MSCE Pune 5th Scholarship 2022 Question Paper English Paper 1

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Time : 11:00 to 12:30 Medium : English
Total Marks : 150 First Language and Mathematics Pages : 16

Read the following instructions carefully before you answer the questions.
(1) This question paper contains two sections. In Section I there are 1 to 25 questions
QR : 501Aof First
Language and in Section II there are 26 to 75 questions of Mathematics. All Medium:
75 questions are
ENGLISH
compulsory. Paper Code: 501
Set Code: A
(2) All questions carry 2 marks each.
(3) Time limit to solve the question paper is 90 minutes.
(4) Separate answer sheet is given to record the answers. Each question has been given four
alternatives. Read them carefully. Select and shade the correct answer in the answer sheet.
For Example :- If the correct alternative for Q. No. 6 is 2, then record your answer as follows :
Question No. 6 - 1 1 3 4
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0501-English Set-A 1 of 16 P.T.O.

SECTION - I
ENGLISH
01. Which of the following letters make a meaningful word?
(1) Excercise (2) Excersize (3) Exercise (4) Exersize
02. Which of the word would come ‘second’ if arranged in alphabetical order?
(1) Draw (2) Drag (3) Drop (4) Dress
03. Which of the word is made from the letters of the word ‘OBSTRUCTED’?
(1) Truck (2) Instruct (3) Started (4) Best
04. Choose the option that is the root / base word.
(1) Ensure (2) End (3) Enable (4) Endangered
05. Choose the correct vowel to complete the crossword.
R F A L

S N G
E H
S T
(1) I (2) E (3) O (4) A
06. Look at the picture and pick out the word not related to it.

(1) Bird (2) Branch (3) Grass (4) River

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07. Choose the correct alternative and fill in the blank.
The police has found _________ gold chain in the thief’s wallet.
(1) few (2) a (3) an (4) some

08. You can look _________ the word _________ a dictionary.
(1) for, in (2) through, into (3) into, through (4) up, with

09. Choose the proper word from the options which is not in the Noun form.
(1) Poverty (2) Pillow (3) Free (4) Clara

10. Fill in the blank with the correct alternative.
Mona has _________ friends than Kalpana.
(1) less (2) least (3) little (4) fewer

11. Look at the following picture and choose the correct subject from the given
options.
_________ is reading a book.

(1) A girl (2) The girls (3) The women (4) A girls

12. Fill in the blank from the options given :
I cannot run _________.
(1) quick (2) pace (3) fast (4) sharp

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13. Choose the correct punctuation mark for the sentence.
I ve a bag
(1) Question mark (2) Apostrophe
(3) Comma (4) Exclamatory mark.

Instruction for Question No. 14 and 15.
Read the autobiographical extract and choose one correct alternative.
I was born in 2010’s winter,
It’s my handsome, irresistable,
Silvery body, that attracts
everyone towards me.
My brain has a gift of 4 GB RAM
My motto in life is ‘Learn and let learn’.

14. Choose the correct option that describes the given object.
(1) Television (2) Refrigerator
(3) Tubelight (4) Laptop

15. What will be the age of the given object in the year 2017?
(1) 7 years (2) 6 years
(3) 8 years (4) 5 years

Instruction for Question No. 16 and 17.
Read the given news article.
On 8th November, 2016, the government of India announced the demonetisation
of all ` 500 and ` 1000 bank notes of the Mahatma Gandhi series. The government
claimed that the action would cut down the low economy and crack down on the
use of blackmoney to fund illegal activity and terrorism. The sudden nature of the
announcement and the prolonged cash shortages in the weeks that followed created
significant disruption throughout the economy.

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16. Give suitable headline for the above news article.
(1) Terrorism in 2016.
(2) The economical background of the poor in India.
(3) Demonetisation hits India, 2016.
(4) Government of India during 2016.

