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6. Section-A: Science (30 questions); Section-B: Reasoning and Aptitude (10
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 Section–A (Science)

1. Why do gases have no fixed shape and volume? 7. The ratio of nitrogen to hydrogen by mass in ammonia is
A.  ecause of large gap and weak intermolecular
B A. 7:1 B. 14 : 3
forces between constituent particles. C. 14 : 1 D. 3 : 14
B.  ecause of strong intermolecular forces between
B
8. The postulates given below belongs to:
the constituent particles.
i. Only certain special orbits known as discrete orbits
C.  ecause of very low kinetic energy of constituent
B of electrons, are allowed inside the atom.
particles. ii. While revolving in discrete orbits the electrons do
D. Because particles of gases are smaller than that not radiate energy.
of liquids and solids. A. Thomson’s model of an atom
2. In which one of the following conditions, a gas can be B. Rutherford’s model of an atom
liquefied? C. Bohr’s model of an atom
A. If we apply pressure on the gas and reduce D. None of these
temperature of the gas
9. Schematic atomic structure of two elements has been given
B. If we apply pressure on the gas and increase
below. What are their valencies?
temperature of the gas
C. If we reduce the pressure on gas keeping

temperature of the gas same
D. None of these

3. Which one of the following is not a properties of X Y

compounds? A. X : 3, Y : 5 B. X: 5, Y : 3
A. It is a substance composed of two or more C. X: 3, Y: 3 D. X: 5, Y: 5
elements, chemically combined with one another
10. If a living plant cell is kept in a solution X for sometime,
in a fixed proportion.
the plant cell gains water by osmosis and swells up. The
B.  he constituents of a compound can be separated
T solution X is:
only by chemical or electrochemical reactions. A. hypotonic solution
C.  roperties of a compound are different from its
P B. isotonic solution
constituent elements. C. hypertonic solution
D. The same compound may have variable
 D. None of these
composition.
11. Rough endoplasmic reticulum looks rough under a
4. A solution is prepared by dissolving some glucose in 400 g microscope because it has particles called _____ attached
of water. If concentration of the solution by mass is 11.1%, to its surface.
what amount of glucose had been mixed in water? A. mitochondria
A. 30 g B. 40 g B. ribosomes
C. 60 g D. None of these C. golgi bodies
5. Calculate the number of electrons present in 20 g of CO2. D. plastids
A. 6.022 × 1024 12. Heart muscle cells are:
B. 2.204 × 1024 A. cubical, branched and multinucleate
C. 1.2046 × 1022 B. cylindrical, branched and multinucleate
D 6.022 × 1022 C. cubical, unbranched and uninucleate
6. Calculate the mass of H2O2 contained in 0.4 mole of H2O2. D. cylindrical, branched and uninucleate
A. 18.2 g 13. In aquatic plants, large air cavities are present in ______
B. 13.6 g to give buoyancy to the plants to help them float.
C. 16.4 g A. parenchyma B. collenchyma
D. 17.4 g C. sclerenchyma D. None of these

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14. Identify the correct class regarding the information given 21. Speed-time graph of an object has been shown below. The
below. shaded area in the graph represents:
i. These animals are cold-blooded, have scales and
breathe through lungs.
ii. They lay eggs with tough coverings and do not need
to lay their eggs in water.
A. Pisces
B. Reptilia
C. Amphibia
D. Aves

