Oracle Placement Papers - Aptitude Questions - Written English

Oracle Financial Services Campus Recruitment - 2012

Aptitude Questions

Written English (3/4) 

This is the Basic level of the Written English assessment. It is composed of 25 questions divided into 4 sections used to evaluate your English language communication skills. You will have 25 minutes to complete this assessment. Please note that once you have completed a question you will NOT be able to return to it in order to make changes. no points will be deducted for wrong answers.

Assessment Breakdown

Section	Time	Questions
Sentence Structure	5 Minutes	10
Grammatical Usage	5 Minutes	5
Written Expression	7 Minutes	5
Reading Comprehension	8 Minutes	5
Total	25 Minutes	25 Questions

Written Expression Section

It is designed to test your ability to logically and clearly organize ideas using the English language. For each question you will be given four relevant sentences that you must arrange into a paragraph that makes sense. You will have 7 minutes to complete the 5 questions in this section.

Example:

What is the correct order of the following sentences?

A) Social networking profiles are fascinating exercises on the construction of self-identity.

B) They have control over what profile photos they put up and what information they make available to others.

C) Through a social networking profile, users articulate how they see themselves through their online profiles.

D) In general, people use photos that reveal something about their personalities.

ACBD (Correct)

ABCD

CABD

CBDA

Question Number 1

What is the correct order of the following sentences?

A. The birds sat on the trees and sang so softly that children stopped their games to listen to them.

B. It was a lovely garden with soft green grass.

C. There were Peach trees that in the autumn bore rich fruit.

D. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars.

a. DBCA

b. BDCA

c. DCBA

d. ACBD

Question Number 2

What is the correct order of the following sentences?

A) It is estimated that junk mail, much of which is never read, accounts for 4 million tons of waste created each year.

B) The United Kingdom is trying to do something about the waste.

C) The government and the Direct Marketing Association are planning to increase the recycling rate of their junk mail from the current 13% to 55% by the year 2009.

D) Junk mail is leaving an ugly footprint on the environment.

a. ABCD

b. DABC

c. DBAC

d. ADCB

Question Number 3

What is the correct order of the following sentences?

A. Birds that depend upon the ocean for survival are among the most vulnerable birds on earth to climate change.

B. For over a century, the migratory birds have faced stresses, and now they are facing a new threat – climate change.

C. Hence it is the responsible of every individual on earth to contribute a little to reduce the climate change.

D. This climate change could dramatically alter their habitat and food supply, pushing many species towards extinction.

a. DABC

b. BCDA

c. BDAC

d. ACBD

Question Number 4

What is the correct order of the following sentences?

A. An employee dips into the bank to lengthen weekends and sprinkles them over the year.

B. A Vacation Deprivation study found that many employees failed to use their leave completely, adding many man-days to production.

C. A Vacation bank or leave bank is what an employer allots to a staffer every year.

D. Instead of letting leave lapse, an employee can transfer the days to the company's 'Vacation Time Bank' which can be used by any employee in a crisis.

a. DBCA

b. ABCD

c. BDCA

d. CBAD

Question Number 5

What is the correct order of the following sentences?

A. Its Headquarters is in New York and every year 24th October is celebrated as the U.N.O Day throughout the world.

B. At present almost all the countries of the world are its members.

C. After the Second World War, major nations of the world felt the need for a body to maintain peace in the world and the United Nations Organization came into existence.

D. The charter of the U.N.O was signed on June 26, 1945 and it came into effect on October 24,1945.

a. CBDA

b. DCBA

c. ABCD

d. BDCA