Symbiosis Entrance Test(SET) 2025

In each of the questions given below, a sentence has been divided into FIVE parts. Rearrange the parts of the sentence to make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful statement.
A) are seeing patients distressed
B) about the state
C) of the environment
D) of the environment
E) adolescent psychiatrists in England

In each of the questions given below, a sentence has been divided into FIVE parts. Rearrange the parts of the sentence to make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful statement.
A) the climate crisis this year,
B) targeted 1.8 million people
C) The Environmental Voter Project (EVP)
D) who were worried about
E) but had rarely or never voted before

In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.
Fallacy

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

Directions (Q.5-Q.7): Read the passage carefully and answer the question.

Passage: Inflation may be defined as an un-anticipated, rapid and substantial increase in prices above the normal level of all goods and services in an "uncontrolled" economy. The spectre of inflation has been haunting India since the outbreak of the Second World War. But never has the pinch been felt so severely or so pervasively as during the last five years. The fundamental question facing the country today is how to check the galloping inflation to save the economy from further erosion. The rapid rate of inflation and its cumulative impact on the growth and distributive pattern of the economy witnessed during the last two years is indeed a matter of grave concern. The index number of wholesale prices increased by about 13% in 1972-73 over the previous year and by 30 per cent in 1973-74 compared to 1972-73 or by over 45 per cent during the two-year period. Therefore, if garibi hatao has to be meaningful, we must fight inflation with all our might. The anti-inflationary methods obviously require the study of the causes of inflation. The Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, the exodus and repatriation of 9 million Bangladesh refugees followed by an unprecedented drought and floods in a large number of states involved public expenditure to the tune of several crores of rupees. The shortfall in the indigenous production of food grains meant more of imports at higher prices which in turn, involved increased subsidy.

Q5. It can be inferred from the passage that the problem of inflation started to haunt India since

Directions (Q.5-Q.7): Read the passage carefully and answer the question.

Passage: Inflation may be defined as an un-anticipated, rapid and substantial increase in prices above the normal level of all goods and services in an "uncontrolled" economy. The spectre of inflation has been haunting India since the outbreak of the Second World War. But never has the pinch been felt so severely or so pervasively as during the last five years. The fundamental question facing the country today is how to check the galloping inflation to save the economy from further erosion. The rapid rate of inflation and its cumulative impact on the growth and distributive pattern of the economy witnessed during the last two years is indeed a matter of grave concern. The index number of wholesale prices increased by about 13% in 1972-73 over the previous year and by 30 per cent in 1973-74 compared to 1972-73 or by over 45 per cent during the two-year period. Therefore, if garibi hatao has to be meaningful, we must fight inflation with all our might. The anti-inflationary methods obviously require the study of the causes of inflation. The Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, the exodus and repatriation of 9 million Bangladesh refugees followed by an unprecedented drought and floods in a large number of states involved public expenditure to the tune of several crores of rupees. The shortfall in the indigenous production of food grains meant more of imports at higher prices which in turn, involved increased subsidy.

Q6. The primary purpose of the passage is to

Directions (Q.5-Q.7): Read the passage carefully and answer the question.

Passage: Inflation may be defined as an un-anticipated, rapid and substantial increase in prices above the normal level of all goods and services in an "uncontrolled" economy. The spectre of inflation has been haunting India since the outbreak of the Second World War. But never has the pinch been felt so severely or so pervasively as during the last five years. The fundamental question facing the country today is how to check the galloping inflation to save the economy from further erosion. The rapid rate of inflation and its cumulative impact on the growth and distributive pattern of the economy witnessed during the last two years is indeed a matter of grave concern. The index number of wholesale prices increased by about 13% in 1972-73 over the previous year and by 30 per cent in 1973-74 compared to 1972-73 or by over 45 per cent during the two-year period. Therefore, if garibi hatao has to be meaningful, we must fight inflation with all our might. The anti-inflationary methods obviously require the study of the causes of inflation. The Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, the exodus and repatriation of 9 million Bangladesh refugees followed by an unprecedented drought and floods in a large number of states involved public expenditure to the tune of several crores of rupees. The shortfall in the indigenous production of food grains meant more of imports at higher prices which in turn, involved increased subsidy.

Q7. A suitable title for the passage is

Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences.

One who performs scientific analysis of elections

Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences.

A collection of information about a particular subject

Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined. Choose the correct alternative that best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Go out on a limb