Centre Code No. GOVERNMEN' TOF PUDUCHERRY DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL EDUCATION QUESTION BOOKLET DECEMBER 2020 PART - IL SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST Register No. [E : INSTRUCTIONS ‘Answer all the questions. All questions carry one mark each Since all questions are compulsory, do not try to read through the whole question paper before beginning to answer. Begin with the first question and keep on trying one question after another till you finish all the question. If you do not know the answer to any question, do not spend much time on it but pass on to the next one. Time permitting, you can come back to the questions which you have left in the first instance and try them again. Since the time allotted to this question paper is very limited, you should make the best use of it by not spending too much time on any one question. Separate sheets have been provided for rough work in the Question Booklet itself. The answers should be marked on a separate answer sheet provided in the Examination Hall. The answer sheet has two parts corresponding to Part — I and Part —II of the Test, Answer to each question is to be indicated by shading the number of the correct choice amongst the ones given in the answer sheet for the corresponding question in the test booklet with black ballpoint pen only.PART IL 1021 SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST - DECEMBER 2020 Duration: 2 Hours ‘Max Marks: 100 SCIENCE 1, The weight of a man in earth is 784 N. If the moon’s gravity is 1.63 ms, then the mass of the man at moon is -------- 1)481 Kg 2) 130 Kg 3) 80 Kg 4) 49 Kg 2, An athlete runs in a circular track of radius 600m. If he reaches diagonally opposite side in one minute, then what is his average velocity? 1) 20 m/s 2) 0 m/s 3) 31.4 m/s 4) 51.4 m/s 3. Clouds float in atmosphere because of their low --- 1) density 2) pressure 3) velocity 4) mass 4. Match the following devices with symbols a) Semiconductor diode i) —{ }— b) Rheostat ii) c) Fuse iii) 7 d) Thermistor iy) —6B- laiv,bic-iid-iii 2) ailibiciv,d-ii 3) aiv,bilic-i,d-i 4) a-iibiliciv,d-i 5. The net effective resistance of a circuit is 5Q when re rf 5 1) Ri = Ra = 5Q Rs = Ri = 100 fl att. Tl 2) 2) Ri= Rs = 5Q, Re = Rs = 10 ate 3) Ri=Ro=Ro=Rs=52 | 4) 4)Ri=Ra=Rs=Rs=10Q L 6. The unit of magnetic flux density is ------- 1) weber 2) weber/metre 3) weber/metre? 4) weber. meter? 7. At noon, the sun appears white because 1) all the colours of the white light are scattered away. 2) light is least scattered 3) blue colour is scattered the most 4) red colour is scattered the most 8. A concave mirror gives an image three times as large as its object placed at a distance of 20 cm from it. For the image to be real, the focal length should be 1) 10 cm 2) 15 cm 3) 20 cm 4) 30 cm10. ll. 12. 13. 14, 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. ‘The specific heat capacities of various form of water can be arranged as 1) water > steam > ice 2) water > ice > steam 3) Ice > water > steam 4) steam > water > ice Doppler effect cannot be applied when a) S (source) and L (listener) both are at rest b) Sis at rest and L moves towards him c) Sand L are moving in mutually perpendicular direction 4) S and L move towards each other Daandb 2aandc 3)aandd 4)bandd Dosimeter is used to measure 1) Exposure to radiation 2) Speed of fission reaction 3) Rate of fusion reaction _ 4) Half life period ‘The planet which appears as greenish star is, 1) Jupiter 2) Saturn 3) Uranus 4) Neptune Pick out the odd one out based on dispersion medium 1) Curd 2) cheese 3) butter 4) jelly The volume occupied by 14 g nitrogen gas is 1) 5.6L 2) 11.2. 