JIPMAT 2026 VA Past Year Questions with Solutions

Q1:

Vocabulary>Synonym

Easy

Pick the synonym of the word "AUTONOMY":

Faith

Moral Code

Independence

Administration

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q2:

Vocabulary>Antonym

Easy

Pick the most appropriate antonym of the term "DORMANT":

Important

Perfect

Active

Bright

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q3:

Vocabulary>Synonym

Easy

Which of the following is the synonym of the term "DEARTH"?

Scarcity

Availability

Plenty

Absence

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q4:

Vocabulary>Definition

Easy

Pick the best substitute for the following expression: A person, especially a young one, with exceptional abilities.

Intellectual

Genius

Prodigy

Mastermind

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q5:

Vocabulary>Phrases

Medium

Pick the correct meaning of the phrase "INTRA VIRES":

Internet Virus

Contagious disease

Beyond jurisdiction

Within authority

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q6:

VA>Spelling

Easy

Pick the word with correct spelling:

Ambessador

Ambassador

Ambassader

Ambassodor

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q7:

VA>Idioms & Phrasal Verbs

Medium

Pick the odd one out from the following options:

top in

top off

top up

top out

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q8:

Vocabulary>Idioms

Easy

Pick the correct meaning of the underlined phrase in the following sentence: He had always dreamt of reaching the dizzy heights.

feeling dizzy

driving at high speed

climb the highest peak of mountains

hold important position

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q9:

Grammar>Active & Passive Voice

Easy

Pick the active voice of the following sentence: Bravery and loyalty were rewarded by the king.

For bravery and loyalty, it is said that the king has given reward.

The king has given a reward for bravery and loyalty

The king rewarded bravery and loyalty.

Reward was given for bravery and loyalty.

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q10:

Grammar>Active & Passive Voice

Easy

Pick the active voice of the following sentence: This word cannot be uttered by a sane man.

A sane man did not utter this word.

A sane man will not utter this word.

A sane man cannot utter the word.

A sane man cannot utter this word.

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q11:

Grammar>Grammatical Error

Medium

Pick the correct set of words to complete the following sentence: Survival of mankind __________ is in danger due to _______ of atomic weapons.

himself, preparation

themselves, regularisation

only, provocation

itself, proliferation

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q12:

Vocabulary>Definition

Easy

Choose the most appropriate meaning of the underlined word: This is a typical example of Roman pottery.

difficult

rare

distinct

far-fetched

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q13:

Grammar>Grammatical Error

Easy

Identify the erroneous part of the sentence given below:

One of my friend

has gone

to Britain

for her higher studies.

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q14:

Grammar>Grammatical Error

Easy

Identify the erroneous part of the sentence given below:

The Indian government has decided to strengthen

the state's capacity to move away from

a already obsolete "one-size-fits-all" approach

and to introduce specific solutions to regional issues.

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q15:

Vocabulary>Synonym

Easy

Choose the option which conveys almost the same meaning as the underlined word: He is too gullible to believe manipulated versions of the happening.

unusual

gusty

equipoised

naive

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q16:

Grammar>Grammatical Error

Medium

Choose the option which best replaces the underlined phrase in more conventional English: "He has not been able to make any significant impact, however, he behaves as if he is the supreme leader."

as he is

as if he were

as if he was

as if

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q17:

Grammar>Punctuations

Easy

Pick the most appropriate Punctuation mark for the following sentence: Here comes the bus __________

(?) Question mark

(.) Full stop

(:) Colon

(!) Exclamation mark

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q18:

Grammar>Direct & Indirect Speech

Easy

Out of the given options, pick the one which best expresses the following sentence in indirect speech: The teacher says, "I go to gym every morning."

The teacher says that he goes to gym every morning.

The teacher said that he used to go to gym every morning.

The teacher said that he goes to gym every morning.

The teacher says that he went to gym every morning.

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q19:

Vocabulary>Phrases

Easy

What does the expression "by all means" suggest?

