Beaconhouse National University

SCHOOL OF COMPUTER AND IT

SAMPLE PAPER FOR ADMISSION TEST 2021
BSc (Hons) in Computer Science
BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

1. The objective of the Admission Test is to determine the aptitude of

candidates for BSc(Hons) in Computer Science and BSc (Hons) in
Software Engineering. For those who qualify the test, the merit for
admission will be determined on the basis of their previous academic
record.
2. The Test consists of three sections i.e. Section I (IQ/General
Knowledge), Section II (Mathematics) and Section III (English).
3. The duration of the Test is 1 hour 30 min divided as follows:
Section I (20 min), Section II(35 min) and Section III (35 min).
4. Candidates should note the following instructions for taking the Test:
a. Read each question carefully before answering it. Work out the
solution and record your answer on the Answer Sheet against the
question number. Answers written on Test Booklet will not be
accepted. Use the blank pages of the Test Booklet for rough
work.
b. All answers should be written with ball pen. Answers written with
lead pencil will not be accepted.
c. If you finish answering questions in a section before the allowed
time, check your work on the attempted section only. Do not
refer to any other section of the Test. Failure to follow this
instruction will result in your disqualification.
d. There is no negative marking i.e. no mark will be deducted for a
wrong answer or for not answering a question.
e. Use of calculators is allowed. Mobile phones must be switched
off during the test. Do not bring anything to the test center except
the Admit Slip and Pens/Ball pens and a Calculator
5. Answer key of Sample Test Paper is provided at the end.

6. Test paper for Pre-Medical Group candidates will be different and

shall contain Matriculation Level Math questions in Section II of the
Test.
 SYLLABUS FOR ADMISSION TEST

SECTION I – IQ/GEN. KNOWLEDGE (20 min, 20 questions, 20 marks)

Test of logical reasoning, Understanding relationship between sets of

words and figures, Sequences of numbers and alphabets, Puzzles and
problem solving.

General Knowledge about history, geography, everyday science and

current affairs.

SECTION II Mathematics (35 min, 20 questions, 20 marks)

Arithmetic and Algebra
Fractions, Decimals, Ratio and proportion, Word problems, Percentages,
Problem solving using algebra.
Higher Maths
Factorization, Exponents, Simultaneous equations, Quadratic equations,
Inequalities Matrices and determinants, Complex numbers, Exponents
and logarithms, Sequences and series, Binomial theorem, Permutations
and combinations, Probability, Trigonometric functions, Identities,
Applications of trigonometry.
Coordinate geometry and Calculus
Equations of lines and planes. Differentiation and its applications.
Integration and its applications. Differentiation and integration of
trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions.
Note:
Test paper for Pre-Medical Group candidates will be different and shall
contain Matriculation Level Math questions in Section II of the Test.

SECTION III - English (35 min, 16 questions, 20 marks)

Sentence completion, Synonyms/Antonyms, Word-pair comparisons.

Reading Comprehension, Essay on a topical subject

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SECTION I (IQ/GENERAL KNOWLEDGE)

No. of Questions: 20 Time Allowed: 20 minutes

1. What comes next in the series?

2 1 0.5 0.25 ?

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2. What number is next in the series?

21 13 21 17 21 21 21 ?

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3. Which figure is next in the sequence?

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4. How many squares and rectangles are in the figure below?

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5. What is the next figure in the sequence?

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6. Find the missing alphabet :

G
J
M D

A
P
S
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7. A cheque has the amount written on it as “Rupees One

Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Only” Write this amount in
numbers.
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8. In the figure below, if circle A is VARIABLE and circle B is

VENTURE, what is the shaded area?

A B

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9. Complete the analogy
Zoo is to animals as Aquarium is to ______.

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10. What is greater: one-half of 1/3 OR one-third of 1/2?

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11. Which one of these words comes first in a dictionary:

PIECE, PEACE or PIERCE?

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12. Which is the odd one out?

Cycling, Fencing, Boxing, Wrestling, Hockey
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13. What is the figure shown below called?

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14. Majid runs faster than Saleem, Jamil runs faster than Majid,
Haroon runs faster than Saleem. Who runs the fastest??

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15. If 17th June is a Monday, what day it will be on 17th July?

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16. What is measured by a BAROMETER?

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17. Who was Galileo?

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18. Which country’s cricket team is called PROTEAS?

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19. What does the acronym SNGPL stands for?

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20. The highest civil award of Pakistan is Nishan i Pakistan,

What is the second highest civil award of Pakistan?

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Section II (Mathematics)

No. of Questions: 20 Time Allowed: 35 min

1. What percentage is 0.001 of 0.05 ?

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2. In a certain school, 40% of all students are 8 years old or younger. The
number of the remaining students is 120. How many students are 8
years old or younger?

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1 3
3. What is: 7 ÷ 3 ? Give your answer in mixed fraction.
4 8

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4. The Google map of a housing scheme is displayed on a scale of 500:1.

If a square on the map has area of 16 sq cm, what is the actual area
(on the ground) in square meters?

