1.

Consider the following phenomena Select the correct answer using the codes
1. Size of the Sun at dusk given below:
2. Colour of the Sun at dawn
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
3. Moon being visible at dawn
correct explanation of (A).
4. Twinkle of stars in the sky
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not
5. Polestar being visible in the sky
the correct explanation of (A).
Which of the above are optical illusions? (c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(d) (A) is false but (R) is true
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 3, 4 and 5
6. Which one of the following quantities does
(c) 1, 2 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 5 not have unit?
2. The minimum height of a plane mirror to (a) Stress
see the full size image of a person is equal
(b) Force
to:
(c) Strain
(a) The height of the person
(d) Pressure
(b) Half the height of the person
(e) None of the above / More than one of
(c) One-fourth the height of the person
the above
(d) Double the height of the person
7. The mass of the body on the Earth is 100
3. The radio of curvature of the plane mirror kg (acceleration due to gravity, ge =
is : 10m/s2). If acceleration due to gravity on
(a) Zero the Moon is (ge/6), then the mass of the
body on the Moon is:
(b) One
(a) 100/6 kg (b) 60 kg
(c) Infinity
(c) 100 kg (d) 600 kg
(d) Between one and infinity
8. S.I. unit of surface tension is:
4. The Sky appears blue due to –
N N
(a) Blue color is scattered most (a) (b)
m2 m
(b) The red color is scattered most
Ns J
(c) (d)
(c) Blue light is minimum absorbed by m s
atmosphere 9. Which one of the following attributes is
(d) Red light is ultimately absorbed by NOT true for uniform circular motion?
atmosphere (a) The distance is always equal to the
5. Assertion (A): The danger signal is made displacement
up of red colour. (b) Velocity is always perpendicular to the
Reason (R): Red colour is scattered the radius of the circle.
least. (c) The speed of the body remains
constant
 (d) The velocity of the body is continuously (a) 25 Seconds
changing
(b) Less than 25 Seconds
10. A bus covers the first half of a certain
(c) More than 25 Seconds
distance with speed v1 and the second half
(d) Nothing can be said
with a speed v2 . The average speed during
15. The normal temperature of human body
the whole journey is:
on the Kelvin scale is:
v1 + v2 v1v2
(a) (b) (a) 280 (b) 290
2 v1 + v2
(c) 300 (d) 310
2v v
(c) v1v2 (d) 1 2 16. The safest temperature for keeping food
v1 + v2
fresh in a refrigerator is
11. The device used for converting alternating (a) 4 C (b) 8 C
current to direct current is called:
(c) 0 C (d) 10 C
(a) Inverter (b) Rectifier
17. Which of the following has the longest
(c) Transformer (d) Transmitter wavelength?
12. What gases are filled in fluorescent tube? (a) Infrared (b) X-rays

(a) Neon (c) Visible light (d) Radio waves

(b) Sodium 18. When the same tone is played on a sitar

and a flute, the sound produced can be
(c) Mercury distinguished from each other because of
the difference in:
(d) Mercury and Neon
(a) Pitch, loudness and quality
13. Consider the following statements.
(b) Pitch loudness
I. In summer season, the effective length
of the pendulum clock is lengthened (c) Quality only
(increased length), so its time period is (d) Loudness only
also increased and consequently the
clock becomes slow. 19. Who among the following scientist
discovered the Law of Floatation?
II. In winter season, the effective length is
contracted, thus time period is (a) Newton (b) Thomas Edison
decreased and the clock becomes fast. (c) Archimedes (d) John Dalton
Which of the statement(s) given above 20. On which principle does the hydraulic list
is/are correct? works?
(a) Only I (b) Only II (a) Newton’s Law (b) Pascal’s Law
(c) I and II (d) Neither I nor II (c) Archimedes’s Law (d) Joule’s Law
o o
14. A hot body cools from 90 C to 75 C in 25 21. Match the following list:
seconds. The same body in further cooling
from 75o C to 60o C will take how much
time?
 List I List II (a) 0o C (b) – 275o C
A. Convection 1. Heat is (c) – 273o C (d) – 300o C
transferred due
25. Which one of the statement is correct?
B. Radiation to molecular
collision (a) The image formed by a concave mirror
C. Conduction 2. Heat is for an object lying at infinity is at the
transferred from principal focus, highly diminished, real and
D. Heat Transfer section to inverted.
another section
(b) A ray of light parallel to the principal
of the body.
axis after reflection from a concave mirror
3. Heat is
appears to diverge from the principal focus
transferred due
of the mirror.
to actual motion
of heater (c) The focal length of a spherical mirror is
material. double of its radius of curvature.
4. Heat is radiated (d) A ray of light travelling from a rarer
as the medium to a denser medium bends away
electromagnetic from the normal.
radiations.
26. A student by chance mixed acetone with
alcohol. The mixture of acetone and
Codes alcohol can be separated by
A B C D A B C D (a) Filtration
(a) 1 4 3 2 (b) 2 3 1 4 (b) Separating funnel
(c) 3 4 1 2 (d) 4 1 3 2 (c) Fractional crystallization
22. Which one of the following is not a form of (d) Fractional distillation
stored energy? 27. Statement I All compounds contain more
(a) Nuclear energy than one element.