Apprehension and doubt

Satisfaction and anxiety

Willingness and consent

Unwillingness and refusal

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q20:

VA>Parajumbles

Medium

In the following question, a sentence is divided into four parts (A, B, C & D). Rearrange the parts in a proper order to make a meaningful sentence: A. a geographical area usually B. cartography is the art and science C. on a flat surface as a map or chart D. of graphically representing Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A, B, C, D

B, D, A, C

B, A, C, D

A, C, B, D

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q21:

VA>Parajumbles

Hard

Out of the four options given below, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph: A. When one tried to unify gravity with quantum mechanics, one had to introduce the idea of 'imaginary' time. B. This means that there can be no important difference between the forward and backward directions of imaginary time. C. Imaginary time is indistinguishable from directions in space. D. On the other hand, when one looks at 'real' time, there is very big difference between the forward and backward directions, as we all know. E. If one can go north, one can turn around and head south; equally, if one can go forward in imaginary time, one ought to be able to turn around and go backwards. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A, B, C, D, E

A, C, E, B, D

C, A, B, E, D

C, B, D, E, A

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q22:

VA>Parajumbles

Hard

Out of the four options given below, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph: A. With this change, what was once marginal has now become central leading to alliances, agreements, coalitions and accommodations. B. The shift to bottom-up political power has meant that India's reform agenda has become more tentative, as policies can be derailed or slowed down by political parties with even small national count. C. With the margins having say, untrammelled acceptance of ineffective policies and bad ideas is no longer possible. D. And, on the other side, coalition politics has worked its magic and India's potential bureaucrat-visionaries now have too many feat in the aisle ready to trip them over. E. However, such a shift has changed and deepened India's democracy. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

B, E, A, C, D

D, C, B, E, A

E, C, D, B, A

D, E, C, A, B

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q23:

VA>Reading Comprehension

Hard

Disclaimer: NTA forgot to print the passage for Questions 23–25 in the candidate response sheet. We reverse-engineered the passage based on student memory, so the passage below is not the original NTA text. <hr> Nature is often described through opposites: stability and change, order and disorder, construction and decay. Yet these pairs are less like enemies than like terms in a single account. A crystal appears orderly because its particles occupy constrained positions, while the surrounding world carries the energetic cost of producing and maintaining that arrangement. In this sense, order and disorder are not independent quantities that simply rise and fall in isolation; they are relational. Local order can increase, provided that a greater increase of disorder occurs elsewhere. The evolution of human beings on Earth offers a striking illustration. Over immense periods, biological organisation became more elaborate: cells combined into tissues, nervous systems coordinated specialised organs, and eventually human societies built languages, institutions and technologies capable of storing information outside the body. None of this suspended the physical tendency toward disorder. Organisms maintain their intricate structures by consuming concentrated energy and releasing heat and waste. A city, similarly, may look like an island of organised activity only because flows of fuel, food and materials enter it and dispersed energy and refuse leave it. The contrast, then, is real but not absolute. Nature contains both order and disorder, but each becomes intelligible only in relation to the other. The more sharply a system creates and preserves order within a boundary, the more carefully one must ask where the accompanying disorder has been displaced. This is why an increase in order does not refute the growth of disorder; under ordinary physical conditions it depends upon it. The apparent paradox disappears once the scale of observation is widened. Human organisation, biological complexity and technological sophistication are examples not of order defeating disorder, but of local order being purchased by a larger dispersal elsewhere.

