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Q1:

JIPMAT 2026

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.

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:

Answer options
Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2026 VA question 1

Q2:

JIPMAT 2026

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.

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?

Answer options
Option 1
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2026 VA question 2

Q3:

JIPMAT 2026

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.

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:

Answer options
Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2026 VA question 3

Q4:

JIPMAT 2026

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.

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:

Answer options
Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2026 VA question 4

Q5:

JIPMAT 2026

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.

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:

Answer options
Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2026 VA question 5

Q6:

JIPMAT 2026

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.

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:

Answer options
Option 1
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2026 VA question 6

Q7:

JIPMAT 2025

Reading Comprehension

Hard

One of the peculiarities which distinguish the present age is the multiplication of books. Everyday brings new advertisements of literary undertakings, and we are flattered with repeated promises of growing wise on easier terms than our progenitors. How much either happiness or knowledge is advanced by this multitude of authors, is not very easy to decide.

He that teaches us anything which we know not before, is undoubtedly to be loved as a benefactor; and he that supplies life with innocent amusement, will certainly be caressed as a pleasing companion.
But a few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them out of which they compile a third, without any new materials of their own, and with little application of judgement to those which former authors have supplied.
That all compilations are useless, I do not assert. Particles of science are often widely scattered upon topics very remote from the principal subject, which are often more valuable than formal treatises, and which yet are not known because they are not promised in the title. He that collects those under proper heads is laudably employed; for though he exerts no great abilities in the work, he facilitates the progress of others, and, by making that easy of attainment which is already written, may give some mind more vigorous or more adventurous than his own, leisure for new thoughts and originality of designs.
But the collections poured lately from the press have seldom been made at any great expense of time or inquiry and therefore only serve to distract choice without supplying any real want.

Which of the following statements are true about the given passage:

A. The passage presents a robust picture of the publication industry.

B. The passage presents a bleak condition of publications in the present age.

C. The main idea of the passage is elaborated through juxtaposition.

D. The passage is primarily in the present tense with active and occasional passive sentence construction.

Answer options
Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2025 VA question 7

Q8:

JIPMAT 2025

Reading Comprehension

Medium

One of the peculiarities which distinguish the present age is the multiplication of books. Everyday brings new advertisements of literary undertakings, and we are flattered with repeated promises of growing wise on easier terms than our progenitors. How much either happiness or knowledge is advanced by this multitude of authors, is not very easy to decide.

He that teaches us anything which we know not before, is undoubtedly to be loved as a benefactor; and he that supplies life with innocent amusement, will certainly be caressed as a pleasing companion.
But a few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them out of which they compile a third, without any new materials of their own, and with little application of judgement to those which former authors have supplied.
That all compilations are useless, I do not assert. Particles of science are often widely scattered upon topics very remote from the principal subject, which are often more valuable than formal treatises, and which yet are not known because they are not promised in the title. He that collects those under proper heads is laudably employed; for though he exerts no great abilities in the work, he facilitates the progress of others, and, by making that easy of attainment which is already written, may give some mind more vigorous or more adventurous than his own, leisure for new thoughts and originality of designs.
But the collections poured lately from the press have seldom been made at any great expense of time or inquiry and therefore only serve to distract choice without supplying any real want.

Which of the following terms suitably describe the idea stated in the given passage:

A. Copyright laws

B. Plagiarism

C. Duplication

D. Innovation

Answer options
Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2025 VA question 8

Q9:

JIPMAT 2025

Reading Comprehension

Medium

One of the peculiarities which distinguish the present age is the multiplication of books. Everyday brings new advertisements of literary undertakings, and we are flattered with repeated promises of growing wise on easier terms than our progenitors. How much either happiness or knowledge is advanced by this multitude of authors, is not very easy to decide.

He that teaches us anything which we know not before, is undoubtedly to be loved as a benefactor; and he that supplies life with innocent amusement, will certainly be caressed as a pleasing companion.
But a few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them out of which they compile a third, without any new materials of their own, and with little application of judgement to those which former authors have supplied.
That all compilations are useless, I do not assert. Particles of science are often widely scattered upon topics very remote from the principal subject, which are often more valuable than formal treatises, and which yet are not known because they are not promised in the title. He that collects those under proper heads is laudably employed; for though he exerts no great abilities in the work, he facilitates the progress of others, and, by making that easy of attainment which is already written, may give some mind more vigorous or more adventurous than his own, leisure for new thoughts and originality of designs.
But the collections poured lately from the press have seldom been made at any great expense of time or inquiry and therefore only serve to distract choice without supplying any real want.

