TCS NQT All Slots Analysis 2023

Question 1 – 

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A group of spoiled girls from high school arrived at Reema’s party.

1. Posse
2. Regalia
3. Snob
4. Entourage

Answer – Snob

Question 2 – 

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Not many people understand that those suffering from ______ need help.

1. Kleptmania
2. Keleptomania
3. Klepotomania
4. Kleptomania

Answer – Kleptomania

Question 3 – 

Choose the most appropriate option to complete the following sentences.

A protein breakfast _______ prepare. Top your morning toast with scrambled eggs, a slice of smoked salmon, or some lean ham and , when _______ time, enjoy an omelet.

1. Needn’t take long to; you do have a little more
2. Needn’t taking any longer to; you do has a little more
3. Needn’t taking any longer to; you do have little more
4. Needn’t take no longer to; you do have a little much more.

Answer – Needn’t take long to; you do have a little more

Question 4 – 

Choose the most appropriate option to complete the following sentences.

Performance is _______ of both technical and expressive skills. Technical skills can be taught _________ instinctive.

1. Generally regarded as a synthesis; while expression is more
2. Regarded generally as synthesis; while more expression is
3. Regarded generally as a synthesis; while expression is most
4. Generally regarded as synthesis; while expressions are more.

Answer – Generally regarded as synthesis; while expressions are more.

Question 5 – 

Sentences of the paragraph given below are jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

1. It is considered the most well-known, most widely used toxic defoliants in Operation Trail Dust, as the program was called.
2. The goal of the operation was to defoliate the countryside and as a result, flush out members of the National Liberation Front of North Vietnam and deprive them of access to food supplies.
3. Just as American veterans and people of Southeast Asia still struggle today with the long-term effects of exposure to Agent Orange, so too do the many species of the Southeast Asian forests stripped of their vegetation.
4. Agent Orange was developed by the US Department of the Army Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) and used as a defoliant in Vietnam and parts of Laos and Cambodia from 1962 to 1971.
5. The creation and use of Agent Orange are part of the explosion of chemical fertilizers, insecticides, and herbicides after World War II— one of the main contributors to the alarming loss of biodiversity in the past half-century.

1. DABCE
2. ECDAB
3. EABCD
4. DCEAB

Answer – DABCE

Question 6 – 

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

1. The Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in the Chinese province of Hunan features gigantic pillar-like rocks, the kind you see throughout the movie.
2. The only difference is they aren’t floating; they are the result of many years of erosion.
3. The erosion which forms these pillars is the result of expanding ice in the winter and the plants which grow on them.
4. The floating ‘Hallelujah Mountains’ you saw in the movie Avatar were inspired by a real place on Earth.
5. These formations are distinct hallmarks of the Chinese landscape, and can be found in many ancient Chinese paintings.

1. A, B, E, D, C
2. C, D, A, B, E
3. D, C, B, A, E
4. D, A, B, C, E

Answer – DABCE

Question 7 – 

For the four sentence paragraph below, sentences S1and S4 are given. From P, Q, R and S, select the appropriate sentences that can fit S2 and S3, respectively, (write your answer in the text box provided without any spaces ed. XY or YZ). 

S1 – Owls always attract humans with their spooky yet lovable physical characteristics and mysterious behaviors. 

S2 – 

S3 – 

S4 – Usually, they take a nap facing downward and sometimes they turn their massive heads backward for a comfortable sleep in some different places. 

P – They follow this sleep pattern due to having a heavy head.

Q – They do not build their own nests; instead of manufacturing, they choose to snatch hawks, falcons, eagles, or other animal needs. 

R – But, among several peculiar behaviors of these intriguing birds, what captures most human eyes is how they enjoy slumber. 

S – These enigmatic birds have different sleeping patterns than humans and mammals

Answer – RS

Question 8 – 

Parts of the given sentence have been given as options. One of them contains a grammatical error. Select the option that has the error.

Buddhism does not deny the reality of material existence, nor does it ignore the very great effect that the physical world has at us.

Options

1. Buddhism does not deny 
2. nor does it ignore
3.  the very great effect that 
4. the physical world has at us.

Answer: D

Question 9 – 

Select the most appropriate set of options to fill in the blank.