Which of the following statements are true about the given passage? A. The author deliberates on the evolution of human beings on the earth. B. He acknowledges an inherent contrast in nature. C. He states a direct relation between order and disorder. D. He finds a mutual inter-dependence in order and disorder in nature. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A, B and C Only

A, B and D Only

B, C and D Only

A, B, C and D Only

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q24:

VA>Reading Comprehension

Easy

Disclaimer: NTA forgot to print the passage for Questions 23–25 in the candidate response sheet. We reverse-engineered the passage based on student memory, so the passage below is not the original NTA text. <hr> Nature is often described through opposites: stability and change, order and disorder, construction and decay. Yet these pairs are less like enemies than like terms in a single account. A crystal appears orderly because its particles occupy constrained positions, while the surrounding world carries the energetic cost of producing and maintaining that arrangement. In this sense, order and disorder are not independent quantities that simply rise and fall in isolation; they are relational. Local order can increase, provided that a greater increase of disorder occurs elsewhere. The evolution of human beings on Earth offers a striking illustration. Over immense periods, biological organisation became more elaborate: cells combined into tissues, nervous systems coordinated specialised organs, and eventually human societies built languages, institutions and technologies capable of storing information outside the body. None of this suspended the physical tendency toward disorder. Organisms maintain their intricate structures by consuming concentrated energy and releasing heat and waste. A city, similarly, may look like an island of organised activity only because flows of fuel, food and materials enter it and dispersed energy and refuse leave it. The contrast, then, is real but not absolute. Nature contains both order and disorder, but each becomes intelligible only in relation to the other. The more sharply a system creates and preserves order within a boundary, the more carefully one must ask where the accompanying disorder has been displaced. This is why an increase in order does not refute the growth of disorder; under ordinary physical conditions it depends upon it. The apparent paradox disappears once the scale of observation is widened. Human organisation, biological complexity and technological sophistication are examples not of order defeating disorder, but of local order being purchased by a larger dispersal elsewhere.

What does the phrase "PROVIDED THAT" mean as per the passage?

required condition

suggestion

instruction

mechanism

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q25:

VA>Reading Comprehension

Hard

Disclaimer: NTA forgot to print the passage for Questions 23–25 in the candidate response sheet. We reverse-engineered the passage based on student memory, so the passage below is not the original NTA text. <hr> Nature is often described through opposites: stability and change, order and disorder, construction and decay. Yet these pairs are less like enemies than like terms in a single account. A crystal appears orderly because its particles occupy constrained positions, while the surrounding world carries the energetic cost of producing and maintaining that arrangement. In this sense, order and disorder are not independent quantities that simply rise and fall in isolation; they are relational. Local order can increase, provided that a greater increase of disorder occurs elsewhere. The evolution of human beings on Earth offers a striking illustration. Over immense periods, biological organisation became more elaborate: cells combined into tissues, nervous systems coordinated specialised organs, and eventually human societies built languages, institutions and technologies capable of storing information outside the body. None of this suspended the physical tendency toward disorder. Organisms maintain their intricate structures by consuming concentrated energy and releasing heat and waste. A city, similarly, may look like an island of organised activity only because flows of fuel, food and materials enter it and dispersed energy and refuse leave it. The contrast, then, is real but not absolute. Nature contains both order and disorder, but each becomes intelligible only in relation to the other. The more sharply a system creates and preserves order within a boundary, the more carefully one must ask where the accompanying disorder has been displaced. This is why an increase in order does not refute the growth of disorder; under ordinary physical conditions it depends upon it. The apparent paradox disappears once the scale of observation is widened. Human organisation, biological complexity and technological sophistication are examples not of order defeating disorder, but of local order being purchased by a larger dispersal elsewhere.

Which of the following statements are in sync with the passage? A. The writer deliberates on the genesis of life on the earth and other planets of the galaxy. B. He blames throughout human beings for being indifferent to the life and survival of other species. C. He suggests that in the universe, order and disorder are, in fact, relational. D. He states that increase of order requires and depends on the increase of disorder. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A and B Only

A, B and C Only

B, C and D Only

C and D Only

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q26:

Grammar>Parts of Speech

Medium

Which of the following statements are true regarding the common grammatical use of the terms "Kind" and "Sort". A. The singular or plural use of these terms depends on the word used before them. B. Kind/Sort of is followed by a singular or uncountable noun. C. Kind/Sort of is followed by a plural or uncountable noun. D. Kinds/Sorts of is followed by a singular or uncountable noun. E. Kinds/Sorts of is followed by a plural or uncountable noun. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A, B & D Only

