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PRACTICE PAPER - 4
(For Class-IX Students)

MENTAL ABILITY TEST (MAT)

Directions (Q.No. 1 and Q.No. 2) : The six faces of a cube are coloured black, brown, green, red, white and
blue such that
(i) Red is opposite to black
(ii) Green is between red and black
(iii) Blue is adjacent to white
(iv) Brown is adjacent to blue
(v) Red is at the bottom
Answer the following questions based on the above information
1. Which colour is opposite to brown?
(1) White (2) Red (3) Green (4) Blue
2. The four adjacent colours are
(1) Black, Blue, Brown, Red (2) Black, Blue, Brown, White
(3) Black, Blue, Red, White (4) Black, Brown, Red, White
Directions (Q.No. 3 to Q. No. 6) : Read the following information and answer the questions that follow.
A family of seven members namely P, Q, R, S, T, U and V consist of four female members. It is divided into three
generations with two married couples and two mothers. S is the brother of R and T. R is the mother of U, who is
daughter of V. V is Q’s son-in-law and P is the father of R.
3. Who is the husband of R?
(1) Q (2) U (3) V (4) T
4. Which of the following is not true?
(1) Q is the mother of R (2) T is the brother of S
(3) V is the father of U (4) R and V are married couple
5. How many children does P have?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) Can’t be determine
6. How is Q related to U?
(1) Mother (2) Father (3) Grandmother (4) Grandfather

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7. Ajit starts from point N towards North and goes 20 km straight then he takes a 45º turn to his right and goes
5 2 km. Then he takes a 45º turn to his right and goes 7 km. And at last he move South and goes 20 km
and reaches the final point find the distance between starting and final point is

(1) 13 2 km (2) 13 km (3) 17 2 km (4) 17 km

8. The next term in the series is
4, 7, 12, 19, 28 .....
(1) 29 (2) 32 (3) 39 (4) 43
9. ab – d – aaba – na – badna – b
(1) andaa (2) babda (3) badna (4) dbanb
10. There is a certain relation between two given words on one side of :: and one word is given on another side
of :: while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as
the given pair has
Pesticide : Crop :: Antiseptic : ?
(1) Wound (2) Infection (3) Bandage (4) Bleeding
11. If a clock takes 10 second to strike ten, how long will it take to strike 19?
(1) 18 seconds (2) 19 seconds (3) 20 seconds (4) 21 seconds
12. The missing number in the box is

(1) 34 (2) 36 (3) 30 (4) 32

13. What is the minimum number of colours required to fill the spaces in the diagram without any two adjacent
spaces having the same colour?

(1) 2 (2) 5 (3) 4 (4) 3

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14. The next term in the following series is 25, 32, 43, 56, 73 .....
(1) 79 (2) 92 (3) 97 (4) 99
15. If L denotes , M denotes ×, P denotes + and Q denotes –, then which of the following statement is true?

173
(1) 32P8L16Q4 = –3/2 (2) 6M18Q26L13P7 =
13
(3) 11M34L17Q8L3 = 38/3 (4) 9P9L9Q9M9 = –71
16. Ayush was born two years after his father’s marriage. His mother is five years younger than his father but 20
years older than Ayush who is 10 years old. At what age did the father get married?
(1) 35 years (2) 33 years (3) 25 years (4) 23 years
17. The following four diagrams, the one that following the correct relationship among the three groups is
Classroom, Black board, School

(1) (2) (3) (4)

Directions (Q.No. 18 and Q. No. 19) : In the questions below three statements are given which are followed by
four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to
be at variance with the commonly known facts.
Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the conclusions can disregarding commonly known facts, be
logically derived.
18. Statements: 1. All buses are trucks
2. No truck is a lorry
3. No truck is a jeep
Conclusions: (I) All trucks are lorries
(II) Some lorries are not trucks
(III) All jeeps are trucks
(IV) Some jeeps are not buses
(1) Only (I) and (II) follow (2) Only (II) and (IV) follow
(3) Only (I) and (III) follow (4) Only (III) and (IV) follow
19. Statements: 1. All camels are donkeys
2. Some horses are mules
3. Some camels are horses
Conclusions: (I) All horses are donkeys
(II) All camels are mules
(III) Some donkeys are horses
(IV) Some camels are not horses
(1) Only (I) and (II) follow (2) Only (III) and (IV) follow (3) Only (III) follow (4) Only (II) follow

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20. The angle between the hands of a clock at 15 minutes past 7 is
(1) 120º (2) 127.5º (3) 135.5º (4) 137.5º
21. Today is Thursday. The day after 59 days will be
(1) Sunday (2) Monday (3) Tuesday (4) Wednesday
Directions (Q.No. 22 to Q. No. 24) : Read the following information carefully and then answer the questions that
follow. In the following questions answer are based on the diagram given below, where the triangle represents doctors,
the circle represent players and the rectangle represent the artists

22. The number in the diagram which represents doctors, who are also players and artists is
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5
23. Which number in the diagram represents artists who are neither players nor doctors?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4
24. Which number represents doctors, who are player but not artists?
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 5 (4) 4
25. On the basis of the letter-number sequence
EKM3P57RTVZ9DIFQX46GHI28W
Which of the following letter/number will be 7th to the left of the 16th letter/number from the left end?
(1) W (2) T (3) J (4) H
26. How many triangles are there in the following figure?

