The IBSAT 2019 question paper with solutions is now available for free download. IBSAT 2019 was conducted by ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education on December 21-22, 2019, and the paper carried 140 questions across 4 sections in 2 hours.
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IBSAT 2019 Questions with Solutions
Choose the option that is closest in meaning to the word given below.
DOLOROUS
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PUISSANT
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RECTITUDE
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TEDIUM
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MAWKISH
Choose the option that is most opposite in meaning (antonym) to the word given below.
JOCUND
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INSCRUTABLE
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EXCORIATE
Choose the option which is the closest antonym of the given word.
GLUM
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SCRAWNY
The first two words are related in a particular way. Choose the word that completes the second pair using the same relationship.
Weed : Garden :: Edit : ?
Complete the analogy by choosing the option that best fits.
Incubator : Infant :: Greenhouse : ?
Complete the analogy by choosing the option that best fits.
Pitch : Cricket :: Ring : ?
Complete the analogy by choosing the option that best fits.
Darkness : Ignorance :: Light : ?
Complete the analogy by choosing the option that best fits.
Nucleus : Cell :: Yolk : ?
Fill in the blanks with the pair of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
In human as in animal societies the elder _____ transmit by example to the younger the _____ experience accumulated by the group.
He was an _____ musician, had been awarded by the Saneet Natak academy during the second world war and _____ with the title of Rai Bahadur.
China and India _____ similarities in demography and natural resources and that is where those similarities _____.
The role of the Press cannot be _____ even in dictatorship, because even a dictator needs the press for _____ his ideology and policies.
Modern methods of _____ earthquakes recognize that quakes, far from being geologic anamalies, are part of the periodic accumulation and discharge of _____ energy.
Read the sentence below and find out which part contains an error. If there is no error, the answer is "No error".
The mutual co-operation (a) of employees is (b) essential to the success (c) of business. (d)
Read the sentence below and find out which part contains an error. If there is no error, the answer is "No error".
Not less than (a) fifty (b) passengers were (c) killed in the bus accident. (d)
Read the sentence below and find out which part contains an error. If there is no error, the answer is "No error".
The Chairmen of all large (a) private sector banks met with (b) senior World bank officials to give its (c) suggestions about implementing the new policy. (d)
Read the sentence below and find out which part contains an error. If there is no error, the answer is "No error".
The sun hadn't hardly (a) set when the mosquitoes began to sting (b) so annoyingly that we had (c) to run off from the playground. (d)
A wise and experienced manager will assign a job to whom ever is best qualified.
When you leave out a player who is the best in the country by a mile, the people need to know the real reasons and this is where the attitude of the BCCI is depressing.
The reason why she is absent today is because her husband is ill.
It was she, not me, who put forth the attractive propositions.
It is with a heavy heart that I pen these few lines to condole for you on the death of your beloved mother.
Neither the manager nor the Cashier were able to report on the Company's progress.
Arrange the following parts into a coherent sentence/passage:
P. Children need to be loved, and in a sense they cannot have too much of it.
Q. She herself doesn't want to grow up and attempts to make time stand still.
R. Fortunately she cannot succeed.
S. But it is not because of love that a mother prevents her child from growing up.
Arrange the following parts into a coherent sentence/passage:
P. It would perhaps be possible for you to be of some use to this brave little boy.
Q. She said to herself silently at first, that
R. Without neglecting anything of what was due to her important mission.
S. And this idea pleased her.
Directions: In the following question, different parts of a sentence/passage have been jumbled. Choose the option that represents the best sequence to make the sentence/passage coherent and meaningful. Ignore punctuation marks.
P. The real challenge today is unlearning, which is much harder.
Q. The new world of business behaves differently from the world in which we grew up.
R. Learning is important for both people and organizations however.
S. Each of us has a mental model that we've used over the years to make sense, but.
Directions: In the following question, different parts of a sentence/passage have been jumbled. Choose the option that represents the best sequence to make the sentence/passage coherent and meaningful. Ignore punctuation marks.
P. Passengers were told to be ready to quit the ship.
Q. The rising gale fanned the smoldering fire.
R. Everyone now knew there was fire on board.
S. Flames broke out here and there.
Directions: In the following question, different parts of a sentence/passage have been jumbled. Choose the option that represents the best sequence to make the sentence/passage coherent and meaningful. Ignore punctuation marks.
