I didn’t appear in this year GATE Exam. I want to take admission at Nirma University for M.Tech Program. So I want to start preparation for the separate Entrance Exam. Can you pls provide sample papers of Non GATE Entrance Exam of Nirma University? Tell me about total questions and marks for the Non GATE Exam?

The question paper for the Nirma University Institute of Management Entrance Examination is as given below.

DIRECTIONS for Questions 1 to 5: In each of the questions, four different ways of presenting an idea are given. Choose the one that conforms most closely to Standard English usage.

1. A. We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events.
B. We are forced to falling back on the fatalism as an explanation of irrational events.
C. We are forced to fall back on fatalism as explanations of irrational events.
D. We are forced to fall back to fatalism as an explanation of irrational events.
[1] A [2] B [3] C [4] D

2. A. Creativity in any field is regarded not only as valuable for itself but also as a service to the nation.
B. Creativity in any field is not regarded only as valuable on its own, but also as a service to the nation.
C. Creativity, in any field, is not only regarded as valuable, but also as a service to the nation. [3]
D. Creativity in any field is regarded not only as valuable in itself but also as a service to the nation.
[1] A [2] B [3] C [4] D

3. A. The running of large businesses consist of getting somebody to make something that somebody else sold to somebody else for more than its cost.
B. The running of a large business consists of getting somebody to make something that somebody else will sell to somebody else for more than it costs.
C. The running of a large business consists of getting somebody to sell something that somebody else made for more than it cost.
D. The running of large businesses consist of getting somebody to make something else that somebody else will sell to somebody else for more than it costs.
[1] A [2] B [3] C [4] D

4. A. From the sixteenth century onwards, people started feeling disdainful and self-conscious about their body and its products that led to a heightened focus on emotional and bodily regulations.
B. The heightened focus on controlling the body and emotions comes from disdain and self-consciousness about the body and its products, found in the sixteenth century.
C. From the sixteenth century onwards, a growing disdain for and self-consciousness about the body and its products took hold, leading to a heightened focus on emotional and bodily regulation.
D. The heightened focus on emotional and bodily regulations started from the sixteenth century onwards, when people felt disdain and self-consciousness about the body and its products.
[1] A [2] B [3] C [4] D

5. A. If precision of thought had facilitated precision of behaviour, and if reflection had preceded action, it would be ideal for humans.
B. It would be ideal for humans if reflection preceded action and precision of thought facilitated precision of behaviour.
C. It would be ideal for humans if precedence of reflection was followed by action and precision of thought, by precise behaviour.
D. It would have been ideal for humans, if precise action and behaviour preceded precise reflection.
[1] A [2] B [3] C [4] D

Directions for Questions 6 to 10: In each question, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.

6. Bundle
[1] The newborn baby was a bundle of joy for the family.
[2] Mobile operators are offering a bundle of additional benefits.
[3] He made a bundle in the share market.
[4] It was sheer luck that brought a bundle of boy-scouts to where I was lying wounded.

7. Host
[1] If you host the party, who will foot the bill?
[2] Kerala’s forests are host to a range of snakes.
[3] Ranchi will play the host to the next national film festival.
[4] A virus has infected the host computer.

8. Distinct
[1] He is distinct about what is right and what is wrong.
[2] Mars became distinct on the horizon in the month of August.
[3] The distinct strains of Ravi’s violin could be heard above the general din.
[4] Ghoshbabu’s is a distinct case of water rising above its own level.

9. Sort
[1] What sort of cheese do you use in pizza?
[2] Farmers of all sort attended the rally.
[3] They serve tea of a sort on these trains.
[4] Let’s sort these boys into four groups.

10. Implication
[1] Everyone appreciated the headmaster’s implication in raising flood relief in the village.
[2] This letter will lead to the implication of several industrialists in the share market scam.
[3] Several members of the audience missed the implication of the minister’s promise.
[4] Death, by implication, is the only solution the poem offers the reader.

