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SIECTION ONE: Verbal Reasoning
This section contains a total 35 verbal reasoning questions with
subsections of analogy, synonym
subsections of analogy, synonyms, antonyms, classification, reading reasoning. Each sub-section has its anagrams, analytical and logical
Analogy Directions:
to answer questions 1-3, read the
related pair of words written in capital letters followed by four pairs of words. Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original capitalized pair. Then find the corresponding number on the separate answer sheet and blacken the letter of your choice.
Direction: row questions 4- 7 read each of the following words carefully and choose the word that correctly completes the analogy.
Then blacken the letter of your choice on the
separate answer sheet provided.
5.
MOUNT is to HORSE as is to TRAIN.
6.
HIRE is to SELECT is to
7.
QUIET is to NOISY as CALM is to
8.
WAR is to DESTRUCTION as GERM is to
Synonyms
Directions: Questions 8 10 consist of words printed in capital letters followed hy four words. Choose the word that is most nearly similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. Then, find the question number and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
Antonyms
Directions: Questions 11-15 consist of words printed in capital letters followed by four words. Choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters. Then, find the question number and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet.
Classification items
Directions: In questions 16-18, three out of the four words are in the same classification. Choose the word that does not belong in the same classification as the others and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
17.
Choose the odd one out.
18.
Which one of the following words is different from the others?
19.
Which of the following words has a different meaning from the others.
Reading comprehension
Directions: 19-23 deal with restoring words correctly into s passage. The following four words listed at removed from the passage given below.
Numbers are written instead of the words. Read the passage and choose the word that correctly completes the presage. Then, blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided. potential encouragement creative
specialization We a8 have the potential to be 1 , however, because of the pressures of modern living and the need for $\mathbf{2J}$, many of us never have the time or opportunity, or indeed are given the $\underline{3}$, to explore our latent talents, even though most of us have sufficient ammunition to realize this 4 in the form of data which has been fed into, collated and processed by the $\underline{5}$ over many years.
20.
Which of the following is the correct word that should replace S(the fifth blank in the passage)?
21.
Which of the following is the correct word that should replace4 (the fourth blank in the passage)?
22.
Which of the following is the correct word that should replace 1 (the first blank in the passage)?
23.
Which of the following is the correct word that should replace 3 (the third blank in the passage)?
24.
Which of the following is the comet word that should replace 2 (the second blank in the passage)?
Advanced Verbal Test Anagrams DIRLCTIONS: Questions 24-25 deal with word anagrams. Read each question carefully and give your answer by blackening the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
25.
Only one the groups of seven letters below can be rearranged to yield a seven-letter English word which is an item. Identify
26.
Only one of the groups of four letters below can be rearranged to spell-out a four letter English word which is a direction
Analytical and Logical Reasoning questions
Directions: Answer questions (26-29) based on the following information. Then, blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
The director of a small rural primary school plans to assign six teachers Kargebo, Melalkw, Nahom, Paulos, Robel, and Samson tuitor/ help students after school from Monday to Saturday according to the following rule:
Melalku must be before Rohel
Paulos must tutor on Tuesday
Kargebo must tutor on the day immediately
before or afier Nahom tutored
27.
If Melaku is assigned on Wednesday, Robel cannot be assigned on:
28.
If Nahom is assigned on Saturday, When should Kargebo be assigned?
29.
If Nahom is assigned on Wednesday, Kargebo is to be assigned:
30.
Which can be assigned on Monday?
31.
A factory worker has one more than five children No one else in the factory has six children. Which of the following conclusions logically follows from the given statements?
32.
According to one psychological theory, m order to Answer: must have an intimate relationship with word's greatest composers spent most of person. Yet the had no intimate relationships. wrong. The conclusion above assumes that
33.
Adama is one the cities with lowest car accidents, and it is one of the few cities that require strict annual car safety inspections. Therefore, all cities of Ethiopia should apply similar safety inspection procedures. The argument above is based on which of the following assumptions?
SECTION One: Quantitative Reasoning
(Questions 1-25)
Perfections: Solve each of the problems given in questions 1-17 and give your answer by blackening the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
34.
Find the value of A in the following sequence.
35.
Find the value of N in the following sequence?
36.
Which of the following numbers is different from the others in the group?
37.
Which of the following numbers pair is different from the others in the group?
38.
What is sum of the first five prime numbers? (S)
39.
If ABCD is a four digit positive number divisible by 5 and 10 , what is the value of D
40.
What is the length of a side a square with area c?
41.
What is the value N in the following sequence? 10,15,22, x, 42,55,70
42.
find the value of N in the following sequence.
43.
If one-third of one-fourth of a number is 15 , then what is the three tenth of that number?
44.
What number should replace N in the following series?
45.
How many irrational numbers are there between 2 and 7 ?
46.
The square of a positive number is greater than the number itself when the number is:
47.
What is the number of squares in the figure given below?
48.
Assume that Ujulu saves 1/4 of his income and his father had been saving half of his income. If the income of the father, which is 5000 Birr, is double of his son, how much is saved by his son?
49.
It takes two and half an hour to get from Addis Ababa to Adama travelling at a constant rate of speed What part of the distance is travelled by 4/3 of an hour approximately?
50.
A bag contains 28 yellow, 44 black and 36 green marbles. Ali takes out one marble from the bag at random. What is the probability that he will take out a green marble?
Quantitative Comparison
Directions: Questions 18-25 consist of two quantities, one in column A and one in column a Compare the two quantities and answer the questions by choosing the alternative that best explains the relationship between ’Column
$\mathrm{A}^{\text (" and " Column}}
\mathrm{B}$ ”. Give the answer by blackening the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
51.
Compare the two quantities.
53.
Compare the two quantities.
Questions 56-60 are based on the hypothetical data in the table below. It is about the total population, primary school age population and School Enrolment by sex of the seven Regions in Ethiopia
54.
Total male population, in million, in the seven Regions in nearly.
55.
The three least populous Regions in order are:
56.
The proportion of girls enrolled in schools in Region D to the female population is718
57.
Which Region is least in enrolling girls to school compared to the boys?
58.
Assuming that the total population of the country at time the above data is taken 73 million, what is the share, in percent, of the population in C and D together?