3) 22.41, 4)44.8L Pick out the odd pair 1) Bauxite - Hamatite 2) Cuprite ~ Cryolite 3) Magnesite — Siderite 4) Galena - Zinc blende Acidity of magnesium hydroxide and basicity of phosphoric acid are respectively 1) 2,2 2)2,3 3)3,2 413 The difference in number of water molecules in Gypsum and Plaster of Paris is yi 2)2 3) 3 ai When milk turns into curd, its pH value 1) Increases 2) decreases 3) remains same 4) cannot be calculated Cia) + Oxj9 + —*CO ag + Heat. This reaction is a) Combustion reaction b) Combination reaction ©) Exothermic reaction d) irreversible reaction _ e) Oxidation reaction ljaandb 2)a,cande 3)abcande 4) a,b,c,d ande TEM is the term to be considered to assess the quality of ---- 1) Cool drinks 2) Soap 3) Perfumes 4) Cough Syrup Which of the following is used as anesthetic and pain killer? 1) Alcohols 2) Aldehydes 3) Ethers 4) Esters 1021102 22. Congo red is an example of___dye 1) Acid dye 2) Basic dye 3) Vat dye 4) Direct dye 23. Hydrogen peroxide poured on a wound decomposes into water and oxygen. The oxygen bubbles over the wound prevent the formation of 1) Hydrogen 2) Hydrogen peroxide 3) Carbonic acid 4) Water ~ is used for the effective functioning of heart 1) Fess 2) ps2 3) rst 4) Nar 25. In aquatic plants, aerenchyma will be present in 1) Parenchyma 2) Collenchyma 3) Solerenchyma 4) All the three 26. By using artificial photosynthesis, C.N.R Rao produced ----- fuel 1) Hydrogen —_—_2) Nitrogen 3) Helium 4) Neon 27. During winter we may notice water droplets on the leaves of grass, this process of removing excess of water is called 1) Guttation 2) Imbibitions 3) Palmolysis 4) Osmosis 28. Which of the following is called a floating Nitrogen factory? 1) Rhizobium —_ 2) Mycorrhizae 3) Azolla 4) Azospirillum 29, Regeneration type of reproduction occurs in 1) Spirogyra —2) Yeast 3) Hydra 4) Amoeba 30. Match the following a) Nitrogen fixation - i) Pseudomonas b) Ammonification - ii) Nitrobactor ©) Nitrification - iii) Fungi 4d) Denitrification - iv) Azotobactor 1) aii, beiv, c-i, d- iii 2) a-i, b- ili, c-iv, d- ii 3) acili, b- ii, c- iv, d-i 4) a-iv, b- ii, oii, dei 31, Bolting can be achieved by using the plant harmonic 1) Auxins 2) Cytokinins 3) Gibberellins 4) Ethylene 32, The only invertebrate that is capable of emotion, empathy, cognitive function, self awareness, personality and even relationships with humans is 1) Garden Snail 2) Octopus 3) Cockroach 4) Crab 33, ------- present in the saliva of leech does not allow the blood to coagulate 1) Hirudin 2) Papilae 3) Diverticula 4) Clitellum 34. When the sun rays falls on the skin -------- is converted into Vitamin D 1) Dehydro Cholesterol 2) Fats 3) Minerals 4) Proteins35. 36. ‘The largest human cell is é 1) Nervecell; - 2)Sperm > 3) ovum 4)d and 3 Match the following functions with parts of the brain a) Relay centre .. #i) Cerebellum, b) Thermoregulatory center = i) Pons ¢) Maintains body balance - d) Respiration & sleep cycle - iv) Hypothalamus i) Thalamus: 1) aii, b-i, c-iv, d- iii 2) aii, briv, c-i, d- ii 3) @ ili, b~ ii, c- i, d- iv 4) a iv, bili, c— ii, d-i 37. Excess hunger due to loss of glucose in urine is called 38. 39. 40. 41 42, 43. 44. 45. 1) Polyuria 2) Polyphagia. 