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Q1:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

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there was life on earth when Saturn's rings were being formed.

new celestial bodies can form from the destruction of old celestial bodies.

all big things in the solar system have been around since the beginning.

Saturn's ring system is composed mostly of water ice.

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Q2:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q2:

Saturn's rings were created from the remains of older moons

Saturn's lighter rings discolour faster than rings with greater mass.

none of Saturn's moons ever had suitable conditions for life to evolve.

Thethys and Dione are less than 100 million years old.

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Q3:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q3:

rings discolour and darken over time.

atmosphere absorbs comet dust

rings lose mass over time

moons create a gap between the rings.

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Q4:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q4:

helium and methane

rock particles and comet dust.

methane and rock particles

helium and comet dust.

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Q5:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q5:

highlight the beauty, finer structures and celestial drama of Saturn's rings and moons.

demonstrate how the orbital patterns of Saturn's rings and moons change over time

establish that Saturn's rings and inner moons have been around since the beginning of time.

provide evidence that Saturn's rings and moons are recent creations.

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Q6:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q6:

find a solution to the problem of poor service delivery in education by examining different strategies.

critique the government's involvement in educational activities and other implementation intensive services.

analyse the shortcomings of government-appointed nurses and their management through technology.

argue that some types of services can be improved by providing independence and requiring accountability.

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Q7:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q7:

If it were proven that service providers in the private sector have better skills than those in the public sector.

If absolute instead of moderate technological surveillance is exercised over the performance of service providers.

Empowerment of service providers leads to increased complacency and rigged performance results.

If it were proven that increase in autonomy of service providers leads to an exponential increase in their work ethic and

sense of responsibility.

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Q8:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q8:

recruitment of motivated teachers

access to information on the quality of teaching

elimination of government involvement

use of technology.

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Q9:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q9:

improve the skills but do not increase the motivation of service providers.

do not improve services that need committed service providers.

are ineffective because they are managed by the government.

are not as effective in the public sector as they are in the private sector.

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Q10:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q10:

the nurses attended the clinics, but the clinics were ill-equipped.

the nurses who attended the clinics were too poorly trained to provide appropriate medical care.

the clinics were better funded, but performance monitoring did not result in any improvement.

the electronic monitoring system was a superficial solution to a serious problem.

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Q11:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q11:

In narrow fields of knowledge, a meaningful assessment of expertise has always been possible.

Neuroscience is an advanced field of science because of its connections with other branches of science like oncology and biostatistics.

In the modern age, every field of knowledge is so vast that a meaningful assessment of merit is impossible.

Unlike other fields of knowledge, neuroscience is an exceptionally complex field, making a meaningful assessment of neuroscientists impossible.

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Q12:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q12:

If it were proven that teams characterised by diversity end up being conflicted about problems and take a long time to arrive at a solution.

If assessment tests were made more extensive and rigorous.

If a new machine-learning algorithm were developed that proved to be more effective than the random decision forest.

If top-scorers possessed multidisciplinary knowledge that enabled them to look at a problem from several perspectives.

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Q13:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q13:

If a large number of decision trees in the ensemble were trained on data derived from easy and hard cases.

If the types of ensembles of decision trees in the forest were doubled.

If a large number of decision trees in the ensemble were trained on data derived from easy cases.

If the types of decision trees in each ensemble of the forest were doubled.

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Q14:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q14:

modern problems are multifaceted and require varied skill-sets to be solved.

diversity and context-specificity are important for making major advances in any field.

criteria designed to assess merit are insufficient to test expertise in any field of knowledge.

an ideal team comprises of best individuals from diverse fields of knowledge.

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Q15:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q15:

A specialised team of nutritionists from various countries, who are also trained in the machine-learning algorithm of

random decision forest.

A team comprised of nutritionists, psychologists, urban planners and media personnel, who have each performed well in

their respective subject tests.

A team comprised of nutritionists, psychologists, urban planners and media personnel, who have each scored a distinction

in their respective subject tests.

A specialised team of top nutritionists from various countries, who also possess some knowledge of psychology.

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Q16:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q16:

A comparative case study of metrics- and non-metrics-based evaluation, and its impact on the main goals of an

organisation.

More real-life illustrations of the consequences of employees and professionals gaming metrics-based performance

measurement systems.