17. The government claimed that the action would cut down the low economy.
Here, what does the word ‘the action’ mean?
(1) Terrorism (2) Demonetisation
(3) Cash shortage (4) Illegal activity

Instructions for Question No. 18 to 20.
Read the given advertisement and choose correct alternative.
New coaching class for Cricket and Football
The sport Association will hold selection test for those interested in Cricket
and Football coaching. The coaching will be held during the summer vacation.
Date : 15th April to 31st May
Age group : 8 - 11 years
12 - 14 years
Fees : Rs. 3000/-
(Deserving students will get a discount)

18. Complete the blank with proper alternative.
The coaching will be held for about _________.
(1) six weeks (2) five weeks
(3) eight weeks (4) four weeks

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19. Choose the correct alternative.
The deserving students will have to pay _________.
(1) more than Rs. 3000/- (2) Rs. 3000/-
(3) less than Rs. 3000/- (4) no fees
20. How are students going to be selected?
(1) Randomly
(2) With the help of their names
(3) Students who have taken training before
(4) With the help of a selection test
Instructions for Question No. 21 to 23.
Read the given poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the
correct option.
If I was a superhero,
I’d save all the oceans
with my secret and magical
cleaning up potions.

If I was a superhero,
I’d save all the trees
And the mountains and rivers,
The birds and the bees.

If I was a superhero,
I’d help all poor,
give them food,
And make them hungry no more.

If I was a superhero,
I’m sure you’ll agree,
The world would be better
Because of me!

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21. Explain the meaning of the following line.
‘I’d save all the oceans with my secret and magical potions’.
(1) The poet will swim in the oceans to save them.
(2) The poet will drink potions to get super powers.
(3) The poet would clean the oceans with the help of his secret potions.
(4) The poet would make secret ocean.

22. Choose the correct option for the question given.
Which of the following the poet does not wish to save?
(1) Tree (2) Streams
(3) Mountains (4) Rivers

23. Choose from the given options and complete the sentence.
The poem conveys the message that _________.
(1) Make the world a better place (2) Do good for yourself
(3) Don’t help anyone (4) Jump and play around

24. Choose the correct option and fill in the blank.
October is the _________ month of the year.
(1) Eighth (2) Tenth
(3) Eleventh (4) Ten

25. Which of the following is a request?
(1) Give me your pen please. (2) Come in.
(3) Pick your pen immediately. (4) Get me a glass of water now.

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SECTION - II
MATHEMATICS
26. 5 dozen + 2 gross = ? dozens
(1) 28 (2) 29 (3) 25 (4) 27

27. The numbers divisible by 37 are arranged in ascending order. What will be
the number at the sixth place?
(1) 148 (2) 185 (3) 111 (4) 222

28. If 12th August 2017 was Saturday, then which days would occur 5 times in
August?
(1) Thursday, Friday, Saturday (2) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
(3) Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (4) Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

29. If the difference between two decimal fractions is 4.585 and one of the fractions
is 3.256, then what is the other decimal fraction?
(1) 1.329 (2) 7.851 (3) 1.349 (4) 7.841

30. Choose the incorrect option.
(1) 100 m = 1 hectometer (2) 1000 l = 1 kilo liter
(3) 1 kg = 10 hectogram (4) 1 gm = 100 decigram

31. Find the percentage of the shaded portions in the adjoining figure.
(1) 25 %
(2) 4 %
(3) 75 %
(4) 7 %

32. What is the difference between the smallest 3 digit odd number and the greatest
2 digit even number?
(1) 5 (2) 7 (3) 0 (4) 3

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33. What is the difference between the first and the last number if 5.435, 5.084,
5.123, 5.064 are arranged in ascending order.
(1) 0.371 (2) 0.351 (3) 0.312 (4) 0.361

34. Vijayrao purchased 30 dozen oranges at the rate of Rs. 50 per dozen. 15 oranges
were spoiled. He sold the remaining oranges at Rs. 6 per orange. How much
profit or loss did he earn in this transaction?
(1) Profit of Rs. 570 (2) Loss of Rs. 570
(3) Loss of Rs. 345 (4) Profit of Rs. 345

35. If 15 kg 500 gm of rice is filled in a box then how much rice will be required
to fill 10 such boxes?
(1) 115 kg (2) 155 kg (3) 1150 kg (4) 150 kg

36. A bottle can contain 125 ml of scented oil. How many bottles will be required
to fill 4 l of scented oil?
(1) 32 (2) 24 (3) 50 (4) 34

37. 3 ∆ 4  is completely divisible by 6. Which numbers will occur in place of
 and ∆ respectively?
(1) 3, 2 (2) 3, 4 (3) 2, 3 (4) 5, 1

38. Which fraction of the following options does not indicate the equivalent fraction
of the unshaded portion in the given figure?

