FLAME FEAT · Paper 9

What does the idiom 'bite the bullet' mean in the sentence below?

The company decided to bite the bullet and recall the faulty cars, even though it would cost millions.

Choose the word closest in meaning to the underlined word.

A delayed monsoon can exacerbate the water shortages that many cities already face in summer.

Identify the part of the sentence that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, choose 'No error'.

The manager insisted for / a full report on the delay / before the end of the week.

Choose the option that best completes the sentence.

Although the restaurant's food was excellent, ______.

Arrange the following sentences in a logical order to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. The layout spread so widely that, by the time jams were no longer a problem, typists were too used to it to switch.

2. The QWERTY keyboard was designed in the 1870s for mechanical typewriters.

3. Its arrangement of letters is said to have reduced jams by keeping commonly paired letters apart.

4. That is why a layout built for nineteenth-century machines still sits on today's laptops and phones.

Read the following passage and answer the given question.

Organic farming introduces polyculture, mixed farming, waste recycling/management, value addition to farm produce, which create employment opportunities. Everyone knows that there are poisonous substances in plants too. That does not mean everything organic is poisonous; one should know what to consume and what not to consume. The spoilt portions of vegetables can be removed, but toxins introduced by chemical farming cannot be removed at all. The presence of residual poisons in all produce, including mother's milk, has been acknowledged by most universities and research institutes. This information alone is sufficient to convince anybody that chemical farming should be stopped. The farmer presumes that organic produce is expensive because of low yield and the consumer has to pay a premium price for no apparent benefit. The consumer is prepared to pay a premium price for organic food which also helps to cut down on medical bills.

What compensatory argument does the author of the passage give in favour of organic products for the consumers?

Read the passage and answer the question.

Teenagers are often scolded for staying up late and sleeping through the morning, as if the habit were simple laziness. Research on the body clock tells a different story. During adolescence, the release of melatonin, the hormone that makes us feel sleepy, shifts later in the evening, so many teenagers genuinely cannot fall asleep early. When school begins at 7:30 a.m., they lose sleep they cannot make up during the week. Some school districts that moved their start time later have reported better attendance and fewer students dozing off in class.

The primary purpose of the passage is to

Four of the five sentences below form a coherent paragraph. Identify the sentence that does not belong.

1. Honeybees tell one another where to find food through a movement called the waggle dance.

2. The angle of the dance on the vertical comb shows the direction of the food relative to the sun.

3. Honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs is said to have still been edible thousands of years later.

4. The length of each waggle run tells the other bees how far away the food is.

5. With these two pieces of information, the other bees can fly straight to the flowers.

If you are kind, then either you will be appreciated or you will be hurt. But you will never be appreciated. It follows that

A city's municipal corporation claims that its ban on single-use plastic bags has been a success, because the number of plastic bags sold by registered shops in the city fell by 80% within six months.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the corporation's claim?

A five-storey building has floors numbered 1 (lowest) to 5 (top). Five friends, J, K, L, M and N, live on different floors.

- K lives on an odd-numbered floor, but not on floor 1.

- L lives on the floor immediately above M.

- N lives on a higher floor than J.

- J does not live on floor 1.

Who lives on floor 1?

A publisher plans to raise the price of its monthly magazine from ₹100 to ₹120. Its finance head argues that this will increase the total money the publisher earns from copies sold.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the finance head's argument depends?

The price of petrol is ₹51.90 per litre. If the price increases by one tenth of a rupee, what is the new price?

Amit worked three more than twice as many hours as Kavita did. What is the maximum number of hours Kavita worked if together they worked 48 hours at most?

Of the following numbers 100, 100, 100, 105, 102, 120, 125, which of the following is largest?

In November 2019, which Indian shooter won a gold medal at the ISSF World Cup Final in Putian, China?

In April 2026, which Indian grandmaster won the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament in Cyprus to earn a world championship match against Ju Wenjun?

N. R. Narayana Murthy is best known as a co-founder of which Indian company?

In July 2026, India's first hydrogen-powered train was flagged off on which route?