General Aptitude · Verbal Aptitude
Official IIT answer key · IIT Roorkee · Audited Aug 2026
GATE CSE 2017 Set 2 Q61 · MCQ · 2 marks
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Verbal Aptitude in GATE CS evaluates functional English grammar, vocabulary relationships, coherent text sequencing, and formal/informal logical reasoning. Over recent exam editions, the section has shifted from basic dictionary definitions to structural and relational verbal questions, such as semantic intensity gradations and formal propositional logic posed as everyday English statements. Most questions are standard 1-mark or 2-mark single-choice questions (MCQs) testing objective deduction without ambiguous interpretation.
Full Verbal Aptitude guide →“We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent – namely ideology. This was a country where all gestures, even the most private, were interpreted in political terms.” The author’s belief that ideology is not as important as literature is revealed by the word:
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