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Sc Ignite & Smart Hiring - Sample Question Paper

No. of Questions: 51 Total time: 120 minutes

Instructions: Please read the below instructions carefully before you take the test.

• Following are 51 questions with 50 MCQ questions and 1 Programming hands-on

question. For each MCQ question, choose appropriate answer from the options given.
For Programing hands-on questions, candidates need to attempt question in any one of
the given five languages. (C, C++, JAVA, Python, Perl)

• There is no negative marking.

All the Best!

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 SECTION I: VERBAL ABILITY

Q1 The first and the last sentences (S1 and S4) of a passage are given, whereas some
sentences (S2 and S3) are missing. Identify the alternatives that will meaningfully fill
in the blanks against S1 and S2, respectively.

S1. A train journey changed Gandhi’s life, and eventually the course of history.
S2. ______
S3. ______
S4. “But I have a first-class ticket,” Gandhi said. “That doesn’t matter,” replied the
conductor. “No coloureds!”

Alternatives:
P. Mahatma Gandhi pushed the Brits out of India with some unorthodox methods that
we often take for granted.
Q. The conductor insisted Gandhi to move to third class.
R. It was 1893, late at night in South Africa that a barrister named MK Gandhi was
travelling first class when a white passenger entered the compartment, took one look at
him and summoned the conductor.
S. Should he retreat to India or remain in South Africa and fight injustices like the one
he had just experienced?

a. QR b. PS c. QR d. RQ

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Q2 Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last sentences (S1
and S4) are given, some sentences (S2 and S3) are missing. Identify the alternatives
that will meaningfully fill in the gaps.

S1. Galen of Pergamon was a Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher in the Roman
Empire.
S2. ______
S3. ______
S4. And yet Galen never conducted anything resembling an experiment.

Alternatives:
P. His writings were the indisputable source of medical authority for more than a
thousand years.
Q. It will be a field marred with arrogance, hubris, and a sheer lack of scientific rigour.
R. Doubt is not a fearful thing and, as we’ll soon learn, it’s in fact what propels science
forward.
S. Considered to be one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers, Galen
influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy,
physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology.

a. RP b. QS c. SP d. PQ

Q3 Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in
the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. Raja was a shoeshine boy.

B. Raja was hard working and wanted to take care of his family.
C. So, after school, he would sit near a cinema hall and polish shoes for a living.
D. He lived with his mother and sister in a small jhuggi.

a. ADBC b. CBDA c. ABDC d. BACD

Q4 Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the
given sentence.

We live in a society that is not bound or connected to a religion or a religious body.

a. orthodox b. rudimentary c. organic d. secular

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Q5 Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given
sentence.

Sujata may not be with us in this world anymore, her mark, however, remains
impossible to forget or remove.

a. invincible b. fallible c. gullible d. indelible

Q6 Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom.

My brother loves Sundays because on that day he can be a couch-potato.

a. A person who b. A lazy person c. A person who d. Is allowed to
eats potatoes sleeps whole day use the sofa

Q7 Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom.

She was head and shoulders above the others in her dance performance.

a. much taller b. far superior than c. quite odd from d. very jealous of
than

Q8 Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Comprise

a. Include b. Reject c. Exclude d. Abandon

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Q9
Knave

a. Fraud b. Idealist c. Selfish d. Paragon

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Q10 The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that
contains a grammatical error.

The moon was a good two hours / higher than when I had last seen / the sky, and the
night, though rainy, / was much light.

a. The moon b. higher than when c. the sky, and the d. was much
was a good I had last seen night, though light
two hours rainy,

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that
Q11 contains a grammatical error.

One Sunday when the lady had chained / him up as usual and was about half-way /
through the forest, she suddenly thought / she hears the cracking of a tree-branch.

a. One Sunday b. him up as usual c. through the d. she hears the

when the lady and was about forest, she cracking of a
had chained half-way suddenly thought tree-branch

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that
Q12 contains a grammatical error.

