PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SPOTTING ERRORS

PREPARATORY SET-88 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): In each of the following sentences four words are given in bold, only one word will be inappropriate grammatically and contextually according to the sentence. Identify that word and mark that as your answer. If all words are correct then mark (5) as your answer.

 

Question No : 1

Members of the Finance Commission were in Mumbai to meet Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor, deputy governors, and representatives of banks and financial institutions.

(1) Members

(2) Institutions

(3) Are

(4) Representatives

(5) All are correct

Question No : 2

Larsen and Toubro Ltd. (L&T), on Thursday, is believed to have acquired the critical26% holding in IT-services firm Mindtree Ltd. by managing to buy a little over 1% shares early on Thursday morning from the open market at prices of up to Rs. 980 per share

(1) Early

(2) Critical

(3) Believed

(4) Managing

(5) All are correct

Question No : 3

Operating margin dropped to 18.9% in the March quarter, down from 19.6% in the December quarter. Attrition in the IT services business came down to 17.7% in Q4, from 17.8% in Q3.

(1) Operating

(2) Attrition

(3) Business

(4) Dropped

(5) All are correct

Question No : 4

The country’s fiscal deficit at 8.51 trillion at the end of February 2019 had touched 4.52% of the GDP, a senior Finance Ministry source said on Thursday siting its data in this regard.

(1) Touched

(2) Senior

(3) Siting

(4) Fiscal

(5) All are correct

Question No : 5

Son has been remaking SoftBank Group from primarily a telecommunications operator into a technical investment firm, and his $100 billion Vision Fund has already emerged as a major contributor to earnings

(1) Primarily

(2) Technical

(3) Remaking

(4) Emerged

(5) All are correct