The Athenians saw Socrates as a threat, especially to the Athenian youth. Socrates A. ________ quite a following among the young men of Athens. He taught these impressionable minds to question everything, even Athenian B._______. Eventually, Socrates was arrested and put on trial for corrupting the youth, not believing the gods, and creating new deities.

The ‘Apology’ is Socrates’ C.________ against these charges. Instead of crying and pleading for mercy, Socrates accepts his charges and attempts to D. ________ the jury with reason. He argued that it was his calling from the gods to seek knowledge and that it was through his questions he uncovered truth.

1. (A)acquired (B)authority (C)defense (D) persuade
2. (A) attempted (B) force (C) security (D) advise
3. (A)enjoyed (B)command (C) protection (D)dissuade
4. (A)developed (B)esteem  (C)shelter (D)provoke

Answer – (A)acquired (B)authority (C)defense (D) persuade

Question 10 – 

Each sentence contains four underlined phrases. Three of these phrases have been correctly used, and one has been incorrectly used. Choose the phrase from the options which best replaces the INCORRECT phrase in the sentence.

Lomov went towards the window there, at a table spotted with ink stains, had seated a young man with his hair standing up in four tufts on his head, and long faded uniform.

Options

1. Spots of
2. Was sitting
3. Over his head
4. Through the window

Answer – was sitting

Question 11 – 

Identify the error in the given sentence

Money, whether it’s represented by seashell, a metal coin, a piece of paper, or a string of a code electronically mined by a computer, don’t always have value.

Options

1.  a metal coin, a piece of paper, or 
2.  a computer, don’t always have value
3. a string of a code electronically mined by
4. Money, whether it’s represented by seashell

Answer: B

Question 12 – 

For the four sentence paragraph below, sentences S1and S4 are given. From P, Q, R and S, select the appropriate sentences that can fit S2 and S3, respectively.

S1: The economist Robert Solow noted that “there is no shortage of talk about the middle class” — and that was 10 years ago.

S2: 

S3:

S4: These definitions range from a wholly subjective set of aspirations to a highly specific measure of household income, and everything in between.

P: There is nothing approaching a universal definition of a middle class.

Q: All of this requires a reasonably clear idea of who we are talking about.

R: In the final analysis, how can the quality of life of the middle class be improved?

S: However, there is a kaleidoscopic range of definitions.

Options

1. S and R
2. R and P
3. P and R
4. S and P 

Answer – S and P

Question 13 – 

Given below is a paragraph with five sentences, which are presented in a jumbled order. Write down the best order (ABCDE) which would form a meaningful, unified, and coherent paragraph. 

A – As in the visual realm, a second picture is not necessary to explain what a first picture means; if it were otherwise, we’d fall prey to infinite recursion. 

B – No one needs to say what facts and objects represent, as they are simply there, embedded in our picture of reality and so to say what they represent is actually nonsense, absurd. 

C – Rather than coming up with a theory about how words and facts represent reality, which is crucial to both realists and anti-realists, he determined that representation is irrelevant. 

D – What Wittgenstein understood is that you can’t use words to explain representation, because words are representation themselves. 

E – Wittgenstein developed a philosophy that was deeply embedded in the world – not in idealized realms of thought like a rational idealist, but in how we talk about the world. 

Answer – EDCBA

Question 14 – 

 Choose the most appropriate set of idioms that would fill in the blanks and complete the text given here. 

Alan and John, both young software engineers founded a 1. ____________ a few years ago. They saw opportunities in the world of social networking and plunged headlong into it. Since they were 2. ________ in this arena, they were not sure of their success but they were mentally prepared 3. ________. Today they have 4. ______________ and have made a name for themselves. 

1. 1. Start up  2. Turn the early corner 3. To toe the boat 4. Hit a gold mine
2. 1. Start up 2. Hitched the wagon to a star 3. To do or die 4. Hit the goalpost
3. 1. Start up 2. The early birds 3. To sink or swim 4. Hit the jackpot. 
4. 1. Start up 2. The early worms 3. To sink or swim 4. Hit the bulls eye. 

Answer – 1. Start up 2. The early birds 3. To sink or swim 4. Hit the jackpot. 