(b) Potential energy Statement II All compounds are

heterogeneous mixtures.
(c) Electrical energy
(a) Both the statements are individually
(d) Chemical energy true and statement II is the correct
23. A body has a free fall from a height of 20 explanation of statement I.
m. After falling through a distance of 5 m, (b) Both the statements are individually
then body would true but statement II is not the correct
explanation of statement I.
(a) lose one-fourth of its total energy (c) Statement I is true, but Statement II is
(b) lose one-fourth of its potential energy false.
(d) Statement I is false, but Statement II is
(c) gain one-fourth of its potential energy true.
(d) gain three-fourth of its total energy 28. Which one of the following statement is
24. The absolute zero, i.e. temperature below not correct?
which is not achievable, is about (a) Hydrogen is an element
 (b) Hydrogen is the lightest element. (b) Solid hydrogen peroxide
(c) Hydrogen has no isotopes. (c) Solid water
(d) Hydrogen and oxygen from an (d) Solid carbon dioxide
explosive mixture
34. Assertion (A) : Sodium metal is stored
29. Which one of the following statements is under kerosene.
not correct?
Reason (R) : Metallic sodium melts when
(a) Atoms of different elements may have exposed to air.
same mass numbers.
(a) Both A and R is true and R is the
(b) Atoms of an element may have correct explanation of A.
different mass numbers (b) Both A and R is true but R is not a
correct explanation of A.
(c) All the atoms of an element have same
(c) A is true but R is false.
number of protons
(d) A is false but R is true.
(d) All the atoms of an element will always
35. Which one of the following elements in
have same number of neutrons.
used as a time-keeper in atomic clocks.
30. The acid in gastric juice is
(a) Potassium (b) Caesium
(a) acetic acid (b) nitric acid
(c) Calcium (d) Magnesium
(c) hydrochloric acid (d) sulphuric acid
36. Which one of the following gases dissolves
31. An acid turns blue litmus red and base in water to give acidic solution?
turns red litmus blue. A group of student in
(a) Carbon dioxide (b) Oxygen
a laboratory tested a solution with a red
litmus paper which remained red with no (c) Nitrogen (d) Hydrogen
change. This result shows that the solution
37. Which one of the following sets of the
is
elements was primarily responsible for the
(a) not a base origin of life on the earth?
(b) not a acid (a) Hydrogen, Oxygen, Sodium
(c) Neither acid nor a base (b) Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen
(d) both acid and base (c) Oxygen, Calcium, Phosphorus
32. Which one among the following (d) Carbon, Hydrogen, Potassium
statements about the bases is correct?
38. H2O is liquid and H2S is a gas because-
(a) All bases are alkalis.
(a) Oxygen forms stronger hydrogen bond
(b) None of the bases is alkali. than sulphur
(c) There are no more bases except the (b) Oxygen is less electronegative than
alkalis. sulphur
(d) All alkalis are bases but all bases are (c) Atomic radius of oxygen is less than
not alkalis. that of sulphur
33. Which one of the following is called ‘dry (d) Atomic radius of oxygen is greater than
ice’? that of sulphur
(a) Dehydrated ice
39. By which process the sea water can be 1. Blood 2. Bone
converted into pure water?
3. Ligaments 4. Tendons
(a) Deliquescence
Which of these are connective tissue
(b) Efflorescence
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (b) 1 and 2
(c) Electric separation
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 3 and 4
(d) Reverse osmosis
47. Which one of the following pairs is
40. An α-particle carries two positive charges. incorrectly matched?
Its mass is very nearly equal to
(a) Thiamine Beriberi
(a) The mass of two protons
(b) Ascorbic acid Scurvy
(b) The mass of an atom of helium
(c) Vitamin A Colour-Blindness
(c) The sum of the masses of two positrons
(d) Vitamin K Blood clotting
and two neutrons
48. Nitrification is the biological process of
(d) The mass of two positrons as each
converting
positron carries a single positive charge.
(a) N2 into nitrate
41. The unit of heredity in our body is called.
(b) N2 into nitrite
(a) Chromosome (b) DNA
(c) Ammonia into nitrite
(c) Gene (d) Nucleus
(d) Ammonia into N2
42. Which compound present in DNA does not
form amino acid? 49. Malfunction of which organ causes
diabetes?
(a) Adenine (b) Tyrosine
(a) Lever (b) Pancreas
(c) Guanine (d) Cytosine
(c) Kidney (d) Heart
43. Lymph Contains-
50. Which of the following is not considered as
(a) Everything like blood expect RBC and
air pollutant
few blood proteins
(a) Hydrocarbon
(b) Serum and WBC
(b) Carbon monoxide
(c) Blood plasma
(c) Carbon dioxide
(d) WBC and RBC
(d) Sulphur dioxide
44. Litmus is obtained from –
(a) Bacteria (b) Fungi
(c) Algae (d) Lichen
45. Which one of the following enzyme is
found in human saliva?
(a) Pepsin (b) Ptyalin
(c) Renin (d) Erepsin
46. Consider the following