GMAT Sample Questions Set-1

Categories: GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)

Question: A certain company currently has how many employees?

(1) If 3 additional employees are hired by the company and all of the present employees remain, there will be at least 20 employees in the company.

(2) If no additional employees are hired by the company and 3 of the present employees resign, there will be fewer than 15 employees in the company.

A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.

B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.

C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.

D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.

E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

Answer: (c)

Question: If  and 2y=4, what is the value of +y?

A.

B.

C. 3

D. 6

E. 18

Answer: (e)

Question: Reviewer: The book Art's Decline argues that European painters today lack skills that were common among European painters of preceding centuries. In this the book must be right, since its analysis of 100 paintings, 50 old and 50 contemporary, demonstrates convincingly that none of the contemporary paintings are executed as skillfully as the older paintings.

Which of the following points to the most serious logical flaw in the reviewer's argument?

A. The paintings chosen by the book's author for analysis could be those that most support the book's thesis.

B. There could be criteria other than the technical skill of the artist by which to evaluate a painting.

C. The title of the book could cause readers to accept the book's thesis even before they read the analysis of the paintings that supports it.

D. The particular methods currently used by European painters could require less artistic skill than do methods used by painters in other parts of the world.

E. A reader who was not familiar with the language of art criticism might not be convinced by the book's analysis of the 100 paintings.

Answer: (a)

Question: The technological conservatism of bicycle manufacturers is a reflection of the kinds of demand they are trying to meet. The only cyclists seriously interested in innovation and willing to pay for it are bicycle racers. Therefore, innovation in bicycle technology is limited by what authorities will accept as standard for purposes of competition in bicycle races.

Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above?

A. The market for cheap, traditional bicycles cannot expand unless the market for high-performance competition bicycles expands.

B. High-performance bicycles are likely to be improved more as a result of technological innovations developed in small workshops than as a result of technological innovations developed in major manufacturing concerns.

C. Bicycle racers do not generate a strong demand for innovations that fall outside what is officially recognized as standard for purposes of competition.

D. The technological conservatism of bicycle manufacturers results primarily from their desire to manufacture a product that can be sold without being altered to suit different national markets.

E. The authorities who set standards for high-performance bicycle racing do not keep informed about innovative bicycle design.

Answer: (c)

Question: Products sold under a brand name used to command premium prices because, in general, they were superior to non brand rival products. Technical expertise in product development has become so widespread, however, that special quality advantages are very hard to obtain these days and even harder to maintain. As a consequence, brand-name products generally neither offer higher quality nor sell at higher prices. Paradoxically, brand names are a bigger marketing advantage than ever.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the paradox outlined above?

A. Brand names are taken by consumers as a guarantee of getting a product as good as the best rival products.

B. Consumers recognize that the quality of products sold under invariant brand names can drift over time.

C. In many acquisitions of one corporation by another, the acquiring corporation is interested more in acquiring the right to use certain brand names than in acquiring existing production facilities.

D. In the days when special quality advantages were easier to obtain than they are now, it was also easier to get new brand names established.

E. The advertising of a company's brand-name products is at times transferred to a new advertising agency, especially when sales are declining.

Answer: (a)