Read IFIC Bank Probationary Officer 2011 Exam
1. If P is the husband of Q and R is the mother of S and Q how R is related to P?
(a) Mother
(b) Aunt
(c) Sister
(d) Mother in law
Ans. d
2. In the last decade there has been a significant decrease coffee consumption. During the same time, there has been increasing publicity about the caffeine in coffee's adverse long-term effect on health. Therefore, the decease in coffee consumption must have been caused by consumers' awareness of the harmful effects of caffeine.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the explanation above?
(a) On average, people consume 30 percent less coffee today than they did 10 years ago.
(b) Heavy coffee drinkers may have mild withdrawal symptoms, such as headaches, for a day or so after significantly decreasing their coffee consumption
(c) Sales of speciality types of coffee have held steady as sales of regular brands have declined
(d) The consumption of fruit juice and caffeine-free herbal tea has increased over the past decade
(e) Coffee price increased steadily in the past decade because of unusually severe frosts in coffee-growing nations
Ans. b
3. Which number will be placed at the sign of interrogation?
(a) 20
(b) 25
(c) 26
(d) 75
Ans. d
4. How much interest will Tk. 2000 earn at an annual rate of 10% in one year if the interest in compound every 6 months?
(a) 200
(b) 210
(c) 220
(d) None of these
Ans. d
5. Walk is related to run in the same way as Breeze is related to:
(a) Air
(b) Dust
(c) Wind
(d) Cold
Ans. c
6. The river which carries maximum quantity of water into the sea is -
(a) Amazon
(b) Nile
(c) Ganges
(d) Indus
Ans. a
7. The compound interest at 10% per annum on a certain amount of money for two years is Tk. 10.50%. Then what is the principal amount in Taka?
(a) 40
(b) 50
(c) 75
(d) 100
Ans. b
8. Many companies now have employee assistance programs that enable employees, free of charge, to improve their physical fitness, reduce stress, and learn ways to stop smoking. These programs increase productivity of the workers, reduce absenteeism, and lessen insurance costs for employee heath care. Therefore, these programs benefit the company as well as the employee.
Which of the following, if true, most significantly strengthens the conclusion above?
(a) Physical fitness programs are often the most popular services offered to employees.
(b) Studies have shown that training in stress management is not effective for many people.
(c) Regular exercise reduces people's risk of heart disease and provides them with increased energy.
(d) Physical injuries sometimes result from entering a strenuous physical fitness program too quickly.
(e) Employee assistance programs require companies to hire people to supervise the various programs offered.
Ans. a
9. Average age of three brothers is 16 years. Average age of these brothers along with their father is 25 years. What is the age of their father?
(a) 42
(b) 52
(c) 41
(d) 45
Ans. b
10. Which country hosted the football world cup in 2006?
(a) Spain
(b) Brazil
(c) Germany
(d) Argentina
Ans. c
11. A company makes a profit of 5% on its first Tk. 1000 of sales each day, and 4% on all sales in excess of Tk. 1000 for the day. What would be the profit of the company in a day when sales are Tk. 6000?
(a) 200
(b) 225
(c) 250
(d) 255
Ans. c
12. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by -
(a) Loard Byron
(b) John Milton
(c) Percy B. Shelley
(d) William Shakespeare
Ans. b
13. The area of a rectangle is 200 sq. meter. If the length is twice the breadth, what is the perimeter of the rectangle?
(a) 40
(b) 50
(c) 60
(d) None of these
Ans. c
14. Given , x 3 +3 x 3 + 4, find the value of x.
(a) 7
(b) 6
(c) 5
(d) 4
Ans. b
15. The author of the ‘Harry potter’ Series of books is -
(a) J. K. Rowing
(b) Mary Stillete
(c) John Kinsey
(d) Robert Sutton
Ans. a
16. If log 1 a = 1, what is the base?
(a) a 2
(b) a -1
(c) a
(d) 10
Ans. c
17. Which number will be placed at the sign of interrogation?
Layer 1 2 4 20 1 5 ? 3 9 90
(a) 20
(b) 25
(c) 26
(d) 75
Ans. d
18. What was Thailand called previously?
(a) Siam
(b) Las
(c) Bantuland
(d) Elephantland
Ans. a
19. The word's oldest known city is -
(a) Venice
(b) Delhi
(c) Damascus
(d) Rome
Ans. d
20. Perimeter of a rectangle is 200 meter. it width is 3 7 of its length. What is the length in meter?
(a) 60
(b) 50
(c) 90
(d) 70
Ans. d
21. Who designed the fist computing machine in the world?
(a) John Von Neumann
(b) Sir Isaac Newton
(c) Charles Babbage
(d) Bill Gates
Ans. c
22. The monthly salary of a person is increased by 10% in one month, but is decreased by 10% in the next month. What is the percentage increase in his original salary?
