Read Jamuna Bank Limited Probationary officer -2014 Exam
1. The miser gazed ___ at the pile of gold coins in from of him.
(a) avidly
(b) admiringly
(c) thoughtfully
(d) earnestly
(e) surprisingly
Ans. a
2. If x = 2y = 3z and xyz = 36, what us the value of z?
(a) 2
(b) √2
(c) √3
(d) 3
(e) none of these
Ans. a
3. Scientists ___ a new planet.
(a) had just discover
(b) just discover
(c) have just discover
(d) have just discovered
(e) none of these
Ans. d
4. Which of the following banks got license in Bangladesh in recent items?
(a) Midland Bank
(b) NRB Bank
(c) Both (A) and (B)
(d) Habib Bank
(e) All of the (A) (B) (C)
Ans. c
5. Afia can do her term paper in 15 days which takes Babul 20 days finish. What is the fraction of work left if both Afia & Babul work together for 4 days?
(a) 1 4
(b) 1 10
(c) 7 15
(d) 8 15
(e) none of these
Ans. d
6. Buffet dinner at a restaurant cost Tk. 35.50 (excluding sales tax). If the sales was more than 10 percent but less than 15 percent of the pre-tax cost of the dinner, then the total amount paid must have been between –
(a) Tk. 40 & Tk. 42
(b) Tk. 39 & Tk. 41
(c) Tk. 38 & Tk. 40
(d) Tk. 37 & Tk. 39
(e) none of these
Ans. b
7. Mr. Ashan is insured completely for Tk. 50,000 of damages to his car. For any damage above Tk. 50,000, the insurance company will pay Tk. 50,000 plus 20% of the damage amount. For a recent accident, Mr. Ahsan was paid Tk. 56,000 by the insurance company. What was the total amount of the damage estimated?
(a) Tk. 30,000
(b) Tk. 280,000
(c) Tk. 104,000
(d) Tk. 80,000
(e) Tk. 86,000
Ans. d
8. The solid brick shown is made of small square shaped bricks of side 1. When the large brick is disassembled into it component small bricks, the total surface are of all the small bricks is how much greater than the surface area of the large brick?
Layer 1
(a) 32
(b) 40
(c) 60
(d) 72
(e) none of them
Ans. d
9. Which country’s diplomat was arrested by USA recently?
(a) India
(b) Pakistan
(c) Bangladesh
(d) Iran
(e) Palestine
Ans. a
10. According to corporate circles Bengal corporation is pushing through the merger to create a financially ___ company in the processed food business, the group’s thrust area science the 1990’s.
(a) acceptable
(b) powerful
(c) leading
(d) straight
(e) huge
Ans. c
11. Which one of the following in one of the SME Banking products of Jamuna Bank Ltd.?
(a) Jamuna Chalantika
(b) Jamuna Small
(c) Green Banking
(d) Grow Big
(e) Village
Ans. a
12. Irony can, after a fashion, become a mode of escape; to laugh at the terrors of life is in some sense to ___ them.
(a) overstate
(b) revitalize
(c) corroborate
(d) evade
(e) license
Ans. d
13. What was Bangladesh’s sovereign rating assigned by S and R in the year 2013?
(a) AAA
(b) BB+
(c) AAb
(d) AcB
(e) BB_
Ans. b
14. What is the minimum number of chocolates that must be added to an existing stock of 966 chocolates, so that stock can be equally distributed among 6, 7, 8, or 9 persons?
(a) 36
(b) 42
(c) 56
(d) 72
(e) none of these
Ans. b
15. Grameen Bank is regulated directly by –
(a) Bangladesh Bank
(b) PKSF
(c) Ministry of Commerce
(d) BRAC
(e) none of these
Ans. a
16. A jar contains 4 red toothpicks, 10 blue toothpicks and 6 yellow toothpicks. If there toothpicks are removed from the bag at random and no toothpick is returned to the bag after removal, what is the probability that all three toothpicks will be blue?
(a) 1 2
(b) 1 8
(c) 3 20
(d) 2 19
(e) none of these
Ans. d
17. A survey showed the 63% of Bengali people like chicken whereas 76% like fish. If x% of them like both fish and chicken, then what is the range of x?
(a) 0 ≤ x ≤23%
(b) 0 ≤ x ≤ 39%
(c) 4 ≤ x ≤ 35%
(d) 6 ≤ x ≤ 33%
(e) none of these
Ans. b
18. In a library, of the books standing in now on a shelf, an atlas is the 30th book from the left and the 33rd book from the right. It 2 books to the left of the atlas and 4 books to the right of the atlas are removed from the shelf, how many books will be left on the shelf?
