<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n1. Attempt all the questions.
2. Once you have completed all the questions of a particular section click on the submit button for scores and explanations then move to the next sections.
3. For each correct answer, you receive 1 mark. For this mock, there is no negative marking.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>English Language<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe world reacted with sympathetic bemusement to an incident in the news recently, that a museum employee in Germany slyly hung up his own painting in a show featuring works by masters like Picasso and Andy Warhol. To the untrained eye, the image of a family of four walking, their faces roughly painted over in white fit right in with the confounding puzzle of contemporary art \u2014 that a lot of what passes off for greatness looks like it could have been drawn by my nine-year-old niece. Respectably and passably mysterious though the said technician-artist\u2019s work was, he was fired, ironically enough, for subverting an exhibition called Glitch: On the Art of Interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The museum, dismissing the pitying narrative of a struggling artist desperate for a break propagated by a kinder-than-usual Internet, was forced to respond, amid widespread interest to view the employee\u2019s art: \u201cWe did not receive any positive feedback on the addition from visitors to the gallery,\u201d said a spokesperson, firmly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indeed, this employee\u2019s behaviour was shockingly inappropriate; society would fall apart if everyone prioritised their own lofty ambitions over the jobs they\u2019re hired to do. Yet, it\u2019s hard not to admire such chutzpah. Inherently, we know there\u2019s nothing wrong with ambition. Besides, this wannabe artist\u2019s frustration was totally relatable because the art world is notoriously hard to infiltrate. Can one really fault anyone languishing unseen for attempting a harmless if slightly underhand way, for a shot at the limelight? The world we live in demands a certain degree of narcissistic self-promotion. Nowadays, even the artists who\u2019ve made it devote time to networking and painstakingly thinking up innovative posts to boost their algorithmic attractiveness. The sad fact is anyone whose work delves into the human condition, a filmmaker, a writer, a musician or an artist, also needs shrewd business acumen or some other shameless, new age tactic up their sleeve, to succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alas, market forces have ensured the romantic ideal of the artist as an authentic dreamer, unconcerned with the business side of things, is a relic from the past. Take budding novelists, for instance. YouTube is full of cottagecore-esque videos of aspiring fiction writers detailing the minutiae of their day. Since on film, the act of writing comes across as singularly uninteresting, a running commentary of their random thoughts plays in the background, highlighting their solitary existence, while they shuffle around making tea or talking about famous books. Perhaps, the idea is to evoke nostalgia for the time when searching for originality for originality\u2019s sake, was still considered a worthy aim. Currently, in public perception, the lack of money in writing has relegated it to a self-indulgent hobby, more than a career. Pertinently, these \u201cshorts\u201d on social media about artistic process reveal that its one\u2019s value within the attention economy that decides success. It\u2019s heartbreaking that instead of working on their craft, writers have to work harder on packaging themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n