It was said that if you / yawned beneath the tree, / the pret would jumped down / your
throat and ruin your digestion.

a. It was said b. yawned beneath c. the pret would d. your throat

that if you the tree, jumped down and ruin your
digestion

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 READING COMPREHENSION
RC Read the given passage and answer the question that follows.
PSG
Gregor Mendel was born in a poor farmer’s family in Austria in 1822. He was very fond
of studies but the very thought of examinations made him nervous. He did not have
money to study at the University so he thought of becoming a ‘monk’ in a monastery.
He thought from there he would be sent to study further. Which he was. But to become
a science teacher, he had to take an exam. He got so nervous that he kept running away
from the exam and kept failing! But he did not stop doing experiments. For seven years,
he did experiments on 28,000 plants in the garden of the monastery. He worked hard,
collected many observations and made a new discovery! Something which scientists at
that time could not even understand! They understood it many years after his death,
when other scientists did such experiments and read what Mendel had already written.
What did Mendel find in those plants? He found that the pea plant has some traits which
come in pairs.

Like the seed is either rough or smooth. It is either yellow or green, and the height of
the plant is either tall or short. Nothing in between. The next generation (the children)
of the plant which has either rough or smooth seeds will also have seeds which are rough
or smooth. There is no seed which is mixed—a bit smooth and a bit rough. He found the
same with colour. Seeds which are either green or yellow give rise to new seeds which
are either green or yellow. The next generation does not have seeds with a mixed new
colour made from both green and yellow. Mendel showed that in the next generation of
pea plants, there will be more plants having yellow seeds. He also showed that the next
generation will have more plants with smooth seeds. What a discovery!

Q13 Which of the following is the most appropriate title for this passage?

a. The Colour b. An Amazing c. A Rare Quality! d. Gardening in

of Peas Discovery! the Monastery

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Q14
Height

a. Length b. Stature c. Depth d. Figure

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Q15 Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Traits

a. Actions b. Qualities c. Components d. Routines

Q16 Why did Mendel join a monastery?

a. Because he b. Because he was c. Because he d. Because he
was too nervous to wanted to didn’t have
interested in pass continue his money to
religion examinations experiments study further
there

Q17 Select the statement which is NOT correct.

a. Mendel b. Mendel found c. Mendel found d. Mendel found

conducted that every pea that the seeds of that the seeds
experiments has seeds which the next of the next
for seven are either smooth generation are in generation are
years on or rough. mixed new rough or
28,000 plants. shades. smooth.

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 SECTION II: NUMERICAL ABILITY
Q18 What is the simplified value of
5 3 5 19
[{(11 − 8 ) ( − )} of 0.75] ?
7 14 8 56

a. 0.2 b. 0.25 c. 0.5 d. 0.75

Q19 Which symbol among the expanded form of the acronym ‘BODMAS’ should replace
‘#’ in the given expression?
26 19 3 22
[( 3 − 1 ) { − (6 ÷ )} #0. 09 ̅̅̅̅] = −1
3 27 11 7
a. OF b. DIVISION c. SUBTRACTIO d. ADDITION
N

Q20 The average age of a class of 20 students is 15 years. If the age of the teacher is
included, which is 30 years, what is the new average age?

a. 18.6 years b. 15.7 years c. 21 years d. 30 years

Q21 A company sells 100 widgets in a month. If 20% of the widgets are defective, how
many defective widgets did the company sell?

a. 2 b. 4 c. 10 d. 20

Q22 Ramesh sold the stock of Company X for ₹7,200 and incurred a loss of 40%. At what
price should he have sold the stock to have gained a profit of 25%?

a. ₹12,800 b. ₹16,400 c. ₹13,800 d. ₹15,000

Q23 A person purchased 15 pumpkins each for ₹20. Two pumpkins were rotten hence he
disposed them, and the remaining was sold at ₹25. Find the rate of loss or profit.