P. He dares not say "I think", "I am" but quotes some saint or sage.
Q. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones.
R. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.
S. Man is timid, apologetic and no longer upright.
Directions: Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given phrase.
A person filled with excessive zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause.
Directions: Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given phrase.
The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of physical remains.
Directions: Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given phrase.
Person who suffers from delusions of greatness.
Directions: Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given phrase.
Term used to refer to the health care of old people.
Directions: Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given phrase.
That which can be drunk.
"I thought you said this was a difficult problem. It isn't. In fact, it's as easy as pie."
"You're a real couch potato, Jay. You need to get more exercise!"
"I don't think you can depend on Srikanth to do that job by himself. He's too green."
It's late and you've accomplished a lot. Why don't you call it a day?
My new car cost an arm and a leg.
Comprehension:
It is ___(46) to read a book about our planet by an author who does not allow facts to be ___(47) by politics: well aware of the political disputes about the effects of human activities on climate and biodiversity, this author does not permit them to ___(48) his comprehensive description of what
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we know about our biosphere. He emphasizes the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the ___(49) of our observations, and the ___(50) of our theories, calling attention to the many aspects of planetary evolution that must be better understood before we can accurately diagnose the condition of our planet.Choose the best word for blank (46) in the passage above.
Choose the best word for blank (47) in the passage above.
Choose the best word for blank (48) in the passage above.
Choose the best word for blank (49) in the passage above.
Choose the best word for blank (50) in the passage above.
Comprehension:
The world dismisses curiosity by calling it idle or mere idle curiosity even though curious persons are seldom idle. Parents do their best to extinguish curiosity in their children because it makes life difficult to be faced everyday with a string of unanswerable questions about what makes fire hot or why grass grows. Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline are invited to join our university. With in the university, they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers. In the eyes of a scholar, that is what a university is for. Some of the questions which the scholars ask seem to the world to be scarcely worth asking, let alone answering. They ask questions too minute and specialized for you and me to understand without years of explanation. If the world inquires one of them why he wants to know the answer to a particular question he may say especially if he is a scientist, that the answer will in some obscure way make possible a new machine or weapon or gadget.
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He talks that way because he knows that the world understands and respects utility.But to you who are now part of the university, he will say that he wants to know the answer simply because he does not know it, the way the mountain climber wants to climb a mountain, simply because it is there. Similarly a historian asked by an outsider why he studies history may come out with the argument that he has learnt to respect to report on such occasions, something about knowledge of the past making it possible to understand the present and mould the future. But if you really want to know why a historian studies the past, the answer is much simpler, something happened and he would like to know what. It is true that scholars can be put to work answering questions for sake of the consequences as thousands are working now, for example, in search of a cure for cancer. But this is not the primary for scholars. For the consequences are usually subordinate to the satisfaction of curiosity.
Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline means
Pick out the word which is a close synonym of 'Extinguish' as used in the passage.
According to their passage, the children make life difficult for their parents by
The common people consider unimportant some of the questions that the scholars ask, as
A historian studies the past
Pick out the statement, which is true.
It may be inferred from the passage that curiosity
According to the passage, parents do their best to discourage curiosity in their children, because they
Comprehension:
The theory of plate tectonics describes the motions of the lithosphere, the comparatively rigid outer layer of the Earth that includes all the crust and part of the underlying mantle. The lithosphere is divided into a few dozen plates of various sizes and shapes; in general the plates are in motion with respect to one another. A mid-ocean ridge is a boundary between plates where new lithospheric material is injected from below. As the plates diverge from a mid-ocean ridge they slide on a more yielding layer at the base of the lithosphere.
