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SECTION – I
(General Ability)

1. 
What will be remainder when 8765  87 is divided by 88? 
(A) 86 (B) 87 (C) 1 (D) 0

2. The sum of money at S.I amounts to Rs.800 in 4 years and to Rs.900 in 5 years. The sum is
(A) 400 (B) 600 (C) 300 (D) 1200

3. Choose the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed by the original pair
Inflate: Magnitude
(A) Measure: Weight (B) Extend: Duration
(C) Magnify: Coin (D) Legislate: Crime

4. Choose the most appropriate alternative from the options given below to complete the sentence.
You are as tall as ________
(A) me (B) I (C) mine (D) I am

5. Choose the word that does not belong to the group.

(A) Despise (C) Vituperate (C) Loathe (D) Renege

6. Price of commodities X & Y increases 40 paise & 15 paise every year respectively. If in 2001,
the price of commodity X was Rs. 4.20 and that of Y was Rs. 6.30, in which year commodity X
will cost 40paise more than Y?
(A) 2010 (B) 2011 (C) 2012 (D) 2013

7. A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B in 8 days. A and B undertook to do it for Rs.3200
with the help of C, they completed work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to C?
(A) 200 (B) 300 (C) 400 (D) 600

8. A boat is moving downstream and reaches its destination in 25 hours. while moving at a speed of
50 kmph (given speed in still water). One particular day due to engine problem at mid-point,
speed is reduced by 20% of the original. It reaches the destination 2.5 hr late. Find out the speed
of the river. (Assume its speed to be uniform)
(A) 10kmph (B) 20 kmph (C) 15 kmph (D) 5 kmph

9. A is 60% as efficient as B. C does half of the work done by A and B together. If C alone does the
work in 80 days, then A, B and C together can do the work in
3 4 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these
80 50 85

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10. Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is 3 more than twice the third integer. Find the
third integer.
(A) 17 (B) 11 (C) 9 (D) 15

11. 100 apples are bought at the rate of Rs.450 and sold at the rate of Rs.48 per dozen. The percentage
of profit or loss is
1
(A) 11 %gain (B) 11% gain
9
1
(C) 11 %loss (D) 11% loss
9

12. Choose the grammatically incorrect sentence.

(A) We understand his having to leave early
(B) Susan regrets John‟s being in trouble
(C) You should not rely on him calling you in the morning
(D) They are looking forward to our visiting them

13. In a class of 40 students, 12 enrolled for both English and German. 22 enrolled for German. If
students of class enrolled at least one of the subjects, then how many students enrolled for only
English and not German?
(A) 30 (B) 12 (C) 18 (D) 40

14. Find the proper meaning of the underlined word

The business went belly up under the management of new C.E.O.
(A) Improved (B) Failed (C) Civilized (D) Rationalized

15. Complete the sentence:

Hot milk has long been a standard cure for insomnia because of its ________ quality.
(A) malevolent (B) desultory (C) soporific (D) plaintive

16. Choose the part that contains error.

This book is inferior than that.
(A) This book (B) is (C) inferior (D) than that

17. Out of six coins, four coins are tossed simultaneously; In how many coins, there outcomes will
atmost three of the coins turn up as a head?
(A) 30 (B) 42 (C) 50 (D) Can‟t be found

18. The synonym for the word “PROFLIGACY” is

(A) Conservation (B) Reservation (C) Wasteful (D) Tasteful

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19. Choose the correct option, which is the closest opposite in meaning to the word
Pliant
(A) Humble (B) Rigid (C) Tactful (D) Earnest

20. Researchers have found that since the oil price increases of the 1990‟s, there has been a decline in
home energy consumption. They concluded that almost all of the decline has been achieved
through reduced standards of living and changes in the way people spend their time.
Each of the following, if true, would support the conclusion above EXCEPT:
(A) Sales of portable heaters rose as families concentrated their winter activities in a limited
number of rooms.
(B) During the winter months, more people frequented public places such as libraries and
community centers, and on the average, spent considerably longer periods in them than they
had done previously.
(C) More than 39 percent of households were able to decrease energy costs substantially by
having relatively inexpensive work done to improve the efficiency of their existing heating
systems.
(D) At least 59% of the households maintained a lower indoor temperature than they had been
accustomed to maintaining on very cold days.

