MY DESIGN STUDIO

PRACTICE EXERCISE
CLOCK
LEVEL 1
1 The angle between the hour hand and the Minute hand of a clock when the time is 6:00 pm is?
a. 180° c. 195°
b. 192½° d. 197½°

2 The angle between the hour hand and the Minute hand of a clock when the time is 4:00 pm is?
a. 180° c. 125°
b. 160° d. 120°

3 The angle between the hour hand and the Minute hand of a clock when the time is 8.30 is?
a. 75° c. 45°
b. 47° d. 60°

4 The angle between the hour hand and the Minute hand of a clock when the time is 6.30 is?
a. 45° c. 30°
b. 15° d. 25°

5 The angle between the hour hand and the Minute hand of a clock when the time is 9.45 is?
a. 15° c. 12.5°
b. 22.5° d. 7.5°

6 At 3:20, the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock form an angle of?
a. 70° c. 90°
b. 80° d. 20°

7 The angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of a clock when the time is 4.20, is?
a. 10° c. 15°
b. 12½° d. 17½°

8 A clock is started at 2:00 at noon. By 9:00 at night, the hour hand has turned through
a. 140° c. 215°
b. 210° d. 180°

9 At what angle the hands of a clock are inclined at 15 minutes past 5?

a. 58½° c. 67½°
b. 64½° d. 72½°

10 A clock is started at noon. By 10 minutes past 5, the hour hand has turned through
a. 140° c. 155°
b. 145° d. 175°
 LEVEL 2
11 Find at what time between 8 and 9 o’clock will the hands of a clock be in 180°.
a. 110/11 min c. 200/11 min
b. 100/11 min d. 120/11 min

12 At what time between 2 and 3 o’clock will the hands of a clock be at 0°?
a. 100/11 c. 200/11
b. 120/11 d. 110/11

13 The reflex angle between the hands of a clock at 10.25 is ?

a. 180° c. 195°
b. 192½° d. 197½°

14 The reflex angle between the hands of a clock at 6:05 is ?

a. 180° c. 195°
b. 207½° d. 197½°

15 Find the exact time between 7 am and 8 am when the two hands of a watch meet ?
a. 7 hrs 35 min c. 7 hrs 38.18 min
b. 7 hrs 36.99 min d. 7 hrs 42.6 min

16 At what time between 5.30 and 6 will the hands of a clock be at right angles?
a. 43 5 11 minutes past 5 c. 43 7 11 minutes past 5
b. 40 minutes past 5 d. 45 minutes past 5

17 At what approximate time between 4 and 5 am will the hands of a clock be at right angle?
a. 4:40 AM c. 4:38 AM
b. 4:35 AM d. 4:39 AM

18 How many times in a day, the hands of a clock are straight?

a. 22 c. 48
b. 24 d. 44

19 How many times are the hands of a clock at 90 degrees in 12 hours?

a. 44 c. 22
b. 24 d. 28

20 How many times in 24 hours, are the hands of a clock in a straight line but opposite in direction?
a. 20 c. 24
b. 22 d. 48

LEVEL 3
21 An accurate clock shows 2 o’clock in the noon. Through how may degrees will the hour hand rotate
when the clock shows 9 o’clock in the evening?
 a. 144º c. 168º
b. 210º d. 570º

22 A clock is started at 12 p.m. By 600 seconds past 5 p.m, the hour hand has turned through?
a. 145º c. 155º
b. 150º d. 160º

23 At what time between 7 and 8 o’clock will the hands of a clock be in the same straight line but, not
together?
a. 5 min. past 7 c. 5 3 11 minutes past 7
b. 5 2 11 minutes past 7 d. 5 5 11 minutes past 7

24 The angle between the hour hand and the Minute hand of a clock when the time is 7:24 is?
a. 75° c. 68°
b. 78° c. 60°

25 The angle between the hour hand and the Minute hand of a clock when the time is 8:38 is?
a. 75° c. 68°
b. 78° c. 60°

26 How much does a clock lose per day, if its hands coincide ever 64 minutes?
a. 256/11 c. 288/11
b. 32 d. 30

27 A watch which gains 5 seconds in 3 minutes was set right at 7 a.m. in the afternoon of the same day,
when the watch indicated quarter past 4 o’clock, the true time is:
a. 3 p.m. c. 5 p.m.
b. 4 p.m. d. 6 p.m.

28 In 16 minutes, minute hand gains over hour hand by

a. 16º c. 88º
b. 80º d. 96º

29 A boy saw the clock when it is 5 a.m. The clock loses 8 minutes in half a day. What will be the true
time when he sees the clock at 10 p.m. on 4th day?
a. 9:00 PM c. 10:00 PM
b. 11:00 PM d. 12:00 PM

30 A watch which gains uniformly is 2 minutes low at noon on Monday and is 4 min 48 sec fast at 2
p.m. on the following Monday. When was it correct?
a. 2 pm on Tuesday c. 3 pm on Thrusday
b. 2 pm on Wednesday d. 1 pm on Friday