DIRECTIONS for Questions 11 to 15: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

11. A. Surrendered, or captured, combatants cannot be incarcerated in razor wire cages; this ‘war’ has a dubious legality.
B. How can then one characterize a conflict to be waged against a phenomenon as war?
C. The phrase ‘war against terror’, which has passed into the common lexicon, is a huge misnomer.
D. Besides, war has a juridical meaning in international law, which has confided the laws of war, imbuing them with a humanitarian content.
E. Terror is a phenomenon, not an entity – either State or non-State.
[1] ECDBA [2] BECDA [3] EBCAD [4] CEBDA

12. A. I am much more intolerant of a human being’s shortcomings than I am of an animal’s, but in this respect I have been lucky, for most of the people I have come across have been charming.
B. Then you come across the unpleasant human animal – the District Officer who drawled, ‘We chaps are here to help you chaps,’ and then proceeded to be as obstructive as possible.
C. In these cases of course, the fact that you are an animal collector helps; people always seem delighted to meet someone with such an unusual occupation and go out of their way to assist you.
D. Fortunately, these types are rare, and the pleasant ones I have met more than compensated for them – but even so, I think I will stick to animals.
E. When you travel round the world collecting animals you also, of necessity, collect human beings.
[1] EA CBD [2] ABDCE [3] ECBDA [4] ACBDE

13. A. Four days later, Oracle announced its own bid for PeopleSoft, and invited the firm's board to a discussion.
B. Furious that his own plans had been endangered, PeopleSoft's boss, Craig Conway, called Oracle's offer "diabolical", and its boss, Larry Ellison, a “sociopath".
C. In early June, PeopleSoft said that it would buy J .D. Edwards, a smaller rival.
D. Moreover, said Mr. Conway, he “could imagine no price nor combination of price and other conditions to recommend accepting the offer."
E. On June 12th, PeopleSoft turned Oracle down.
[1] CABDE [2] CADBE [3] CEDAB [4] CAEBD

14. A. A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like.
B. I would go to sleep in my hotel room around midnight each night, and when I awoke, my mailbox would be full of replies—sent at 1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23 a.m.
C. One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke up each morning at seven; she could afford that much rest because she had learned to supplement her full day of work by studying in her sleep.
D. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I sent them emails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups.
E. As she was falling asleep she would recite a math problem or a paper topic to herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke up, the problem might be solved.
[1] DABCE [2] DACEB [3] ADBCE [4] AECBD

15. A. To avoid this, the QWERTY layout put the keys most likely to be hit in rapid succession on opposite sides. This made the keyboard slow, the story goes, but that was the idea.
B. A different layout, which had been patented by August Dvorak in 1936, was shown to be much faster.
C. The QWERTY design (patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868 and sold to Remington in 1873)
aimed to solve a mechanical problem of early typewriters.
D. Yet the Dvorak layout has never been widely adopted, even though (with electric typewriters and then PCs) the anti-jamming rationale for QWERTY has been defunct for years.
E. When certain combinations of keys were struck quickly, the type bars often jammed.
[1] BDACE [2] CEABD [3] BCDEA [4] CAEBD

DIRECTIONS for Questions 16 to 20: There are two gaps in each of the following sentences. From the pairs of words given, choose the one that fills the gaps most appropriately. The first word in the pair should fill the first gap.

16. Early _____ of maladjustment to college culture is _____ by the tendency to develop friendship
networks outside college which mask signals of maladjustment.
[1] treatment, compounded [2] detection, facilitated
[3] identification, complicated [4] prevention, helped
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17. The British retailer, M&S, today formally _____ defeat in its attempt to _____ King's, its US subsidiary, since no potential purchasers were ready to cough up the necessary cash.
[1] admitted, acquire [2] conceded, offload
[3] announced, dispose [4] ratified, auction

18. Companies that try to improve employees' performance by _____ rewards encourage negative kinds of behaviour instead of _____ a genuine interest in doing the work well.
[1] giving, seeking [2] bestowing, discouraging
[3] conferring, discrediting [4] withholding, fostering

19. A growing number of these expert professionals ________ having to train foreigners as the students end up _____ the teachers who have to then unhappily contend with no jobs at all or new jobs with drastically reduced pay packets.
[1] resent, replacing [2] resist, challenging
[3] welcome, assisting [4] are, supplanting

20. The _____ regions of Spain all have unique cultures, but the _____ views within each region make the issue of an acceptable common language of instruction an even more contentious one.
[1] different, discrete [2] distinct, disparate
[3] divergent, distinct [4] different, competing