Question 15 – 

Choose the most appropriate set of idioms that would fill in the blanks and complete the text given here. 

Introducing a new idea to launch a product can sometimes become a tough proposition. Not everyone is amenable to unconventional ideas. One can expect stiff opposition to something that is not (1) _______. You can expect CEO’s or other important people at the helm of corporates (2) ______ for coming up with crazy ideas. That’s not all —— there may be others who want to (3) _____ into the conversation as you make your pitch to potential investors. But it’s not a one formula fix for all. You may come across clients who recognise your inspiration and are ready to (4) ____________ only to catch the train of your genius. 

1. 1. Run off the shore 2,. Raking you over the coals 3. Throw a bat 4. Throw caution to the wolves
2. 1. Run off the mill 2. Raking you over the coals 3. Throw a red herring 4. Throw caution to the wind. 
3. 1. Run off the street 2. Toasting on the grill 3. Catch the red herring 4. Throw caution to the wind. 
4. 1. Chip of the old block 2. Roasting you 3. Show a red flag 4. Throw caution to the dogs. 

Answer – 1. Run off the mill 2. Raking you over the coals 3. Throw a red herring 4. Throw caution to the wind.

Question 16 – 

Read the following passage and fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate option. 

There is no denying that the traditional way of learning and development is the most 1. _____ way for education. But of late, self-directed and self-paced 2. _____ method is being used by adults for their professional development and self learning. Owing to the numerous 3. _______ ranging from discharging professional duties to fulfilling family obligations, a significant number of people cannot 4. _____ themselves for a traditional college programme. . 

Blank 1. A. active B. adequate C. effective D. valid

Blank 2. A. teaching B. learning C. training D. studying

Blank 3. A. constraints B. coercions C. restraints D. allowances

Blank 4. A. deny B. enter C. decline D. enroll

1. (1)-D, (2)-A, (3)-B, (4)-C
2. (1)-C, (2)-D, (3)-A, (4)-B
3. (1)-B, (2)-D, (3)-C, (4)-A
4. (1)-C, (2)-B, (3)-A, (4)-D

Answer – (1)-C, (2)-B, (3)-A, (4)-D

Question 17 – 

Choose the sentence in which the underlined idiom has been used appropriately:

1. Old Mrs. Jha kicked at the bucket years ago but her old classmates got to know of it only at another friend’s funeral. 
2. Mom thinks that the old grandfather clock has kicked the bucket; It hasn’t been working for a few months. 
3. Ah Chung, a San Francisco murderer, has literally kicked the bucket. 
4. Some of the fish in my son’s aquarium kicked into the buckets when we went on a vacation. 

Answer – A

Question 18 – 

Four idioms are given below. Choose their sequence that would fill in the blanks and complete the text given here. 

Mr. Randhawa threatened Ms. Puri that he will take strong action against her but he’s a ___________. Not only does she know that very well but she is also no nonentity. She is __________ in cosmetics now, so, instead of reacting, she simply left the building. On her way out she bumped into a friend who offered her a lift but she turned him down. He is known to be a serious __________! She could not find a taxi, so it was ______ for her. 

1. Road hog
2. Paper tiger
3. Top dog
4. Shank’s pony

1. 1243
2. 2431
3. 2314
4. 1342

Answer – 2314

Question 19 – 

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

For the first few days, the two inmates of the small living room hardly conversed. The news reporter’s voice filled up the silence and awkwardness. Sometimes, annoyed with mausaji’s constant channel hopping, Chulbuli mausi uttered a frustrated “Uff-ho” and left the room. All these years she had hardly spoken to her sister’s husband and had never liked the man. Mausaji too shared similar feelings for his sister-in-law. A working woman was of an alien species that Mausaji could not comprehend. He was a man of few words and had traditional patriarchal values. Lali mausi was his type.

