Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
ESE2022
Most serious students are happy students, and most serious students go to graduate school. Furthermore, all students who go to graduate school are overworked. Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the statements above?
- A Most overworked students are happy students
- B Some happy students are overworked ✓
- C All overworked students are serious students
- D Some unhappy students go to graduate school
✓ Correct answer: (B)
Logical Reasoning & DI › Analytical Reasoning
ESE2022
Some environmentalists question the prudence of exploiting features of the environment, arguing that there are no economic benefits to be gained from forests, mountains, or wetlands that no longer exist. Many environmentalists claim that because nature has intrinsic value it would be wrong to destroy such features of the environment, even if the economic costs of doing so were outweighed by the economic costs of not doing so. Which one of the following can be logically inferred from the passage ?
- A It is economically imprudent to exploit features of the environ ment.
- B Some environmentalists appeal to a noneconomic justification in questioning the defensibility of exploiting features of the environment. ESE ✓
- C Most environmentalists appeal to economic reasons in questioning the defensibility of exploiting features of the environment.
- D Many environmentalists provide only a noneconomic justification in questioning the defensibility of exploiting features of the environ ment.
✓ Correct answer: (B)
Logical Reasoning & DI › Verbal Reasoning
ESE2022
Some argue that laws are instituted at least in part to help establish a particular moral fabric in society. But the primary function of law is surely to help order society so that its insti tutions, organizations, and citizenry can work together harmoniously, regardless of any further moral aims of the law. Indeed, the highest courts have on occasion treated moral beliefs based on conscience or religious faith as grounds for making exceptions in the application of laws. The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?
- A The manner in which laws are applied sometimes takes into account the beliefs of the people governed by those laws. ✓
- B The law has as one of its functions the ordering of society but is devoid of moral aims.
- C Actions based on religious belief or on moral conviction tend to receive the protection of the highest courts.
- D The way a society is ordered by law should not reflect any moral convictions about the way society ought to be ordered. 2022 ESE Unlike newspapers in the old days,
✓ Correct answer: (A)
Logical Reasoning & DI › Verbal Reasoning
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