SECTION – II
(Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics)

21. The value of

1 1 1 1
   ….  is
1 2 2 3 3 4 120  121

(A) 120 (B) 10 (C) 12 2 (D) 8

22. Let A = {2, 3, 4, 5} and R = (2, 2),(3,3),(4, 4),(5,5),(2,3),(3, 2),(3,5),(5,3) be relation on A.

Then R is
(A) Reflexive and Transitive
(B) Reflexive and symmetric
(C) Not reflexive but symmetric
(D) Transitive only

23. If A and B are square matrices of nxn such that A 2  B2   A  B  A  B  then which of the
following will be always true?
(A) AB = BA
(B) Either A or B is a zero matrix
(C) Either A or B is a Identity matrix
(D) A = B

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24.   
The value of 2 sin 6 A  cos6 A  3 sin 4 A  cos 4 A is _____ 
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) -1 (D) 2

1  
25. The solution of cos3x.cos 2 x.cosx  , x   0,  is
4  4
   
(A) (B) (C) (D)
8 6 9 7

26. The area of an ellipse if the length of major axes 8 and the length of minor axes is 5 is ____.
(A)10  (B)  (C)20  (D)100 

27. The point on the curve y  sin x  cos x where the tangent is parallel to horizontal axis are

   5     5 
(A)  , 2  and  ,  2  (B)  ,  2  and  , 2 
4   4  4   4 

   5     5 
(C)  , 0  and  , 0  (D)  , 1 and  , 1
4   4  4   4 

28. If 5 times the number of permutations of 18 items taken „r‟ at a time is equal to 6 times the
number of permutations of 17 items taken „r‟ at a time then the value of „r‟ will be
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6

29. The density of a solution prepared by dissolving 150gm of urea

 gm  gm
 molecular mass  60  in 700 gm of water is 1.25 mL .
 mole 
The molarity of this solution is
(A) 20.8M (B) 3.68M (C) 272M (D) 100M

30. Enthalpy change for different reactions are given above the arrow of every reaction
0.5H2  g   0.5O2  g  
H  50kJ
 OHg
if H2  g  
H  450kJ
 2Hg and O2  g  
H  500kJ
 2 Og ,
then the Bond energy (in kJ) for OH is
(A) 425 (B) -400 (C) 400 (D) -425

31. Which of the following trace of element is essential for the synthesis of insulin?
(A) Copper (B) Cobalt (C) Zinc (D) Magnesium

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32. The transition element with lowest atomic number is
(A) Platinum (B) Zirconium (C) Copper (D) Vanadium

33. Which of the following have maximum hydrogen bonding?

(A) Ethanol (B) Diethyl ether
(C) Ethyl chloride (D) Trimethylamine

34. The principal quantum number represents

(A) Shape of an orbital
(B) distance of electron from nucleus
(C) No. of electrons in a sub shell
(D) number of orbital in a sub shell

35. The number of nodal planes in a p X orbital is

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D)4

36. Temperature co-efficient of a reaction is 2.0 at 310K, the rate constant is 0.03 at 310K and at
325K its rate constant would be
(A) 0.054 (B) 0.0972 (C) 0.085 (D) 0.09

37. If an acid is strong its conjugate base is

(A) Strong (B) Weak (C) Amphoteric (D) Cannot say

38. Electric field (E) varies with distance (r),

Match List I with List II. & find the correct option.
List – I List – II
Source of Electric Field (E) Relation between E & r
1
(1) Dipole (a) E 
r4
1
(2) Point charge (b) E 
r3
(3) Plane of charge (c) E = constant
1
(4) line of charge (d) E 
r2
(e) E  
1
(f) E 
r

(A) 1  c, 2  d, 3  f , 4  e (B) 1  a, 2  b, 3  c, 4  d
(C) 1  f , 2  d, 3  a, 4  e (D) 1  b, 2  d, 3  c, 4  f