(a) 56
(b) 57c
(c) 58
(d) 61
(e) none of these
Ans. a
19. How many numbers from 1 to 200 inclusive are equal to the cube of an integer?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) none of these
Ans. e
20. Jamuna Bank is a ___ generation Bank.
(a) 1st
(b) 3rd
(c) 4th
(d) 2nd
(e) none of these
Ans. e
21. At a party, everyone shook hand with everybody else. It there were 66 handshakes, how many people were at were at the party?
(a) 9
(b) 10
(c) 12
(d) 13
(e) none of these
Ans. c
22. In a college, 45% of the students are boys. If 40% of the boys and 20% of the girls went on a picnic, what percentage of the total students went to the picnic?
(a) 18%
(b) 24%
(c) 39%
(d) 30%
(e) none of these
Ans. c
23. At a particular moment, if the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock is 10°, what was the time by the clock at that time?
(a) 6:20
(b) 6:40
(c) 3:15
(d) 3:30
(e) none of these
Ans. e
24. Rafia ran from her house to school at an average speed of 6 miles per hour and returned along the same route at an average speed of 4 miles per hour. If it took her one hour in total to run to the school and come back, how many minutes did it take her to run from her house to school?
(a) 16
(b) 18
(c) 20
(d) 22
(e) 24
Ans. e
25. Industrial Revolution had originated in –
(a) UK
(b) France
(c) USA
(d) Germany
(e) none of these
Ans. a
26. A survey of City A found an average (arithmetic mean) of 3.2 people household and an average of 1.2 DVD players per household. If 48,000 people live in City A, how many DVD players are there in City A?
(a) 15,000
(b) 16,000
(c) 18,000
(d) 40,000
(e) none of these
Ans. c
27. Present age of Farzana is thrice the present age of Samira who is 20. How many years ago were age of Farzana five times that of Samira?
(a) 3
(b) 10
(c) 7.5
(d) 6
(e) none of these
Ans. b
28. What is the name of the typhoon that devastated Philippines in November 2013?
(a) Irene
(b) Sidr
(c) Philps
(d) Lilly
(e) Haiyan
Ans. e
29. 3, 12, 21, 34, 39 are the first five terms of a sequence. Each term after the first is obtained by adding 9 to the term immediately preceding it. Which term in the sequence is equal to 3 + (33 – 1)9?
(a) 8th
(b) 9th
(c) 32th
(d) 33th
(e) none of these
Ans. d
30. Baki lives 2 miles west of Raju’s house. Rafiq lives 3 miles north of Raju’s house and 2 miles west Diba’s house. What is straight-line distance from Baki’s house to Diba’s house?
(a) 5 miles
(b) 6 miles
(c) 7 miles
(d) 10 miles
(e) none of these
Ans. a
31. At one point, it looked as if an area of agreement would __ especially over the issue of productivity linked wages.
(a) develop
(b) come out
(c) emerge
(d) grow
(e) start
Ans. a
32. A school has raised 75% of the amount. It needs for a new building by receiving an average donation of Tk. 60 from the people already solicited. The people already solicited represent 60% of the people the college will ask for donations. If the college is to raise exactly the amount needed for the new building, how much must the remaining people donate per person?
(a) Tk. 25
(b) Tk. 30
(c) Tk. 40
(d) 50
(e) 60
Ans. b
33. What is Androld?
(a) A toy
(b) Laptop Software
(c) Mobile Operating System
(d) Start
(e) none of these
Ans. c
34. Two outlets of a motor manufacturing company reported the revenue from outlet X in 2013 was down 11 percent from 1011 and revenue from outlet V In 2013 were up 7 percent from 1011. If total revenue from outlet X & V in 2013 was up J percent from 2012, what is the ratio of revenue from outlet X in 2012 to revenue from outlet Y in 2012?
(a) 1 : 2
(b) 4 : 5
(c) 1 : 1
(d) 3 : 2
(e) none of these
Ans. a
35. What is the projected GDO growth rate of the world by IMF for 2014?
(a) 3.6%
(b) 4%
(c) -2%
(d) 1.98%
(e) 2.13%
Ans. a
In each of the following sentences, there is one world missing. Identify the missing world from the given choices:
36. In a debate, it is sometimes necessary to remind speakers about the main points which are considered.
(a) even
(b) for
(c) being
(d) never
(e) regarding
Ans. c
37. Over last fifty years, there has been a growing interest in trade in my country.
(a) towards
(b) the
(c) as
(d) with
(e) start
Ans. b
38. Do not emphasize their mistakes so much.
(a) in
(b) on
(c) by
(d) at
(e) where
Ans. b
39. The doctor advised to take the medicine twice a day.
(a) daily
(b) only
(c) me
(d) within
(e) what
Ans. c
40. The chief guest of the seminar spoke to the audience concerning career.
(a) with
(b) their
(c) about
(d) for
(e) there
Ans. b
In each of the question below are given two statements (i) and (ii), These statements may be either Independent causes or may be effects of independent causes or common causer. One of the two statement may be the effect of the other statement. Read both the statements and decide which of the following answer choices correctly depicts the relationship between these two statements. In your answer sheet:
Mark (A) if statement I is the cause and statement II is its effect.
