Twenty-four multiple choice questions built on three passages, the first topic in the Comprehension track. Five previous year questions from the real AAI ATC papers are included, and the passages have been rewritten to carry the same content those questions test.
Passage 1. The word sport may be said to stand for five qualities: sincerity, punctuality, obedience, regularity and tenacity. These are also the qualities a person needs in order to prosper in life. Sport is a route to physical fitness, and so it has an important place in human life. The old proverb runs, All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Unrelieved work tells upon our nerves and we lose our enthusiasm. Sport refreshes us and supplies fresh vigour. It makes a person physically fit, keeps the mind alert and healthy, and teaches cooperation and the acceptance of defeat. A player learns to obey the captain, to arrive on time and to keep trying when losing. These habits, once formed on the field, carry over into every other part of life.
Passage 2. Dr John Snow, often called the father of epidemiology, was an obstetrician with an interest in many branches of medical science. He had long believed that water contaminated by sewage was the cause of cholera. Snow published an article setting out his theory in 1849, but doctors and scientists thought he was on the wrong track and held to the established belief that cholera was caused by breathing vapours, or a miasma, in the air. When a severe eruption of the disease occurred in one district of London, Snow collected data on where each victim had lived and drawn water. Plotting the deaths on a map, he traced the outbreak to a single public hand pump, and persuaded the local authorities to remove its handle. The number of new cases fell away sharply, and his patient collection of evidence eventually overturned the accepted theory.
Passage 3. It is hard to imagine urban India without its metro trains, the giant aluminium snakes sliding above and below the ground of bustling cities, carrying millions of people every day. Delhi has the largest network. Much of this is credited to E. Sreedharan, known as the Metro Man. By his own account he had an uneventful career in the Indian Railways from December 1954 to June 1990. The turning point came afterwards, when he was asked to build the Konkan Railway and later the Delhi Metro. He insisted on finishing every stage ahead of schedule and within budget, and treated punctuality and workmanship as matters of principle rather than convenience. Colleagues recall that he set deadlines publicly so that there could be no quiet slippage.
Six questions on method rather than content.
Check only after you have attempted every question. Tap any question above to see the full explanation.
All thirty questions with the formula sheet printed on the front page and ruled working space for your circuit reductions. Print it, solve it, keep it.
Live classes cover the full Class 11 and 12 physics and maths syllabus for AAI ATC, taught from the real question papers with the method for each question type drilled until it is automatic.