Since the size of the Earth is essentially constant, new lithosphere can be created at the mid-ocean ridges only if an equal amount of lithospheric material is consumed elsewhere. The site of this destruction is another kind of plate boundary: a subduction zone. There one plate dives under the edge of another and is reincorporated into the mantle. Both kinds of plate boundary are associated with fault systems, earthquakes and volcanism, but the kinds of geologic activity observed
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at the two boundaries are quite different.The idea of sea-floor spreading actually preceded the theory of plate tectonics. In its original version, in the early 1960s, it described the creation and destruction of the ocean floor, but it did not specify rigid lithospheric plates. The hypothesis was substantiated soon afterward by the discovery that periodic reversals of the Earth's magnetic field are recorded in the oceanic crust. As magma rises under the mid-ocean ridge ferromagnetic minerals in the magma become magnetized in the direction of the geomagnetic field. When the magma cooks and solidifies, the direction and the polarity of the field are preserved in the magnetized volcanic rock. Reversals of the field give rise to a series of magnetic stripes running parallel to the axis of the rift. The oceanic crust thus serves as a magnetic tape recording of the history of the geomagnetic field that can be dated independently. The width of the stripes indicates the rate of the sea-floor spreading.
According to the passage, which of the following statements about the lithosphere is least likely to be true?
What does the author imply about the periodic reversal of the Earth's magnetic field?
The author states that the width of the stripes preserved in magnetized volcanic rock give information about the
Since the size of the Earth is essentially constant, new lithosphere can be created at the mid-ocean ridges only when
Which of the following serve(s) as a magnetic tape recording of the history of the geomagnetic field?
Comprehension:
Archaeology is a source of history, not just a humble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts. Just as much as any other historian an archaeologist studies and tries to reconstitute the process that has created the human world in which we live and us ourselves in so far as we are each creatures of our age and social environment. Archaeological data are all changes in the material world resulting from human action or more succinctly the fossilized results of human behavior. The sum total of these constitutes what may be called the archaeological record. This record exhibits certain peculiarities and deficiencies the consequences of which produce a rather superficial contrast between archaeological history and the more familiar kind based upon written records.
Not all human behavior fossilizes. The words I utter and you hear as vibrations in the air are certainly human changes in the material world and may be of great historical significance. Yet they leave no sort of trace in the archaeological records unless they are captured by a dictaphone or written down by a clerk. The movement of troops on the battlefield may "change the course of history", but this is equally ephemeral from the archaeologist's standpoint. What is perhaps worse is most organic materials are perishable. Everything made of wood, hide wool, Linen, grass hair and similar materials will decay and vanish in dust in a few years or centuries save under very exceptional conditions. In a relatively brief period the archaeological record is reduced to mere scraps of stone, Bone, glass, metal, and earthenware. Still modern archaeology, by applying appropriate techniques and comparative methods, aided by a few lucky finds from peat bogs, Deserts and frozen soils is able to fill up a good deal of the gap.
The purpose of archaeology is to learn more about past societies and the development of the human race. Over 99% of the development of humanity has occurred within prehistoric cultures,
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which did not make use of writing, thereby not leaving written records of themselves that can be studied today. Without such written sources, the only way to learn about prehistoric societies is to use archaeology. Many important developments in human history occurred during prehistory, such as the evolution of humanity during the Paleolithic period, when the hominins developed from the australopithecines in Africa and eventually into modern Homo sapiens. Archaeology also sheds light on many of humanity's technological advances, for instance the ability to use fire, the development of stone tools, the discovery of metallurgy, the beginnings of religion and the creation of agriculture. Without archaeology, we would know little or nothing about the use of material culture by humanity that pre-dates writing.However, it is not only prehistoric, pre-literate cultures that can be studied using archaeology but historic, literate cultures as well, through the sub-discipline of historical archaeology. For many literate cultures, such as Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, their surviving records are often incomplete and biased to some extent. In many societies, literacy was restricted to the elite classes, such as the clergy or the bureaucracy of court or temple. The literacy even of aristocrats has sometimes been restricted to deeds and contracts. The interests and world-view of elites are often quite different from the lives and interests of the populace. Writings that were produced by people more representative of the general population were unlikely to find their way into libraries and be preserved there for posterity. Thus, written records tend to reflect the biases, assumptions, cultural values and possibly deceptions of a limited range of individuals, usually a small fraction of the larger population. Hence, written records cannot be trusted as a sole source. The material record may be closer to a fair representation of society, though it is subject to its own biases, such as sampling bias and differential preservation.
Identify from the following, statement that denotes the main purpose of the passage.
The only way to learn about prehistoric societies is through the study of
'Yet they leave no sort of trace in the archaeological records unless they are captured by a dictaphone or written down by a clerk'. The word 'they' in this sentence refers to
Which of the following is not an example of an organic material?
