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1. Current age of Ritu and Rinki is in the 5. Cynthia has borrowed Rs. 6,000 at the
ratio 3:4. 6 years back, the ratio of their rate of 7% S.I. What amount does she
ages was 2:3. What is the present age of need to pay after 3 years to clear the
Ritu? debt?
a. 12 years a. Rs. 7,500
b. Rs. 7,260
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If Rakesh borrows Rs. 36,000
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The sum Sathesh at rate of interest 6% S.I, at the
end of four years, how much interest
56 years; after four years the age of the
father will be three times that of the son. Rakesh has to pay?
What is the age of the father and the son, a. Rs. 8,560
respectively?
b. Rs. 8,640
a. 41 years, 12 years
c. Rs. 8,500
b. 30 years, 12 years d. Rs. 8,080
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man running at 12 km/hr in the same
direction of train in 9 seconds. What is
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against the stream is 5 km/hr, what is a. 240 and 660
the speed of the stream?
b. 200 and 620
a. 1.5 km/hr
c. 220 and 600
b. 2 km/hr d. 250 and 640

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of Rahul in still water and speed of
S has covered 20 km more distance than
the first train which starts from station
current. R. What is the distance between the two
stations?
a. 9 km/h and 2 km/h
a. 400 km
b. 8 km/h and 6 km/h
b. 440 km
c. 7 km/h and 3 km/h c. 420 km
d. 8 km/h and 2 km/h d. 460 km
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9. 50 men can paint a building in 15 days 13. A, B and C enter into a partnership in
working 4 hours a day. In how many 7 4 6
the ratio : : . After 4 months, A
days 40 men working 5 hours a day will 2 3 5
complete the work? increases his share by 50%. If the total
profit at the end of one year be Rs.21,600
a. 14 days
then B’s share in the profit is:
b. 15 days a. Rs.2,100
c. 16 days b. Rs.2,400
d. 17 days c. Rs.3,600
d. Rs.4,000

10. Anish and Bala can do a work in 8 days, 14. If 4 (A’s capital) = 6 (B’s capital) =
Bala and Cynthia can do the same work 10 (C’s capital), then out of profit of
in 12 days. Anish, Bala and Cynthia Rs.4,650 C will receive:
together can finish it in 6 days. How
a. Rs. 465
many days A and C will together do it?
b. Rs. 900
a. 4 days
c. Rs. 1,550
b. 6 days d. Rs. 2,250
c. 8 days
15. The greatest number of four digits which
d. 12 days
is divisible by 15, 25, 40 and 75 is
a. 9,000
11. Reena and Shaloo are partners in a b. 9,400
business. Reena invests Rs.35,000 for
c. 9,600
8 months and Shaloo invests Rs.42,000
for 10 months. Out of Profit of Rs.31,570, d. 9,800
Reena’s share is
a. Rs.9,471 16. The least multiple of 7, which leaves a
remainder of 4, when divided by 6, 9, 15
b. Rs.12,628 and 18 is:
c. Rs.18,040 a. 74
b. 94
d. Rs.18,942
c. 184
d. 364
12. A started a business with Rs.21,000 and
is joined afterwards by B with Rs.36,000. 17. Find the maximum number of students
After how many months did B join if the among whom 1001 pens and 910 pencils
profit at the end of the year is divided can be distributed in such a way that
equally? each student gets the same number of
pens and same number of pencils
a. 3
a. 91
b. 4
b. 910
c. 5 c. 1001
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18. A vendor bought 6 toffees for a rupee. a deposited Rs.1,000 in a bank. In
22. A man
How many for a rupee must he sell to return he got Rs.1,331. Bank gave
gain 20%?
interest 10% per annum. How long did he
a. 3 keep the money in the bank?
b. 4
a. 5 years
c. 5
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23. Two pipes can fill a cistern in 14 hour
a. No profit, no loss and 16 hour respectively. The pipes are
b. 5 opened simultaneously and it is found

c. 8 that due to leakage in the bottom it took
32 minutes more to fill the cistern. When
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price of an article and sold it for Rs.8,750
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with 25% profit on the price he bought.
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a. Rs.10,000 c. 102 hour
b. Rs.12,000
d. 119 hour
c. Rs.16,000

