Digital Art Access and Control

• VARC section focuses on comprehension and critical reasoning.

Comprehension Passage 1

• The passage explores the topic of access and control of art in the digital age, especially through streaming services.
• Streaming services have been accused of controlling access to culture rather than expanding it, citing examples of content removal and editing.
• The author questions whether returning to physical media is the right solution, considering the issues of longevity and accessibility.
• Digital movie purchases are also not completely secure, as access can be restricted based on territory and rights agreements.
• Even managing DRM-free copies comes with challenges related to file format standards and data decay.
• The author draws parallels to historical instances of film loss due to accident, negligence, or studio decisions.
• Studios may be willing to remove content to improve short-term profits, despite stressing the value of their intellectual property.

Question 1 Analysis

• The correct answer (Option 4) focuses on how technology and platform policies can counterintuitively make access to art more difficult.
• Digital formats, while offering convenience, may also complicate access due to technology and corporate decisions.

Question 2 Analysis

• The example of Netflix editing Stranger Things illustrates the fear that digital platforms might alter or manipulate art after its release.
• The correct answer (Option 1) highlights concerns over streaming services changing original works and manipulating access.

Question 3 Analysis

• The passage emphasizes the instability of digital access to films.
• Option 4, studios committing to perpetual and platform-independent access to digital content, would best invalidate the passage's main argument.

Question 4 Analysis

• The sentence emphasizes how cinema once had a brief, ephemeral existence.
• Films are no longer constrained by this temporality and can be expected to remain accessible long after they leave the cinema.
• The passage suggests that today, films are expected to be available for a long time.

Question 5 Analysis

• The odd sentence is Option 2, which talks about the improvement of public transport services due to increased ridership.
• All other sentences discuss a decline in the use of public transport, with reasons and contributing factors.

Comprehension Passage 2

• The passage explores the idea of craftsmanship in contrast to efficiency and mass production.
• Crafts require distinct skills, an all-round approach, devotion, and focus on communal interest, emphasizing human touch and individual judgment.
• The contrast emerged in the 19th century with the rise of the "American system" and mass-produced devices like the Singer sewing machine.
• This led to reactions like the Arts and Crafts movement and the "small is beautiful" movement, with a third movement emerging due to environmental concerns.
• Potential markets for crafts include consumers willing to pay a premium or those wanting to support local workers/reduce environmental impact.
• Craftsmanship offers workers autonomy and creative choices, leading to more satisfying jobs.
• As an example, the academics cite the "agile" manifesto in the software sector.
• Regulatory requirements could create difficulty for small crafts outfits to compete.
• Medieval craft guilds were monopolies which resisted new entrants.

Question 6 Analysis

• The author questions the ability of crafts to create substantial employment due to regulatory requirements that may be difficult for small outfits to navigate.
• Large companies benefit from regulatory requirements, making it hard for small craft outfits to compete.

Question 7 Analysis

• The passage suggests that craft guilds were monopolies that resisted new entrants, which aligns with a lack of promotion for creativity.
• The fact that craft guilds resembled mass production in is that they did not necessarily promote creativity.

Question 8 Analysis

• There is an exception to the most recent revival in interest in the crafts.
• The passage discusses support for local goods and environmental concerns, but doesn't stress the importance of a niche market for individual creations.

Question 9 Analysis

• We can infer that creativity in the crafts could be stifled if the market becomes too organised.
• It would not be inconsistent with views stated in the passage.

Question 10 Analysis

• The similarity in brain structure explains why animals show emotions typically associated with humans.
• The passage emphasizes that animals and humans share brain structures, particularly in the limbic system, which explains the shared emotions.

Question 11 Analysis

• There is one sentence that is the right fit for the paragraph.
• The sentence "Understanding central Asia's role helps developments make more sense not only across Asia but in Europe, the Americas and Africa" fits in to the sentence where the passage concludes by emphasizing the broader implications of understanding the Silk Roads' central role in global affairs.

Question 12 Analysis

• The passage describes usability testing in cartography due to the new technological developments
• Today, cartographers also need to look into the usability of maps because of the new technological developments.

Question 13 Analysis

• It is important how you organise the brain
• The brain isn't organized the way you might set up your home office or bathroom medicine cabinet.

Question 14 Analysis

• A sentence can provide clarification to a statement
• Comprehending a wide range of emotions, Renaissance music nevertheless portrayed all emotions in a balanced and moderate fashion.

Question 15 Analysis

• The term "homo economicus" refers to an economic model of rational behaviour.
• It describes an individual who always makes decisions by considering the utility of their actions and maximizing their personal benefit, often making decisions based solely on their preferences.

Question 16 Analysis

• The author uses the phrase "times have changed" sarcastically, referring to how economists, once closed off from other disciplines, are now becoming more open by incorporating ideas from fields such as psychology and history.

Question 17 Analysis

• Economists like Becker used economic methods to non-market phenomena, but did not borrow from other disciplines like anthropology or history.
• Becker applied economic methods to non-market phenomenta.

Question 18 Analysis

• He is ignoring the role of institutions in mediating the link between perceptions and behavior.

Question 19 Analysis

• That the publication of Singer's Animal Liberation in 1975 interrupts the otherwise philosophical argument.

Question 20 Analysis

• Language and visual signs are codes, and some become so widespread they appear naturally given, effectively hiding the coding mechanisms.

