The statement above logically conveys

C. not eager which of the following?
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D. pompous
E. loud A. Radio advertising is the most important factor
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in political campaigns in Los Angeles.

Answer: A B. Maximum name recognition in Los Angeles
will help a candidate to win a higher
4. RECANT : percentage of votes cast in the city.
A. entangle C. Saturation radio advertising reaches every
B. rescue demographically distinct sector of the voting
C. fail population of Los Angeles.
D. assert D. For maximum name recognition a candidate
E. predict need not spend on media channels other than
radio advertising.
E. A candidate's record of achievement in the
Answer: D
Los Angeles area will do little to affect his or
her name recognition there.
5. UPBRAID :
7 A. defer
B. vacillate Answer: D
C. sever

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2. The rate of violent crime in this state is up 30 be sure they attend a school with a very small
percent from last year. The fault lies entirely in student population.
our court system: Recently our judges' sentences
have been so lenient that criminals can now do Which of the following, if true, identifies
almost anything without fear of a long prison the greatest flaw in the reasoning above?
term.
A. A low faculty/student ratio is the effect of a
The argument above would be weakened well-rounded education, not its source.
if it were true that B. Intelligence should be considered the result of
childhood environment, not advanced
A. 85 percent of the other states in the nation education.
have lower crime rates than does this state. C. A very small student population does not by
B. white collar crime in this state has also itself; ensure a low faculty/student ratio.
increased by over 25 percent in the last year. D. Parental desires and preferences rarely
C. 35 percent of the police in this state have determine a child's choice of a college or
been laid off in the last year due to budget university.
cuts. E. Students must take advantage of the low
D. polls show that 65 percent of the population faculty/student ratio by intentionally choosing
in this state oppose capital punishment. small classes.
E. the state has hired 25 new judges in the last
year to compensate for deaths and Answer: C
retirements.
5. All German philosophers, except for Marx, are
Answer: C idealists.

3. The increase in the number of newspaper articles From which of the following can the
exposed as fabrications serves to bolster the statement above be most properly
contention that publishers are more interested in inferred?
boosting circulation than in printing the truth.
Even minor publications have staffs to check such A. Except for Marx, if someone is an idealist
obvious fraud. philosopher, then he or she is German.
B. Marx is the only non-German philosopher
The argument above assumes that who is an idealist.
C. If a German is an idealist, then he or she is a
A. newspaper stories exposed as fabrications are philosopher, as long as he or she is not Marx.
a recent phenomenon. D. Marx is not an idealist German philosopher.
B. everything a newspaper prints must be E. Aside from the philosopher Marx, if someone
factually verifiable. is a German, then he or she is an idealist.
C. fact checking is more comprehensive for
minor publications than for major ones. Answer: E
D. only recently have newspapers admitted to
publishing intentionally fraudulent stories.
E. the publishers of newspapers are the people
Analytical reasoning
who decide what to print in their newspapers.
Directions:
Answer: E
All analytical reasoning questions are based on a
4. Time and again it has been shown that students passage or set of conditions. While answering a few of
who attend colleges with low faculty/student the analytical reasoning questions, you would find it
8 ratios get the best-rounded education. As a result, useful to draw a rough diagram. To answer any
when my children are ready to attend college, I'll question, choose the answer you think is most
appropriate among the given options.

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Questions 1- 3 2. How many of them occupy cottages next to a
vacant cottage?
Three men (Tom, Peter and Jack) and three women A. 2
(Eliza, Anne and Karen) are spending a few months at B. 3
a hillside. They are to stay in a row of nine cottages, C. 4
each one living in his or her own cottage. There are no D. 5
others staying in the same row of houses. E. 6

1. Anne, Tom and Jack do not want to stay in any Answer: C

cottage, which is at the end of the row.
3. Which among these statement(s) are true?
2. Eliza and Anne are unwilling to stay besides any
occupied cottage. I. Anne is between Eliza and Jack.
3. Karen is next to Peter and Jack. II. At the most four persons can have occupied
4. Between Anne and Jacks cottage there is just one cottages on either side of them.
vacant house. III. Tom stays besides Peter.
5. None of the girls occupy adjacent cottages.

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cottage. B. II only
C. I and III only

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1. Which of the above statements can be said to D. II and III only
have been derived from two other statements? E. I, II and III
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B. Statement 2 Answer: C
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D. Statement 5
E. Statement 6
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