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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.

4Papers
4Years
4Questions
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.

Easy 3 75%
Medium 1 25%

Question type distribution

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

MCQ 4 100%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

General Aptitude (GA)
4 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Verbal Ability
4 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Reading Comprehension
4 Qs

Paper coverage

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

Ecology and Evolution (EY) 2023
1 Qs
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 2021
1 Qs
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 2019
1 Qs
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 2015
1 Qs

Included previous year papers

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

PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 202320231View paper
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 202120211View paper
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 201920191View paper
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 201520151View paper

All Reading Comprehension previous year questions

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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 2015

Read the following paragraph and choose the correct statement.

Climate change has reduced human security and threatened human well being. An ignored reality of human progress is that human security largely depends upon environmental security. But on the contrary, human progress seems contradictory to environmental security. To keep up both at the required level is a challenge to be addressed by one and all. One of the ways to curb the climate change may be suitable scientific innovations, while the other may be the Gandhian perspective on small scale progress with focus on sustainability.

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2019 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 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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2021 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 2021

The importance of sleep is often overlooked by students when they are preparing for exams. Research has consistently shown that sleep deprivation greatly reduces the ability to recall the material learnt. Hence, cutting down on sleep to study longer hours can be counterproductive.

Which one of the following statements is the CORRECT inference from the above passage?

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2023 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Ecology and Evolution (EY) 2023
The World Bank has declared that it does not plan to offer new financing to Sri Lanka, which is battling its worst economic crisis in decades, until the country has an adequate macroeconomic policy framework in place. In a statement, the World Bank said Sri Lanka needed to adopt structural reforms that focus on economic stabilisation and tackle the root causes of its crisis. The latter has starved it of foreign exchange and led to shortages of food, fuel, and medicines. The bank is repurposing resources under existing loans to help alleviate shortages of essential items such as medicine, cooking gas, fertiliser, meals for children, and cash for vulnerable households.
Based only on the above passage, which one of the following statements can be inferred with certainty?
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