(1) Less than 20 (2) More than 19 but less than 26

(3) More than 25 but less than 31 (4) More than 30
27. The mirror image of the following figure

(1) (2) (3) (4)

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28. In the following question, number given three out of the four have same relationship. Choose the one which
does not belong to the group
(1) 27 : 45 (2) 24 : 12 (3) 23 : 5 (4) 25 : 18
29. In a certain language ‘pre not bis’ means ‘smoking is harmful’, ‘vog dor not’ means ‘avoid harmful habit’, and
‘dor bis yel’ means ‘please avoid smoking’, which of the following means ‘habit’ in that language?
(1) vog (2) not (3) dor (4) bis
30. On the basis of the following figures, which number will come in place of ?

(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 6 (4) 4

Directions (Q.31 to Q.34) : In each of the following questions choose a correct option to complete the given series.
31. 0, 4, 6, 3, 7, 9, 6, ?, 12
(1) 8 (2) 10 (3) 11 (4) 14
32. 13, 15, 18, 23, 30, 41, ?
(1) 54 (2) 50 (3) 58 (4) 51
33. 5, 25, 15, 75, 45, ?
(1) 150 (2) 325 (3) 135 (4) 225
34. ABC, GHI, MMO, SQU, ?
(1) XTA (2) YTA (3) YUA (4) YUB
Directions (Q.35 and Q.36): In each of the following questions find out the relationship between two words and
then choose the word from the given alternatives, which bears the same relationship to the third word, as the first
two bear.
35. Food : Stomach : : Fuel : ?
(1) Automobile (2) Car (3) Engine (4) Plane
36. Shout : Whisper : : Run : ?
(1) Stay (2) Stop (3) Walk (4) Stand
Directions (Q.37 and Q.38): In each of the following questions, four alternatives are given, out of which three are
alike in a certain way while one is different. Choose the odd one.
37. (1) Bottle : Wine (2) Cup : Tea (3) Pitcher : Water (4) Ball : Bat
38. (1) 22, 5, 4 (2) 47, 15, 3 (3) 74, 8, 9 (4) 32, 4, 7
Directions (Q.39 and Q.40): Read the information carefully and answer the question that follows. Roma and Mohan
are a married couple having two daughters named Smita and Devika. Devika is married to Aman who is the son of
Madhu and Jeewan. Romila is daughter of Aman. Krishna, who is Aman's sister is married to Sunil and has two
sons Anuj and Ankur.
39. How Krishna is related to Devika?
(1) Sister-in-law (2) Sister (3) Aunt (4) Cousin
40. Which of the following is true?
(1) Anuj is the son of Smita (2) Romila is the cousin of Krishna
(3) Madhu is Sunil's mother in law (4) Jeewan is Devika's maternal uncle

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41. When a watch shows 3:45, the minute hand points towards East. When the watch shows 6 O’clock in which
direction will the hour hand point?
(1) South (2) North (3) South East (4) North-East
Directions (Q.42 to Q.45): To answer these questions sequence of digits and symbols, their respective letter codes
and the conditions are given below.

(i) If the 1st and the last elements of the group are symbols then code both of them as ‘Y’
(ii) If the 2nd and the 4th elements of the group are digit and symbol respectively then interchange their
respective codes.
(iii) If 1st and last elements are digits then code both of them as ‘P’.
(iv) If the 2nd and 4th elements of the group are symbol and digit respectively then code both of them as ‘X’.
42. 1 $ @  4 9
(1) PMTJNP (2) OMTJNS (3) PMJTNP (4) YMTJNY

43. x  $ 5 4

(1) YZMHNY (2) PXMXNP (3) YZHMNY (4) YXMXNY

44. @ 4   782

(1) TNJYPBD (2) TYJNPBD (3) YNJNPBY (4) TYJNFBD

45. 8 2  5

(1) YJCDZY (2) PDCJZP (3) PJCDZP (4) PJCDYP

46. If tall men is equivalent to circle, Army men to triangle and strong men to square. In figure, different regions
are represented by different numbers from 11 to 17. Indicate which number will represent strong army men?

(1) 16, 17 (2) 14, 17 (3) 12, 17 (4) 12, 17, 14

47.

(1) 10 (2) 15 (3) 20 (4) 30

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48. If ‘’ means ‘+’ ; ‘–’ means ‘  ’ ; ‘×’ means ‘–’ and ‘+’ means ‘×’ then

(36  4)  8  4

4  8  2  16  1
(1) 0 (2) 8 (3) 12 (4) 16
49. A is three times as old as B. C was twice as old as A four years ago. In four years time, A will be 31. What
is the present age of B and C?
(1) 9, 46 (2) 9, 50 (3) 10, 46 (4) 10, 50
50. A cube is painted on all faces is cut into 125 cubes of equal size. How many small cubes are not painted
on any face?
(1) 27 (2) 64 (3) 81 (4) 18
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