An analysis of the reasons why metrics fixation is becoming popular despite its drawbacks.

Assessment of the pros and cons of a professional judgment-based evaluation system.

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Q17:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q17:

Improving cooperation among employees leading to increased organizational effectiveness in the long run.

Finding a way to show better results without actually improving performance.

Deviating from organisationally important objectives to measurable yet less important objectives.

Short-term orientation induced by frequent measurement of performance.

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Q18:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q18:

standardised test scores can be critical in determining a student's educational future.

school funding and sanctions are tied to yearly improvement shown on tests.

assessment is dependent on the teacher's subjective evaluation of students' class participation.

the focus is more on test-taking skills than on higher order thinking and problem-solving.

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Q19:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q19:

Long-term organisational goals should not be ignored for short-term measures of organisational success.

Performance measurement needs to be precise and cost-effective to be useful for evaluating organisational performance

All kinds of organisations are now relying on metrics to measure performance and to give rewards and punishments.

Evaluating performance by using measurable performance metrics may misguide organisational goal achievement.

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Q20:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q20:

The actions of police officers and surgeons have a significantly impact on society.

Some professionals are likely to be significantly influenced by the design of performance measurement systems.

Critical public roles should not be evaluated on metrics-based performance measures.

Metrics-linked rewards may encourage unethical behaviour among some professionals.

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Q21:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q21:

The absence of genetic similarities between white-lipped grove snails of Ireland and snails from other parts of Europe,

especially Britain.

The absence of genetic variation between white-lipped grove snails of Ireland and the Pyrenees.

The coincidental evolution of similar traits (white-lipped shell) in the grove snails of Ireland and the Pyrenees.

The distinct lineage of white-lipped grove snails found specifically in Ireland and the Pyrenees.

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Q22:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q22:

why the white-lipped variety of grove snails were wiped out everywhere except in Ireland and the Pyrenees.

how the white-lipped variety of grove snails might have migrated from the Pyrenees to Ireland.

how the white-lipped variety of grove snails independently evolved in Ireland and the Pyrenees.

why the white-lipped variety of grove snails are found only in Ireland and the Pyrenees.

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Q23:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q23:

archaeological evidence of early sea trade between the ancient peoples of Spain and Ireland via the Atlantic Ocean.

the coincidental existence of similar traits in the white-lipped grove snails of Ireland and the Pyrenees because of convergent evolution.

absence of genetic variation within the white-lipped grove snails of Ireland and the Pyrenees, whose genes were sampled.

the oldest fossil evidence of white-lipped grove snails in Ireland dates back to roughly 9,000 years ago, the time when humans colonised Ireland.

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Q24:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q24:

white-lipped grove snails may have inadvertently traveled from the Pyrenees to Ireland on the floor of the small, coast-hugging skiffs that early seafarers used for travel.

the seafarers who traveled from the Pyrenees to Ireland might have carried white-lipped grove snails with them as edibles.

rivers and oceans in the Stone Age facilitated trade in white-lipped grove snails.

9,000 years ago, during the Stone Age, humans traveled from the South of France to Ireland via the Atlantic Ocean

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CAT

Medium

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Medium

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Medium

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Q28:

CAT

Medium

Q28:

Exempting from regulations the editing of endogenous genes is not desirable as this procedure might be risk-prone.

Creating categories within genetically modified products in terms of transgenic modification and genome editing

advances science but defies laws.

A government panel in Japan says transgenic modification and genome editing are not the same.

Excepting microbes cultured in contained environments from the regulations of genome editing is premature.

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CAT

Medium

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Q30:

CAT

Medium

Q30:

If bad Samaritan laws are found to be legally sound and enforceable they must be enacted.

A number of European countries that have successfully enacted bad Samaritan laws may serve as model statutes.

Bad Samaritan laws may be desirable but they need to be tested for legal soundness.

Everyone agrees that people ought to aid others, the only debate is whether to have a law on it.

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CAT

Medium

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Q32:

CAT

Medium

Q32:

Contradicting the previous optimism, latter researchers have proved that there is no consistent relationship between

sports participation and deviance.

Sports participation is linked to class and cultural variables such as education, income, and social capital.

There is a direct relationship between sport participation and delinquency but it needs more empirical evidence.

Statistical and empirical weaknesses stand in the way of inferring any relationship between sports participation and

deviance.

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Medium

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