NDA & Other Exams - Previous Year Papers Previous Year Questions

If tanx = and x is in the second quadrant, then what is the value of sinx.cosx?

Direction: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c) Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).
You don’t have a (A)/ monopoly on suffering; (B)/ other people don’t have problems too(C)/ No error.

Direction: Each item in this section has a sentence with a missing preposition. Select the correct preposition from the given options and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.
Simulations of the 20th century by climate models that exclude the observed increase _________ greenhouse gases fail to simulate the increase in temperature over the second half of the 20th century.

Direction: Read the following passage and answer questions 1-5 that follow:
At this stage of civilisation, when many nations are brought in to close and vital contact for good and evil, it is essential, as never before, that their gross ignorance of one another should be diminished, that they should begin to understand a little of one another’s historical experience and resulting mentality. It is the fault of the English to expect the people of other countries to react as they do, to political and international situations. Our genuine goodwill and good intentions are often brought to nothing, because we expect other people to be like us. This would be corrected if we knew the history, not necessarily in details but in broad outlines, of the social and political conditions which have given to each nation its present character.
According to the author ‘Mentality’ of a nation is mainly product of its…

Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Personally I dislike the praise of poverty and suffering. I do not think they are at all desirable, and they ought to be abolished. Nor do I appreciate the ascetic life as a social ideal though it may suit individuals. I understand and appreciate simplicity, equality, self-control but not the torturing of the body, I believe that the mind and habits have also to be trained and brought under control. It would be absurd to expect that a person who is given too much self-love can endure much suffering or show unusual self-control or behave like a hero when crisis comes. To be in good moral condition requires as much training to be in physical health.
The writer does not like the praise of poverty. It is:

Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Personally I dislike the praise of poverty and suffering. I do not think they are at all desirable, and they ought to be abolished. Nor do I appreciate the ascetic life as a social ideal though it may suit individuals. I understand and appreciate simplicity, equality, self-control but not the torturing of the body, I believe that the mind and habits have also to be trained and brought under control. It would be absurd to expect that a person who is given too much self-love can endure much suffering or show unusual self-control or behave like a hero when crisis comes. To be in good moral condition requires as much training to be in physical health.
The writer does not like the praise of poverty. It is: