IAT Sample Paper For Class X
IAT Sample Paper For Class X
SAMPLE PAPER
For Students of Class - X (going to Class – XI)
Time Allotted: 180 mins Maximum Marks: 150
INSTRUCTIONS
Please read the instructions carefully. You are allotted 5 minutes specificall y for this purpose.
You are not allowed to leave the Examination Hall before the end of the test.
A. General Instructions
1. Attempt ALL the questions. Answers have to be marked on the OMR sheets.
2. This question paper contains Four Section.
3. Section – I is IQ, Section-II is Physics, Section-III is Chemistry and Section-IV is Mathematics.
4. Blank Papers, clip boards, log tables, slide rule, calculator, cellular phones, pagers and electronic devices, in any form, are not
allowed.
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SECTION – I (IQ)
MCQ Single Correct
1. Rohit walked 20 metres towards South from point P, took a left turn and walked 15 metres again he
took a left turn and walked 20 metres. How far and in which direction is he from the starting point?
(A) 15 m, West (B) 15 m, East (C) 10 m, West (D) 25 m, East
5 4 6
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 4 (D) 5
4. At what time between 5 O’clock and 6 O’clock will the minute and the hour hand be perpendicular to each other?
9 5 10 7
(A) 5 hr 10 min. and again 5 hr 43 min. (B) 5 hr 10 min. and again 5 hr 43 min.
11 11 11 11
8 6
(C) 5 hr 10 min. and again 5 hr 43 min. (D) None of these
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5. A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days, B and C in 15 days, C and A in 20 days. How long will each take
separately to do the same work?
(A) 10, 20, 30 (B) 30, 20, 60
(C) 30, 40, 60 (D) 20, 15, 40
6. Moin started to walking towards South and after covering 5 km then he turned to the left and cover 3 km. After
that he turned to the right and cover 5 km. Now towards which direction Moin is facing now?
(A) North-East (B) South
(C) North (D) South-East
7. What is the least number of cuts required to cut the cube into 24 identical pieces?
(A) 2 (B) 4
(C) 6 (D) 8
9. Choose the correct diagram given below which can best represent the following data.
Fruit, Apple, Golden Apple.
(A) (B)
(C) (D)
10. Pointing towards a man in the photograph Archana said “He is the son of the only son of my grandmother”.
How is that man related to Archana?
(A) Brother (B) Cousin
(C) Uncle (D) Father
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11. 4 April 1988 fell on Monday. What day of the week was 3 November 1987?
(A) Monday (B) Tuesday
(C) Wednesday (D) Friday
12. In this type of question, two numbers are given. These numbers are related to each other in some way.
Another number is also given. The candidate is required to find out the relationship between the first two
numbers and choose the number from the given alternatives, which bears the same relationship to the third
number, as the first two bear.
2 : 9 : : 64 : ?
(A) 125 (B) 257
(C) 422 (D) 600
14. In the question given below is a sequence in which some letters are missing from the choices. Select the choice
that gives the letters that can fill the blanks in the given sequence.
a_cd_c_a_da_d_b_
(A) bbdcbac (B) bbcdabc
(C) bacbbabc (D) bcdbabc
15. The second figure in the first unit of the problem figures bears a certain relationship to the first figure.
Similarly, one of the figures in the answer figures bears the same relationship to the first figure in the second
unit of the problem figures. You are therefore to locate the figure which would replace the question mark.
Problem Figures Answer Figures
?
1 2 3 4 (A) (B) (C) (D)
2 8 ?
38 81 74
17. Pointing towards a person a man said to a woman. “His mother is the only daughter of your father”. How is the
woman related to that person?
(A) Aunty (B) Mother
(C) Son-in-law (D) None
18. Mohan travels 7 km Eastwards and then he turns right and travelled 3 km and further turns right again and
travelled 11 km. How far is he from the starting point?
(A) 25 km (B) 15 km
(C) 5 km (D) None of these
19. DEVICE is coded as BAREXA and ORNATE is coded as ZVMESA, what VIDEO be coded as?
(A) RIBAZ (B) REBAZ (C) RBEAZ (D) ZABER
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21. If 4 pipes of same type can fill a tank in 2 hours 15 minutes, then how much time will 5 pipes of same type
take to fill the tank?
