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Reading Comprehension - Verbal Ability - General Aptitude (GA) Previous Year Questions

Practice Reading Comprehension - Verbal Ability - General Aptitude (GA) previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

6Papers
6Years
6Questions
1Topics

Reading Comprehension question pattern

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Questions by year

Year-wise coverage for Reading Comprehension. Each bar uses a separate theme-derived color.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Medium 3 50%
Easy 3 50%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 6 100%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

General Aptitude (GA)
6 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Verbal Ability
6 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Reading Comprehension
6 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Architecture and Planning (AR) 2024
1 Qs
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2021
1 Qs
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2020
1 Qs
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2019
1 Qs
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2017
1 Qs
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2012
1 Qs

Included previous year papers

Newest papers appear first. Sort by year, question coverage or name.

PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Architecture and Planning (AR) 202420241View paper
Architecture and Planning (AR) 202120211View paper
Architecture and Planning (AR) 202020201View paper
Architecture and Planning (AR) 201920191View paper
Architecture and Planning (AR) 201720171View paper
Architecture and Planning (AR) 201220121View paper

All Reading Comprehension previous year questions

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2012 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2012
The documents expose the cynicism of the government officials – and yet as the media website reflects, not a single newspaper has reported on their existence.
Which one of the following inferences may be drawn with the greatest accuracy from the above passage?
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2017 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2017
“Here, throughout the early 1820s, Stuart continued to fight his losing battle to allow his sepoys to wear their caste-marks and their own choice of facial hair on parade, being again reprimanded by the commander-in-chief. His retort that ‘A stronger instance than this of European prejudice with relation to this country has never come under my observations’ had no effect on his superiors.”

According to this paragraph, which of the statements below is most accurate?

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2019 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2019
“I read somewhere that in ancient times the prestige of a kingdom depended upon the number of taxes that it was able to levy on its people. It was very much like the prestige of a head-hunter in his own community.”
Based on the paragraph above, the prestige of a head-hunter depended upon ______
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2020 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2020
Hit by floods, the kharif (summer sown) crops in various parts of the country have been affected. Officials believe that the loss in production of the kharif crops can be recovered in the output of the rabi (winter sown) crops so that the country can achieve its food-grain production target of 291 million tons in the crop year 2019-20 (July-June). They are hopeful that good rains in July-August will help the soil retain moisture for a longer period, helping winter sown crops such as wheat and pulses during the November-February period. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the given passage?
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2021 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2021

The author said, “Musicians rehearse before their concerts. Actors rehearse their roles before the opening of a new play. On the other hand, I find it strange that many public speakers think they can just walk on to the stage and start speaking. In my opinion, it is no less important for public speakers to rehearse their talks.”

Based on the above passage, which one of the following is TRUE?

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2024 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Architecture and Planning (AR) 2024
Thousands of years ago, some people began dairy farming. This coincided with a number of mutations in a particular gene that resulted in these people developing the ability to digest dairy milk.
Based on the given passage, which of the following can be inferred?
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