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There were two papers : - Aptitude and English           
      
Aptitude Paper contained 10 questions in 60 mins:                 
       While        driving through the countryside one day I saw a farmer tending his        pigs and ducks in his yard. I was curious to know how many of each        he had. I stopped the car and inquired.       
Leaning on the stile      jovially, he replied, "I have altogether 60 eyes and 86 feet between      them".
      
I drove off calculating      in my mind exact dugs and pigs he had. What do you think is the answer      ? (4 Marks)
      
Sol : 13 Pigs and 17      Ducks.
      
           
       Here        is a simple arithmetical puzzle set by Longfellow in his own        flowery, poetical language.       
If one-fifth of a hive      of bees flew to the badamba flower, one-third flew to the slandbara,      three times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour, and      one bee continued to fly about, attracted      on each side by the fragrant Ketaki and Malati, what was the      total number of bees ? (4 Marks)
      
Sol : The number of bees      was 15.
      
           
       There        are 100 men in town. Out of which 85% were married, 70% have a        phone, 75% own a car, 80% own a house. What is the maximum number        of people who are married, own a phone, own a car and own a house        ? ( 3 marks)       
Sol: 15% (check it).
      
           
       There        are 10 Red, 10 Blue, 10 Green, 10 Yellow, 10 White balls in a bag.        If you are blindfolded and asked to pick up the balls from the        bag, what is the minimum number of balls required to get a pair of        atleast one colour ? ( 2 Marks)       
Sol : 6 balls.
      
           
       Triplet        who usually wear same kind and size of shoes, namely, Annie,        Danny, Fanny. Once one of them broke a glass in kitchen and their        shoe prints were there on floor of kitchen. When their mother        asked who broke Annie said, "I didn\'t do it"; Fanny said "Danny did it"; Danny said "Fanny is lieing"; here two of        them are lieing, one is speaking truth. Can you find out who broke        it ? (3 Marks)            
Sol : Annie

           
       4        players were playing a card game. Cards had different colours on        both sides. Neither of cards had same colour on both sides.        Colours were 2 Red, 2 Blue, 2 Green, 2 Yellow. Cards were lying in        front of each player. Now, each player knew the colour on other        side of his card. They are required to tell their colour.       
Statement given by each      of them was :
                       
           Annie : Blue or Green
            Bobby : Neither Blue nor Green
            Cindy : Blue or Yellow
            Danny : Blue or Yellow
      
Colours of cards that      are visible to all were Red, Blue, Green, Blue in order of their      names. Exactly two of them are telling truth and exactly two of them      are lieing. Can you tell the colour on other face of card for each      player ? (6 Marks)
                            
Sol :        Annie : Yellow (Lieing)
            Bobby : Yellow (Telling truth)
            Cindy : Blue (Telling truth)
            Danny : Green (Lieing)

           
       (I        don\'t remember the exact question, but it was something like        this only.) Addy asks Sunny to pick as number of cards from a deck        of cards. Sunny picks first card, picks another card by skipping 1        card, then, picks another card by skipping 2, so on skipping one        card more each time. Ultimately he finds that he has picked up        5%of the cards. Can u find out the number of cards ? (6 Marks)            
Sol : 39 ( answer is      correct I don\'t know the procedure).

           
       One        day Harry and I set our watches together. None of us was aware        that my watch was getting faster by 2 min per hour and Harry\'s        watch was getting slower by 1 min per hour. After sometime, we        discovered that my watch was 1 hr ahead of Harry\'s watch. Can        you find out after how long we noticed this ? (3 Marks)            
Sol : 20 hrs
 Four        people, say, A, B, C, D belonging to M, N, O, P group, not in        order decided for a picnic. All of them brought salad from their        home in their traditional style. Fruits used in salad were Grapes,        Banana, Apple, Cherry. All of them used exactly 3 fruits in their        salad. None of them used same combination of fruits in their        salad. Some clues given are :                             
A doesn\'t belong to      group M used Apple.
B who doesn\'t belong      to group M and O used Apple & Cherry.
Person belonging to M      group used Apple & Cherry in his salad.
C and person belonging      to O used Cherry & Grapes both, but person belonging to N used      only one of them.

      
Question goes on like      this and finally you need to answer 4 questions based on these clues :
            
(a)       Which of the following fruits is not used by M group ?
Apple, Banana, Grapes,      Cherry
            
(b)       Which combination was used by B ? Some pairs were given.
      
I don\'t remember the      full question. It was of 8 marks, (4 parts.) But I was able to solve      it.
             One        4 marks questions was there. I don\'t remember it but I was able to        solve it.       

      
English Paper contained      50 questions of 50 marks in 45 min.
      
There were 5 sections ;
       Comprehension        : A paragraph was given and questions were asked from it.Finding        out correct sentence among two sentences given in each ques.Finding        out wrong sentence among 4 sentences given in each question.Fill        up the blanks by choosing the suitable very from the options        given.Fill        up the blanks based on suitable words given in option as :                             
(a)       Eyes like a
Parrot
Hawk
Pigeon
Sparrow.