Mercantile Bank Limited Probationary Officer 2011

From 7: 00 AM to 11:00 AM it rained 2.25 inches. At 11.00 AM the rain increased to fall at a rate of 1.25 inches every two hours. How many inches of rain landed on the ground by 5.00 PM?

In the history of the world Cup Cricket, who is the only player to take four wickets in four consecutive deliveries?

Where is the Head Quarter of UN women located?

In which country in ‘Bengazi’ located?

What term is used for Money borrowed or lent between Banks for a day or overnight?

Shabnam, a student of science group, is reviewing her algebra quiz. She has determined that one of her solutions is incorrect. which one is it?

How much longer is required to drive on mile at 60 miles/hour than at 100 miles/hour?

In which year was the BDT 1,000 Note first introduced?

During a sale, a furniture shop gives 50% of on the retail price of a desk. On Friday, it gives an additional 20% off on all furniture. The desk’s retail price was Tk. 320. How much will the desk cost on Friday?

A garments factory employs 3 categories of works K. M and N. The efficiency of the 3 categories of workers to do a specific task is in the ratio of 3:5:6 respectively and the factory employs 15 of category K, 12 of category M and 3 of category N. If the total wages paid to the entire group of 30 works is Tk. 492 per hour, what will be the wages earned by a category N worker for an 8-hour day?

In a certain fashion house, which has four sizes of a specific shirt, there is one-third as many small shirts as medium shirts, and ½ as many large shirts as small shirts. If there are as many X-large shirts as large shirts, what percent of the shirts in the store are medium?

In issuing share of a company, what does ‘IPO’ mean?

If both 13² and 3³ are factors of the number 4³ × 6² × Z × 8¹¹, then what is the smallest possible value of Z ?

Jony weights twice as much as Suzan’s weight is 60% of Sami’s weight. Manik’s weight is 50% of Lynda’s weight. Lynda weights 190 % of jony’s weight. Which of these 5 people weight the least?

Goni went to market with certain amount of money. With this money he can buy either 50 apples or 40 pears. He retains 10% of the money for bus fare and buys 20 peras. How many apples can he buy?

Among the 120 student of class, numbered 1 to 120, all even numbered students opt for Bangla, whose numbers are divisible by 5 opt for English and those numbers are divisible by 7 opt for Math. How many opt for none of these three subjects?

Sobuj bought three pieces of material. The first piece is 1 year 2 feet 6 inches long, the second piece is 2 yards 1 feet 5 inches long, and the third piece is 4 yards 2 feet 7 inches long. If the cost of the material is Tk.36 per yard, how much did Sobuj spent?

60% of the students of a collage are male. 60% of the male in the college speck French and 40% of the students of the college speck French. What percent of the female in the college do not speak French?

Which organization publishes the ‘Banglapedia’?

A rectangular field of 200m by 120m has two roads running along its centre, one along the length and the other along the width. If the width of the roads is 15m, what is the area covered by the two roads.

From which year has the International Mother Language Day been observed?

A retail store regularly sells stock at a discount of 25% to 40%. If an additional 25% were deducted from the discount price during, a special sale, what would be the lowest possible price of an item costing Tk. 140 before any discount?

The arithmetic mean of the 5 consecutive integers starting with ‘p’ is ‘q’ what is the arithmetic mean of 9 consecutive integers that start with (P+2)?

The sum of the non- prime numbers between 40 and 50, non-inclusive, is –

Which of the following is the target year to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG)?

When was the flag of Bangladesh first raised?

After the USA, which of the following has the largest economy of the world?

A shopkeeper makes a loss of 12 % by selling an item at 80% of its marked price. What will be the percent profit made by the shopkeeper if he sells the item as 95% of its marked price?

In a 100 m race, jami beats Rony by 4 sec. If Jami allowed Rony to start 16 m ahead of him, them Jami and Rony reach the finishing point at the same time. How long does jami take to run the 100 m race?

Where is Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) located?

When was the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) established?

Tk. 10,000 is divided among Jaju, Setu, Roji and joi by 1: 2: 3: 4: ratio. How much money did Setu get?

How many districts are there in Rajshahi division?

Mr. Ramzan, owner of a department store, decided to raise the price of a particular item by exactly 10%. Of the following which cannot be the new price?

Which of the following equations has a root in common with x² – 6x – 5 = 0?

Three athletes X, Y and Z start running around a circular track of length 60 m from the same point simultaneously in the same direction at speeds of 3 m/s, 5 m/s and 9 m/s respectively. After how long will they meet for the first time after they started running?

At a certain high school, the respective weights for the following subjects are: General Math 3, Bangla 3, History 2, Science 2 and Art 1. What is a student’s average whose marks were the following: Geometry 89, Bangla Literature 92, History 94, Biology 81, and Sculpture 85?

Correct Answer: We don’t know.

When does the Fiscal Year start is Bangladesh?

Who is the architect of the National parliament Building of Bangladesh?

Fill in the Gaps
Instruction: Select the word(s)phrase(s) that appropriately fill(s) in each sentence.
The decorations were up ___ spring ____ fall.

Van Gogh ____ beautiful sketches before he painted them.

He is popular _____ all _____ his goodness.

It’s no use ____ about it.

You have to raise your voice a little when talking to him. He’s a little ——.

Find the alien word from each list.

Find the alien word from each list.

Find the alien word from each list.

Find the alien word from each list.

Find the alien word from each list.

Very confident in behavior, or intended to be noticed especially by being brightly coloured =

The tailoring of globally produced products to make them suitable to local tastes and needs =

Someone who enjoys or is good at taking with people –

Someone who attempts to be united with God though prayer =

The study or activity of growing garden plants =

Instruction: Each question presents a sentence, part of which underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five options. The first of option repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is the best, choose option A, or else pick one of the others.

Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine; rabies almost always kills its victims unless inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease.

Do you know that these gloves have lay on the bureau all week?

It is a special feature of cell aggregation in the developing nervous system that in most regions of the brain the cells not only adhere to one another and also adopt some preferential orientation.

Karim broke with Rahim in a bitter dispute over the nature of Socialism.

Keeping being high roads, running as fast as she could, as well as not stopping for rest, allowed her to make the trip in record time.