25 25 25 25
a. % profit b. % loss c. % loss d. % profit
3 3 4 4

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Q24 If a company sells a bike with a marked price of ₹78,000 and gives a discount of 5%
on ₹60,000 and 3% on the remaining amount, then the actual price charged by the
company for a bike (in ₹) is:

a. 74,460 b. 75,520 c. 75,850 d. 75,952

Q25 If there are 63 litres of milk in a drum with a milk-to-water ratio of 7 : 9, what is the
quantity of water in this mixture?

a. 63 litres b. 79 litres c. 81 litres d. 98 litres

Q26 A recipe for a smoothie calls for 1 cup of strawberries for every 2 cups of milk. If you
want to make a smoothie using 4 cups of strawberries, then how many cups of milk
should you use?

a. 2 b. 4 c. 6 d. 8

Q27 A person invested ₹25,800 for 1 2 years at 13 4 % rate of simple interest, then what is
5 7
the total amount (in ₹) received by the person?

a. 30,722 b. 30,720 c. 30,072 d. 30,702

Q28 The ratio of the compound interest accrued for 2 years and the simple interest accrued
for 1 year on the same amount at r% p.a. is 2.21. What is the value of r?

a. 21 b. 11 c. 20 d. 10

Q29 The ratio between the speeds of two trains is 3 : 5. If the second train runs 300 km in 4
hours, then the speed of the first train (in km/h) is:
a. 35 b. 45 c. 55 d. 65

Q30 4 women and 3 men can do a piece of work in 20 days while 2 women and 4 men can
do the same piece of work in 30 days. How much time will be taken by 7 women and 9
men to do the same piece of work?
a. 21 days b. 18 days c. 15 days d. 10 days

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Q31 Below is given the frequency distribution of weights of a group of 81 students of a
class in a school. Find the modal class.

a. 35-39 b. 40-44 c. 45-49 d. 50-54

Calculate range and its coefficient of A’s monthly earnings for a year.
Q32

a. 7000, 0.2414 b. 7200, 0.2413 c. 7000, 0.2568 d. 7200, 0.2568

Q33 The mean of 150 items is 45 and their standard deviation is 3.5. Find its sum and sum
of squares of all observations.

a. 6250,305567. b. 6750, 304587.5 c. 6250, 305587.5 d. 6750,

5 305587.5

The below table gives the data of five banks and the number of persons taking personal
DI
loans over the years.

PSG

Q34 Which bank recorded the least number of people taking personal loans from 1991 to
1994?

a. Bank B b. Bank C c. Bank A d. Bank D

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Q35 The percentage of the total number of people taking loans from Bank B when
compared total number of people taking loans from all banks in all the above years is:
(round to one decimal)

a. 20.8% b. 19.3% c. 18.9% d. 19.9%

The graph summarises the purchase cost and selling price of different products.
DI

PSG

The table provides information about the unit quantity purchased and the
corresponding loss percentage for each product due to expiration, defects,
deterioration, theft, etc.

All the remaining products have been completely sold.

Q36 The average selling price (in ₹) is:

a. 1,509 b. 1,514 c. 1,519 d. 1,524

Q37 The average profit (in ₹) is:

a. 435 b. 439 c. 445 d. 449

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 The provided pie diagram illustrates the percentage distribution of employees across
DI
different departments in a company, with a total of 30% female employees.

PSG

Q38 The male to female employee ratio in the HR department is 5 : 4. Given that the HR
department has a total of 40 female employees, the number of employees in the
marketing department is:

a. 60 b. 66 c. 70 d. 72

Q39 Each department must have at least 5 female employees. Considering the 5 : 4 male to
female ratio in the HR department and the total of 40 female employees in HR, the
maximum number of female employees possible in the marketing department is:

a. 60 b. 65 c. 70 d. 75

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 Section III : Reasoning Ability

Q40 In a hospital, there are seven patients P, Q, R, S, T, U and V (including children and
men). They are admitted in three rooms—7, 8 and 9. At least two patients are in each
room, and at least one child is in each room. R, who is a child, is not admitted in the
room of P and T. U (man) is admitted in the room in which only Q is admitted. P
(child) is admitted in room 7 with his father and T. V is admitted in room 9. T is the
father of R but not of P.

