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GATE BT 2022 | GA Question: 6
Healthy eating is a critical component of healthy aging. When should one start eating healthy? It turns out that it is never too early. For example, babies who start eating healthy in the first year are more likely to have better overall health ... overall health are more correlated at a young age, but not older age Healthy eating is more important for adults than kids

Lakshman Patel RJIT asked in Analytical Aptitude Mar 20, 2022

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GATE BT 2021 | GA Question: 10
Some people suggest anti-obesity measures $\text{(AOM)}$ such as displaying calorie information in restaurant menus. Such measures sidestep addressing the core problems that cause obesity: poverty and income inequality. Which one of the following ... $\text{AOM}$ are addressing the problem superficially

go_editor asked in Verbal Aptitude Mar 1, 2021

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GATE2020: GA: 4
Hit by floods, the kharif (summer sown) crops in various parts of the country have been affected. Officials believe that the loss in production of the kharif crops can be recovered in the output of the rabi (winter sown) crops so that the country can achieve ... cannot be met due to floods. Officials hope that the food-grain production target will be met due to a good rabi produce.

soujanyareddy13 asked in Verbal Aptitude Nov 3, 2020

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GATE2020: GA: 6
Repo rate is the rate at which Reserve Bank of India $\text{(RBI)}$ lends commercial banks, and reverse repo rate is the rate at which $\text{(RBI)}$ borrows money from commercial banks. Which of the following statements can be ... borrowing and decrease lending by commercial banks. Decrease in repo rate will decrease cost of borrowing and increase lending by commercial banks.

soujanyareddy13 asked in Verbal Aptitude Nov 3, 2020

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GATE2019: GA-6
Since the last one year after a $125$ basis point reduction in repo rate by the Reserve Bank of India, banking institutions have been making a demand to reduce interest rates on small saving schemes. Finally, the government announced yesterday a reduction ... A reduction in interest rates on small savings scheme follow only after a reduction in repo rate by the Reserve Bank of India

soujanyareddy13 asked in Verbal Aptitude Nov 3, 2020

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GATE2019: GA-8
The nomenclature of Hindustani music has changed over the centuries. Since the medieval period dhrupad styles were identified as baanis. Terms like gayaki and baaj were used to refer to vocal and instrumental styles, respectively. With the institutionalization of ... . Which one of the following pairings is NOT correct? dhrupad, baani gayaki, vocal baaj, institution gharana, lineage

soujanyareddy13 asked in Verbal Aptitude Nov 3, 2020

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GATE2019: GA-10
I read somewhere that in ancient times the prestige of a kingdom depended upon the number of taxes that it was able to levy on its people. It was very much like the prestige of a head-hunter in his own community. Based on the paragraph above ... the prestige of the kingdom the prestige of the heads the number of taxes he could levy the number of heads he could gather

soujanyareddy13 asked in Verbal Aptitude Nov 3, 2020

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GATE2016-GA-7
A smart city integrates all modes of transport, uses clean energy and promotes sustainable use of resources. It also uses technology to ensure safety and security of the city, something which critics argue, will lead to a surveillance state. Which of the following can be logically inferred ... promote surveillance. $(i)$ and $(iv)$ only $(ii)$ and $(iii)$ only $(iv)$ only (i) only

Milicevic3306 asked in Verbal Aptitude Mar 26, 2018

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GATE2017-61
"If you are looking for a history of India, or for an account of the rise and fall of the British Raj, or for the reason of the cleaving of the subcontinent into two mutually antagonistic parts and the effects this mutilation will ... for the impartial recording of these matters". Here, the word antagonistic' is cIosest in meaning to impartial argumentative separated hostile

Milicevic3306 asked in Verbal Aptitude Mar 26, 2018

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GATE2015-7
Read the following paragraph and choose the correct statement. Climate change has reduced human security and threatened human well being. An ignored reality of human progress is that human security largely depends upon environmental security ... to environmental security. Human security is contradictory to environmental security. Human progress depends upon environmental security.

Milicevic3306 asked in Verbal Aptitude Mar 26, 2018

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GATE2014-GA-7
Moving into a world of big data will require us to change our thinking about the merits of exactitude. To apply the conventional mindset of measurement to the digital, connected world of the twenty-first century is to miss a crucial point. As mentioned ... data is obsessed with exactness Exactitude is not critical in dealing with big data Sparse data leads to a bias in the analysis

Milicevic3306 asked in Verbal Aptitude Mar 26, 2018

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GATE2012-61
Wanted Temporary, Part-time persons for the post of Field Interviewer to conduct personal interviews to collect and collate economic data. Requirements: High School-pass, must be available for Day, Evening and Saturday work. Transportation ... best inference from the above advertisement? Gender-discriminatory Xenophobic Not designed to make the post attractive Not gender-discriminatory

Milicevic3306 asked in Verbal Aptitude Mar 25, 2018

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