The author mentions in the passage, all of the following archaeological discovery sites except
During the paleolithic period, the beginning of the process of evolution of humanity occurred in which of the following places?
According to the passage, the archaeological record consists of
According to the writer, prehistoric studies have shed light on many of humanity's technological advances. Identify the one which is not mentioned in these technological advances.
The surviving records of which civilization are often found to be incomplete and biased?
Comprehension:
Insects' lives are very diminutive and they have many enemies, but they must survive long enough to rear and perpetuate their kind. The less insect-like they look, the better their probability of survival. To look "uneatable" by resembling or imitating plants is a deceit widely practised by insects. Mammals hardly ever use this kind of camouflage, but many fish and invertebrates do.
The stick caterpillar is well named. It is hardly discernible from a brown or green twig. This caterpillar is quite familiar and can be found almost anywhere in North America. It is also called "measuring worm" or "inchworm." It walks by arching its body, than stretching out and grasping the branch with its front feet then looping its body again to bring the hind feet forward. When danger threatens, the stick caterpillar stretches
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its body away from the branch at an angle and remains rigid and still, like a twig, until the danger has passed.Walking sticks, or stick insects, do not have to assume a rigid, twig-like pose to find protection; they look like inedible twigs in any position. There are many kinds of walking sticks, ranging in size from the few inches of the North American variety to some tropical species that may be over a foot long. When at rest their front legs are stretched out heightening their camouflage. Some of the tropical species are adorned with spines or ridges imitating the thorny bushes or trees in which they live. Leaves also seem to be a favorite object for insects to imitate. Many butterflies can suddenly disappear from view by folding their wings and sitting quietly among the foliage that they resemble.
What is the main theme of the passage?
The word "camouflage" means to
How does the stick caterpillar make itself look like a twig?
Which of the following is not true of insect camouflage techniques?
Which of the following are favorite objects for butterflies to imitate?
A, B and C are three associates in a firm. A invests Rs. 6,000, B invests Rs. 9,000 and C invests Rs. 12,000. A and B are the working partners and get 10% and 20% of the profit respectively as their salary, and the remaining profit is distributed in the ratio of their capitals. If the profit made at the end of the year is Rs. 27,000, then what is the share of A?
If \((b+c), (c+a), (a+b)\) are in harmonic progression, then \(a^2, b^2, c^2\) are in
A, B and C are three associates in a firm. A invests Rs. 6,000, B invests Rs. 9,000 and C invests Rs. 12,000. A and B are the working partners and get 10% and 20% of the profit respectively as their salary, and the remaining profit is distributed in the ratio of their capitals. If the profit made at the end of the year is Rs. 27,000, then what is the share of C?
Two solid pyramids are melted together. These pyramids had the number of edges equal to the length of each of their edges, equal to 8 units. They are moulded to form a hexagonal pyramid with the length of each side of its base being 8 units. What is the slant height of the new pyramid?
In a class of 40 students who study mathematics, physics and chemistry, the number of students studying mathematics is 2 more than 40% of those studying chemistry, while 20 of the students study physics. Three less than one fifth of the total students in the class study all three subjects. The number of students studying only physics is 2 less than the number of students studying mathematics. The number of students studying only mathematics and only chemistry is 3 and 15 respectively. The number of students studying mathematics as well as physics is the same as the number of students studying mathematics as well as chemistry. How many students are studying both mathematics and chemistry but not all the three subjects?
A solid metallic cuboid with sides in the ratio 3 : 4 : 6 is melted to form smaller cubes with sides 2 cm. If the sum of the length of the edges of the cuboid is 208 cm, then what is the ratio of the surface area of the original cuboid to the total surface area of the smaller cubes?
What is the maximum volume of the cylinder, if the sum of its radius and the height is 8 cm?
A number is divided into two parts such that half of the first part added to the one fourth the second part is equal to two-fifth of the number. What is the ratio of the two parts?
A property was to be divided among P, Q, R, S and T in the ratio of 1 : 1.5 : 2 : 2.5 : 3. If instead, it was divided in the duplicate ratio, then who among the four would be benefitted most?
M and N start a business with respective capitals of Rs. 35,000 and Rs. 22,000. M withdrew an amount of Rs. 1000 every month from the business while N put in an additional amount of Rs. 1,000 every month into the business. If they close the business after 13 months after making a profit of Rs. 85,500, then what is the share of N?
