Read Southeast Bank Limited Officer 2011 Exam
1. Jony is taller than Kristin.
Lito is taller than Maria.
Maria is shorter than Nancy.
Kristin and Nancy are exactly the same height.
If the information above is true, which of the following must also be true?
(a) Lito is taller than Nancy.
(b) Lito is taller than Jony.
(c) Kristin is shorter than Lito.
(d) Jony is taller than Maria.
(e) Kristin is shorter than Maria.
Ans. d
2. Mr. Shafiq receives 10% raise each year for three consecutive years. What was his salary after three raises if his salary was TK. 10,000 per month?
(a) 13105
(b) 13310
(c) 14520
(d) 14109
(e) 15221
Ans. b
3. GDP growth target 2010-11 of Bangladesh has been fixed as:
(a) 5.3%
(b) 5.5%
(c) 6.7%
(d) 4.8%
(e) 7.1%
Ans. c
4. The CDBL stands for:
(a) Center for Development Banks of Loans
(b) Center for Depository Banks Liabilities
(c) Center Depository Bangladesh Limited
(d) Cash Depository Bank Limited.
(e) Commercial Depository Bank Limited.
Ans. c
5. In Bangladesh, Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced in:
(a) 1st July, 1991
(b) 1st July, 1993
(c) 1st July, 1993
(d) 1st July, 1996
(e) 1st July , 1997
Ans. a
6. Which organization declared Sundarban as the “World Heritage Site”?
(a) UNESCO
(b) UNICEF
(c) UNDP
(d) UNHCR
(e) UNO
Ans. a
7. Circuit breaker in a stock exchanges works as:
(a) A medium to split stocks
(b) A policy for broker house
(c) A constraint issues bonus shares
(d) A method of stock purchase
(e) An obstacle to excessive change in share price
Ans. e
8. “Puscus Award” is related to the game of:
(a) Cricket
(b) Basketball
(c) Hockey
(d) Rugby
(e) Football
Ans. e
9. The watchodog of international trade is:
(a) World Bank
(b) GATT
(c) WTO
(d) IMF
(e) BIS
Ans. c
10. Call money rate means:
(a) Loan rate issued during the Eid
(b) Landing rate by commercial banks to consumers
(c) Inter-bank short-term lending and borrowing rate
(d) Borrowing rate from central bank
Ans. d
11. Peace Bridge is situated between the borders of :
(a) Israel and Palestine
(b) North Korea and South Korea
(c) India and Bangladesh
(d) India and Pakistan
(e) USA and Canada
Ans. e
12. The ratio of x y is 1 2 .If the ratio of x + 2 to y + 1 is 2 3 then what is the value of x?
(a) 6
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 1
Ans. b
13. At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at his sale, the amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets?
(a) 20%
(b) 33 1 3 %
(c) 40%
(d) 60%
(e) 66 2 5 %
Ans. e
14. In which year did Bangladesh introduce the floating exchange rate system?
(a) 1999
(b) 2000
(c) 2001
(d) 2002
(e) 2003
Ans. e
15. He is quick ___ figures.
(a) for
(b) at
(c) of
(d) about
(e) over
Ans. b
16. The length of a rectangle is 7 more than its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is the same as the perimeter of a square of side 8.5, what is the length of a diagonal of the rectangle?
(a) 12
(b) 13
(c) 23
(d) 31
(e) 33
Ans. b
17. The country known as the land of midnight sun is :
(a) Canada
(b) England
(c) Japan
(d) Indonesia
(e) Norway
Ans. e
18. If a x b = ab (b – a) for all numbers a and b such that a does not equal to b, what is the value of 5 × (2 × 3)?
(a) 30
(b) 25
(c) 24
(d) 10
(e) 1
Ans. a
19. Taxi service change an initial fee of Tk. 21.50 at the beginning of a trip and a additional change of Tk. 4.50 for each 2 5 of a mile traveled. What is the total change for a trip of 3.6 miles?
(a) Tk. 51. 50
(b) Tk. 62.00
(c) Tk. 65.00
(d) Tk. 68.00
(e) Tk. 53.00
Ans. b
20. The Headquarter of Transparency International is located at :
(a) Sweden
(b) Berlin
(c) Bonn
(d) Washington
(e) Australia
Ans. b
21. “Democracy Square” is located in:
(a) Prompen
(b) Islamabad
(c) Dhaka
(d) New Dhaka
(e) Tokyo
Ans. a
22. Commercial banks of Bangladesh are regulated mostly by the provisions of:
(a) Bank Companies Act. 1991
(b) Companies Act. 1994
(c) Bangladesh Bank Order, 1977
(d) Financial Institutions Act, 1991
(e) Scheduled Banks Act. 1991
Ans. a
23. The meaning of maiden in ‘Maiden speech’ is :
(a) meaningful
(b) meaningless
(c) late
(d) first
(e) informative
Ans. d
24. Guantenemo prison is located at:
(a) USA
(b) UK
(c) Iraq
(d) Cuba
(e) Australia
Ans. d
25. Which of the following is not an adjective?
(a) Humor
(b) Humble
(c) Humane
(d) Humid
(e) Human
Ans. a
26. If 5a = 3b = 25, then 30ab=
(a) 50
(b) 100
(c) 625
(d) 1000
(e) 1250
Ans. e
27. Which Maughal Emperor initiated the celebration of Bengali New Year?
(a) Shahajahan
(b) Akbar
(c) Babar
(d) Jahangir
(e) Huanyun
Ans. b
28. Bank’s functions do not include:
(a) acceptance of deposit
(b) giving loans
(c) trading
(d) transfer of funds
(e) liquidity management
Ans. c
29. ‘Road accidents have increased significantly’. This statement will be strengthened by the following EXCEPT:
(a) Drivers are running cars recklessly
(b) Only well-trained drivers are driving the cars
(c) Road trafficking is almost absent
(d) Street trafficking is not working at night
(e) Road signals are not abide by the drivers
Ans. b
30. Who is the designer of Central Shaheed Minar Of Bangladesh?
(a) Munir Chowdhury
(b) Abdur Fazal
(c) Lui-Kan
(d) Hamidur Rahman
(e) Qaiyum Chowdhury
Ans. d
31. In banking, CRR stands for:
(a) Cash Reserve Rate
(b) Cash Record Ratio
(c) Cash Reserve Ratio
(d) Cash Reconciliation Ratio
(e) Cash Record Rate
Ans. c
32. The popular nation that a tree’s age can determined by counting the number of internal rings in its trunk is generally true. However, to help regulate the internal temperature of the tree, the outermost layers of wood of the Brazilian ash often peel away when the temperature exceeds 95 degree Fahrenheit, leaving the tree with fewer rings than it would otherwise have. So only if the temperature in the Brazilian ash’s environmental never exceeds 95 degrees Fahrenheit, elay eing the tree with fewer rings than it would otherwise have. So only if the temperature in the Brazilian ash’s environment never exceeds 95 degrees Fahrenheit will its rings be a reliable measure of the tree’s age.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument above depends?
(a) The growth of new ash rings in a tree is not a function of levels of precipitation.
(b) One day Brazilian ash loses rings because of excessive heat.
(c) One day of temperatures above 95 degrees Fahrenheit will cause the Brazilian ash to lose one ring.
(d) The internal rings of all trees are of uniform thickness.
(e) The numbers of ratings that will be lost when the temperature exceeds 95degrees Fahrenheit is not predictable
Ans. e
33. Disposable diapers, while a convenience, are an environmental disaster. If people would use cloth diapers instead of those made of disposable paper, much less paper would be produced saving millions of trees each year. Therefore, people should go back to buying, washing and reusing cloth diapers and Earth’s precious natural resources would not be consumed so rapidly.
This argument depends of which of the following assumptions?
(a) Cloth diapers are never disposed of.
(b) The current trend in infant care is doing things “the old-fashioned way.”
(c) The process of washing cloth diapers consumes fewer natural resources than that of using disposable diapers.
(d) Modern people like their conveniences more than anything else.
(e) The annual cost to the consumer of using cloth diapers in only 20% the annual cost of using disposable diapers.
Ans. c
34. The name of the current president of the World is :
(a) Robert Zoellick
(b) P. Robins
(c) Al-Gore
(d) Franklin
(e) Robert McNamare
Ans.
35. Which of the following words is not in the plural form?
(a) data
(b) radius
(c) media
(d) phenomena
(e) curricula
Ans. b
36. Mr. X invests Tk. 2400 in the Modern Bank at 5%. How much additional money must he invest at 8% so that the total annual income will be equal to 6% of his entire investment?
(a) Tk. 1,200
(b) Tk. 3,000
(c) Tk. 1,000
(d) Tk. 3,600
(e) Tk. 2,400
Ans. a
37. How many times does the digit ‘4’ come to write numbers from 1 to 100?
(a) 10
(b) 11
(c) 15
(d) 19
(e) 20
Ans. e
38. For large farms to be as productive as they can be, their owners need to invest heavily in expensive machinery. They typically require them to go into considerable debt, and interest on this debt is then a significant fixed cost. This high fixed cost makes those farmers vulnerable to operating losses if the price of their products drops.
The information above best supports which of the following inferences about large farms?