Comprehension Passage 3

• The passage discusses the challenges faced by the western barred bandicoot in Australia due to colonial-era transformations of its ecosystem.
• British colonists weren't much impressed with the small-bodied, slender-snooted marsupials called bandicoots.
• Adaptations did not prepare the bandicoot for the onslaught of imported British animals.
• By the 1940s the species persisted only on two predator-free islands in Shark Bay.
• Now Wild Deserts is using descendants of those few thousand island survivors, called Shark Bay bandicoots, in a new effort to seed a mainland bandicoot revival.
• With their constant digging, the bandicoots trap moisture and allow for seed germination, helping the desert restore itself.
• They have a new nickname-a flattering one, this time. "We call them ecosystem engineers," Pedler says.

Question 21 Analysis

• The list includes one characteristic of the bandicoot which is not an accurate description.
• The passage does not mention the bandicoot as using camouflage and digging in such a way.

Question 22 Analysis

• The correct answer related to the text use of the word 'exclosures'.
• Exclosures are enclosures to prevent unwanted animals from entering.

Question 23 Analysis

• A gsit of the passage describes an invasive species being taken out by rescuers in efforts to build back the poluation.
• A type of bandicoots was nearly wiped out by invasive species but rescuers now pin hopes on a remnant island population.

Question 24 Analysis

• The purpose of bandicoots alering an environment that led to a special name.
• The term "ecosystem engineers" is used to describe the bandicoots because they aided in altering an arid environment..

DILR Section Notes

Chart Analysis

• Dheeraj, Samantha, and Nitesh visited countries in Asia, Europe, and the rest of the world (ROW).

Key Facts

• Total 32 countries visited by at least one person.
• USA (ROW) is the only country visited by all three.
• China (Asia) visited only by Dheeraj and Nitesh.
• France (Europe) visited only by Dheeraj and Samantha.
• Half the countries visited by both Samantha and Nitesh are in Europe.

Questions

Question 1

• Asks for count of Asian countries visited by at least one of the three.
• Total countries visited in Asia is 3.

Question 2

• Asks for the count of European countries visited only by Nitesh.
• The only countries are in Europe, which is in total 2.

Question 3

• Wants to know any ROW countries visited by Nitesh and Samanatha.
• The solution is 4 due to it being overlap.

Question 4

• The solution is 12 due to Europe by considering the unique visits by each individual.

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Question 5

• Asks for the total stars recieved by D.
• Each blogger recieved 45 in total.

Question 6

• Asks for the total stars recieved by D.
• Each blogger must be a multiple of 5, making the solution 3.

Question 7

• Two bloggers made stars by surpfers.
• Correct answers is 2 based on this surrouding information.

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Question 8

• Some bloggers give stars out under these conditions.
• The number of stars recieved by C from M.

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Question 9

• The options to study the percentagage of the students in election
• Correct to adjust total amount, the answer is 4.

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Question 10

• Looking for the total amount of minimum percentage with these options, results in 1.
• Comes with result 36.

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Question 11

• Maximum percent can she get with all the vote
• Solution for maximize for Amina and to get results to be correct, becomes 4.

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Question 12

• Ramya runs campaign attacking Amina, solution has to have guaranteed option to receive
• 4 is the correct answer.

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Question 13

• The maximum of the candidates to obtain votes
• Vote margins occur what one candidate wins

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Question 14

• Average of opening closing prices in share.
• D.

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Question 15

• The SPV of shares
• We find 4 shares with greater number.

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Question 16

• Share losses
• The daily loss is calculated using this formula, solution becomes A.

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Question 17

• Percentage wealth gain in share prices
• There are some bullish sales, which leads to a answer of 1.

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Question 18

• Number of rounds in the tournament
• Results being a total of 8 in the tournament.

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Question 19

• Number of the team with in round was, solution is 4.
• Consistent to the rules of which they had played.

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Question 20

• Number of team part of the group solution turns out to be 3.
• Number of team part of group turns out. Number 3

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Question 21

• Number of match according facts, correct solutions ends up as 3
• To scheduling matches

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Question 22

• What number of team to play on.
• Consistent of which they had played after in schedule.

Quant Section Notes

Question 1:

• Initial quantity of grains problem solvable by setting up an equation tracking sales to customers.

Question 2:

• Profit percentage problem includes setting up the original cost and selling price.
• Set up a equation to solve this profit % problem.

Question 3:

• Solution is 18, the question requires an approach in solving for integers for a square root.
• This problem uses some radical functions.

Question 4:

• The solution ratio is 1.80 because you want to find the ratio after doing replacements.

Question 5:

• The correct choice is 3 because some conditions must be met in doing some work.
• You're working together to solve the same equations

Question 6:

• The arithmetic profession, that gives an answer at a calculation of -194.
• Because each term is substituted

Question 7:

• The total possible amount should end at 540.

Question 8:

• Real numbers equation, solution is at a value of 3

Question 9:

• Another real numbers for expression which is at 32//3

Question 10:

• Incomes and increase the value to get it be .13

Question 11:

• Negative root equation can be simplified at number 3, you must apply for the negative roots.

Question 12:

• The sum of natural numbers is 217.

Question 13:

• Some division with remainder equations, makes remainder at 4.

Question 14:

• There are some fruits at play, then solve for this and find 17 to the right.

Question 15:

• The speed calculation was of = 12.

Question 16:

• Solution: Let the four numbers be a,b,c,d.

Question 17:

• The formula required is 10.

Question 18:

• You must distinct digit numbers be 3, that solves to = 31.

Question 19

• The equations sphere has -1.1325.pi

Question 20:

• The are region is .2.pi

Question 21:

• The answer of integers can be taken a 31

Question 22:

• Solution is calculated in bank and answer must be 6