Test of the Day for IBPS Clerk Mains 2017

Q1. Which Bank has tied up with PFG Forex for remittance facility for the benefit of Indian expatriates from Australia. The new facility will leverage the bank to reach the Indian diaspora?

Q2. FINO Payments Bank has commenced operations as a payments bank with effect from 30th June 2017 according to the Reserve Bank of India. Where is the head office of FINO Payments Bank?

Q3. Which of the following facts is/are true about SGBs (Sovereign Gold Bond) 
(I) SGB are Government Securities Denominated in INR
(II) SGBs are issued by RBI on behalf of GOI
(III) SGBs can be traded on Stock Exchanges
(IV) SGBs can be bought from an authorised Stock Broker.

Q4. With which country has the CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) recently entered into 2 Bilateral APAs (Advance Pricing Agreements)?

Q5. Surrendering to the wishes of hardline religious groups, who was the law minister of pakistan who recently quit the civilian government?

Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions it 
Eight friends Jensen, Christian, Antonio, Sean, Jim, Wilson, Paul and Orlando, out of whom there is a Pilot, Professor, Businessman, Doctor, Lawyer, Banker, Cricketer or an Architect (but not necessarily in the same order), are sitting around a circular table, facing the centre.

(A) Sean who is a banker sits third to right of Orlando.
(B) The professor and the architect are immediate neighbors of each other, neither the professor nor the architect is an immediate neighbor of either Orlando or Sean.
(C) Cricketer and the pilot are immediate neighbors of each other. Neither Orlando nor Paul is a pilot.
(D)The one who is a professor sits second to the right of Jim who is a lawyer. Wilson who is a cricketer is not an immediate neighbor of the banker.
(E) Only Antonio sits between the professor and the doctor. Jensen sits third to the right of the pilot.

Q6. Which of the following pairs represents the immediate neighbor of the doctor?

Solution:
(6-10)

Q7.What is the position of the businessman with respect to the pilot?

Q8.Who sits third to the right of the professor?

Q9.Which of the following is true regarding Antonio?

Q10.How many people sit between the banker and ‘Paul’ when counted in anticlockwise direction from the banker?

Directions (11-15): The following bar graph shows the total no. of students (in thousands) of three different colleges over five different years.
Study the carefully to answer the following questions.  

 Q11. What is the average no. of students in college B over all the years?

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Q12. Total no. of students over all the years is least in which college ?

Solution:

Q13. The no. of students of college B in year 2008 are what percent more or less than the no. of students of college A in same year?

Solution:

Q14. What is the difference between total no. of students of college B and that of college C over all the years

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Q15. Find the ratio of total students of college A to that of the college B over all the years:

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Directions (16-20): In each of the question given below a/an idiom/phrase is given in bold which is then followed by five options which then tries to decipher its meaning as used in the sentence. Choose the option which gives the meaning of the phrase most appropriately in context of the given sentence. 

Q16. The old man went on about his school days for nearly an hour.

Q17. After her holiday, it took Kate a few hours to get back up to speed on the recent developments in her company.

Q18. The politician passed the buck onto someone else instead of accepting responsibility for the problem.

Q19. People were up in arms over the government’s plan to raise the retirement age.

Q20. After breaking his leg, Darryl’s dream to play professional hockey went up in smoke.