15. Plants of which of the following groups are called

amphibians of the plant kingdom?
A. Thallophyta
A. Speed of the object
B. Bryophyta
B. Distance covered by the object
C. Pteridophyta
C. Displacement of the object
D. All of these
D. All of these
16. Which of the following microbes causes rabies?
22. A car is moving along a straight line at a speed of 54 km/h
A. Bacteria stops in 5 seconds after the breaks are applied. Assuming
B. Fungi acceleration to be constant, find the distance covered by
C. Virus the car after breaks are applied.
D. Algae A. 31.5 m
B. 37.5 m
17. The health of an individual is dependent on his/her:
C. 36.7 m
A. mental health.
D. None of these
B. physical health.
C. social wellbeing. 23. If the net external force on a system of particles is zero,
D. All of these the linear momentum of the system:
A. is zero.
18. Ozone hole means:
B. remains constant.
A. a large sized hole in the ozone layer.
C. increases uniformly.
B. thinning of the ozone layer.
D. decreases uniformly.
C. small holes scattered in the ozone layer.
D. thickening of ozone in the ozone layer. 24. Two small magnets are placed at points A and B on a
frictionless horizontal table. Their masses are 10 g and 25
19. Which of the following is a carbon containing molecule? g respectively. The magnets are released and they move on
A. Fats the table due to mutual attraction. When the first magnet
B. Carbohydrates reaches a point A1, its speed is found to be 8 m/s. Find the
C. Proteins speed of the other magnet at this point.
D. All the above A. 4.3 m/s B. 2.8 m/s
C. 0.3 m/s D. 3.2 m/s
20. Different crops require different photoperiods. Here
photoperiods are related to the: 25. How is the kinetic energy of a moving car is affected if its
A. duration of sunlight. mass is tripled keeping the velocity constant?
B. duration of night. A.  he kinetic energy of the car will become half.
T
C. duration of winter. B. The kinetic energy of the car will get doubled.
D. duration of rainy season. C. The kinetic energy of the car will get tripled.
D. The kinetic energy of the car will become nine
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26. The frequency of source of a sound is 100 Hz. How many 29. Transverse waves cannot be produced in:
times does it vibrate in one hour? A. Wood
A. 3600 vibrations B Water
B. 36000 vibrations C Air
C. 360000 vibrations D Both B and C
D. 100000 vibrations
30. A ball is dropped from the edge of a roof. It takes 0.2 s to
27. A player kicks a ball of mass 375 g placed in a field. The cross a window of height 3 m. Find the height of the roof
ball leaves his foot with a speed of 4 m/s. Find the work above the top of the window.
done by the player on the ball. A. 10.03 m
A. 2J B. 1.5 J B. 12.5 m
C. 3J D. 16 J C. 9.89 m
28. Which of the following is a infrasonic sound? D. 11.3 m
A. Sound having frequency 2 Hz
B. Sound having frequency 20 Hz
C. Sound having frequency 20000 Hz
D. Sound having frequency 200000 Hz

Section–B (Reasoning and Aptitude)

31. Find out the next term in the series given below. 33. If P*Q+R–S#T$U, how P is related to T?
4, 1, 12, 13, 28, ? A. Mother
A. 31 B. 32 B. Maternal aunt
C. 29 D. 33 C. Grandmother
D. Maternal grandmother
32. How many triangles are there in the figure given below?
34. Which of the following expression shows that L is the
maternal uncle of P?
A. L+M–N$O#P B. L$M*N+O#P
C. L+M*N$O–P D. L$M*N$O#P
35. Replace the question mark with correct option.
Trypanosoma : Sleeping sickness :: Leishmania : ?
A. 24 A. Typhoid B. Kala-azar
B. 27 C. Filaria D. Acne
C. 25
36. Find the missing number.
D. 26
6 9 5 7
Direction for questions 33 and 34. 4 6 3 5
A+B means, A is the father of B 7 14 1 12
A–B means, A is the mother of B 3 13 3 ?
A*B means, A is the wife of B
A. 6 B 7
A#B means, A is the sister of B
C. 11 D. 4
A$B means, A is the brother of B.

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Directions for questions 37 and 38: Study the following 39. Find the missing number.
information carefully to answer the given questions: 5 4 3 4
Madan and Rohit are in the same team of hockey. Parth defeated 2 6 4 10
Rohit in badminton but lost to Sachin in tennis. Nitin teams with 6 3 12 9
Sagar in football and with Sachin in hockey. Rohit defeated
8 8 9 ?
Sachin in chess. Those who play cricket do not play badminton,
volleyball or tennis. Madan and Parth are in opposite teams A. 10
of basketball. Nitin represents his state in cricket while Sagar B. 9
does so at the district level. Boys who play chess do not play C. 11
football, basketball or volleyball. Madan and Parth are together
D. 12
in the volleyball team. Boys who play football also play hockey
40. In a certain language “SUDAN” is coded as “45” and
37. Who plays both hockey and tennis? “ITALY” is coded as “9”. What will be the code for the
A. Sachin B. Rohit “EGYPT” in that language?
C. Nitin D. Parth A. 42
38. Who plays the maximum number of games? B. 81
A. Sagar B. Rohit C. 72
C. Parth D. Nitin D. 66

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 Section–C (Scholar’s Zone)

41. Match the following. iii. One out of every 100 α-particles appeared to
a. Surface feeder i. Apis cerana indica rebound.
b. Middle-zone feeder ii. Catla iv. Some of the α-particles deflected towards the
nucleus.
c. Bottom feeder iii. Common Carp
v. No α-particle returned back.
d. Indian bee iv. A. mellifera
A. i and ii only
e. Italian bee v. Rohu
B. i, ii, iii and iv only
A. a → ii, b → v, c → iii, d → i, e → iv
C. ii, iv and v only
B. a → iii, b → v, c → ii, d → i, e → iv
D. i, iv and v only
C. a → v, b → ii, c → iii, d → i, e → iv
D. a → ii, b → v, c → iii, d → iv, e → i 45. Match the following with the help of given diagram.

