Aptitude Mechanical previous year questions with answer
Ques 61 Gate 2019 Set-2
Fiscal deficit was 4% of the GDP in 2015 and that increased to 5% in 2016. If the GDP increased by 10% from 2015 to 2016, the percentage increase in the actual fiscal deficit is ___.
Ques 62 Gate 2019 Set-2
While teaching a creative writing class in India, I was surprised at receiving stories from
the students that were all set in distant places: in the American West with cowboys and in
Manhattan penthouses with clinking ice cubes. This was, till an eminent Caribbean writer
gave the writers in the once-colonised countries the confidence to see the shabby lives
around them as worthy of being “told”.
The writer of this passage is surprised by the creative writing assignments of his students,
because _____________.
Ques 63 Gate 2019 Set-2
X is an online media provider. By offering unlimited and exclusive online content at
attractive prices for a loyalty membership, X is almost forcing its customers towards its
loyalty membership. If its loyalty membership continues to grow at its current rate, within
the next eight years more households will be watching X than cable television.
Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the above paragraph?
Ques 64 Gate 2019 Set-2
Two pipes P and Q can fill a tank in 6 hours and 9 hours respectively, while a third pipe R can empty the tank in 12 hours. Initially, P and R are open for 4 hours. Then P is closed and Q is opened. After 6 more hours R is closed. The total time taken to fill the tank (in hours) is ____.
Ques 65 Gate 2019 Set-1
John Thomas, an ________writer, passed away in 2018.
Ques 66 Gate 2019 Set-1
________I permitted him to leave, I wouldn’t have had any problem with him being absent, ________I ?
Ques 67 Gate 2019 Set-1
A worker noticed that the hour hand on the factory clock had moved 225 degrees during her stay at the factory. For how long does she stay in the factory?
Ques 68 Gate 2019 Set-1
The sum and product of two integers are 26 and 165 respectively. The difference between these two integers is _______.
Ques 69 Gate 2019 Set-1
The minister avoided any mention of the issue of women’s reservation in the private sector. He was accused of _________ the issue.
Ques 70 Gate 2019 Set-1
M and N had four children P, Q, R and S. Of them, only P and R were married. They had children X and Y respectively. If Y is a legitimate child of W, which one of the following statements is necessarily FALSE?