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b. 25 hr
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c. 20 hr
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25. Pipes A and B can fill a tank 29. The paths of glory lead ___________ to
in 5 and 6 hour respectively. Pipe C can the grave.
empty it in 12 hour. If all the three pipes
are opened together then the tank will be a. straight
filled in
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b. 3 hour
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c. 3 hour 30. Complete the statement correctly and
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meaningfully.
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d. 3 hour She never visits any zoo because she is
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strong opponent of the idea of
___________.
26. Life is to death as pleasure is to

a. Poverty a. Setting the animals free into forest

b. Suffering b. Watching the animals in their
natural abode
c. Anguish

d. Pain c. Going out of the house on a holiday

d. Holding the animals in captivity for
our joy
27. The new education policy provides a
useful ___________ for the planners to
remove illiteracy.
31. Complete the statement correctly and
a. breakup meaningfully.
b. breakthrough
Owing to the acute power shortage, the
c. breakaway people of our locality have decided to
___________.
d. break-in
a. Dispense with other non-
conventional energy sources
28. Soft minded individuals are ____________
to embrace all kinds of superstitions. b. Resort to use of electricity only
when it is inevitable
a. disposed

b. eager c. Off-switch the electrical appliance
while not in use
c. reluctant
d. Explore other avenues for utilising
d. prone
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Directions (32-35). Rearrange the following a of the following should be
35. Which
four sentences in proper sequence to form a the first sentence?
meaningful paragraph, then answer the
questions given below. a. 1

1. The history of mankind is full of b. 2
such fightings between
c. 3
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character, but the effect is the same a. However influenced he will be
wiping human existence out of this
earth. b. However influencial he may be

c. However influenced he may be
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39. Find the minimum number of straight 42. Vineet is taller than Raman but shorter
lines required to make the given figure. than Jyoti. Sumit is the shortest. Deepak
is taller than Sumit but shorter than
Raman. Who is the tallest?

a. Jyoti

b. Raman
a. 16
c. Vineet
b. 17
d. Deepak
c. 18

d. 19
43. The square boxes in the figures given are
to be painted with different colours such
40. Choose the correct water image of the that no two adjacent boxes (even
given problem figure from the answer diagonally) have same colour. How many
figures. minimum colours do you need in each
case?
Problem Figure

Answer Figures

a. (3, 4)

b. (4, 4)

c. (4, 5)
a. A
d. (3, 5)
b. B

c. C
44. Find the missing numbers
d. D
15 6 5
13 3 9
41. What do you understand by - ‘If K is 8 2 ?
there L has to be there’
20 7 13
a. K and L will always be together
a. 1
b. K is not there, then L will not be
b. 6
there
c. 7
c. K is there, then L will also be there
d. 14
d. K and L will always be not together

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the give cubes, which colour is
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50. If a mirror is placed on the line MN, then 52. Biology : Study of life, Geology : ?
which is the right figure of the given
a. Study of plants
image?
b. Study of water

c. Study of earth

d. Study of clouds

Options:

53. A, B and C are persons. Consider these
relations – If A+B means A is a brother
1.
of B, A%B means A is a father of B, and
AXB is A is a sister of B. What does
M%N%P represent?
2.
a. M is grandfather of P

b. N is brother of M

3. c. P is grandfather of M

d. M is uncle of P

4.
54. If eye is linked to webcamera, brain is
linked to
a. 1
a. Keyboard
b. 2
b. Mouse
c. 3
c. Random Access Memory
d. 4
d. Processor

51. What is in this sequence?
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Y, V, S, P, ____ 5, 10, 15, 26, 37

a. N a. 5

b. M b. 10

c. Q c. 15

d. L d. 26

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56. Which of the following does not exist? 60. In aagroup of 25, 10 have studied French,
11 have studied Spanish, and 8 have not
a. Megabyte
studied either. How many of these
b. Kilobyte studied both French and Spanish?
c. Yugabyte a. 0
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c. South
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d. South West
(ii) Latha is not the oldest.