Mark (B) if the statement II is the cause and statement I is its effect.
Mark (C) if both the statements I and II are effects of independent cause.
Mark (E) if both the statements I and II are effects of some common causes.
41. Statement I. Many schools on the district are close down this year.
Statement II. Severe draught situation gripped the state resulting into acute shortage of drinking water
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Ans. e
42. Statement I. A ban on the use of plastic products has been imposed.
Statement II. Small seal? Units producing plastic products are on the verge of closure.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Ans. a
43. Statement I. Police has launched a crackdown on all the criminal activities in the locality last month.
Statement II. There has been a significant decline in the cases of criminal activities in the locality.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Ans. a
44. Statement I. A large number of devotees visited the temple on Sunday.
Statement II. Every Sunday special prayers are offered.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Ans. b
45. Statement I. A majority of the first year student failed in mathematics.
Statement II. The management has terminated the service of the contractual mathematics teacher.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Ans. b
In each of the question below, there is a rearrange these parts have been jumbled up. Rearrange these parts which are labeled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence. Choose which of the option (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) is the proper sequence and your answer sheet accordingly:
46. I read an advertisement that said
P: posh, air-conditioned
Q: gentlemen of taste
R: are available for
S: fully furnished rooms
(a) SPQR
(b) QSRP
(c) PSRQ
(d) QPSQ
(e) PQRS
Ans. c
47. Science the beginning of history
P: have managed to each
Q:the Eskimos and Red Indians
R: by a very difficult method
S: a few specimens of this animal
(a) QRPS
(b) SQPR
(c) SQRP
(d) QPSR
(e) PQSR
Ans.
48. A French woman.
P: committed suicide
Q: where she had put up
R: who had come to Calcutta
S: by jumping from the first floor balcony of the hotel
(a) QRPS
(b) QRSP
(c) RPSQ
(d) RSPQ
(e) PSRQ
Ans. c
49. When he
P: did not know
Q: he was nervous and
R: heard the hue and cry at midnight
S: what to do
(a) RQPS
(b) QSPR
(c) SQPR
(d) RPQS
Ans. E. RPQS
50. It has been established that
P: Einstein was
Q: although great scientist
R: weak in arithmetic
S: right from his school days
(a) SRPQ
(b) QPRS
(c) QPSR
(d) RQPS
(e) SQRP
Ans. b
In the questions given beloved out of the five alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given definition:
51. Be the embodiment or perfect example of:
(a) Characterize
(b) Personify
(c) Idol
(d) Signify
(e) Exemplary
Ans. e
52. A small shop that sells fashionable clothes, cosmetics, etc.
(a) Store
(b) Boutique
(c) Stall
(d) Booth
(e) Superstore
Ans. b
53. Habitually silent or talks less:
(a) Taciturn
(b) Servile
(c) Unequivocal
(d) Synoptic
(e) Quiet
Ans. a
54. That which cannot be corrected:
(a) Unintelligible
(b) Indelible
(c) Illegible
(d) Incorrigible
(e) Nomad
Ans. a
55. A name adopted by an author in his writings:
(a) Nickname
(b) Pseudonym
(c) Nomenclature
(d) Title
(e) Impersonate
Ans. b
Rearrange the following six sentence in proper Sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below:
1. Its current was very powerful and could take away big tree trunks.
2. There were some children, playing on the bank of the waterway.
3. In the forest of Sonagaji there is a big lake.
4. The excess water started flowing forcefully through the waterway.
5. Once there was a very heavy rain because of which the lake started overflowing.
6. A poor man noticed it and rushed to save them.
The above six sentence in proper sequence:
56. Which of the following should be the first sentence?
(a) 6
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 3
(e) 2
Ans. d
57. Which of the following should be the sixth sentence?
(a) 6
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 3
(e) 2
Ans. a
58. Which of the following should be the third sentence?
(a) 6
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 3
(e) 2
Ans. c
59. Which of the following should be the second sentence?
(a) 6
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 3
(e) 2
Ans. b
60. Which of the following should be the fourth sentence?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 2
(e) 1
Ans. e