Which of the following statements are true about the given passage :

A. The writer condemns the vanity publications devoid of new ideas.

B. Though the writer acknowledges the contribution of the genuine writers, he appears to be worried about the prevailing publications.

C. The writer denigrates and outrightly rejects the compilation works in general.

D. Instead of being totally against the compilations, the writer opines that such works could be substantially useful, if they are done properly.

Answer options
Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2025 VA question 9

Q10:

JIPMAT 2024

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

Literary criticism does not necessarily have to choose between textual or verbal and contextual study. The distinction between the two types of linguistic meaning is seen at two levels, formal and textual. Formal meaning in poetry is the level at which stylistic patterns occur but these are not restricted to mere form.
Panini discusses, in a few sutras scattered over his works, the influence of the concept of language in various spheres of suffixes, primary and secondary derivatives and compounds. Poetics is also indebted to grammar for the terms 'Jati' (genus), 'Kriya' (action), 'Guna' (quality) and 'Dravya' (individual/substance) which it uses in connection with certain poetic figures or while dealing with the expressive function of words.
Literary criticism, in the Sanskrit tradition, has been understood to be a sastra by which is meant any systematic, well-formulated body of knowledge. A 'sastraic' exposition is supposed to involve inquiry into the nature of substance, nature of language and the validity of critical statements. Thus, a basic understanding of the grammatical and philosophical issues is a prerequisite for the understanding of critical questions.

Which inquiries are undertaken in 'Sastraic' expositions?

(A) Mainly primary and secondary derivatives of compounds

(B) Nature of substance.

(C) Stylistic patterns

(D) Nature of language

(E) Validity of critical statements

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Answer options
Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2024 VA question 10

Q11:

JIPMAT 2024

Reading Comprehension

Easy

Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

Literary criticism does not necessarily have to choose between textual or verbal and contextual study. The distinction between the two types of linguistic meaning is seen at two levels, formal and textual. Formal meaning in poetry is the level at which stylistic patterns occur but these are not restricted to mere form.
Panini discusses, in a few sutras scattered over his works, the influence of the concept of language in various spheres of suffixes, primary and secondary derivatives and compounds. Poetics is also indebted to grammar for the terms 'Jati' (genus), 'Kriya' (action), 'Guna' (quality) and 'Dravya' (individual/substance) which it uses in connection with certain poetic figures or while dealing with the expressive function of words.
Literary criticism, in the Sanskrit tradition, has been understood to be a sastra by which is meant any systematic, well-formulated body of knowledge. A 'sastraic' exposition is supposed to involve inquiry into the nature of substance, nature of language and the validity of critical statements. Thus, a basic understanding of the grammatical and philosophical issues is a prerequisite for the understanding of critical questions.

As per the passage, which of the following was primarily discussed by Panini ?

Answer options
Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2024 VA question 11

Q12:

JIPMAT 2024

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

Literary criticism does not necessarily have to choose between textual or verbal and contextual study. The distinction between the two types of linguistic meaning is seen at two levels, formal and textual. Formal meaning in poetry is the level at which stylistic patterns occur but these are not restricted to mere form.
Panini discusses, in a few sutras scattered over his works, the influence of the concept of language in various spheres of suffixes, primary and secondary derivatives and compounds. Poetics is also indebted to grammar for the terms 'Jati' (genus), 'Kriya' (action), 'Guna' (quality) and 'Dravya' (individual/substance) which it uses in connection with certain poetic figures or while dealing with the expressive function of words.
Literary criticism, in the Sanskrit tradition, has been understood to be a sastra by which is meant any systematic, well-formulated body of knowledge. A 'sastraic' exposition is supposed to involve inquiry into the nature of substance, nature of language and the validity of critical statements. Thus, a basic understanding of the grammatical and philosophical issues is a prerequisite for the understanding of critical questions.

Which of the following statements are true about the given passage ?

(A) Literary criticism must use either textual or contextual study.

(B) Formal and textual are two levels and help in ascertaining linguistic meaning.

(C) Critical questions cannot be understood without a philosophical and grammatical understanding.

(D) Panini has written in a compact format of Sutras.