A, B & E Only

A, C & E Only

D, C & D Only

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q27:

Grammar>Subject Verb Agreement

Medium

Which of the following statements are true about the grammatical usage of the term "EITHER"? A. "Either" is followed by a singular verb. B. "Either" is followed by a plural verb. C. "Either of" is followed by a plural noun or pronoun. D. When "either..... or " is used with two singular nouns, the verb can be singular or plural. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A, C and D Only

B, C and D Only

C and D Only

A, B, C and D Only

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q28:

Grammar>Parts of Speech

Medium

Match the LIST-I with LIST-II. | LIST-I | | LIST-II | | |---|---|---|---| | A. | The sky covers the Earth from above. | I. | Noun | | B. | The moral law is above the civil. | II. | Adjective | | C. | Analyse the above sentence. | III. | Proposition | | D. | Please read the above before filling the form. | IV. | Adverb | Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q29:

VA>Reading Comprehension

Hard

Disclaimer: NTA forgot to print the passage for Questions 29–31 in the candidate response sheet. We reverse-engineered the passage based on student memory, so the passage below is not the original NTA text. <hr> The practical virtue of democracy lies less in the claim that a majority is always wise than in the fact that democratic government remains corrigible. A policy can be criticised, an administration can be voted out, and rules can be revised without treating disagreement as treason. This flexibility matters because no political arrangement is born complete. Institutions must be able to reform themselves when experience exposes defects. In a functioning democracy, therefore, change is normally sought through democratic procedure: persuasion, organisation, legislation, litigation and elections. These methods are slower than force, but their slowness is often a strength. Violence can remove a government quickly while leaving the habits that produced it untouched; it can also substitute the certainty of the victor for the consent of the governed. A revolution may destroy an intolerable order, but it does not by itself explain how the next order will command legitimacy. There is nevertheless a limit to this preference for procedure. Where people possess genuine constitutional means to alter rulers and laws, resort to violence is difficult to defend. Where those means are entirely absent, however, revolution may become a viable alternative because peaceful correction has been closed off. The distinction is therefore sharp in principle: where elections and democratic remedies are real, reform should proceed through them; where no such path exists, revolutionary change may be the remaining route. This is not an argument that revolution is indispensable to political progress. It is an argument for valuing a system that can repair itself before pressure for violent rupture becomes overwhelming. Democracy's advantage is precisely that it builds change into government rather than forcing every major disagreement to become a struggle over the existence of government itself.

Which of the following statements are in sync with the passage? A. The writer appreciates the inherent flexibility in the democratic form of governance. B. The passage denigrates force and violence as the means of changing regimes. C. It states that in democracy changes are sought through democratic procedure. D. It acknowledges revolution as a viable alternative only in absence of democratic means. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A, B, and C Only

A, C and D Only

B, C and D Only

A, B, C and D Only

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q30:

VA>Reading Comprehension

Medium

Disclaimer: NTA forgot to print the passage for Questions 29–31 in the candidate response sheet. We reverse-engineered the passage based on student memory, so the passage below is not the original NTA text. <hr> The practical virtue of democracy lies less in the claim that a majority is always wise than in the fact that democratic government remains corrigible. A policy can be criticised, an administration can be voted out, and rules can be revised without treating disagreement as treason. This flexibility matters because no political arrangement is born complete. Institutions must be able to reform themselves when experience exposes defects. In a functioning democracy, therefore, change is normally sought through democratic procedure: persuasion, organisation, legislation, litigation and elections. These methods are slower than force, but their slowness is often a strength. Violence can remove a government quickly while leaving the habits that produced it untouched; it can also substitute the certainty of the victor for the consent of the governed. A revolution may destroy an intolerable order, but it does not by itself explain how the next order will command legitimacy. There is nevertheless a limit to this preference for procedure. Where people possess genuine constitutional means to alter rulers and laws, resort to violence is difficult to defend. Where those means are entirely absent, however, revolution may become a viable alternative because peaceful correction has been closed off. The distinction is therefore sharp in principle: where elections and democratic remedies are real, reform should proceed through them; where no such path exists, revolutionary change may be the remaining route. This is not an argument that revolution is indispensable to political progress. It is an argument for valuing a system that can repair itself before pressure for violent rupture becomes overwhelming. Democracy's advantage is precisely that it builds change into government rather than forcing every major disagreement to become a struggle over the existence of government itself.