The monthly salary of Amar is two and a half times the monthly salary of Bakshi. The ratio of the monthly salaries of Bakshi and Chitra is the duplicate ratio of monthly salaries of Amar and Bakshi. The monthly salary of Chitra is thrice the monthly salary of Daksha. The ratio of monthly salaries of Daksha and Eeshwar is the triplicate of the ratio of monthly salaries of Chitra and Daksha. What is the monthly salary of Amar, if Eeshwar's monthly salary is Rs. 1,560?
The mean proportional of the two positive numbers obtained by subtracting 77 from a positive number and adding 11 to the same number is 33. What is the number?
A, B and C are three partners in a business. C is the only working partner. C's investment is one-fifth of B's investment and A's investment is twice that of C. If C gets a salary of Rs. 10,500 a month and A gets a profit share of Rs. 1.44 lakh at the end of the year, then what is the total profit?
What is the difference between the sum of the cubes and that of the sum of the square of first twenty natural numbers?
If 'y' is a number such that \( y = x^{x/2} \), where x is a positive integer, what is the difference between the largest possible four-digit value of y and the smallest possible three-digit value of y?
'abcd' is a four-digit number. It has only two factors excluding 1 and itself. In addition, the first two digits form a perfect square and the next two digits form a number which is one more than a perfect square. Which of the following could be the number?
Harsha received price money in a jackpot. He expressed the price money in the following way. Consider a number 'N' that can be expressed in the form of prime factors 3, 5, 7 and 11. The total number of factors of N is 32. The difference between the largest and the smallest such number possible, given that each of these prime factors occur at least once, is the price money that Harsha won. What is the price money that Harsha won in the jackpot?
What is the remainder obtained when the smallest prime number, when raised to the ninety second multiple of sixteen, is divided by two hundred and fifty seven?
On a cardboard there are 32 squares. 1 coin is kept on the first box, 2 coins on the second box and so on. Collect all the coins and add some more coins to them. These coins are equally distributed on all the squares of the cardboard. What is the minimum number of coins that are added?
The figure shows a regular hexagon ABCDEF with each side equal to \(2a\) cm. Point G lies on side CD and point H lies on side EF. If \(AG = FG\) and \(ED \parallel GH\), then what is the ratio of the area of the shaded region to the area of the hexagon?
What is the value of \(\log\log\sqrt{\sqrt[5]{\sqrt[10]{\sqrt[10]{10}}}}\) ?
A trader marks up a Music system \(x\%\) over the cost price and gives a discount of \((x/4)\%\) to get a profit of \((x/2)\%\). What is his profit percentage?
The sales of an article increases by 20% every week. The difference between the sales of the second week and the fourth week is Rs. 660. What were sales of the article in the third week?
A survey on population growth was conducted in town A. It revealed that the population of the town was 5.477 lakh. In one year, there is an increase in men (aged above 18 years) population by 8%, increase in population of women (aged above 18 years) by 12.5% and increase in the population of children (boy or a girl aged less or equal to 18 years) by 12%. If the population of town A, after one year was found to be 6.0466 lakh and number of children was found to be 91,840, then what was the population of men in the town before survey?
M and N start a business with respective capitals of Rs. 35,000 and Rs. 22,000. M withdrew an amount of Rs. 1000 every month from the business while N put in an additional amount of Rs. 1,000 every month into the business. If they close the business after 13 months after making a profit of Rs. 85,500, then what is the share of M?
In an examination, 42% of the students passed in at least two subjects out of the three subjects P, Q and R. 36% of the students passed in subjects Q and R. 10% of the students passed in all the three subjects. 38% of the students passed subject P. How many students passed in only subject P?
Aman purchased 8 mangoes, 6 oranges and 4 apples for a certain amount. With 35% less amount, Pavan could purchase 4 mangoes, 3 oranges and 3 apples. What percentage of the total amount did Aman spend on apples?
The average score of a batsman was 40 runs per match after 10 matches. What was his average score for the last four matches?
Statement 1: Average for first 6 matches is 36
Statement 2: Average for all even numbered matches is 45 and for odd numbered matches is 38
The circumference of an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe is 15 cm and 10 cm respectively. How long will it take the tank to be filled, when it is empty and both pipes are opened?