(A) 1hour and 30 min (B) hour and 48 min
(C) 1hour and 50 min (D) None of the above
Direction (22 to 24): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions:
A Business School with six Professors L, M, N, O, P and Q has decided to implement a new scheme of course
management. Each Professor has to coordinate one course and support another course. This semester, O’s support
course is Finance, while three others have it in coordinator’s role. P and Q have Marketing as one of their subjects. Q
coordinates Operations, which is a support course for both N and P. Finance and IT are L’s subjects. Both L and O
have same subjects. Strategy is a support course for only one of the Professors.
24. Who among the following are coordinating the Finance course?
(A) L and N (B) N and O
(C) L, M and N (D) M, N and O
Directions (Q. 25 to 27): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Seven boy A, D, Y, U, P, Q and J live in three different buildings – Ashiana, Top-view and Ridge. Each of them is
flying kites of different colours i.e. red, green, blue, white, black, yellow and pink, (not necessarily in the given order).
Not more than three or less than two stay in any of the buildings. Q is flying a pink kite and lives in the same building
as only J. i.e. Ashiana. Y is flying a black kite and does not live in Ridge building. U does not live in the same building
as A or P and is flying a yellow coloured kite. D lives in Ridge building with only one more person and is flying a green
kite. None in the top-view building flies a white kite. P does not fly a blue kite. -
Directions (Q. 28 to 30): In each question given below two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and
II. You have to take the two given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known
facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding
commonly known facts. Give Answer:
(A) if only conclusion I follows
(B) if only conclusion II follows
(C) if either I or II follows
(D) if neither I nor II follows
(E) if both I and II follow
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30. Statement: I. All gardens are schools.
II. All schools are colleges.
Conclusions: I. All gardens are colleges.
II. Some gardens are not colleges.
SECTION – II
(PHYSICS)
MCQ Single Correct
31. Six identical resistors are connected as shown in the figure. The equivalent resistance will be
R
P Q
R R
R
R
R
32. A ray of light passes through four transparent media with refractive indices 1, 2 , 3 and 4 as shown in the
figure. The surfaces of all media are parallel. If the emergent ray CD is parallel to the incident ray AB, we
must have
D
1 2 3 4
B C
A
(A) 1 2 (B) 2 3
(C) 3 4 (D) 4 1
34. The far point of a myopic person is 100 cm in front of the eye. What is the power of the lens required to
correct this problem?
(A) 1 D (B) 2 D
(C) 3 D (D) 0.5 D
36. A convex lens A of focal length 20 cm and a concave lens B of focal length 5 cm are kept along the same axis
with a distance d between them. If a parallel beam of light falling on A leaves B as a parallel beam, then the
distance d in cm will be
(A) 25 (B) 15
(C) 30 (D) 50
37. If the focal length of objective and eye lens are 1.2 cm and 3 cm respectively and the object is put 1.25 cm
away from the objective lens and the final image is formed at infinity.
(A) Magnifying power of the microscope is 180 (B) Magnifying power of the microscope is 200
(C) Length of microscope is 30 cm (D) Length of microscope is 33 cm
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38. Two identical heater wires of equal length are first connected in series and then in parallel, the ratio of
(A) their resistance is 4 : 1
(B) their resistance is 2 : 1
(C) the heat produced in them is 1 : 2
(D) the heat produced in them is 1 : 4
39. Two wires made of same material have the same length but difference radius. They are connected in parallel
to a battery. The quantity that is not the same for the wire is
(A) Potential difference (B) Current
(C) Resistance (D) Conductivity
40. For a real-extended object, the image formed by a convex mirror will be
(A) real (B) virtual (C) erect (D) diminished
Comprehension Type
Paragraph for question Nos. 41 to 42
Lens maker formulae gives relation between the focal length of a lens, material of the lens, shape of the lens and
1 2 1 1
medium in which it is placed. 1
F 1 R1 R2
Here, F is the focal length of lens. ‘1’ and ‘2’ are refractive index of medium in which lens
is placed and refractive index of lens. All distances are measured from optical centre and R1
direction in which incident rays is travelling is taken as positive and direction opposite to R2
incident ray is taken as negative.
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41. Find the focal length of equi-convex lens of radius of curvature ‘R’ and refractive index placed in air.
2
R
(A) (B) R (C) 0 (D) Infinite
2
4
42. If the lens of previous question placed in medium of refractive index then focal length of lens is
3
(A) –4.5 R (B) 4.5 R (C) 4R (D) zero
SECTION – III
(CHEMISTRY)
MCQ Single Correct
45. Which of the following is the ore of a metal which belongs to group–14?
(A) Galena (B) Cinnabar
(C) Bauxite (D) Pyrolusite
48. Which of the following is most abundant metal in the earth’s crust?
(A) Cu (B) Zn
(C) Al (D) Fe
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MCQ One or More than One Correct
49. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about dehydration of an Alcohol?
