An increasing number of people prefer to retain their own individuality and their own identity and consequently this has lead to a decline in the marriage rate.

14. Which among the following assumptions are used in the above premises?

    1. When a person is married, he or she loses his or her own identity and is no longer accountable to himself or herself.

    2. Married persons do not find contentment as opposed to unmarried people.

    3. There has been a steady increase in the divorce rate.

    (A) I only
    (B) II only
    (C) III only
    (D) I and II only
    (E) I, II, and III

15. Among the following statements, which would weaken the above argument?

    (A) The stability resulting from marriage offsets the negative aspects of the dual responsibility of husband and wife.
    (B) Most people are not mature enough to be married.
    (C) Among most married couples the wife wants to have children.
    (D) There are a differing set of values honored by men and women.
    (E) It is advantageous to be single form a tax point of view.

16. Which among the following would strengthen the above argument?

    (A) Very few people prefer to bring up a family.
    (B) Emotionally divorce is not an easy procedure.
    (C) 700 couples from 1000 surveyed couples complained that they were losing their identity.
    (D) Married people have to make a considerable effort to make the marriage last.
    (E) The financial complications arising from a divorce are becoming decreasingly complicated.

17. Emma: Financially the private university is ruined. In case it raises its tuition fees, the number of paying students will come down and if they refrain from raising the fees the university will go bankrupt.

    Richard: The pay of the teachers and professors could be cut.
    Richard responds to Emma’s argument by

    (A) drawing attention to an earlier overlooked alternative.
    (B) attacking her method of reasoning.
    (C) resigning himself to the demise of the private university.
    (D) attacking Emma on a personal level.
    (E) taking the side of the university as against that of the students.

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Index

Test 1

Section 1 : Verbal Section
Section 2 : Quantitative Section
Section 3 : Analytical Section
Section 4 : Quantitative Section
Section 5 : Verbal Section
Section 6 : Analytical Section
Section 7 : Verbal Section
Answer Key To Test 1

Answer Explanation To Test 1
Section 1 : Verbal Section
Section 2 : Quantitative Section
Section 3 : Analytical Section
Section 4 : Quantitative Section
Section 5 : Verbal Section
Section 6 : Analytical Section
Section 7 : Verbal Section