3) Polydipsia_-—4) Hyperglycemia Which is not a part of white blood cell 1) Neutrophils 2) Eosinophils 3) Erythrocytes 4) Lymphocytes World health day is on 1) 16% October 2) 7 April 3) 7 June 4) 21% March Chronic damage to brain and respiratory system is caused due to the hazardous heavy metal___present in e-wastes 1) Lead 2) Chromium — 3) Cadmium 4) Mercury SOCTAL SCIENCE ‘The Nile river originates in lake 1) Victoria 2) Elizabeth 3) Nepolean 4) Alaxandria The statue of Gomateswara at Shravanabelgola in Karnataka is known as ~ 1)Mahavira 2) Buddha 3) Bahubali 4) Kadaram Kondan ‘The height above which there is a permanent snow cover in the higher altitude or latitude is called 1) Altitude line 2) Latitude line 3) Snowline 4) Longitude line We celebrate National Voters Day on in India 1)25% January 2) 25% February 3) 25March —4) 25 April Who was the founder of Widow Remarriage Association? 1)M.G. Ranade 2) Devendranath Tagore 3) Jyotiba Phule —4) Ayyankalii46. 47, 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 58. 59. 60. The first Hydro-electric power station in India was established at 1) Kalpakkam 2) Kudankulam 3) Trombay . The Term “Globalisation” was introduced by 1) Pro.Roosevelt 2) Pro.Keynes 3) Pro.Theodre Levitt Tidel forest are also known as 1) Alphine forest 2) Mountain forest ‘3) Mangrove forest The north-south extent of India is 1) 2,500 Km 2) 2,933 Km 3) 3,214 Km GATT’s first round was held in 1) Tokyo 2) Uruguay 3) Torquay Inscription that mentions the Cheras 1) Pugalur 2) Girnar 3) Pulimankombai ‘The other name for Greeks was 1) Hellenists 2) Hellenes 3) Phoenicians in 1897 4) Darjeeling 4) Pro,Thodarmal 4) Tropical dry forest 4) 2,814 Km 4) Geneva 4) Madurai 4) Spartans Many million years ago, India was part of the super continent ----------- 1) Gondwana 2) Laurasia 3) Panthalasa Tamil Book, “Tambiran Vanakkam” was published from -- 1) Chennai 2) Mumbai 3) Goa Formulation of 60 minutes an hour: 24 hours a day 1) Egyptian 2) Mesopotamian 3) Chinese Who accurately calculated the diameter of earth? 1) Euclid 2) Eratosthenes 3) Hipparchus . An example of Dead volcano 1)Mt. Helens 2) Mt-Fuji 3) Mt Kilimanjarao Which tree found in Tropical Forest Biomes 1) Ebony 2) Lemon grass .. 3) Palms ‘The father of Local Self government in India 1) Mahatma Gandhi — 2) Periyar; 3) Lord Ripon Which Economist introduced “Human Development Index” 1) Amartya Sen 2) Mahbub Ul Haq 3) Raghuram Rajan 4) C.Rangarajan 4) Pangea 4) Delhi 4) Harappan 4) Ptolemy 4) Mt.Everest 4) Lichens 4) Lord Curyon61. 62. 63 6 g 65. 66. 67 68. 69. 70. 7 72. 73. 74, 75. When was the Warsaw Pact dissolved? 1) 1979 2) 1989 3) 1990 4) 1991 When was the first Forest Act enacted? 1) 1858 2) 1911 3) 1865 4) 1936 In Feudalism, “Villeins or Serfs” are called__. 1) Dukes 2) Counts 3) Earls 4) Slaves . Out of 14 highest Peaks in this world, Himalayas holds ___peaks. 16 2)7 3)8 4)9 Which is the high quality of coffee, cultivated more in India? 1) Arabica 2) Bohea 3) Robusta 4) Assamica ‘Child help line ‘number in India__. 1) 1098 2) 1908 3) 1809 4) 1089 ‘The Detroit of Asia is__. 