Instructions:

1. Duration of the test is 60 minutes.

2. Total marks are 100.
3. Questions paper contains 50 Questions.
4. The question numbers
• 1 to 9 belong to “Mental and Logical Ability”
• 10 to 21 belong to Mathematics
• 22 to 33 belong to Science
• 34 to 45 belong to English and
• 46 to 50 are “Scholars Section”
5. Each question carries negative marking.
6. Please leave the question in case you are not sure about answer.
7. Un- attempted questions do not attract negative marking.
8. Answers are to be given on a separate OMR sheet.
9. Rough work can be done anywhere in the booklet but not on the OMR sheet/loose
paper.
 Section-1, Mental and Logical Ability
(1 mark for correct answer. 0.25 mark will be deducted
for wrong answer) a)

1. If ‘When’ means ‘×’, ‘You’ means ‘÷’, ‘Come’

means ‘–’ and ‘Will’ means ‘+’, then what b)
will be the value of ‘8 When 12 Will 16 You 2

a) 45 b) 112
c) 94 d) 96
d)
Come 10’? c)
2. In the following question, choose the a) Pixnarth
alternative figure in which the question b) Flurgorbl
figure (X) is embedded. c) arthflur
d) gorbltusl

5. Six students A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in

the field. A and B are from Ranchi while the
rest are from Mumbai. D and F are tall while
3. One morning Shekhar & Mohan were others are short. A, C and D are girls while
talking to each other face to face. If others are boys.
Mohan shadow was exactly to the right
Who is the tall girl from Mumbai?
of Shekhar, which direction Mohan was
facing? a) F
a) West b) East b) D
c) North d) South c) E
d) C
4. Here are some words translated from an
artificial language. 6. Shekhar, Mohan, Dhawan, Survesh and Ajay
• gorblflur means fan belt are sitting around a circular table. Dhawan is
• pixngorbl means ceiling fan to the right of Shekhar and is second to the
• arthtusl means tile roof left of Survesh. Ajay is not between Shekhar

Which word could mean "ceiling tile"?

 and Survesh. Who is second to the left of
Dhawan? I. 3 km East, then 2 km South
II. 1 km North, then 3 km East
a) Survesh III. 1 km North, then 2 km West
b) Can’t be determined
c) Mohan a) I and II only
d) Ajay b) II only
c) II and III only
7. Find out the two signs to be d) I only
interchanged for making the following
equation correct

5 + 3 x 8 – 12 ÷ 4 = 3
Section-2, Mathematics
(2 marks for correct answer. 0.50 mark will be
a) + and x
deducted for wrong answer)
b) - and ÷
c) + and ÷
d) + and –
10. If sin x + sin2 x + sin3 x = 1 then cos6 x - 4 cos4
x + 8 cos2 x is equal to
8. Ravi starts from his house and moves
towards south. He walks 100 m, then
a) 2
turns left and walks 200 m, turns right
b) 4
and walks 500 m. How far is he from his
house? c) 1
d) 3
a) 800 m
b) 200 m 11. Find the value of x in
c) 400 √5 m
d) 200 √10 m