Which of the following terms are appropriate to describe the style of the passage? A. Simple B. Ornamental C. Narrative D. Reflective Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A and C Only

A and D Only

B and C Only

B and D Only

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q31:

VA>Reading Comprehension

Hard

Disclaimer: NTA forgot to print the passage for Questions 29–31 in the candidate response sheet. We reverse-engineered the passage based on student memory, so the passage below is not the original NTA text. <hr> The practical virtue of democracy lies less in the claim that a majority is always wise than in the fact that democratic government remains corrigible. A policy can be criticised, an administration can be voted out, and rules can be revised without treating disagreement as treason. This flexibility matters because no political arrangement is born complete. Institutions must be able to reform themselves when experience exposes defects. In a functioning democracy, therefore, change is normally sought through democratic procedure: persuasion, organisation, legislation, litigation and elections. These methods are slower than force, but their slowness is often a strength. Violence can remove a government quickly while leaving the habits that produced it untouched; it can also substitute the certainty of the victor for the consent of the governed. A revolution may destroy an intolerable order, but it does not by itself explain how the next order will command legitimacy. There is nevertheless a limit to this preference for procedure. Where people possess genuine constitutional means to alter rulers and laws, resort to violence is difficult to defend. Where those means are entirely absent, however, revolution may become a viable alternative because peaceful correction has been closed off. The distinction is therefore sharp in principle: where elections and democratic remedies are real, reform should proceed through them; where no such path exists, revolutionary change may be the remaining route. This is not an argument that revolution is indispensable to political progress. It is an argument for valuing a system that can repair itself before pressure for violent rupture becomes overwhelming. Democracy's advantage is precisely that it builds change into government rather than forcing every major disagreement to become a struggle over the existence of government itself.

Which of the following statements are true about the given passage? A. The writer underlines the advantages of a democratic form of government. B. He appreciates the self-reformatory nature of the democratic model of governance. C. He infers a neat binary between election and revolution. D. He stresses on the indispensability of revolution as the only means of change. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A, B and C Only

A, C and D Only

B, C and D Only

A, B, C and D Only

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q32:

Vocabulary>Idioms

Medium

Match the LIST-I with LIST-II. | LIST-I | | LIST-II | | |---|---|---|---| | A. | Be at loggerhead | I. | very soon | | B. | In a jiffy | II. | to disagree strongly with each other | | C. | To double cross | III. | hard pressed | | D. | At a pinch | IV. | to cheat | Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I

A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q33:

Vocabulary>Phrases

Medium

Match the LIST-I with LIST-II. | LIST-I | | LIST-II | | |---|---|---|---| | A. | Ad hoc | I. | Because of the fact | | B. | Ad infinitum | II. | As a unit | | C. | En bloc | III. | Again and again | | D. | Ipso facto | IV. | Arranged for the specific purpose | Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I

A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q34:

Grammar>Tenses

Medium

Match the LIST-I with LIST-II. | LIST-I | | LIST-II | | |---|---|---|---| | A. | We had spoken. | I. | Simple Past Tense | | B. | He was speaking. | II. | Past Perfect Continuous Tense | | C. | You had been speaking. | III. | Past Continuous Tense | | D. | They spoke. | IV. | Past Perfect Tense | Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III

A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

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