1)Tuticorin 2) Coimbatore 3) Chennai 4) Madurai ‘The Earth was formed approximately billions years ago. 1) 10.01 2) 6.01 3) 5.50 4) 4.54 Sekkilar’sPeriyapuranam was presented ( Arangetram) at the temple in 1)Chidambaram 2)Srirangam 3) thiruvarur_ 4) Vedaranyam ‘Stop, Drop and Roll’ is a mock drill a vowal for 1) Earthquake 2) Tsunami 3) Fire 4) Riot . India shares shortest border with 1) Nepal 2) Afghanistan 3) Myanmar 4) Bhutan The Term Non- Alignment was coined by 1) Jawaharlal Nehru 2) B.R Ambedkar 3) Indra Gandhi 4) V.Krishna Menon National Income is also called as. product 1) Gross Domestic 2) Net National 3) Net Domestic 4) Gross National Marudhu Brothers were executed in the fort of 1) Kayathar 2)Virupachi 3) Vellore 4) Tirupathur Chauri Chaura is in 1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Bihar 3) Odisha 4) West Bengal1021 76. Project Tiger was launched in the year 1) 1973 2) 1974 3) 1975 4) 1976 77. The largest producer of Manganese Ore in India 1) HCL 2) MOIL 3) SAIL 4) cL 78. Mussolini was killed in -. 1) April 1945 2) May 1945, 3) June 1944 4) July 1944 79. Farazi movement was launched by - 1) Haji Shariatullah 2) Titu Mir 3) Sidhu 4) Kanu 80. National Institute of Oceanography was established on - 1) 01.01.1996 2) 01.01.1997 3) 10.10.1998 +4) 10.10.1999 MATHEMATICS 81. There are 576 boys and 448 girls in a school that are to be divided into equal sections of either boys or girls alone. The total number of sections thus formed are 1) 22 2) 16 3) 36 4) 21 82. The number of multiples lying between n and n? which are divisible by n is ntl an 3)n-1 4)n-2 83. A chess board contains 64 equal squares and the area of each square is 6.25 cm, A border around the board is 2cm wide. The length of the side of chess board is 1) 8 cm 2) 12cm 3) 24cm 4) 36 cm 84. In a family of 3 children, the probability of having atleast one boy is yi 22 3) 4) 2 85. Simplify [(A u B)’ 9 (A 0 BY) and [(AUBY’ u (ANB)? 1) AUB and AUB 2) AUB and ANB 3) ANB and AUB 4) ANB and ANB 86. If the zeros of the quadratic polynomial X?+ (a+1) X+b are 2 and -3 then <1 3)a=2,b=-6 l)a=-7,b=1 2) a5,Sinx-Co3x 87. If 16cot x = 12, then Sin y¢Coex yy 22 3) 40 88. If one root of the equation 4x2-2x+ (4-4) = 0 be the reciprocal of the other, then A= 8 2) -8 3)4 4)-4 89. The value of mode and mean are 18 and 27 respectively. The value of median ------ 1) 20.3 2) 49.5 3) 24 4) 40.5 90. The CSA of an oblique frustum of a cylinder when it is cut by a plane not parallel to the base is--. 1) 2nhihe sq .units 2) 2nr (hi-hay sq. units 3) 2x (M9) sq. units 4) 2nr (hithg) sq -units 91. A solid sphere of radius 6 cm is melted into a hollow cylinder of uniform thickness. If the external radius of the base of the cylinder is 5cm and its height is 320mm, then find the twice the thickness of the cylinder-- - ljlcm 2)2cm 3)1 mm 4)2 mm 92. If the range of a function 'f is not a proper subset of co-domain, then the function is a/an- l)onetoone 2) onto 3) into 4) none 93, Given f(x) = (-1* is a function from N to Z. Then the complement of the range of f is - 11, 0 Zz 3)N-{1, }} 4)Z-¢1, 3) 94. Ifa, b, c, I, m, nare in A.P then 3a+7,3b+7,3c+7,31+7,3m+7,3n+7 form —~ aGP 2) an AP 3) aconstant sequence 4) neither A.P nor G.P 95. The centroid divides circumcentre and orthocentre internally in the ratio-. from the orthocentre. Yast 2)2:1 3)1:2 4) None96. oF. 98. 99. The angle of inclination of any line which does not touch the x ~ axis is- 1)180° 2) 90° 3) 0° 4) 30° What is the complement of complement of sure event ? 1) Impossible Event 2) Mutually Exclusive Event 3) Sure Event _ 4) None The abscissa of a point is perpendicular distance of that point from 1) X-axis 2) Y-axis 3) Origin 4) None i 3 2,2 of The value of X for the equation * + 2+7 (« 3) is 141 2) #2 3)0 4) None Find the value of {16 +2¥63 1» V3+¥2i av7tv9 a Vat¥7 4) None