10th Class

      Pick the odd one out:   (a) Southampton                                                             (b) Stirling                           (c) Bristol                                                             (d) Birmingham (e) None of these         Pick the odd one out: (a) Ferrari                                                            (b) McLaren                       (c) Honda                                                            (d) Mercedes (e) None of these         Pick the odd one out: (a) Sir Gawain                                                                    (b) Sir Galahad                 (c) Sir Gareth                                                     (d) Sir Will (e) None of these         Pick the odd one out: (a) Sloth                                                               (b) Pride                              (c) Cowardice                                                    (d) Gluttony (e) None of these         Pick the odd one out: (a) Nine ladies dancing                                  (b) more...

         Classification   Introduction: Everything in this universe is different; however, it is identical with some other things in various respects. 'Classification' is the act or process of putting people or things into a group or class. Here we present a few examples of Odd One Out, where you need to classify the objects and select the correct answer. The object of Odd One Out is to guess which one of four items does not belong and why it doesn't belong.       Pick the odd one out: (a) Lemon                                                           (b) Orange                          (c) Apple                                                              (d) Potato (e) None of these   Answer: (d)         Pick the odd one out: (a) Chair                                                               (b) Bed                                                 (c) Rug                                                                  (d) Table (e) None of these more...

                Passage - 1 A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears;   She seem'd a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years.     Read the stanza carefully and tick the correct answers:       What is meant by term 'spirit seal' in the stanza? (a) Sealing of spirit                                           (b) Finishing of strength (c) Ceasing of mind and feeling                  (d) Ending of hope (e) None of these         The poet used the word 'slumber' to mean (a) Sleep                                                              (b) Rest                                                (c) Siesta                                                              (d) Nap (e) None of these         In the line 'She seemed a thing that could not more...

         Comprehension Based on Stanzas                       Passage - 1   Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay. Beside the ruin'd tower.     Read the stanza carefully and tick the correct answers:           In the stanza, the poet says about_________. (a) The memory of his dreams                   (b) His remembrance of happy hour (c) Dreams which he sees in dawn           (d) Feelings of happy hour while in dream (e) None of these   Answer: (c) Explanation: (c) The first line of the stanza states about 'waking dreams', which means the dream seen during early morning. The term more...

                  Passage - 1 For the first time laser light was created by scientists, using living biological material; a single human cell and some jellyfish protein. Seok-Hyun Yun, an optical physicist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston created the living laser with his colleague Malte Gather. This was the first time that biological materials were used to build a laser and generate light from something living. Building a laser requires two things: (i) A lasing material that amplifies light from an external source (a gain medium) and (ii) An arrangement of mirrors (an optical cavity), which concentrates and aligns the light waves into a tight beam. Before the creation of living laser, the gain medium has only been made from non-biological substances, such as doped crystals, semiconductors more...

         Comprehension Based on Current Affairs                       Passage - 1 With the anticipated end of the country's isolation from global commerce in the nuclear field, India-Russia nuclear partnership will enter a new phase, National Security Adviser (NSA) M.K. Narayanan told his Russian interlocutors in Moscow. Mr. Narayanan is discussing security, defense and regional security issues with Russian officials. He said the reopening of nuclear collaboration would not only mean expanding the relationship in constructing the nuclear plant at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu but also collaboration in new projects, according to Andrei Orlov, chief of PIR Centre (Centre for Policy Studies), a quasi- government think-tank backed by influential persons in the decision-making process. In addition, India indicated that cooperation would be extended to other strategic fields more...

                  Passage - 1   Mini was twelve years old and a spastic. A spastic is a person who has no control over his hands and legs from birth. Mini could not walk, or button up her shirt, but she could crawl and had learnt to use her hand to brush her teeth and use a spoon to eat. She could also mean oeuvre her wheelchair. She went to a special school where she was taught exercises and underwent speech therapy, as well as learnt the usual subjects like other children. But Mini had no friends. Ever since they had come to this house six months ago, Mini had no one to play with. All the neighborhood children seemed to be busy with their own games and schools, and they had more...

         Comprehension Based on Stories                     Passage - 1 About three o'clock in the morning, Jane, one of the servants awoke us. She had seen a great fire from her window. I looked. The fire was not that far away, but I saw no threat to us and returned to bed. I rose at seven. The fire appeared smaller and farther away. Jane said she had heard that over 400 houses had been destroyed during the night, and the fire was still raging near London Bridge. Curious, I went to have a look. From a high point near the Tower of London, I could see a huge fire raging on both sides of the bridge. We had friends who lived in that area. Worried, I approached the more...

                  Passage - 1   One of the largest mangrove forests in the world and a unique tiger habitat, the Sunder bans in West Bengal is facing a serious threat to its ecosystem from poaching and felling of trees. The Sunder bans is situated at the mouth of the Bay of Bengal, in the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta, the largest in the world. Known for its biodiversity, the region has been identified as a World Heritage Site. Although forest officials deny that any felling of trees has been going on, the increase in the region's population has led to the exploitation of the Sunder bans. Most people in the region are poor and depend on the forest for livelihood and, more specifically, their firewood needs. The blame does not lie with the poor more...

         Comprehension   Introduction: Comprehension is an important segment that tests the ability of an individual to understand the language, his knowledge of words and how nicely can an examinee understand the given passage. This part is in fact very easy but many fail to fix it since they fail to follow the rules defined to approach it.                                                        Comprehension Based on General Topics                 Passage - 1 Even as the debate over global warming and other climate change issues continues, and analyses has shown that floods and other weather-related disasters have been soaring during the past decade across the world. While the number of earthquakes, volcanoes and other geophysical disasters remained quite the same over the more...