a) 6
9. Rahul started at the intersection of roads
b) 3
number 7 and 8. he drove 3 km North, 3
c) 12
km West and 4 km South. Which further
route could bring him back to his starting d) 1
point?
12. From a solid cylinder of height 36 cm If the job takes x hours, for what value of x
and radius 14 cm, a conical cavity of does the scheme I give the Sohan better
radius 7 cm and height 24 cm is drilled wages?
out. Find the volume and the total
a) 22
surface area of the remaining solid.
b) 14
a) 20944 cm3 4796 cm2
c) 5
b) 36954 cm3 5596 cm2
d) 12
c) 32954 cm3 2743 cm2
d) None of these
16. The value of ‘2x’ if the Mean of x, x + 2, x +
7, x + 11 and 2x is 16
13. If (a + b + c)2 = 3(ab + bc + ca), then
a) 45
which one of the following is true?
b) 40
a) a < b < c
c) 20
b) a = b = c
d) 25
c) a ≠ b ≠ c
d) a > b > c
17. An AP consists of 50 terms of which 3rd term
14. Three partners shared the profit in a is 12 and the last term is 106. Its 29th term is
business in the ratio 5: 7: 8. They had
a) 60
partnered for 14 months, 8 months and
b) 61
7
c) 64
months respectively. What was the ratio
of their investments? d) 58
a) 5: 7: 8 18. An observer on the top of a cliff; 200 m above
the sea-level, observes the angles of
b) 20: 49: 64
depression of the two ships to be 45o and 30o
c) 38: 28: 21
respectively. Find the distance between the
d) None of these
ships, if the ships are:
i. on the same side of the cliff,
15. Sohan can be paid under two schemes
ii. on the opposite sides of the cliff.
as given below:
• Scheme I: Rs. 500 and Rs. 70 per
a) 146.4m 546.4m b) 236.4m 336.4m
hour.
c) 146.3m 656.4m d) 154.5m 556.4m
• Scheme II: Rs. 120 per hour.
19. Each of the 6 friends - A, B, C, D, E, and F
wears a different brand shirt among
Armani, Zodiac, Peter England, Gap, a) b)
Milan and Allen
Solly of six different colours among Red,
Blue, Green, White, Pink and Black not d) None of these
c)
necessarily in the same order. C wears a
red colour shirt which is neither Armani
nor Allen Solly. A wears Zodiac shirt
which is neither black nor pink in colour.
Either E or F wears a white shirt. B wears
Section-3, Science
Gap shirt which is not pink in colour. D (2 marks for correct answer. 0.50 mark will be
wears either Peter England or blue shirt. deducted for wrong answer)
E wears a blue shirt which is not Allen
Solly.

Of which brand is F's shirt? 22. A boat having a length of 3 m and breadth 2 m
is floating on a lake. The boat sinks by one cm
a) Allen Solly b) Milan
when a person gets on it. The mass of the
c) Armani d) Peter England
person is
a) 120 kg
20. If a, b, c are three real numbers such
b) 60 kg
that
c) 140 kg
• a+b+c=7
d) None of these
• a2 + b2 + c2 = 35 and
• a3 + b3 + c3 = 151
23. A certain tissue in a green plant somehow get
blocked and the leaves wilted.
Find the value of abc
a) -11 b) 14 What was the tissue that got blocked?
c) 16 d) -15
a) Xylem
21. From a well shuffled pack of 52 cards,
b) Both xylem and phloem
three cards are drawn at random. Find
c) Phloem
the probability of drawing an ace, a king
and a jack. d) None of these
24. Which one of the following is used for
removing permanent hardness of water?
27. In the circuit diagram given below calculate
a) Na2CO3.102O the total resistance of the circuit.
b) CaOCI2
c) NaCI
d) NaOH

25. What would happen when pH of blood

decreases?

a) Binding of oxygen with haemoglobin

decreases
b) Red blood corpuscles are formed in a) b)
higher number
c) Binding of oxygen with haemoglobin c) d)
increases
d) There is no change in oxygen
28. The sequence of events by which a cell
binding
duplicates its genome, synthesizes the other
nor in number of RBCs
constituents of the cell and eventually
divides into two daughter cells is termed a
26. A current carrying wire is placed in a
magnetic field. If direction of the current
a) Cell cycle
in the wire is from north to south and
b) Cell duplication
direction of magnetic field is from west
to east, then in which direction force will c) Regeneration
be exerted on the wire? d) Cell growth