(a) 0% increase
(b) 2% decrease
(c) 5% increase
(d) None of these
Ans. d
23. What is the most common of all metal in the earth’s crust?
(a) Aluminum
(b) Iron
(c) Copper
(d) Lead
Ans. a
24. (6)(20) + 245 5   = ?
(a) 4 20
(b) 24
(c) 25
(d) 13
Ans. d
25. The permanent secretariat of the SAARC is located at -
(a) Delhi
(b) Dhaka
(c) Islamabad
(d) Katmandu
Ans. d
26. Which country was the final venue of the first Cricket World Cup?
(a) India
(b) Australia
(c) England
(d) South Africa
Ans. c
27. Which one pair of numbers is different from rest three?
(a) 19, 27
(b) 16, 24
(c) 15, 23
(d) 13, 21
Ans. b
28. With 12.50% simple interest rate how many years are needed for a principal to get double?
(a) 8
(b) 7
(c) 6
(d) 5
Ans. a
29. Which one number does not belong to the following series? 3, 5, 8, 11, 17, 23
(a) 8
(b) 11
(c) 17
(d) 23
Ans. b
30. If a number of divisible by 102, then it is also divisible by?
(a) 23
(b) 11
(c) 5
(d) 2
Ans. d
Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below:
A plumber and an electrician have been hired to install the necessary plumbing and electrical fixtures in a new house. Each worker has four jobs, and each job takes exactly one day to complete. The workers will together on four consecutive days, beginning on Monday. The work schedule for the plumber’s jobs-G, H, I, and J-and for the electrician’s jobs –L, M, N, and O-can be arranged at the convenience of each so long as the following conditions are met:
G and M cannot be done on the same day.
H and N must be done on the same day.
I must be done on the day immediately preceding the day on which G is done.
O must be done on a day preceding the day on which N is done.
31. If H and N scheduled for Wednesday, which of the following could be true?
(a) G is scheduled for Thursday
(b) J is scheduled for Monday
(c) L is scheduled for Monday
(d) M is scheduled for Wednesday
(e) O is scheduled for Thursday
Ans. c
32. If J and M are scheduled for Thursday, which of the following must be true?
(a) G is scheduled for Monday
(b) I is scheduled for Tuesday
(c) L is scheduled for Wednesday
(d) N is scheduled for Wednesday
(e) O is scheduled for Monday
Ans. d
33. Which of the following cannot be schedule for Monday?
(a) H
(b) I
(c) J
(d) L
(e) O
Ans. a
34. Which of the following is an acceptable schedule for the plumber's jobs, beginning on Monday?
(a) G,H,J,I
(b) H,I,J,G
(c) H,J,G,I
(d) I,G,J,H
(e) J,H,G,I
Ans. d
Each of the following problems has a question and two statements which are labeled (1) and (2). Use the data given in (1) and (2) to decide whether the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Select one of the following.
(a) Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
(b) Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is sufficient.
(c) Both statement TOGETHER are sufficient but NEITHER statement alone is sufficient.
(d) EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
(e) Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
35. What is the number of member of club x who are at least 35 years of age? (1) Exactly 3/4 of the members of club X are under 35 years of age.
(2) 64 women in club X constitute 40 percent of the club's membership.
(a) .
(b) .
(c) .
(d) .
(e) .
Ans. c
36. A certain company currently has how many employees?
(1) If 3 additional employees are hired by the company and all of the present employee remain, there will be at least 20 employee in the company
(2) If no additional emloyee are hired by the company and 3 of the present employees resign, there will be fewer than 15 employees in the company
(a) .
(b) .
(c) .
(d) .
(e) .
Ans. e
Each sentence below has one or two has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
37. Although weeks remain for concessions to be made and new approached to be attempted, negotiations have reached such a state that management and union leaders are ____ that their differences can no longer be reconciled.
(a) encouraged
(b) bewildered
(c) apprehensive
(d) relived
(e) skeptical
Ans. e
In each of the following sentence, some parts have been jumbled up. You are required to rearrange these parts, which labeled P, Q, R, S to produce the correct sentence. Select the correct sequence from the four answers given against each question.
38. According to an engineer
(P) might hit the market next year
(Q) a newly developed air-coolers
(R) that employed in conventional room coolers
(S) which is based on a principle radically different from
(a) PQRS
(b) QSRP
(c) RSQP
(d) SQRP
Ans. b
39. In the modern times
(P) Certainly
(Q) hijackings are
( R ) experienced by the air personnel
(S) the most cruel from of horror
(a) PRQS
(b) QPSR
(c) RSQR
(d) SQPR
Ans. b
40. This majestic mahogany table
(P) belongs to an old price
(Q) which has one leg missing
(R) who is now impoverished
(S) but not without some pride
(a) PQSR
(b) PRSQ
(c) QPRS
(d) QRSP
Ans. c
41. The doctor’s offer
(p) not only saved Julie
(Q) but enabled her to blossom into a happy woman
(R) from the jaws of death
(S) of marriage
(a) PQSR
(b) PSQR
(c) SPQR
(d) SPQR
Ans. c
Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer from the given alternative.