How many children are there in the three rooms?

a. 4 b. 3 c. 3 or 4 d. Data in
adequate

Read the given statements and conclusions carefully. Assuming that the information
Q41 given in the statements is true, even if it appears to be at variance with commonly known
facts, decide which of the given conclusions logically follow(s) from the statements.

Statements:
1. Some hill is land.
2. All land is plateau.
3. A few lands are peaks.
Conclusions:
I. Some peaks are hills.
II. No peak is a hill.

a. Only b. Only conclusion c. Either d. Neither

conclusion I II follows. conclusion I or II conclusion I
follows. follows. nor II follows.

Select the letter-cluster from among the given options that can replace the question
Q42 mark (?) in the following series.

CFM, GLR, KRW, OXB, ?

a. SDG b. SDH c. TDG d. TEG

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Q43 How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘DELIBERATELY’, which has
as many letters between them as in the English alphabetical series? (Count both
forward and backward directions.)

a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5

For getting a residential accommodation from a company, the employee must fulfil the
Q44 following criteria:

(i) have worked with the company for at least 10 years with at least 4 years in the
HR department
(ii) have at least 3 and at most 5 members in the family
(iii) not be owner or co-owner (if the spouse is the owner) of a house
(iv) in the case of an employee who satisfies all except (i) above and joined the
company as a manager, should be referred to the Director

Below are given details of one employee, based on the information provided above,
choose the correct option. You are not to assume anything other than the information
provided in question.

Sohum stays in a rented house with the wife and 3 children. He was born on July 12
1969. He joined the company as a manager and has been working in the company for
the last 9 years out of which 5 years in the HR department. He is not the owner/co-owner
of a house.

a. The b. The employee is c. The data is d. The case is to

employee is not to be inadequate to be referred to
to be provided with take a decision. the Director.
provided with accommodation.
accommodati
on.

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Q45 Select the option that is related to the third term in the same way as the second term is
related to the first term.

T / C : 60 :: X / E : ?

a. 120 b. 102 c. 201 d. 80

In this question, a statement followed by two courses of action numbered I and II. You
Q46 have to assume everything in the statement to be true and on the basis of the
information given in the statement, decide which of the suggested courses of action
logically follow(s) for pursuing.

Statement: Rajan who is the technical team leader at XYZ company mostly insults
their team member for even small mistakes.

Course of Action:
I. He should be fired from job immediately.
II. All the team members should also reply to him in the same sense and tone as Rajan
does.

a. Only I b. Only II follows c. Neither I nor II d. Both I and II

follows follows follow.

Select the correct mirror image of the given figure when the mirror is held/placed at
Q47 AB.

a. b. c. d.

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Q48 Select the option in which the figure-pair share the same relationship as that shared by
the given pair of figures.

a. b. c. d.

Select the number from among the given options that can replace the question mark (?)
Q49 in the following series.

78, 156, 468, 1872, ?

a. 9870 b. 9760 c. 9360 d. 9280

Select the option that is related to the third number in the same way as the second
Q50 number is related to the first number.

140 : 25 :: 964 : ?
a. 361 b. 72 c. 255 d. 124

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 Section IV: PROGRAMMING
C Language
Q51 Question STEM:
.1 Two girls are playing with the balls. They are having green, yellow and red balls. The
task is to find in how many ways they can place these balls in straight so that no two
balls of the same type are next to each other.

Example:
Example 1:
Input:
Green (G) = 1, Yellow(Y) = 1, Red(R) = 0
There are only two arrangements GY and YG

Output:
Output: 2

Explanation:

The program uses recursive function calls to list the ways in which the balls can be
placed, and these function calls use the call to store the average values.

