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IIT Bombay Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM) Ph.D Entrance Exam Sample Question Paper

General Instructions
1. This test booklet contains four sections with a total of 60questions.
2. Each section has 15 questions with each carrying one mark.
3. Answers are to be written in the last sheet of the test booklet bygiving the appropriate choice among the given options.
4. All Sections are compulsory.
5. For every incorrect answer, there will be a negative markingof -1/2.
6. Calculators and mobile phones are not allowed.
7. All rough work should be done only on the blank pagesprovided for this purpose.

Section I: ENGLISH Comprehension
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the following passage.
Consider the humble jellyfish. Headless, spine-less, without a heart or brain, it has such asimple exterior that it seems the most primitive of creature. Unlike its sessile (attached to asurface, as an oyster is attached to its shell) relatives whose stalks cling to seaweed or tropical coral reefs, the free-swimming jellyfish, or medusa, drifts along the ocean shore, propelling itself by pulsing, muscular contractions of its bell-shaped body. Yet beneath the simple surface of this aimlessly drifting, supposedly primitive creature is an unusually sophisticated set of genes, as recent studies of the invertebrate animal phylum Cnidaria reveal.

1) Which assertion about jellyfish is supported by the passage?
A) They move at rapid rate.
B) They are cowardly.
C) They have lack mobility.
D) They have a certain degree of intelligence.
E) They are unexpectedly complex.

2) The last sentence of the passage serves primarily to
A) explain the origin of a term
B) contradict an assumption
C) provide an example
D) cite a well- known fact
E) describe a process
Questions 3 – 6: Each of the following sentences contains one or two blanks; each blankcorresponds to a word or a set of words that has been left out. Select the alternativefrom the ones given below each sentence that best complete the sentence
3) Those interested in learning more about how genetics applies to trees will have to _______the excellent technical journals where most of the pertinent material is ________.
A) subscribe to … ignored
B) suffer through … located
C) rely on … unrepresented
D) resort to… found
E) see through … published

4) Rent control restrictions on small apartment owners may unfortunately _______ rather than alleviate housing problems.
A) resolve; B) diminish; C) castigate; D) minimize; E) exacerbate
Questions: Choose the correct alternative
5. COMMAND: REQUEST
(A) presume: inquire
(B) recommend: propose
(C) summon: invite
(D) refuse: rebel
(E) authorize: permit

SECTION 2: LOGICAL REASONING (Q11-20)
Answer questions 6-7, based on the following information:
The office staff of an organization presently consists of three accountants (A, B and C) and five secretaries (D, E, F, G and H). Management is planning to open a new office in another city using three secretaries and two accountants of the present staff. To do so they plan to separate certain individuals who do not function well together. The following guidelines were established to set up the new office.

Accountants A and C are constantly finding fault with one another and should not be sent as a team to the new office.
C and E function well alone but not as a team. They should be separated.
D and G have not been in speaking terms for many months. They should not go together.
Since D and F have been competing for promotion, they should not be a team.

6. If A is to be moved as one of the accountants, which of the following CANNOT be a possible working unit? (A) ABDEH (B) ABDGH (C) ABEFH (D) ABEGH

7. If C and F are moved to the new office, how many combinations are possible?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

8. In a code, South-East becomes West; North-East becomes South and so on. What will
West become?
(A) South-East. (B) East (C) North-East (D) North

IIT Bombay Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM) Ph.D Entrance Exam Sample Question Paper

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