It was a strange way that the North Pole and the South Pole came together. One afternoon the heat of Lucknow had made it impossible for Chulbuli mausi to take her beauty nap. Finding nothing purposeful to do, she decided to apply her ‘multani mitti’ face pack. While it dried on her face, she walked into the living room and sat on the sofa. Mausaji was absorbed in the debate between a politician, a social service worker and a film actor on the spread of the pandemic. It was a discussion for the namesake. The cacophony and the loud volume of the television set had turned the room into a madhouse. Mausaji never sat on the sofa. His chair was pulled close to the television. Chulbuli mausi made faces from behind for a while and then with a loud “uff-ho” got up suddenly and snatched the remote from mausaji’s hand and lowered the volume.

Readers, don’t compare this incident with similar everyday situations in your living room! In the last twelve years that Lali mausi had been married, her husband and sister had spoken to each other barely a couple of times. In the initial years, mausaji had tried a few times to talk to his ‘strange’ sister-in-law but had backed off after cold responses. No one knew why Chulbuli mausi disliked mausaji. Relatives thought that it was the natural jealousy of an older sister who wasn’t married. But the truth was something else!

Anyhow, let’s not forget the television remote….Chulbuli mausi had snatched mausaji’s day long companion and sat back on the sofa unperturbed. Mausaji on his part opened his mouth a few times, looked at his sister-in-law’s ‘multani mitti’ covered face and sat down amicably in his chair accepting defeat. In all these years, forget about crossing him in so direct a fashion, no woman had dared open her mouth in front of him. He covertly looked at the remote in the hands of his opponent and then gave up. 

1. According to the passage, which of the following options is true?

1. Chulbuli mausi seems to have come to Lucknow to stay with her elder sister and brother-in-law and is not a regular inmate of their house.
2. Lali mausi who was mausaji’s type must be an obstinate homemaker, who abided by patriarchal regulations and dictates.
3. Mausaji gives up the fight at the end when he was defeated by an opponent who he realizes is his equal and can’t be dominated.
4. Chulbuli mausi was in awe of her brother-in-law and therefore, made it a point to avoid him as much as possible and kept to herself.

Answer – B

Question 20 – 

Mausaji found Chulbuli mausi ‘strange’. What would be the  most correct reason for this statement?

1. Mausaji has traditional values and cannot understand the wilful nature of women like Chulbuli mausi.
2. Chulbuli mausi’s sense of servitude is against the patriarchal principles upheld by mausiji.
3. The docility of Chulbuli mausi baffles mausaji who are not used to such kind of behavior in women.
4. Mausaji did not get a chance to know his sister-in-law well in the last twelve years of his married life and found her ways comprehensible at last.

Answer – A

Question 21 – 

Which of the following statements does not hold good as per the information given in the passage?

1. The scene is a classic example of family feuds caused in traditional set up due to gaps in values and thought processes of different people.
2. The scene described in the passage creates a sense of humour while at the same time making readers aware of the vast possibilities in human psychology and the inherent differences in perspectives.
3. The passage brings to light the concept of ‘new age women’ who may belong to traditional families but are modern in their thoughts and ways of life and do not hesitate to prove their point to others.
4. The passage is an example of serious critical writing on male domination and how women suffer at the hands of patriarchy without being able to take matters into their own hands ever.

Answer – B

Question 22 – 

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

One fact that never fails to astound me: Despite the immense culture changes and leap in knowledge over the epochs, the human brain— that crucible of consciousness, roiling with the psychologies that govern the behaviors we call human nature– has remained virtually unchanged for the past hundred thousand years. How humbling to consider that what is cognitively true of our ancestors—- who, lacking a knowledge of astronomy as the correct frame or reference for planetary motion, explained eclipses as acts of god and comets as omens of ill fortune— is as true of us.

The explanatory contexts in which this tendency manifests today may be different, but it manifests just the same—– especially in our interpersonal relationships, where so much of the correct frame of reference, that is the other person’s inner reality, is invisible to us. It helps to remember that between our feelings and anything in the external world that causes the ripples of consciousness we call feelings— any difficult situation, any painful event, any hurtful action of another— their lie myriad possible causal explanations.

One fact I have learned about life through the empiricism of living: When we are hurt in a relationship, when we are spinning in the blooming buzzing confusion of sensemaking, the explanation we elect as correct usually has more to do with our own fears and vulnerabilities than it does with the reality of the situation; almost always, that explanation is wrong; almost always, the true explanation has more to do with the fears and vulnerabilities roiling in the other person invisibly to us.