(1) 4 (2) 2
6 3
(3) 1 (4) 8
3 12

39. In how many years the principle amount of Rs. 4,000 will get double at the
rate of 10 % p.a. by simple interest?
(1) 20 (2) 10 (3) 5 (4) 2

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40. In the adjoining figure, by how much is the number of triangles more or less
than that of number of rectangles?

(1) more by 2 (2) less by 2
(3) more by 4 (4) less by 4

41. Which of the following options has the place value of 5, the least?
(1) 54,389 (2) 49,385 (3) 45,389 (4) 74,592

42. Choose the incorrect option from the given alternatives.
(1) 37 of 28 = 12 (2) 15 of 54 = 12

(3) 67 of 14 = 12 (4) 18 of 89 = 12

43. 504 m long wire is cut at 8 places at equal distance. What will be the length
of each piece?
(1) 68 m (2) 63 m (3) 56 m (4) 54 m

44. Write the correct option from the given alternatives.
(1) (20 + 5) ÷ 5 = 20 ÷ 5 + 5 (2) 7 × 8 + 5 = 5 + 8 × 7
(3) 105 ÷ 3 > 4 × 9 (4) 100 × 10 ÷ 1 < 100 ÷ 10 × 10

45. By how much is the sum of number edges and vertices of a cuboid, more
than the difference of the number of edges and faces of a cube?
(1) 8 (2) 12 (3) 14 (4) 6

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46. Harjeet took a loan of Rs. 20,000 from a bank at the rate of 7 p.c.p.a. for 3
years. How much simple interest will he have to pay to the bank?
(1) Rs. 4,200 (2) Rs. 4,300 (3) Rs. 4,380 (4) Rs. 2,400

47. Complete the following series.

_________

(1) (2)
(3) (4)

48. How many times 34 should be added to 34 , to get the addition 3?
(1) 4 (2) 3 (3) 5 (4) 2

49. In a market, if the cost of 17 boxes of mangoes is Rs. 6,035, then what will
be the price of 25 such boxes?
(1) Rs. 355 (2) Rs. 8,875 (3) Rs. 8,625 (4) Rs. 345

50. Maria had to reach for a seminar at 10.30 a.m. but her vehicle got punctured
and she got late by 45 min. Then at what time did she reach for the seminar?
(1) 11.30 min (2) 11.45 min (3) 1.30 min (4) 11.15 min

51. Which of the following options is incorrect?
(1) Any number multiplied by zero, gives the same number.
(2) Any number multiplied by zero, gives zero as the product.
(3) Any number divided by 1 gives the same number as quotient.
(4) Any number divided by the same number gives 1 as quotient.

52. How many 2 digit numbers have 6 in them?
(1) 19 (2) 17 (3) 18 (4) 21

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53. What remains if 10 is subtracted from 10 % of 200?
(1) 10 (2) 20 (3) 180 (4) 190

54. Which of the pairs is neither co-prime nor twin prime?
82 88 71 73 41 43 29 31
(1) 82, 88 (2) 71, 73 (3) 41, 43 (4) 29, 31

55. Sameer wrote six lakhs seven as 6000007 by mistake. By how much is his
answer wrong?
(1) 54000 (2) 5400000 (3) 600007 (4) 5040000

4 + 6 + 8 k    = ?
a3
56. 5 5

(1) 2
5 24 (2) 13 (3) 3
1 18 (4) 5
2 24
18

57. A fencing is to be put around a square shape garden with area 625 sq.m. What
will be the expenses for a 4 layered fencing around it, if the rate of fencing
is Rs. 50 per meter?
(1) Rs. 5,000 (2) Rs. 50,000 (3) Rs. 2,000 (4) Rs. 20,000

58. Under a tree plantation programme, a social welfare organisation decided to
plant trees at 5 km distance on 100 km long road, on both the sides. How many
trees can be planted?
(1) 40 (2) 42 (3) 20 (4) 21

