IPMAT Indore (VA) PYQs

Some big shots know how to escape the law even after they violate it. It is, however, the ___________ who are more often apprehended and punished.

Meena is very arrogant and class-conscious; she refuses to acknowledge Sunil because she feels he is a man ___________.

The new car has disappointed its buyers in many ways, and good mileage is its only ___________.

It grieved me ___________ my friend’s serious illness.

If you ask me to give you a rough estimate for the cost of the project, ___________ I would say thirty lakhs.

The nasty comments made by strangers on the social media platforms about the actor made him ___________.

A few brands tailor their pants in such a way that it is easy for people with prosthetic legs to put them on. This is how they ___________.

My aunt Seema was the most generous of all the members of our family. Whenever we went out for dinner, she always insisted <u>to pay for the meal.</u>

Listening to the recording of cricket commentary from the past can be great fun. Especially, the last few overs, when the best players are gone, and the tailenders try their best to run between the wickets without getting out. This is when you realise that <u>nothing much has changed, hasn't it?</u>

Justin couldn’t understand why his friend had refused to work in a company that offered him a huge salary. If it had been him in his friend’s place, he would <u>definitely accepted such an offer.</u>

When you play the ‘Secret Santa’, you are expected to buy a gift for <u>whoever you are assigned</u>, without letting them know that you are the one buying the gift.

The setting of a story <u>effects the story's plot.</u>

The concept of the ‘Villa’ and other European ideas came to Lucknow with foreign soldiers, travellers and adventurers. For the Nawabs of Lucknow, architecture became the physical manifestation of their new status, and a way of proclaiming their alignment to the new power bloc. ___________. Villas, hence, provided an ideal substitute. Europeans sold to the Nawabs the idea of villas, based on designs in publications carried by them, and often aided by memory. The building chosen as the prototype for the famous Dilkusha Kothi was a country house in Northumberland.

In the late 1960s, architect Charles Correa began his career as an urban planner, creating New Bombay (now Navi Mumbai), an urban area that provided housing and job opportunities for many who lived across the harbour from the original city. In the midst of overpopulated cities, he tried to create quasi-rural housing environments. In all of his urban planning commissions, Correa avoided high-rise housing solutions. ___________.

A study of the social and cultural context of Indian poetry in English reveals several important insights into its origin. Indian poetry in English began in Bengal, the province where the British first gained a stronghold. In addition, this poetry was a largely urban phenomenon, centered in Calcutta. ___________. Then, gradually, it moved to other urban centres such as Madras and Bombay. Even today, Indian poetry in English remains largely urban. Moreover, because English was an elite language, Indian poets writing in English came from the upper classes.

_____________. Conflicts are now brewing over rivers and river basins shared by many countries around the world. This is not unexpected, given the fact that more than two hundred water bodies are shared by two or more countries. Strife over water, for example, is erupting throughout the Middle East, from the watersheds of the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

The culture of the 21st century – on an increasingly _______ scale – is oriented around the practical principles of utility, effectiveness, and impact. Things are good to the extent that they are instrumental, with instrumentality usually defined as the capacity to produce money or things. The worth of anything – an idea, an activity, an artwork, a _______ with another person – is determined _______.

Working from home requires that you may have to put your _______ life on _______. Some people find this very _______ as they like to keep their work and home lives separate.

_____________ have to label their _______ posts in order to bring about transparency and _______ the interests of the customers.

The human resource chief said that the company will not _______ on investing in people and has _______ spending on employee needs in order to _______ them and provide them with a sense of stability and certainty.

In its early stages, dementia is often _______ from normal ageing, in which the older brain may naturally begin to show signs of cognitive impairment. Neither dementia nor cognitive ageing is currently _______, though they may be slowed through diet, exercise, and keeping the mind agile with social and intellectual activity.

In the alleyways of old Cairo, in its cafes, warehouses and barbershops, framed portraits of Egyptian icons are _______ on fading walls. Kings, presidents, religious and political figures are all _______ as symbols of a glorious past.

One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly or inappropriately. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.

One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly or inappropriately. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.

One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly or inappropriately. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.

One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly or inappropriately. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.

One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly or inappropriately. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.

One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly or inappropriately. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.

Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:<ol><li>This instance highlights how young people from different backgrounds can make important contributions to climate change.</li><li>Participation in environmental education programmes can motivate children to act responsibly towards the environment.</li><li>They were motivated to act in ways that would help the environment, like using a reusable water bottle or refusing to use plastic straws.</li><li>Six hundred elementary school children from varied social and linguistic groups participated in an ocean pollution education programme.</li></ol>

Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:<ol><li>Once they reach a high altitude, they manage to travel all over the world.</li><li>An expert from the team explained that the bacteria usually lived on the surface of vegetation, such as leaves.</li><li>The wind carries them off the surface and into the atmosphere.</li><li>A group of researchers were surprised to find that clouds had carried drug resistant bacteria over a long distance.</li></ol>

Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:<ol><li>Yet, even as TikTok delights consumers and advertisers, others believe the sunny app has a dark side.</li><li>Since launching just five years ago, the app has brought a warm glow to its 1 billion plus users, as well as an icy dash of competition to the social media incumbents of Silicon Valley.</li><li>ByteDance, its owner, has its headquarters in China, whose government is addicted to surveillance and propaganda- making it a worrying place for a media app to be placed.</li><li>With its wholesome dancing and lip-syncing videos, TikTok once billed itself as the 'last sunny corner on the Internet.'</li></ol>

Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:<ol><li>But the mutiny of Visakhapatnam predates this.</li><li>Instead of going against their heroic leader, the sepoys attacked the British soldiers and managed to escape from the town.</li><li>The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 in the garrison town of Meerut is regarded as the First War of Independence.</li><li>It happened in 1780 when the British officers asked the local sepoys to join the fight against Hyder Ali.</li></ol>

Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:<ol><li>What is more shocking to observe is how often such strokes lead to death.</li><li>When the body temperature rises, our vital organs swell, and this causes death.</li><li>One main reason for this is that people underestimate how badly heat can affect the body.</li><li>Heat strokes have become more common in our country than ever before.</li></ol>