a) In downward direction 29. Mayank wants to find out whether soft drinks
b) Toward south contribute to tooth decay. He knows that
human teeth and eggshells are made of
c) Toward north
similar substances, so he set up an
d) In upward direction
investigation using eggshells. Mayank found
that the mass of the eggshells in beakers W
 and X decreased, but the mass of the b) Both assertion and reason are correct,
eggshells in beakers Y and Z did not. and reason is the correct explanation of
the assertion
Why did Mayank crush the eggshells?
c) Assertion is incorrect, but reason is
correct.
d) Assertion is correct, but reason is
incorrect.
33. Match the following:
a) to make it easier to compare the
amounts of eggshells in the beaker 1. CH3 CHO A. Propanoic acid
b) to make sure the eggshells were 2. CH3 COCH3 B. Ethanal
completely covered by liquid 3. CH3 COOH C. Propanone
c) to increase the surface area of 4. CH3 CH2 COOH D. Carboxylic acid group
eggshells in contact with the liquid
d) none of these a) 1 - D, 2 - B, 3 - A, 4 - C
b) 1 - D, 2 - C, 3 - A, 4 - B
30. The most characteristic property of c) 1 - B, 2 - A, 3 - D, 4 - C
liquids is d) 1 - B, 2 - C, 3 - D, 4 - A
a) fluidity
b) formlessness
c) elasticity
d) volume conservation Section-4, English
31. Soda ash is a salt of (1.5 marks for correct answer. 0.25 mark will be
a) Weak acid and strong base deducted for wrong answer)
b) Strong acid and strong base
c) Weak acid and weak base
d) Strong acid and weak base 34. CHOOSE THE CORRECT OPTION TO
COMPLETE THE SENTENCE.
32. Assertion: Magnesium is extracted from I decided to ________ for John now he’s
its ore by electrolytic reduction. Reason: joined this school because I knew him well
All metals are extracted by electrolytic last year.
reduction.
a) Both assertion and reason are a) vouch
Incorrect. b) subdue
 c) too a) Sports, red, Italian, small color
d) taunt b) Italian, red, small, sports
c) Small, red, Italian sports
35. CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANTONYM OF d) Red, Italian, sports, small
THE GIVEN WORD.
Distraught 39. Choose the correct answer:
a) Peaceful
Which demonstrative adjective is used as a
b) Distrait
determiner with the things or person near and
c) Frantic
hand?
d) Wild
a) this
36. CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORD FOR THE b) that
FOLLOWING SENTENCE. c) this and these both
A position requiring little or no work but d) these
giving the holder status or financial 40. Find the meaning of the idioms/phrases
benefit underlined in the following sentence:

a) Sinecure People of this village always call a spade.

b) Silecure a) Speak in a straightforward manner
c) Simecure b) Make a joke
d) None of these c) Hesitate to speak something
d) Speak ill about someone
37. Find the kind of adverb for the
underlined word in the following 41. CHOOSE THE CORRECT SYNONYM FOR THE
sentence: FOLLOWING BOLD WORD.
We can stop here for lunch. Mr Patterson was exasperated by the
a) Adverb of time salesman's persistence.
b) Adverb of manner a) elated
c) Adverb of place b) sad
d) Adverb of degree c) irritated
d) none of these
38. Complete the following sentence.

My cousin has a _______ bike

42. Find the kind of noun for the word c) to be in a dilemma

underlined in the following sentence: d) to live dangerously

Rita had pain in her stomach.

Section-5, Scholars Section
a) Common Noun
(5 marks for correct answer. 2 marks will be
b) Proper Noun deducted for wrong answer)
c) Abstract Noun
d) Collective Noun
46. A, B, C enter into partnership and their
43. Identify the kind of pronoun of the word capitals are in the proportion 1/3 : 1/4 : 1/5. A
underlined in the following sentence: withdraws half his capital at the end of 4
Anyone can play this game. months. Out of a total annual profit of Rs.
8470, A’s share is
a) Distributive pronoun
b) Personal pronoun a) Rs. 3150 b) Rs. 4120
c) Indefinite pronoun c) Rs. 2520 d) Rs. 2800
d) Demonstrative pronoun
47. Reaction between X & Y,forms compound Z.
44. Change the narration.
X loses electron and Y gains electron which of
‘English is easy to learn’, he said. the following properties is not shown by Z?
a) He said English was easy to learn
b) He said English had been easy to
a) Has low melting point
learn
b) Has high melting point
c) He said English is easy to learn
c) Occurs as solid
d) None of these
d) Conducts electricity in molten state

45. Choose the exact meaning of idiomatic

48. Find the value of x in
expression/phrase

Between the devil and the deep sea

a) to be in a temper
b) to choose correctly
 a) 0 b) 1
c) 2 d) 4
d) 0
49. Find the value of
c)

50. Sodium hydroxide cannot be stored in

aluminium container as aluminium reacts
a) 1 with sodium hydrogen to form

a) Sodium aluminate
b)
b) Sodium octa aluminate
c) Sodium meta lauminate
d) Sodium hexa aluminate

Answer Key
1-C 2-C 3-C 4-A 5-B 6-C 7-B 8-D 9-B 10-B
11-B 12-A 13-B 14-B 15-C 16-C 17-C 18-A 19-A 20-D
21-C 22-B 23-A 24-A 25-A 26-D 27-B 28-A 29-C 30-D
31-A 32-D 33-D 34-A 35-A 36-A 37-C 38-C 39-C 40-A
41-C 42-C 43-C 44-C 45-C 46-D 47-A 48-C 49-A 50-A