General Aptitude — GATE Previous Year Questions

Choose the word that best fills the blank in the sentence below.

The principal presented the chief guest with a ________, as token of appreciation.

If \(\log(P) = \frac{1}{2}\log(Q) = \frac{1}{3}\log(R)\), then which one of the following options is TRUE?

In a triangle \(PQR\), \(PS\) is the angle bisector of \(\angle QPR\) and \(\angle QPS = 60^\circ\), where \(S\) lies on \(QR\). If \(PQ = r\) and \(PR = q\), what is the length of \(PS\)?

A cube is built using 64 cubic blocks of side one unit. After it is built, one cubic block is removed from every corner of the cube. The resulting surface area of the body (in square units) after the removal is ________.

A train that is 280 metres long, travelling at a uniform speed, crosses a platform in 60 seconds and passes a man standing on the platform in 20 seconds. What is the length of the platform in metres?

Two and a quarter hours back, when seen in a mirror, the reflection of a wall clock without number markings seemed to show 1:30. What is the actual current time shown by the clock?

The ninth and the tenth of this month are Monday and Tuesday ________.

Choose the word that best fills the blank.

A jar contains a mixture of 175 ml water and 700 ml alcohol. Gopal takes out 10% of the mixture and substitutes it by water of the same amount. The process is repeated once again.

The percentage of water in the mixture is ________.

“Going by the ________ that many hands make light work, the school ________ involved all the students in the task.”

The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are

The strategies that the company ________ to sell its products ________ house-to-house marketing.

Choose the correct option to fill in the blanks.

The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 7 to 3.

Among the options below, an acceptable value for the total number of students in the class is:

The current population of a city is 11,02,500. If it has been increasing at the rate of 5% per annum, what was its population 2 years ago?