Bank Exams Questions

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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.

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If ax + by = 1 and bx + ay = 2aba2+b2 then x2+y2a2+b2 is equal to

If cotθ = 4, then the value of 5sinθ+3cosθ5sinθ-3cosθ is

A solid hemisphere has radius 14 cm. It is melted to form a cylinder such that the ratio of its curved surface area and total surface area is 2 : 3. What is the radius (in cm) of its base?

Which one of the following forms the base of vegetable fibres?

The compound interest on Rs. 24000 at 10% per annum for 11⁄2 years, interest being compounded semi­annually is

The value of (1 - √2) + (√2 - √3) + (√3 - √4) + ..... + (√15 - √16) is

If x/2 - [4(15/2 - x/3)]/3 = -x/18, then what is the value of x?