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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
5Years
7Questions
1Topics

Reading Comprehension question pattern

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Questions by year

Compare question counts across years.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Easy 5 71.4%
Medium 2 28.6%

Question type distribution

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

MCQ 6 85.7%
MSQ 1 14.3%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

General Aptitude (GA)
7 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Verbal Ability
7 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Reading Comprehension
7 Qs

Paper coverage

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

Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 1]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2023 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2021 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]
1 Qs

Included previous year papers

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Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 1]2025
1 questions in this view		2025
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 2]2025
1 questions in this view		2025
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2023 [Session 2]2023
1 questions in this view		2023
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2021 [Session 2]2021
1 questions in this view		2021
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]2019
2 questions in this view		2019
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]2015
1 questions in this view		2015
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All Reading Comprehension previous year questions

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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]
Most experts feel that in spite of possessing all the technical skills required to be a batsman of the highest order, he is unlikely to be so due to lack of requisite temperament. He was guilty of throwing away his wicket several times after working hard to lay a strong foundation. His critics pointed out that until he addressed this problem, success at the highest level will continue to elude him.
Which of the statement(s) below is/are logically valid and can be inferred from the above passage?
(i) He was already a successful batsman at the highest level.
(ii) He has to improve his temperament in order to become a great batsman.
(iii) He failed to make many of his good starts count.
(iv) Improving his technical skills will guarantee success.
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2019 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]
The Newspaper reports that over 500 hectares of tribal land spread across 28 tribal settlements in Mohitampuram forest division have already been “alienated”. A top forest official said, “First the tribals are duped out of their land holdings. Second, the families thus rendered landless are often forced to encroach further into the forests”.
On the basis of the information available in the paragraph, _______ is/are responsible for duping the tribals.
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2019 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]
“Popular Hindi fiction, despite – or perhaps because of – its wide reach, often does not appear in our cinema. As ideals that viewers are meant to look up to rather than identify with, Hindi film protagonists usually read books of aspirational value: textbooks, English books, or high value literature.”
Which one of the following CANNOT be inferred from the paragraph above?
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2021 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Civil Engineering (CE) 2021 [Session 2]
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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2023 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Civil Engineering (CE) 2023 [Session 2]

Based only on the following passage, which one of the options can be inferred with certainty?

When the congregation sang together, Apenyo would also join, though her little screams were not quite audible because of the group singing. But whenever there was a special number, trouble would begin; Apenyo would try singing along, much to the embarrassment of her mother. After two or three such mortifying Sunday evenings, the mother stopped going to church altogether until Apenyo became older and learnt to behave.

At home too, Apenyo never kept quiet; she hummed or made up silly songs to sing by herself, which annoyed her mother at times but most often made her become pensive. She was by now convinced that her daughter had inherited her love of singing from her father who had died unexpectedly away from home.

[Excerpt from These Hills Called Home by Temsula Ao]

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2025 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 1]
“Why do they pull down and do away with crooked streets, I wonder, which are my delight, and hurt no man living? Every day the wealthier nations are pulling down one or another in their capitals and their great towns: they do not know why they do it; neither do I. It ought to be enough, surely, to drive the great broad ways which commerce needs and which are the life-channels of a modern city, without destroying all history and all the humanity in between: the islands of the past.”

(From Hilaire Belloc’s “The Crooked Streets”)

Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
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2025 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Reading Comprehension
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 2]
“His life was divided between the books, his friends, and long walks. A solitary man, he worked at all hours without much method, and probably courted his fatal illness in this way. To his own name there is not much to show; but such was his liberality that he was continually helping others, and fruits of his erudition are widely scattered, and have gone to increase many a comparative stranger’s reputation.”
(From E.V. Lucas’s “A Funeral”)
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
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