TANCET 2021 Solved Papers

Question Numbers: 1-10PART IDirections : This section comprises two passages. After each passage questions consisting of items relating to the preceding passage are given: Evaluate each item separately in terms of the respective passage and choose your answer as per the following guidelines.:a) If the item is a MAJOR OBJECTIVE in making the decision; that is, the outcome or result sought by the decision maker.b) If the item is a MAJOR FACTOR in arriving at the decision; that is basic in determining the decision.c) If the item is a MINOR FACTOR in making the decision; a less important element bearing the decision.d) If the item is a MAJOR ASSUMPTION made deliberately; that is a supposition or projection made by the decision maker before considering the factors and alternatives.PASSAGE - IOn 24 January, DuPont's 150 acre campus style Experimental station in Wilmington, Delaware hosted US President George Bush he stopped by at the highTech R & D Centre to follow up on his state of the Union address, in which he set the country an aggressive goal of 20 Billion Gallon of Bio fuel production by 2020, to learn how the US might go about achieving the stiff target.Everyone at DuPont was pleasantly surprised. Though set up over 200 years ago, this DuPont's first Presidential visit. And yet, as his motor car drove out of Wilmington, that afternoon, It was Bush who was perhaps more moved than any other on that campus . At the experimental station (ES), Bush met the head and chief science and technology officer of the world's largest chemical maker, 59 Year Old Uma Choudhary. The first women ever to first occupy that position.As she took him through the rehearsed tour of the facility, Bush asked Choudhary when she came to US. "I came to US in 1968 with 8 Dollars in my pocket", she replied. "He immediately want to put his arms around me have a picture taken of the two of us". Choudharys' is the classic Cinderella story -swap magic with hard work and nerve and Fairy godmother with uncle Sam. Growing up in the middle class family she learnt to aim high at young age.Her stock broker father wanted to be Doctor but could not because he had to support his family. He drove Choudhary the youngest of the three children to excel at school, insisted that she "Go and get the best education the world has to offer". A few years later in 1968, a saree clad, 20 years old physics graduate from the Indian Institute of Science had set out the "land of opportunity" where she could materialize a dream of becoming nuclear physicist.It was a courageous decision when few women left Indian shores to get a career in science in the 1960s. "It changed my life hopes and aspirations,". Says the Janky, bespectacled executive. Somewhere down the line, the sarees gave way to American business suits and mandarin collars.WONDER YEARSComing to the US and discovering a world of excellence in science that she had not experienced before, became the turning point in Choudhary's life. The entrepreneurial mindset, the can-do attitude, and diligent application of minds she met fascinated her. Professors at the universities became role models for life. Impressing her with their ability to motivate people to achieve their goals and instilling in her a deep desire to remain as knowledgeable about science. Decades later, at DuPont, she would combine both to command the regard of her team of over 5,000 scientists across 75 R & D centers' worldwide.Choudhary had met her prince Charming, Vinay, during her college years in Mumbai. He followed her to the US two years after she had left. The two were married there. After Choudhary received her M.S in engineering science from Caltech, California in 1970, the couple moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts as Vinay wanted to study at Harvard. She got a PhD in material science from MIT in 1976. A year later both joined DuPont, where Vinay went on to become CEO and founder of Qualicon, a DuPont subsidiary into food safety testing. After 23 years in DuPont, Vinay retired to consult will bio tech start ups.Choudhary had started out as a research scientist at the ES (Experimental Station) she now heads. There went hardly any women from India at DuPont then. It took her about ten years to became the lead researcher in developing ceramic super conducting materials. DuPont get 20 different patent for products based on her research in this field, turning it into what her peers can a niche for the company.It was not smooth sailing all along - the apparel market shifted to Asia by the time Chouldhary got on stem DuPont's European plant for intermediates to its non divested Lycra business- but setbacks did not get her way.LAUNCHING INTO LEADERSHIPEstablished over hundred years ago in 1903, the ES was designed to diversify DuPont from explosives into new industries through research. It has now become the Company's lifeline. Like for DuPont, the ES (Experimental Station) became a launch pad for Choudhary's transition too - to management. She took charge of the ES in June 2000. Since then, she has been piloting the 1.4 billion dollars a year R & D undertaken at DuPont. Today, she supervising projects that could lead to foods that help prevent cancer and smart materials. She gave the big push to new technology and biotechnology platforms. "Under her DuPont broadened its nano products spectrum--, said the company executive vice president and chair innovation officer Thomas M. Connelly.Over the years, Choudhary has gained access to high power offices in the US Government and academic networks across top American Universities. Her inputs are sought by the hydrogen fuel cell committee of US Secretary of energy, of which she is a member. Scientists and technicians, that too Indians, especially women, rarely make it to leadership roles.Certainly the western hemisphere, Choudhary is a rare example. Many in the company put her in the list of contenders for the CEOs chair due to fall vacant on the incumbents retirement in 2011, though age may not be on her side.To DuPonters Choudhary is "very visible, highly approachable, purposeful and exceptionally good listener with ability to make people comfortable". The one insight, subordinate and the six sigma champion, Lourdes Puig says he has gathered from her is to never let "Superficial 'organizational boundaries come in his way of reaching out to the needed resources. Choudhary's' favorite compliment came from DuPont's' CEO Chad Helliday who told a corporate gathering. "Uma is a person who tells it like it is, Not shy to speak her mind". At a global conference in Delaware last month, Holliday told journalist from 60 countries, despite being a scientist Choudhary has successfully put science to work. "You can't leave science in the laboratory. It has to move into the market place in the hands of customers to create valuation", she says.The scientist - turned manager - leader has now steered DuPont to set up a 15-acre knowledge centre for nano tech under global hub for rice-hybrid related research at Hyderabad. Her thoughts on India, "Its wonderful to go back and see the 'can-do 'attitude and the commitment to open market".