42. Which combination of statements is correct with respect

to colloidal solution?
i. The particles of a colloid are uniformly spread
throughout the solution.
ii. It appears to be homogeneous but actually, it is a
heterogeneous mixture. O
iii. The particles of a colloid are smaller than 1 nm
M
(10–9 metre) in diameter.
iv. The solute particles do not settle down when left
undisturbed. P
v. They do not scatter the beam of light passing
through them.
A. i, ii, iii and iv only
N
B. i, ii and iv only
C. i, ii, iv and v only L
D. ii and iv only

43. Identify the compounds whose chemical formula is a. powerhouse i. L

correctly written.
b. photosynthesis ii. M
i. Al(SO4 )3 → Aluminium sulphate c. controls centre iii. N
ii. KNO3→ Potassium nitrate d. suicidal bag iv. O
iii. CaCO3→ Calcium carbonate e. protein synthesis v. P
iv. CaCl2 → Calcium chloride A. a → iv, b → v, c → i, d → ii, e → iii
v. Zn2(PO4 )3→ Zinc phosphate B. a → i, b → v, c → iv, d → ii, e → iii
vi. Fe2O3→ Iron(iii)oxide C. a → i, b → v, c → iv, d → iii, e → ii
vii. Al3(PO4 )2→ Aluminium phosphate D. a → i, b → ii, c → iv, d → v, e → iii
viii. Ba2CO3→ Barium carbonate
46. Which combination of statements is correct?
ix. Cu3(PO4 )2→ Copper(ii) phosphate
A. i, ii, iii, iv, vi i. Density is a scalar quantity.
B. ii, iii, iv, vi, ix ii. Momentum is a vector quantity.
C. ii, iii, v, vii, viii iii. An object can never have zero displacement if it has
moved through a distance.
D i, iv, vi, viii, ix
iv. If an athletes completes one round of a circular
44. What were the results of the α-particles scattering track of diameter 200 m in 40 seconds, the distance
experiment performed by Rutherford? covered by him at the end of 2 min 20 s will be 2200   
m if the athlete runs with the same speed.
i. Most of the fast moving α-particles passed straight
through the gold foil. A. i and iii only B. ii and iii only
ii. Some of the α-particles were deflected by the foil by C. i, ii and iv only D. only iii
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47. Which combination of terms for P, Q, R, S and T is correct 49. Which combination of statements is correct?
to complete the table below? i. If an object of mass 15 kg is moving with a uniform
Plants velocity of 4 m s–1, kinetic energy of the object will
be 120 J.
Do not have Have differentiated ii. Work done on an object by a force would be zero
differentiated plant body if the displacement of the object is opposite to the
plant body
direction of the applied force.
P iii. A boy of mass 50 kg runs up a staircase of 45 steps
Without specialised With vascular
vascular tissue tissue in 9 s. If the height of each step is 15 cm, power
used by the boy is 630 W.
Q iv. A falling coconut possess kinetic energy but do not
possess potential energy.
Do not produce seeds Produce seeds - Phanerogams v. If an electric appliance consumes energy at the
rate of 1 kW for an hour, the total energy consumed
R by the appliance is 1 kWh.
Bear naked seeds Bear seeds
inside fruits A. iii and iv only B. i and v only
S C. i, ii, iii and v only D. i, iii and v only
T

A.  → thallophyta, Q → bryophyta, R → pteridophyta,

P 50. Which combination of statements is correct with respect
to the figures given below?
S → angiosperms, T → gymnosperms.
B.  → thallophyta, Q → bryophyta, R → pteridophyta,
P
S → gymnosperms, T→angiosperms. Nucleus
C.  → thallophyta, Q → pteridophyta, R →
P Pit
bryophyta, S → gymnosperms, T → angiosperms.
D.  → bryophyta, Q → thallophyta, R → pteridophyta,
P Pits
Cytoplasm
S → gymnosperms, T → angiosperms.

48. Which combination of terms is correct for L, M, N and O

to fill in the blanks? X Y Z
If a bicycle moves with a constant velocity of L i. X is on element of xylem and known as tracheid.
for M and then decelerates at the rate N till it ii. Y is a dead cell and does not participate in
stops, then the total distance covered by the bicycle will conduction of water.
be O . iii. Z is also an element of xylem.
A. L → 5 km/h, M → 15 minutes, N → 1 km/h2, iv. Z stores food and helps in sideways conduction of
O → 40/3 km water.
B. L → 10 km/h, M → 10 minutes, N → 1 km/h2, v. All three, X, Y and Z are dead cells.
O → 40/3 km
A. Only i, iii and iv are correct.
C. L → 5 km/h, M → 10 minutes, N → 1 km/h2,
B. Only iii and iv are correct.
O → 40/3 km
C. Only i, ii and iv are correct.
D. None of these
D. All i, ii, iii, iv and v are correct.

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