And so, sensemaking and storytelling creatures that we are, we move through the real world in a self-generated dream, responding not to reality but to the stories we tell ourselves about what is true — stories at best incomplete and at worst injuriously incorrect, stories about what we do and don’t deserve, stories the cost of which is connection, trust, love. 

The great Buddhist teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh (October 11, 1926 – January 22, 2022) offers a three-step remedy for this elemental human tendency in a portion of his slender, potent book Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm.

Hanh offers a three-step process for correcting wrong perception in relationship conflict and emerging victorious with deeper love:

The first thing we can do in these situations is to acknowledge internally that the pictures we have in our head, what we think happened, may not be accurate. Our practice is to breathe and walk until we are more calm and relaxed.

The second thing we can do, when we are ready, is to tell the people who we think have hurt us that we
are suffering and that we know our suffering may have come from our own wrong perception. Instead of coming to the other person or people with an accusation, we can come to them for help and ask them to explain, to help us understand why they have said or done those things.

There is a third thing we need to do, if we can. The third thing is very hard, perhaps the hardest. We need to listen very carefully to the other person’s response to truly understand and try to correct our perception. With this, we may find that we have been the victim of our wrong perceptions. Most likely the other person has also been a victim of wrong perceptions.

Question – The human brain has apparently not evolved, says the author. Which is its best example?

1. No scientist can definitively verify that our brain has taken a quantum leap in intelligence over millennia. In the 21st century, the volume of rifts in personal & professional bonds indicates that stress kills empathy. 
2. Man fills his brain with copious amounts of useless information, in the process neglecting human ties, love, kindness and self knowledge. Without the last, man is handicapped in his relationships. 
3. Human brains have been compared to the best digital computers and can perceive truths well, but the ego muddies ur thoughts to destroy relationships
4. Humans continue to lack the criteria to figure out the obscure realities of other human brains, as thoughts and opinions are invisible, as once the knowledge of astronomy was in ancient times. 

Answer – D

Question 23 – What is the connection between ‘myriad possible causal explanations’ and ‘our own fears and vulnerabilities than it does with the reality of the situation’?

1. Any breakdown of communication is due to the absence of native intelligence. If both parties drop their psychological guards, they quickly recognise the vulnerabilities of the other, and the true essence of love repairs the breach. 
2. As we are never alone, social pressure, dogma and received wisdom destroy the bedrock of empathy between two partners. We are at the mercy of our elders, our peers and conventional structures of engagement. 
3. The pivotal reason for misery in relationships lies in our incorrect interpretation of the real cause and reason, simply because we are as opaque about our fears and weaknesses as our partner is. 
4. Our own sadness and confusion overwhelm us to a point when it blinds us to the possibilities of explanations and an amicable solution. We retreat into our rigid beliefs., many of that are repressed toxic traumas of childhood. 

Answer – C

Question 24 – Thich Nhat Hanh persuades us to – “stories at best incomplete and at worst injuriously incorrect, stories about what we do and don’t deserve. Stories the cost of which is connection, trust and love.” which tenet is the most imperative?

1. The ability to give space and time for the other to calm down
2. The ability to suspend judgment and listen with a loving heart
3. The ability to empty our brains of anger & allow love entry
4. The ability to reason with our inaccurate stories.  

Answer – A

Question 25 – What do you infer from the following sentence – ‘we move through the real world in a self-generated dream, responding not to reality but to the stories we tell ourselves about what is true”?

1. When we know that the world is an AI generated bubble, and we are simply virtual dolls, it is obvious that we are being directed to dream and move according to the higher beings pulling the strings. 
2. Our brains and thoughts are so complex that they can fool us and take us to a make-believe universe, where we accept all our mythical hypotheses as being the gospel truth, with not an ounce of rigorous analysis or reasoning. 
3. Scientists have tried to understand how we think, how we feel, and how we respond. Most hypotheses state that often the brain cannot differentiate between reality and a dream. No wonder we have so many divorces. 
4. Our social conditioning is so entrenched that we are unable to sift projections from reality. And the sad truth is we do not even understand it until it’s too late. 

Answer – D