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39. Amplitude versus applied frequency curve
for various values of damping coefficient
(  ) are plotted as shown in the figure. Then II
the correct sequence of damping coefficient
A
is correct
(A)  I   II   III III
(B)  I   II   III
(C)  I   III   II I

(D)  I   III   II W

40. A resistor having resistance 150Ω, connected in series with an Inductor having Inductance 50 mH
and a battery having EMF 50 V .Initially, the switch is open & there is no current in the circuit. At
t=0, the switch is closed & circuit is completed. The time (in ms) required for the current to reach
80% of its maximum value is
E S

L R

(A) 1.42 (B) 1.61 (C) 0.40 (D) 0.54

41. Light is described at a place by equation


E   300

Volts 
m 

 sin  5  10 s  t  sin 10  10 s  t
15 1 15 1

Falls on a metallic surface having work function 2.5eV.The maximum kinetic energy of the photo
electronic is
(A) 0.8eV (B) 0.2eV (C) 4.1eV (D) 3.6eV

42. If dN represents the number of molecules

 dN 
with speed between v & v + dv, then  
 Ndv   dN 
II
  I
versus v graphs are plotted for various values  Ndv  IV
of temperature (T).The correct sequence of III
the temperature is
(A) TI  TII  TIII  TIV
(B) TII  TIII  TI  TIV
(C) TII  TI  TIV  TIII
(D) TIII  TIV  TI  TII

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43. If an ice block (of 0oC temperature) is dropped from a height, which completely evaporates on
reaching the ground. The height will be
Take: Acceleration due to gravity = 10 m s 2
Latent Heat of fusion = 334 kJ kg
Latent heat of evaporation = 2257 kJ kg
Specific heat of water = 4.187 kJ kg  K

(A) 30.0976km (B) 300.97km (C) 30.097m (D) 300.97m

44. Two identical capacitors P & Q are charged to the same potential V & are connected in two
circuits at t = 0 as shown in the figure. The charges on the capacitor at a time t  CR are
respectively
 P Q
  

C C

R R
VC VC VC VC
(A) , (B) VC , (C) VC, VC (D) , VC
e e e e

45. A constant mass of ideal gas is subjected to a cyclic process as shown in the figure. For the same
process which of the following P-V diagram is correct.

C
B

 A  B  C  D
P P P P
C
A B A B A B

C C C A B

V V V V

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46. A current loop having two circular arcs joined by two radial lines as shown in the figure. If current
in the loop is 5 amperes, the magnetic feed at the centre O is i  5Amp

(A) 2.78  108 T Q

R

(B) 8.73  108 T 1m

P
S
(C) 43.6  108 T 60O
2m
(D) 7.14 108 T
O

47. If a liquid film is formed on a rectangular frame with a sliding wire having mass 10grams &
length 1 meter, work done by the stretching force to stretch the film (sliding wire) through a
distance 20cm is given by
  1m

  30O

(A) 0.01Nm (B) 0.005Nm (C) 0.1Nm (D) 0.05Nm

48. A bird is sitting on the top of a vertical pole 20m height and its elevation from a point „O‟ on the
ground is 45O . It flies off horizontally straight away from the point „O‟. After one second, the
elevation of the bird from „O‟ is reduced to 30O . Then the speed  in m s  of the bird is

(A) 20 2 (B) 20  3 1 
(C) 40  2 1  (D) 40  3 2 
49. In a certain party, there was a bowl of rice for every two guests, a bowl of broth for every three of
them and a bowl of meat for every four of them. If is all there were 65 bowls of food, then how
many were there in the party?
(A) 65 (B) 24 (C) 60 (D) 48

50.  H f  Heat of formation for CO2g  , COg  , H2O    are -400,-105,-250 respectively, the
standard enthalpy change (in kJ mole) for the reaction CO 2 g   H 2  g   CO (g)  H 2 O (l) is
(A) 45 (B) - 45 (C)24 (D) zero

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