(E) Sanskrit has a tradition of literary criticism for a long time.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Answer options
Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2024 VA question 12

Q13:

JIPMAT 2024

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

Literary criticism does not necessarily have to choose between textual or verbal and contextual study. The distinction between the two types of linguistic meaning is seen at two levels, formal and textual. Formal meaning in poetry is the level at which stylistic patterns occur but these are not restricted to mere form.
Panini discusses, in a few sutras scattered over his works, the influence of the concept of language in various spheres of suffixes, primary and secondary derivatives and compounds. Poetics is also indebted to grammar for the terms 'Jati' (genus), 'Kriya' (action), 'Guna' (quality) and 'Dravya' (individual/substance) which it uses in connection with certain poetic figures or while dealing with the expressive function of words.
Literary criticism, in the Sanskrit tradition, has been understood to be a sastra by which is meant any systematic, well-formulated body of knowledge. A 'sastraic' exposition is supposed to involve inquiry into the nature of substance, nature of language and the validity of critical statements. Thus, a basic understanding of the grammatical and philosophical issues is a prerequisite for the understanding of critical questions.
Which inquiries are undertaken in 'Sastraic' expositions?

Which word in the passage is close in meaning to 'being logical and true' ?

Answer options
Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2024 VA question 13

Q14:

JIPMAT 2024

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

All great thinkers live and move on a high plane of thought. It is only there they can breathe freely. It is only in contact with spirits like themselves they can live harmoniously and attain that serenity which comes from ideal companionship. I have always thought that the strongest argument in favour of the Baconian theory was, that no man, however indubitable his genius, could have written the plays and sonnets that have come down to us under Shakespeare's name who had not the liberal education of Bacon. How this habit of intercourse with the gods makes one impatient of mere men. The magnificent ideals that have ever haunted the human mind, and given us our highest proofs of a future immortality by reason of the impossibility of their fulfillment here, are splintered into atoms by contact with life's realities. Hence comes our sublime discontent. It may be spiritual or intellectual pride that is engendered on the high plane of intellectual life. But whatever it is, it becomes inevitable. A habitual meditation on the vast problems that underline human life, and are knit into human destinies. It is easy to understand, therefore, why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their own thoughts, or the silent companionship of the immortals; and if they care to present their views in prose or verse to the world, that these views take a sombre and melancholy setting from "the pale cast of thought"in which they were engendered.

According to the author, why do the great thinkers need to attain and remain at high plane of thought?

(A) Because they want to enjoy harmony and serenity from ideal companionship.

(B) Because the experience of greatness makes them impatient of being ordinary men.

(C) Because the high plane of intellectual life instills a spiritual and intellectual pride in them.

(D) Because they are apathetic to commoners and solely eager to attain lofty ideals.

Choose most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Answer options
Option 1
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2024 VA question 14

Q15:

JIPMAT 2024

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

All great thinkers live and move on a high plane of thought. It is only there they can breathe freely. It is only in contact with spirits like themselves they can live harmoniously and attain that serenity which comes from ideal companionship. I have always thought that the strongest argument in favour of the Baconian theory was, that no man, however indubitable his genius, could have written the plays and sonnets that have come down to us under Shakespeare's name who had not the liberal education of Bacon. How this habit of intercourse with the gods makes one impatient of mere men. The magnificent ideals that have ever haunted the human mind, and given us our highest proofs of a future immortality by reason of the impossibility of their fulfillment here, are splintered into atoms by contact with life's realities. Hence comes our sublime discontent. It may be spiritual or intellectual pride that is engendered on the high plane of intellectual life. But whatever it is, it becomes inevitable. A habitual meditation on the vast problems that underline human life, and are knit into human destinies. It is easy to understand, therefore, why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their own thoughts, or the silent companionship of the immortals; and if they care to present their views in prose or verse to the world, that these views take a sombre and melancholy setting from "the pale cast of thought"in which they were engendered.

What does the phrase "THE PALE CAST OF THOUGHT"mean?