Constraints and Input/Output Format:

Constraints:

For each ball placement, there are three possibilities (G, Y, or R) and there are n balls
in total. Therefore, the total number of possible arrangements is 3^n.

Input Format:
G = 1, Y = 1, R = 1
There are only six arrangements
GYR,
YGR,
YRG,
RYG,
GRY
and
RGY

Output Format:
Output: 6

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 C++ Language
Q51 Question STEM:
.2 Two girls are playing with the balls. They are having green, yellow and red balls. The
task is to find in how many ways they can place these balls in straight so that no two
balls of the same type are next to each other.

Example:
Example 1:
Input:
Green (G) = 1, Yellow(Y) = 1, Red(R) = 0
There are only two arrangements GY and YG

Output:
Output: 2

Explanation:

The program uses recursive function calls to list the ways in which the balls can be
placed, and these function calls use the call to store the average values.

Constraints and Input/Output Format:

Constraints:

For each ball placement, there are three possibilities (G, Y, or R) and there are n balls
in total. Therefore, the total number of possible arrangements is 3^n.

Input Format:
G = 1, Y = 1, R = 1
There are only six arrangements
GYR,
YGR,
YRG,
RYG,
GRY
and
RGY

Output Format:
Output: 6

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 JAVA Language
Q51 Question STEM:
.3 Two girls are playing with the balls. They are having green, yellow and red balls. The
task is to find in how many ways they can place these balls in straight so that no two
balls of the same type are next to each other.

Example:
Example 1:
Input:
Green (G) = 1, Yellow(Y) = 1, Red(R) = 0
There are only two arrangements GY and YG

Output:
Output: 2

Explanation:

The program uses recursive function calls to list the ways in which the balls can be
placed, and these function calls use the call to store the average values.

Constraints and Input/Output Format:

Constraints:

For each ball placement, there are three possibilities (G, Y, or R) and there are n balls
in total. Therefore, the total number of possible arrangements is 3^n.

Input Format:
G = 1, Y = 1, R = 1
There are only six arrangements
GYR,
YGR,
YRG,
RYG,
GRY
and
RGY

Output Format:
Output: 6

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 PYTHON Language
Q51 Question STEM:
.4 Two girls are playing with the balls. They are having green, yellow and red balls. The
task is to find in how many ways they can place these balls in straight so that no two
balls of the same type are next to each other.

Example:
Example 1:
Input:
Green (G) = 1, Yellow(Y) = 1, Red(R) = 0
There are only two arrangements GY and YG

Output:
Output: 2

Explanation:

The program uses recursive function calls to list the ways in which the balls can be
placed, and these function calls use the call to store the average values.

Constraints and Input/Output Format:

Constraints:

For each ball placement, there are three possibilities (G, Y, or R) and there are n balls
in total. Therefore, the total number of possible arrangements is 3^n.

Input Format:
G = 1, Y = 1, R = 1
There are only six arrangements
GYR,
YGR,
YRG,
RYG,
GRY
and
RGY

Output Format:
Output: 6

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 PERL Language
Q51 Question STEM:
.5 Two girls are playing with the balls. They are having green, yellow and red balls. The
task is to find in how many ways they can place these balls in straight so that no two
balls of the same type are next to each other.

Example:
Example 1:
Input:
Green (G) = 1, Yellow(Y) = 1, Red(R) = 0
There are only two arrangements GY and YG

Output:
Output: 2

Explanation:

The program uses recursive function calls to list the ways in which the balls can be
placed, and these function calls use the call to store the average values.

Constraints and Input/Output Format:

Constraints:

For each ball placement, there are three possibilities (G, Y, or R) and there are n balls
in total. Therefore, the total number of possible arrangements is 3^n.

Input Format:
G = 1, Y = 1, R = 1
There are only six arrangements
GYR,
YGR,
YRG,
RYG,
GRY
and
RGY

Output Format:
Output: 6

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