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5. A car washer can wash 8 cars in 18 minutes. At this rate how many
cars he can wash in 4 hours and 12 minutes?

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6. If 30 shirts are sold for Rs. 6,000 at a profit of 7.5%. What was the cost
price of each shirt?

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7. The applicants to a college increased by 20% from 2010 to 2011. If

the number of applicants in 2011 were 960, how many applicants were
there in 2010?

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8. If 0.000005893 is expressed in the form 5.893 x 10n , what is the value

of n?

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9. Mr. Saleem found that his monthly expenses are as follows:

Rent and Utilities: 35%

Food: 25%
Clothing: 5%
Misc: 15%
Vehicle : 20%

If he spends Rs. 5,000 on Food, how much does he spend on his

Clothing?

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10. Arrange the following numbers in ascending order of magnitude.

3/5, 0.15, 7/8, 0.45, 17/19

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1 1
11. Find the value of the expression + =?
3+√3 √3 −3

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12. In an election, a total of 120,000 votes were cast for two opposing
candidates, Mr. A and Mr. B. If Mr. A won the election in ratio 5:3,
how many votes were cast for him?

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13. A room has dimensions Length = 12 feet, Breadth = 8 feet, Height= 6

feet. Find the cost of painting the room (four walls and ceiling) at cost
of Rs. 5 per square foot. Assume area of doors and windows of the
room is 60 square feet which is not to be painted.

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14. If (j ÷ k )= 24 and k = (2 ÷ 7), what is the value of (1 ÷ 3 j)?

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15. A parent rewards a child with Rs. 10 for a correctly solved problem
and fines him Rs. 2 for an incorrectly solved problem. If the child gets
Rs. 80 after 50 problems, how many problems did he solve correctly?

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16. Find dy/ dx if x= at2 and y = 2at

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17. Evaluate the integral:

1

∫ (3x2 – x3 ) dx
-1

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18. Simplify the trigonometric expression:

[(cos x – sin x)2 + sin 2x]

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19. Let p1 be the probability to get 2 heads in 4 tosses of fair coin and
p2 be the probability to get 3 heads in 4 tosses of the same coin.
Then p1/p2 is given by :

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20. Let x= 1, y= 1, z= 1. Perform the following sequence of steps.

1. Add 5 to x
2. If x is less than 10, add 3 to z, otherwise add 3 to y
3. If y is less than 4 repeat from step 1
4. Stop.

What are the final values of x, y and z?

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END OF SECTION II

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SECTION III (English)

No. of Questions: 16 + Essay Time Allowed: 35 min

In Questions 1 to 4, select the word which best fills in the blank. (4 marks)

1. “The army has ________ the brunt of the insurgents’ attack.

A. bear
B. bearing
C. born
D. borne

2. Controlling the intake of fatty foods may __________ you reduce

intestinal discomfort.

A. be help
B. help
C. helped
D. helping

3. A politically weaker government may water ________ certain

structural reforms needed for growth acceleration and poverty
reduction.

A. down
B. in
C. out
D. up

4. Occasionally farmers may use more fertilizers than necessary,

____________not only the crop but the animals or humans that eat it.

A. controlling
B. damaging
C. prohibiting
D. specifying

In each of question 5 to 7, two capitalized words are given which are

related in some way, followed by four pair of words lettered A to D.
From the lettered choices, select the one pair which has the same
relationship as the capitalized word pair (3 marks)

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5. LITTLE : BIG
A. easy : simple
B. quiet : loud
C. good : better
D. plain : ugly

6. WRITER : NOVELIST
A. scientist : astronomer
B. teacher : student
C. physician : patient
D. poet : researcher

7. ERROR: CORRECT
A. claim : accept
B. blot : obliterate
C. justice : deny
D. mistake : rectify

8. Select the word that has been spelt in-correctly:

A. rectify
B. sewere
C. access
D. recommend

9. Select the word which means nearly the opposite of INADVERTENT

A. accidental
B. deliberate
C. thoughtless
D. unintentional

10. Select the word which means nearly the same as SECLUSION
A. association
B. company
C. sociality
D. isolation

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READING COMPREHENSION
PASSAGE : Read the passage and then answer questions 11 to 16.
Vietnam’s Confucian lineage means education is something of a national
obsession, but experts say schools are failing students, leaving parents desperate
to get their children into western institutions that will give them the qualifications
they need to find employment.

Some 20,000 Vietnamese now study in Australia, 16,500 in the United States and
5,000 in the UK — small but significant numbers from a communist country where
only the elite have traditionally had access to foreign education. Yet despite the
increased exodus, foreign universities still remain out of reach for most families in
Vietnam, where average per capita income is just over $1,500.

Vietnam’s state education does score well in some indices — the country ranked
17th out of 65 for mathematics and science, according to the Program for
International Student Assessment (PISA) chart, ahead of many wealthy western
countries, including the US. But top officials have warned these test results do not
accurately reflect the quality of overall education in a nation where central control
has cramped policy innovation.