(a) They can be highly productive without being profitable.
(b) They tend to be so highly productive that they drive down market prices.
(c) They tend to be consistently profitable if their owners borrow at low interest rates.
(d) They respond to operating losses by increasing their productivity.
(e) They cannot be profitable if their owners depend on credit.
Ans. e
39. If one root of the equation 2x² +3x –k= 0 is 6, what is the value of k?
(a) 90
(b) 42
(c) 18
(d) 10
(e) -10
Ans. a
40. If (5 - 2x) x = 1 and x ≠ 0, then x =
(a) -3
(b) -2
(c) 2
(d) 5 2
(e) 2
Ans. c
41. Suppose, you begin reading a book on page h and end on page k. if you read each page completely and the pages are numbed and read consecutively, then how many pages have you read?
(a) h + k
(b) h - k
(c) k – h + 2
(d) k - h -1
(e) k – h + 1
Ans. e
42. On a certain test, a student must select 3 out of 6 out 6 questions to answer. What is the total number of different combinations of 3 question that the student can select?
(a) 10
(b) 12
(c) 15
(d) 18
(e) 20
Ans. d
43. Which of the following is the lowest positive integer that is divisible by 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12?
(a) 7,920
(b) 5,940
(c) 3,960
(d) 2,970
(e) 890
Ans. c
44. Stock market of our country is directly regulated by:
(a) Securities & Exchanges Commission
(b) Investment Corporation of Bangladesh
(c) Dhaka Stock Exchange
(d) Ministry of Finance
(e) Bangladesh Bank
Ans. a
45. The quantity of goods produced in firm is given by the equation x² +5x =6, where x is number of units produced in thousand units. If you solve this equation, what is the rational level of production?
(a) 6,000
(b) -6,000
(c) 5,000
(d) 1,000
(e) -1,000
Ans. d
46. A square with perimeter 16 is inscribed in a circle. What is the area of the circle?
(a) 4π
(b) 8π
(c) 12π
(d) 16π
(e) 32π
Ans. b
47. A devaluation of currency is expected to:
(a) Increase export
(b) decrease export
(c) Increase import
(d) have no impact on export and import
(e) increase both import and export
Ans. a
48. Bank rate means:
(a) Interest rate at which commercial banks lend money
(b) Interest rate at which Banks get money from other banks
(c) Interest rate that banks change on their credit.
(d) Interest rate that is offered by banks to collect deposited.
(e) The rate at which central bank lends money to commercial banks.
Ans. b
49. What is the ratio of length and breadth of the National Flag of Bangladesh?
(a) 4:6
(b) 3.7
(c) 7:3
(d) 6:4
(e) 5:3
Ans. e
Fill in the blanks
50. Lamia has a great apathy ___ her studies.
(a) for
(b) in
(c) towards
(d) with
(e) against
Ans. c
51. I entrusted her ___ the work.
(a) for
(b) at
(c) with
(d) against
(e) from
Ans. c
Find the correct sentences
52. .
(a) One of my friends are a lawyer.
(b) One of the friends is a lawyer.
(c) One of the friends is a lawyer.
(d) One of my friends are lawyer.
(e) One of my lawyer friends.
Ans.
53. .
(a) They are anxious of his health.
(b) They are anxious for his health.
(c) They are anxious about his health.
(d) They are anxious because his health.
(e) They are anxious off his health.
Ans. c
54. .
(a) Your father works for a bank, isn’t it?
(b) Your father works for a bank, doesn’t he?
(c) Your father works for a bank, don’t he?
(d) Your father work for a bank does he?
(e) Your father works for a bank, is he?
Ans. b
Select the alternative that best replaced the underlined portion of the sentences
55. The supply of food and beverage for the program was abundant.
(a) inadequate
(b) excellent
(c) standard
(d) familiar
(e) plentiful
Ans. e
56. He accused the officer of fabricating the statistics.
(a) concealing
(b) constructing
(c) exaggerating
(d) laying about
(e) upholding
Ans. d
57. The young executives are found of fast food and snazzy dresses.
(a) loose
(b) colourful
(c) ordinary
(d) tightfit
(e) stylish
Ans. e
Select the correctly spelled words
58. .
(a) Incyclopedia
(b) Encycloapedia
(c) Enciclopadia
(d) Encyclopedia
(e) Encuclopidia
Ans. d
59. .
(a) Apropriate
(b) Appropriate
(c) Appropriet
(d) Appropriat
(e) Apprpriete
Ans. b
60. .
(a) Bureoucracy
(b) Boreaucracy
(c) Burcioucracy
(d) Buoreocracy
(e) Bureaucracy
Ans. e