CSAT (PYQ)

Previous Year Questions

ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION

(CLOCK AND CALENDER)
 CSAT-PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS (PYQ)
(CLOCK AND CALENDER)
1. Which date of June 2099 among the 4. From January 1, 2021, the price of petrol
following is Sunday? (2022) (in Rupees per litre) on mth day of the
(a) 4 year is 80 + 0.1m, where m = 1, 2, 3, 100
and thereafter remains constant. On the
(b) 5
other hand, the price of diesel (in Rupees
(c) 6 -per litre) on nth day of 2021 is 69 +
(d) 7 0.15n for any n. On which date in the
year 2021 are the prices of these two
2. A man started from home at 14:30 hours fuels equal? (2021)
and drove to village, arriving there when (a) 21st May (b) 20th May
the village clock indicated 15:15 hours. (c) 19th May (d) 18th May
After staying for 25 minutes, he drove
5. Consider two Statements and a Question:
back by a different route, of length 1.25
Statements:
times the first route at a rate twice as fast
S1: The last day of the month is a
reaching, home at 16:00 hours. As
Wednesday.
compared to the clock at home, the
S2: The third Saturday of the month was
village clock is (2022) the seventeenth day.
(a) 10 minutes slow Question:
(b) 5 minutes slow What day is the fourteenth of the given
(c) 10 minutes fast month?
(d) 5 minutes fast Which one of the following is correct in
respect of the Statements and the
Question? (2021)
(a) Statement-1 alone is sufficient to
3. Consider the following statements : answer the Question
1. Between 3:16 pm and 3:17 pm, both (b) Statement-2 alone is sufficient to
hour hand and minute hand coincide. answer the Question
2. Between 4:58 p.m. and 4:59 p.m., (c) Both Statement-1 and Statement-2
both minute hand and second hand are required to answer the Question
coincide. (d) Neither Statement-1 alone nor
Which of the above statements is/are Statement-2 alone is sufficient to
answer the Question
correct? (2022)
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(a) 1 only
6. Which day Is 10th October, 2027?
(b) 2 only (2021)
(c) Both land 2 (a) Sunday (b) Monday
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
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7. At which one of the following times, do 11. Seeta and Geeta go for a swim after a gap
the hour hand and the minute hand of the of every 2 days and every 3 days
clock make an angle of 180° with each respectively. If on 1st January both of
other? (2021) them went for a swim together, when will
(a) At 7:00 hours they go together next? (2019)
(b) Between 7:00 hours and 7:05 hours (a) 7th January (b) 8th January
(c) At 7:05 hours (c) 12th January (d) 13th January
(d) Between 7:05 hours and 7:10 hours
12. A wall clock moves 10 minutes fast in
8. Joseph visits the club on every 5th day, every 24 hours. The clock was set right
Harsh visits on every 24th day, while to show the correct time at 8:00 a.m. on
Sumit visits on every 9th day. If all three Monday. When the clock shows the time
of them met at the club on a Sunday, then 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, what is the
on which day will all three of them meet correct time ?
again? (2021) (2019)
(a) Monday (b) Wednesday (a) 5:36 p.m. (b) 5:30 p.m.
(c) Thursday (d) Sunday (c) 5:24 p.m. (d) 5:18 p.m.

9. If in a particular year 12th January is a 13. Which year has the same calendar as that
Sunday, then which one of the following of 2009 ? (2019)
is correct? (2020) (a) 2018 (b) 2017
(a) 15th July is a Sunday if the year is a (c) 2016 (d) 2015
leap year.
(b) 15th July is a Sunday if the year is 14. A watch loses 2 minutes in every 24
not a leap year. hours while another watch gains 2
(c) 12th July is a Sunday if the year is a minutes in every 24 hours. At a particular
leap year. instant, the two watches showed an
(d) 12th July is not a Sunday if the year identical time. Which of the following
is a leap year. statements is correct if 24-hour clock is
followed? (2017)
10. Mr ‘X’ has three children. The birthday (a) The two watches show the identical
of the first child falls on the 5th Monday time again on completion of 30 days.
of April, that of the second one falls on (b) The two watches show the identical
the 5th Thursday of November. On time again on completion of 90 days.
which day is the birthday of his third (c) The two watches show the identical
child, which falls on 20th December? time again on completion of 120
(2019) days.
(a) Monday (b) Thursday (d) None of the above statements is
(c) Saturday (d) Sunday correct
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15. A clock strikes once at 1 o’clock, twice 19. Assume that
at 2 o’clock and thrice at 3 o’clock, and 1. the hour and minute hands of a clock
so on. If it takes 12 seconds to strike at 5 move without jerking.
o’clock, what is the time taken by it to 2. the clock shows a time between 8
strike at 10 o’clock? (2017) o’clock and 9 o’clock.
(a) 20 seconds 3. the two hands of the clock are one
(b) 24 seconds above the other.
(c) 28 seconds After how many minutes (nearest
(d) 30 seconds integer) will the two hands be again lying
one above the other ? (2014)
16. If second and fourth Saturdays and all the (a) 60
Sundays are taken as only holidays for an (b) 62
office, what would be the minimum (c) 65
number of possible working days of any (d) 67
month of any year? (2017)
(a) 23 (b) 22 20. A bell rings every 18 minutes. A second
(c) 21 (d) 20 bell rings every 24 minutes. A third bell
rings every 32 minutes. If all the three
17. A class starts at 11:00 am and lasts till bells ring at the same time at 8 o’clock in
2:27 pm. Four periods of equal duration the morning, at what other time will they
are held during this interval. After every all ring together ? (2014)
period, a rest of 5 minutes is given to the (a) 12 : 40 hrs
students. The exact duration of each (b) 12 : 48 hrs
period is: (2016) (c) 12 : 56 hrs
(a) 48 minutes (d) 13 : 04 hrs
(b) 50 minutes
(c) 51 minutes 21. If the 3rd day of a month is Monday,
(d) 53 minutes which one of the following will be the
fifth day from 21st of this month? (2014)
18. Between 6 PM and 7 PM the minute hand (a) Monday
of a clock will be ahead of the hour hand (b) Tuesday
by 3 minutes at (2015) (c) Wednesday
(a) 6:15 PM (d) Friday
(b) 6: 18 PM
(c) 6:36 PM
(d) 6:48 PM

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