Bank Exams Questions

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A series is given with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series.

2, 3, 7, 16, ?

In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

To better the public transport system, the municipality ______________ the scheme of securing dedicated lanes for buses.

Who is the author of "Two States"?

Rajya Sabha is assisted by the Secretary­General, who holds the rank equivalent to?

The sum of thrice a number and twice its reciprocal is 97/4. What is the number?

If a3 + b 3 = 35 and ab = 6, then what is the value of a + b?

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

Implanting standards, right values, the science of good and evil are an essential part of education. Many forces thwart this to work, but two of the most serious hindrances to it are examinations and specialization. The examination system is both an opiate and a poison. It is an opiate because it lulls Man into believing that all is well when most is ill. It is a poison because it paralyses or at least slows down the natural activities of the healthy mind. Man finds himself a creature of unknown capacities in an unknown world, wants to learn what the world is like, what he should be and do in it. To help him in answering these questions is the one and only purpose of education. However, tests of progress are useful and necessary. Examinations are harmless when the examinee is indifferent to their result, but as soon as they matter, they begin to distort his attitude to education and to conceal its purpose. For disinterestedness is the essence of all good education and liberal education is impossible without it.

The author

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.

Callow