59. Sandeep has a bundle of notes of Rs. 100 from serial number 42378 to 42432.
If instead of Rs. 100 notes, he wants Rs. 500 notes, how many notes of
Rs. 500 can he get?
(1) 11 (2) 55 (3) 10 (4) 54

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60. Aditya incurred Rs. 9,500 expenditure towards travel for his Kerala trip. He
spent Rs. 7,250 on miscelleneous expenses. How much did he spend in all
for Kerala trip?
(1) Rs. sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty.
(2) Rs. sixteen thousand five hundred.
(3) Rs. seventeen thousand two hundred and fifty.
(4) Rs. fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty.

61. What is the time in the adjacent clock?
XII
XI I
X II (1) 12 (2) 9
IX III

VIII IV
(3) 8 (4) 11
VII V
VI

62. Find the perimeter of the adjoining figure if the area of every square is 1 sq. cm.

(1) 22 cm (2) 22 sq. cm.

(3) 12 cm (4) 12 sq. cm.

63. 435 × 1 * = 5 * * 0
In this multiplication, * has the same digit. Find the digit in place of *.
(1) 0 (2) 1 (3) 2 (4) 3

64. Iqbal purchased an old motorcycle at Rs. 25,000. He spent Rs. 8,500 on its
repairs, Rs. 2,500 for its colouring and then sold it at Rs. 38,500. How much
profit did he earn in the following transaction?
(1) Rs. 13,500 (2) Rs. 2,500 (3) Rs. 2,850 (4) Rs. 1,550

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65. Which of the following is a correct statement?
(1) The sum of all angles of a square is 180°.
(2) The sum of all angles of a triangle is equal to right angle.
(3) The number of sides of a rectangle is double the number of sides of a
triangle.
(4) The sum of all angles of a triangle is half the sum of all angles of a
rectangle.

66. Which is the greatest number?
0.91 0.899 0.090 0.900

(1) 0.91 (2) 0.899 (3) 0.090 (4) 0.900

67. To help the flood victims, the students of Adarsh Vidyalaya collected Rs. 47,989
and the students of Saraswati Vidyalaya collected Rs. 8,493. From the total
amount if Rs. 50,042 are used for domestic items and remaining amount is
used for food packets. How much amount is spent on food packets?
(1) Rs. 6,340 (2) Rs. 6,440 (3) Rs. 5,440 (4) Rs. 5,340

68. Which of the following statements is correct?
(1) 25 % = 100025 (2) 5 % of 20 = 4

(3) 50 % of 50 = 2.5 (4) 0.68 = 68 %

69. What is the diameter of a circular ground whose radius is 7.6 m?
(1) 3.8 m (2) 15.2 m (3) 14 m (4) 7.6 m

70. 2.25 m cloth is required to stitch a shirt. How much cloth is required to stitch
5 such shirts?
(1) 10.75 m (2) 11.25 m (3) 8.75 m (4) 9.25 m

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71. How much more is the number of divisors of 36, than that of divisors of 24?
(1) more by 1 (2) more by 2 (3) more by 3 (4) more by 4

72. What will be the consecutive number after seventy five lakhs nine thousand
five hundred and thirty five?
(1) 759536 (2) 7590535 (3) 7509534 (4) 7509536

73. Under “Tree Conservation” programme, Maharashtra Government planted 8000
trees on Amravati-Akola and Amravati-Yavatmal Highway, on both sides of the
road. If 40 % trees are planted on Amravati-Akola highway, how many trees
are planted on Amravati-Yavatmal highway?
(1) 3200 (2) 4200 (3) 1600 (4) 4800

Instruction for Question No. 74 and 75.
Observe the pictorial information and answer the questions.
In a village, people have different coloured Ration Cards.
Colour of Ration Card No. of houses

White

Yellow

Orange

Scale : 1 picture = 100 houses

74. What is the number of houses that have orange colour card?
(1) 800 (2) 400 (3) 200 (4) 600

75. How many times is the number of houses with white card to that of the number
of houses with yellow and orange colour card?
(1) 3 times (2) 13 times (3) Double (4) 12 times

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