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c. L
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63. At IPL matches, Peter was sitting in seat (Questions 67, 68, 69, 70 are from these
102. Maria was sitting in the 2nd seat statements)
right of Peter. Tom was sitting in the
seat to the left of Peter. Max was sitting A company has four offices, numbered
right to Peter at 106. John in the middle 1, 2, 3, and 4. Each of its offices has
of Max and Maria. In which seat John exactly one computer and exactly one
was sitting?
printer. Each of these eight machines
a. 101 was bought in either 2019, 2020 or 2021
b. 103 The eight machines were bought in a
manner consistent with the following
c. 104
conditions:
d. 105
(i) In all the four offices, computers
are bought earlier than printers or
64. Arrange in a meaningful sequence
in the same year.
1. Appointment
(ii) Computer in office 2 and printer in
2. Consultation
office 1 are bought in the same
3. Sick year.
4. Treatment
(iii) Computer in office 3 and printer in
5. Recovery office 4 are bought in the same
a. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 year.
b. 3, 1, 2, 4, 5 (iv) Computer in office 2 and Computer
c. 3, 2, 1, 4, 5 in office 3 are not purchased in the
d. 3, 1, 4, 5, 2 same year.

(v) Computer in office 1 and Printer in
65. Which is the most important part of a Office 3 are purchased in the same
book? year 2020.
a. Education
b. Pages
67. If the computer in office 3 is bought
c. Knowledge earlier than the printer in the same
d. Images office, then

a. Printer in office 1 is bought in 2019
66. If WPKX is UNIV, _______ is ANNA.
b. Computer in office 2 is bought in
a. CPPC 2019
b. WPPW
c. Printer in office 4 is bought in 2019
c. PCCP
d. Computer in office 1 is bought in
d. VCCV
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and printer in office 1 is bought during Each student opts two courses, 1 core and
the other elective.
2021, then printer in office 2 is bought
during (i) D’s elective is Maths and three
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74. Who among the following have Maths as 79. In Boolean algebra A + A′ =
the core course?
a. A
a. B and C
b. A′
b. Only B
c. 1
c. D and E d. 0
d. D and F

80. Full adder adds
75. Who has taken the course of Biology? a. 2 bits
a. A b. 1 bit
b. B c. 3 bits
c. C d. 1/2 bit
d. D

81. Even parity bit for the given binary
number 100111 is
76. Binary equivalent of 10 is
a. 0
a. 1010
b. 1
b. 1110
c. 2
c. 1101
d. error
d. 1001

82. Flip flops can be generated using
77. 1s complement of 1001
a. Not gate
a. 0110
b. NAND gate
b. 0111
c. OR gate
c. 1111
d. AND gate
d. 0101

83. A functional unit of the computer that
78. BCD of 82 is performs logical operations.

a. 0110 0010 a. ALU

b. 0000 0110 b. adder

c. 1000 0010 c. AND gate

d. 0110 0110 d. OR gate

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84. Collection of wires that carry address a of the following statements in
89. Which
data signals from control unit to other SQL is/are considered as Data
parts of computer system is called as
manipulation language?
a. Data bus
a. Update
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c. Address bus
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93. Which of the following is a set of 97. Codes consisting of bars or lines of
keywords, symbol, and a system of rules varying widths or lengths that are
for constructing statements by which computer-readable are known as
humans can communicate the
instructions to be executed by a a. A bar code
computer?
b. An ASCII code
a. Computer program
c. A magnetic tape
b. Programming language
d. A light pen
c. Assembler

d. Syntax
98. What is the limit of characters for a
tweet on Twitter?
94. Which keystroke will take you at the
a. 110
beginning or the end of a long document?
b. 280
a. Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl + PageDown

b. Shift+Home and Shift+End c. 120

c. Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End d. 150

d. The only way is by using the right
scroll bar 99. The address given to each computer on
the Internet is known as

95. BIOS stand for a. Hardware number
a. Basic Input Output System b. Device address
b. Basic Instruction Output System c. IP address
c. Basic Interface Output System
d. NET address
d. Basic Interaction Output System

100. A compiler is used to translate a program
96. In which year was the first web browser written in
created?
a. A low level language
a. 1992
b. A high level language
b. 1991
c. Assembly language
c. 1990
d. Machine language
d. 1995

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