Answer options
Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2024 VA question 15

Q16:

JIPMAT 2024

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

All great thinkers live and move on a high plane of thought. It is only there they can breathe freely. It is only in contact with spirits like themselves they can live harmoniously and attain that serenity which comes from ideal companionship. I have always thought that the strongest argument in favour of the Baconian theory was, that no man, however indubitable his genius, could have written the plays and sonnets that have come down to us under Shakespeare's name who had not the liberal education of Bacon. How this habit of intercourse with the gods makes one impatient of mere men. The magnificent ideals that have ever haunted the human mind, and given us our highest proofs of a future immortality by reason of the impossibility of their fulfillment here, are splintered into atoms by contact with life's realities. Hence comes our sublime discontent. It may be spiritual or intellectual pride that is engendered on the high plane of intellectual life. But whatever it is, it becomes inevitable. A habitual meditation on the vast problems that underline human life, and are knit into human destinies. It is easy to understand, therefore, why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their own thoughts, or the silent companionship of the immortals; and if they care to present their views in prose or verse to the world, that these views take a sombre and melancholy setting from "the pale cast of thought"in which they were engendered.

Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A) : The passage presents a rationale behind the great writers' flight to the solitude of their thoughts and silent companionship of immortals.

Reason (R) : They do so because they are melancholic and naturally averse to ordinary humanity and disgust of unregenerated masses.

Answer options
Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2024 VA question 16

Q17:

JIPMAT 2024

Reading Comprehension

Hard

Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

All great thinkers live and move on a high plane of thought. It is only there they can breathe freely. It is only in contact with spirits like themselves they can live harmoniously and attain that serenity which comes from ideal companionship. I have always thought that the strongest argument in favour of the Baconian theory was, that no man, however indubitable his genius, could have written the plays and sonnets that have come down to us under Shakespeare's name who had not the liberal education of Bacon. How this habit of intercourse with the gods makes one impatient of mere men. The magnificent ideals that have ever haunted the human mind, and given us our highest proofs of a future immortality by reason of the impossibility of their fulfillment here, are splintered into atoms by contact with life's realities. Hence comes our sublime discontent. It may be spiritual or intellectual pride that is engendered on the high plane of intellectual life. But whatever it is, it becomes inevitable. A habitual meditation on the vast problems that underline human life, and are knit into human destinies. It is easy to understand, therefore, why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their own thoughts, or the silent companionship of the immortals; and if they care to present their views in prose or verse to the world, that these views take a sombre and melancholy setting from "the pale cast of thought"in which they were engendered.

Given below are two statements :

Statement I: The author upholds the Baconian theory because, according to him, despite being a genius, Shakespeare could not write the plays and sonnets that have come down to us under his name.

Statement II : He holds that Bacon was more resourceful than Shakespeare because he had the liberal education.

Answer options
Option 1
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2024 VA question 17

Q18:

JIPMAT 2023

Reading Comprehension

Conceptual

The night was cold and dark. There was a great storm, thunder and lightning also. Most men and animals, adequately protected, were asleep in their homes. They were warm and happy. But some monkeys were running through the forest. They had no warm home and there was cold. Worried monkeys looked everywhere for shelter. They had almost resigned themselves to be flattened out by the cold. Suddenly they saw some fireflies. Now, fireflies have a light in their tails, as all our children know. The monkeys took the light for fire. Poor things, they did not know any better. They said, 'We will go near the fire and warm ourselves.' There was a flock of birds in a tree nearby. One bird had a kind heart, and it felt sorry for the monkeys. It called out, 'That is not fire, my friends! Those are fireflies. They give no heat. It is futile to run after them.' Then monkeys got furious and their rage knew no bounds. They did not thank the bird. One monkey said rudely, 'Is it so? We do not want unsolicited advice. I will teach you to say there is no fire.' He jumped up the tree and pulled the poor bird out of its nest. 'Alas!' said the poor bird. 'Why did I try to help a fool?'

In the above passage, night is described as __________.

Answer options
Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2023 VA question 18

Q19:

JIPMAT 2023

Reading Comprehension

Conceptual

The night was cold and dark. There was a great storm, thunder and lightning also. Most men and animals, adequately protected, were asleep in their homes. They were warm and happy. But some monkeys were running through the forest. They had no warm home and there was cold. Worried monkeys looked everywhere for shelter. They had almost resigned themselves to be flattened out by the cold. Suddenly they saw some fireflies. Now, fireflies have a light in their tails, as all our children know. The monkeys took the light for fire. Poor things, they did not know any better. They said, 'We will go near the fire and warm ourselves.' There was a flock of birds in a tree nearby. One bird had a kind heart, and it felt sorry for the monkeys. It called out, 'That is not fire, my friends! Those are fireflies. They give no heat. It is futile to run after them.' Then monkeys got furious and their rage knew no bounds. They did not thank the bird. One monkey said rudely, 'Is it so? We do not want unsolicited advice. I will teach you to say there is no fire.' He jumped up the tree and pulled the poor bird out of its nest. 'Alas!' said the poor bird. 'Why did I try to help a fool?'

