NBSAT Sample Paper

• The document is a sample paper for NBSAT (Narayana Business School Aptitude Test).
• The test includes Quantitative Techniques (QT), Data Interpretation & Data Adequacy (DI & DA), Vocabulary, Analytical Reasoning (AR), and Reading Comprehension (RC).

Quantitative Techniques (QT)

• Question 1 involves calculating the number of people who like exactly one fruit, given the number of people surveyed, those who like apples, oranges, and none of the fruits.

• Question 2 deals with simple interest where an amount increases to 1.4 times itself, requiring calculation of the simple interest earned on a specific amount over the same period and rate.

• Question 3 is about calculating profit percentage, selling price and cost price.

• Question 4 requires finding the amount of water to be added to a spirit water solution to convert it to another %age.

• Question 5 involves calculating the net percentage increase or decrease in the price of a machine after an increase and a subsequent decrease.

• Question 6 is about calculating the age of a student.

• Question 7 involves finding the remainder when one number is divided by another.

• Question 8 requires to find the smallest number in an arithmetic progression.

• Question 9 Involves the last digit in the product of 3 numbers

• Question 10 is about calculating the time it takes number of men to complete some work

• Question 11 requires to fing the time to fill a tank.

• Question 12 involves a train travelling at a certain speed crossing a platform, requiring the calculation of the train's length, given the time taken and the speed.

• Question 13 involves permutations with constratints.

• Question 14 involves cost calculation.

• Question 15 involves finding the largest 4 digit number which leaves a remainder.

• Question 16 involves finding the number of even factors.

• Question 17 is about finding percentage of the marked price.

• Question 18 involves calculating principle amount where difference between simple and compound interest is given.

• Question 19 involves percentage and dividend calculations.

• Question 20 involves calculating sides of a polygon.

• Question 21 involves set theory

• Question 22 involves finding the area of trapezium.

• Question 23 involves ratio of incomes calculation.

• Question 24 is about profit calculations.

• Question 25 involves comparing three products.

• Question 26 involves curved surface are calculations.

• Question 27 involves product of factors of 126000.

• Question 28 involves arithmetic progression.

• Question 29 involves finding the number of rows not possible.

• Question 30 Involves remainders calculation.

Data Interpretation & Data Adequacy (DI & DA)

• Questions 31-35 based on a bar graph showing the percentage distribution of total expenditures of a company under various heads during 2018.
• Questions involve calculating ratios, amounts, and percentage increases related to expenditures on research, infrastructure, transport, taxes, loans, and salary.

Statistical Analysis

• Questions 36-42 refer to number of students over the years selected for comptetive examination form 5 states
• Calculate average number of students selected and find the maximum of them
• 1997 had the lowest percentage of selected candidates
• The number of candidates selected from Haryana were 79.5% of Delhi
• Percentage of the number of candidates selected from U.P is the highest in 1997
• Number of total selected candidates are 1515
• Highest number of candidates were selected in 1999
• Total number of qualified canidates were 7000

Pie Chart Analysis

• Questions 43-46 refer to the Pie Chart
• Calculate number of male employees. number of female employees and total number of employees
• The total number of male employees in company B are 1260
• The difference between total number of male and female employees in company A is 220
• The difference between number of female employees in companies F and E is 740.

Logical reasoning with numbers

• Question 47 requires that we have

• Statement 1: The car covers the whole distance in four equal stretches at speeds of 10 kmph, 20 kmph, 30 kmph and 60 kmph respectively.

• Statement 2: The total time taken is 36 minutes

• Question 48 requires both statements to be correct

• Statement 1: Printer M produces m pages in 5 minutes.

• Statement 2: Printer M and Printer N working at the same time produce m pages in 2 minutes

Vocabulary, Analytical Reasoning (AR)

• Questions 61-70 are based on vocabulary, paragraph completion, and logical sequences.
• There are also idiom/phrase questions
• Question 61 answers are (B) demographic, gargantuan
• Question 62 answers are (C) pious, undervalue
• Question 63 answers are (D) reservation, conferring
• Question 64 answers are (B) idyllic, sorrows
• Question 65 answers are (C) outrage, destruction
• Question 66 answers are (A) imagination
• Question 67 answers are (D) complacent
• Question 68 answers are (B) hesitation
• Question 69 answers are (A) Confessed without reserve C) Fought for
• Question 70 answers are (C) CADEB
• Question 71 answers are A) BCDEA
• Question 72 answers are D) transition, saved
• Question 73 answers are D) D is more rich and more varied than is the music of France.
• Question 74 answers are C. Having missed two buses, as they were full and no one got down, Mani, who was at the head of the queue, was determined to get into the third as it pulled off.
• Question 75 answers are D. We have always let our domestic animals run wild, with nothing but a tag pinned to their ears to let everyone know whom they belong to.
• Question 76 answers are A) Both 1 and 2
• Question 77 answers are A) disparage
• Question 78 answers are B) difficult
• Question 79 answers are A) Extravagant
• Question 80 answers are B) Obedient

Reading Comprehension (RC)

• Based on what we read, answer is given below for the questions from 81-90.
• Question 81 answer (D) His job was such that he had to travel
• Question 82 answer (C) His job prevented him from taking leave
• Question 83 answer (D) None of the Above
• Question 84 answer (C) He stood at the door with servants.
• Question 85 answer (C) She enjoyed sending her family gifts at festival time
• Question 86 answer (D) She gave him a hug to express her love
• Question 87 answer (B) The woman's eldest son lived abroad
• Question 88 answer (A) Gone
• Question 89 answer (A) Filled
• Question 90 answer (B) Happily
• Question 91 answer (B) A pioneer of India's industrial growth
• Question 92 answer (A) A textile related industry
• Question 93 answer (D) He helped Ghanshyam Das Birla in the field of business before the First World War.
• Question 94 answer (B) The British rule was counterproductive to India's industrial growth
• Question 95 answer (C) Ghanshyam Das Birla was impressed by Gandhiji's philosopy.
• Question 96. answer B. Was broken into three divisions.
• Question 97. answer B) West
• Question 98 answer B) Egypt
• Question 99 answer C) Antioch
• Question 100 answer D) Graeco-Egyptian kingdom