(A) Formation of water molecule
(B) Formation of an alkene
(C) Reaction of Alcohol in presence of conc. H2SO4
(D) Formation of an alkane
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51. The five successive ionization energies of an element are 800, 2427, 3658, 25024 and 32824 KJ mol
respectively. The number of valence electron is
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 1 (D) 2
52. The balanced net ionic equation for the reaction of aluminium sulphate and sodium hydroxide contains which
of the following terms?
(A) 3Al3+(aq) (B) 6OH−(aq)
(C) 3OH (aq)
− (D) 2Al3+(aq)
Comprehension Type
Paragraph for question Nos. 54 to 55
Generally, esters are sweet-smelling substances. Esters are most commonly formed by the reaction of an
acid & an alcohol. Ethanoic acid reacts with absolute ethanol in the presence of an acid catalyst to given an
ester. These are used in making perfumes & as flavoring agents.
Ethanoic acid + Ethanol
Acid
A H2O .
53. Identify (A) in this reaction?
(A) CH3COC2H5 (B) CH3COOC2H5 (C) C2H5COOC2H5 (D) C2H5COOCH3
SECTION – IV
(MATHEMATICS)
MCQ Single Correct
55. If tanx + tan2x + tan3x =1 then the value of 2 cos6x – 2 cos4x + cos2x equals to
(A) 1/2 (B) 2
(C) 1 (D) none of these
56. If the given diagram shows the graph of the polynomial f(x) ax2 bx c, then
y
f x ax2 bx c
x' O x
b D
2a , 4a
y'
57. If the value of a quadratic polynomial P(x) is 0 only at x = – 1 and P(–2) = 2, then the value of P(3) is :
(A) 32 (B) 35
(C) 36 (D) 24
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58. tan5o tan30o 4tan85o is equal to
4
(A) (B) 4 3 (C) 1 (D) 4
3
59. Point R (h, k) divides line segment AB between axes in the ratio 1 : 2 where A lies on X-axis. Find the
equation of line.
(A) 2hx + ky = 3hk (B) 2kx + hy = 3hk (C) kx + hy = 2hk (D) 3hx + hy = 4hk
60. If one zero of the polynomial f(x) (k 2 4)x 2 13x 4k is reciprocal of the other, then k is equal to-
(A) 2 (B) -2 (C) 1 (D) -1
61. Three circles each of radius r touch one another. The radius of the circle touching all the three circles is
2 3 r 2 3 r
(A) 2 3 r (B)
3
(C)
3
(D) 2 3 r
62. If loga b loga c
(A) b c if a 1 (B) b c if a 1 (C) b c if a 1 (D) b c if a 1
Comprehension Type
Paragraph for question Nos. 65 to 66
a1 a2 ... an
In an Arithmetic progression, the arithmetic mean of n numbers a1,a2 ...,an is defined as and
n
1
Geometric Progression of n numbers a1,a 2 ,...,an is defined as a1,a2 ,a3 ...an n for positive number and the relationship
between AM and GM is A.M. G.M .
66. In the A.P. 2,5,8,11...,299 , find the difference between A.M. of 1st and the last term and A.M. of 1st to last
terms.
(A) 0 (B) 150.5 (C) 301 (D) 15050
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OMR SHEET
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Student Name: _______________________________ D.O.B.: __________________________________
Class: ______________________________________ Contact No. ______________________________
Test Venue:_______________________________ Test Date :_______________________________
SECTION – I (IQ)
Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D
SECTION – II (PHYSICS)
Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D
Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D
SECTION – IV (MATHEMATICS)
Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D Q↓ A B C D
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ANSWER KEY
Admission Test
SAMPLE PAPER
For Students of Class- X (going to Class – XI)
SECTION – I
(IQ)
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. B
5. B 6. B 7. C 8. C
9. A 10. A 11. B 12. B
13. C 14. A 15. C 16. C
17. B 18. C 19. D 20. C
21. B 22. C 23. B 24. C
25. A 26. A 27. C 28. A
29. C 30. A
SECTION – II
(PHYSICS)
SECTION – III
(CHEMISTRY)
SECTION – IV
(MATHEMATICS)
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