The monkeys were running through the forest because they ___________ .

Answer options
Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2023 VA question 19

Q20:

JIPMAT 2023

Reading Comprehension

Conceptual

The night was cold and dark. There was a great storm, thunder and lightning also. Most men and animals, adequately protected, were asleep in their homes. They were warm and happy. But some monkeys were running through the forest. They had no warm home and there was cold. Worried monkeys looked everywhere for shelter. They had almost resigned themselves to be flattened out by the cold. Suddenly they saw some fireflies. Now, fireflies have a light in their tails, as all our children know. The monkeys took the light for fire. Poor things, they did not know any better. They said, 'We will go near the fire and warm ourselves.' There was a flock of birds in a tree nearby. One bird had a kind heart, and it felt sorry for the monkeys. It called out, 'That is not fire, my friends! Those are fireflies. They give no heat. It is futile to run after them.' Then monkeys got furious and their rage knew no bounds. They did not thank the bird. One monkey said rudely, 'Is it so? We do not want unsolicited advice. I will teach you to say there is no fire.' He jumped up the tree and pulled the poor bird out of its nest. 'Alas!' said the poor bird. 'Why did I try to help a fool?'

The bird tried to help the monkeys because she _____

Answer options
Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2023 VA question 20

Q21:

JIPMAT 2023

Reading Comprehension

Conceptual

The night was cold and dark. There was a great storm, thunder and lightning also. Most men and animals, adequately protected, were asleep in their homes. They were warm and happy. But some monkeys were running through the forest. They had no warm home and there was cold. Worried monkeys looked everywhere for shelter. They had almost resigned themselves to be flattened out by the cold. Suddenly they saw some fireflies. Now, fireflies have a light in their tails, as all our children know. The monkeys took the light for fire. Poor things, they did not know any better. They said, 'We will go near the fire and warm ourselves.' There was a flock of birds in a tree nearby. One bird had a kind heart, and it felt sorry for the monkeys. It called out, 'That is not fire, my friends! Those are fireflies. They give no heat. It is futile to run after them.' Then monkeys got furious and their rage knew no bounds. They did not thank the bird. One monkey said rudely, 'Is it so? We do not want unsolicited advice. I will teach you to say there is no fire.' He jumped up the tree and pulled the poor bird out of its nest. 'Alas!' said the poor bird. 'Why did I try to help a fool?'

What happens when you try to help a fool?

Answer options
Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2023 VA question 21

Q22:

JIPMAT 2022

Reading Comprehension

Easy

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Man’s growth from barbarism into civilization is supposed to be the theme of history. But sometimes, looking at great stretches of history, it is difficult to believe that we are very much civilized or advanced. There is enough of want of co-operation today as we see one country or people selfishly exploiting another.
Man in many ways has not made very great progress from other animals. Still, we look down upon the insects as almost the lowest of living things and yet the tiny bees and ants have learnt the art of co-operation and of sacrifice for the common good far better than man. If mutual co-operation and sacrifice for the good of society are the test of civilization, we may say that the bees and ants are superior to man. The old saying goes as follows: “For the family, sacrifice the individual, for the community, the family, for the country, the community, and for the soul, the whole world.” It teaches us the lesson of co-operation and sacrifice for the larger good which we may have forgotten. How wonderful it is to see men and women, and boys and girls smilingly going ahead on the path of progress without caring any pain or suffering? Well, may they smile and be glad for the joy of serving a great cause which is theirs; and for those who are fortunate, comes the joy of sacrifice too.

How can we be truly civilized?

