Numerical and verbal reasoning (A category)
· Question 1.
Text (questions 1-4)
Entrepreneurs running small firms play a vital role in ensuring a healthy economy, not just from a business perspective, but also in social, educational and political terms. They compete with the large businesses that would otherwise dominate the markets and are key providers of new jobs. Smaller businesses are able to accommodate working patterns tailored to the employee’s needs. They are, therefore, valuable sources of employment for the large number of people with family responsibilities who wish to remain part of the labour market but are unable, because of domestic commitments, to take up full-time employment.
Base your answers only on the information given in the text
Question 1:
Entrepreneurs tend not to compete with large organisations.
o A. True
o B. False
o C. Cannot say
· Question 2. Large businesses do not want to accommodate an employee’s individual employment needs.
· Question 3. Small firms run by entrepreneurs provide no benefits for the community.
· Question 4. More new jobs are provided by entrepreneurs than large organisations.
· Question 5.
Text (questions 5-8)
Advertising and selling books via Internet sites is becoming more popular with traders. It costs less to publicise a book on the Internet than by traditional methods, and as books are stored in warehouses prior to being despatched to customers, overheads are lower than those of shops. True, the price war on the Internet is likely to put pressure on royalties, with publishers demanding that they be calculated not on the cover prices of books but on the prices actually received for them. However, these discounts will be greatest on best-sellers, rather than other books.
Question 5:
The consumer demand for books sold on the Internet is increasing.
· Question 6. The cost of placing an advertisement for a book on the Internet is less than other methods of marketing.
· Question 7. Internet bookstores offer their biggest discounts on less popular books.
· Question 8. Writers will definitely lose money because of the nature of Internet book-selling.
· Question 9.
Text (questions 9-12)
The number of accidents, which occur during the course of the working day, will never be reduced to zero, regardless of the attempts of regulating bodies. This is because all activity inevitably involves some degree of risk and luck. However, it is possible to reduce the number of occupational accidents, and one way of doing this would be to impose punitive fines on organisations within which occupational accidents occur. Whilst this will result in cases of injustice to some organisations, the overall effect for the employee, in terms of securing a safer workplace, will surely be beneficial
Question 9:
Some accidents at work are the result of misfortune.
· Question 10. Organisations have no power to make workplaces safer.
· Question 11. Under the proposed system of fines, organisations taking safety seriously would have nothing to fear.
· Question 12. A system of fines is the best way to reduce accidents in the workplace.
· Question 13.
Tables (questions 13-16)
Question 13:Which country has the same percentage of people using private and public vehicles to get to work?
o A. Country A
o B. Country B
o C. Country C
o D. Country D
· Question 14.
In which country is there the biggest difference between the numbers of people in the 5 – 14 and 15 – 24 year old categories?
· Question 15.
Approximately how many people in country B travel to work by motorcycle?
o A. 3 million
o B. 5 million
o C. 7 million
o D. 9 million
· Question 16.
What is the approximate difference between the number of people taking public and private vehicles to work in country B ?
o A. 1 million
o B. 1.5 million
o C. 3 million
o D. Cannot say
· Question 17.
Graphs (questions 17-20)
Question 17:In country A, which source of energy had the largest proportional change between 1987 and 1997?
o A. Coal
o B. Petroleum
o C. Natural gas
o D. Other
· Question 18. For country A in 1987 how much of the total energy consumption was provided for by coal?
o A. 85 Million tonnes of oil equivalent
o B. 95 Million tonnes of oil equivalent
o C. 105 Million tonnes of oil equivalent
o D. 115 Million tonnes of oil equivalent
· Question 19. Which country showed the greatest percentage change in total energy consumption between 1987 and 1997?
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