Of the 197 square miles making up the surface of the globe, 71 percent is covered by inter-connecting bodies of water; the Pacific Ocean alone covers half the earth and averages about 14,000 feet in depth. The Continents - Eurasia, Africa, America, South America NOrth America, Australia and Antarctia - are the portion of the continental message above seal level. The submerged border of the continental message are the continental message are the continental shelves, beyond which lie the deep sea basins.
The oceans attain their greatest depths not in their central parts,but in certain elongated furrows,or long narrow troughs,called deeps.The position of the deeps near the continental masses suggests that the deeps,like the highest mountains,are of recent origin,since otherwise they would have been filled with waste from the lands.This suggestion is strengthened by the fact that the deeps are frequently the sites of world-shaking earthquakes.For example,the tidal wave that in April 1946 caused widespread destruction along Pacific coasts resulted from a strong earthquake on the floor of the Aleutian Deep.
The continents stand on an average 2870 feet-slightly more than half a mile-above sea level. The highest point on the globe, Mount Everest on the Himalayas, is 29,000 feet above the sea; and as the greatest known depth is over 35,000 feet, the maximum relief (that is, the difference in altitude between the lowest and highest points) exceeds 64,000 feet (more than 12 miles). The continental masses and the deep sea basins are relief features of the first order; the deeps, ridges and volcanic cones as well as the plains, plateau and mountains of the continents are relief features of the second order. The modeling of the landscape by weather, running water and other agents is apparent to the observant eye and causes thinking people to speculate on what must be the final result of the ceaseless wearing down of the lands Long before there was a science of geology, Shakespeare wrote, "the revolution of the times makes mountains level."
42. The "revolution of the times" as used in the final sentence means---
(a) the current rebellion
(b) the passage of years
(c) the science of geology
(d) the action the ocean floor
(e) the overthrew of natural forces
Ans. b
43. While the disease is in ____ state , it is almost impossible to determine its existence by ___.
(a) dormant - postulate
(b) a critical - examination
(c) an acute - analysis
(d) a suspended - estimate
(e) a latent - observation
Ans. e
44. When those whom he had injured accused him of being a ____, he restored curtly that he had never been a quack.
(a) Libertine
(b) sycophant
(c) charlatan
(d) plagiarist
(e) reprobate
Ans. c
45. It can be inferred from the passage that the largest ocean is the-----
(a) Atlantic
(b) Pacific
(c) Indian
(d) Aleutian Deep
(e) Arctic
Ans. b
46. Not only the ___ are fooled by propaganda; we can all be misled if we not ____.
(a) ignorant - cynical
(b) gullible - wary
(c) credulous - headstrong
(d) illiterate — mature
(e) fatuous — intelligent.
Ans. b
47. No volume in the history of economic can conclude without the hope that the subject will be ___ politics to from again the largest discipline of political economy.
(a) vindicated by
(b) segregated from
(c) reunited with
(d) recapitulated by
(e) dependent on
Ans. c
48. The Passage indicates that the continental masses ---
(a) Comprise 29 percent of the earth’s surface
(b) consist of six continents
(c) rise above sea level
(d) are partially underwater
(e) are relief features of the second order
Ans. a
49. The peripheral furrows or deeps are found—
(a) only in the pacific and Indian oceans
(b) near earthquakes
(c) near the shore
(d) in the center of ocean
(e) to be 14,000 feet in depth in the pacific
Ans. e
Select the lettered pair of words, which are related in the same way as the capitalized words are related to each other.
50. SCRIPT: PLAY
(a) Player: fan
(b) assignment: course
(c) Score: symphony
(d) collection: story
(e) debate: candidate
Ans. c
51. BUOYANT: SINK
(a) frozen : melt
(b) liquid : evaporate
(c) solid : breakdown
(d) gaseous: expand
(e) insoluble : dissolve
Ans. e
52. MIMICRY: CAMOUFLAGE
(a) photosynthesis : pollination
(b) territoriality : migration
(c) hibernation : generation
(d) mutation : variation
(e) digestion : rumination
Ans. d
53. DENTURE: TEETH
(a) scarf : head
(b) toupee : hair
(c) fingernail : hand
(d) eyebrow : eye
(e) bandage: wound
Ans. a
54. LOGIC: REASONING
(a) ethics : behaviour
(b) arrogance : leadership
(c) sensitivity : morality
(d) bravery : charisma
(e) creativity : enthusiasm
Ans. a