Answer options
Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2022 VA question 22

Q23:

JIPMAT 2022

Reading Comprehension

Conceptual

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Man’s growth from barbarism into civilization is supposed to be the theme of history. But sometimes, looking at great stretches of history, it is difficult to believe that we are very much civilized or advanced. There is enough of want of co-operation today as we see one country or people selfishly exploiting another.
Man in many ways has not made very great progress from other animals. Still, we look down upon the insects as almost the lowest of living things and yet the tiny bees and ants have learnt the art of co-operation and of sacrifice for the common good far better than man. If mutual co-operation and sacrifice for the good of society are the test of civilization, we may say that the bees and ants are superior to man. The old saying goes as follows: “For the family, sacrifice the individual, for the community, the family, for the country, the community, and for the soul, the whole world.” It teaches us the lesson of co-operation and sacrifice for the larger good which we may have forgotten. How wonderful it is to see men and women, and boys and girls smilingly going ahead on the path of progress without caring any pain or suffering? Well, may they smile and be glad for the joy of serving a great cause which is theirs; and for those who are fortunate, comes the joy of sacrifice too.

Animals are superior to men because of their ________

Answer options
Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2022 VA question 23

Q24:

JIPMAT 2022

Reading Comprehension

Easy

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Man’s growth from barbarism into civilization is supposed to be the theme of history. But sometimes, looking at great stretches of history, it is difficult to believe that we are very much civilized or advanced. There is enough of want of co-operation today as we see one country or people selfishly exploiting another.
Man in many ways has not made very great progress from other animals. Still, we look down upon the insects as almost the lowest of living things and yet the tiny bees and ants have learnt the art of co-operation and of sacrifice for the common good far better than man. If mutual co-operation and sacrifice for the good of society are the test of civilization, we may say that the bees and ants are superior to man. The old saying goes as follows: “For the family, sacrifice the individual, for the community, the family, for the country, the community, and for the soul, the whole world.” It teaches us the lesson of co-operation and sacrifice for the larger good which we may have forgotten. How wonderful it is to see men and women, and boys and girls smilingly going ahead on the path of progress without caring any pain or suffering? Well, may they smile and be glad for the joy of serving a great cause which is theirs; and for those who are fortunate, comes the joy of sacrifice too.

What is the theme of the above passage?

Answer options
Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2022 VA question 24

Q25:

JIPMAT 2022

Reading Comprehension

Easy

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Man’s growth from barbarism into civilization is supposed to be the theme of history. But sometimes, looking at great stretches of history, it is difficult to believe that we are very much civilized or advanced. There is enough of want of co-operation today as we see one country or people selfishly exploiting another.
Man in many ways has not made very great progress from other animals. Still, we look down upon the insects as almost the lowest of living things and yet the tiny bees and ants have learnt the art of co-operation and of sacrifice for the common good far better than man. If mutual co-operation and sacrifice for the good of society are the test of civilization, we may say that the bees and ants are superior to man. The old saying goes as follows: “For the family, sacrifice the individual, for the community, the family, for the country, the community, and for the soul, the whole world.” It teaches us the lesson of co-operation and sacrifice for the larger good which we may have forgotten. How wonderful it is to see men and women, and boys and girls smilingly going ahead on the path of progress without caring any pain or suffering? Well, may they smile and be glad for the joy of serving a great cause which is theirs; and for those who are fortunate, comes the joy of sacrifice too.

What is the basic reason for the exploitation of one man by another?

Answer options
Option 1
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2022 VA question 25

Q26:

JIPMAT 2021

Reading Comprehension

Easy

Earth is the only planet so far know with the suitable environment for sustaining life. Man has been tampering with the ecosphere for a long time and is forced to recognize that environmental resources are scarce. Environmental problems are really social problems. They begin with people as cause and end with people as victims. Unplanned use of resources has resulted in the depletion of fossil fuels, pollution of air and water, deforestation which has resulted in ecological imbalance and draining away of national wealth through heavy expenditure on oil and power generation.

Depletion of fossil fuels, pollution of air and water, and deforestation will never occur in case of

Answer options
Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2021 VA question 26

Q27:

JIPMAT 2021

Reading Comprehension

Conceptual

There are many types of protein molecules in the body, and each type is specific to its function. For example, proteins such as keratin and collagen give strength and elasticity to hair, as well as to skin and tendons; haemoglobin and myoglobin are the oxygen­binding proteins of the blood and the muscle respectively; and ovalbumin, the principal protein off egg white is responsible for setting and foaming properties of eggs. A particularly important group of proteins know as enzymes, direct all the body cells to produce chemical reactions. These reactions provide the basis of every type of cell activity, including growth, repair, the production of energy and the excretion of waste products.

Proteins are classified according to

Answer options
Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for JIPMAT 2021 VA question 27

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