Statement 1: Outlet pipe can empty the tank in 25 minutes
Statement 2: Inlet pipe can fill the empty tank in 56 minutes
The diameter of the wheel of a motorcycle is 70 cm. What would be its speed in kmph?
Statement 1: The ratio of revolutions to diameter is 2:3
Statement 2: It makes 40 revolutions for every 10 seconds
The difference between compound interest and simple interest on a certain sum of money for 2 years is Rs. 20. What is the sum?
Statement 1: Rate of interest is 5%
Statement 2: Simple interest for one year is Rs. 400
The length of a rectangle is increased by 60%. What should be the measure of new width to maintain the same area?
Statement 1: Percent reduction in width is 37.5%
Statement 2: Area of rectangle is 450 sq.m
The mass of a substance A is 4.8 kg. Another substance B of the same mass has 20 gm/cc more density than A. What is the density of substance A?
Statement 1: Volume of substance B is 12 cc less than substance A
Statement 2: The ratio of volumes of substances A and B is 32 : 27
The mileage of a vehicle at a speed of 50 kmph is 60 kmpl. If the speed is above 50 kmph, for every rise of 5 kmph in the speed, mileage decreases by 2 kmpl. If a man travels 300 km at a uniform speed, how many litres of petrol will the vehicle consume?
Statement 1: He travels a distance of 300 km at a uniform speed of 75 kmph
Statement 2: The mileage of a vehicle at a speed of 75 kmph is 50 kmpl
The number of terms in an arithmetic progression is 20. The sum of the four middle terms is (-22). What are the values of first term and common difference?
Statement 1: The sum of first four terms is 74
Statement 2: The difference between first term and common difference is 26
The perimeter of a right angled triangle ABC, right angled at A, is \(3+\sqrt{3}\) cm. What is the area of the triangle?
Statement 1: \(AC \neq AB\)
Statement 2: \(\angle ABC = 30^{\circ}\)
The present ages of Rahul and his father are in the ratio 6:13. The ratio between the present ages of his father and his sister is 13:5. If the difference between the present ages of his mother and his sister is 28 years, what is the difference between the present ages of his father and his mother?
Statement 1: The ratio of the present ages of Rahul and his mother is 1:2
Statement 2: The difference between the present ages of Rahul and his sister is 4 years
The price of a shirt is Rs. 800, that of a trouser is Rs. 1000, that of shoes is Rs. 2000 and that of a belt is Rs. 500. What is the minimum amount with which one can get all the three articles (shirt, trouser and shoes)?
Statement 1: There is a discount of 30% on shirt and trousers
Statement 2: Belt is free with one shirt and a trouser. Shirt is free with one pair of shoes and one trouser
The ratio of the present ages of father and son is 6:1. What is the present age of the son?
Statement 1: The ratio of the ages of father and son after 5 years is 7:2
Statement 2: The difference of their ages is 25 years
The speed of a river is 5 kmph. How long will it take to reach a point that is 11 km upstream?
Statement 1: Relative speed is 8 kmph
Statement 2: Speed of the man in still water is 6 kmph
A swimming pool is fitted with three pipes. The first two pipes operating simultaneously can fill the pool in half the time taken by the third pipe alone to fill the pool. What is the time taken by the three pipes individually to fill the pool?
Statement 1: The ratio between the time taken by the first and third pipes is 3:4
Statement 2: The second pipe takes 12 hours more than the first pipe working alone and 8 hours more than the third pipe working alone
There are two concentric circles such that the area of the outer circle is four times the area of the inner circle. If A, B and C are three distinct points on the perimeter of the outer circle such that AB and AC are tangents to the inner circle, what is the area of the triangle ABC?
Statement 1: The area of the outer circle is 12 sq cm
Statement 2: The area of the region between the two circles is 9 sq cm
Comprehension:
The subject in which he scored \(16\frac{2}{3}\%\) of marks is
The subject in which he scored approximately 97 marks is
Of the total marks, in which subject is his scoring percentage the highest?
What is the difference between the marks obtained in 1st Language, Hindi and Mathematics, and Science, Social and English?
Of the total marks, in which subject is his percentage of scoring the lowest?
Comprehension:
If the salary of Balu is Rs. 15,000, what would be the expenditure on Investments and Food?