“We have to be honest and admit that if fully assessed, Vietnamese students’
capacity is still poor,” Nguyen Vinh Hien, deputy minister of education and training
was quoted in Tuoi Tre newspaper in 2013.

Four decades after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, officials have yet to fully
reform an education sector, which critics say still works to promote the Party rather
than create skilled workers. Authorities have kept in place a system heavy on rote
learning, regurgitation of facts to pass exams, and obedience to authority — with
little room for critical thinking.

Students rely on outdated, leaden textbooks, cheating is routine in exams while

underpaid teachers are renowned for withholding chunks of the syllabus to instead
impart in private classes they can charge for.

“University education is so bad. Textbooks are full of unnecessary, tedious theory,”

former education minister Pham Minh Hac told AFP, warning that the books were so
information-heavy they turned students off studying.

During and immediately after Vietnam’s annual high-school graduation exams in the
summer there are always multiple complaints to the ministry of education of
cheating by students. In June 2014, well-known education activist, teacher Do Viet
Khoa posted on his Facebook page video clips of students copying during Literature
and History exams at a high school in northern Hoa Binh province. According to
Khoa, exam supervisors deliberately left the exam rooms, allowing the examinees
to freely copy from already prepared papers and discuss the exams among
themselves, VietnamNet news site said. Such clips routinely go viral and prompt
widespread concern among parents, but authorities rarely — if ever — take action.

As a result of these shortcomings, Vietnamese state schools and universities are

not producing graduates companies want to hire — some 147,000 postgraduates

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could not find work this year, according to official statistics. “These graduates can’t
meet the demands of the labour market,” Hac said, blaming the school system for
“teaching knowledge not wisdom”. Instead staff for management positions are often
imported — from Korea, China and the US.

With very few top-quality private schools in Vietnam, escaping the dysfunctional
state education system is a priority for the better off. “They have changed a lot in
their thoughts, their lifestyle, their performance, behavior and viewpoints,”
businessman Nguyen Quang Thinh said of his two sons studying in the US at a cost
of $40,000 a year. Lu Thi Hong Nham, director of study abroad consultancy firm
Duc Anh added: “Many students were fed up when studying inside the country, but
overseas they gained very good results.”

Unless communist Vietnam is prepared to let the education system be run by

experts not politicians, things are not going to change, renowned teaching expert
Pham Toan warned. “You can do nothing... when education is in the communist
party’s resolution,” he said, referring to a paper passed in 2013 that calls for a
“comprehensive renovation” of the education system, without specifying changes.

11. Approximately, how many Vietnamese students are studying abroad?

A. 20,000
B. 30,000
C. 40,000
D. 50,000

12. What is Vietnamese parents’ concern regarding their children’s education:

A. children are not taught about Confucian ideology

B. education in Vietnam is expensive
C. children are unable to find jobs after their education
D. scholarships are not available for foreign education

13. The passage lists a number of facts about Vietnamese education system.
One of these is encouraging. Identify it.

A. Underpaid teachers
B. Vietnamese students ranked 17th
C. obedience to authority
D. books are information heavy

14. What is the meaning of the word “exodus” used in the second paragraph?

A. attraction
B. departure
C. feasibility
D. exposure

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15. According to the passage, the remedy for the educational problems of
Vietnam lies in:

A. Change of communist regime

B. Better pay for teachers
C. Giving teachers charge of education
D. Strict punishment for cheating

16. A suitable heading of the passage can be:

A. Quality of Education in Vietnam

B. Vietnam: A haven for cheats
C. Corruption in Vietnam
D. Education Policies of Vietnam

ESSAY WRITING

Write an essay of 150 words on the following topic. (4 Marks)

"How Internet has affected our social life”
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 ANSWER KEY FOR SAMPLE TEST PAPER 2019

SECTION I (IQ/ GEN KNOWLEDGE)

Question Answer
Number
1 0.125
2 25
3

4 7
5

6 V
7 199,009
8 VER (or its permutations)
9 fish
10 Both are equal
11 PEACE
12 Hockey
13 hexagon
14 Jamil
15 Wednesday
16 pressure
17 Astronomer or Scientist
18 South Africa
19 Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited
20 Hilal e Pakistan
SECTION II (MATHS)
Question Answer
Number
1 2%
2 80
3 4
2 27

4 400 sq meters
5 112 cars
6 Approx Rs. 186 per shirt
7 800 applicants
8 -6
9 Rs. 1000
10 0.15, 0.45, 3/5, 7/8, 17/19
11 -0.577 0R -1/√3
12 75,000 votes

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14 7/144 OR 0.0486
15 15 questions
16 1/t
17 2
18 1
19 2/3 or 0.667
20 X=11, y = 4, z = 4

SECTION III (ENGLISH)

Question Answer
Number
1 D
2 B
3 A
4 B
5 B
6 A
7 D
8 B
9 B
10 D
11 C
12 C
13 B
14 B
15 C
16 A
Essay Composition= 2, Spelling=2

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