If both Balu and Paul get equal income, what is the ratio of their expenditures on Food and clothing?
If both Balu and Paul get equal income, what would be the difference of their expenditures on all except Investments?
If Paul's income was Rs. 13,500, what would be his average expenditure on Investments, Rent and Travelling?
What is the sum of angles subtended by expenditures of Paul on Travel, Rent and Medical?
Comprehension:
In which month did the average sensex reading show a greater decrease during the given period?
What is the ratio between the highest reading and the lowest reading of the sensex report during the given period (approximately)?
If the average sensex reading were expected to increase by 20% compared to its August value, what would that reading be in December?
What is the percentage decrease in the sensex reading from May to November?
For how many months has the reading stayed below the monthly average for this period?
IBSAT 2019 Exam Pattern and Marking Scheme Explained
As per the official bulletin on ibsindia.org, IBSAT is a computer-based test with no sectional time limit, so you can move freely between sections.
- Total questions: 140 MCQs across 4 sections
- Duration: 2 hours, no sectional time cap
- Total marks: 140
- Marking scheme: +1 for a correct answer, no negative marking
- Section split: Verbal Ability 50, Reading Comprehension 30, Quantitative Aptitude 30, Data Adequacy and Data Interpretation 30
High-Weightage Sections in IBSAT 2019 to Focus On First
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension together make up nearly half the paper, and this 2019 paper followed that same pattern.
- Verbal Ability (50 questions): the biggest single section and the easiest in the 2019 paper, mixing vocabulary, analogies, error-spotting, and sentence-completion questions
- Reading Comprehension (30 questions): 4 passages this year, ranging from a piece on scholarly curiosity to one on insect camouflage, rated easy in the 2019 analysis
- Quantitative Aptitude (30 questions): arithmetic and geometry questions in fair proportion, rated easy to moderate
- Data Adequacy and Data Interpretation (30 questions): a data sufficiency block plus pie-chart and line-graph sets, rated easy overall with a few tricky sufficiency questions
- Students who score 40-42 out of 50 in Verbal Ability tend to land a 90-92 overall percentile, so this section is worth clearing first
IBSAT 2019 Question Paper Analysis Video
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How to Use the IBSAT 2019 Question Paper for Practice
Treat this paper as a timed mock before you touch any fresh material.
- Attempt all 140 questions in one sitting with a 2-hour timer, no pauses
- Check your answers against the solutions PDF above, not just the answer key, so you catch mistakes in method, not only the final answer
- Redo every Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension question you got wrong first, since that section carries the most marks
- Log your Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation misses by topic so you know exactly what to revise next
IBSAT Good Attempts and Qualifying Score Benchmark
- Aim for 105-115 attempts at 80-85% accuracy to land in the 90-95 percentile range
- A raw score of 85 or more out of 140 usually falls in the 80-85 percentile band
- A 70-80 percentile is considered a good score overall, but top IBS campuses look for 80 percentile and above
IBSAT 2019 Question Paper FAQs
Ques. How difficult was the IBSAT 2019 question paper?
Ans. The overall difficulty was moderate. Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension were rated easy, while Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation were easy to moderate, with a few tougher data sufficiency questions.
Ques. How many questions should I attempt in IBSAT to score a high percentile?
Ans. Attempting 105-115 questions with 80-85% accuracy typically lands you in the 90-95 percentile range. A raw score of 85 or more out of 140 usually falls in the 80-85 percentile band.
Ques. Which section has the highest weightage in IBSAT?
Ans. Verbal Ability carries the most questions at 50, and together with Reading Comprehension it makes up nearly half the total marks. Scoring 40-42 out of 50 in Verbal Ability alone can push your overall percentile to 90-92.
Ques. Is there negative marking in IBSAT 2019?
Ans. No. IBSAT gives +1 mark for every correct answer and has no negative marking, so it is worth attempting every question in the 2-hour window.
Ques. Where can I download the IBSAT 2019 question paper with solutions PDF for free?
Ans. Use the download table above on this Collegedunia page to get both the question paper PDF and the full solutions PDF. For official notifications and result details, check ibsindia.org.
Ques. Does IBSAT have a sectional time limit?
Ans. No. IBSAT gives you a single 2-hour window for all 140 questions across the 4 sections, so you can move between sections freely instead of being locked into one at a time.
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